And the Winner is...

Okay, so this is my nominee for Actress of the Year to date. Dalia Dippolito, in the Boynton Beach Babe. A newlywed, she allegedly hired a hit man to kill her husband, Michael. I know that marriage can sometimes be a drag, but really, do you need to take a hit out on the schmuck? I think she paid somewhere around $4,000 for someone to cap his a**. Turned out the "hit man" was an undercover cop. Where did she find him? Craig's list? In my opinion, bargain shopping for a hit man is like bargain shopping for eye surgery, just not worth the risk. The price point should have been her first clue that things would not go well. I don't know the going rate, but I would think that a top-rate killer, who can get the job done AND keep his mouth shut, would charge at least $10,000.

Now, I'm not saying her husband didn't deserve it because I don't know. More information is coming out about him and he's not so squeaky clean either. He did a couple of years in prison for Grand Theft and Organized Fraud. Right now, his lawyers are saying there is no connection between the hit and his priors, but it certainly makes me wonder.

I have been married over 30 years and I can honestly say I've never thought about putting out a contract on my mate. There are times he makes me feel passionately in love, just in love, in like, lukewarm, indifferent, ticked-off, thinking about how nice it would be to show him the door, wanting to send him to the moon, and then back to passionate again. Sometimes my emotions can range through these levels in a matter of hours. I'm sure that R feels the same way about me.

Really, what would it take for you to send out a hitter on your mate and what is the going rate these days? Holy Moley, I know we're in a recession but, she paid four grand and is surprised when her stair-stepping buns get hauled to jail? Nice try Boynton Beach Babe.

Saging for Success

Well, I had a very busy weekend getting one place of business shut down and the other up and running. I am officially open for business at Claws now. I gave my first massage in my new space on Saturday morning. It went very well for the first time. It always takes a little while to get used to working in a new environment. Where do I set the oil and lotions so that they are convenient? Which is the best spot for the sound system? How do I situate the table to minimize outside noise? What is the best regulation of temperature so that my client, and myself, are neither too hot or too cold? Darn it! That candle overflowed from that air conditioner blowing on it. I sure am glad I set it on that glass topped table, it will be so easy to clean up. I need to do some fine tuning here and there, yes indeedy. And just like Goldilocks in the story of the Three Little Bears, after a few adjustments, it will feel just right. I've included a couple of photos of my room.

One area that is important for me to address is the energetic hygiene of my work space. Energy that is gone or dead is easily trapped in rooms with fluorescent lighting and little or no availability to fresh air from outdoors. Fortunately, my room has neither of those problems but unwanted energy can still linger. When this type of energy accumulates, the frequency of vibration slows and break down and illness can begin. One's sensitivity and intuition can become clouded.


Sometimes clients can come in with astral entities stuck on them. Oh, this is not intentional. Most people simply don't have a sense of these attachments. The entities are invisible hitchhikers who may decide to ditch their current host and try hanging out in my space. Have you ever had an experience in which a visitor left your domain and it no longer feels like it usually does? They could have left something behind like negative emotions, energetic trash or illness. That something is not an energy you want in your life. Trust your feelings and clear it out.

One way to do this is by performing a smudging ceremony with sage. This is what I did to clear my new workspace of any pre-existing contaminants. This ceremony was particularly potent because of the high energy being generated this past weekend. Native Americans have used this sacred, spiritual ritual for thousands of years. I use it on a daily basis in my work space, usually at the end of the day so that clients don't think I'm smoking weed. My space is cleared, grounded and ready to go. So am I. Yes!

Alphabet Soup

Photo: Bumpass Hell Mud Pot

Sulphurous blasts of steam shoot up from holes in the ground, fogging the area with a lingering, eggy aroma. The kind of smell usually released in the bathroom. Primordial as Hell. To be exact Bumpass Hell, a valley of churning, roiling mud pots located in Lassen Volcanic National Park in northern California. Mt. Lassen is less than an hour to the east of Redding, where I reside, and is an active Volcano. Statuesque pine and fir trees outline the valley and crawl up the encompassing slopes. Life seems to have abandoned the lower areas. But billions of years ago, this might not have been the case. Biochemists are recreating one of the most important events in the evolution of life: when hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and oxygen came together in the primordial soup to form DNA, amino acids and the remaining building blocks of life.

The beautiful surrounding terrain and Bumpass Hell stand together like a gorgeous young lady and her homely friend. Bumpass Hell is barren and dangerous. But, to biochemists, it is indeed a precious place. If they are correct, the extreme conditions here are the key to the momentous coupling of the components of life. To them, this is one of the richest places on Earth--bubbling in its kettle, the closest chemical ingredients from which life may have grown over 4 billion years ago.

I live in a geologically fascinating area richly laced with origins of creation. This is but one example. 4 billion years? I have a hard time imagining 4 billion of anything--let alone years. I grew up exploring this area. It is right in my front yard. When I step into this region, the world I know disappears. Who says time travel isn't possible?


Film clip: Bumpass Hell Mud Pot

August Gusto

Note: All three photos are of my new workspace before I started getting it set up.

Saturday is the first day of August. Lammas, or Lady Day, is another jewel in the crown of the year. The year, that was born anew at Winter Solstice, is now a matron. In the northern hemisphere, the trees and fields, having lost their new, green growth sheen, stand like bronze statues in the heat of summer. We are half way between the Summer Solstice and Fall Equinox. The projects and dreams that we set into motion at Solstice are about to come into form.

The days are beginning to shorten as the nights lengthen. The waning of the year progresses. Summer, although still hot, is turning toward fall. The crops are beginning to produce but the realization of a full harvest is not yet secured. The fates can still steal the bounty away from us before the time of gathering. This is a time of hope for positive outcomes. In some Native American traditions, it is the time of the green corn dances or first fruit harvest.

My teacher, Sai Maa Lakshmi Devi, celebrates her birthday this weekend also. She will be sending out a shakti, an energy, that is very high, positive and strong. Around the globe there will be groups of people from different spiritual beliefs celebrating and spinning promises of hope and completion out into the world.

I am moving my business this weekend also and give my first massage on Saturday, August 1. I'm thinking this is a very good day to start anew. Yes, a very good day indeed. This weekend stick your hand out and grab onto some of those rays of hope flying around as you would the brass ring on a merry-go round. Set your intentions for the next six weeks as you spin the wheel-of-the-year's-fortune toward Fall Equinox. May your needle land on the Grand Prize. Yeah!

Handiwork

Sample written with my chartreuse and teal Symbicort pen on computer paper

[Click to enlarge photo]

Styles of handwriting are as unique as snowflakes. Each person's is a combination of their physical, emotional and artistic make up. In this interesting meme passed to me by Leah of the blog Weather in the Streets, I find seeing a sample of each blogger's writing gives substance to their cyber-personality.

Here is a sample of mine. It is a quick and utilitarian style. I always wanted to have beautiful cursive like my friends: Jeanne, Cathy, and Julie. They all went to parochial school. The one thing I have noted over the years is that the nuns sure can turn out students whose cursive writing stands above the crowd. Like I said, I would love to write so beautifully but for that to become a reality, I would have to practice. Not gonna happen. I will never slow down long enough to spend that much time penning and really prefer the quickness of a keyboard these days. I'm getting old. Gotta maximize every minute.

If you would like to share a sample of your handwriting, just stop by and leave me a note that you've posted yours. I'll be right over for a peek. Curious as a cat, am I.

Healing Coning Script 2

I first read about coning in MAP: The Co-Creative White Brotherhood Medical Assistance Program by Machelle Small Wright, ISBN: 0-927978-72-5. I know it sounds like an Arian Brotherhood book but, believe me, it is not. Although these healing practices are quite ancient, they are new to many people. That is why I've decided to post about them. This is the last post in this series. I'll give it, and you, a rest for a bit, but I am trying to get the word out. Look around. Our world is in great need of as many warriors of light as we can enlist. I thank you in advance for your patience.

Nature Healing Coning for Human Beings or Animals-Part 2

For human beings that are strangers and wild animals

When you wish to do a coning for people, wild animals or other animals who are in need but with whom you aren't acquainted, use this outline. In these situations, all you have to offer is a coning for healing. The difference here is that you will not provide assistance with medications or medical visits as in Nature Healing Coning-Part 1. It is not appropriate. Therefore, you (your higher self) don't have to be a participant in the coning. If you are going to provide follow-up assistance in the healing process, use Nature Healing Coning Script 1. For humans, animals and wild animals that you do not know, all you do is set the coning in motion. This is how to do the healing.

Find a quiet place where you can sit or lie comfortably for a while. Get into a meditative, or contemplative, state. An easy way to do this is simply to focus on your breath. Close your eyes. Breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth. Visualize your inhale breath as one color and your exhale breath as another. Just watch the breaths for a few rounds as you allow all of your muscles to relax. As you feel more and more relaxed with each breath, your awareness and focus will expand. If odd thoughts pop up, simply observe them and let them pass through. Remain free of picking them up and getting caught up in them.

1. Connect to the stranger's or the unknown animal's higher self. Do this just as you would connect to your own higher self--simply by asking to be connected. Using kinesiology, if you know it, test that connection. If not, don't worry.
   
2. Ask for permission. This may seem confusing, but given that you don't know these beings, you must ask their higher self if it is appropriate to initiate the nature coning healing. If in your awareness, you get a sense that the answer is "no", STOP. The being does not wish your assistance or to be disturbed. Under this circumstance, to continue is meddling. Do not go any further. Continue only if you get a "yes" answer.
   
3. Ask that a healing coning be opened. Invite the following guides to activate the coning.
   
   1. Deva of Human and Animal Healing
      
   2. Pan and any nature spirits or other spirits working with the human or the animal
      
   3. The human's or the animal's higher self.
      
4. Relax, breathe and allow about 15-20 seconds for the coning to fully activate and come together.
   
5. You don't need to do anything else right now but sit quietly for 30 minutes. The coning will know what to do for the being.
   
6. At the end of the 30 minutes, if you know kinesiology, you can perform muscle testing for the proper flower essence to use in the healing. If not, don't worry. You have already done great work for what is to be the highest and best good for the being. Sometimes, to continue life is not the best choice. Just set your intention for what is best and let the gods and the beings take care of the rest. If you do use flower essences, do not give orally. Just put them anywhere on the body. In most instances, it will be unsafe or impractical to apply the tinctures so skip this step.
   
7. The session is over. Now it is important to dismantle the nature healing coning. This is done by asking the participants to disengage, one- by -one (the guides/the being's high self) from the coning. Honor them as you give each participant approximately 5 seconds to depart. Test yourself with flower essences or divine guidance to make sure you are clear.
   

A lot of beings DO need this work. It is important to remember that the energy utilized in the coning is not your energy. I am showing you how to use healing energy...energy that comes directly from the creator. If you choose, at any time or place, you can become a conduit of unconditional love and healing for another being. This work is truly easy to do. You will do no harm. You don't have to go to medical school to have an impact on wellness in the world. After all, we've only had educated doctors for a hundred to two hundred years. So, let your energy soar!

Healing Coning Script 1

 

In this post, I had planned to script a coning for an animal. But in response to a number of questions I received in my last post, I have decided to write it for either human or animal healing. I will attempt to make the process as simple as possible. It is truly a lot easier to perform than it is to read. This work is based on that of Machelle Small Wright.

 

Nature Healing Coning for Human Beings or Animals

For family, friends, companion animals or pets

 

Find a quiet place where you can sit or lie comfortably for a while. Get into a meditative, or contemplative, state. An easy way to do this is simply to focus on your breath. Close your eyes. Breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth. Visualize your inhale breath as one color and your exhale breath as another. Just watch the breaths for a few rounds as you allow all of your muscles to relax. As you feel more and more relaxed with each breath, your awareness and focus will expand. If odd thoughts pop up, simply observe them and let them pass through. Remain free of picking them up and getting caught up in them.

 

1. Open a healing coning by simply asking, aloud or to yourself, to be connected to:
   
   1. For Human Healing: Yahweh, Jesus, Mother Mary, Mary Magdalene, Devas (gods/deities) of Human healing, Goddesses of healing such as Hecate, Panacea or Mercy, any of the angels, the Elementals, or any other spiritual beings who guide you.
      
   2. For Animal Healing: Pan and/or spirits of nature working with the animal, the Deva of Animal Healing, or any other spiritual beings who guide you .
      
   3. In both cases: To your higher self
      
   4. In both cases: To the higher self of the human being or animal.
      
2. Relax, breathe and allow about 15-20 seconds for the coning to fully activate and come together.
   
3. Explain to the guides, as completely as possible, what you know or observe about the person's or the animal's situation. Let the coning work for about 30 minutes while you relax and think about the being you are helping. The information you give the guides lets them know how much you understand about the problem. Since you will be helping in the healing, they need to know your level of knowledge.
   
4. During this time, you may hear, see, feel or sense that there is something you are to do or check. If you get such a message, ask the coning if your intuition is right.
   
5. At the end of the 30 minutes, ask the coning any questions that may have arisen during that time. Do you need to assist the being in any way? Does the being need medical attention? If so, does another coning need to be done after the visit? Does the being's nutrition need to be changed or assessed? How, when and for how long? If the being doesn't need to go for medical attention, do there need to be additional healings? How many and how long? Keep asking questions until you have all the information you need. Ask the questions in basic yes or no format. Wait for the answer to come to mind. This is not your imagination. Trust your instincts, although, I know this is hard in the case of a novice healer. If you know kinesiology, you can perform muscle testing.
   
6. Using kinesiology, if you know it, test for flower essence administration. If not, don't worry. What you have already done is completely beneficial. It will take several subsequent posts to explain muscle testing and flower essences.
   
7. The session is over. Now it is important to dismantle the nature healing coning. This is done by asking the participants to disengage, one- by -one (the guides/your high self/the being's high self) from the coning. Honor them as you give each participant approximately 5 seconds to depart. Test yourself with flower essences or divine guidance to make sure you are clear.
   

It is important to remember that the energy utilized in the coning is not your energy. You are not doing anything to anyone. This healing energy belongs to us all. It is our birthright. You are simply a willing conduit of unconditional love and healing for another being. This work is easy to do. You are not tampering with free will or Voodoo. You will do no harm. Give your healing side a chance to express itself. We all
have the ability and you will help another in the process. A-ho!

Next up: Coning for individuals you don't know or wild animals