Welcome to a World of Spiritual Harmony

I’ve already been reading my very funny Halloween Tarot deck since the calendar finally turned to October. There is a visual joke on every card of the deck, in addition to wonderful drawings. Little red imps are wands, greenish ghosts are cups, bats are swords and - are you ready for this? - big fat pumpkins are pentacles. Along with a black cat who lurks somewhere in the background on every card. The Tower, normally about difficulties and sudden changes, is a visual feast of gargoyles looking bored, whimsical ghosts peeking out the windows, a jack-o-lantern looking startled, and a crown blowing off the top of the tower, which part of a creepy Victorian house. So the challenges can clearly just be laughed at and blown away.

Francine and I read at a huge party in Hyde Park on Saturday night. Another visual feast - creativity rampant. The house itself featured horror in every corner - and on the ceilings, walls and floors. A mangled corpse in the tub and a bloody shower curtain told the story in the bathroom. We were reading in the dungeon - a giant rat, huge hornet’s nest and torture being carried out in the old coal bin. And then there were the attendees…very few standard costumes, lots of wacky ideas. I loved the black eyed peas….a couple in matching green sweats with blackened eyes. A freezing belly dancer who never gave up and put on a coat, lots of sailors and swashbuckling, a dazzle of energy. We had just a terrific time. I love being busy, and this was one fun reading after another - letting each person draw 5 cards, and giving them a brief look at their lives. I never cease to be amazed at accurate and right to the point Tarot is. Incredible. What fun to be the person who gets to do that!

So I’m a happy camper - and ready for Samhain, the Celtic name for Halloween, which is the Celtic New Year. Get those resolutions made as you’re eating all that candy! : >

I often - maybe usually - read the events in my life as though they were a dream, and then use dream techniques to interpret them.

As I was driving to Markets on Main in August, Karla behind me noticed my left (?) rear tire was going flat. And yesterday, on my way home from Michelle’s birthday party at Victor’s, the car felt the tiniest bit funny. When I pulled in the drive, Brian, who was there with friends cleaning out the garage (hurrah!), said the right front tire was going flat. This morning, it is flatter than a fritter.

So I’m looking up flat tires in my dream dictionaries, of which, since I’ve been in a dream group since around 1990, I have four. Buying books about topics of interest is one of the things I do.

From Mary Summer Rain’s Earthway, we find this listing for tires: Symbolize the condition of the dreamer’s feet and the manner in which he or she walks his or her life path. Are the tires threadbare? Are they missing altogether?

Not the case here - I bought the front tires last summer, and moved new-ish front ones to the back. Hmmmmm.

In Dream Symbols for Self-Understanding, by Betty Bethards, we find: Mobilization. If you have a flat tire, you are out of balance. Pump up your energy.

I have plenty of energy, am well. Where I feel life is out of balance is in my writing - just a bit, instead of a full and glorious outpouring of writing all that I want to say.

In my academic dream dictionary, An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Symbols, by J. C. Cooper, there is no mention of mundane tires. We find Thule, Thyrsos, Tiara, Tide, Tiger, Time, Tin and Titans as entries. No tires.

In my favorite, Wilda Tanner’s The Mystical Magical Marvelous World of Dreams, there are no tires listed in the index, and then no cars - my eye falls on an entry about Buying a New Car. I note the page and go there. And find pages about cars, vehicles, car washing - and tires! So never give up on Wilda’s book - it’s in there somewhere!

She says: May represent your feet, foundation of your lifestyle, your understanding and ability to use the creative knowledge you have. Might relate to a part of your ego, being a big wheel, your enthusiasm, or the amount of ‘hot air’ you have; wheeling and dealing, or ability to get rolling.

Flat Tire: Indicates lack of comprehension in the situation, no way to go, nothing to fall back on, immobility, your enthusiasm or energy has gone flat.

Hmmmm. My enthusiasm and energy are still present and accounted for. I am fussing at myself more and more about this writing thing. And I have managed to manifest for myself a number of writing assignments with deadlines, in addition to signing up for NaNoWriMo, which gives me 30 days to write 50,000 words. Starts on November 1 - that should keep me off the streets and out of trouble for a while, don’t you think?

I’ll bet the tires stay pumped up when the words and ideas are finally becoming real in The Universe!

Websites are fun and wonderful and informative and helpful. And now that I have one of my own - I am learning about them from the inside out. Plus the fact that I’m a double Gemini - need to have lots of newness around me all the time! So it’s a case of changing and re-arranging and writing new pieces - not just for the blog, but about classes, events, schedules, books, focus groups and gatherings. Luckily, my web designer Brad likes to change things around as well, playing with new colors, type faces and designs. So we have a good time adding and subtracting, coming up with new ideas and then tweaking them.

One new thing I need to write right now is that Francine and I are, at this Halloween time, happy to help you with any ghosties that might be around the premises! We have an ad in the latest Whole Living Journal, and will have one in the next Promise magazine that says: Got Ghosts? For clearing, for keeping, for getting to know….. call Francine and Patricia, and gives our contact info (there’s a link to Francine’s website, Forest House of Healing, on this site). So I’ll do an article about ghosts for the website in the next few days - you’re getting the preview now!

Happy Halloween! Which is really Samhain, the Celtic New Year!

Our new and wonderful snake-y girl arrived last evening! She’s longer than a pencil, but considerably thinner, and is not yet the color of Hekima, but has red markings outlined in black on a gray background. A very active and bouncy small person. She promptly attached herself to my wrist like a bracelet and then studied everything in range of her vision. Dean brought her father along, who is identical to Hekima, so we know what she’ll look like as she grows. He’s a pretty calm and quiet big guy, but like all corn snakes, is so curious. They have to know everything - what it feels like, what it smells like, what it tastes like, what it looks like. A good match for a double Gemini like me!

Grandson Patrick was here, and at one point was holding both Clyde and his daughter. As Patrick got into the car yesterday, when I picked him up from school, he said, “We can be like grandpa, and just not name her for a while.” Which was exactly where I had been heading. We have a name suggestion from Bill, who says the Hebrew word for serpent of wisdom is Nahash. And I have a request in to the Irish Gaelic Translation service for the pronunciations of 2 Irish words meaning wisdom.

So we’ll see… I’ll be reporting in when She - a she for sure this time - has been named!

I have such a big family out in the woods!

There is a bachelor herd of bucks sharing the space with me - 1 six pointer, 2 8 pointers and a 10 point! Last week, I watched as the 2 8 pointers were practicing their battle stances, as they prepare for mating / rutting season. The 10 point buck wandered out of the woods to watch - perhaps assessing the competition.

Since spring, I have shared the back yard and the bird feeder with a mama and her twin fawns. Now they are teenagers, and their coats have turned winter brown-gray. Mama has been hit by a car in the last 2 weeks, and is walking on 3 legs. Whenever I see her, I send Reiki through the window. She always looks up and watches me as I am sending healing energy. By the time she walks away, she is using that foot to balance and to carry some weight. I’ll keep doing it until she’s well. In the meantime, there’s another doe, my small favorite one, hanging out with them and helping to keep track of the kids!

Lots of other wonderful family members out there - the hawk who comes to visit, rabbits, blue jays, crows, sparrows, chickadees, flickers and 2 kinds of woodpecker - plus chipmunks, which will go down for the winter soon. More about the rest of them later…..

It’s now 6:13 a m on Monday morning, October 3. The actual pinpoint of New Moon (which is in the middle of the four day Dark of the Moon) is 6:28 a m. So this is when I write my 3 New Moon Wishes. I put them on a post-it and usually put the list inside my closet door. Not secret, but also not public info.

The list becomes essentially a diagram for The Universe to follow, a prayer if you will. I do 3 - you can do as many as you’re comfy with. Up until the moment of New Moon, energy is waning, dripping away. With the arrival of New Moon, energy begins to build to the full - so a good time for The Universe / Spirit to start working with us to create what we want next!

My three wishes:

1. Time and focus for writing the books and articles I’m working on.

2. Healing for the waters in and around New Orleans, now for Lake Ponchartrain and the Gulf of Mexico, where much of the pollution is currently residing.

3. Peace and Prosperity through my readings, writing, healings and teaching.

I just had fun writing about the whirlwind in the house over the last few weeks, and how glad I was that sacred space and harmony were reappearing….. and that I had just spend the early, early morning organizing the last bastion of disorder - my office.

And then the entire post just disappeared. So clearly you weren’t supposed to hear all that!

Instead, you can just meditate on Sacred Space - what it is, its importance, the beauty and pleasure to be found there! : >