01-01-10
Forecast and Faery Finder
By Janice Scott-Reeder and the Bitwit
According to Llewellyn’s Magical Almanac, today’s color is coral and the incense is Yarrow. It is the 3rd Quarter of the waning Moon.
Happy New Year.
FORECASTS:
Deck: Navigators Tarot of the Mystic Sea.
Today’s Tarot Card is the Star: revelation. Make meditation your number one resolution because all the energies are about to bring wealth and abundance this year, but the power to manifest them is lacking because water is lacking the yearly Chinese chart. Water manifests. Dedicate some time to meditation each day so your creativity can come to the surface and answers can manifest from the ether.
Deck: Healing with the Fairies.
The Faeries say:
Make some quiet time today to commune with nature and your own spirit.
Today’s Cat Comfort Card is:
Catharsis: “Enjoy the freedom that comes with release.”
Deck: The Fairies’ Oracle by Brian Froud & Jessica MacBeth
Today’s Faery Finder is on the lookout for:
The Faery Godmother is about, so make that list of resolutions because she will grant one of them.
Today’s Lo Shu Number is 3 and the Element is Metal. The Snake finds conflict today but the Dog and Boar have a good day. Today is not a good day for gambling or beginning any construction.
Today’s Message from the Universe is: “I stop taking myself so seriously. I let go of my feelings of self-importance and of all the dramas in my life. Through simplicity, humor, laughter and play, I rediscover the joy, lightness and magic of life.” Annie Marquier creating a world of peace one thought at a time.
Today’s Dragon Fae from their Oracle by Lucy Cavendish is Wu-Wang, the Dragon Fae Lord. He tells us that if we are innocent and good, he will appear before us and we can reclaim our wild, pure heart. His energy is cannot be tamed, like Golden Tiger whose year this is. Welcome him through spontaneous acts of dance, music, song and creativity.
COMMENTARIES BY JANICE SCOTT-REEDER
Do you have the desire for a garden but no room? Love those salad greens but starting them from seed just doesn’t work for you. Here is a sure fire technique to regenerate your existing veggie tray. Yes, I said regenerate. Let’s start with lettuce. Just about any loose leaf form of lettuce will regrow from the base. I have a kitchen that is getting full of my favorite lettuce. George did not believe it would work until the bottom of the plant in a yogurt cup with some water started putting out leaves. Now he is watching them and has even given them dirt cups. The triple pack of lettuce I bought is all potted. Two are rooted and putting out leaves and the third one just went into a pot tonight with its companions. I love my scallions. I lop the bottom roots off and replant them. George didn’t think they would grow either and was dancing around the kitchen proudly displaying a single sprout. They take longer than the lettuce even though they have workable roots. Mine will all go outside into a container garden but they will grow indoors just as well with good light.
Now where did I get this idea. I bought a package of seeds and it said to sow every week for a continuous harvest. We never did that in the kitchen garden on the farm. All season we harvested the outer leaves and left the plant growing. So, I just restarted the plants. However, they have hybridized and ruined many plants. I remember my first experience with bush beans. Suddenly one day these little bushes, they were so short they didn’t deserve the name, were loaded with ripe beans and I had to pick the entire garden. Then the plant died and I went, “WHAT?????” I was used to the plant continuing to grow up to about two or three feet and continuously produce beans but automation made that impractical. They snatch the whole plant out of the ground and spin the bean pods off in a factory. They even have plants that hold all the beans above them for easy harvesting! The only thing they haven’t been able to mess with, yet, is pole beans.
It is the growing season in South Florida, for those whoa re wondering what on earth I am doing in a garden outdoors. It is finally cool enough to grow food own here so I am getting busy with my containers.
What does the year hold for us? The answer is a lot of work. The spring and water elements are missing from the Chinese chart although it is a money chart. It is going to be hard to get things started and hard to manifest, but those who stay at it, will reap large rewards in the future. This is definitely a year that when you get stuck meditate, get a reading or find a mentor or do all three. The energy is there and super high but totally untamed. All you can do is ride the wave but first you have to catch it.
Today is very important as the start of the New Year. The most widespread custom is reading your New Year’s resolutions. In the South, eating Ham and black eyed peas with cornbread is pretty universal for good luck. The local Druid, will be having her ham, black eyed peas and cornbread. Pig is the sacred meat of the Druid. I am even having sausage gravy on a biscuit for breakfast.
My grandmother was a great believer that what ever you did on this day would propagate through the entire day and set the tone for your year. So, even though my uncles were heavy into the Moon, I mean really hard cider the night before, everyone was drug out of bed early for breakfast and work. By afternoon the big meal was in the oven and we could relax and play some games. Then after the big meal, the photo albums came out and we were all treated to seeing our ancestors. Then everyone went home to enjoy their families.
As for me, the cats will be recovering from their catnip and I will be working on some things to get the year started right. My only resolution is to be healthy this year because last year really sucked in that area.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
An Old Foggy New Year's Eve
The Old Fogy’s New Year’s Eve Guidelines
By
Janice Scott-Reeder
Yes, I am officially an Old Fogy. I have no idea exactly what that means because my short term memory is shot the long term one is a little foggy…..oh, that’s it!
Anyway, for those of you noticing your phone directory has more doctor’s numbers than friend’s numbers and you’ve learned to use the delete function because a lot of those friend’s aren’t coming back, I have come up with New Year’s Eve guidelines.
First off, we no longer have to worry about our friends driving drunk. Since their bedtime is at 8:30, we worry about them driving sleepy and then cancelled the party idea because everyone is going to be celebrating in bed anyway. That also eliminated the search for the perfect party dress since all we need is our ratty, comfy pajamas.
We no longer have to search for the perfect stupid party hats to embarrass our friends with pictures in the morning of their antics. We have a closet full of stupid hats to cover our hair loss. At least the kids call them stupid. We call them thrifty from the craft store. Can you beat 99 cents in several colors?
We have replaced the silly party horns with a more organic solution: blowing our noses. Either our noses have gotten bigger or louder, we don’t know which, but they are the only things on us guaranteed to run after dark.
Now when it comes to confetti, that is totally out. No way we are moving the once a month vacuuming date up for that stuff!
However, that has not dulled the celebratory mood, providing we can stay awake. Most of us are counting on some idiot neighbor with fireworks to wake us up at the right time. We have all bought a bottle of some bubbly to share with the cat at midnight. Some of us had to check our list of drug interactions before buying and I can pretty much guarantee on our budgets, the word champagne is not on the label.
We will be starting our celebration around 11 PM because it will take an hour get the stopper out of the stupid bottle. Why don’t they make twist tops in this stuff???
Come midnight we will be having the celebratory toast not to the wonders of a new year filled with possibilities but the happiness we actually survived another year with minimal wear and tear on our bodies. Then, we will drink the rest of the bottle not to get wasted but to make sure it doesn’t go to waste. It did cost 4.99 after all…..
c Janice Scott-Reeder
You may share but please give credit.
By
Janice Scott-Reeder
Yes, I am officially an Old Fogy. I have no idea exactly what that means because my short term memory is shot the long term one is a little foggy…..oh, that’s it!
Anyway, for those of you noticing your phone directory has more doctor’s numbers than friend’s numbers and you’ve learned to use the delete function because a lot of those friend’s aren’t coming back, I have come up with New Year’s Eve guidelines.
First off, we no longer have to worry about our friends driving drunk. Since their bedtime is at 8:30, we worry about them driving sleepy and then cancelled the party idea because everyone is going to be celebrating in bed anyway. That also eliminated the search for the perfect party dress since all we need is our ratty, comfy pajamas.
We no longer have to search for the perfect stupid party hats to embarrass our friends with pictures in the morning of their antics. We have a closet full of stupid hats to cover our hair loss. At least the kids call them stupid. We call them thrifty from the craft store. Can you beat 99 cents in several colors?
We have replaced the silly party horns with a more organic solution: blowing our noses. Either our noses have gotten bigger or louder, we don’t know which, but they are the only things on us guaranteed to run after dark.
Now when it comes to confetti, that is totally out. No way we are moving the once a month vacuuming date up for that stuff!
However, that has not dulled the celebratory mood, providing we can stay awake. Most of us are counting on some idiot neighbor with fireworks to wake us up at the right time. We have all bought a bottle of some bubbly to share with the cat at midnight. Some of us had to check our list of drug interactions before buying and I can pretty much guarantee on our budgets, the word champagne is not on the label.
We will be starting our celebration around 11 PM because it will take an hour get the stopper out of the stupid bottle. Why don’t they make twist tops in this stuff???
Come midnight we will be having the celebratory toast not to the wonders of a new year filled with possibilities but the happiness we actually survived another year with minimal wear and tear on our bodies. Then, we will drink the rest of the bottle not to get wasted but to make sure it doesn’t go to waste. It did cost 4.99 after all…..
c Janice Scott-Reeder
You may share but please give credit.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Forecast and Faery Finder for 12/31/09
12-31-09
Forecast and Faery Finder
By Janice Scott-Reeder and the Bitwit
Happy New Year’s Eve
Happy Blue Moon
I think I speak for just about all us except the bank executives, insurance executives, the top 5% with over 90% of the wealth and the Wall Street Boys, thank the Goddess 2009 is almost over! For a year that began with so much hope, it ended flatter than a pancake.
According to Llewellyn’s Spell-a-Day Almanac, today’s color is Green and the incense is Clove.
FORECASTS:
Deck: Navigators Tarot of the Mystic Sea.
Today’s Tarot Card is the Fool: emanation. This is the beginning and the end. In realizing there is no actual right or wrong, you free your creativity.
Astrological Source: Llewellyn’s 2009 Daily Planetary Guide.
Astrologically:
The Full Moon is at 2:13 PM EST. It is a Blue Moon and a Lunar Eclipse at 10Cancer15.
For the next month the forces of justice are at work.
For about three days, Elders and authorities have harsh words for big egos.
This is a day when social events are just going to look like more trouble than they are worth. Parties will not the normal happy New Year’s fare.
Deck: Healing with the Fairies.
The Faeries say:
This is not a day when you are going to feel safe.
Today’s Cat Comfort Card is:
Catnip: You could do with a pick-me-up. Try something you really like today.”
Deck: The Fairies’ Oracle by Brian Froud & Jessica MacBeth
Today’s Faery Finder is on the lookout for:
Gawtcha, the out of the blue Fae is sneaking around. Just when you think all is going according to plan…he jumps out and throws a monkey wrench in the works.
Today’s Lo Shu Number is 2 and the Element is Metal. The Dragon finds conflict today but the Sheep and Monkey have ease. Today is not an auspicious day for haircuts, medical procedures, writing, gambling, construction or births.
Today’s Message from the Universe is: “I know I am the sole creator of my reality, and that I have all the power I need within me to generate a totally satisfying life. I stop blaming people or outside events. With God’s loving support I tune into my creative power and I bring joy and light into my life and the life of others.” Annie Marquier creating a world of peace one thought at a time.
COMMENTARIES BY JANICE SCOTT-REEDER
Check your latest social security statement carefully. Right up until this time, mine have all been correct. They shaved 20 years off my birth date. Didn’t anyone notice I started working 3 years before I was born???? Ah yes, our government at work. However, by doing this, I don’t qualify for any benefits because of the changes in laws in 1970. Convenient.
The one day I have to go out, I have a bad hair day. Now, when I had much longer and more hair, I thought I had bad hair days. I could always scoop it back and clip a hair piece on. Now I look like a porcupine with a bad attitude and nothing will hold it down but a complete wash job which of course, I have no time for and it is cold. I have to flop a hat on anyway and it covers everything.
At first I was a little hesitant about wandering into the bank wearing one of those caps with the brim around them that covers everything and glasses. Would they mistake me for a bank robber? It is happening more and more frequently down here; bank robberies that is. Then I got in there and noticed almost all the women are wearing hats including one of the tellers. Okay, they were a bit more fashionable than my 1.99 cotton cap from Michael’s Craft Supply in burgundy, but they covered as much. So I kept my hat on and no one paid any attention to me. Then I started wondering. It is 75 degrees. Why is everyone in wool sweaters, scarves and caps? Some of them were in boots. I’m in cotton jeans and a T-shirt and mules. Welcome to Florida where the rules are different. Heck, we’re on another planet.
Speaking of jeans, mother was right. What you want to shrink won’t and what you don’t want to shrink will. Fortunately, I have none of the latter. I bought a pair of jeans before operations, now referred to as BO, and they fit so perfectly I ordered two pair in different colors. They were slightly tight but had an elastic waist. Yesterday was Turtle cleaning day which with her new larger container is a job and a half. I got the jeans out and they were too loose. I spent the entire job worrying I was going to moon the neighbors or a raccoon. So, I washed them. I dried them on high. For the first time in the history of all jeans in the known and unknown Universes, it had absolutely no effect what-so-ever. I think they are looser.
That comes under the heading of some days I just can’t win. Today is one. The internet is going up and down and I can’t keep a connection, thus I dare not do any work on it. Napoleon took the last third of my yogurt and I mean paw wrapped around the container grab and lick free for all. He really loves the peach yogurt.
I have to say the drop in the metaphysical market is worse than I knew. The magazine I was talking about two days ago, would have been bad reduced to what is obviously now 1/3 of it’s previous size, but opening it up and reading, I discovered they actually published two separate magazines and they are now combined into one. So this is not one magazine for metaphysical retailers reduced to 1/3 but two magazines, one for the health trade, reduced to 1/3 of one. That is bad no matter how you spin it when the magazine itself is all advertising. I hesitate to even consider how many companies have gone out of business. I also just realized I have not received a copy of another trade magazine….ooops…really bad news.
On the other hand, the good news is we will begin working on getting the Salamander open on the weekends, this weekend. It will take about a month as the a/c units have to fixed or replaced. The bad news is, there will be way less emphasis on books as I cannot compete with the big Box stores. The same goes for candles. I can’t beat the grocery store prices even though theirs do have a habit of burning 3 days instead of 7, exploding and going out at odd moments. I know I am never buying another one, particularly in RED! However, in the other markets, I can compete. We will be making more products, mainly because we can’t get them any more. I will be doing more readings in new ways.
What do I mean by new way?. About every other reading I utter the mantra, “I wish you could see what I see,” from the spirits surrounding a person, to their aura on to the Fae flitting about. I was saying that at home when my guide answered, “They can.” I really hate those couple of word answers because it means I have forgotten something important and now have to mine the depths of memory and that is a place I seldom want to go. Then I remembered something from way back in my almost youth. It will require a bit of construction, and you know how George hates construction, and the creation of sacred space, which requires rules of usage, but it can and will be done.
I will manage to get the email readings up on Keen so you can get them that way. That works much better for me because I am almost deaf.
Forecast and Faery Finder
By Janice Scott-Reeder and the Bitwit
Happy New Year’s Eve
Happy Blue Moon
I think I speak for just about all us except the bank executives, insurance executives, the top 5% with over 90% of the wealth and the Wall Street Boys, thank the Goddess 2009 is almost over! For a year that began with so much hope, it ended flatter than a pancake.
According to Llewellyn’s Spell-a-Day Almanac, today’s color is Green and the incense is Clove.
FORECASTS:
Deck: Navigators Tarot of the Mystic Sea.
Today’s Tarot Card is the Fool: emanation. This is the beginning and the end. In realizing there is no actual right or wrong, you free your creativity.
Astrological Source: Llewellyn’s 2009 Daily Planetary Guide.
Astrologically:
The Full Moon is at 2:13 PM EST. It is a Blue Moon and a Lunar Eclipse at 10Cancer15.
For the next month the forces of justice are at work.
For about three days, Elders and authorities have harsh words for big egos.
This is a day when social events are just going to look like more trouble than they are worth. Parties will not the normal happy New Year’s fare.
Deck: Healing with the Fairies.
The Faeries say:
This is not a day when you are going to feel safe.
Today’s Cat Comfort Card is:
Catnip: You could do with a pick-me-up. Try something you really like today.”
Deck: The Fairies’ Oracle by Brian Froud & Jessica MacBeth
Today’s Faery Finder is on the lookout for:
Gawtcha, the out of the blue Fae is sneaking around. Just when you think all is going according to plan…he jumps out and throws a monkey wrench in the works.
Today’s Lo Shu Number is 2 and the Element is Metal. The Dragon finds conflict today but the Sheep and Monkey have ease. Today is not an auspicious day for haircuts, medical procedures, writing, gambling, construction or births.
Today’s Message from the Universe is: “I know I am the sole creator of my reality, and that I have all the power I need within me to generate a totally satisfying life. I stop blaming people or outside events. With God’s loving support I tune into my creative power and I bring joy and light into my life and the life of others.” Annie Marquier creating a world of peace one thought at a time.
COMMENTARIES BY JANICE SCOTT-REEDER
Check your latest social security statement carefully. Right up until this time, mine have all been correct. They shaved 20 years off my birth date. Didn’t anyone notice I started working 3 years before I was born???? Ah yes, our government at work. However, by doing this, I don’t qualify for any benefits because of the changes in laws in 1970. Convenient.
The one day I have to go out, I have a bad hair day. Now, when I had much longer and more hair, I thought I had bad hair days. I could always scoop it back and clip a hair piece on. Now I look like a porcupine with a bad attitude and nothing will hold it down but a complete wash job which of course, I have no time for and it is cold. I have to flop a hat on anyway and it covers everything.
At first I was a little hesitant about wandering into the bank wearing one of those caps with the brim around them that covers everything and glasses. Would they mistake me for a bank robber? It is happening more and more frequently down here; bank robberies that is. Then I got in there and noticed almost all the women are wearing hats including one of the tellers. Okay, they were a bit more fashionable than my 1.99 cotton cap from Michael’s Craft Supply in burgundy, but they covered as much. So I kept my hat on and no one paid any attention to me. Then I started wondering. It is 75 degrees. Why is everyone in wool sweaters, scarves and caps? Some of them were in boots. I’m in cotton jeans and a T-shirt and mules. Welcome to Florida where the rules are different. Heck, we’re on another planet.
Speaking of jeans, mother was right. What you want to shrink won’t and what you don’t want to shrink will. Fortunately, I have none of the latter. I bought a pair of jeans before operations, now referred to as BO, and they fit so perfectly I ordered two pair in different colors. They were slightly tight but had an elastic waist. Yesterday was Turtle cleaning day which with her new larger container is a job and a half. I got the jeans out and they were too loose. I spent the entire job worrying I was going to moon the neighbors or a raccoon. So, I washed them. I dried them on high. For the first time in the history of all jeans in the known and unknown Universes, it had absolutely no effect what-so-ever. I think they are looser.
That comes under the heading of some days I just can’t win. Today is one. The internet is going up and down and I can’t keep a connection, thus I dare not do any work on it. Napoleon took the last third of my yogurt and I mean paw wrapped around the container grab and lick free for all. He really loves the peach yogurt.
I have to say the drop in the metaphysical market is worse than I knew. The magazine I was talking about two days ago, would have been bad reduced to what is obviously now 1/3 of it’s previous size, but opening it up and reading, I discovered they actually published two separate magazines and they are now combined into one. So this is not one magazine for metaphysical retailers reduced to 1/3 but two magazines, one for the health trade, reduced to 1/3 of one. That is bad no matter how you spin it when the magazine itself is all advertising. I hesitate to even consider how many companies have gone out of business. I also just realized I have not received a copy of another trade magazine….ooops…really bad news.
On the other hand, the good news is we will begin working on getting the Salamander open on the weekends, this weekend. It will take about a month as the a/c units have to fixed or replaced. The bad news is, there will be way less emphasis on books as I cannot compete with the big Box stores. The same goes for candles. I can’t beat the grocery store prices even though theirs do have a habit of burning 3 days instead of 7, exploding and going out at odd moments. I know I am never buying another one, particularly in RED! However, in the other markets, I can compete. We will be making more products, mainly because we can’t get them any more. I will be doing more readings in new ways.
What do I mean by new way?. About every other reading I utter the mantra, “I wish you could see what I see,” from the spirits surrounding a person, to their aura on to the Fae flitting about. I was saying that at home when my guide answered, “They can.” I really hate those couple of word answers because it means I have forgotten something important and now have to mine the depths of memory and that is a place I seldom want to go. Then I remembered something from way back in my almost youth. It will require a bit of construction, and you know how George hates construction, and the creation of sacred space, which requires rules of usage, but it can and will be done.
I will manage to get the email readings up on Keen so you can get them that way. That works much better for me because I am almost deaf.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Forecast and Faery Finder for 12/30/09
12-30-09
Forecast and Faery Finder
Metaphysical Boundaries
By Janice Scott-Reeder and the Bitwit (Bitty Witch Cat)
According to Llewellyn’s Spell-a-Day Almanac, today’s color is yellow and the incense is marjoram.
FORECASTS:
Deck: Navigators Tarot of the Mystic Sea.
Today’s Tarot Card is the Ace of Pentacles: generation. No matter how much success or fame you have achieved, the feeling that there is something missing is there. Time to look toward the spiritual.
Astrological Source: Llewellyn’s 2009 Daily Planetary Guide.
Astrologically:
The Moon enters Cancer at 9:45 PM EST. Harsh words in the morning from authorities or elders greet you. Fortunately, you have learned that lesson and know how to handle things, though your feeling are hurt. The afternoon is very psychic and financial opportunity is there if you look.
Don’t feel bad if you just want to stay home and avoid the parties. The Moon in Cancer makes us wanted to cocoon and stay home with loved ones.
Deck: Healing with the Fairies.
The Faeries say:
It is going to be tempting to forget your standards and settle, but you will regret it tomorrow.
Today’s Cat Comfort Card is:
Cat Woman: “Revel in your sensuality and passion. Do things that make you purr.”
Deck: The Fairies’ Oracle by Brian Froud & Jessica MacBeth
Today’s Faery Finder is on the lookout for:
The Spirit Dancer flits across our landscape today. She is the champion of self expression, freedom and exploration but she also knows it has another side. We need to see what our expression awakens in others; what their perception is of our efforts. In that way, we grow.
Today’s Lo Shu Number is 1 and the Element is Earth. The rabbit finds conflict today. Today is not an auspicious day for haircuts, writing, gambling, construction nor births.
Today’s Message from the Universe is: “I now develop my willpower. I connect this power to the highest qualities of my heart and through all my actions I express the Divine Will on earth.” Annie Marquier creating a world of peace one thought at a time.
COMMENTARIES BY JANICE SCOTT-REEDER
I have my beet greens in a vase awaiting cooking tomorrow. They were wilting. Purrbie is stretching a few extra inches out of his nose to encounter them. We all know he is not going to eat them, but they are forbidden.
Seems as though everywhere I have turned today, the subject of boundaries in one form or another has come up. So, I guess I’ll say something about it.
I learned about boundaries very early in life. My parents were not demonstrative types and I was raised with really good manners. You never grabbed something, you asked first. My hands were slapped each time I forgot that. My mother was raised in a very proper home, being one of 8 children by a mother who was the product of a huge boarding house and who valued space and privacy above all else. I learned to respect that and unfortunately, expect that. When we arrived in Latin America, my mother practically lost her mind. If those of you in Europe and the Orient think we, as Americans, have no sense of boundaries, move there. She went totally crazy when she found her refrigerator was raided, her clothes were worn and her make up was tried. She took to locking all the doors, but unfortunately, some of my father’s friends were excellent lock picks. She was so happy to return to this country.
Growing up in a multi cultural neighborhood, I learned boundaries that were even more stringent that the ones I was taught as a child. We had Germans, Japanese, Chinese and English for neighbors and when you threw in the Latinos, it would be a volatile mix if you didn’t respect other people’s customs.
Now the odd thing is, even the most well mannered of us, tend to throw all that learning out the window in metaphysics. I will never forget the horrified look on my mother’s face when some woman ran up and shouted, “Have you found Jesus?”. How dare some stranger on the street question her religious views without even so much as a “Hello, how are you?”! I will say the look she gave that woman totally withered her enthusiasm. That was only equaled by the night my aunt took me to the Jehovah’s Witnesses and I hid under the pew when they started getting weird. Well, it was weird to me. I wasn’t used to strangers trying to hug me.
Giggling? How many of you energetically try to hug people without so much as knowing their names? Do you decide to heal someone because they aren’t behaving the way you think is “good”? Do you invade their mental space by tapping into them?
It has been often remarked that I am extremely graceful. I can move through a crowded room without ever touching a person. That is more for me than them. I simply do not want to get impressions from strangers. I know people who give unsolicited readings. A spirit would have to be kicking my bottom physically before I would do that. What they are going through is none of my business. The same people who would decry someone snooping through their bathroom medicine cabinet have no trouble mentally snooping through someone’s head. The same people who preach freedom of choice seem to have no trouble forcing their metaphysical standard of behavior on someone else with calming, healing or “pink” energies. That is the equivalent of telling someone to “sit down and shut up”. Bet you never thought of it that way? Not only that, but you may be doing damage.
One of the first things you learn in psychiatry is if you have to restrain someone, both of you are going to get hurt. The repercussions are more than physical; they are also mental. Calming, healing and “pink” energy is mental restraint. You are forcing your energy on another person and their first reaction is going to be fight or flight. My high success rate had to do with asking one simple question before I applied any therapy, “Do you want this to be fixed?” Ninety percent of the time the answer was, “Hell, yes!”, but ten percent needed to stop and think about it. There were negative answers when the person was getting too much reward for being “sick”. Some times people were punishing themselves in which case curing the illness was removing a symptom and they would have a new one next week. Some times they were punishing other people with their illness. Some times they wanted to be fixed and other times they wanted to fix themselves. Respecting their opinions and options was what gave me the edge in therapy.
In other words, if you are upset, are you going to be a happy camper if someone walks up, pops a valium in your mouth and holds your nose until you swallow it. No…then don’t force calming energies on someone else’s psyche unless they are threatening you or others. Without knowing the cause of the problem you are just sticking a cork in a bottle that is still under pressure and will blow up at a later time. It is the cause that must be dealt with and that can’t be done without the overt cooperation and knowledge of the other person.
Many years ago I was visiting with two psychologists and their little daughter, who should know better. The daughter turned from a sweet little 4 year old to the thing from Hades within a half an hour and they were timing her out. That didn’t work, she was pounding the wall with her fists at which point restraint seemed to be the route to take. I asked her to come over to me and she ran over and nearly knocked me down. I looked her in the eyes (very important step) and asked her how she felt. That confused her. So I asked her if she felt like she was shaking inside and she looked so relieved someone understood what was happening. I explained to her that the big chocolate cookie she had at the restaurant was bad for someone her size and it was making her shake inside and it was not going to stop for a while. I knew how she felt, I am hypoglycemic. Once she understood there was nothing that could be done for her except time, she settled down and stopped trying to hurt herself. She didn’t feel good, but she was calmer understanding what was happening.
When I have people arrive at the shop agitated, I try to ascertain why this is happening to them. I have an advantage. Close to ¾ of the people referred to our office for psychiatric treatment had something very physical wrong with them and hypoglycemia was at the top of the list. You don’t think straight. You are jittery, aggressive, combative and unable to follow directions. You feel awful and finally, you will lapse into a coma. So I ask, when did you eat last and what did you eat. High sugar combined with caffeine will cause you to cycle up and down, hence the jitters. All the pink light in the universe isn’t going to help and calming someone when their body is screaming “I am in trouble” isn’t going to be productive. Don’t be afraid to ask what is going on. Don’t be afraid to ask if someone feels all right. If they don’t want to engage you, back off. I saw a psychic keep pushing a woman who looked ‘sad’ at a fair until she screamed…”I’m dying of cancer!” I think she had the right to look sad.
Healing is a partnership and a very intimate one. It should be engaged in with the same caution and respect other intimate relationships are. And you should never be afraid to say, “I can’t help you. This is beyond me.” I have said it frequently. It doesn’t hurt. I learned to say it in psychiatry where there were some illness that it simply was against protocol for me to treat with either hypnosis or biofeedback. I have had to tell clients the treatment simply wasn’t working and wasn’t going to work. It was time to move on to another therapy and therapist and some have screamed and held onto the door.
I have, as a psychic, had to do the same thing. Dependence is not a cure. I have people are still angry at me because they think the words, “This is beyond what I know how to do.” means “I won’t help you.” It means “I can’t help you.” Can’t means not able.
That is why responsible practitioners of magic, do so calmly, with forethought and very slowly after carefully examining the problem and then structuring a spell or working specifically to the problem. That, my friends, is why those spells in the books seldom work or work the way we thought they would. For those people who think they can accrue no karma by doing work for others no matter how dark, let me warn you. A wire can burn out with too much voltage or simply through a lot of use, and it is neither the source nor the recipient of the energy. You are the wire. Think about it.
I have upset a lot of people tonight. I know this because as I was writing this an entire book shelf came down on my head. Oddly enough, all the books scattered forward and the shelf fell to my right dropping a large Buddha in my lap. I was unhurt. When people have such a high voltage reaction to something it means on some level, they know they have a doubt about their opinion, practice or methods. Something has been niggling at them. I know when I have a high voltage reaction, I first isolate what I am reacting to and then why. I am a very calm person. Very little upsets me. So before you burn me at the stake, take my grandmother’s advice. Take those shoes off the other person, turn them around and see how you like walking in them. Do you want this done to you? The psychiatrist I worked with for years always said he would not prescribe a medication he would not take himself. We dumped medical samples for at least an hour down the commode every month. It was not a fun job, but it sure taught me a lesson as I was sitting in the stall pushing those pills out of the foil wrappers and flushing them. It taught me to use myself as a yard stick because the side effects I wound up reading while pushing a few hundred pills out of the foil often had my eyes popping out. These were popular medications prescribed by the thousands daily, but I certainly wouldn’t take them and I wouldn’t ask someone else to do it. Are you willing to take your own medicine in the same way you are administering it? Teachers, take heed. Before I was permitted to give a shot in the office, I had to give one to the doctor as a test. Let your students practice on you. You are the best person to gauge how they are doing, not their fellow students.
Forecast and Faery Finder
Metaphysical Boundaries
By Janice Scott-Reeder and the Bitwit (Bitty Witch Cat)
According to Llewellyn’s Spell-a-Day Almanac, today’s color is yellow and the incense is marjoram.
FORECASTS:
Deck: Navigators Tarot of the Mystic Sea.
Today’s Tarot Card is the Ace of Pentacles: generation. No matter how much success or fame you have achieved, the feeling that there is something missing is there. Time to look toward the spiritual.
Astrological Source: Llewellyn’s 2009 Daily Planetary Guide.
Astrologically:
The Moon enters Cancer at 9:45 PM EST. Harsh words in the morning from authorities or elders greet you. Fortunately, you have learned that lesson and know how to handle things, though your feeling are hurt. The afternoon is very psychic and financial opportunity is there if you look.
Don’t feel bad if you just want to stay home and avoid the parties. The Moon in Cancer makes us wanted to cocoon and stay home with loved ones.
Deck: Healing with the Fairies.
The Faeries say:
It is going to be tempting to forget your standards and settle, but you will regret it tomorrow.
Today’s Cat Comfort Card is:
Cat Woman: “Revel in your sensuality and passion. Do things that make you purr.”
Deck: The Fairies’ Oracle by Brian Froud & Jessica MacBeth
Today’s Faery Finder is on the lookout for:
The Spirit Dancer flits across our landscape today. She is the champion of self expression, freedom and exploration but she also knows it has another side. We need to see what our expression awakens in others; what their perception is of our efforts. In that way, we grow.
Today’s Lo Shu Number is 1 and the Element is Earth. The rabbit finds conflict today. Today is not an auspicious day for haircuts, writing, gambling, construction nor births.
Today’s Message from the Universe is: “I now develop my willpower. I connect this power to the highest qualities of my heart and through all my actions I express the Divine Will on earth.” Annie Marquier creating a world of peace one thought at a time.
COMMENTARIES BY JANICE SCOTT-REEDER
I have my beet greens in a vase awaiting cooking tomorrow. They were wilting. Purrbie is stretching a few extra inches out of his nose to encounter them. We all know he is not going to eat them, but they are forbidden.
Seems as though everywhere I have turned today, the subject of boundaries in one form or another has come up. So, I guess I’ll say something about it.
I learned about boundaries very early in life. My parents were not demonstrative types and I was raised with really good manners. You never grabbed something, you asked first. My hands were slapped each time I forgot that. My mother was raised in a very proper home, being one of 8 children by a mother who was the product of a huge boarding house and who valued space and privacy above all else. I learned to respect that and unfortunately, expect that. When we arrived in Latin America, my mother practically lost her mind. If those of you in Europe and the Orient think we, as Americans, have no sense of boundaries, move there. She went totally crazy when she found her refrigerator was raided, her clothes were worn and her make up was tried. She took to locking all the doors, but unfortunately, some of my father’s friends were excellent lock picks. She was so happy to return to this country.
Growing up in a multi cultural neighborhood, I learned boundaries that were even more stringent that the ones I was taught as a child. We had Germans, Japanese, Chinese and English for neighbors and when you threw in the Latinos, it would be a volatile mix if you didn’t respect other people’s customs.
Now the odd thing is, even the most well mannered of us, tend to throw all that learning out the window in metaphysics. I will never forget the horrified look on my mother’s face when some woman ran up and shouted, “Have you found Jesus?”. How dare some stranger on the street question her religious views without even so much as a “Hello, how are you?”! I will say the look she gave that woman totally withered her enthusiasm. That was only equaled by the night my aunt took me to the Jehovah’s Witnesses and I hid under the pew when they started getting weird. Well, it was weird to me. I wasn’t used to strangers trying to hug me.
Giggling? How many of you energetically try to hug people without so much as knowing their names? Do you decide to heal someone because they aren’t behaving the way you think is “good”? Do you invade their mental space by tapping into them?
It has been often remarked that I am extremely graceful. I can move through a crowded room without ever touching a person. That is more for me than them. I simply do not want to get impressions from strangers. I know people who give unsolicited readings. A spirit would have to be kicking my bottom physically before I would do that. What they are going through is none of my business. The same people who would decry someone snooping through their bathroom medicine cabinet have no trouble mentally snooping through someone’s head. The same people who preach freedom of choice seem to have no trouble forcing their metaphysical standard of behavior on someone else with calming, healing or “pink” energies. That is the equivalent of telling someone to “sit down and shut up”. Bet you never thought of it that way? Not only that, but you may be doing damage.
One of the first things you learn in psychiatry is if you have to restrain someone, both of you are going to get hurt. The repercussions are more than physical; they are also mental. Calming, healing and “pink” energy is mental restraint. You are forcing your energy on another person and their first reaction is going to be fight or flight. My high success rate had to do with asking one simple question before I applied any therapy, “Do you want this to be fixed?” Ninety percent of the time the answer was, “Hell, yes!”, but ten percent needed to stop and think about it. There were negative answers when the person was getting too much reward for being “sick”. Some times people were punishing themselves in which case curing the illness was removing a symptom and they would have a new one next week. Some times they were punishing other people with their illness. Some times they wanted to be fixed and other times they wanted to fix themselves. Respecting their opinions and options was what gave me the edge in therapy.
In other words, if you are upset, are you going to be a happy camper if someone walks up, pops a valium in your mouth and holds your nose until you swallow it. No…then don’t force calming energies on someone else’s psyche unless they are threatening you or others. Without knowing the cause of the problem you are just sticking a cork in a bottle that is still under pressure and will blow up at a later time. It is the cause that must be dealt with and that can’t be done without the overt cooperation and knowledge of the other person.
Many years ago I was visiting with two psychologists and their little daughter, who should know better. The daughter turned from a sweet little 4 year old to the thing from Hades within a half an hour and they were timing her out. That didn’t work, she was pounding the wall with her fists at which point restraint seemed to be the route to take. I asked her to come over to me and she ran over and nearly knocked me down. I looked her in the eyes (very important step) and asked her how she felt. That confused her. So I asked her if she felt like she was shaking inside and she looked so relieved someone understood what was happening. I explained to her that the big chocolate cookie she had at the restaurant was bad for someone her size and it was making her shake inside and it was not going to stop for a while. I knew how she felt, I am hypoglycemic. Once she understood there was nothing that could be done for her except time, she settled down and stopped trying to hurt herself. She didn’t feel good, but she was calmer understanding what was happening.
When I have people arrive at the shop agitated, I try to ascertain why this is happening to them. I have an advantage. Close to ¾ of the people referred to our office for psychiatric treatment had something very physical wrong with them and hypoglycemia was at the top of the list. You don’t think straight. You are jittery, aggressive, combative and unable to follow directions. You feel awful and finally, you will lapse into a coma. So I ask, when did you eat last and what did you eat. High sugar combined with caffeine will cause you to cycle up and down, hence the jitters. All the pink light in the universe isn’t going to help and calming someone when their body is screaming “I am in trouble” isn’t going to be productive. Don’t be afraid to ask what is going on. Don’t be afraid to ask if someone feels all right. If they don’t want to engage you, back off. I saw a psychic keep pushing a woman who looked ‘sad’ at a fair until she screamed…”I’m dying of cancer!” I think she had the right to look sad.
Healing is a partnership and a very intimate one. It should be engaged in with the same caution and respect other intimate relationships are. And you should never be afraid to say, “I can’t help you. This is beyond me.” I have said it frequently. It doesn’t hurt. I learned to say it in psychiatry where there were some illness that it simply was against protocol for me to treat with either hypnosis or biofeedback. I have had to tell clients the treatment simply wasn’t working and wasn’t going to work. It was time to move on to another therapy and therapist and some have screamed and held onto the door.
I have, as a psychic, had to do the same thing. Dependence is not a cure. I have people are still angry at me because they think the words, “This is beyond what I know how to do.” means “I won’t help you.” It means “I can’t help you.” Can’t means not able.
That is why responsible practitioners of magic, do so calmly, with forethought and very slowly after carefully examining the problem and then structuring a spell or working specifically to the problem. That, my friends, is why those spells in the books seldom work or work the way we thought they would. For those people who think they can accrue no karma by doing work for others no matter how dark, let me warn you. A wire can burn out with too much voltage or simply through a lot of use, and it is neither the source nor the recipient of the energy. You are the wire. Think about it.
I have upset a lot of people tonight. I know this because as I was writing this an entire book shelf came down on my head. Oddly enough, all the books scattered forward and the shelf fell to my right dropping a large Buddha in my lap. I was unhurt. When people have such a high voltage reaction to something it means on some level, they know they have a doubt about their opinion, practice or methods. Something has been niggling at them. I know when I have a high voltage reaction, I first isolate what I am reacting to and then why. I am a very calm person. Very little upsets me. So before you burn me at the stake, take my grandmother’s advice. Take those shoes off the other person, turn them around and see how you like walking in them. Do you want this done to you? The psychiatrist I worked with for years always said he would not prescribe a medication he would not take himself. We dumped medical samples for at least an hour down the commode every month. It was not a fun job, but it sure taught me a lesson as I was sitting in the stall pushing those pills out of the foil wrappers and flushing them. It taught me to use myself as a yard stick because the side effects I wound up reading while pushing a few hundred pills out of the foil often had my eyes popping out. These were popular medications prescribed by the thousands daily, but I certainly wouldn’t take them and I wouldn’t ask someone else to do it. Are you willing to take your own medicine in the same way you are administering it? Teachers, take heed. Before I was permitted to give a shot in the office, I had to give one to the doctor as a test. Let your students practice on you. You are the best person to gauge how they are doing, not their fellow students.
Monday, December 28, 2009
Forecast and Faery Finder for 12/29/09
12-29-09
Forecast and Faery Finder
Beets, Insurance Companies and the New Age Economy
By Janice Scott-Reeder and the Bitwit
According to Llewellyn’s Spell-a-Day Almanac, today’s color is white and the incense is ginger.
FORECASTS:
Deck: Navigators Tarot of the Mystic Sea.
Today’s Tarot Card is the Page of Wands: equivocation. Ambiguity requires tremendous patience to decipher.
Astrological Source: Llewellyn’s 2009 Daily Planetary Guide.
Astrologically:
For the next couple of weeks, social events are going to have be scaled back. Hey, we used to bang on pots on New Years because no one could afford fireworks. By midnight, no one knows what brand of champagne you are serving.
The morning starts out irritatingly. Don’t let it spoil your day because it is really aspect free after that and you will see a steady improvement. Just be careful of road rage in AM.
Deck: Healing with the Fairies.
The Faeries say:
It may seem like dreams are not coming true, but they are just taking a detour today.
Today’s Cat Comfort Card is:
Catkin: “Think about the positive qualities you’ve inherited from your family.”
Deck: The Fairies’ Oracle by Brian Froud & Jessica MacBeth
Today’s Faery Finder is on the lookout for:
The Maiden may look like a child, but she is ancient. She asks us to be open to things. She brings new beginnings and new growth. Keep your eyes open for opportunity.
Today’s Lo Shu Number is 9 and the Element is Earth. The Tiger finds conflict today but the Dragon and Snake have ease. Today is an auspicious day for haircuts, medical procedures, writing, construction and births.
Today’s Message from the Universe is: “There is no time to lose. I step into action now with energy and determination.” Annie Marquier creating a world of peace one thought at a time.
COMMENTARIES BY JANICE SCOTT-REEDER
I keep forgetting that emotional energy uses up sugar. I have learned the lesson that psychic work will drop my sugar fast. Anyway, today was the day of arguing with stupid people. First off, the hospital tried to get me to pay full retail for tests they did on George and I without submitting to them to the insurance company by shipping the two accounts off to a collection agency without even billing me once! Turns out they are the collection agency but the collection agency arm can’t bill insurance companies so I told them they could either submit it to insurance or stuff it in a dark place.
Argument two is with the insurance company that administrates George’s IRS medical fund. They are trying to claim my blood pressure medicine isn’t medicine and thus they over paid the mail order pharmacy, which they own, and so they are canceling the IRS medical fund credit card I need to pay doctors and pharmacies with. I have been taking the same medicine for 7 years! Is there an employment agency named: Stupid People for Hire or is this just a ploy to get more money out of people and cancel needed services? I spend about an hour a month fighting with the insurance company over really stupid crap like this. They are PO’d because I have reached my maximum out of pocket expenses for the year with the two operations and now they have to pay. Gee, I’ll try to not get cancer next year….The hospital is PO’d because they signed a contract with the insurance company to provide tests at a discount rate. I am in the middle. What is really crappy about this when you think about it is; the people they are screwing with are sick. You really don’t need this stress when you are sick. I used to be really nice and sweet when I was sick. Now I am getting really mean.
Anyway, trying to imagine flowering fields full of bunnies and unicorns apparently neither lowered my blood pressure nor stopped the drain on my blood sugar. So, when George came home all ready to get the water and veggies, I grabbed the letters to the above named a/holes and ran out the door without much thought. By the time I got home from the water machine, PO and Western Meats, I was shaking like a leaf in a wind storm. It was good thing I had bought a tray of brown beans, pork and rice for two dollars at Western Meats, I think it is Columbian style, because I was in no shape to cook and I think slicing veggies would have been suicide! Anyway, George has now learned the joy of pork, beans and rice and the cats are all trying to speak Spanish. My arteries are slamming shut and I am flashing back to my youth. Western Meats is doing really well if the number of people in there buying is any indicator.
I had to go on the web to find out how to cook beet greens because I got one humongous bunch of beets with the greens attached. Turns out you cook them like spinach. They are also higher in sodium that other greens so you avoid adding salt until after you do a taste test. They also said if you bake the roots, the sugar content remains higher and just about anyone will eat them. Yummy! I think I will bake the huge one and boil the two little ones, pickle them and then use the juice to pickle boiled eggs. I haven’t done that in a while. It takes a couple of months to pickle the eggs, but goddess are they good!!!!!
Then came the dose of reality in the mail. I got my professional metaphysical magazine that all the suppliers of goods advertise in. Advertising is pretty much the whole magazine. It was less than half the size it was last year and I barely recognized most of the advertisers. What that means is if you have a product you really love, stock up because suppliers are going out of business fast and retailers are also on the endangered list. The good news is that the Salamander is not in danger because of the number one fact, we own, not rent. I also have never taken out loans like other more mainstream stores did. Actually, your Wiccan stores are doing better and surviving better than the other metaphysical stores because most of us started with nothing and we still have most it. No, really, we almost all started out of our living rooms, learned how to make our products, learned to build our displays, went mail order to start with, trudged to shows and bought what we could afford because no one would loan us money. Now that philosophy is serving us well. Most of the Wiccan stores own their locations because no one would rent to us. George bought the building after two shopping centers flat refused to rent to us. We also enjoy community support that the other more general stores simply do not get. We are religious supply houses. That is what is keeping many of us afloat and has really kept me alive this year when I was ready to give up. Thanks everyone for your support.
Forecast and Faery Finder
Beets, Insurance Companies and the New Age Economy
By Janice Scott-Reeder and the Bitwit
According to Llewellyn’s Spell-a-Day Almanac, today’s color is white and the incense is ginger.
FORECASTS:
Deck: Navigators Tarot of the Mystic Sea.
Today’s Tarot Card is the Page of Wands: equivocation. Ambiguity requires tremendous patience to decipher.
Astrological Source: Llewellyn’s 2009 Daily Planetary Guide.
Astrologically:
For the next couple of weeks, social events are going to have be scaled back. Hey, we used to bang on pots on New Years because no one could afford fireworks. By midnight, no one knows what brand of champagne you are serving.
The morning starts out irritatingly. Don’t let it spoil your day because it is really aspect free after that and you will see a steady improvement. Just be careful of road rage in AM.
Deck: Healing with the Fairies.
The Faeries say:
It may seem like dreams are not coming true, but they are just taking a detour today.
Today’s Cat Comfort Card is:
Catkin: “Think about the positive qualities you’ve inherited from your family.”
Deck: The Fairies’ Oracle by Brian Froud & Jessica MacBeth
Today’s Faery Finder is on the lookout for:
The Maiden may look like a child, but she is ancient. She asks us to be open to things. She brings new beginnings and new growth. Keep your eyes open for opportunity.
Today’s Lo Shu Number is 9 and the Element is Earth. The Tiger finds conflict today but the Dragon and Snake have ease. Today is an auspicious day for haircuts, medical procedures, writing, construction and births.
Today’s Message from the Universe is: “There is no time to lose. I step into action now with energy and determination.” Annie Marquier creating a world of peace one thought at a time.
COMMENTARIES BY JANICE SCOTT-REEDER
I keep forgetting that emotional energy uses up sugar. I have learned the lesson that psychic work will drop my sugar fast. Anyway, today was the day of arguing with stupid people. First off, the hospital tried to get me to pay full retail for tests they did on George and I without submitting to them to the insurance company by shipping the two accounts off to a collection agency without even billing me once! Turns out they are the collection agency but the collection agency arm can’t bill insurance companies so I told them they could either submit it to insurance or stuff it in a dark place.
Argument two is with the insurance company that administrates George’s IRS medical fund. They are trying to claim my blood pressure medicine isn’t medicine and thus they over paid the mail order pharmacy, which they own, and so they are canceling the IRS medical fund credit card I need to pay doctors and pharmacies with. I have been taking the same medicine for 7 years! Is there an employment agency named: Stupid People for Hire or is this just a ploy to get more money out of people and cancel needed services? I spend about an hour a month fighting with the insurance company over really stupid crap like this. They are PO’d because I have reached my maximum out of pocket expenses for the year with the two operations and now they have to pay. Gee, I’ll try to not get cancer next year….The hospital is PO’d because they signed a contract with the insurance company to provide tests at a discount rate. I am in the middle. What is really crappy about this when you think about it is; the people they are screwing with are sick. You really don’t need this stress when you are sick. I used to be really nice and sweet when I was sick. Now I am getting really mean.
Anyway, trying to imagine flowering fields full of bunnies and unicorns apparently neither lowered my blood pressure nor stopped the drain on my blood sugar. So, when George came home all ready to get the water and veggies, I grabbed the letters to the above named a/holes and ran out the door without much thought. By the time I got home from the water machine, PO and Western Meats, I was shaking like a leaf in a wind storm. It was good thing I had bought a tray of brown beans, pork and rice for two dollars at Western Meats, I think it is Columbian style, because I was in no shape to cook and I think slicing veggies would have been suicide! Anyway, George has now learned the joy of pork, beans and rice and the cats are all trying to speak Spanish. My arteries are slamming shut and I am flashing back to my youth. Western Meats is doing really well if the number of people in there buying is any indicator.
I had to go on the web to find out how to cook beet greens because I got one humongous bunch of beets with the greens attached. Turns out you cook them like spinach. They are also higher in sodium that other greens so you avoid adding salt until after you do a taste test. They also said if you bake the roots, the sugar content remains higher and just about anyone will eat them. Yummy! I think I will bake the huge one and boil the two little ones, pickle them and then use the juice to pickle boiled eggs. I haven’t done that in a while. It takes a couple of months to pickle the eggs, but goddess are they good!!!!!
Then came the dose of reality in the mail. I got my professional metaphysical magazine that all the suppliers of goods advertise in. Advertising is pretty much the whole magazine. It was less than half the size it was last year and I barely recognized most of the advertisers. What that means is if you have a product you really love, stock up because suppliers are going out of business fast and retailers are also on the endangered list. The good news is that the Salamander is not in danger because of the number one fact, we own, not rent. I also have never taken out loans like other more mainstream stores did. Actually, your Wiccan stores are doing better and surviving better than the other metaphysical stores because most of us started with nothing and we still have most it. No, really, we almost all started out of our living rooms, learned how to make our products, learned to build our displays, went mail order to start with, trudged to shows and bought what we could afford because no one would loan us money. Now that philosophy is serving us well. Most of the Wiccan stores own their locations because no one would rent to us. George bought the building after two shopping centers flat refused to rent to us. We also enjoy community support that the other more general stores simply do not get. We are religious supply houses. That is what is keeping many of us afloat and has really kept me alive this year when I was ready to give up. Thanks everyone for your support.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Forecast and Faery Finder for 12/28/09
12-28-09
Forecast and Faery Finder
By Janice Scott-Reeder and the Bitwit
According to Llewellyn’s Spell-a-Day Almanac, today’s color is silver and the incense is rosemary.
FORECASTS:
Deck: Navigators Tarot of the Mystic Sea.
Today’s Tarot Card is the Star: revelation. This is an excellent day to learn meditation. Allowing thoughts to surface will bring revelations.
Astrological Source: Llewellyn’s 2009 Daily Planetary Guide.
Astrologically:
The Moon enters Gemini at 8:13 PM EST.
You may find yourself jangled out of beds by the phone or computer instead of the alarm. News is breaking and people are talking. (Do not call me! I am not a morning person.) Unfortunately, all you old aches and pains will be bothering you and you just may not have desired reaction to declarations of love. Around lunch, things get fuzzy, so if placing orders check them carefully.
The afternoon is not good for making money and the evening brings a lot of frustration with things that are stuck.
Deck: Healing with the Fairies.
The Faeries say:
Your sense of self reliance is on empty today and you are feeling dependent.
Today’s Cat Comfort Card is:
Caterpillar: “Slow down. Take time to focus on the small stuff.”
Deck: The Fairies’ Oracle by Brian Froud & Jessica MacBeth
Today’s Faery Finder is on the lookout for:
Ilbe the Retriever is here! You just can’t stay mad at him even though he just smeared invisible jell on your keys. You see, Ilbe is head of the office of lost things: objects, dreams and projects. Whenever he senses the time is right to bring them out and start work, he sends you a message. It is his delivery that sucks. He hides your things and under them, he places the message because he just knows you will find them in the last place you look.
Today’s Lo Shu Number is 8 and the Element is Fire. The Ox finds conflict today. Today is NOT an auspicious day for haircuts but it IS for medical procedures, writing and births.
Today’s Message from the Universe is: “Patience and serenity are now filling my mind and my heart. I trust the Divine Wisdom which is at the source of everything. I stay calm and peaceful. I love, respect and accept everyone and everything around me as an expression of the perfection of the Universe.” Annie Marquier creating a world of peace one thought at a time.
COMMENTARIES BY JANICE SCOTT-REEDER
Ah, the mix up in gifting! George bought one of those shoes racks for the cats to sleep in and on. I bought a little rolling kitchen island to prepare food on. His was a great idea. Mine was better as I have a postage stamp kitchen, the little island is about a foot in diameter with two leaves that fold up, a basket for onions or potatoes and two shelves. Now for reality. Josephina rolls around on the shoe rack but no one sleeps on it. The basket I had planned to fill with my onions is full of Rusty J. Hoover (at least he is the right color) and one shelf has been claimed by Bat the Cat. I think I get the top but probably not the other shelf. Again we see the wide gap between theory and practice.
Now that Monday is on the way, I think I am getting better. Why do we always get these things on the holiday? I think I can sum up the answer in one statement: if you are sick, stay home! Don’t infect the rest of us and ruin our holiday. When I grew up in the Dark Ages, no one would have even thought of leaving the house with a cold or flu. You took responsibility for your illness and didn’t say, the Hell with the rest of you, I’m having a good time. There are people out there, like me, you can easily kill with that attitude. So don’t laugh if you see me running around wearing a mask and carrying disinfectant wipes. It is my only protection from the selfish jackasses running around out there.
I learned something last night you should know. As the cashier was ringing up a gallon of milk, suddenly milk was everywhere. We couldn’t see a leak until I finally saw the split in the handle. She had picked up to run it over the scanner and leaned it back so the weight was on the handle and it split wide open. Don’t do that. The new super degradable plastics are weak, which is a shame because I used to get at least two seasons of tomatoes out of one of those cartons and then some plant labels.
Boogaboo has come into his own. He runs up, jumps in my lap, flops onto his back and starts purring. “Pet me, now!” I have to stop and pet him.
Poor Napoleon had quite a night. First I was cleaning up aquariums on Fish World and one woman had a music track of whales singing. He went nuts! I mean, he was beside himself not knowing whether to be afraid or to kill something. Then when we settled into bed, my shoulder was bothering me and I was tossing and turning when I heard an annoying whine normally only emitted by small children and husbands from next to me. I had to turn over and settle down.
Forecast and Faery Finder
By Janice Scott-Reeder and the Bitwit
According to Llewellyn’s Spell-a-Day Almanac, today’s color is silver and the incense is rosemary.
FORECASTS:
Deck: Navigators Tarot of the Mystic Sea.
Today’s Tarot Card is the Star: revelation. This is an excellent day to learn meditation. Allowing thoughts to surface will bring revelations.
Astrological Source: Llewellyn’s 2009 Daily Planetary Guide.
Astrologically:
The Moon enters Gemini at 8:13 PM EST.
You may find yourself jangled out of beds by the phone or computer instead of the alarm. News is breaking and people are talking. (Do not call me! I am not a morning person.) Unfortunately, all you old aches and pains will be bothering you and you just may not have desired reaction to declarations of love. Around lunch, things get fuzzy, so if placing orders check them carefully.
The afternoon is not good for making money and the evening brings a lot of frustration with things that are stuck.
Deck: Healing with the Fairies.
The Faeries say:
Your sense of self reliance is on empty today and you are feeling dependent.
Today’s Cat Comfort Card is:
Caterpillar: “Slow down. Take time to focus on the small stuff.”
Deck: The Fairies’ Oracle by Brian Froud & Jessica MacBeth
Today’s Faery Finder is on the lookout for:
Ilbe the Retriever is here! You just can’t stay mad at him even though he just smeared invisible jell on your keys. You see, Ilbe is head of the office of lost things: objects, dreams and projects. Whenever he senses the time is right to bring them out and start work, he sends you a message. It is his delivery that sucks. He hides your things and under them, he places the message because he just knows you will find them in the last place you look.
Today’s Lo Shu Number is 8 and the Element is Fire. The Ox finds conflict today. Today is NOT an auspicious day for haircuts but it IS for medical procedures, writing and births.
Today’s Message from the Universe is: “Patience and serenity are now filling my mind and my heart. I trust the Divine Wisdom which is at the source of everything. I stay calm and peaceful. I love, respect and accept everyone and everything around me as an expression of the perfection of the Universe.” Annie Marquier creating a world of peace one thought at a time.
COMMENTARIES BY JANICE SCOTT-REEDER
Ah, the mix up in gifting! George bought one of those shoes racks for the cats to sleep in and on. I bought a little rolling kitchen island to prepare food on. His was a great idea. Mine was better as I have a postage stamp kitchen, the little island is about a foot in diameter with two leaves that fold up, a basket for onions or potatoes and two shelves. Now for reality. Josephina rolls around on the shoe rack but no one sleeps on it. The basket I had planned to fill with my onions is full of Rusty J. Hoover (at least he is the right color) and one shelf has been claimed by Bat the Cat. I think I get the top but probably not the other shelf. Again we see the wide gap between theory and practice.
Now that Monday is on the way, I think I am getting better. Why do we always get these things on the holiday? I think I can sum up the answer in one statement: if you are sick, stay home! Don’t infect the rest of us and ruin our holiday. When I grew up in the Dark Ages, no one would have even thought of leaving the house with a cold or flu. You took responsibility for your illness and didn’t say, the Hell with the rest of you, I’m having a good time. There are people out there, like me, you can easily kill with that attitude. So don’t laugh if you see me running around wearing a mask and carrying disinfectant wipes. It is my only protection from the selfish jackasses running around out there.
I learned something last night you should know. As the cashier was ringing up a gallon of milk, suddenly milk was everywhere. We couldn’t see a leak until I finally saw the split in the handle. She had picked up to run it over the scanner and leaned it back so the weight was on the handle and it split wide open. Don’t do that. The new super degradable plastics are weak, which is a shame because I used to get at least two seasons of tomatoes out of one of those cartons and then some plant labels.
Boogaboo has come into his own. He runs up, jumps in my lap, flops onto his back and starts purring. “Pet me, now!” I have to stop and pet him.
Poor Napoleon had quite a night. First I was cleaning up aquariums on Fish World and one woman had a music track of whales singing. He went nuts! I mean, he was beside himself not knowing whether to be afraid or to kill something. Then when we settled into bed, my shoulder was bothering me and I was tossing and turning when I heard an annoying whine normally only emitted by small children and husbands from next to me. I had to turn over and settle down.
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Forecast and Faery Finder for 12/27/09
12-27-09
Forecast and Faery Finder
By Janice Scott-Reeder and the Bitwit
According to Llewellyn’s Spell-a-Day Almanac, today’s color is amber and the incense is heliotrope.
FORECASTS:
Deck: Navigators Tarot of the Mystic Sea.
Today’s Tarot Card is the Destiny: equilibration. Integrity and the ability to know what is right and wrong are the only qualities that impress today. One person’s weakness may be another’s strength.
Astrological Source: Llewellyn’s 2009 Daily Planetary Guide.
Astrologically:
This is a good day to just be yourself.
For a couple of weeks, social events allow you to impress elders and authorities and make needed changes in your life.
Deck: Healing with the Fairies.
The Faeries say:
It is going to be hard to move forward without fear today.
Today’s Cat Comfort Card is:
Catamaran: “Stay balanced. Ride out the storm.”
Deck: The Fairies’ Oracle by Brian Froud & Jessica MacBeth
Today’s Faery Finder is on the lookout for:
The Singer of Connection tells us there is a web of light between all living things and their inorganic counterparts. Loneliness, depression and a feeling of being bereft result from not feeling this connection to the Universal Spiritual Web through which karma and empathy flow creating a balanced Universe and individual. Be open to the energy and know that connections are made, maintained and dissolved constantly as you need them.
Today’s Lo Shu Number is 7 and the Element is Fire. The Rat finds conflict today but the Dog and Boar have ease. Today is NOT an auspicious day for haircuts, medical procedures, writing, gambling, construction or births.
Today’s Message from the Universe is: “Despite darkness and difficulties, I continue on my path with strength and courage. I persevere. Obstacles vanish one after the other and my most deep-felt wishes are now fulfilled.” Annie Marquier creating a world of peace one thought at a time.
COMMENTARIES BY JANICE SCOTT-REEDER
By the time I got my sick self out of bed, the cats were napping. Now that I have upset their schedule, they are tearing the house up. I couldn’t give them any of the salmon because the herbs have powdered onion on them and that shuts down their internal organs. They were really upset. I will give them some salmon tomorrow, but they have just been way too bad today for a reward.
Forecast and Faery Finder
By Janice Scott-Reeder and the Bitwit
According to Llewellyn’s Spell-a-Day Almanac, today’s color is amber and the incense is heliotrope.
FORECASTS:
Deck: Navigators Tarot of the Mystic Sea.
Today’s Tarot Card is the Destiny: equilibration. Integrity and the ability to know what is right and wrong are the only qualities that impress today. One person’s weakness may be another’s strength.
Astrological Source: Llewellyn’s 2009 Daily Planetary Guide.
Astrologically:
This is a good day to just be yourself.
For a couple of weeks, social events allow you to impress elders and authorities and make needed changes in your life.
Deck: Healing with the Fairies.
The Faeries say:
It is going to be hard to move forward without fear today.
Today’s Cat Comfort Card is:
Catamaran: “Stay balanced. Ride out the storm.”
Deck: The Fairies’ Oracle by Brian Froud & Jessica MacBeth
Today’s Faery Finder is on the lookout for:
The Singer of Connection tells us there is a web of light between all living things and their inorganic counterparts. Loneliness, depression and a feeling of being bereft result from not feeling this connection to the Universal Spiritual Web through which karma and empathy flow creating a balanced Universe and individual. Be open to the energy and know that connections are made, maintained and dissolved constantly as you need them.
Today’s Lo Shu Number is 7 and the Element is Fire. The Rat finds conflict today but the Dog and Boar have ease. Today is NOT an auspicious day for haircuts, medical procedures, writing, gambling, construction or births.
Today’s Message from the Universe is: “Despite darkness and difficulties, I continue on my path with strength and courage. I persevere. Obstacles vanish one after the other and my most deep-felt wishes are now fulfilled.” Annie Marquier creating a world of peace one thought at a time.
COMMENTARIES BY JANICE SCOTT-REEDER
By the time I got my sick self out of bed, the cats were napping. Now that I have upset their schedule, they are tearing the house up. I couldn’t give them any of the salmon because the herbs have powdered onion on them and that shuts down their internal organs. They were really upset. I will give them some salmon tomorrow, but they have just been way too bad today for a reward.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)