Mood:  incredulous

    I'm sure that you are all aware that it's official-according to science-Pluto-the planet of Birth, Death, and Regeneration-and ruler of Scorpio, the Snake-Scorpion-Eagle, has been "demoted" to Dwarf Planet status according to the new standards set by the Science community.  Yes, my little planetary pupils, the "planet" discovered in 1930 and originally known as "Planet X" is now an "Ex-Planet"!!!!  The funny thing about this to me is that this move is in line with it's nature of birth, death and regeneration-It was a planet, it is now a non-planet---I predict it will RISE AGAIN and become something BIGGER AND BETTER THAN EVER!!! (knowing a few Scorpios and how they work-we'd better hang on to our hats through that "transformation"!!!)

     Goofy little Pluto-wobbly little orbit-sometimes the 9th planet, sometimes the 8th-switching places with Neptune-the planet of Deception every so often.  What is an astologer to do...shall we urge SCORPIOS to RISE UP AND RECLAIM YOUR BIRTHRIGHT?  Shall we shun science (like certain government agencies) and refuse to acknowledge this demotion, or shall we just do what we do best...and continue to recognize the POWER OF THE PLUTO-planet or "not".  

    In related birth/death/transformation news-the emergency birth control pill(s) called "Plan B" was FINALLY  approved for over the counter use for women (over 18) in this country after years of being fought over by people who think this will make people more promiscuous---I can tell you personally that the idea of being able to spend $25-$40 a pop-to prevent an unintended pregnancy does NOT make me want to run out and have unprotected sex any more than I did before-For all of the AbstinanceOnly folk who come across this, I have two words...PLANNED PARENTHOOD!  For those who TRULY want to stop abortions from having to be an option!

Posted by mandalafly at 11:59 PM PDT

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Mood:  vegas lucky

    Yet another magical day-which began by having the healing hands of people who were involved in the Alchemical Healing retreat at Nicki Scully's working on me. Alchemical Healing is really amazing and works with the Egyptian Mysteries, and power animals to do it's stuff.  I have been aware of it for about 8 years, and have always been very interested in it.  I took the level one training about then, but have not been in a position to take another workshop since then. (Plenty of other learning going on, I can assure you!)

     It was a very personal issue we were after, and I found out that whatever was causing it was embedded DEEP within my energy body and was affecting my physical (which is why I was there!)  Part of what came up was that I was really guarding this particular fear, and it was cutting into me pretty deeply.  Part of what happened a couple of weeks ago was tied to it, and I felt an immediate change when we started working on it.  I came home and slept for a couple of hours as though I hadn't done so in a while.  It was pretty amazing.  I have made a promise to myself that next year when she holds the retreat again, I will be a participant.  It's powerful stuff.

    A really sweet moment happened at the end of the treatment, when I was talking to the women who worked on me, I showed them my cards, and one of them said "I bought one at New Frontiers for one of my closest friends!!"  Funny that the thing I have been working on the most lately has everything to do with getting support for my work, and here was someone who had already supported it!  I'll take that as a GOOD sign!

    A second little miracle came this evening in the form of an email from down-under-a performer pal of Babboo's and his performing partner came to stay with us last year.  She and I hit it off like we were long lost sisters, staying up and giggling long after the boys had gone to bed.  I hadn't heard from her since shortly after then, but tonight she wrote me to say she had just bought a copy of Judith Cornell's Mandala book  that I had shown her and she said that  she wanted me to know that "I have played a role in the mandala of [her] life."  What a touching image!  I feel inspired. 

    MANDALA POWER IS GOOD JU-JU!!!  Doodle one today!

Posted by mandalafly at 12:01 AM PDT

Updated: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 12:23 AM PDT

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Mood:  special

     So, I've been doing all of this wonderful work with a Reiki group for a little over a month  now, and I am watching things rapidly growing in many areas of my life and the group's as well.  I really enjoy the Reiki shares and had a pretty amazing moment last week when some work was done on my shoulder that removed something that I almost considered permanent!      

    I am also a part of several groups on line that discuss these things, and of course are open to discussion by non-believers as well.  I was struck today by a particular skeptic who said that he had had a couple of Reiki sessions that "did not work" and he said that he would only believe that we did anything if he "took asprin for 3 days to thin his blood, cut himself open,  and one of us could stop the bleeding immediately, and heal the wound without leaving a trace of a scar or anything."  WOW.  He also mentioned that we should be able to heal his quadripalegic relative.  

     Now I can understand skepticism.  I encourage it.  If you were to believe everything, you'd bePresident someday.  He does believe in Western medicine (which, for the record I believe has it's place in the healing arts) even though THEY have not been able to perform the same miracles we have been challenged with... I was surprised he would offer himself as a sacrificial lamb just to prove his point-REALlY-cut yourself open?  I couldn't help but feel that this person was hurting on so many levels, and  striking out at us for not being able to fix it was a natural defense.  I see it more often than I'd like to, and I am always amazed that it is more important to tell others what is wrong, than to find something that is right for them.  He is spending time and energy on arguing, when he could focus on finding HIS truth, and what makes him HAPPY.  I can only hope there is something that can put him out of his misery.  That goes for the rest of the chronically unhappy folk as well.

     I feel like I should use this as a touchstone for looking at how I divert my energies away from healing-who do I hold responsible for my healing-what do I expect from that source-and what can I do to make it better?       AHHHH...there's always something to do.    DO IT!!!

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Mood:  lucky

If you hear me bitching about ANYTHING-remind me that I lead a CHARMED FRICKIN' LIFE-would ya? 

   After having a moment that I brought on myself on Friday, I recovered nicely yesterday by moving my booth at market to the place I took last week, and had my best sales day all season!  I did hairwraps on a girl from California, 4 girls from North Carolina and one from Vegas!!!  AND I  sold a purse to one of the NC moms-MANDALAFLY-COAST TO COAST!!! 

   Market ended, and I went to my Reiki group for another dose of the healing hands (giving and getting-OM) and THEN-shook out the remaining cobwebs at the fairgrounds again Groovin' to the DISCO beat of local favorites SATIN LOVE ORCHESTRA!!! 

     In what is becoming a tradition, we bumped and boogied to old faves like Play that Funky Music, Love Roller Coaster, and Superstitious...and of course, closest to my black lit heart-several KC and the Sunshine Band hits that will never fade away...The only thing missing was my very first disco diva pal-the Goddess of the Eternal Lava Lamp-Ginaya-but she was definately there in spirit, as usual...

   Shining my love and light like a disco ball of love...nothing kicks out the doldrums like your favorite booty mix-SHAKE IT UP!!!
 

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Mood:  lyrical

      I'm flashing back to a summer on a lake in a small town in Wisconsin.   I am fortunate to have a friend with a sailboat named "Summer Breeze" (the boat, not the friend) and also sail on a "crew" on a larger "cub boat" in the Saturday morning "yacht club" races.  Actually our so called yacht club was more like a yacht hut, and served the 70's equivilant of hot pockets and potato chips for an outrageous price to the people from Chicago who had their "summer cottages" on the lake, but the races were fun, and Jack-the "captain" of our crew (of 3) was kind of cute...and just enough older to make him seem SO coooool!

     My "day job" is to hang out at the stables at the Lodge (for the "Flatlanders" not lucky enough to own property in this paradise) all day and clean up after horses in trade for being able to take tourists out on rides along this lake as a trail guide.  My horse of choice is a "paint" named "Hombre" who Willard, the stable owner, insisted was a mean old cuss...  After work there was flirting with boys from out of town at the gameroom, waterskiing with a number of my friends who lived on the lake, or "tooling" around town with a carload of kids inevitably ending up at the drive in, a cornfield,  or the cemetary up to "teenage trix".

    The summer soundtrack to this Wisconsin Wonderland consists of REO Speedwagon, Ted Nugent, Journey, Cheap Trick, and Chicagoland sweethearts, STYX.   It is for this reason that when I heard that Styx was playing at the county fair, which is only about 8 blocks from the Babboo Abode, AND I could get in for free because of our affiliation with the Ice Arena (which is at the fairgrounds)  We decided to go have a look see. 

     It was as expected.  I heard Grand Illusion, and Lorelei, and Blue Collar Man.  There was also Too Much Time on My Hands-which is obviously true... and a couple of other favorites, but I must have been visiting my friends Cowboy Joe and Caricature artist Sam when they played the song that takes me back to the 8-track sing along player I had in my room..."I'm SAILING AWAYYYYYYYYY........."

     It's true...you can never go home again.
 

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Mood:  quizzical

SO, the night before last (Sunday night, or actually Monday morning)  I had this very odd, and semi-ominous dream, that probably should have creeped me out more than it did, but I got the feeling that the only reason that it was ominous was so that I take it seriously.  I remember it in great detail and felt that it had more to do with overcoming my own fears, than with anything actually physically happening like this:  

     It looks like about sundown, and I am on the coast. The sky is a very peachy and pinky with blues and puprples just starting to come in.  I look at the west and there is a charcoal colored spot of cloud where the sun is, and a charcoal cloudy ring around it.  I look at it and realize there are rainbows the clouds, and I remember a woman named Great Bear who had smoky quartz hearts with rainbows in them and always said "even in darkness, there are rainbows."  I  am astonished, and I look the other direction and realize there is another of these formations in the sky to the East.   I am not afraid, I call them black hole suns, and I realize they are full of light.

     I realize that I am in Florence. OR, and I have a house there with Babboo.  I also realize that we live close to my "babys' daddy" and his wife, and I am over at their house picking up Thing 1 when I look outside and see water coming up from the ocean and flooding the streets.  I think to myself " I am not going to get back to my house with all of this water coming up like this.  There are people trying to move through the streets, but the water is up to their waists.  I am watching out the front door which is a typical metal front door with glass in it, and the water comes up and is pressing on the door, but not getting through it.  Then I see a fist-first it is large and like an illusion, but then it is a person's hand knocking on the door, and then both hands are rapping on the glass.  I am aghast-the water is green in color and looks more lake colored than ocean, but there are the hands-of a person-who if I open the door to save, I risk flooding the house, and losing our lives, but at the same time-is still alive.   I am brought to consciousness and out of having to watch what happens next, and  I quickly feel like this is one of my ridiculous fears of moving up to the next level...and I wonder if when opportunity to respond knocks, why I am afraid it will put me in a catch 22 situation.  This would NOT be the first time, and I can see why I would have this fear, but I also need to realize that this is not the last time-this is THIS TIME and I am different than the last time.  It is my greatest wish that I am able to save the person, and keep the house from flooding at the same time.

     For whatever reason,I think there is a part of me that feels as though while I want to open the door to the opportunity, I wonder if maybe I might be overwhelmed by the responsibility.  Then there is the part that just said "YOU SHOULD BE SO LUCKY!!!"  Fear of sucess-would I be able to handle it-or am I "too busy" already.  Try Me! 

If you could open the door to a possibility...what would you make possible?

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Mood:  happy

So,  Reiki last night was awesome.  I had a powerful session and released some old tension.  I went to bed early and got up and went to NIA this morning and which really encouraged my relaxation.  I had some friends over in the morning and got a lot of things taken care of this afternoon.  AHHHH.    

 The "Planeteers" are saying that Leo Sun's Trine with Pluto on the 17th us going to bring some illumination on finishing things up in order to move to the next levet; They have also noted that Mercury is going to travel and communicate with Jupiter on Friday (the 18th)-which will be all about YOUR BIG IDEAS!!! and move on to have a one on one with Saturn on Sunday (the 20th) who will make you think about what the restrictions on those same ideas might be.  This will be a positive force for figuring out your next strategy.  You may find yourself thinking about something that you had put on the back burner...bringing it back around for another consideration.  This is a planetary configuration for advancing your cause, as well as a positive influence over meeting the right people to help.     

                                 I'll paint to that!!!                     ~OM

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Mood:  lucky

Hello there again my little Blog-nificents,    I have to take a moment tonight to be thankful.  At the beginning of this month I was dealing with one of my "core beliefs".  This pattern, that has repeated itself far too many times, was rearing it's ugly head and the way that I had dealt with it in the past had been looking like the only option.  However, something inside of me would NOT let me go there.  This time, I decided that REALLY I am doing what I need to be doing, and that dealing with this issue the same way AGAIN was not going to fix it!  I talked to a couple of friends over the course of the week and told them that I was going to change the pattern this time and actually TRUST the voice inside of me that was saying "CHANGE THIS PATTERN THIS TIME!"  BOOM!  my foot came down, and IMMEDIATELY with it came more affirmation that I was doing the right thing than I pictured could happen.  WOW-this was...WOW!  

    I can honestly say that I am not truly out of the woods yet, but I have found a path that looks promising, and have picked up some amazing support along the way-hopefully this little victory will encourage bigger and bigger ones to keep me doing what I do best...and be a light for others to follow to their own dreams.    My question for you is, if you could change one thing about your life RIGHT NOW, what would it be?                OM.

Posted by mandalafly at 9:42 PM PDT

Updated: Sunday, August 13, 2006 9:45 PM PDT

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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!

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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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