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Spiritual Arts, Energy Clearing and Intuitive Tarot Card Reading.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576747200214941280.post-5260998905942046492022-05-10T23:00:00.195-05:002022-05-11T09:29:02.313-05:00The Nine Waves of Creation <h2 style="text-align: left;">Did you know . . .<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs1pss7_O4D9_6ok3wiq3EenIaOkvVfSaAti84_R3AAbbMIlI2tSdoWu6c4PyJYZ9KEfpxsR9hu0MN3_sYiIbvYorF7WSDRbw2ZJS6Vb9OtDYJ44joBVH-MscVNxqdIRtWujca_Nyc34fijxeeHmjLglE1xpZtgB9_NxG-Efol4KrzgPncEoNklfIfVQ/s280/Quetzalcoatl.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="280" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs1pss7_O4D9_6ok3wiq3EenIaOkvVfSaAti84_R3AAbbMIlI2tSdoWu6c4PyJYZ9KEfpxsR9hu0MN3_sYiIbvYorF7WSDRbw2ZJS6Vb9OtDYJ44joBVH-MscVNxqdIRtWujca_Nyc34fijxeeHmjLglE1xpZtgB9_NxG-Efol4KrzgPncEoNklfIfVQ/w400-h257/Quetzalcoatl.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></h2><div>that Ancient Mayan shamanism is built around the foundational idea that this reality is a dream, a holographic fractal multi-verse; or that the end of the Mayan Long Count Calendar was not predicting the end of the world at all? It actually was predicting the arrival of the Feathered Serpent god, Kukulcán, who the Aztecs called Quetzalcóatl, and the beginning of a new reality.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Mayans were a shamanic culture and in Shamanism everything is considered to be imbued with <i>spirit,</i> life-force energy. A <i>Feathered Serpent</i> would then be a beautiful way of depicting a <i>sine wave</i> of creative energy, (<i>feathers=</i>motion) a data stream if you will, emanating from the galactic center. </div><div><br /></div><div>The Mayans taught that there were 9 streams/waves of creation or energy spirits shaping the cosmic dream reality we live in. That was what their Long Count Calendar was used to measure, the time between and arrival of each creation wave. The 9th and final wave was predicted to arrive in December of 2012, and represented the completion of their cosmology, the arrival of the Feathered Serpent Creator god Kukulcán, a composite of the 9 <i>spirit</i> waves. </div><div><br /></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH9_bev2B0WrKJ5car03az-CBdS8rR6JnHIiw8EBMbps82zVme4--DTohyhNCFfTZ0fhS-2y5eZdpZACnpKovPNlo9vtlFBEiAsi9Bmw-t-bNTqt5LMRxIppfFUJGJYyLi7C3qNtJWwXnKtpw6oAXOXfuP5aHgAQ7_F8SUalvUR6qUjq7H1I7iUllU5w/s367/sine%20waves.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="137" data-original-width="367" height="74" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH9_bev2B0WrKJ5car03az-CBdS8rR6JnHIiw8EBMbps82zVme4--DTohyhNCFfTZ0fhS-2y5eZdpZACnpKovPNlo9vtlFBEiAsi9Bmw-t-bNTqt5LMRxIppfFUJGJYyLi7C3qNtJWwXnKtpw6oAXOXfuP5aHgAQ7_F8SUalvUR6qUjq7H1I7iUllU5w/w200-h74/sine%20waves.png" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sine Waves</td></tr></tbody></table>It was taught that with each successive spirit/wave would come a macro-quantum level of cosmic evolutionary change, which would issue in a new era. The waves build one upon the other--each moving at different rates, carrying different evolutionary quantum data, but they also create interference patterns with each other, and they do not dissipate or stop. They are holographic fractal waves of creative life forming energy/data which shift in potential but never end. </div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7vEmchQeU24zNssCK44kPbjkIWRK_HjAdcnQu3CU-UeHl37WE62GAP2qoMYqlMJiyjyjeJaxBCBld_goEgRKk3sH2aFIYbuUEpwyMQ_ZT-uAcQBJdT7lNo2sjkLgirYp6pGHOftIvIP7gja-hKeAx9TYhLdsvBbQ1JDvfXd81Pek-pN08RFRZ3V1YqA/s499/9Waves%20cover.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="333" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7vEmchQeU24zNssCK44kPbjkIWRK_HjAdcnQu3CU-UeHl37WE62GAP2qoMYqlMJiyjyjeJaxBCBld_goEgRKk3sH2aFIYbuUEpwyMQ_ZT-uAcQBJdT7lNo2sjkLgirYp6pGHOftIvIP7gja-hKeAx9TYhLdsvBbQ1JDvfXd81Pek-pN08RFRZ3V1YqA/s320/9Waves%20cover.jpg" width="214" /></a></div>In his book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Nine-Waves-Creation-Holographic-Evolution/dp/1591432774/ref=nav_signin?crid=36ZM1B8BZV7OE&keywords=9+waves+of+creation&qid=1652268733&sprefix=9+waves+of+creation%2Caps%2C591&sr=8-1&" target="_blank"><i>The Nine Waves of Creation: Quantum Physics, Holographic Evolution, and the Destiny of Humanity</i>, </a>Carl Johan Calleman Ph.D. explains the quantum physics behind the Waves of the Mayan Calendar system and how their holograms shape the human mind, evolution, and earth's history. </div><div><br /></div><div>I found his book deeply fascinating and full of scientific rigor. If you like to be pushed by work that challenges your thinking in new and interesting ways, let me encourage you toward this book. His writing will open your thoughts to a sophisticated understanding of fundamental ideas which could open a whole new experiential reality for you to explore. </div><div><br /></div><div>I also recommend his <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Science-Psychedelics-Multidimensional-Cosmology/dp/1591433622/ref=pd_bxgy_img_sccl_2/145-5982105-4483524?pd_rd_w=HzywR&pf_rd_p=6b3eefea-7b16-43e9-bc45-2e332cbf99da&pf_rd_r=PNQ7ED0D8Q6V9N1HM11B&pd_rd_r=4bfdef57-29e6-40a0-a6a0-e21ef6d62fd8&pd_rd_wg=8Wn9w&pd_rd_i=1591433622&psc=1" target="_blank">Quantum Science of Psychedelics: The Pineal Gland, Multidimensional Reality, and Mayan Cosmology</a> --which I personally found easier to read, and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Global-Mind-Rise-Civilization-Consciousness/dp/1591432413/ref=pd_bxgy_img_sccl_2/145-5982105-4483524?pd_rd_w=n7on7&pf_rd_p=6b3eefea-7b16-43e9-bc45-2e332cbf99da&pf_rd_r=2CWX38WY2D9RW74WZEZP&pd_rd_r=bce886a5-f361-49cd-974c-a7482169d08e&pd_rd_wg=OyRg6&pd_rd_i=1591432413&psc=1" target="_blank">The Global Mind and the Rise of Civilization: The Quantum Evolution of Consciousness</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Not to be a <i>sh!t</i> disturber, but these concepts are so fascinating; a holographic, self correcting, fractal multi-verse of realities. . . Could it be?</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><h2>How Can All Perspectives Be True?</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNA2wXGHivEb9Jn8H_UIz3Dl7Lum6DirPH90fISzR-uG9B7vgtlBJC0a_o7az984DG2pmIeKtxc4DwLNooLP5uamHZzIEOAnmqPvqTopmZEt454yGhrOMVlPfrIMkZpDhC4r3Ytd2Knm_C/s732/FB_IMG_1629993904561.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" data-original-height="732" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNA2wXGHivEb9Jn8H_UIz3Dl7Lum6DirPH90fISzR-uG9B7vgtlBJC0a_o7az984DG2pmIeKtxc4DwLNooLP5uamHZzIEOAnmqPvqTopmZEt454yGhrOMVlPfrIMkZpDhC4r3Ytd2Knm_C/w315-h320/FB_IMG_1629993904561.jpg" width="315" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Spiritual teachers are telling us that this world is one of vibrational energies and that our conscious awareness influences our experiential reality.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Science tells us the same.</div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><blockquote><i>When no one is looking, a particle has near limitless potential: it can be nearly anywhere. But measure it, and the particle snaps to one position. - <a href="https://www.worldsciencefestival.com/videos/measure-for-measure-quantum-physics-and-reality/?gclid=CjwKCAjwve2TBhByEiwAaktM1MOvxWggWIWoWXp21e3_OUJM01vRijWXoakaTa0a5oGPR5qcHG3UaRoCxzYQAvD_BwE" target="_blank">Double Slit Experiment</a> </i><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">MEASURE FOR MEASURE: QUANTUM PHYSICS AND REALITY</span></i></blockquote></blockquote></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p> Observation influences. . .</p><div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Awareness Changes Everything.</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576747200214941280.post-4788973580833085872022-05-06T00:00:00.008-05:002022-05-06T09:02:23.362-05:00My Great Grandmother and Ancestor Veneration<p></p><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkKSNnt6oZmJusg8ylus_-amYkxqo6nrmMkbWqHJHanrY-Owsv0YvX67jaxQ_AVEllAT77yoR7LQsYDgNrMnVIzF4nEz6T3hl4m3xXu-Kv8LFWuF0isJbdj3slHfaqgDKIEnPArw_zgom4Kfci5avfYbIK_UIjhGqNNQ7NRQQ2JWJHsvpwFtxUyYTpnw/s1290/FB_IMG_1613864268821.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1290" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkKSNnt6oZmJusg8ylus_-amYkxqo6nrmMkbWqHJHanrY-Owsv0YvX67jaxQ_AVEllAT77yoR7LQsYDgNrMnVIzF4nEz6T3hl4m3xXu-Kv8LFWuF0isJbdj3slHfaqgDKIEnPArw_zgom4Kfci5avfYbIK_UIjhGqNNQ7NRQQ2JWJHsvpwFtxUyYTpnw/s320/FB_IMG_1613864268821.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> . . . <i>the custom of venerating deceased</i><i> ancestors who are considered still a part of the family and whose spirits are believed to have the power to intervene in the affairs of the living.</i></blockquote><i></i><p></p><p> In the fundamental Protestant religious culture of my upbringing ancestor veneration was not only discouraged it was considered a sin. The idea that our ancestors were still accessible to us and might assist us in any way was one that threatened the control and powers of the Church. I grew up under colonializing religious indoctrination that actively sought to defame and repress any such teachings. </p><p>Part of my spiritual path and personal healing work has been to recover these ancestral teachings. It hasn't been easy but is something I am receiving enormous personal satisfaction in exploration of and growing every day. </p><h3 style="text-align: left;">What I set out to discover and why . . .<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-C4BDgdCRZ4oPbczjmbvVHtrDB_iZZyE4JYVTXWQxXvoztoxz4bNdcmoU0z01Zb3QOrDcboFrbbVHcB1iBTGj7S8AV0q2hDluD3gsuNTjMwgF1mRXm4x1b6P-VUXEfCwpsUfcnFm4XhRJGFzGpRAFsNNG23bZv-TFqsG5Hpwoodf1LZpgBSY1B2SrHg/s407/FB_IMG_1613865012366.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="407" data-original-width="407" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-C4BDgdCRZ4oPbczjmbvVHtrDB_iZZyE4JYVTXWQxXvoztoxz4bNdcmoU0z01Zb3QOrDcboFrbbVHcB1iBTGj7S8AV0q2hDluD3gsuNTjMwgF1mRXm4x1b6P-VUXEfCwpsUfcnFm4XhRJGFzGpRAFsNNG23bZv-TFqsG5Hpwoodf1LZpgBSY1B2SrHg/w200-h200/FB_IMG_1613865012366.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My Kindergarten pic</td></tr></tbody></table></h3><div>I began my journey on a mission. You see, I have a distant memory of my Great Grandmother, Eldred Bricker-Donahue. sharing with me a bit of her story. (Sorry, I have no pictures of Great Grandma)</div><div>We happened to be visiting her when she noticed I was in distress and enquired about it. I was being bullied at school for being well, brown. The children were calling me "n***** kid" and no one would play with me or allow me to be their friend. Later during that visit, much to everyone's astonishment, she asked my mother if I could spend the night. As we were set to return the following day, it was agreed that I could stay. </div><div>None of us had ever spent the night there before, so it was a big deal. I remember going upstairs in her house for the first time ever that night. She was very strict about where children were allowed to go. Other than the kitchen and the parlor where she had a piano, I'd never been in any of the other rooms. The five of us children were strictly forbidden to enter the house and mostly only ever played in the yard. That evening when she tucked me in she shared an age-appropriatly edited version of her life story.</div><div><blockquote>"I think it is because of me honey, that the kids are picking on you. It's because I am half <i>Indian/native</i>. It's because you have my color in you. I want you to know that you have good blood; that you are from good people, noble people. It's not because of something you've done wrong." </blockquote><p>Not her exact words, but that was the gist, the start of what was a tearful and heartbreaking recounting of lost family, residential school, beatings and abuse the likes of which were too harsh for her to detail. We wept together holding each other tightly. She told me that no one in our family knew she was mixed blood because her husband had been denied the right to marry a 'savage' by his family. As a couple they had decided to hide her heritage; pretending she was a different girl when he later brought her to meet them. She talked about racism and how once she was grown she hadn't been able to find her family; that they would only have rejected her for marrying a white man. She cried most about how no one would remember her and how she was lost to her own people. She thought they were dead. </p><p>My Great Grandmother didn't believe I would remember her story as I was very young, just over 6 years; but I never forgot that night or my promise to remember. She told me no one would believe me if I shared what she'd told me. For the most part this was true. My father (her grandson) disbelieved. My mother considered it impossible for a child of 6, without any knowledge of history, to make such a thing up. Her say-so was enough to silence my father's vocal objections and set him thinking. </p><p>It wasn't until this pandemic buried us in isolation that I had an opportunity and the motivation to prove to myself that this memory was accurate; that I did indeed feel my ancestral blood calling. To honor my Great Grandmother, I set out on the path of discovery; submitting my DNA and my brother's DNA for genetic testing.</p></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Why Practice Ancestor Veneration?</h3><p><br />From a secular point of view, reconnecting with and understanding our ancestral history holds a wealth of benefit. It offers us an opportunity to discover and explore where and who we come from, the influences faced by our ancestors; all of which impact who we are and how we have been shaped by history. </p><p>It is hard to heal something that has been hidden from view or repressed. Healing starts from within. If we want to heal our society, we have to start with healing ourselves. For me ancestor veneration started as healing ancestral wounds and generational traumas.</p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnfcUwTjhbchBLBhC3-gR-t7mbQBEbNup1Lr7AX8iT6gsdhAhL5B8LKTumpQFvFS7h55zfRmXtSy4GNo9X42HCYyK-QkodqBUhrAmbvHpKBF_jKw9CT6vbVOXmmBOa1jRvYiEtnjFZEmfpdcjCFyt3GrKSgTG2cfkESpUJRKrimdaoudl7H40d_mrAdA/s849/YF%20Ancestry%20Map.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="849" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnfcUwTjhbchBLBhC3-gR-t7mbQBEbNup1Lr7AX8iT6gsdhAhL5B8LKTumpQFvFS7h55zfRmXtSy4GNo9X42HCYyK-QkodqBUhrAmbvHpKBF_jKw9CT6vbVOXmmBOa1jRvYiEtnjFZEmfpdcjCFyt3GrKSgTG2cfkESpUJRKrimdaoudl7H40d_mrAdA/w400-h253/YF%20Ancestry%20Map.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A map of my Ancestry</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>DNA testing provides a wealth of family information pertaining to health conditions, as well as evidence links to historical events, migration patterns, economic depression, pandemics etc. which all have a lasting impact on families, generational traumas and family health. Exploring our roots using science also helps remove the backlash of familial disbelief if not disapproval. It's kind of difficult for other family members to deny indigenous ancestry with a genetics report sitting on the kitchen table.</p><p>There is also tremendous psychological benefit for reframing our self concept by using these DNA record discoveries. Since generational trauma has an inheritable biological component, impacting brain development and overall health, making an effort to reconnect with our ancestral roots is beneficial even without respecting a spiritual belief in and practice of ancestral veneration. Scoff if you will, veneration practices are enriching for much more than tapping into a power source or currying favor with the dead. I believe in the power and influence of my ancestors; even if I am only acting in faith there is power to be had in it. Veneration becomes as much about healing and honoring ourselves as it is about remembrance or a belief in the power or influence of ancestral spirits. </p><p>It isn't necessary to prove that our ancestral spirits are still moving among us or energetically powerful enough to impact and <i>intervene in the affairs </i>our lives. Our ancestors' <i>experiences</i> live in our biology and in the effects of generational trauma, inherited as illnesses and family dysfunction. It is enough to begin the healing internally when we honor our ancestral history; making an effort to reconnect and repair relationships with the living and those aspects of our heritage which have been lost to us. </p><p>This is just the beginning of a story I am excited to share with you. It isn't just my story or even the most tragic aspect of what I have discovered. It is simply one of many stories that connects me to other stories and helps me find my place in history. </p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576747200214941280.post-77126514949764810572021-10-27T11:16:00.002-05:002021-10-27T11:16:12.412-05:00Exploring Animism - Progenitor of Religion<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br />an·i·mism:</b></span> /ˈanəˌmizəm/<br />noun<br />1. the attribution of a soul to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena.<br />2. the belief in a supernatural power that organizes and animates the material universe.</blockquote><p> </p><blockquote><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoSDT-hUOXdv_jD-CBHeOKpUxTzlzoepbqbIdq18GYROvjICIbWG8HWFeAro1E101F8slrGH5FAT2aE26ucAykhqHxr0wQaKhsb0mfAtLlXl1ZtZvHDik6aC4vuu5LPRGaMVdBMYehVoOt/s256/What+is+animism.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="197" data-original-width="256" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoSDT-hUOXdv_jD-CBHeOKpUxTzlzoepbqbIdq18GYROvjICIbWG8HWFeAro1E101F8slrGH5FAT2aE26ucAykhqHxr0wQaKhsb0mfAtLlXl1ZtZvHDik6aC4vuu5LPRGaMVdBMYehVoOt/w400-h308/What+is+animism.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What is Animism?</td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote></div><p>As part of my personal healing and decolonialization journey, I have been exploring the concept of Animism, and the many indigenous cultures which have developed around the belief that all living beings, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena are imbued with spirit/formless yet intelligent energy, by an intelligent, organizing creative Source. </p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><p>A world view centered in Animism underlies most indigenous belief systems, and has been found by scholarly and anthropological research to be the root origin of all organized religions. I am of the belief that humanity would not be threatened by a planetary burn-out if modern society were to adopt an animistic perspective. (Today's video may help me make that point.)</p><p>As things stand, the "big three," Abrahamic religions, reject Animism as blasphemy and idolatrous. However, such a view of Animism is based largely in ignorance and self serving bias. The cultural and spiritual practices of indigenous people, their languages and ways have been misunderstood and maligned by colonizing self interest. It is because of racial, religious and cultural bias, a lack of philosophical, language, and cultural understanding, as well as for the purpose of subjugation and eradication of indigenous peoples, that colonizing peoples around the world have adopted a closed and self serving perspective. It is simply a fact that colonizing influences, with their racial, cultural, and religious prejudices, have generated tainted early historical writings, research, and understandings of indigenous peoples' spiritual practices and culture, creating a bias against Animism which has been carried forward into today. This leaves our modern secular lives mostly bereft of conversation and shared understandings about animist perspective and practices, even when many cultural traditions and world religions find their origin in Animism.</p><p>For that reason I am going to start sharing content from modern day scholars, who have a stronger understanding of historical writings, anthropological data, and less biased agendas. Mostly I am doing this for my own edification, but I hope you will find it interesting and helpful as well.</p><p> First up is a YouTube video I found yesterday. Enjoy!</p><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/W_f_KezSMog" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR3YUwg2VntLJcUaLbfvxFpC5z2MBGM3Thj5lWT-Zasz-iJlBYykyVpvENq0NBmKL_x60hwpkc0yIC79tjKUp4Ypv2995j9PQAaz5KBhwgruvciWdpq-5vNuCIMGzQVGE2yFwWaXHWPeqc/s290/Sphinx.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576747200214941280.post-23996599626044577892021-10-18T08:00:00.008-05:002022-04-26T11:36:18.121-05:00A Second Witches Day Out Weekend event in Houghton Lake!<p> That is right, Witches Weekend part 2! </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDLfsMV9Ee2bwGuJWGpCDrkDkePTcYMhH-tdwUA_3wE5LptjPM69U-4RLv40hd19QoDLYgF7jIpR0FUOXDaCxtLK4pMrieA5aV8xbEj4Hpvt-pIow5ErG6zyqYZSyh2pPhyphenhyphenFOgyv53LWrU/s206/Zareena.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="206" data-original-width="206" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDLfsMV9Ee2bwGuJWGpCDrkDkePTcYMhH-tdwUA_3wE5LptjPM69U-4RLv40hd19QoDLYgF7jIpR0FUOXDaCxtLK4pMrieA5aV8xbEj4Hpvt-pIow5ErG6zyqYZSyh2pPhyphenhyphenFOgyv53LWrU/s0/Zareena.jpg" width="206" /></a></div>I will say that these weekends are very exciting and if you are into Halloween you would have a great time. The have a cash bar, food vendors, music inside and out. There was even live performance music outside last Saturday and it was good! I am expecting even more from the organizers this coming Saturday Oct 23, because they have promised to level up their game which was exceptionally good already.<p></p><p>Here are the details for the weekend. I will be there on Saturday, offering tarot readings from the Open Air Bazaar, in my HEATED Gazebo! That is right! I will have HEAT!</p><br /><p><br /></p><div class="dati1w0a ihqw7lf3 hv4rvrfc ecm0bbzt i1fnvgqd btwxx1t3 aovydwv3 du4w35lb l9j0dhe7 hpfvmrgz tgvbjcpo kvgmc6g5 hcukyx3x cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab g5gj957u buofh1pr j83agx80 rq0escxv auili1gw ow4ym5g4" style="align-items: flex-end; background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; display: flex; flex-direction: row; flex-grow: 1; flex-shrink: 1; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; justify-content: space-between; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 4px 16px 16px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="j83agx80 cbu4d94t mysgfdmx hddg9phg" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: -6px; margin-top: -6px;"><div class="w0hvl6rk qjjbsfad" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;"><h2 class="gmql0nx0 l94mrbxd p1ri9a11 lzcic4wl d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz" dir="auto" style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v hnhda86s jdix4yx3 hzawbc8m" color="var(--negative)" dir="auto" style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMWvzX2zhKXfPMqcobFgORHByamYxbph8fk81hCkRpuBGcu6tYY57VjKDRjPbQDwfkYLEesMXJ9Ihbx4xvWmRCokZYC3ODzQpjOIIWiAGk9DDggjjqaTYEQmV_h9ZChbR6bXuSCAkM4KM4/s960/Witches+Weedend+10-22.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="502" data-original-width="960" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMWvzX2zhKXfPMqcobFgORHByamYxbph8fk81hCkRpuBGcu6tYY57VjKDRjPbQDwfkYLEesMXJ9Ihbx4xvWmRCokZYC3ODzQpjOIIWiAGk9DDggjjqaTYEQmV_h9ZChbR6bXuSCAkM4KM4/w640-h334/Witches+Weedend+10-22.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />OCT 22 AT 4 PM – OCT 24 AT 2 PM</span></h2><h2 class="gmql0nx0 l94mrbxd p1ri9a11 lzcic4wl d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz" dir="auto" style="color: inherit; 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font-family: inherit; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 3px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Witches Weekend II</span></span></span></h2><h2 class="gmql0nx0 l94mrbxd p1ri9a11 lzcic4wl d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz" dir="auto" style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="bi6gxh9e aov4n071" style="margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px;"></div><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 ns63r2gh fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db o3w64lxj b2s5l15y hnhda86s oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" color="var(--primary-text)" dir="auto" style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.2; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span color="var(--secondary-text)" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-weight: inherit; white-space: nowrap;">Houghton Lake, Michigan</span></span><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 ns63r2gh fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db o3w64lxj b2s5l15y hnhda86s oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" color="var(--primary-text)" dir="auto" style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.2; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span color="var(--secondary-text)" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-weight: inherit; white-space: nowrap;"><br /></span></span><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 ns63r2gh fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db o3w64lxj b2s5l15y hnhda86s oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" color="var(--primary-text)" dir="auto" style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.2; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">For more information contact:</span></span></h2></div></div></div><p>WitchesWeekend@gmail.com </p><p>For tickets, visit <a href="http://WitchesWeekend.com">WitchesWeekend.com</a></p><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576747200214941280.post-34404181163283950002021-10-14T08:17:00.004-05:002022-04-26T11:38:16.178-05:00Houghton Lake 10/16 Witches Day Out Event - Weekend!<p> This Saturday, 10/16, I will be Reading Tarot at the Houghton Lake, Witches Weekend Out, and I'm inviting you! </p><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Event Link: <a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl py34i1dx gpro0wi8" href="https://fb.me/e/2SzY4RSwx" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">fb.me/e/2SzY4RSwx</a></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Location</div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The Northern Center<br />7784 Stone School Rd.<br />Houghton Lake, MI 48629</div><p><a href="https://fb.me/e/Y8etllm2" target="_blank">Click This for an Event Invite</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUItiuuKttyx6oEl2uacVye3T3bcb9EV-i2cfp5DdE1TRIdHrnZ5s-rbEf26k3fM8zimt4TCj9zFAWSkGaPetWeBO8A-oVhYd1berlI6CZoBJ6PVSpcEV9JJtHLKdVkBl42eB5Ol_kjZ53/s960/Hooughton+Lake+10-16.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUItiuuKttyx6oEl2uacVye3T3bcb9EV-i2cfp5DdE1TRIdHrnZ5s-rbEf26k3fM8zimt4TCj9zFAWSkGaPetWeBO8A-oVhYd1berlI6CZoBJ6PVSpcEV9JJtHLKdVkBl42eB5Ol_kjZ53/w450-h253/Hooughton+Lake+10-16.jpg" width="450" /></a></div><br /><p>These events ate a lot of fun for the whole family, with activities, food, shopping and psychics galore! Of Course I'm there so You know at least one quality reader to visit. <Cheeky Grin></p><p>Please share the opportunity with friends. Event Pricing is lower to make readings more easily available. Plus the shopping and metaphysical products present at the Vendor's booths has been quality. </p><p><a href="https://www.witchesweekend.com/?fbclid=IwAR1Na-rVRuhGpbbw7WCsOy7uSAjLsX1Jen1r9eI0Bj9Cu85iw_jUSKFRtVA" target="_blank">Witches Weekend Event Tickets</a> </p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576747200214941280.post-51106262933921685142021-10-13T08:00:00.002-05:002021-10-13T09:50:24.802-05:00Lilly's Message<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1X62MpQiWLpvCk5Rlxg-woXgZHtmIY151MiOTrnEy_5dBzKYaNLJi-0gSfxaDqazhmvyUC6hy0Fw1WBmuxgktpfNKw1FvWSAIfiK1mZMiMJZL7NQX14tJObVauskEpghwVbsONYFPZvUz/s2048/IMG_20211013_073535.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1X62MpQiWLpvCk5Rlxg-woXgZHtmIY151MiOTrnEy_5dBzKYaNLJi-0gSfxaDqazhmvyUC6hy0Fw1WBmuxgktpfNKw1FvWSAIfiK1mZMiMJZL7NQX14tJObVauskEpghwVbsONYFPZvUz/s320/IMG_20211013_073535.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>This morning, in the cool of predawn, I took my dog for her morning walk. I usually love these times and yet, this morning I was preoccupied by negative thoughts concerning an altercation I'd been involved in last Friday. I was running the incident over in my mind, contemplating the ethics of using physical force.<p></p><p>Natural law, the law of Cause and Effect or Karma, does vibrationally allow one to act in self defense. Natural law, Energetic law, Moral law does allow us to protect our-selves, family, and property from the violence, abuse, manipulation and coercion of others. As long as you are acting within the bounds of moral law the consequences will usually shift energetically in your favor, which is how things had played out for me. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu6U5ZY5FFBdK0KTrafFVvwIzdCsImpa2icY-fTZtH8qDBy0rsj42nbo6FAbTiJzKXo6SbqIybeWLq-bPyfCDBE4WaAS3wDbN1YdE6DENu9gCJdoBEK2OzVfUPpFEmcFjOmiKEBBAWic4F/s2048/IMG_20211013_073540.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu6U5ZY5FFBdK0KTrafFVvwIzdCsImpa2icY-fTZtH8qDBy0rsj42nbo6FAbTiJzKXo6SbqIybeWLq-bPyfCDBE4WaAS3wDbN1YdE6DENu9gCJdoBEK2OzVfUPpFEmcFjOmiKEBBAWic4F/s320/IMG_20211013_073540.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>However, here I am five days later, my thoughts still angry and violent. I am not going to deny it out of some misguided idea that a spiritual person shouldn't get angry or follow the impulse to physically protect their loved ones. If you don't know me well, I have an early childhood development history of violence and abuse, CPTSD. I have done a lot of therapy and self healing work, mostly to overcome my trauma response. Violence is not where I choose to live and vibrate. Even so, the need to protect my family from the violence of coercion, manipulation, and perceived threat stirred a deep well of rage within me. It is a mark of great healing that the person my wrath was directed toward on Friday remains unscathed if ego bruised.<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5jrAFNBQFZtGtudPg3iTfCy7DKyAoCFYvNfM8JA3972__1eu5thQd8Bq3tCGXR9sQiXZsuI3pnWq_Tn0EH5p_N99rgM1AmaDpfdrVi-Q0dOlcjGrB46yy1V80CXFRnAwOORyTiKZ5euCe/s2048/IMG_20211013_073549.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5jrAFNBQFZtGtudPg3iTfCy7DKyAoCFYvNfM8JA3972__1eu5thQd8Bq3tCGXR9sQiXZsuI3pnWq_Tn0EH5p_N99rgM1AmaDpfdrVi-Q0dOlcjGrB46yy1V80CXFRnAwOORyTiKZ5euCe/s320/IMG_20211013_073549.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>These thoughts of violence were very loud in my head as I walked and the energy I was building around them was not healthy. I am not sure if I could have broken the cycle of CPTSD response on my own. Thankfully, something, some force, power or angel interceded; drawing the focus of my attention to a rainbow painted stone which had been lovingly placed in my line of sight. <p></p>The message on the stone was simple and timely.<div><br /><div><b>LIVE YOUR LIFE TO THE FULLEST - Lilly</b><br /><br /><p>I am thankful for how far I have come on my healing journey, for the reminder of the darkness which still lives inside of me, for the power and strength there as well - which allowed me to control my violent impulses in a moment of extreme stress, but especially for my guardian spirits who walk with me on my journey. </p><p>Lilly, whoever and wherever you are, Thank you for the message of light. I will. </p><p>To my loved ones . . . I will always have your back.</p><p><br /></p></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576747200214941280.post-4844117108314910612021-10-05T16:50:00.001-05:002022-04-26T11:39:01.557-05:00Port Huron, MI, 10/9 Witches Day Out Event Announcement, and WDO-Lapeer Review<p> Whoosh, What a day Saturday 10/2, 2021 was! </p><p>It was good folks, It was good! </p><p>Event management at the Witches Day Out in Lapeer, MI, was well oiled and smooth running. We rolled in on-time for vendor set up, and were given our vendor spot within moments. Thanks to careful planning & pre-organization on our part, we were set up with plenty of time left to look around and have a little breakfast before attendees started arriving. </p><p>I was glad to have selected the open air market area for my Tarot booth location. By setting up an outdoor gazebo for my reader table, I was able to offer a level of privacy the inside readers could not. To be honest I didn't get a chance to explore the shops because I was too busy at my reader booth and having fun with the contests, and dancing to the music they were playing. It was a lively happening place.</p><p>A hearty congrats to the event's DJ/Host, who kept the Bazaar hopping with fun contests and participation activities. Also to his posy of assistants. I was surprised by the amount of things they had going on to entertain us spread out through the day. It was fun to participate! I won the contest for <i>Most Frightening Witches Cackle</i>, deservedly if I do say so myself. I didn't think it would be fair to participate in any of the competitions after that though. snort!</p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3qgKkb4OmbcLnd6KdYN23-R-Nqqasnz0vfNCo9BmesbVDrSsTtfJyUgF_miGRFsAMp_kFKKFJ2k6km6HmJaIwXDvNX534k4jRJifMo92J-uC6Uk9fodA-FJ2cRBuP0WlqqIMY7ckAEq3Z/s2048/10-9+Port+Huron.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3qgKkb4OmbcLnd6KdYN23-R-Nqqasnz0vfNCo9BmesbVDrSsTtfJyUgF_miGRFsAMp_kFKKFJ2k6km6HmJaIwXDvNX534k4jRJifMo92J-uC6Uk9fodA-FJ2cRBuP0WlqqIMY7ckAEq3Z/w300-h400/10-9+Port+Huron.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">10/9/21 Witches Day Out Event Flyer</td></tr></tbody></table>Those of you who are looking for a bit of meta-physical shopping, some Halloween fun, and a Tarot reading from yours truly, I'll be at another Witches Day Out Event October 9, 2021 in Port Huron, MI! <p></p><p><applause with screaming fans! yeees!> </p><p><b>Details Below!</b></p><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu" style="display: inline-flex; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;"><img alt="✨" height="16" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.facebook.com/images/emoji.php/v9/tf4/1/16/2728.png" style="border: 0px;" width="16" /></span><span class="pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu" style="display: inline-flex; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;"><img alt="🌙" height="16" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.facebook.com/images/emoji.php/v9/t33/1/16/1f319.png" style="border: 0px;" width="16" /></span><span style="font-size: 15px;"> Please join us for </span><span class="pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu" style="display: inline-flex; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;"><img alt="🧙🏼♀️" height="16" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.facebook.com/images/emoji.php/v9/t90/1/16/1f9d9_1f3fc_200d_2640.png" style="border: 0px;" width="16" /></span><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></div><h2 style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Witches DAY Out!<br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">In Port Huron, Michigan 10/9/21 @ 11am</span><span style="font-size: 15px;"> </span></h2><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu" style="display: inline-flex; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;"><img alt="🧹" height="16" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.facebook.com/images/emoji.php/v9/ta4/1/16/1f9f9.png" style="border: 0px;" width="16" /></span><span class="pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu" style="display: inline-flex; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;"><img alt="✨" height="16" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.facebook.com/images/emoji.php/v9/tf4/1/16/2728.png" style="border: 0px;" width="16" /></span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Grab your Witches Hat & Broomstick and join us Saturday, October 9th from 11:00am-5:00pm and let your Inner Witch FLY! </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Event Link; <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl py34i1dx gpro0wi8" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ffb.me%2Fe%2Fzs8VuNgc&h=AT2py6g4eq-mCDpFve1MF2CV-DEFIswKOX6n5LJXlSWOBQMqBsVq8NT1gIm9-G4_tXi65AjQIFANoiJuCVErzFNSJvQSjmNrmWvhbt_yEUCX7PfPIRLUpKl-U6ABx69duw&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT3OdTYD6uDyERFDE-slwU_XhDax8PmULBlgPwVXSYFSGXkAYgGKnV9bW7xPvl_cZ9SeEVAK6-O4Gag-4qhcYUWRVaaLQfTaOvqp9ULco4DqeLwhtyqGYsj7tKNU7NNj3RFD_brTgWDveT81vtTvKtfvw50xpXSU6n3XmZ_K_DkMPA" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">fb.me/e/zs8VuNgc</a></span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">@ The Fraternal Order of The Eagles</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">2645 Howard St.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Port Huron, MI 48060</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">It will be a Spook-tacular time with Magical shopping with our Witches Bazaar Vendors INDOOR & OUTDOOR!</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Once again you will find my Tarot booth located in the open air Shopping Bazaar! </b></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For more information contact:</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">WitchesWeekend@gmail.com</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Lapeer, MI 48446, USA43.0514161 -83.31883409999998914.741182263821152 -118.47508409999999 71.36164993617885 -48.162584099999989tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576747200214941280.post-81063178139134752822021-09-27T22:19:00.001-05:002021-09-27T22:19:14.620-05:00EVENT! OCTOBER 2, 2021 WITCHES DAY OUT Psychic Fair and Shopping Bazaar<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I will be offering my services as an Intuitive Tarot Reader for this 10/2 WITCHES DAY OUT Pychic Fair and Shopping Bazaar, in Lapeer MI. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Stop at my booth in the outdoor marketplace to sign up for a reading before you shop the bazaar. All readings are scheduled using sign-up sheets located with the Readers. </span></div><h4 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Get my best rates with Event pricing!</span></h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja-sCgbledQcVLQ3kIETIIsMBm0GJEp6KM6wyNG6q9EJM9UR-YuEvrL8l21JTN2AxLyEc-nJUhDQFVonFxj9v_dw_H2aTQo_AWebMndqYJT8oKxFYKtolT3nFLUiGQc49vXacj32Tf70U7/s2048/IMG_9296.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja-sCgbledQcVLQ3kIETIIsMBm0GJEp6KM6wyNG6q9EJM9UR-YuEvrL8l21JTN2AxLyEc-nJUhDQFVonFxj9v_dw_H2aTQo_AWebMndqYJT8oKxFYKtolT3nFLUiGQc49vXacj32Tf70U7/w480-h640/IMG_9296.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h2 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">WITCHES DAY OUT</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Psychic Fair & Shoping Bazaar</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">10/02/21, from 11AM to 5PM</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">$5 Entry</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">American Legion Hall</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">1701 W.Genesee St. Lapeer, MI</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tickets & More Info @ WITCHESWEEKEND.COM</span></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576747200214941280.post-16303834626023611362021-08-25T13:47:00.003-05:002021-08-25T20:40:24.159-05:00How to Get the Best Out of Tarot Readings.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcKswMOnjmH7IXqCV7Hz5X7GIdCo-ViP9UdYvJBxsM-5SN6VIMl6yB9NdzooBa2JD4472bA3OosqcoNBgo8lpz11IM0DJ-ky6bMcFvD9OWW-3gRhqUUP6czcF_2cvaC31UJYCwcyA3r0We/s275/Tarot2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcKswMOnjmH7IXqCV7Hz5X7GIdCo-ViP9UdYvJBxsM-5SN6VIMl6yB9NdzooBa2JD4472bA3OosqcoNBgo8lpz11IM0DJ-ky6bMcFvD9OWW-3gRhqUUP6czcF_2cvaC31UJYCwcyA3r0We/s16000/Tarot2.jpg" /></a></div><div><br /></div>If you have visited my page before you already know that I use Tarot and other divination cards to discover hidden knowledge, uncover patterns of behavior and attitude as a means of self exploration, and that I encourage others to do the same. If you are not familiar with the Tarot or divination cards, are someone who has seen the cards in movies but never had a reading, or has had a reading but didn't get much out of the experience, today's blog is especially for you. <div><br /><div><h3 style="text-align: left;">You don't have to be a Psychic to use the Tarot</h3><div>Everyone can use the Tarot or other divination cards but there are some people who seem to get more information out of them. These people are often psychically gifted or are educated and interested in the symbols, imagery, and allegorical language of the Tarot. You do not have to be a psychic to use or receive benefit from playing with the cards and you don't have to believe in the spiritual/futuristic aspect or the mystical to go to someone for a card reading. There is much benefit to be gained through self-awareness and examination simply by playing with them as a game. However, the pass time <i>is</i> more fun, and often more insightful, when you get a reading from someone who has invested time, interest, and effort in learning about and practiced use of the Tarot.</div><div><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4U8i3mWU4FcaerihjsghI13uP2hni868qK_e-5BIu1nR3r2Hai3jAGTrJ4Ng__OwpsIXV9fBohVT3JXwlcbxXI_iDiO7FWlSE-PA-9_QVGuXl6HDoZ0mKFK5ZrPKXmZdTRB8kQxmLpXNT/s1200/Vonnie.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4U8i3mWU4FcaerihjsghI13uP2hni868qK_e-5BIu1nR3r2Hai3jAGTrJ4Ng__OwpsIXV9fBohVT3JXwlcbxXI_iDiO7FWlSE-PA-9_QVGuXl6HDoZ0mKFK5ZrPKXmZdTRB8kQxmLpXNT/w200-h200/Vonnie.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>What a Psychic brings to the table</h4><div>The world of divination and the spiritually gifted is widely varied. Just as with other arts, every practitioner has their speciality and talent. Not all "Psychics" practice the same skill or form of divination and not all gifted persons share the same talents or degree/level of talent. <div><br /></div><div>The term psychic is rather a broad label used to cover a range of spiritual gifts and people who use those gifts. One could use any number of other titles. Some of these labels describe the kind of talent or method of divination used. </div><div><br /></div><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><b>Psychic</b> (<i>online dictionary</i>)<br /><i>adjective</i><br />1. relating to or denoting faculties or phenomena that are apparently inexplicable by natural laws, especially involving telepathy or clairvoyance, "psychic powers."<br />Similar: supernatural, paranormal, otherworldly, supernormal, preternatural, metaphysical, second sight, with a sixth sense<br />2. relating to the soul or mind. <br />3. a person considered or claiming to have psychic powers<i> (unexplainable knowledge of. . . through extra extrasensory perception.)</i><br />Similar: clairvoyant, fortune teller, prophet, seer, soothsayer, forecaster of the future, crystal gazer, astrologer, prognosticator, prophesier, oracle, augur</blockquote><p>While I do possess several spiritual gifts, I am primarily Clairsentient (clear-feeling, strongly empathic), and Claircognizant (clear-knowing) using divination cards, including the Tarot, as the tool for drawing out information. Real psychics usually don’t claim to be literal mind readers. They pick up on energy and may sense strong emotions or stark images using their gifts/talent. Some receive information from spirits that they hear through Clairaudience, others receive knowledge through scent which only they are smelling - Clairalience. (These are examples and do not cover all the possible psychic gifts.)</p><p>I have a strong gift of empathy, the ability to feel what others are feeling or experiencing. If the emotional emanation is strong enough a person's emotional projections may contain images which I will see mentally and be able to work with. When a client is cut off from their emotions or is intentionally shielding their emotions, the divination cards act as a door or entry point for claircognizance and assist me with interpreting what comes through. </p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpXUiD8khbbSlskLnmuPr9l9NvsjcdFq-4QFR8xWMGRKGpNOg6ixiBqEwXZB7-tUPSescNUKTVgw2UtkRrcXjlg6ooTp1TrV9D4aBk0RWzrC6UvocpFz75CUYlAZbL4w8hvTBElAjCT4aP/s424/The+Spread.png.opt424x313o0%252C0s424x313.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="313" data-original-width="424" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpXUiD8khbbSlskLnmuPr9l9NvsjcdFq-4QFR8xWMGRKGpNOg6ixiBqEwXZB7-tUPSescNUKTVgw2UtkRrcXjlg6ooTp1TrV9D4aBk0RWzrC6UvocpFz75CUYlAZbL4w8hvTBElAjCT4aP/s320/The+Spread.png.opt424x313o0%252C0s424x313.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Focus Wheel and Pyramid of Influences</td></tr></tbody></table><br />The cards allow me to open a dialogue about the client's particular area of focus, their question, and to explore the energies around them, so that we can both better understand the situation – namely, where that energy is coming from and why. While you can ask very specific yes/no questions, divination cards and the Tarot are better suited for exploring whole areas of life, such as career, family, friendships, love life and personal or spiritual goals.</div><div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">How to get the best out of a Tarot/divination card reading</h3><p>First of all, is a Tarot or card reading the right form of divination tool for your needs?</p><p>As I have already said, Tarot or card readings are not the best form of divination for yes or no questions. Cards are best used when looking at broader areas of life, reading patterns of behavior, looking for or at resistance, problem solving - how to remove or address obstacles/blocks, and for gaining objectivity/insight about a situation. If you are looking to find a lost puppy, take their blanket or favorite toy as a "focus" to someone with the gift of psychometry. They may be able to "see" where the lost pup is using the energetic connection between the dog and the toy/item used as a focus. A tarot reading would not be the ideal choice of divination tool for that need. </p><p>Once you know that Tarot is the best tool to explore your area of focus, take a moment to think through a line of questioning. This is especially important. The cards reveal more if you have a line of questioning. </p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH9DRAFfpqpgf5ere5G6lFwvbrRfo6YttihxZV9NTtIdGTroPipgiwyMgCB1XJgEeARLgXuBcTtYLkE3l8DK6NgVz4aCRDu3GrqDHrWGyqCn3oGvUyMsY92ji0hO_WL98iX6nBWcq6nN90/s2592/IMG_20210810_162908.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="1944" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH9DRAFfpqpgf5ere5G6lFwvbrRfo6YttihxZV9NTtIdGTroPipgiwyMgCB1XJgEeARLgXuBcTtYLkE3l8DK6NgVz4aCRDu3GrqDHrWGyqCn3oGvUyMsY92ji0hO_WL98iX6nBWcq6nN90/s320/IMG_20210810_162908.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sample Focus Wheel</td></tr></tbody></table>Lines of Inquiry</h4><p>Come to a reading with an area of focus or a line of questioning. It is very helpful for the reader if you are able to narrow the focus for your reading. If you are too vague about what you are looking for or don't have a question in mind, the reading could be very general indeed. A line of questioning is helpful for the reader and assists them in weeding through all of the information they are getting from your energy and the cards. </p><p>Here are some examples for lines of inquiry that work well with divination cards:</p><div style="text-align: left;">I'm in a new relationship. I'd like to see what the cards have to say about my love interest, where they are in life, what they are looking for, and what’s in store for this relationship.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />I’d like to look at my career. I'm - considering another position/up for promotion. Can we look at that? Is this good timing? What can I expect? Any advice?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />I am feeling very isolated and want to make some new friends but every time I open up I get let down. Why is that? How can I find people I can trust?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />I am thinking about . . . moving/changing/pursuing _____ (fill in the blank). I’d like to know what the cards suggest I do: move, not move, change, not change, or to pursue, not to pursue and any spiritual reasons, material influences etc.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />I’m trying to get pregnant, and it hasn’t happened yet. What can the cards tell me about my present and future in relation to getting pregnant? </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;">Other Tips </h4><div>Readers put a lot of time into educating themselves and practicing with the cards. If you decide to play with divination cards yourself, you will discover that there is no end to the amount of learning that can go into their study and use. The best readers are always seeking to expand their knowledge and awareness level, in order to serve their clients better. Readers put themselves out there and it pulls on their energy to do so. There is an energetic price to be paid when exercising a psychic gift and it costs them to read for you. Add to that cost the mundane aspects of organizational and business expenses required for them to practice, and you get one very invested reader. A monetary exchange of energy currency is expected and reasonable for their time and efforts. </div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>If you respect their investment and are mindful of your reader's efforts as a matter of courtesy, you will get the best they have to offer</li><li>Schedule an appointment</li><li>or if a Reader offers walk-in sessions at shop, take advantage of their availability.</li></ul><h4 style="text-align: left;">Go For It!</h4></div><div>Now that you have a better idea of what to expect and how to get the best out of Tarot and divination card readings, it is time to have some fun. Go play!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576747200214941280.post-84935074644828297852021-08-20T00:00:00.018-05:002021-08-20T04:16:28.774-05:00It Takes More than Desire. . . <h4 style="text-align: left;">Reaching</h4><p style="text-align: left;">It used to seem like I was always reaching; as though all my hopes, desires, dreams and goals were just out of reach. Wanting, desiring just isn't enough. I think maybe that is because there is an element of lack in the experience of desiring. If all we do is aknowledge our desire for a thing . . . that yearning also informs the universe of our belief in the lack of it, that we don't have what we desire. It sure is easy to get stuck in that place of yearning. To be always reaching, noticing only the lack of fulfillment; a real problem for anyone seeking to manifest through deliberate creation. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Talking about this makes me think of my Mama. She used to say something like "I feel for you, but I just can't reach you. . ." when she wanted us to understand that she sympathized but we were going to have to help ourselves. My siblings and I learned if we wanted something we had to get it for ourselves, find our own solutions, be independent or at least make an attempt to. </p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Doing, doesn't seem to cut it either. . .</h4><p style="text-align: left;">My Mama would have said "<i>Do</i> something about it. Go after what you want." Conventional wisdom, but doing something doesn't seem to cut it either. I mean, <i>doing something</i> doesn't guarantee successfully reaching the goal. I have spent enough time spinning my wheels to know that. I've rocked and spun my tires smooth! I've thrown down gravel, added weight in my trunk. I've tried paying for a tow, a lift, an edge only to get nowhere. That is until I did something about my vibration. </p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Until we <i>do</i> something about our vibration</h4><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><blockquote><i>“Everything is energy and that is all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you can not help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.” Albert Einstein </i></blockquote></span></div><h2>The Teaching</h2><h4 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyxRl8u8fOrx_sVYsSoMk7Sm7WT5q06BEnJ-ja8s3XMTxLpQ5uPl46KgEFZq_mn93tF7fm16nIyMnFRvL8yRBpr2TnQKQpRhSsKrMNMxVmidJMMwEH4FFwM0ugSk8OD-HEoKqKTMA1JA_E/s1600/20160913_122222_Richtone%252528HDR%252529-1.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyxRl8u8fOrx_sVYsSoMk7Sm7WT5q06BEnJ-ja8s3XMTxLpQ5uPl46KgEFZq_mn93tF7fm16nIyMnFRvL8yRBpr2TnQKQpRhSsKrMNMxVmidJMMwEH4FFwM0ugSk8OD-HEoKqKTMA1JA_E/w227-h320/20160913_122222_Richtone%252528HDR%252529-1.jpg" width="227" /></a></h4><p dir="ltr"></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"> </h4><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">When My Desires and Beliefs are a Vibrational Match</span></h4><p dir="ltr"></p><p> <i>That which is like unto itself is drawn, so the vibration of your being must match the vibration of your desire. Another way of saying that is your desires and your beliefs must be a vibrational match in order for you to receive that which you desire. ~ Abraham/Ester Hicks</i></p><p> </p><p><b>But, How do I get from here to there! </b></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC2o6dV1RP4d2VAmgp7tS6UHXp0OjJvNLxrkE6EAb2lcsmB2BUNi1Gzw0XRmBwtWdAdORCQcceKx9meDcZlatHNXWHOBR2jQjbQjAldCcE9Tu0BYfvf1tZoJWj5NjpNwCxwqHtans9Oz5O/s1600/20160913_122413_Richtone%252528HDR%252529-1.jpg" style="clear: right; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC2o6dV1RP4d2VAmgp7tS6UHXp0OjJvNLxrkE6EAb2lcsmB2BUNi1Gzw0XRmBwtWdAdORCQcceKx9meDcZlatHNXWHOBR2jQjbQjAldCcE9Tu0BYfvf1tZoJWj5NjpNwCxwqHtans9Oz5O/w276-h400/20160913_122413_Richtone%252528HDR%252529-1.jpg" width="276" /></a>We all want to know the answer to that one! And there is an answer, many. Understanding that our desires and beliefs must be a <i>vibrational match</i> however is pivotal in being able to obtain results or movement. If we don't first understand how we are impeding our own progress, by fostering negative or erroneous beliefs, we just <i>won't get there</i>. We will be stuck. We might be putting in all kinds of effort and won't be in the right place at the right moment to meet that opportunity. All of our efforting and our <i>desires</i> will get us nowhere. No fruit. </p><p>I have spent too much time coming to an understanding of this key to manifestation (regret tinged,) the hero who got lost in the wilderness. </p><p>Which reminds me that, as the hero, I have wandered the wild places and faced many an adversary, growing and developing the skills, knowledge, strength, and magic needed; gathering tools and companions for my journey's quest. I digress. Those are thoughts for another blog topic. </p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Back to the teaching. . . </h4><p><i></i></p><blockquote><i>That which is like unto itself is drawn, so <u>the vibration of your being must match the vibration of your desire.</u> Another way of saying that is your desires and your beliefs must be a vibrational match in order <u>for you to receive that which you desire</u>.</i></blockquote><p></p><h4 style="text-align: left;">The vibration of my Being . . must match. . the vibration of my desire</h4><p style="text-align: left;">Well dang, if it isn't so. Once I turned my awareness to shifting thoughts and beliefs and began aligning my energies/vibration/frequency (interchangeable) with my desires life opened up for me and the blessings began pouring through. I started lining up with opportunity. When I get stuck reaching now, I find it much easier to recognize the old patterns of belief and inhibitive thinking. My energies shift as I refocus my awareness, turning toward the preferred with appreciation. Tensions melt. Resistance lessens, and I'm back in the flow. </p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Affirmation: </h4><p style="text-align: left;"></p><blockquote><i>I<span face="museo-sans" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"> am never stuck, for I can choose new thoughts and new ways of thinking. My future can always be more positive, more loving and more prosperous. ~ Louise Hay Affirmation</span></i></blockquote><span face="museo-sans" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"><i></i></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">And <i>that</i> is where I am going to leave you today, my friends. Thinking about what it means, and what kind of shift it would require, to bring your <i>desires</i> and your <i>Being</i> into <i>vibrational alignment.</i> A <i>How To</i> topic we will explore further another day.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Michigan, USA44.3148443 -85.60236429999999114.089759803943117 -120.758616982209 74.53992879605687 -50.446111617790976tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576747200214941280.post-11493642987890582222021-08-18T16:28:00.003-05:002021-08-20T03:35:46.884-05:00 We Have Returned! <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG5CTRsAa3V6Em4h30OYabcbvirGTrGH0MURFCQDxd58Y75jrbm9nIjnT4kBgPzrCBMu5wG3Kkc6f3xa6ZHpxXFfy7zPToLOQoDPW5Y3d-UN0v8b_MrJ0Q1HyWHlc5rr_BZYQ8NyAs_D7G/s590/wrws.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="489" data-original-width="590" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG5CTRsAa3V6Em4h30OYabcbvirGTrGH0MURFCQDxd58Y75jrbm9nIjnT4kBgPzrCBMu5wG3Kkc6f3xa6ZHpxXFfy7zPToLOQoDPW5Y3d-UN0v8b_MrJ0Q1HyWHlc5rr_BZYQ8NyAs_D7G/s320/wrws.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><h1 style="text-align: left;">16th Annual Wolf Run Harvest Festival 2021<br />Review:</h1><p></p><p>Location: Remus, MI </p><p>Dates: Annually the 2nd Week of August</p><p>Website: <a href="http://wrwss.miwebs.net/index.html">Wolf Run Wildlife and Spiritual Sanctuary</a></p><p><br /></p><p>When I say <i>we</i> I am including my husband Irfan, not using the "Royal WE." and so, We're back!</p><p>First of all I would like to begin by saying, we had a very enjoyable time at this festival. The property itself is a large parcel of land with a private residence, barn, several tiny homes and out-buildings, gardens, wooded walking trails, with ritual and meditation circles nestled deep in shade. The organizers also had set up several large pavilions for shade and use purposes, which kept guests comfortable over what turned out to be a pretty sunny weekend. Highlight - surprisingly luxurious porta-toilets, with motion detecting solar lights. These potties were much remarked upon and storied for their comfort, cleanliness, and lack of the usual foul odors. I'll leave the history of them for the enthusiastic telling of organization members, who really do have something to be proud of in their creation. There was plenty of parking for day visitors and lots of room for camping. I even was able to enjoy a semi-primitive hot solar heated shower every day. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1F3ODoIRsKkftHAhjpuLCmIzvH067smR4-G_2UDBCBKTLqNc9tOkRyfDvDMKQZDNoTQNfaecXXkpVISb7YaXdrNAUWKbR-dtSK2OjsUASBCUaN3G5XXFp57nTPVKkoSz_Fvx9ntHtEJoX/s816/vendors2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="816" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1F3ODoIRsKkftHAhjpuLCmIzvH067smR4-G_2UDBCBKTLqNc9tOkRyfDvDMKQZDNoTQNfaecXXkpVISb7YaXdrNAUWKbR-dtSK2OjsUASBCUaN3G5XXFp57nTPVKkoSz_Fvx9ntHtEJoX/s320/vendors2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>The quality and level of this event's organization was impressive. The event staff were all on task, and worked diligently to make the scheduled activities roll smoothly from one to the next. Vendors were of good quality, with a wide variety of merchandise and crafts to sell, and they were well spaced around the main event field. There were only two reader's booths offering services, myself and Sanctuary of the Winds. From my perspective this was a plus since we were both kept occupied doing readings without a lot of down time. <div><p></p><p><br /></p><p>The Festival had quite a few activities to occupy guests, workshop classes, performers, yoga, a little of plenty if not everything. Breakfast and dinner were potluck affairs with plenty of food for everyone even if you didn't bring a dish to share. There was a kitchen staffer who organized heating and prep of the food (Thanks Bill) and organization staff served guests from the buffet. Lunch and snackage were our own responsibility, but there was a Food Truck that served generous fare during the day. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyziSX87l06b7IOv1hLNhRAmEcKGijet2R7HyQPrVpaPofJtv2NUu1BsBZ9pwxp4nTBloG-XklXLOmMDyPAk8mcgG0urW-3TO9kPWy7g58iaHp3Hos9iCavgTaDM2zRNORJjZ97V64_8xq/s816/teaching+circle.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="816" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyziSX87l06b7IOv1hLNhRAmEcKGijet2R7HyQPrVpaPofJtv2NUu1BsBZ9pwxp4nTBloG-XklXLOmMDyPAk8mcgG0urW-3TO9kPWy7g58iaHp3Hos9iCavgTaDM2zRNORJjZ97V64_8xq/s320/teaching+circle.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />This was a family friendly event, although there were not a lot of children present. I was surprised at how modest the attendance was in relation to the quality of organization. The only explanation I have for that is obviously the pandemic. <p></p><p>I met and enjoyed so many good people that I am definitely putting this harvest festival on my 2022 calendar and hope to see you and them there too.</p><p><br /></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576747200214941280.post-55333408286281717802021-08-05T11:04:00.000-05:002021-08-05T11:04:09.214-05:00Announcing my Reader Participation at the Wolf Run Harvest Festival August 13-15, 2021 <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgAzpOpXs6Hry8mxAuInwacZ5V1WVWCwqM6LNAFQA2pLpps85ApD50y-ipW-ikx2K45rqbJx3wzISWpX7p9g2zGzopvmO77B2mKG5GBaf1cWq3rQEUY50_GkXqoqNxWSGwHVKVxhReawnv/s2048/HF+2021.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgAzpOpXs6Hry8mxAuInwacZ5V1WVWCwqM6LNAFQA2pLpps85ApD50y-ipW-ikx2K45rqbJx3wzISWpX7p9g2zGzopvmO77B2mKG5GBaf1cWq3rQEUY50_GkXqoqNxWSGwHVKVxhReawnv/w427-h640/HF+2021.jpg" width="427" /></a></div><br /><h3 style="text-align: center;"><b>I will be offering 15 to 30 minute readings for all interested Querents.</b><b><br /></b><b>$15 - $30, @ a rate of $1 per minute</b><b><br /></b><b>Please bring cash as I don't know what kind of cell reception will be available for use with my PayPal credit card reader/app.</b></h3><br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">Event Details</h2><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Wolf Run Wildlife & Spiritual Sanctuary 16th Annual Harvest Festival (<a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/#">WRWSS.org</a>) </span></h4></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Host sites:</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/#">https://www.facebook.com/wrwss</a> </span></b></li><li><a href=" http://www.wolfrunsanctuary.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>http://www.wolfrunsanctuary.org/ </b></span></a></li></ul></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Event Location: </b>6879 60th Ave Remus, MI, 49340</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Event Dates: </b>Friday Aug 13 -Aug 15</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Host Contact Number: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18.75px;">(616) 884-8502</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Harvest Festival is a holiday which can be traced all the way back to the ancient Celts when it was celebrated as the seasonal mid-point. It was during this time that people would harvest their grains, store food away for later use and begin preparations for winter. In Old English, the word “hærfest” would mean autumn and it would eventually become the word harvest. In Anglo-Saxon England, these pagan traditions would continue on as Lammas or “loaf mass.” It was during this time that it became customary to ‘bless the bread’, which would later become the tradition of giving thanks for a meal. By the 16th century, a number of traditions had been incorporated into this day. Harvest Festival would continue to evolve over the next few hundred years – until it became the holiday that it is today.<br /><br /> <br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576747200214941280.post-43257052352667970942021-08-03T16:56:00.003-05:002021-08-25T20:44:06.581-05:00Pandemic Check In <p> For those who are wondering how I am spending the pandemic I thought I would give you a little update.</p><p>I have been giving my focus to personal health issues of diet and exercise. Part of being a healthy spirit includes taking care of the body. The body is a manifestation of our individualization from the whole and of our frequency. It is a reflection of our individual energetic and vibrational Being. Disease can be a way for our higher Soul to communicate with and guide us into better alignment. I am a diabetic and my disease has taught me many things about life. I don't reject it anymore. I embrace that it is teaching me to take care of myself and revealing areas I have been stuck spiritually. I have begun using disease as a tool. </p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf_iaDbyy54JsgLESHiIBvEINciEofjqffRUwN8JrJY8l0K6VjDsZuLQTPgotT2FWS9r2_g3v-56Jm70Oe7_bXml9PEAOSjCFuDyXCf-_DmkIjnCTwvJ73KNZN_2pXE-DWJHVMZgEz-hvX/s2048/vonnieFeb2020.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf_iaDbyy54JsgLESHiIBvEINciEofjqffRUwN8JrJY8l0K6VjDsZuLQTPgotT2FWS9r2_g3v-56Jm70Oe7_bXml9PEAOSjCFuDyXCf-_DmkIjnCTwvJ73KNZN_2pXE-DWJHVMZgEz-hvX/s320/vonnieFeb2020.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Before pic - taken Feb 22/2020</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p>For many years I have followed the well meaning guidance of doctors, and the medically established treatment they prescribed for diabetes. My health was not improving and in fact the disease was progressing. I was put on ever increasing doses of medicine and on insulin.My weight ballooned. I developed cataracts, which were removed at the beginning of the pandemic. My physical condition was deteriorating as I ignored my own intuition about the state of my health, my medical treatment, and about how I should be eating, in favor of the medical guidance I received. </p><p>During the pandemic I was forced to be with myself, take stock of my health, habits, attitudes and to make different choices. I opened myself to new information and a different way of treating diabetes was presented to me. I can't offer medical advice to others but I can share informational links and my progress in private direct message. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyn4PCaowhXAMIsyuMSgaCdZ7F6mdySetLbBEoGpn9zW4_V54U20WfauHO0gOWr_hIjxVxK0BMZA8KR5b8hGmomH7rtzO2VUwbc12n4K_xnYHjTOKMYd0O0K39cDUoUk0eMohSj_N_avBu/s960/Tawas+Bay+7-31-21.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyn4PCaowhXAMIsyuMSgaCdZ7F6mdySetLbBEoGpn9zW4_V54U20WfauHO0gOWr_hIjxVxK0BMZA8KR5b8hGmomH7rtzO2VUwbc12n4K_xnYHjTOKMYd0O0K39cDUoUk0eMohSj_N_avBu/s320/Tawas+Bay+7-31-21.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">07-30-21</td></tr></tbody></table><p>I have dropped 76 of the 90 lbs I gained after being put on insulin. I am halfway to my goal body weight. I feel much better. No more swollen ankles and feet! Most of that weight had to come off before I could exercise without hurting myself. I used some of my pandemic relief money to buy myself a bicycle. Where before I could hardly walk a mile, I am now street cycling about 6 miles a day. The farthest I've cycled in one go is 17 miles, in the Huron National Forest where it is nice and flat. </p><p><br /></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIe3o4QrH4NpFi_jzivuKn4X3uf2iv0UCAcyQe7bNUYEQGDamElpnsKLENWf6tKazlSe4KaWvpqqdZP8RScSqX-CZHMw4iM4s7bkczbEw-5UV40EJVYDHNgj6PrHqdnF3kDEMY9Ecg8Rb9/s960/Ginny.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIe3o4QrH4NpFi_jzivuKn4X3uf2iv0UCAcyQe7bNUYEQGDamElpnsKLENWf6tKazlSe4KaWvpqqdZP8RScSqX-CZHMw4iM4s7bkczbEw-5UV40EJVYDHNgj6PrHqdnF3kDEMY9Ecg8Rb9/s320/Ginny.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ginny</td></tr></tbody></table>A little dog in need of rescue found her way into our home by a series of synchronous events at the beginning of May 2021, which has been an energy charger for our home and especially for me. It is much better to walk the dog than to be walked. I admit to needing her as incentive to move. It is easier for me to do the right thing for her than to take on the challenge for my own benefit. No shame in admitting that. <div><br /></div><div>I am feeling more empowered and that is the best thing that has come out of this pandemic for me. I am listening to my own inner voice about what I need. Learning to trust Source as my generous provider and I am reversing the diabetes and recovering my power.</div><div><br /><div class="separator"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4U8i3mWU4FcaerihjsghI13uP2hni868qK_e-5BIu1nR3r2Hai3jAGTrJ4Ng__OwpsIXV9fBohVT3JXwlcbxXI_iDiO7FWlSE-PA-9_QVGuXl6HDoZ0mKFK5ZrPKXmZdTRB8kQxmLpXNT/s1200/Vonnie.jpg" style="clear: right; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4U8i3mWU4FcaerihjsghI13uP2hni868qK_e-5BIu1nR3r2Hai3jAGTrJ4Ng__OwpsIXV9fBohVT3JXwlcbxXI_iDiO7FWlSE-PA-9_QVGuXl6HDoZ0mKFK5ZrPKXmZdTRB8kQxmLpXNT/w200-h200/Vonnie.jpg" width="200" /></a></div></div><br />I hope all of you are well and making the changes that best serve you as well. 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<b>We are <i>vibrational</i> <i>beings</i> experiencing a vibrational universe.</b></div>
<br />I believe we live in a vibration based multi-verse, where every combination and permutation of reality exists simultaneously and without time. To me that is exciting, because it means we choose which reality we will inhabit with our consciousness based on the beliefs, the thoughts, and frequency we are holding onto NOW. What a lot of fear and pain could be avoided by consciously choosing the path our thoughts travel and protecting the health and tone of the frequency we carry. <br />
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This understanding for the nature of reality provides an explanation for why two people who have shared the same experiences, say as siblings, can tell very different stories about their lives, each other, and their upbringing. Or for reality "glitches" that some people call the <i>Mandela Effect</i>. It also explains the behaviors of people all over the world and why there are so many stories going around about the current pandemic and global events.<br />
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I'm the kind of person who questions the accepted reality. I admit it. I do not trust what I am told. That distrust comes out of traumatic formative experiences I'm sure. I do not trust the folks who are supposed to protect me, to tell me the truth. So it follows that I am not going to simply accept the events as reported, or leap to believe the government's narrative about how Covid-19 came into being or was spread. As suspicious as my nature would have me be, I am in awe at the variety of realities and wild scenarios I have heard. Now don't take that to mean I'm not full of wild ideas. I've lived a varied set of experiences. I've danced in the void of the mystic, and sipped the tea of shamanic visions. I am pretty open to the fantastic. I just don't reach for it if there is a rational explanation that fits the facts, and which my personal life experience has or can confirm. Experience, my life experience is what I believe. Thought, Belief, Frequency all are influencing reality for individuals and the collective. I choose the best case scenario I am presented with every time, if it helps me get through this moment now. All that really requires of me is to keep an open mind and leave room for others to experience their chosen realities.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;">To Vax or Not to Vax . . .<br /></h4><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8GyWT88jAZpDmo6jbKEAdWJR9GR3ubcDfPxGZIdU_0AuQJj_GFuqdys8kyFDRd7eTua46hoNG7BMkWnaKJTcutptK1H_Ko9YyUIT4_A6h-s4RGSvf3N7RKdoWFghi5qBpAiy89XOpeWQp/s309/vaccine3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="163" data-original-width="309" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8GyWT88jAZpDmo6jbKEAdWJR9GR3ubcDfPxGZIdU_0AuQJj_GFuqdys8kyFDRd7eTua46hoNG7BMkWnaKJTcutptK1H_Ko9YyUIT4_A6h-s4RGSvf3N7RKdoWFghi5qBpAiy89XOpeWQp/w400-h211/vaccine3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></blockquote><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">When faced with the wildest claims about this pandemic, I have to remind myself of the vibrational nature of things and repeat the mantra "All perspectives are true." It helps me find balance. Otherwise I would be swept up by chaos as realities collide. Why accept the worse case scenario of other peoples' chosen realities if there is a multi-verse of realities I can choose from? </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">That being said, I respect Science even when I don't always trust the establishment and I leave room for the science to grow and for the re-evaluation of information and data. I am not an anti-vaxer, but I am vaccine cautious. Cautious in that too many vaccines given at once is known to cause injury and there are diseases that have vaccines which I may never be at risk of being exposed to. I am not going to get vaccinated for every possibility of disease that is available. I will rely on good diet, exercise and strengthening my immune system to fight most of those. I do not know how I will face the choice for the Corona-19 vaccine when one is available. It is alright not to have the answers. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">As individuals we choose our frequency through the thoughts and beliefs we nurture, in turn that influences our point of attraction, what kind of experiences we will have, circumstances and even how we prosper. We also inhabit and navigate a collective reality. Nations also have karma, and collective identities or egos. (The planet itself has its own evolutionary path.) These have to be considered and navigated also. I can't tell you how to do that, the variables are too many and my sight is limited. Whether you get vaccinated or not when a vaccine becomes available is a choice you are responsible for making. Either way, safeguarding others through wearing a mask and taking personal protection and hygiene into consideration is just good citizenship. We don't know what others are facing or what is influencing their perspectives and decisions. . For now just be respectful of others' choices, privacy, and health. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Michigan, USA44.3148443 -85.60236429999999115.12179853020606 -120.75861429999999 73.50789006979393 -50.446114299999991tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576747200214941280.post-82410906530300066032020-10-01T00:00:00.001-05:002021-08-03T15:29:06.602-05:00Inspiration for Today . . .<h1 style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><blockquote><h1 style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu6iF1YlHCYCQM7eKknZChiczWrDIBbna3qw6-gwJq5crkJDhLKM3HG5Rhuoy_gF5ynfHVhNVjRVcP4AnAb621VMZNbHw1FS3UQvDRIKSjRqh32Q-PRVrtE9eizSHWsvBaQbP1siEEX3r8/s1600/20170102_110239-1.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu6iF1YlHCYCQM7eKknZChiczWrDIBbna3qw6-gwJq5crkJDhLKM3HG5Rhuoy_gF5ynfHVhNVjRVcP4AnAb621VMZNbHw1FS3UQvDRIKSjRqh32Q-PRVrtE9eizSHWsvBaQbP1siEEX3r8/w280-h400/20170102_110239-1.jpg" width="280" /></a></h1><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></h2></blockquote></h1><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote><h1 style="text-align: left;"></h1><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I Will Do My Best to Make the Best of IT.</span></h2></blockquote><h1 style="clear: both;"><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgssUhYNLGwDG4ypbo8stF0ISHhqU6joJQV_xqzlJ5yVy-HjKpKtSyOihGuUv6lL_6QM5cVtQm60YX-2h5N_JRcr3X8rb2lEw0mW3aH_TqQDCQ3o_ZWDx_dhAWShBW1nbFu-tqm9N0dGzIZ/w286-h400/20170102_110257-1-1.jpg" style="text-align: right;" width="286" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>A key to regaining your feeling of empowerment is to decide, right now, that no matter how good or how bad you are feeling, you are going to do your best to make the best of it. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Do that again and again and in a short period of time you will find yourself in a very good feeling place.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;"><span><a name='more'></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">This was definitely the message I needed to receive today. </span><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">Sometimes we all need to be reminded that our best is enough.</span></div></h1><h1 style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"></span></div></h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgssUhYNLGwDG4ypbo8stF0ISHhqU6joJQV_xqzlJ5yVy-HjKpKtSyOihGuUv6lL_6QM5cVtQm60YX-2h5N_JRcr3X8rb2lEw0mW3aH_TqQDCQ3o_ZWDx_dhAWShBW1nbFu-tqm9N0dGzIZ/s1600/20170102_110257-1-1.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /> </a> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576747200214941280.post-15632352483961324322020-03-21T17:44:00.000-05:002020-05-23T17:49:16.090-05:00March 21st 2020 - Pandemic Declared<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I just keep moving through each moment as best as I can. I find myself mentally going through the food in my cupboards doing inventory, taking stock of what I have. Congratulations to self for buying that hand held bidet attachment for the toilet. I'm doing laundry, taking walks. I wish I had a dog but am grateful I don't. How would I feed it, if things get worse? Wiping down the counters, door knobs, and switches with bleach water. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576747200214941280.post-69562689972656752912019-11-15T10:03:00.000-06:002019-11-15T10:03:33.556-06:00Surrendering to the Flow- How My Greatest Fear Became My Blessing.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbXZj-Ic9ZvE6v1GvQU3HMX3pK2fXEPvF17sDmaakEOWJJgYi0L08E9QRdZgcorGy7fIi04rxDLOLvsZuemGfE1225JK-8yOkJIe1J8vP21mZSy3X3qOxTWYsX6CU7cCxnZjQC74YX5VPB/s1600/20191112_073853.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbXZj-Ic9ZvE6v1GvQU3HMX3pK2fXEPvF17sDmaakEOWJJgYi0L08E9QRdZgcorGy7fIi04rxDLOLvsZuemGfE1225JK-8yOkJIe1J8vP21mZSy3X3qOxTWYsX6CU7cCxnZjQC74YX5VPB/s400/20191112_073853.jpg" width="400" /></a>Some time back, I posted an update about returning from India, my struggle with fear, and the challenges of returning to the States owning only a carry-on suite case filled with ethnic Indian clothing. After that post, there was a long break where I didn't have it in me to write. Today I feel the urge to talk about that space of time.<br />
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In the year since our return we have experienced many challenges and many blessings. On the "Challenge" side, I spoke of being reliant on family for support, as we searched for jobs and took action to build new lives. We were greatly blessed in that I have a generous aunt who happened to need a house sitter over the winter. Which was how Source met our needs for housing last year. From November 2018, until mid June 2019, we stayed in her home as house sitters. It was during that time I wrote the blog <a href="https://diviningtheself.blogspot.com/2019/02/reaching-for-improved-thoughts.html" target="_blank">Reaching For Improved Thoughts</a>, which expressed the crushing weight of fear I was grappling under. Writing the blog helped me gather strength and re-frame my perspective in the light of the spiritual work I am doing. I guess this blog is about sharing the success I've had when reaching for improved thoughts and surrendering to the flow. During that time of blog-silence, I have learned that even when we experience our worst fears we do not have to suffer.<br />
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Sometimes our worst fear coming true puts us into alignment for our blessings. I say that because in June and July my husband and I experienced homelessness (the thing I was most afraid of) after we willingly left the shelter of my aunt's support. Although she would have allowed us to stay longer, our presence in her home beyond the agreed upon length of stay would have created hardship for her. We chose to surrender to the flow, to willingly exit at the agreed upon time. We had no idea how long we would be homeless. We only had our commitment to the belief in Source as generous provider, working on our behalf; even though we couldn't imagine how things would unfold or what the most beneficial outcome would look like.<br />
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We had not been able to secure permanent full time employment. I was working a part-time job but other than that the only headway we'd made was in securing a car, car insurance, and assistance through the MDHS Bridges program for food stamps. Still, rather than cling to my aunt for continued support, we moved out into the unknown and trusted Source to provide for our needs. Turns out that was the best thing we could have done. We took our car, with the camp gear (tent, air mattress, Coleman stove) that we had recovered from a friend, got a camp site at Sleepy Hollow State Park and settled in.<br />
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As for being homeless, it was as easy a time of homelessness anyone ever spent. We treated each day like a camp vacation, encouraging each other in seeking those "best thoughts," and in so doing my deepest fear (homelessness) turned into a huge blessing.<br />
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You see, BECAUSE we had no home address, when I applied for low-income housing we found ourselves bumped to the top of a 5 year waiting list for the apartment we are now occupying. Had I used my aunt's address when filling out the application we would have been left waiting. <br />
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As if further evidence were needed that Source will provide; our apartment is placed within walking distance of my husband's new job. Irfan has been able to find work as a substitute teacher, in one of the best school districts in Mid-MI. There are 4 schools to rotate between, clustered within blocks of our apartment. The kids (and their parents) are engaged in learning and responsive. He is loving it, and I am able to continue working part time without stress.<br />
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Today, I sit, warm, and cozy in beautiful DeWitt MI; while outside the world is covered in ice and snow. I have everything I need with enough to share, and to spare.<br />
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Without our pushing (or even our awareness,) Source placed us in a location that meets all of our wish-list desires: a large apartment, in a well maintained pet-friendly facility --next to a dog park, within easy access to walking trails, goods and services, a nature preserve, with short travel times to nearly every side of the greater Lansing area. I could go on, but you get the point. We couldn't have planned our way into a better situation. Source assembled all of the desired components. It was only our willingness to surrender control over the "how" which opened the doors, allowing the blessings to flow in.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576747200214941280.post-42909251311183506972019-10-30T12:21:00.001-05:002019-10-30T12:21:12.873-05:00Gloom Be Gone! Shifting Out of Depression One Day at a Time.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Many, if not all, of us have Facebook friends who constantly complain about their lives, health, exes; who make negative or critical posts, and dour comments, or always seem to be focusing on some source of pain in the world. Well, I have been there, chronically depressed and anxiety ridden, experiencing panic attacks, engaging in self harming behaviors. I have been stuck in gloom to the point where I just wanted OUT, out of life.</div>
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That began to change when I watched a movie called <i><a href="https://whatthebleep.com/" target="_blank">What the Bleep Do We Know</a></i>.<br />
Here is a clip from that movie which helped me understand that I could start to make the shift out of gloom and into emotional health and mental well-being.<br />
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It was in watching this movie, I began to realize my responsibility in creating the negative state of my existence. I was addicted to and fostering a negative mindset and emotional state of being, and in doing so attracting more negative situations to feed my addiction to negative emotions. After all, I am the one choosing to believe the thoughts I'm thinking, choosing how to react to the various circumstances of life. I am the one choosing to obsess, to be offended or irritated, to personalize and otherwise absorb the negative encountered. I was the person looking in the mirror and hissing hateful self criticisms. Yes, I experienced bullying as a child. I've had hateful things said and done to me. I have been abused by others. But, through all of that, I also have had a choice in how to respond and in what I would believe. Through the movie, I learned that cells recreate themselves based on the chemical composition of their parent cell and that when I foster negative thoughts I keep my body in a state of growing chemical imbalance.<br />
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The second big influence on my emotional well-being came through the work of Ester and Jerry Hicks, <i><a href="https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B009NLO7G0&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_6ZAUDbSCGX8J6" target="_blank">The Law Of Attraction</a>,</i> and the teachings of Abraham, where I learned about how to use my emotions as a compass --indicating how far in or out of alignment with Source my thoughts are based on the level of negative charge my emotional state of being has in any given situation.<br />
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For some time now, I have been making an internal shift away from a negative emotional "set point." In fact, making this shift has been something I've been working on with focused intent for several years and is the main reason I didn't write much about my stay in India while I was there. </div>
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If you are unfamiliar with the terminology "set point," I'm referring to what the teachings of Abraham describe as one's <i>habitual </i>mental and emotional state of being, or frequency of vibration. The key word being HABITUAL. Our "set point" is the most practiced mental/emotional state-of-being or response we offer the world. It is where we are most comfortable emotionally and mentally, our "go to" most practiced habitual hang out frequency, our main vibe. For most people their "set point" has become a huge part or expression of their self concept or personal identity, their ego-- when they identify <i>who they are</i> with having essentially practiced a characteristically negative emotional set point. </div>
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It has taken me years of actively choosing to foster healthier thoughts to shift my habitual responses away from negative and self destructive patterns. Part of the reason for the long journey was that I had to find my way with little or no guidance. Thank Source for others on the same path who have lit the way, offering their own experiences and wisdom. In that time, I've had to develop patience with myself, to have compassion for my failures, and to forgive past behaviors that I am not particularly proud of. I can share with you there is immense relief to be found through every stage and aspect of making this shift. Gradually, one day at a time, I have grown out of gloom and into a state of peace with life. My emotional set point is no longer one of anger and self loathing. I find happiness everywhere. True, life still has its ups and downs but now that I am discerning about my emotional "set point," and taking charge of how I'm creating through attraction, I spend more of my life in joy and I invite you to do the same.<br />
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This card, drawn from the <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Money-Law-Attraction-Cards-60-Card/dp/1401923399/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=the+law+of+attraction+cards&qid=1572452785&sr=8-4" target="_blank">Money, and the Law of Attraction Cards</a>, </i>has been helpful in guiding me to a better state of well-being and receptivity. I hope it can help you too.<br />
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<b>In My Appreciation I allow Myself to Receive Wonderful Things . . .</b></blockquote>
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Look for good things about where you are, and in your state of appreciation, you lift all self-imposed limitations (and all limitations are self-imposed) and free yourself for the receiving of wonderful things.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Dewitt, MI 48820, USA42.8722569 -84.585099742.6860389 -84.9078232 43.058474899999993 -84.2623762tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576747200214941280.post-70635083186386941542019-02-25T01:00:00.000-06:002019-02-25T01:00:01.508-06:00Reaching For Improved Thoughts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"What Is" Can Be Frightening </h4>
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Take for example my present situation, recently returned from India to the USA, with everything I own fitting in a carry-on suitcase, no job, no money, and no prospects to start life over with.<br />
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At the moment the hardest thing I am coping with is being reliant on my family for assistance and support. They have been wonderful but, the pressure to find employment is immense. In my worst moments I am a terrified gibbering mess.<br />
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What is that Frank Herbert quote from <i>Dune</i>?<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"</span></blockquote>
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Looking for Relief </h4>
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Many mornings I wake from a night terror in which I am homeless, because I haven't been able to find work. I don't remember much of the dreams, but I know that the fear is still with me when I opened my eyes. The urgency to be working is so powerful a motivator it has been consuming all of my thoughts and efforts.<br />
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Keeping a positive attitude is proving difficult. This has been a tough year and my confidence has been badly shaken by the unhappy experience of going to India and not being able to succeed in making a life there.<br />
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I keep reminding myself that Source is my generous provider. I only have to look at the many great and surprising things which came together to bring us home in order to find evidence of it. I can't be anything but gratefully amazed. <br />
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I Reach for an Improved Thought</h4>
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The card I pulled today, from my <i>Getting Into the Vortex </i>deck, reads . . .<br />
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I Can Find Harmony by Feeling For Improved Thoughts. </blockquote>
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If we were contemplating an action that caused negative emotion, we would not proceed with the action until we had resolved the negative emotion. We would make sure that we had come into alignment with Source before proceeding. By feeling for the improved thought, in time, and usually in a short time, you will feel the harmony of your Source; and you will know the appropriateness of your behavior. we would not look for the long lists of right and wrong, but instead, we would feel for the emotion of alignment with Source.</blockquote>
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<br />Today My Best Effort Is In Reaching For Improved Thoughts </h4>
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I Am Safe.<br />
Source is my generous provider.<br />
I have everything that I need with enough to share and to spare.<br />
Good health is my divine right.<br />
I Am Safe.<br />
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The demands of life in today's society place enormous pressure on all of us. Finding a moment away from the constant noise of traffic, advertisements, television and the urgency of every day concerns seems impossible. Friends and loved ones need us. There are bills to be paid, projects to finish. The babble is deafening! This myriad of distractions creates a cacophony of sensations that overload our receptors, desensitizing us to the voice of our creative being and Spirit.<br />
Don't beat yourself up if you find yourself in need of "Me" time or for feeling the need to withdraw from others into the seclusion of your own private cave. Going into the cave physically or metaphorically is an important and life affirming act. Before you can find new direction you need to take time for reflection and self awareness. Winter is traditionally the time associated with going inward and self contemplation. As winter draws to its close and we often look forward to spring with restlessness and a desire to renew ourselves. Gifting yourself a period of reflection offers great benefit.<br />
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The Cave</h4>
Symbolically, the cave represents isolation, contemplation and a gathering of resources needed to face future challenges. The silence of the cave affords us an opportunity to regain our center and to ground the overflow of stresses which otherwise lead to anxiety and depression.
Knowing yourself and listening deeply to the promptings of your inner voice is essential to making healthy life choices. When we fail to honor time spent alone, secluded from outside influences and demands, our spirit suffers. Desensitized and disconnected, the choices we make are not genuine to our soul expression and the sublimated urging of our authentic self will manifest in unhealthy attitudes, behaviors, and as illnesses. We become destructive, lashing out at the forces that bind us. Anger turns inward where it becomes self-loathing. We find ourselves sabotaging relationships. Our desires go unfulfilled.<br />
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A Womb Of Self Discovery</h4>
Going into the cave requires more than shutting out the intrusive demands of others, it asks that you remove yourself from the flood of outside information bombarding you. Try turning off the TV and radio. Resist popping in a DVD and "vegging" out with a bowl of popcorn. Put down the novel and separate yourself for a time from the voices of other people's creativity. Make a journal entry. Spill you guts onto the page. Paint a picture. Use your child's mud like finger paints. Go for a walk in the woods or sit on the porch and simply watch the world move around you. Observe the thoughts inside your head without criticism. Take time to be alone with yourself as a friend, listening.<br />
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Marvelous things happen in the cave; Spirit speaks, lessons are absorbed or learned. Hibernation, germination, and reflection are essential to growth and connection with the divine and they happen in the womb of the cave. The cave is your cocoon and in it your infant self develops adult organs, undergoing complete metamorphosis. Take time to know yourself and to transform. Free yourself to embrace this stage of your development. Enter the cave with trust and at peace, knowing that you will emerge from it renewed and inspired.
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576747200214941280.post-3442639740199952702018-09-21T01:00:00.000-05:002018-09-21T01:00:05.922-05:00Emotional Set Point and My Miracle<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Miracle Return . . .</h2>
It has been a long while since I last posted a blog. Plenty has been happening since that last post, but I didn't feel safe in writing about it.<br />
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To catch you up, Irfan and I have returned to the United States from 8 months living in India.<br />
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We arrived in St. Johns, MI, at the end of July 2018, and are staying with my aunt until we are able to re-establish ourselves.<br />
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We are safe. We have shelter. We are nourished.<br />
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We have been enjoying the green of Michigan with my brother Brent and his children Abby and Liam. GREEN TREES! WATER! Wide open spaces!<br />
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We have purchased a 2008 Chevrolet HHR.<br />
I have been to a doctor and my diabetes is being treated.<br />
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In short, we have experienced a series of miracles that have left our minds reeling and challenged our understanding of how Source is able to provide for our needs.<br />
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I didn't write for the longest time because I was avoiding bringing attention or focus to the difficulties we were experiencing while trying to settle in with our family and the religious/cultural environment we faced in India. Focusing on what wasn't working and on the pain being experienced would only have brought more energy and focus to the things that were troubling us than was healthy for our situation.<br />
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Emotional Set Point . . .</h4>
The guiding principle of the universe, The Law of Attraction, would tell us that --what we give focus to is drawn to us, or rather, we are drawn toward what we give focus to. By sharing the difficulties, I was concerned that I would put myself in a negative mindset and contribute to or place undesirable focus on the things I did not prefer. Giving additional focus to the negative would place me more deeply into, and make, the negative complaining voice in my head my "emotional set point" for attraction. The more I talked about the things I did not prefer the more accustomed to that negative frequency I would become. Instead, I focused on what I could do and on the blessings we had around us - a private apartment to live in, enough income to set up house and to meet our living expenses, a scooter - no need to depend on others for transportation, a washer - no need to wash clothes by hand. We made gratitude lists and repeated them nightly. We listened to inspirational teachings on YouTube from Ekhart Tolle, and from Abraham/Ester Hicks. We held each other. We spoke only words of encouragement. We supported each other in every challenge with unconditional love.<br />
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I would like to offer an audio I found on YouTube that has helped me. It was taken from the <a href="https://www.abraham-hicks.com/" target="_blank">teachings of Abraham</a>, at one of Ester Hicks's channeled workshops.<br />
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Practicing a Positive Emotional Set Point . . . </h4>
Even now, I would prefer to keep my mind focused on what is going well in the moment, rather than share with you the drama stories of my time in India. In future blogs, if I am able to re-frame these experiences into a useful example or illustrative story with some spiritual benefit, I may write about what I experienced, what I discovered about myself, the struggles of humanity, the problems I witnessed, and other such. For now I just want to share that. . . We have come home. And I want to reaffirm what became my mantra in India . . .<br />
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I am safe.</div>
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Source is my generous provider.</div>
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I always have everything that I need, with enough to share and to spare.</div>
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I <i>Am</i> Safe. </div>
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<i>Source </i>is my generous provider</div>
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I <i>always</i> have <i>everything</i> that I need, with enough to <i>share</i> and to <i>spare</i>.</div>
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<i>I Am Safe</i>. . . .</div>
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What I will share with you today is this . . .</h4>
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While I was in India our financial needs were being met by our income. However, there was no way for me or my husband to earn enough money to purchase return tickets to the USA. Certainly, at our level of earning and the exchange rate, it would have taken us an unknown number of years to save the price of those tickets. If we had been able to come home, there was no apartment to return to, no job, no car, no clothing. We did the only thing we could do. We surrendered to what was, and accepted all of that. I set my mind, and my husband set his mind, toward finding or creating work -- with the agreement that we would prefer to live in the USA, and should the means be present we would come back. We then turned our focus to doing the best we could where we were at, accepting that for the moment our life was in India.</div>
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The next time I was asked how things were going I responded honestly. "Not well, but I don't want to go into the horror stories. If we could come home we would."<br />
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That was the turning point. Source took over and moved the willing components into alignment. We stepped into the Vortex of Creation and out poured the miracles.</div>
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Four days later my husband and I boarded a plane headed to Detroit. We were able to leave our Indian relatives in good health, with more than enough money to cover our remaining expenses, and all of our household possessions including a new clothes washer, a new refrigerator, and a 2017 Honda Activa 4G scooter. We left without debt, having benefited our family.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576747200214941280.post-12561038494903062422018-09-16T01:00:00.000-05:002018-10-09T18:02:31.957-05:00Vonnie's Message Given at the Light House Chapel Service 9/16/18<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> W</b></span>hen you look at your life, reflecting back over your varied experiences, how often do you see yourself being negatively impacted by the demands and expectations of others; family friends, society, work, culture, religion? How many times have you made decisions based on receiving the approval of or to accommodate the needs of others? Are you mirroring their choices or following their ideas of instead of your own?<br />
How many times has the influence of others caused you to go against your own self interest?<br />
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I am not speaking of choices you made - not to do this or that -out of a decision to protect say, a relationship. Those choices are made from a place of self interest. "I want this relationship therefore I won't do something that will harm it."<br />
I am referring to choices we make about what school to attend<br />
what to wear . . .<br />
who to talk to . . .<br />
what friends to make . . .<br />
the field of study we'll follow . . .<br />
the career we choose. ..<br />
I am referring to silencing our creative inner being because our impulse to paint, to dance, to sing or make music doesn't meet the approval of our family, friends, social or religious group.<br />
I am referring to picking the study of law over literature because our parents don't think there is a career in writing; because someone else's influence overpowers our will to create a life of our own choosing.<br />
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Beyond the personal examples that might weigh more heavily on our hearts. . .<br />
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How many times and in what ways . . . </h4>
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have we been guilty of imposing our choices, beliefs, and fears on others; of trying to influence their choices based on our biases, beliefs, and prejudices - our needs and self interests?</div>
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We are very blessed to be living in a time and in a nation where the cultural influence, as it has evolved, leaves room for expanded experience and individual self expression.<br />
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Look around at the shifting awareness levels our society is experiencing.<br />
Gender norms are being challenged . . .<br />
Gender roles are being rewritten . . .<br />
Gender identification, sexual orientation and the divisions of power within society, down to accepted behaviors and sexual based power divisions are all being challenged and reassessed. Other countries and places in the world are not so tolerant of people with new ideas or ways of doing things and of looking at the world. Yes, we still have differences in religion, politics, sexual orientation, desire and what is acceptable. In some countries these differences are more rigidly defined, guarded, and enforced.<br />
In some places you could be killed by a mob for breaking a <i>taboo</i>.<br />
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I know it doesn't always seem that way, but we live in a place and time when ideas about reality are less defined by religion and conventional thought; where science is playing a role in opening rather than closing the possibilities.<br />
Our expanded understanding of Quantum physics, and other studies, String Theory for example, have offered explanations to ideas that were once solely in the realm of mystics and mysticism. Once only the shamanic experience postulated/described what Science now theorizes - worlds within worlds, where every possibility exists in it's own universe.<br />
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There Is No One Right Way Of Being . . .</h4>
Most of you may be aware that my husband and I are recently returned from 8 months in India.<br />
If there is one thing I have learned, or rather experienced through living abroad, it is that there is no one right way of being. What works in the USA may not work in another country. What works overseas doesn't always transfer here, may not be necessary or even appropriate.<br />
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For me, what truly makes living in the USA preferable is the flexibility found in a culture made up of blended ideas and influences. India is full of distinct cultures and languages but very little blending. There are many religions and religious cultures, but in India people pretty much stick to their ethnic/religious groups or casts and are largely intolerant of outsiders and outside influences. For the most part they do not inter-marry. People keep to their groups, even to the point of maintaining separate languages.<br />
What makes America great is the co-mingling of our diversities, the melting and combining of solutions and possibilities within a blended society. Oh, we have our problems. This is not a Utopia, but this <i>is</i> a country built by many peoples from diverse cultures who have had to learn from each other in order to grow and prosper.<br />
In our country's life, as in our own, some of our best solutions, our most fulfilling moments have come through allowing others and ourselves freedom to expand and create.<br />
When we stop trying to influence and instead turn our attention to our own creations, to the reality we are choosing for ourselves we flourish.<br />
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Like attracts Like. . . and . . . We Choose!</h4>
We are drawn to others who are like minded, who have the same vibe or frequency as ourselves.<br />
We find our tribes.<br />
We find them faster when we <i>allow</i> others rather than trying to control them.<br />
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<i>Source</i>, <i>Life</i> is expanding through us. It will have every experience good, bad, painful, pleasurable; all possibilities and permutations of reality will come into being. However, we can choose. We create our reality, are drawn into it, through our beliefs and what we will allow into being, by what we give focus to. It all exists. Through our belief we choose the reality we exist in.<br />
What we give focus to draws us in or is drawn to us.<br />
There is room for all ideas and experiences.<br />
What are you choosing?<br />
What are you giving your focus to?<br />
And if you aren't giving your focus to what you prefer, what are you going to do about that?<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">There Is Enough Room For All Ideas and Experiences</span></b></div>
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My appreciation to the Abraham Teachings and Esther Hicks for inspiration and guidance. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576747200214941280.post-39582083738795614842018-01-25T01:00:00.000-06:002018-01-25T01:24:17.620-06:00Differences and the 180° of India<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Living in India is hard. I had no idea how hard it was going to be when my husband and I arrived in Hyderabad. Talk about culture shock. I feel as though I am in an alternate reality, one where everything has been turned upside down. It would be less shocking to my sensibilities if the moon were to rule the day and the sun the night. I don't know where to begin writing about the core differences which change how one lives here, but I can tell you that as a woman my experience is even more impacted. I know now why the caged bird sings.</div>
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I am not having the tourist's experience. I am settling here. Learning to navigate the culture is consuming all of my attention, demanding a level of awareness that I am forced to maintain or pay the consequences, which might be very harsh. <br />
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180° of India</h3>
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In western culture the female is objectified, sexualized, and targeted by media advertising. Here it is the male who is the focus of these pressures and the female is elevated and to remain untouchable, worshiped. She must be beautiful but if a woman is perceived as being too opinionated, independent, friendly, approachable or sexual it is scandalous. She might find herself targeted for violence and possibly rape. Being worshiped here means a woman is isolated for her protection. Her house has barred windows and doors. Her clothes are meant to display the wealth and status of her family but should hide her body from prying eyes -- eyes which are everywhere and come with wagging tongues. Being worshiped demands perfection, stillness -- do not laugh too loudly or move freely in your body. </div>
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Men are blatantly sexualized in the media and their masculinity is even more heavily evaluated than I have ever witnessed before. I think this contributes to the huge rape problem that India is having. As pressures increase for men to be perceived and prove their masculinity and power over women and in life. There is vicious judgment and pressure on performance for men (and women) to receive even the smallest level of respect or benefits. The man must perform or he is condemned a failure. A husband must perform or his wife and children are shamed and ill treated also.<br />
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India has bought into the all the worst most superficial aspects of western capitalist culture with a desperation to acquire and display. The India portrayed by their television is a lush, sanitized, clean fantasy India of wealth and luxury, with no waste or poverty. The reality is in stark contrast with harsh living conditions, abject poverty, and beggars crawling through trash filled streets. </div>
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I attended a trade exhibition where the central lawn area designated for family relaxation, sitting, and eating looked like a trash pit. People sat on trash to eat their food purchases, rising to leave a layer of more trash and move on through the exhibitions vending stalls. In India it is taboo to handle garbage. Only the lowest cast person is concerned with clearing away rubbish and they are reviled for it, Untouchables. Everyone else simply drops their litter where they stand and moves on, creating a cesspit of garbage. I was told simply to "look up." "Don't look at it." (I carried my trash home with me. I could not bring myself to toss it on the ground.) My mind was reeling at the enormity of a mind set where the person who cares for the environment is considered the lowest of all, while those who are respected treat the earth with disregard, and disdain to clean up after themselves. </div>
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These are just a few of the differences I have encountered. Others include people climbing and sitting on tables where food is being served; walking over food; grabbing food from the plates of others; dumping left over food scrapings off one's plate back in to the serving dish meant for others to share. No food is to be wasted. Beggars come to the door and happily take rancid or moldy food if given it. Sanitation isn't even a consideration. Heaven help you if you need a toilet.<br />
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Perfect Diversity . . .</h3>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzoGe-3KQY2jXORdBtHJNO8JKXZNoA04fICPn1K1vOuEhb0otMwFI8mgmhgJDg4MCD9w2IRBlrEj1b38W9gnLmveP1i29C88csRtwpCtht9fEP-jLKiQAkjbQMyUesiSXnC1svC2UKhAI9/s1600/20180118_211158-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzoGe-3KQY2jXORdBtHJNO8JKXZNoA04fICPn1K1vOuEhb0otMwFI8mgmhgJDg4MCD9w2IRBlrEj1b38W9gnLmveP1i29C88csRtwpCtht9fEP-jLKiQAkjbQMyUesiSXnC1svC2UKhAI9/s400/20180118_211158-1.jpg" width="281" /></a>My spirit is being tested. My comfort zone is being challenged. My assumptions about life and how best to live are being examined against different world conditions, views, and culture. I am being forced to see things with the eyes of a stranger and to find sense in the world turned 180°s round from what I've known. I am being forced to let go of values which have no force or potency in the circumstances which I find myself.<br />
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The culture or ways of being may be different but the humanity and human needs are consistent. I am beginning to see more than differences and expanding in my awareness of others. Thank you India. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576747200214941280.post-2093192187763902772017-12-14T02:34:00.001-06:002017-12-14T02:42:37.976-06:00Updated Services Posted Through Facebook<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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To view the services I am offering from India visit the new page I have created on Facebook, <i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Finding-Our-Way-Intuitive-Readings-1944431742545039/" target="_blank">Finding Our Way Intuitive Readings</a>.</i> Visit the shop page for details and send me a message via Messenger to schedule an appointment. I will be working by appointment only due to the time change difference between India and the USA.<br />
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Take note of the special offer, which is good until Dec 31 at midnight, but redeemable beyond the term date for scheduling and payment. <br />
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Love and Light<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576747200214941280.post-64740643305381537022017-11-30T20:53:00.002-06:002017-12-07T05:32:02.316-06:00Update on India: I have arrived<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It has been wildly shocking how different things are here in India compared to living in the USA. Hyderabad is huge, a 400+ year old, densely packed city, where I am now living with my in-laws in a residential colony called Lakshmi Nagar.</div>
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Each morning for the last week, I have awaken at dawn to the Azhan/Adhan prayer being sung out ringingly over the city from the neighborhood mosque. Immediately, I can hear people begin their morning ablutions, the hawking snorts and grunts from netti pot users, people flushing their toilets, roosters crowing, the distant call of an ox two houses down who wishes to be milked. A man brushes his teeth.</div>
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I have had my first drama moment, with my blood sugar over 400. My Indian family, <i style="font-family: sans-serif;">en mass, </i>took me to see their favorite physician. </div><div dir="ltr">
The doctor's visit was the strangest I've ever had. First of all his clinic was set up almost like a little street shop. We literally just walked up, kicked off our shoes at the door (something you do at every place you visit), stepped through the entry way to sit on a bench and wait our turn; while he held consultations in a cube like office, with sliding milky glass door which YOU closed for privacy IF you wanted it. He did have a separate room for treatment and evaluation. We waited about 5 minutes before being received, just the length of time it took him to release the patient ahead of us. Can you imagine that? Zero reception hassle. When one patient left the doctor simply beckoned the next person warming his bench to come in with a head wobble and a waive of the hand. </div>
<div dir="ltr">There was no thought given at all toward privacy concerning medical info. Anyone on the bench could hear our conversation and, if the door was open, see our whole visit play out. I was treated like a baby; meaning my family and the doctor talked about me without including me in the conversation. I didn't know if I should feel pissed at the loss of autonomy or laugh and enjoy having my wellbeing secured be so important to everyone. It is a commonly held belief here that the patient should be protected from direct knowledge of their medical condition, as it may prove too shocking and be detrimental in their recovery. It doesn't help my plight that I only speak English and everyone but my husband speaks rudimentary or broken English. I chose to go with the flow and enjoy someone else taking the reigns for a moment.</div>
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The roads here are Crazy with a capital C! Drivers don't stick to their lanes, honking is a friendly greeting and a spontaneous attention seeking device they employ liberally. DONKEYS, GOATS, OXEN, children. . . you name it and I have probably seen it roaming the streets unattended. Car, auto, truck, and scooter drivers cross in front of or cut around each other randomly with honked warnings. Changing direction with a U-turn may happen at any time and anywhere. There are few traffic lights, if any, and no one pays them any mind.</div>
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Everything is filthy. You should wear socks in your sandals to protect your feet, otherwise you get snaggle toes. It is also common to cover with scarves or wraps, much like a Muslim, to protect the hair and clothes. The air is full of dust. It coats everything, houses, cars, people. . . You name it. It gets in your ears, up your nose, and in every crack and crevice. You would have to hermetically seal your house to keep the dust out. </div>
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The people stare at anyone white or black as if we are famous. Lol, Children follow me in the market and stand staring, literally doing a double take, running in off the street in numbers to look get a look at me. It is as though they have never seen a foreigner before. I have begun to pretend I'm a movie star just to cope. I saw an African woman at the bank being treated the same way. We exchanged smiles of understanding and acknowledgement. </div>
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On a side note, the car that my father-in-law (who I will now refer to affectionately as Babba) drives plays a tune when he backs up; Elvis's Love me Tender. It took three days for me to figure out why the song was stuck in my head. Lol </div>
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Well that is my update on India post. All is well.</div>
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