Mood:  on fire

So, on Wednesday, we had the beautiful Aquarius moon in the wee hours.  I knew that it was at 3:55am (as noted on monday's blog) and my subconscious was apparently pretty excited about it-I woke up at 3:54-for no apparent reason-but I did laugh, and then I got up to look out the window (why waste the moment) to see the moon in all it's glory-BRIGHT and silvery, the back yard was fully bathed in the glow of it.  Ahhhh, a magical moment.    

There has been a whole thing about ROSES with this moon for me, and like I mentioned earlier this week, sleeping under this moon's influence has been electrically charged.  I have wanted to stay up late, (at least I have been getting some paintings done!) and when I do go to bed my body has felt like the whole thing is -well, ELECTRIC-I can feel a current running through it!  I feel really sensitive right now, but strangely it is not making me overtired, or giving me that frustrating "I can't sleep" thing.  It may have something to do with the amped up Reiki I have been doing and the new group-I am really happy about it. 

The  moon moves into Pisces now, and Pisces is really affected by the moon.  It is a time for dreaming which means sleep should be good.  I can tell you that I had a very healing dream this morning.  It had to do with a past relationship, and as I was examining some hurt from it, I caught my "reflection" (projection) in a mirror and I was VERY overweight and I realized that I had made myself unattractive in the situation and had cushioned myself to shield myself from the hurt that I had felt from the circumstances of the parting,  As soon as I flashed on that, I was able to return to a healthy body.  I'm pretty sure that is a good sign! 

This weekend looks like a HOT one.  Moon will be in Aries-which is fire-Sun is in Leo-which is fire-Mercury, Venus, and Saturn are all in Leo-more fire!  While the temperature is supposed to remain fairly cool here in the Emerald City, all over tempers could flare, situations could flare up, and the wildfires that are a part of the scenery this time of year could get a boost-do what you can to STAY COOL!  

Enjoy the fireworks!

Posted by mandalafly at 1:21 AM PDT

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Mood:  suave

Tis the birthdate o' my big Leo Lionboy, Sweet Babboo.  For those of you who poo-poo the idea of a Lion and a Goat-this seems to be working out just fine...as I have been surrounded by Lions all of my life and have come out mostly unscathed (or "scaped" ar ar). 

Nothing that happened today lives up to yesterday's miracle show so what can I say?...Happy Birthday!  Get into your suit!  (did I say that out loud?!)  

I suppose I should mention that the Aquarius Full Moon is Weds in the wee hours (3:55 am here on the left coast).  Aquarius is about sensitivity and perception.  Aquarius moon in Leo is about self in relation to community.  What is your contribution?  What do you have that no one else can give?  How can you make it matter? You definately can make a difference.

This is a good time for making notes of your dreams.  You can use them to further your goals. Dreams during this period can be exceptionally prophetic and show you what your part is. Dreams while the moon is in Aquarius can be supercharged-Aquarius rules the electrical fields, and you may find that you are drained even after a good night's sleep.  Drink plenty of water!

At the end of the week, Mercury moves into Leo on Friday, followed by Venus on Saturday.  Get ready for center stage...it's a good time for gathering with friends, and anyone who has a big announcement will want to have an audience, so LISTEN UP!!!  or SPEAK UP as the case may be!!!

Posted by mandalafly at 8:23 PM PDT

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Mood:  celebratory

when i woke up this morning, i said "self" what are you going to do today-sunday-well-i replied-i think i will lay in bed and read the help wanted ads-get a cupajava-and then try to get stuff done around the house-when all of a sudden-$#&%$*^$-just like that- a MIRACLE OCCURRRED and me and Babboo were transported to a festival of lights, colors, and sounds! -outta the blue-who coulda knew?  Sweet Babboo-happy birthday to you...incidently-silly string-it's the cheesiest. i give grateful to my thanks.  

what is your miracle today?

Posted by mandalafly at 12:01 AM PDT

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Mood:  happy

      Having those dreams my old roommate calls "Saturday Morning Cartoons".  The ones where they keep on going and just kind of loop around back and forth in subject. 

     At some points I was at the ocean.  I was swimming and I remember Thing 2 was with me for part of it.  I remember that I swam out into the ocean and then came back to the rocky shore, and jumped off another direction and the water felt really dense.  I was not afraid, but it felt like it took longer to swim through, and was colder (but not uncomfortable) than the water around it.  I could feel the difference between it and the water as I got closer to the shore.  I knew it was very deep-I was calling it "heavy water" but not because it was radioactive or anything. I thought maybe it was the water in the "dead zone" that shows up off the coast here sometimes, but it definately felt alive. 

     The other dream I believe is compliments of Mrs-Random (www.mrs-random.blogspot.com) with all her talk of kitties and the links to the kitties pages which I was exploring last night.  (esp-"cats with attitudes")  I was in this house, that reminded me of my Great Aunt Edna's (her last name was Hagg-and she lived till she was 96-so she really WAS an "old Hagg"-except she was SUPER NICE!) and there were these kittens-very small-and we were taking care of them.  The scene kept shifting, and even back and forth to the ocean parts, and then there was this little puppy among the kittens, all wrinkly like a sharpei or something (or blooodhound?). I was walking down some stairs and this little orange kitten came bouncing down them like a ball and hit the wall at the bottom and then the floor.  I was horrified and I picked it up to see if it was okay, and it turned into some sort of flat piece of cardboard with writing on it!  I was trying to figure out how to get it back to a kitty!  I love this game!

 

Posted by mandalafly at 10:22 AM PDT

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Mood:  cool

I am not really sure how I missed posting yesterday.  Did it just disappear, was I warped right through it?  Is there hope for me yet?  I don't know! 

Good stuff happening in the business front, Dragonfly Mandala Studio is the featured business in the Lane County Microenterprise Newsletter (not to be confused with Captain Micro-Kirk's ship).  I stopped by Letterhead to see how the cards were selling (they are my biggest account to date) and they had sold at least one of almost every sign, were down to one Cancer and were OUT OF LEO's.  This is great-I was having some doubts about the pricing of them, because so many other artists are retailing theirs for what I wholesale mine for.  I do not apologize for the price difference, I cater to a unique market.  Mine have more to them and are really nice quality.  I worked hard to make them different from the rest. Doubt is what happens when we compare ourselves to others.   I am not them.   

     Another thing I have been doing lately is joining web-communities and trying to network in that way.  I think it is funny posting "my profile" and reading others.  I was struck by this one woman's that was only about one paragraph, but two sentences in she said "I suffer from depression."  and my first thought was "do you suffer from it?  Or are you enjoying it enough to make it last..."  Then I turned that on myself...what do I "suffer" from...and how can I find a way to enjoy it!   (what first!)

Posted by mandalafly at 7:39 PM PDT

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Mood:  lucky

     It's official, my little Bloglodite Amoebites-as of Monday, July 31, 2006, I am REVEREND MANDALAFLY.  I realize that there are several of you that may think I have lost my marbles.  There are those of you who have been trying to help me find them long enough that nothing really surprises you anymore.   One of my friends expressed the fear that people might actually listen to, and perhaps take me seriously!  (Amoeba Forbid!) and two (or actually 4, as the case may be) of my friends have dibs on my services for their weddings!  What FUN!

     This week, in addition to becoming a member of the clergy, I found myself among a new circle of Reiki practitioners-something I was very involved with back in Normal. but have been missing here in Eugene.  This week I am being attuned in a new lineage and also going to be introduced to a system called Eniology-which is energy exchange in connection with astrological and astronomical data!  (you can see why I am interested)  I am always looking for ways to expand my healing and intuitive powers.  This is exciting for my mandala art!    

     Speaking of mandala art, I am putting the finishing touches on a mandala which is for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Center in Vancouver, WA.  The donation for display in their permanent installation is to help fund breast cancer research.  To learn more about the project or how to donate go to www.mandalacreativity.com (found on my links page).

     For those of you who have expressed interest, I will soon be adding tarot readings to my site.  You will be able to order one with paypal, and I will call you at an agreed upon time for your personal tarot session!!!  Keep watching!
 

Posted by mandalafly at 6:30 PM PDT

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Mood:  happy

     It's a whole new week we get to play with, and I am glad that August is finally rolling around tomorrow.  It is Lammas, which is the Wiccan/Pagan marking of the halfway point between Summer Solstice and Fall Equinox.  It is also, the anniversary of the birth of my tribal "leader" Jerry Garcia (may he jam in peace). 

     I began my week yesterday with a visit to a local Reiki group that I have known about for some time, and was finally able to go to.  HOW WONDERFUL!  For those of you who are unfamiliar, Reiki is a method of hands on energy healing.  As a practicioner, you have certain symbols which you are "attuned to" by a Reiki Master (which is what I am!)  I recieved my attunements before I moved out here almost 9 years ago, but I left my group back in the flatlands.  I am thrilled to be a part of a Reiki community again, and it was SWEET to get a treatment from others. 

     The power of Reiki has been  affirmed for me in many ways, but the best evidence I have ever got was from my son "Thing 2" when I was first attuned at the master level.  He was about 6 years old, and I was getting him ready for bed.  He bumped his knee on the dresser, and I instictively put my hands on it, mom style, and said "oh, honey, are you okay?"  and he said "WHOA!  MOM!  You've got THE FORCE!"-that was proof enough for me! 

     I met a group of really great people, and I have the opportunity to do some studies with a new system that a woman in Russia has developed.  I can't wait!

     So that said, I want you all to be aware that WEDS is going to be quite a Mr. Toad's Wild Ride day astrologically.  We have the planet of responsibility (Saturn) in the sign of personal freedom (LEO) quincunx (at an odd angle) with the planet of surprise (Uranus) in the sign of the wishy washy (Pisces-sorry to my Piscean Pals...love you!).  This is basically like having your dad say "go outside and play by MY rules which I am going to MAKE UP as I go along, and CHANGE just about everytime you figure out what they are!" (which is a lot like what it was like growing up in my house, so I think I'll be okay!)   THEN add to that the SUN in LEO which is about SELF squaring (a difficult position) JUPITER (Luck) in Scorpio (Mysticism) which is basically saying Don't Press Your Luck!  Your secrets are NOT safe today!

     I have the double bonus of having Jupiter also squaring my natal Jupiter which was retrograde (moving backwards) in Taurus (the house of money and possessions), and Saturn quincunx my natal Saturn which is in Pisces (secrets,sorrows and self undoing) and conjunct Uranus!  I'll be lucky not to land in the looney bin with this combo-oh-wait...I think I already have!

     Word to the WISEGUY:  Anything Goes!  Keep your big mouth shut!
 

Posted by mandalafly at 10:54 PM PDT

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Mood:  hug me

    Today was a beautiful day at Saturday Market.  I hadn't been in a couple of weeks, and I was in a good mood.  I painted some new mandala rocks and had them in my display, and I designed a new card holder that looks really good too.  There are a lot of people in town visiting on summer vacation, and a lot of people out enjoying the PERFECT weather we had today.  Mercury went direct last night, which means things should start moving forward again-Hallelujah, and Amen. 

Posted by mandalafly at 9:55 PM PDT

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Mood:  spacey

     So, my little Amoebites, I have come to the place where I need to evaluate whether the grand experiment of being self employed is working (tee hee).  On Saturday it will be six months since my last day at Chez Bandito's, and it is time for my check-up.  Forgive me, oh great Amoeba for a rather wordy blog, I've got a lot of catching up to do!

     This morning I actually went on a job interview at one of the local all natural grocery stores.  Going back to school and then having Mom here slowed my marketing down to a crawl, and I am having some fear about whether I can get caught up in time to make a difference. I am thinking right now, however, that the interview was simply to kick me back into gear to make this truly happen!  I thought that it would be nice to go to work in a pleasant, healthy, environment, about 4 days a week, not worried about the pay so much as to just have a baseline, and a little socialization with the neighborhood folk.  I talked with the owners, it was pleasant, but I really realized what I was getting myself into-working 3pm till 10, stocking and lifting, standing, not having my own schedule, not being home with the boys in the evening, not being barefoot, not watching Independent Lens (or Wife Swap...which is a hoot!) while I paint mandala rocks...you get the picture. 

     The clincher comes at the part where I was leaving the interview, and one of the owners tells me I should talk to the girl at the counter about my zodiac cards (which the owners liked).  She liked them too, but said that "no offense to you, but expensive cards don't really sell here..." (but expensive beer does!)  I TOTALLY understand that part, and of course I want them to be in a place where they are going to sell, but do I want to work in a place that can't support my work?  I believe it is best to tell them that I have accepted a position with another company-MY OWN!!!

     On the money note, I have to share with you a mom story...

      My mom has always told us that "if you double a penny every day for a month, it becomes a million dollars in thirty days."  She even drew it out for us on a calender just to prove it at one point!

      She has this CONSTANT running tabulation of the little checks she gets for filling out surveys, taking back cans, giving speeches for NAMI, saving with a coupon, being a secret shopper(once), and a zillion other schemes which she will go on about ad infinitum.  At the same time,there is the tabulation of what she buys with it, and what the next thing she is saving for, and how many surveys she could fill out to get it, and...it goes on and on.  It is how she is, and it gives her something to do, but at the same time, on this end of it, it was like having the small print of my money issues read to me outloud for a month-which gave me plenty of opportunity to examine them.   Yup-they are there!

      Another part of the money thing with mom is all about finding change on the ground.  Whenever we got out of the car, she would say "gotta find my penny!"  and she ALWAYS DID.  On more than one occasion she found silver money, and was completely thrilled to have found several quarters over the course of her stay.  This part of the money thing was more tolerable, as it was funny to hear her say "I've got the eagle eye!" when she'd spot one, or "the streets are paved with gold here!" after finding a nickel.

     Since I was not doing as much business as I would have liked while she was here, the constant calculations tended to wear on me probably more than they would have otherwise, and I did give her some "feedback" for sure.

     She has been gone since Tuesday afternoon and I am glad to be getting things back in order around here so I can get back to business as usual, but one thing I have found since she left...IS A PENNY ALMOST EVERYWHERE I GO!!!   I even found one when I waded knee deep in the river with the dog today! 

I think I'll write a book about her and call it "Word to the Penny Wise".  (cuz I need a project, right?) 

What is the book about your mother going to be called?

Posted by mandalafly at 10:01 PM PDT

Updated: Thursday, July 27, 2006 10:04 PM PDT

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Mood:  cool

Well, I spent the day driving mama up to Portland to catch her plane to O'Hare where my Chi-town based sister will pick her up and send her on her way back to Wisconsin.  I love my mom, but honestly, I am ready to have my house and my time back.  It was important to have the time with her though , and we had a really nice visit overall. 

This is a picture she took at the coast.  We called it "Wave Bye-Bye" and got a pretty good laugh out of it-(I get a lot of my twisted humor from her.)  I am not taking any responsibility for the fact that a real tsunami hit the beaches in Indonesia the next day.  My heart goes out to them.

On the subject of my heart going out...Tomorrow night at7:50pm (Pacific Time) there is a very harmonious Jupiter (luck and expansion) and Venus (love and beauty) trine.  I got word that people were doing prayers for peace at this time, and I figured I should gather my crew too, so for those of you who want to send some energy to the cause, please join us in prayer, meditation, dance, ritual, communion, hula-hooping, or whatever your version of good vibration is and help us send a big chunk-o-love to the people who are disconnected from it. 

A suggestion for saluting the watery trine which is attuning us to an expanded concept of love, creativity, harmony and beauty, is to use three candles: 

Green for Venus (vanilla)-love, harmony, co-operation, pleasure, creativity.

Royal Blue for Jupiter (cedar): expansive thought, growth, higher learning.

Blue for Water (jasmine): emotional realm, empathy.

The rest is your game...Invent some words, speak your peace, or don't, write down things that are keeping you from feeling peace and burn the papers in the flames, dance in your birthday suit...and thank the kind folks at zbudapest.com for bringing this to my attention so that I could share it with you! 

On the subject of prayer, I thought you, my congregation, should know that I applied to be LEGALLY ORDAINED as a MINISTER, and as soon as it is finalized, I will be able to do all the little things that a minister is ordained to do!  It also means that I will be able to legally start my own church if I want to!  Actually, I do have my own religion already, I call it "Amoebism".  The belief is simple, together we create one big cell with the collective consciousness as it's nucleus, and the infinite universe as it's cell wall.  I guess that makes us as individuals Mitochondria(the energy factories)-henceforth known as Mitey-Mites...now be nice or we'll have to split!

Posted by mandalafly at 11:44 PM PDT

Updated: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 12:07 AM PDT

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