Keeping up the Momentum

Do you have a "dip"day of the week?
That day that always seems to be the hardest one, the one where you just seem to lack the oomph to move on?
Mine seems to be Thursday........usually because it is the longest ( if I am working - and it throws me back to my days selling calendars when I would start my day at 8am and not finish work till 9pm that evening ).
So Thursday still seems to be the one where I wish it would just happen.
Just finished a good book called "The Secret Supper", a story based on the work of Leonardo Da Vinci's "Last Supper"....
A lot of facts wrapped neatly around a story line of intrigue...it reminds me very much about the symbology used to create the religious art of past centuries. The artists who risked their lives to fulfil thier dutites to their patrons that requested artworks to be created  for frescos and painting to hang in halls and churches yet created a special dialogue only available to the "chosen few"who could decipher and understand the secrets. Every part of the painting had a secret meaning...or a double meaning if the real meaning had to be kept hidden .....so interesting...just like the tarot.

The boot is off!

Finally after about five weeks the boot is off - went to see my doc yesterday and I can finally wear two shoes instead of just one.
Must still get another X ray to check whether all is fine and still no exercising for another week or two ( like that was ever going to happen anyway )...
Had a great evening last night with our first lot of Career Covener's coming along to get a dose of motivation and a big fat push to get real and get focused!
I really felt the chill in the air yesterday and could not seem to get warm, its amazing anyone ventured out yesterday so a big thanks to all how came along - Its still rather windy today so the skivvy has gone on!
Yes....if you wait long enough I reckon it will be a fashion statement yet again.....No?

What a night!

I was lucky to attend the pagan ball on the Central Coast last night organised by the Pagans in the Park group held at Myuna Bay.
Wow......and wow again.
It was fancy dress and everyone just went crazy wild with the most beautiful outfits, including knights in armour, magicians, sages, ladies in waiting etc...
There was a fantastic Celtic rock band that entertained us all night long as well as a singing intro from one of the lovely ladies who is part of the organising group on the Coast.
There was also Dani and her group of ladies who perfromed a goth/tribal dance - words escape me.
This was a mesmerising performancing with the ladies putting their hearts and souls into theirdance.
I had a fantastic night.
I am in full admiration that the group put such an event together - something to aspire to ??
Can we possibly get together here in Newie for long enough to create such an amazing event?
So many splinter groups doing their own thing....and that's certainly fine but I would hope that as a "pagan"community we would all stick together and actually work as one isnt this what we all say we aspire to be as spiritual people?
Working together to form a large community is somewhat of a dream for me - yep, we can all still do our own thing for sure and pick and choose who, what, when and where without fear of being ostracised or gossiped about ( is that possible? ) but when we need to, or should be, showing a united front, to be able to attend large community rituals or events would make my heart sing!

There is a reason they teach about trying to reach enlightenment

Its to avoid falling into the void...the void that is a part of the human condition.
The more spiritual your journey the more voids you have to conquer - the harder it is, the more you need to try.
The great magi were taught about the "mysteries" - these were not something that they had to solve, but these were ways of being and when embodied they would change the person forever.
And when understood, the great mystics of the past could transcend the pain of the body.
I tussled with this for a while and then realised that the "pain" they talk about is psychological pain.
Pain caused by others, by their words, by their actions and by their emotions ( or lack of ) and pain inflicted on the self.
I talked to an old man today who told me about all the books that he had collected over the past 60 years.
He had books that were first published in the 1800. What a collection. We talked for a while and it was nice to listen to this old fellow get so passionate about his books and about all he had read all his life. He had a rant about this and that and so did I. I hope he enjoyed his little talk. I did.

Sometimes I think that ..

I am the only one that reads this blog.
So, therefore I could really say anything that I liked and no one would know...
oh, and I so had written a whole blog of saying "things" ..then I decided to get over myself and get on with it.
In the end people believe what they want to believe.
The truth, in this case, often just gets in the way of a really good mud slinging.
I thought, for a split second, that if I had a rant I might change some people's mind....
How silly was that!

Finding it hard to find the time...

I am coming to the conclusion that I am in my overcommiting mode and the next few days are just too much..
today I am all over the place and have cancelled a long trip because I really do not feel safe to drive when I feel unfocused and tired.
Tomorrow we are at the Great Northern Hotel for a Pub Bazaar from 11am to 4pm - readings and networking morning. Sunday I have a booksale to set up for and deliver artworks to Weston for an exhibition - Monday I start to juggle for the next two weeks and also have a big ceremony at the Cottage for my YAAD girls.
Not to mention a sabbat ritual on Sunday night, delivering small child to and from train stations and parties blah..blah...blah...if you see me I will only have a minute!

Flying things and inverted pentacles

We went into St Pauls catherdal whilst in Melbourne and found inverted pentagrams up above the main altar on all four sides...mmmm
Now, to answer a question as to how come we can find  inverted pentagrams ( which are supposed to be associated with Satan ) in a church we found out that:
"These symbols were derived  from  traditional Morning Star pentagrams that are no longer commonly used in mainstream Christianity".( wonder why )
thank you wikipedia!
they were also associated with the five wounds of Christ...so it can make sense that way..it was a funny site though.
Today we were sitting in our office when a box of incence flew off the cupboard onto the floor...just by itself for no apparent reason other than to draw our attention to the fact that it happened quite randomly...
I was terribly inspired by my two hours spent at the Art Gallery and went home and reworked my latest painting feeling myself rather inferior after seeing all of those marvelous things created by masters of the craft....I had to come home and try harder....it was such a privelidge to stand next to a Rembrandt or a Manet, Monet ....glorious moments of bliss ( sorry.....I do like my art )
Now back to work ( I use that word loosely ) 

Good time in the old town tonight!

So good to catch up with my girl at her new place ( which is around the corner from the Queen Victoria Markets) we spent time at the markets buying all of my favourite foods and then back to her place for the night for some talking and chill time.
Yesterday we spent at Spellbox, The Haunted Bookshop and walking around Melbourne City - we went to have a real girlie evening at saw "Sex and the City 2 " which was actually fabulous!!!!Just a good night to not think too deeply and if anyone is a fan of the series you know that the girl's clothes are bloody beautiful!
Today I met up with Gayle and we all went to Mind Body Spirit at the Exhibition Centre - met up with Stacy DeMarco and congratulated her on her appearance earlier in the week on the Today show with Mel and Kochie talking about paganism and then we stopped off and had a drink to "Cloe"a very famous icon in a pub just near Flinder's Station.
Back to Gayle's for dinner tonight and then a evening trip into Lygon street later on for a late nite coffee.
How great....
Tomorrow we are heading into the Art Gallery for some culture and some more suprises...then home in the evening....

Off to Melbourne today!

Baby girl was already whinging this morning that she will have to forage for food all by herself and how could I be leaving her.....poor baby.
Of course I asked her what she would like me to bring back from Melbourne and she said "stuff"....
I cant wait to see my big girl and where she is living and to just spend some time with her.
Mind Body Spirit should be fun - but a new way at looking at products now - as potential stock for our business other than just personal stuff.
We also now have copies of "Goddess" magazine published by Black Rose - this is an Aussie mag which is just beautiful.....come in an get your copy now!!!!
I will have my lap top with me so I may post something of my adventures while I am there....

Much better today ...

Whatever that was yesterday...has gone.
It was an awful energy and it attracted awful stuff to the point where it even gave me awful dreams.
So all my skills at protection and cleansing did not prove too useful - but the idea was to just go with the flow and I did do a lot of reading in the afternoon after I gave up and left early.
I did some intensive reading to get back into my head and move it out, I wanted my space back and it seemed to work......
Very weird indeed.
Hubby's ricotta cheesecake did help.
He made it last night and even though I need more calories like a hole in the head I could not wait for it to cool down so that I could have a slice.
Maybe it was also the aftereffects of the "green fairy"and the Absyinthe that I partook of on Monday evening???
mmmm........

Just should have stayed in bed....

 Just one of those days.....I just did not feel right from the moment I woke up..
Maybe a bit of a bug - Baby girl came home early from school too.
Just ran out of steam and needed to bury my head under my doona..............

Busy this Saturday..

Flat out today....had my last full day with my YAAD class..it has been a long journey and so many lessons have been learnt by all of us.
The girls that stayed to the end have been very generous with their participation and tenacity to see it through especially these last few months.
But I do have to thank my whole class - and to do this I reach back to last year , even the year before.to acknowledge everybody...it has taught me how to teach and what works and that change is inevitable.
Lots have started, some have left and for many and diverse reasons and I have benefited from the challenges that they have all presented.
It has given me the sense of self to also move on with my own stuff and my own ideas...so YAAD has been quite a blessing.
Now just one more lesson is left and then we all go our new ways...very exciting.
I wish my students great blessings for all the spiritual adventures ahead.

Am going to have to wear a bag over my foot on wet days!!!

Tonight I high tailed it to the library in the rain and got my buggered foot totally soaked just after it had dried off from getting totally wet from earlier on.....maybe a plastic bag is on order?
I managed to find a book by sweetie Kelvin Cruickshank, New Zealand medium from the program "Sensing Murder" who I did a workshop with last year....cant wait to get into it..so the trip in the rain proved worthwhile.
Tomorrow is supposed to be a pretty ugly day ( they did say that about Sunday though, and it turned out to be lovely and sunny ) I guess we are all thrown back for a second to our last big deluge which proved devastating to so many people in the area.....so any mention of long periods of rain will cause some people a tremendous amount of stress.
I am hoping that the rain coming our way heads out to sea before it causes too much damage.
Its perfect weather to slip into bed early and read a good book though...............

Buggered leg or not I have things to do!!!

This is quite inconvenient at the moment ...really......
Cant say I feel things have improved but its early days...I am just being extra careful not to overdo it and all my walking is now a leisurely stroll..
other than that its full steam ahead...
at the moment I am getting greatest joy out of drop in visits from friends and clients at Chaos Central.
Today saw a lady who actually works downstairs say she was drawn to come up for a reading......when they start to cry within five  minutes you kind of know they need something ( doh!) but she wasnt letting go of anything today...........so I gave her some reiki instead.
Those moments are pretty cool....my partner in crime is in Singelton at a show with John Overholt. He has been generous enought to allow us to advertise and sell some of our stuff at some of his local shows...so thats a great way to get the message out there.
Daughter emailed suggesting I do a ghost tour while in Melbourne - sounded cool, until she sent me a bio of the guy running it and he is a Satanist and is an 'offically recognised vampire" oh....dont ask........!!!!!
Anyway....decided not to take part...