Mood:  smelly

 I'm hoping that the reason that I have lollygagged most of this day away is because mercury moved into Aquarius, and I need to adjust to the different energy.  That's my story anyway. 

Mercury is a little more mellow in Aquarius than in dictatorial Capricorn (we goats do like to be the boss...) and I feel as though today was a get ready to shift gears kind of day.  I puttered a lot, but pretty much ended up at the end of the day with fresh dirty dishes (at least they got rotated), neatly rearranged piles of books I am currently using for research, one Christmas stocking rescued from under Thing Two's bed where a mouse had discovered it still had nuts in it, and a nagging feeling that if I really had to waste a couple of hours watching Wifeswap and SuperNanny (you caught me!!!) I could have done it with a paintbrush in my hand...but I didn't.  SO be it.

I guess there will be plenty of time to get things done as Mars begins it's transit through Capricorn starting tomorrow.  The happy go lucky Sagittarian energy of the past few months should be reigned in and used as horsepower to make our businesses GO!  (Capricorn is Career and Public Standing and Mars is Direction)  Couldn't come at a better time, as I am going to Salem on Thursday to speak on behalf of the IDA program that has helped me to really move forward with this dream of mine.  

Thursday we could also see beauty in places where we might not expect it as Venus the planet of Love and Beauty conjuncts Neptune the Planet of Spiritual love...Dearly Beloved, we are gathered here together to appreciate and love all of creation, the good, the bad, and the ugly...It is all a reflection of ourSelves...Maybe we should all take ourselves to lunch that day.  You know how I love to be Out to Lunch...

On that note...CHOW!!!  (all puns intended, as usual).
 

Posted by mandalafly at 11:21 PM PST

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Mood:  cool

WOW Amoebites, we got snow here in the Willamette (like Dammit) Valley, and it has stayed FRIGID COLD for a number of days now, and I am ready to return to our regularly scheduled milder weather patterns, already in progress! 

Leetle Dog learned a thing about frozen water today as he chased his ball through what is usually a shallow puddle, but had frozen into a small skating rink...and he pulled off a maginificent back-asswards barrel roll into a ball grab...BOOYAH-DOGGIES!!!  Pupperonious has the ball grabbing S-K-I-L-L-S...

So Thursday the Kiddos had a snow day (unheard of!!!), Friday was on a two hour delay, Saturday came and went in a flash, here it is Sunday, and tomorrow is Martin Luther King Jr. Day-and it actually falls on his birthday this year!  I too have a Dream!

Somehow during all of the ka-fuffle (that's the technical term for it),  I still managed to dash off a mandala for a client in Portland within 5 days of her order-WOO-HOO!  Ready for the Mandala Coincidence Report?  Okay...So, the last birth portrait mandala I did was a Christmas/Birthday present for my friend who was born on Feb. 12, to give to my friend who was born on Dec. 22...and this mandala was a birthday present for a guy born on Feb. 12 from his girlfriend Noel (like Christmas-get it?) 

Another theme to his mandala involved roses.  When I was doing the underpainting that happens as I am developing the canvas, I put in this cranberry red color and started swirling it with my fingers.  It became this sort of wreath of roses, and I thought it was probably a part of his birthday since it falls so close to St. Valentine's Day.  Then I also remembered that Portland is Rose City, so-again-appropriate.  I did not however end up with any roses in the mandala itself, but I know that it was built on a bed of them.  When I went to mail it out yesterday...the person at the post office who handled my package was named Rozie...Why am I not surprised?

Don't you just love it when everything is coming up ROSES?  ME TOO!!  Enjoy it while it lasts...A while I hope :)

Posted by mandalafly at 4:04 PM PST

Updated: Sunday, January 14, 2007 4:04 PM PST

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Mood:  a-ok

 WOW, CHILDREN OF THE BLOG-THIS IS BLOG 420!!!

Scorpina thinks this is where I should stop and publish my book, but at this point, I am concentrating on my mandalas, so...onward and upward...

If I could make my own emoticons for this BLOG-today I'd have made "Yee-Haw".   Perhaps it is because my pony is so happy to be on this side of the fence.  Anyway, yesterday was a kind of a putter day, but of course that doesn't mean that there wasn't cosmic fun happening around me.  It is how I know that I am on the right path...or in the left field, as the case may be...
SO the theme of the day yesterday seems to be the Chorale...as in, I looked at the paper in the morning, and the cartoon Bizarro (one of the few that I try not to miss), made me giggle with a picture of cowboys in choir robes, one about to draw his gun on another, saying "I don't like your tone, Mister".  I love how Dan Piraro plays with words.
Later that very day, I was watching Medical Mysteries and they were showing a girl who stuttered quite severely.  She was helped by an earpiece developed by a fellow stutterer.  The piece works on the phenomena known as the Choral Effect, where when a stutterer reads aloud with another person, the stuttering nearly stops.  The peice makes her own voice bounce off the eardrum to mimic the effect of another person speaking with her, and works like a charm in 80-90% of cases!
What in the world is my point, you ask? (probably not for the first time!)

This makes me think about the way that we work in unison with each other.  When we are speaking alone, we might waver and stammer, when we are together, our voice gets steadier, and when we are in a group, we can really SING!!!  Try it with OM.  When you are alone, when you are with another, and then when you are with a group-see how it makes you feel.

Your mission:  See if you can find a group to chant OM with! 
 

Posted by mandalafly at 11:43 AM PST

Updated: Thursday, January 11, 2007 11:48 AM PST

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Mood:  flirty

Oh, and it was some guy named "Elvis's" Birthday yesterday too-but you can see where my loyalties lie...

Warning:  This Blog contains immature subject matter, and may not be appropriate for all audiences.  Proceed with reckless abandon if you dare...

Meanwhile back at the ranch...Today's installment of "Free Association Theatre" flashes back to yesterday, and finds us in a parking lot where I pulled in next to a Ford Taurus which was this irridescent, opalescent, pinky-purple color-not to be confused with a purple pinky...or nurple-

Anyway, it reminded me of this parody of a car commercial that they used to play on one of the radio stations back in Normal, where they are at a car dealer called "Pinkley Taurus."  (say it a couple of times...)  In the commercial there are women extolling the "virtues" of Pinkley Taurus's services, and how they love to have their Pinkley Taurus's Serviced, and of course how wonderful it is that they will rub and buff your...ahem..."car". 

I laugh and say to myself "SELF, now THERE'S a Pinkly Taurus!"   Later I am telling the Pinkley story to Babboo while I am driving him to work, and we pull up to the stoplight behind TWO Taurus's-hahaha!  (The Cosmic Twins Strike Again!)

Later That Same Evening:  Babboo phones me from work because he heard on the radio that "A guy robbed a bank in a town west of here-the getaway car?  A Red Taurus." 

NO BULL!!!
What could this mean, since I am not figuring that I am supposed to be on the lookout for a bank robber...should I be suspicious of everyone who drives a red Taurus?  Should I report them to homeland security immediately, if not sooner...I guess I'll cross that bridge when I come to it...

However-what I read from this is that Taurus is the house of Possessions, and Money has been stolen, so the idea that comes out of this is that perhaps it is a time where we may be vulnerable to loss, especially through theft, and that we should keep an eye on the things we hold dear.  There aren't any planets sitting in Taurus right now, but the Sun, Moon, Mercury, and the North Node are trine it, so maybe it is time to communicate with the Tauruses in your life.  Go do that!

Posted by mandalafly at 10:00 AM PST

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Mood:  party time!

It's David Bowie's 60th Birthday Today!!!

Capricorns ROCK!!!    Happy Birthday to the

Glittering God of Glam Rock-

and ageless and timeless King of Unique.  OM.


 

Posted by mandalafly at 1:18 PM PST

Updated: Monday, January 8, 2007 1:21 PM PST

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Mood:  chatty

I have had people bringing up these dreams that they are having about climbing mountains, and up to a cliff.  I have also been having some sort of a time warp event happening where everything is getting pushed back an hour from when I think it is going to happen...Not sure it is not a part of the Cranio-Sacral work I got done at Reiki...I can tell you that the amount of physical and mental adjustments taking place since I started going to Reiki regularly has been HUGE.  I have not been able to maintain this level of energy since I don't remember when, but it feels like somewhere around 5 years old...

What I am gathering from these One Step-Forward, (Texas?) Two-Steps Back...

[oh-HAHAHAHA-the song LaGrange by ZZTop about "that Texas town" just came on after I wrote that- and at the same time that I was making a direct IM connection with my sister who lives in LA GRANGE...but Illinois just out of Chicago...I LOVE THIS GAME!!! (Good one Cosmic Comedians...)]

Anyway-you see what I mean there...This is what being a Capricorn is like all of the time.  We see life as a mountain climbing event.  It seems like life is a succession of events that happen in between the climb.  Sometimes you have to rest a bit, sometimes you make progress, sometimes more progress is made when we are not trying to make any, and sometimes, you have to go over your progress a couple of times to make sure you got all the information out of it.  How you feel about the prospect of climbing a mountain?  For us it is about getting used to it, and learning to make the necessary adjustments when the weather decides to change."  Thankfully I have a very Sagittarian outlook about it that sees it as an adventure...(most of the time, I can keep that in mind...).  It can be fun, free, and frightening, all at the same time, but it's NEVER BORING!!!  And that's a BONUS!

What will YOU do for fun today?  I get to work on a mandala:) and so I shall.  TA-TA!
 

Posted by mandalafly at 12:28 PM PST

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Mood:  spacey

Probably best to preface this by saying, that the following observations are just that, and not intended to, in any way, disrespect the Scorpi-ameobites among us.  I realize that the Universe is simply a reflection of myself, and that by disrespecting you, I would be doing it to the part of me that created you...as well as lining myself up for a stinger in the bootie...so without further doggie doo...

We're just driving to the dog park, Me, Babboo, and Leetle Dog too, (flashback:  not to be confused with Me, and You, and a dog named Boo) and discussing the next moves in this chess game called life, and while he is fantasizing about being able to make it a couple more months at the Donut Hole to save a bit of money, I am suggesting that perhaps, in the meantime we are actively looking for an out...sooner than later if possible...and I see a bumper sticker, which will also serve to double as "STICKER OF THE WEEK", that says simply "DROP IT LIKE IT'S PLUTO".  I'd say the Universe has truly spoken!!!  So, if you would, please, put in a good word for the EXIT door to show him the way into a more desirable and reasonably scheduled place of employment.  But PLEASE be gentle...he works so hard.  Pluto IS the planet of TRANSFORMATION-bring it on!  

Oh, and while you are at it, think about what hot potato you'd like to pass...then DROP IT LIKE IT'S PLUTO TOO!!!  Happy Landings!

Posted by mandalafly at 12:01 AM PST

Updated: Monday, January 8, 2007 12:38 AM PST

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Mood:  happy

Yesterday my mom called me all exited.  Last summer while she was here, she had traded a gold chain that had been my Great Aunt Edna's, (whose last name was Hagg-so she really was an old Hagg when she lived till she was 96!-though you wouln't have known it from her kindness-she was AWESOME!)  The chain was a fine herring bone and was twisted and bent beyond repair, so mom traded it for a little gold angel charm. 

Yesterday she apparently put it on and went over to one of her neighbor's to check up on her.  The elderly neighbor had grown up in a group home for the mentally challenged, and had a friend named Barbara who she had grown up with.  My mom asked if this neighbor needed anything, or if she wanted her to take her to see her friend Barbara.  She was told that Barbara had passed away over Christmas.  My mom called me becuse she felt like this little angel had compelled her to go visit this neighbor who really doesn't have anyone to take care of her.  (They do live in assisted living).  She decided to name her angel "Barbara" after the friend.

Now this story is sweet enough on it's own, as angels usually are...but of course, when you pass things like this by me it becomes a baton, and when I went to Reiki tonight, there was a  woman there for the first time named...come on...you can do it...YES!!!  BARBARA!!!  who is a mandala artist and has been doing workshops and light work since the 70's!!!  I am so exited because I am SURE that I can learn a thing or two from her...what is life if you are not constantly learning new things.  Thank you mama for the tip off on this one...OMMM!!!

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to do something nice for a neighbor this week.  Feel freee to report any miracles right here!  They do happen! 

Posted by mandalafly at 12:01 AM PST

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