Why do you play the harp?

  I  returned home from the 2009 Harper’s Escape on Sunday.  The tunes are still running thru my head, awake and asleep.  I am filled with joy and gladness that so much joy and gladness can be shared with harps.  Yes? 

40 of us gathered strong under  gloomy, doomy October skies to learn a few tunes, in community with each other.  Angels as well as devils showed up. Spiritual energy/vibration allowed it to be all okay, just as it is.

Om shanti. Peace to all.

On Sunday, we performed as a sort of harp orchestra at the local public library.  We were quite the hit; a waiting line stood patiently outside the room for the entire performance hoping for a seat to open up.  

I was relatively pleased and content with my own ‘performance’, noticing with every breath how the inner critic is still alive and well! 

But, once again I was amazed and awed by the sheer diversity of our group.  The harp is what brought us together and held us in-common.  Regardless of color, creed, culture, or zodiac sign, we worked together for an entire weekend to create a concert for the public.  Peace is always possible.

Astrologically speaking it was a weekend of Neptune/Chiron/Jupiter & Moon energies.  Sweet, serious, and silly all together with lots of food, drink, and water…….it rained a lot.  The balsamic phase of the moon was occuring in Late degrees of Libra.  Read more about balsamic, it’s very important to understand our human need for deep rest.

 

Gotta go practice……I’m haunted by the Harris Dance.

Too Cool!

Change or not?

A person once asked Confucius,

“What surprises you most about Mankind?”

Confucius answered,

“They lose their health to make money and then lose their money to restore their health.

By thinking anxiously about the future,

they forget the present,

Such that they live neither for the present

nor the future

and they live as if they will never die,

and they die as if they had never lived.”

Feng Shui….calling in the professional.

I’ve been teaching people the principles of feng shui for a long time and it’s sheer joy to see how many people have become conscious  of what they have previously been unconscious of.

Lives have changed as a result of working with this ancient practice.  Many, by now have learned a lot about the basics of feng shui.

I’ll post something here soon on what those ‘basics’ might be.

But, meanwhile …………………….

How do you know when to call in the professional feng shui consultant?

Here are some guidelines:

1. When clutter gets out of hand.
2. Before you ‘break ground’ on a new project.
3. Before you sign the purchase agreement.
4. If you have a long spell of unfortunate events.
5. If you plan to: renovate, sell, expand, move.
6. If you are wanting to make some kind of change but feel *blocked*.
7. If everyone in your neighborhood is experiencing similar events.
8. Just because………………!

Feng Shui in the 21st century is quite different from how it was practiced ages ago.   Intuition and a strong kinesthetic sense is still a requirement for the professionals, however new tools have provided more to see and be aware of.

Check out these modern day maps.  Local space astrology & Astrocartography.  Recently, I had a client return after a short stay in a location I had recommended she visit.  Things happened for her that are hard to explain using simple left-brain logic.

Practice good feng shui.

Saturn Time….a slow, long view

If you’re coming around to 30, 60 or 90 years of age (rounding off the numbers for simplicity….consult a professional astrologer for your exact dates.) you’re probably approaching The Saturn Return. A return is when a transiting planet arrives at the same place it was in when you were born. Every year around your birthday you have a Solar Return.

Volumes have been written about the Saturn Return and I encourage you to ‘google’ the term and do your own research. I have a list compiled at librarything.com and as soon as I develop some more technical skills I’ll share it with you. However, be prepared. You may not like what you read. Saturn has a reputation of bringing us face to face with cold, hard reality.

If you move thru this transition time with consciousness there are some very definite rewards to be gained if you are willing to work hard. It is a time for discipline and patience.

The Saturn Return presents us with choice points: critical decisions are considered, and changes can be implemented ……consciously and/or unconsciously.

All that said, the focus of this post is on the ~3 year period of time that precedes the return, beginning somewhere around the ages 27, 57, or 87 approximate.

Feng Shui – Tip of the Day: Re-thinking Clutter

 

When we’re trying to make changes in our life the tasks ahead can seem overwhelming.  To Do lists grow, exponentially……………….or not at all.  Having a day ahead of you with nothing to do is as stressful as having a day that gives no pause.

Cleaning out clutter is a wonderful practice in it’s own right.  Forget about the big picture for a while, and just start cleaning out.  There’s plenty of information on the web and around the neighborhood on how to get organized, etc., etc.    Think of cleaning out clutter as your Personal Environmental De-Tox practice.  Once we’ve created some empty space around us, we’re poised for something to come in and fill it. 

Here’s a wonderful story and it’s true.  During my real estate days I was frequently at odds at just how/where to get new business, a constant request/demand of the office manager/broker.  Lot’s of suggestions were offered, but none really inspired me to work any harder than I was already working.  I turned my attention to Feng Shui to get me out of my slump.

One morning, I decided to de-clutter my home office, and I began in the resource gua of that room.  I began at around 7:30am.  At 8am the phone rang with an old customer from years ago looking for me.  Wow. A beginning!  I was inspired to continue.    A little while later I found a file of a customer that I had worked with the previous year.  She wanted know how much her house was worth.  I thought to myself, this is someone for me to contact, now. I took the file to my office that afternoon. 

Upon entering my real estate office, I immediately went to collect any messages.  And, much to my jaw-dropping amazement, there was a message there, for me, from the homeowner who’s file I carried into the office! 

I de-cluttered, with an intention (to increase new business), and I had 2 solid lead to work with within hours of my action. 

This is how Feng Shui can work.  Intention + Action = Possibilities/Results

Feng shui practices make manifest  our intentions relative to the consciousness of those that practice this ancient art. 

Clean out some clutter today. 

DESKTOP FENG SHUI

Once you understand the concept of swirling, energetic motion (chi) and re-member that we live in a living (organic) body, you can apply the maps you are learning to any place, space, or surface.   By maps I mean: the bagua, luopan, or local space chart.

A desk top is exactly that, the top of the desk.  Or,  it could also be the desktop of your computer monitor, or ipod screen.    (If you are familiar with the EMDR techniques available, and/or you practice yoga for the eyes, then you may have become aware of how our eye movements, and the patterns of those movements, affect our brain/neural pathways.  Once you understand this body map you can apply some yoga therapy to balance it…………..if necessary.

A compass of some kind is helpful. Working with directions is an important concept and maps & compasses prevent us from getting lost.  The bagua is a generic map anyone can follow.   The “local space astrology chart” is more complicated since it provides the same depth of information that is found on the luopan.  Go here for more information on local space charts which function as both a A compass and a time-keeping tool.

Begin, as usual, by creating intention and finding center. Sit at your desk and begin to see the space around you as a ‘whole’, noting what is in the various 8 segments of the desktop.  Begin to arrange things, mindfully, remembering your intention with each breath.  Look at the new arrangement.  Adjust, feel, see it as a metaphor, scan the body for sensations.  Welcome the changes that come.

Solar Eclipse Coming.

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May we all live well.

Feng Shui – tip of the day

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WHY DOES FENG SHUI WORK?

Somewhere along the way to modernization and advancing technologies we lost track of one important thing. We are human animals, full of basic needs and instincts requiring regular doses of certain things such as light, color, fresh air, good food, clean air, and healthy environments. Whether or not the mind is consciously aware of what is present in the environment, the body is constantly receiving and responding to the steady flow of information emanating from the location. The further we are from a natural environment symbolically and actually, the more challenging and stressful it becomes to work and live. Environments create consciousness and consciousness creates behaviors. We are not separate from our environment whether we are inside or outside of buildings. Whether we are tense and stressed at our desks or in our kitchens our work and our lives will reflect that condition. And one thing is for certain these days…..everybody is tense!

When we begin to take conscious control over the unseen elements in our environments, subtle adjustments begin to occur in our psyche at the same time.

Try it. You’ll like it.

Chiron’s Corner

As we run around our lives finding a corner for this, and a corner for that, in feng-shui-speak ……..it’s good to remember to dedicate a space to Chiron, the wounded healer. He’s been quite a teacher to me, and for that I send him Metta.

So, pull out your astrocartography map and find Chiron’s line and where it’s pointing.

Chiron is in constant companionship with Neptune and the North Node these days, moving ever closer to it’s highly anticipated conjunction with Neptune, a major event for sure.  For more information on this visit Dan’s site.….it’s quite informative.  I am planning a series of workshops at home and on the road to take advantage of these wonderful healing vibrations.  Join my email list (look over on the right for the link) or contact me here with a comment.

May all beings heal. May all beings feel love. May peace be with us always. Once you’ve located Chiron’s spot in your space, begin to take out ‘clutter’. (It’s good to have a conversation with a feng shui consultant to determine what is and what is not clutter.).