Magickal Implications

More often than not, I see people walk out of my shop with enough spell kits and supplies to keep them busy for a year. Unfortunately they plan on using them all that weekend and I keep hoping no one burns their house down. Now, a scientific study has proven what I have been saying for many years: do one thing at a time!
Scientists took those ramped up super multitasking kids at University and tested them to see just how well they were studying, texting, listening to music and doing other things at the same time. What did they find? The super mutitaskers were not really learning or getting anything done well. Those who did one thing at a time in a non-distracting environment did really well on the tests.
So, next time I say one spell at a time, listen to the old Druid. She really does know what she is talking about. Settle yourself in a quiet room far, far away the phone, computer and Ipod and do one thing at a time in the right order at the right time. You will be surprised how well your spells work.
Now I know a lot of mothers are saying: like where and when. Children have a lot of psychic power and potential. Including them in your spells not only teaches them valuable skills, like concentration and focus, but it also adds a nice bang for your buck.

Your forecast for Friday, 03/25.11

That's what I looked like!

This is an official disaster area. I came down to the shop, not expecting anything out of the ordinary. I was happily going to come in, harvest my crops on Farm Town and let George go home and make his breakfast and have a quiet day of preparing for the weekend. As I came down the path I noticed both side were littered with stuff and then I noticed it was MY STUFF. I picked up speed and ran into the shop only to find George in the middle of my area pulling a Virgo.
Now, for those of you who do not know what pulling a Virgo is, allow me to explain. My boyfriend in college was a Virgo and coincidentally has the same birthday as George or I am cursed..one or the other. We both worked in the library. One day as I am working on straightening out my section of the library, the science section, I heard the head librarian scream. Now this was an elderly gentleman who seldom raised his voice and thus the scream was equally scary coming out of his mouth. I ran downstairs to see the body and found him staring at the literature section (my boy friend's) in total horror. Well, boy friend was still standing but that was all. It seems the librarian concluded that if I could rearrange the science section so not a book was out of order without a single disruption in service, surely a MAN could do it better in the literature section. The shelves were empty and every book was in some pile on the floor. We are talking one third of the library. All the man could mutter as he turned purple was, "Janice, so something." My answer was: "Should I call the school nurse for you or kill him and in what order?" The answer was: "KILL HIM!" He was banished from the library and I spent the whole afternoon and night getting the books back into some semblance of order.
That is what I faced. My entire area that I have been cautiously and without disruption rearranging was in the floor and the outside path and George was in the center of the storm muttering: "Don't say word!" Say a word???? I was speechless. My mouth was slowly flapping open and shut like a dying bass. My eyes were bugging out of my head and then it got worse. After clearing the area for me to get into he decided to have me sort the wooden drawers and the first one I emptied so he could pull it out and reglue the bottom, the whole thing sprang apart and ball bearings the size on beads took off in all directions. That was when I decided that shelves would be a better idea although he is yet to completely agree. If you don't see George around for a long time, please do not alert the authorities.
So, how was your day?

Today's Tarot Card is Temperance reversed. Things are not in balance and I don't expect them to be around here for a few weeks.

The Moon will be Void of Course from 9:25 PM to 9:57 PM EDT when she enters Capricorn and everyone climbs their mountain and retreats to their cave.
Communications are fast and furious in the morning and no one is thinking before they open their mouth which leads to a big argument at some point. This is a good morning to be quiet.
This evening is very social and romantic so go ahead and make that date, but get home before 11 PM EDT or a nasty surprise may await you and more arguments. Well, you haven't been getting much so sleep so use that as an excuse.

I think Isis embodied what I looked like today. Enjoy the picture.

Forecast for Thursday, 03/24/11

Goddess, what a night, so please forgive misspellings, grammar and wrong words. For the second night in a row I laid down and my back went out and I finally had to take pain meds. Then my meds for RLS refused to work and I had to up the dose. Finally I went to sleep and slept like the dead or a cat. Today I have not had enough sleep, only 7 hours, and am fuzzy from the meds, so nothing is getting done right. I think I need more coffee.
Still no returning neighbors and my mirror is taped up but I can't see much of anything in it so I have been staying to neighborhood and driving only back and forth to the house. I am afraid to get out on 441.
I got an entire bowl of mulberries today and in a fight with a balckbird. He decided to take the mulberries from the low branches and I decided to swat him. Then he tried to take them out of the bowl while I was getting the camera to document my harvest. Now, I am getting really angry. So, he proceeds to spend the next hour setting all the outside alarms off just to torture me. Oh, it was deliberate because I opened the door and found him flapping his wings at one.

Today's Tarot Card is the Seven of Swords: beware of theft.

This promises to be a good day. There is some good financial news in the afternoon and good news about limitations has you ready to get out there and conquer the world.

There is a myth going around that only revenue the government has is income tax. I know, you just said HUH? What do you mean? They have other ways of getting money?
My friends, they have a 101 ways of getting money and even more of hiding it. Waaaay back when I was in Junior High, so you know how long ago that was, there was a movement afoot that died fast to expose the hidden taxes on every day products you buy. Take gasolene. When I was in the aircraft business, I worked for a company that refueled aircraft. Keep in mind the taxes on aircraft fuel are less than on car fuel. 1/3 of the price of a gallon of gas was tax. Waaaay back then, there was a nickle tax on every loaf of bread. You never saw any of this. Why do you think gas prices have that 9/10's of a cent on them. That is just one tax. There are several including your local and state taxes. Now, the trick is that you don't ever see this revenue when you get your tax bill. It gets diverted into special funds or descretionary accounts. That means the money is hidden in accounts to be spent on specific things like art for your courthouse when you are laying off police. The "GREAT DEFICIT" does not take into account any of these "special taxes" in the plus column.
Let me explain how this works and it is a neat trick of accounting I learned from a master who learned it from the government.
Let's say you pay the $5,000.00 application fee to file your patent. Yes, you read that right. That money goes directly to the patent office. Now, that office, like all its relatives, files an operating budget with the US government. An operating budget shows your expenses, not your income. Now, our government accountants take that figure and place it into the national operating budgeting which then gets lumped into the national budget and then your income tax dollars are deducted from that budget and what is left over is called the "Deficit" since Bush spent all our money.
Have you noticed where the rabbit went? Come on, look at that paragraph again. Your 5,000.00 application fee just disappeared into never-never land. Do you have any idea how much money drops down those rabbit holes and even how many rabbit holes there are? Nope, and neither does anyone else.
That's how your local government is broke and suddenly has a million bucks to upgrade the comfort of their lobby. That is how they lay off teachers, police and emergency personnel while spending over hundred grand to redecorate their offices every term, close to a million in staff salaries and manage to have a lovely car allowance that would pay most of our mortgage payments. Not only do you need to ask where the money is going but you need to follow the trail of where it is coming from to get an accurate picture and I guarantee my friends, that is one picture they do not want you to view.

Forecast for Wednesday, 03/23/11

Josephina relaxes amid the carnage...

Starting your day by discovering your neighbors destroyed the mirror on your van with their towable and knowing you can't see diddly squat without it is stressful, but I shall survive, as long as I don't change lanes on the left side or back up. Ford quoted me around 300.00 to fix it. Good thing it is a manual. I hate to think how much one of those power mirrors will cost you. Then again, I have to get it half way across town to the dealership and that is going to be a trick within itself and they don't have one in stock. Of course, this happens when we have little to no money waiting on an unemployment extension to kick in and George's retirement to come through. Meanwhile, I am not going anywhere. I even rode my bike to the shop.
I found a bunch of old stock today I had put on my shelf and it got pushed to the back. I was clearing a space for my inventory books. Speaking of which, never mention inventory books to someone under 30. They look at you like you just stepped out of a UFO.
Last night Josephina, our plus sized black sister of Napoleon, decided she could run, hit the kitchen floor and spun out. So, there I stand at the sink watching this huge cat lose purchase on the tile and spinning uncontrollably when the thought hits me that if she catches with one claw, she is going to spin into something and that something may be my ankles. If that happens I am going to be in the ER with two broken ankles. Fortunately, she just spun slowly to a stop. Then she took off and landed smack dab in the middle of my bed where she flopped over having completed her exercise for the month. Who knows what gets into cats...
So much for my exciting life...

Today's Tarot Card is the....okay....this is interesting. The Page of Pentacles reversed and the Page of Cups are interesting. Aquarius is the most masculine sign of the zodiac and it is representing a woman. Pisces is the most feminie sign of the zodiac and it is representing a man. Then we have the King of Swords which can represent a lawyer or a judge and the three of Wands which represents thinking about leaving for another land that may not be better than where they are right now. Hmmmmmm......

The Moon is Void of Course from 4:08 PM to 4:45 PM EDT when she enters Sagittarius and the mood lights but there is also a feeling of wanderlust and legal decisions are handed down. I wonder if that has something to do with the tarot cards....

A really, really early morning argument has you energized and unable to sleep. By time to get up, you are just plain antisocial and by afternoon, you are in a total fog. No sleep will do that to you. Then you get nice surprise and your mood picks up but teachers will soon find their hopes dashed in the evening. By late night, you are finally feeling like you might just survive this day. Things will be looking up.

Forecast for Tuesday, 03/22/11

Now that is a number! Sorry, I just love numbers and all of these are prime. Okay, no more math jokes.

It might have been my day off but the job of a small merchant is never ending. We have been working on displaying stock that has been packed from our days of doing large shows.  It all has to be reinventoried. Then there is the merchandise from the mineral show and if I ever get a moment to myself, I will make some jewelry. I found some polished Blue Kyanite and will be making earring for those of you stuck in a negative environment. The gorgeous pendants I bought yesterday have to be mounted and put on a necklace. Then I have to go into massive pendulum making mode before George schedules a class when I am not paying attention and that happens a lot...the not paying attention part.

Today's Tarot Card is the King of Wands and the Hanged Man. A man with a very fiery personality is pushing you for a decision and you know you aren't ready. Just ask him when was the last time was he actually finished anything and you will shut him up.

Overnight is filled with dreams of all the changes you want to make and then you wake up. Hey, I can run and jump in my dreams, too. Aggravation with money sets in around noon and may lead to digestive problems and a really late night phone call turns into an argument.

After my little detour into Boca due to an accident, I started thinking today that we all make house blessing jars but maybe we really need a car blessing jar. I shall keep you informed as to how that goes.

Loki is having a fit for his Temptations Treats so I guess I had better get up and give him some! I found him docked at the food bowl so I am off the hook. Now, I am taking a well deserved rest. I finally did something for the mailman. I stamped the numbers on the mail box as that is the number one complaint of mail people. I also put some faeries on it....so we will see how that goes over!

Forecast for Monday, 03/21/11

I had a lovely time at a jewelry show today. It was mostly populated by bead merchants and rock hounds. I love being among the rock hounds because of their love of the stones. Most could care less about the "metaphysical" properties. That leads me to ask a question of you, my dear readers.
I started in professional life in jewelry and I learned my gemstones there. Then I became a rock hound and learned even more before I ventured into the metaphysical area even though I have been psychic since birth. In my family, certain stones had properties and it had little to do with what the actual stone was. So, my question is, would you want to be told the real properties and value of a stone or mineral or would you rather just pay for the metaphysical spiel?
Let me give you a couple of examples. Tibetan coral is a big one that everyone was grabbing a few years back. Tibet is land locked and has no ocean. The stone turned out to be the cheapest coral you can find in the Japanese sea dyed a nice orange. Then there was strawberry quartz which was dyed glass from China and everyone knew that because the real stone tends to solid in color.Then there are really low grade varieties of some stones sold as really expensive metaphysical aides. Would you want to know you were essentially getting rocks with little value? Do you want to know that the cinnabar from China is now sanitized to remove the mercury and is a dye used on ceramic pieces or would you rather think this was a solid piece of cinnabar (which you really can't get)? Cinnabar is really only available in quartz. Solid cinnabar comes from Egypt and one dealer told me today you could get a bead for about 5,000.00! OUCH!
So, what do you think?
Personally, I fell in love with a rulitaled quartz point that was so clear and the gold soooo gold it positively glowed. It also cost 750.00 a little out of my price range for now. Then there was the pair of jade dragons. Oh, and there was a gong made of wood with demon carvings on it that made my heart skip a beat. Ahhh, I do drool a lot at these shows. I settled for an inexpensive grey jasper heart whose bail cost half the price of the stone! It's those little setting thingies that really run the price of your jewelry up..up...UP!
Oh well, I spent part of the time mentally projecting a don't buy field around the French Toast bagels at Panera until I could get there. It worked so well the sign actually disappeared off the bin and I got my half dozen of them!
Now last night was a little scary. I went to Michael's to get some egg holder for display. When I reached the register, it suddenly started malfunctioning. I have learned to just relax when this happens because the Fae are playing with it for good reason. By the time I reached the parking lot, the ambulances, fire trucks and police were speeding down Hillsboro. The accident was so bad they diverted all traffic off west bound Hillsboro. I know two people were carried off in fire rescue trucks. If the register had not malfunctioned, I would have been at that corner when the accident happened. As it was, I just had to detour through Boca to get home. I hope the register is all right....

Today's Tarot card is the Emperor. Stubbornness abounds today.

The Moon is Void of Course from 2:35 PM to 3:17 PM EDT when she enters Scorpio and things go undercover. This is also the time secrets are ferreted out just because they are secrets.
For a week or two, surprises in the area of fire and electricity abound and we all know electricity does not like me.This aspect brings volcanic eruptions.
After starting the night with restless energy, romance and maybe even a good talk gets you relaxed and back to bed. The afternoon is the perfect time to get a psychic reading but bear in mind, you may not like the truth you hear.
By late afternoon, free floating anxiety is floating through your mind, snarky comments are made and you are really irritable. Teachers get good news by evening.

Aspects begin to improve on Wednesday and are better on Thursday so keep the faith.
Mercury enters the Storm on Friday so keep in mind the retrograde is not far behind...

Well, today's drive really wore me out so I calling it night early.

Forecast for Sunday, 03/20/11

I get these cuts emailed
to me free from Dover.

Happy Spring Equinox.

Happy Purim, I think. I have no idea what it is.

The Salamander will be opening late today and there will be a ritual at 7:21 PM EDT. Sooooo, you really have a tiny window in which to shop. Conditions are still dry to drier with a wind so there will probably not be a fire pit tonight.
My lemon tomato has been looking really poor so I went out to discover the cause. I found the ants farming mealy bugs! Thus, I decided to take the organic approach and whack them off with the hose on stream. Believe me, on that setting, most things take a flying hike. I blasted the first batch, ants went one way, mealy bugs went another way, lizard went another way and I went the fourth way. The lizard shook his head off, one eye was still shut, the other was at half mast and he gave me the Lizard Look of Death. Seems it is hard to get a ant/mealy bug sundae and I ruined it for him. Oh well, maybe we can all share.

Today's Tarot Card is the Star. I have heard a lot of interpretations of this card and most of them did not involve actually looking closely at it. This is card of waste. Some you can see and some you cannot. Your efforts are being put into doing things over and over again that do not need it. Your assets are being drained into a never ending pool and some are simple disappearing behind your back.

The Sun enters Aries at 7:21 PM EDT (a very lucky number) and marks the Spring Equinox.

Your plans for change are thwarted and it kept you up most of the night frittering your time away on useless pursuits. Bad financial news hits the morning hours.  By afternoon you know what you can't do but there is very little emphasis on what you can do. Thus, arguments occur in the evening and the overnight is filled with anxiety. No one is looking forward to Monday. Have we more dirty tricks in store for us????

WARNING: George just spread bags of leaves we were gifted by our lawn service down the path and everywhere and you might want to not wear sandals.....

The Spring Equinox is known as Ostara to Wiccans and many pagans. It is marked by the sowing of seeds and we will be planting in the garden tomorrow to commemorate it. You can also make your house blessing jars and charge them at this time.

Okay, time for me to return to the work of a shopkeeper...inventory, display and all that stuff.

ME thinks there may be a crystal charging tonight......