GHOSTS- The dimension of the dead exists along with that of the living

    Thanks to reality television, ghosts, ghost hunting, and spirit communication are at an all-time high and thriving in pop culture.  Although some people hide the fact that they really do believe in ghost, recent polls show that more than one in five Americans say they have seen a ghost or have felt themselves to be in the presence of one. When we take ghosts out of the sensationalized, scary Halloween mode, we can better realize the true nature of these specters and understand that they function as a less dense form of energy. You might say that they are our non material neighbors in a different dimensional neighborhood which is made up of the good areas (spirit guides, departed loved ones) and the negative areas (angry energy from horrendous acts and strong negative emotional imprints).

   Ghosts have been chronicled throughout history and practically every major religion acknowledges apparitions of the dead who return to give messages from the other side of the veil.   The ancient Greeks and Romans referred to the disembodied phantoms as shades that inhabited the realm of the dead.  There was a strong belief in ghosts in Greece and Rome and the related phenomenon of necromancy, --the consultation of the dead for divination.  It appears that they both believed that the dead could still influence the world of the living with messages from the other side.  Modern day paranormal investigations usually include a psychic medium that is able to tune into the phantom information from the after-life and gather data to help us understand the true nature of what we call “ghosts.”

    What exactly is a ghost?  This may be a hard question to find a definitive, universal answer to since there are so many types of ghosts.  The dictionary gives us a multiple choice of what a ghost might be such as:

1. The soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.

2. a mere shadow or semblance; a trace: He's a ghost of his former self.

3. A remote possibility: He hasn't a ghost of a chance.

4. The principle of life; soul; spirit.

    

     The fact of the matter is that we are all made up of energy both the living and the dead.  The difference lies in the range of vibration.  The slower the speed the more dense the molecules become giving a solid appearance when you are alive.  The ghost of the departed persists at a different rate of energy once they shed their physical form at the time of death. Their consciousness remains as an essence made up of both positive and negative charges which accounts for the difference in friendly spirits as opposed to hauntings and bazaar poltergeist activity that can occur within certain energy hot spots such as the location of a murder, suicide, or some other unnatural form of death like an accident.

     I personally have seen a ghost and at other times picked up their energy as an odor or scent.  The reason most people don’t have an awareness of the dimension of the dead is because they do not consciously tune into that realm.  Random conjunctions of energy allow for some people to have a paranormal experience here or there while those who live in homes with strong emotional imprints and attachments from former residences may experience a multitude of what would be considered strange and unlikely happenings.

 

    Scientists and doctors are finally admitting that there is proof for the continuation of consciousness, what we usually refer to as ghosts, especially since many healthcare professionals who work in hospices and emergency rooms with people in their final moments of life witness the pre- death moments of the dying who relay messages and awareness of those from the other side.   Is death really the extinction of the human personality or is there a continuity of consciousness? The mystical explanations go up against the scientific minds who believe that intercepting those on the other side is generated by physical processes occurring in the brain. The big questions are: How does it work? How are we connected and what drives this energy?  Are ghosts a quantum phenomenon?  Is there a possibility that we create ghosts by the simple act of observing or measuring a particle of energy and forcing it into a sentient apparition? How do we explain explicit information received from those who dwell in the realm of the dead along with actual paranormal activity within certain locations?

   The dimension of the dead exists along with that of the living.  We consider ghostly activity as a disruption to our zone and those on the other side consider paranormal investigators and ghost hunters as disturbances to their field.  Some people learn to live with resident ghosts including the ones whose phantom energy resonates like banging thunder on the walls and causes strange electrical malfunctions due to the overload of wattage from their principle make up of a more rapidly spinning essence of energy..  A form of ghostly Stockholm Syndrome, a type of traumatic bonding, which describes “strong emotional ties that develop between two entities where one intermittently harasses, scares, threatens, or intimidates the other can occur with people who live in haunted houses.  There is a low key fear that if they disturb or remove the ghosts some horrible repercussions are possible.

    Ghost energy that slips through the portals back into the realm of the living feeds off of electrical energy from people, locations, and even electrical equipment.  You do not want to encourage this type of relationship especially if you are not a paranormal expert and unable to determine the nature of the consciousness or ghost that you are encountering.  Is it positively charged or negatively charged?  You may actually come up against what are called soul jumpers which are energy essences that can and do at times take possession of you.  Hence forth the warning not to play around with séances’, oui ja boards, and magickal rituals that are conducive to spirit communication.  Some ghostly energy may have an agenda and not all are friendly like Casper, the friendly ghost.

   There are four basic types of haunting or ghost: Intelligent, residual, demonic, and poltergeist.  Many sub types spring from these basic four and are determined by their level of activity.  It is possible to have an infestation of ghost energy especially around areas of high ceremonial magick like Indian cemeteries.  Battlefields also hold energy due to all of the strong emotional energy imprints and they are often the site of preference for serious paranormal investigators.

   Ghosts are with us at all times.  You can’t experience that which you don’t acknowledge but be prepared and fully instructed before you decide to look into the other side.  You never know who or what lies through the portals to Nevermore.

Namaste’

The Dish on Venus Retrograde Dec 21-Jan 31: Old lovers and Money on the Menu

    Here we go-just in time for the holidays and Venus would have to decide to go retrograde.  Venus is Retrograde in Capricorn from December 21, 2013, to January 31st, 2014.  This planet rules love, money, the finer things in life like art and jewelry along with being the ruler of the signs, Tarsus and Libra.  So when Venus goes retrograde all things associated with this “Morning Star” also become a little debilitated.

    This is not the time to get engaged. Opps! What about all those X-mas diamonds waiting to be slipped onto someone’s finger? Did you keep your receipt?  Also, avoid getting married, starting a new relationship, changing your hairstyle, redecorating, or making any type of investment both monetary and with your heart.  Sometimes old lovers return to see if there can be a reconciliation to a prior relationship and since Venus rules values anything that falls short in the department of trust and honesty will certainly be deal breakers averting future heart breakers.

     During this spin around Venus will be retrograde in the sign of Capricorn giving extra emphasis to qualities such as dignity, achievement, practical caution and status, mainly in the areas of love and money.  Approach these things with a cool, calm head during this time of retrograde motion.  

     Venus will be Stationary Retrograde on December 21, 2013, 04:52 pm EST, at 28 degrees Capricorn 59 seconds and go stationary direct on January 31, 2013  03:52 pm EST, at 13 degrees Capricorn 33 seconds. The pre shadow phase began on November 20, 2013 and Venus will move out of shadow on March 4, 2014. Below you can get an idea of how this retrograde should play out based on the degrees of Capricorn that come into play.  If you are familiar with what house of your chart the retrograde will take place in you can more accurately apply this information.

     The retrograde will start out with some interesting tendencies such as you may gather or collect more information to evaluate and re-evaluate situations before making a move to jump into an action.  This can be in regards to researching a costly purchase or looking at a relationship.  Moving along into this Venus retrograde phase, do not change your hair style or color-stick with the old, tried and true.  I know it is the holidays and there are parties to go to so don’t take any chances with your hair. It is the one major accessory that can really screw up a look if it doesn't turn out the way you had imagined it.

     As we move backwards to the 25 degree mark around the 4^th and 5^th of January 2014, this is not the time to invest in real estate or redecorate your existing home. You could suddenly hear from an old friend or flame that now feels an appreciation for a past relationship but if they get too demanding the whole effort of reconciliation will go flat.  Be careful of mercenary types and users who made out well in the past but now suffer with a guilty conscience. Those with an unsavory reputation are apt to show up too. There will be obligations and consequences of your actions so put up realistic boundaries and use good judgment when dealing with those who are trying to be persuasive.

   Governmental authority will make an appearance this retrograde period so don’t be surprised if there isn’t some issue with government funds such as Social Security, taxes, and federally funded programs.  Oh yeah…quarterly taxes are now due too-right after the holidays-what a “bite!’ There can also be some shakiness around any peace treaties. 

   Around the 11-12^th of January, think matters concerning money over carefully.  Renegotiate student financial packages if they fall short of your expectations or any other type of funding. Alimony or any money that is getting divided between former partners needs to be held off for awhile so someone doesn't get stuck holding the shitty end of the stick and it usually isn't the lawyer involved in the negotiations. Put off signing any financial agreements if at all possible.

    Around the 15-16^th of January 2014, look out for devious types. The time of the manipulator has arrived to create the loss of what is no longer needed or in other words someone may pick a fight because they don’t want to be in a relationship with you.  Depending on what part you play this may either give a boost or a blow to your ego.

    During the third week of January, whether you want to or not you may have to take care of some type of duty concerning more the material end of the spectrum.  This could mean paying back a debt, for instance, your credit card statement maxed out with holiday gift purchases. You might have to make a necessary but not necessarily beautifying repair to your home such as a heating system or roof.

     As the Venus retrograde winds down there may be dealings that seem to benefit you in either romance or career standing. Being too idealistic or hopeful may later disappoint you since the situation will most likely be changeable.  Be wise to pretentious types who slither in under the disguise of “helpful.”

       Before Venus goes direct do not commit emotional or financial suicide by keeping blinders on when it comes to matters of love and money because decisions made now concerning both of these areas will only lead to heated arguments and explosive situations over the next few weeks until Venus comes out of shadow on March 4, 2014.

     On the bright side you may have a debt repaid but just don’t blow the money once you get it back.  If a former lover comes back into your life just exercise caution because people don’t change, they usually just get better at hiding who they really are so don’t be a sucker for empty promises and tears.  If you got engaged by surprise during this time bite the bullet and pick a wedding date that may help override the retrograde.  If you are getting married during this time take into consideration if this is the second marriage for either of you and putting a pre-nup agreement into place helps in case money becomes an issue down the road.  The stars do not dictate they only compel you to make wise choices.  Don’t shoot the messenger-I only report the astrological weather.

    Hopefully the above astrological sky map helps you keep steady during this brief but financially and romantically foggy time.  

Namaste'

Are Your Relationships Operating from the Lower Three Chakras?

We all seem to worry at one time or another about relationships.  We worry about having them, fixing them, getting out of them, and we even do crazy stuff like measure our own self-worth according to the relationships that we do experience.  We say that relationships are great when they are experienced through the heart and the mind but we fail to realize that most of our relationships don’t even make it out of the lower levels of our chakra centers, the filters for our consciousness.

Love Rooted in the Lower Chakras still functions through separateness where we get caught up in a lot of emotional drama and misconceptions that are Ego based.  We crave approval, use sex as a measuring stick for love, create crazy addictions to people, unhealthy relationships, dependencies, unrealistic expectations and we use a lot of emotional energy in the form of  manipulation to get what we want or  sadly enough, to “get even” with the object of our desire.  I did say object because from the lower chakras we objectify the person we are attempting to control.  On this level, love is invariably accompanied by fear, guilt, and shame making what started out to be a great romance nothing more than an emotionally draining experience that can only be temporary.

A physical relationship is not just a biological urge because you can rest assured that you will also be dealing with a lot of wounded child, psycho, emotional issues too. Once the “new car smell" is off of the relationship the accompanying attachments, expectations and dependencies creep in and we try to control the other person and somehow give them full responsibility for our happiness. When the other fails to fulfill our expectations, we blame them, do something shitty to them or try to change them through manipulation.  All this stuff lays in your chakra centers like a piece of cold pizza that you ate at three in the morning when you couldn’t fall asleep because you were having a relationship melt down moment. 

Your chakra centers are like the “Cloud” app which is a software application that is never installed on a local machine; It is your personalized space forever, accessible anytime, anywhere, using any device with an internet connection, giving you access to your files and all the apps you'll ever need.  Consider this, your body is the device and can only hold so much information. The chakra centers of your subtle bodies, are your” Cloud” and can access long held emotional memories that are still held within your chakras and imprinted into the Akashic Record, a dimension of consciousness that contains a vibrational record of each soul and its journey.  As human beings we interact consciously and unconsciously with this body of energies throughout our lifetimes. 

Not to skive you out but every sexual encounter that you ever had is entangled within your chakra centers unless of course you have a spiritual friend or personal Yogi  tell you to release and let go of any limiting blocks, misconceptions and  attachments to prior relationships. The good memories can stay but the bad dates and destructive relationships have to be transmuted to a more neutral vibration so they don’t cause static and repeated patterns in newly formed unions.  It’s scary to think that we track this stuff around with us and even unknowingly expose others to our previous “entanglements.”

The chakra centers serve as a connection between matter and the mind and receive, assimilate and express our vital life energy that relate to certain parts of the body and have specific emotional and energetic resonances.  For those of you not familiar with where the chakras are located here is an illustration:

These seven chakras hold all the emotions, deeds, and actions you’ve experienced in all of your incarnations. It’s the repression and denial of emotions that causes pain, mental suffering, and screw up relationships if they get stuck in the lower three chakras.  You have to be like Pac Man and make it to the upper level of the heart through to the Crown Chakra where love is realized as a spiritual connection- don’t worry, you can still have sex but it is better.

When the lower three chakra centers are balanced and clear we experience security, empowerment to live and love with healthy boundaries, not giving away our personal power and the ability to experience pleasure, accept change and be creative. Basically we are fun to be around and there is a beautiful bridge that forms and reaches into the Heart Chakra and upper chakra centers.  Jealousy, competitiveness, and insecurity can keep you operating at a very basic instinctive level of consciousness in relationships if you don’t honor the past and release the damaging emotional energy.  You have to acknowledge  that not all people are good for you and can entangle their crazy energy in with your energy which creates a lot of relationship problems and drama.

Here are some of the things that get stuck in the lower chakras and weigh you down with emotional issues, attachments, and unhealthy energies that keep you from working on all cylinders.  Let’s start at the root chakra at the base of the spine.  Take a look at what you’ll find and tell me if you don’t feel like jumping right into a salt bath for clearing out what you probably didn’t even realize was stuck in there like bugs in the basement.

Root Chakra:  Associated Emotion: Fear

An overactive root chakra may appear emotionally as an obsession with food, money, sex or obsessive need to secure the basic essentials for survival. An underactive root chakra may manifest as lack of self-esteem, a distorted view of one's self worth, a sense of disassociation with society, or a lack of stability in adulthood.

Emotional Attachments: Previous partners, children, anyone you’ve ever had sex with, needy people, money issues, material things, thought forms, unborn children. Previous partners or significant others leave their imprint in this chakras and can continue to influence through energy cords that continue the association if not cleared by transmuting the energy.

Suggested essentials for clearing and balancing:

•             Scent: Basil, Patchouli Tea Tree

•             Color: Red,

•             Food: Root Vegetables such as Carrots and Potatoes,

•             Crystal: Red Jasper

•             Musical note: “C”

•             Affirmation: I am rooted in life and in myself

OK….on to the Sacral chakra located at the lower abdomen.

Sacral Chakra: Associated Emotion: Guilt

An out of balance sacral chakra may present itself emotionally as having issues with sexual promiscuity, emotional defensiveness, chronic depression, addictions, and the in-ability to receive or give joy and love. 

 

Emotional Attachments: Anyone you have ever had sex with can leave some of their energy field in your Sacral Chakra. Strong thoughts of lust can lodge there too even if there has been no physical contact, and it is common to find that miscarriages or still births leave behind some of the energy of the soul who would have been born.

Suggested essentials for clearing and balancing:

•             Scent: Orange, Jasmine, Ylang- Ylang

•             Color: Orange, Food: Melons, Strawberries, Passion Fruit, Oranges, Coconut

•             Crystal: Carnelian

•             Musical note: "D" & "C#"

•             Affirmation: I love myself exactly as I am right now

As you can see the lower levels are like the basement and garage of your house where we have a tendency to store our junk.  To make it up to a healthy bedroom we have to clear the clutter.  Next the Solar Plexus, the gut feelings we all have about our relationships even though we sometimes attempt to deny  what we feel.

The Solar Plexus Chakra:  Associated Emotion: Shame

When overactive, this chakra's fiery nature can consume us with anger and violent rage, or manifest physically as dry skin rashes, irritability or a nasty personality. When this chakra is underactive we may feel depressed, lack passion, desire and motivation to move forward and accomplish our goals or find it difficult to manifest true purpose in life. You may be easily manipulated, cold emotionally and physically with a tendency toward victim mentality and blaming others. This chakra signals you through “gut” feelings which present as either an excited (good) feeling or as an uneasy (bad) feeling in the pit of your stomach.

Emotional Attachments: People with whom you have had an emotional entanglement in the past whenever that may have been. Ancestral spirits, relatives, needy people. Invasion and energy leeching emotional vampires take place through this chakra. A 'stuck-open' solar plexus means you take on other people’s feelings easily. You may well receive intuitions through your solar plexus as you unconsciously read other people’s emotions. Being too empathic is also a sign of an attachment in this chakra.

Suggested essentials for clearing:

•             Scent: Bergamot, Grapefruit, Rosemary and Lemongrass

•             Color: Yellow

•             Food: Pastas, Breads, Cereal, Rice, Flax Seed, Sunflower Seeds

•             Crystal: Tiger's Eye, Citrine and Amber

•             Musical note: "E" & "Eb",

•             Affirmation: My personal power is growing stronger everyday

Energy cords to other people who were and are not good for you are like being plugged into a bad receptacle. You get so entangled in the energy matrix that you lose sight of yourself. Entanglements (even the word sounds a little risqué) get in the way of forging ahead with healthy relationships where you meet someone at your vibrational level and not have to go down in frequency to accommodate some freak.  Release anything and anyone that does not serve your highest good including possessions, relationships or even philosophical concepts. The more you release the more power becomes available to you.  Your intuitive guidance will never let you down when you honestly listen to it.  The most important relationship you have is first and foremost the one you have with yourself because if you are not happy with whom you are then there isn’t anyone in the world that will make you happy.

Your body speaks to you if you listen.  Meditate on each lower chakra center, where we all seem to get stuck, and clear what holds you back from moving forward.  This stuff will repeat as patterns of behavior and keep attracting the same type of people to you until you realize your chakra centers are not a dumping ground for emotional garbage.

Relationships with others, particularly those we are closest to, is the fieldwork for self-discovery. If you find yourself constantly arguing, relating without healthy boundaries, too manipulative, or obsessive then please do get some energy healing so you can enjoy your journey with a partner that loves and respects you from the highest essence of energy.

Namaste’

 

Mercury Retrograd October 21st-November 3rd 2013 with a side of eclipses for some drama

If you have been giving some thought to clearing out some clutter from both your life and your closets, now is the perfect time to do some rearranging.   Mercury will once again be going retrograde and to add to the confusion there will also be a Full Moon eclipse on the Aries/ Libra axis on October 18^th and a Solar eclipse November 3^rd on the Scorpio/Taurus axis.  It looks like we are all in for some unexpected shift to go down. 

Mercury turns retrograde October 21st at 18 degrees  Scorpio and will go direct on November 10th at 2 degrees Scorpio, the sign of transformation; death and rebirth; the proverbial  phoenix rising from the ashes.  Scorpio is a water sign and deals with your emotions on a very deep level-“what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” is this sign’s mantra.  You can expect some emotional house clearing with this retrograde and a strong reminder to take note of who’s “stuff” you’re dumping in the process. Is it yours or is it left over emotional clutter projected onto you from a bad relationship, nasty boss, or maybe even some unresolved childhood issues from a bully. In any case, it has to be cleared out.

Mercury rules communication and also electrical things.  When things go wrong, break, and get misplaced during a retrograde what we witness the most are the emotional meltdowns that everyone has to show their frustration at the occurring situations.  People go nuts when they are stuck in traffic, can’t get their car’s sun roof to close, or don’t get an expected letter or phone call because of delays. It seems that the emotional drama takes center stage while the broken “whatever” sits idly, unable to function.  If we could only use our emotional energy to give all of our broken items a “hot shot” to get going again then there would be no problem.

Interestingly enough, when Mercury goes retrograde your electromagnetic field (aura and subtle bodies) take a hit from this planet as well.  Mercury in Scorpio loops back to revisit emotional energy issues that you may have hidden away somewhere in one of you chakras, the file cabinets for attachments and stored emotions.  This retrograde will give you the opportunity to revisit certain held emotions, illusions and beliefs so you can unclog any blocks that may be hindering you from moving forward. Things usually kept in the dark may suddenly be brought to light because of the eclipses falling in and around this retrograde.  Issues concerning sex, hidden objects, secrets, lies, covert dealings, law enforcement and agendas will most likely be served up during this time. Dealing with the dark side of the world alone causes a lot of emotional drama and hot wires your electromagnetic field to take off on an emotional rampage.  Follow my rule of thumb for the retrograde and you might side step some drama:

During

Retrograde

Avoid

Most

Assholes

Try to be mindful and aware during the retrograde because Scorpio energy knows what buttons to push in order to get to the root of things and uncover what we may or may not want to find out about a person or situation.  The tag along eclipse on November 3^rd also brings a lot of emotions to the surface and we have to be careful that we don’t get sucked back into situations that aren’t in our best interest.  Recognizing when to detach emotionally from people, places, and even things helps you realize what is worthy of space in your life.  Learn to let go of attachments and emotions that keep you down because on some level of consciousness you may be holding onto to an “atomic bombs” worth of emotional energy that tethers you to the past, interrupts your present, and compromises your future.  Remember, the retrograde brings reunions, returns and revisiting the past.  The accompanying eclipses are a crap shoot and can signify an end to a problem in sight or possibly the beginning of an upset.  The next few weeks are sure to be interesting to say the least.  Expect the unexpected.

Use this Mercury retrograde in Scorpio to effectively release and regroup your emotions.  It urges you to take a look at your own dark side and offers the opportunity to resist old patterns of behavior so you can stop recycling the “same old, same old, situations.”   Avoid signing contracts and closing deals at this time because there may be some hidden agenda that was cleverly concealed but wouldn’t be revealed until Mercury goes direct.

Don’t’ whine-Drink wine

Namaste’