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California Seventeen: Introduction – Numerology
[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_custom_heading text=”Inquiry: California Seventeen: Introduction – Numerology” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:100%20light%20regular%3A100%3Anormal” el_class=”widget-title”][vc_column_text]Since the Occult teaches that the language of nature is symbolism and the science of symbolism is the law of correspondence, it literally states that everything is interconnected and relates to one another in some way. Something about the fact that during my spiritual retreat I split my time between two cities and the high way number was 17 I found peculiar. 17 reduced (1+7) equals to 8. In some systems 8 is the number of Karma and Fate. However, in Kabbalah, 8 means total control. Regaining control, or independence. In the tarot, the suites of are 8 of cups, 8 of wands, 8 of swords and finally 8 of pentacles. Ironically (or is it?) I experienced every aspect of those energies of those cards. 8.cups: taking a risk, consciously deciding to move on, feeling stuck, etc. 8.wands: Communication, attraction, messages, etc 8.swords: worry, concern, analyzation, etc 8.Pentacles: work, success, co-working, etc. Coincidence? I think not! I was vibrating in the energy of the 8 throughout the trip. 8 also corresponds to the Justice card in the Major Arcana as well – something will be made right, the wrongs will be made right – because I went on that trip.
Some adjectives of the 8 are:
– Strong, independent, confident and determined, goals, organization, career orientated, lone ranger – few friends, a long memory, carry your animosity till death, extremist, either aspire for and get great honor and success or massive failure, prevalent norms and often come into conflict with social or moral values, represents upheavals, revolution, anarchy, waywardness and eccentricities of all kinds While the other side represents philosophical thought, strong learning towards occult Studies, religious devotion, concentration of purpose, relentless zeal for any cause and a fatalistic outlook, may like to live alone because of many sad experiences in marital life or difficulties in finding a suitable partner. (source)
Adjectives of 17 are:
– Insight, responsibility, self-discipline, strength, compassion, spiritual consciousness, wisdom, a desire for peace and love for all of humanity. It is the ability to see beyond to find the hidden truth. It is universal healing, truth and understanding. may travel often, especially in connection with their work. Many who come under these energies have extremely high psychic and clairvoyant abilities. The number 17 is a highly Spiritual number and has been expressed by the Ancient Chaldeans as the 8 Pointed Star of Venus. It is the Star of Love and Peace and promises a 17 Day person the will to rise superior in Spirit to the trials and difficulties of earlier life. (source)
Once studied, it truly amazes me how these small details come into play.
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California Seventeen Series Overview
Overview Hello! I am back from my trip to California. Since I’ve been home, I’ve been thinking of ways to write about my trip and I’ve decided to do a little series on here. I did so much and covered so much and there were so many aspects and dimensions of my trip that it needs to be written in this way. So over the next few weeks/month I’m going to be writing about my trip. I’m calling it, “California Seventeen” because that was the highway that spanned from Santa Cruz to San Jose in which I split my time. As a result I drove 666 miles in 6 days. Yikes.
Anyway, here is how the series will be split up:
Introduction : California Seventeen Numerology
II Activities
III Materialism
IIII Spiritualism and Mysticism
V The Arts
– Glow Candle and made 2 candles
– Museum of Quilt and Textiles
– Capitola Art and Wine Festival
VI The People
Merkabah Water
The stars form a six pointed star today in the heavens – astrologically speaking. My intuition told me to go out and take collect some rainwater for white light ritual work. That’s the Mars-Pluto T-Square talking (To make the best use of this T-square, take immediate action on your intuitive flashes. And if you’re ready, release everything that does not contribute to your evolution and awakening. Forecast). The Grand Sextile speaks to doing Law of Attraction work. Perhaps I should buckle down and do an employment mandala? Haven’t done much magick lately and things have been kind of been stagnant in terms of finding work. The ascension community claims that this is the beginning point of true spiritual ascension. Never really bought into the whole ‘ascension’ theory religiously. I do think we’re going through a spiritual evolution right now… to see an astrological forecast for this event go to the Astroshaman Forecast!
I then asked my tarot deck if my rainwater had a message for me:
5.swords – Hermit – 9.wands
5.Swords – Intuition, healing, vitality, freedom, change, vital force, magnetic energy, limitations – facing one’s limits. The Five of Swords is a card of protection, so have no fear or trepidation upon your path. The 5 of Swords appearing in a reading may be indicating a victory or achievement which has been well-deserved and long-awaited. The 5 of Swords tells of achieving or receiving something that you have wanted for a long time. It is indicating that you may reap the rewards of your past efforts.
Hermit – > Solitariness, wisdom, guidance, intelligence, patience, faith and trust, independence, values, inner-search, withdrawal, answers and solutions, prudence, solitude, discrimination, self-awareness, lighting the way for others,awakening, enlightenment, shedding light, the “key” to a situation, crisis, isolation.
9.Wands – > Suspicion, boldness, readiness, strength, suspension, delay, adjournment, discretion, discernment, persistence, perseverance, unexpected gain, stability, knowledge, ability, defense, resilience, reward.
Manifest World is an Interference
When I began my meditative walk, I felt drawn to the lake. For some reason, I saw the lake differently than from before… for the first time, I truly did see the manifest world for what it was – an interference… light shining upon light … then the light shifted and the experience was gone.
« Then she added, “We could equate light with attention, as we equate darkness with the unseen. There has to be an interaction of some sort for there to be anything to experience.“ »
Photo (C) K Glyphics
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Color Therapy Program
In within the next 5 years or so I’d like to complete this program at a spiritual, artistic and social community called Damanhur in Northern Italy.
Color Therapy
General Program:
- Colour and light. The colour in history
- Health and illness: towards a holistic conception
- The symbolic meaning of colours
- The influence of colour in the environment, in dressing, in every day life
- Light baths
- Colours and nutrition
- Relationship between colour and sound
- Subtle anatomy: aura, chakras, subtle bodies
- Prana and its influence on the vital aura
- The concept of reality
- The therapeutic relationship and the philosophy of healing
- Verbal and non-verbal communication
- Systems of diagnosis with colours
- Man as a balance of colours
- Methods of colour application
- Techniques of sound and colour therapy
- Coloured thinking: visualization and psychic projection
- Philosophy and spirituality
- Man, evolution and the New Era
- Magic and the creative thought
The program is presented through practical exercises and direct experiences of sensitivity to colour, of self-healing, of diagnosis and colour therapy.
Harvard Leadership Conference Recap
This Saturday I went to the Harvard Leadership conference as a “participant”. One of my Kirlian Photographs was submitted and exhibited on the sides of the conference room. Got a lot of positive feedback for it which made me happy. The first workshop I went to was called, “High Awareness through Spiritual Consciousness”. The speaker was a little hard to understand, but he basically said that we should be focusing on how our emotions affect our actions and by focusing on our emotions we become more in tune with the present moment, and thus more in tune to the realization that we’re all connected. By realizing that we should then present ourselves as individuals that stand out from the group and not act as part of a “following” because we’re trying to do what everybody tells us what we should do. Anyway, that’s what I picked up. My speaker was Chat Troutwine who spoke how presenting in a leadership role is like telling a story. Storytelling is very important to leadership and presenting oneself because the brain is hardwired to learn information in a story format. My second workshop was Designing for the Client; Building for the Community. It focused on 3-D design and architecture instead of 2-D design but the concepts are the similar. I was put into the design group and apart of trying to convince clients why design is important for a building. I also got a potential client out of the second workshop as well! I spoke about how design is more about psychology than anything else. The final speaker was Roger Love and he spoke about how to speak in front of a large audience and how music was a big part of how we speak even if we aren’t singing or performing the same kinds of techniques that performers and singers use can be applied to presenting as well. Overall it was a good day, just long. Glad to be home.
On the way to the conference I saw a playing card on the ground and ignored it. When I got there I was advised to go back and put a sign saying I got a permit for parking, and when I walked back to the conference a second time I picked up the card. It was the Queen of Hearts (in Tarot the Queen of Cups). The Q/Hearts is her character card… if that isn’t a sign of what is to come I don’t know what is…
Demons
We have demons… inner demons, things we have to learn to master and defeat over our life here on earth as I’m sure you must’ve learned in philosophy? Anyway, I can’t remember how you started off the post but you said this entity took on the form of a gargoyle. Gargoyle’s in Medieval times are said to be watchful keepers of the home despite them being scary looking (in turn in our dreams they symbolize us keeping a “watchful” distance or symbolize us actually keeping a secret from someone or ourselves). In metaphysics stones hold vibrations or truths about the Universe in their structure (religious texts often describe a prophet inscribing secretes into stone – this is just a metaphor for what stones actually do). If you recall the pose of a typical gargoyle; many of these poses of gargoyles have them actually keeping their arms crossed and to themselves symbolizing holding on to something – a vibration or truth. Our thoughts are therefore, LIGHT, and light is an illusion, able to be manipulated by the simplest of our thoughts. That’s why I said that this entity is light, we are attracted towards light (wanting to be close to it) because it is natural for us to go to the light; but light itself is manipulative (it manipulated you!). The entity is simply teaching you that you have all the answers you need inside of yourself; we are bottles of Wisdom (darkness) and the light in this world is to distract us from our all knowing power. When it changed into a different form it realized that you recognized who it was and tried to trick you by changing it’s appearance (manipulation of light). I hope this makes sense… but this is just what I noticed when you posted that dream.
An interpretation I was having with my friend Teresea via facebook.
Magic
I always have seen the Science of Mysticism is the science of the chaotic, “unorganized” world and “regular” science is the science of the organized, physical world. Interpreting the future is just seeing and feeling the energy of the unorganized world manifesting into the organized world.
Meditation Space
I find looking at altars very inspiring. I’ve been really getting in touch with my spiritual side ever since I got a job as a professional tarot reader. I’ve been needing a place to meditate and protect myself. So here is what I’ve put together! I don’t worship anyone in particular just the Great Spirit of the Universe. I mostly am an elementalist that uses shapes to convey energy. I created the altar from various objects that I inherited from my grandmother as well as I got from my travels.
The rug underneath the altar is handpicked from the Arizonian/Mexican border during a service trip week with my church when I was in high school. I took it home, washed it and it hung around my room for awhile until I created this space.
The artwork to the upper left corner behind my Himalayan salt lamp is a cunniform piece that some artists did at the Chitchen Itza pyramid when my family and I went to Cancun a few years ago. The papyrus has the Egyptian alphabet and the black and white photograph is one of mine that I took using Kirlian Photography. In front of the salt lamp is my stack of tarot decks.
In the center of the space I have my conch shell I picked up during a trip to Key West and in the stand underneath it I have various supplies and divination tools. The doll dressed in white is a representation of Santa Lucia, the Swedish Goddess of Light (I’m part swedish). Next to her on the left is my athame that I got at Celtic Fest in Bethlehem, Pa. Next to that is my Grandmother’s cross.
I’m currently gathering items for Imbolc and planning for it. So on the small altar table in the very front I have a Mandala deck that a co-worker gave me that I’ve been using for healing meditations and little objects that have a spiritual significance.
In front of the spice Cabinet that I inherited from my grandmothers is my oil burner, crystal ball, Book of Light (equivalent to a Book of Shadows) that I handcrafted the cover for, a Native American hand drum I picked up at a Pow-wow a really long time ago and a plastic crystal ball-shaped container
That is most of the major things on this altar. I hope you enjoy 🙂
Healing Affirmations
For any of my frequent readers, if there are any… know that I’m going through one of the most difficult transformations and times of my life thus far. I’ve definitely seen it all and then some, but the difference is that it has always happened to other people and those indirectly related to me. This time it has been directly related to me and I never have experienced so much pain in my life and I’m happy to say that I am finally turning the corner and heading back into the light!!
In August, I approached someone openly about how I felt about them and questioned their feelings toward me. They had flirted with me for five months the beginning part of last year (around this time). Unfortunately, college ended and I graduated and moved six hours back to Boston to never hear of/from them again, when in fact they said they would ‘keep in touch with me’. Knowing my past friendships + relationships with people whom mysteriously seem to come and go from my life like the tides of the sea, I remained skeptical. Of course, like most of my friendships and relationships go, they never contacted me after three months of waiting to hear from them… call me impatient… but that is a long time to wait for someone to contact them (at least in my opinion). In those months, I never stopped thinking about this person… thinking about how they made me feel when I was with them… thinking about how I perhaps made them feel… the relationship we shared between us was wonderful, alive, and free. It was beautiful. I wanted more… before they did.
There’s more to this story than what I am willing to write here, but let’s just say that sometimes being a psychic has its’ burdens… knowing about something way before its’ supposed to happen can be hard and takes strength and patience to deal with. I was fed up with not knowing where this relationship was going and bravely approached them and contacted them. The main intention of my email was to encourage them to pursue me if they wanted. I did not care if they were in a relationship already, it did not matter as they by the time the semester ended wanted to pursue me no matter what… but instead of a joyous and celebratory response, I got a negative, heart wrenching response that literally tore me apart. It was a blow to my heart, mind and soul and I am not exaggerating.
August slowly went by and September approached and then one morning my mom woke me up as usual but in a really distressed voice. I came downstairs and started my breakfast routine thinking she was just in a bad mood as usual…. and then I noticed something different and my dad stayed home. He came up the stairs and announced my beloved grandmother – the one who always came for games, recitals, celebrations, birthdays, holidays, anything that was significant to our family she’d be there – had died. I broke down immediately as anyone would do in that situation. My whole body shook when I tried to eat breakfast… will never forget my dad and the way he acted that day. Fall then went by in a flurry as we hurriedly tried to clean and get rid of the stuff in my grandmothers’ house and sell it by the end of the year (which we did). During September and October I never felt so much emotional pain. It was like my insides were bleeding from the out and I just couldn’t bring myself back up to the health well being I was while I was still in college (and in love…). October was easier, but then my beloved 16 year old cats’ health began to deteriorate rapidly until I found him in the kitchen one night before I went to bed spazzing and paralyzed and couldn’t move. My heart broke again when I put him in his basket for the last time knowing the next day I wouldn’t ever see him again. We finally had to put him down in the beginning of November. In the span of four months my heart broke three times, all the while I was trying to recover and heal from the first heartbreak.
Breakup is one thing, but rejection from the person who you know loves you and that you love back hurts from the inside out. Especially since there was a deep past life connection to this person and you had the opportunity to have a wonderful soulmate experience and the other person just tossed it away. Tossed it away without ever apologizing to you, leaving you wondering if they ever will, and leaving you hurting – bleeding, each day that goes by it hurts even more. Just because I may have healed my heart chakra, doesn’t mean I’m completely over it. I definitely still cry about it time and time again mostly out of frustration. It doesn’t help that the psychics you work with keep telling you they’ll come around and will profess their love to me.
After my family had to put my cat down, I began job searching once again and one day I was searching and I heard “Tremont Tearoom” pop into my head. I took that as a sign and emailed them asking if they had a tarot reading position open. During the time I had to try to recover from the first heart break I had been consulting my tarot deck as well as using an online forum to help gain insight into the situation. So I had hounded my skills as a reader during that time and got quite good. By Thanksgiving I was hired at the Tremont Tearoom as a part-time psychic. The owner also wanted me to do a few graphic design projects for the tearoom (which was quite fine with me… mixing the esoteric and design? SIgn me up!). In one meeting he told me that I was supposed to be at the tearoom because I was broken… and they by spending time there they’d fix me (tearoom in general). After working a few weeks at the tearoom, I was slowly starting to get my confidence back but I was still in a seemingly perpetual black hole of emotions and sadness that I couldn’t seem to get out of. Christmas time arrived, and I started doing healing meditations because I thought If this doesn’t get me out of this depressive hole I don’t know what will. I had created a meditation space in my room and have been using some of the money I earned at the tearoom to do so as well as using some of the things I inherited from my grandmothers’. I honestly believe a lot of the healing energy that is imprinted in the objects from my grandmothers’ contributed a lot too, but who am I to decide.
So here I am, writing this paper about what I have learned during this time of healing. I used a mandala deck a co-worker gave to me and I thought it was perfect asset to these meditations. Something different, but the same idea. I used the Mandala Cosmic Deck of Initiation by Barbara M. Delong. Fantastic imagery!! Anyway, the astrological signs I took as either a person in my life who will play a big role in my healing or an energy that will manifest once the other cards have been learned.
12/24/12 – Healing Within & Foundation = Session a success? Yes! Started to heal within as mandala deck confirmed it is only the beginning however.
12/25/12 – Capricorn & Taurus & Virgo = They are all involved in terms of healing from heartbreak. (people involved)
12/27/12 – Foundation & Golden Rule (=Universal Balance) = In order to achieve well rounded life, let the universe take its’ course. You have created the foundation. Don’t worry about the rest so much.
12/29/12 – Universal Truth & Law of Limitation (=Law of Attraction) = Sometimes a limitation will reveal the universal truth created by the attraction.
1/1/13 – Universal Balance & Law of Free Will (=Foundation) = Under all great foundations come with an expression of universal balance & Free Will! For a great new year foundation go with the flow!
1/2/13 – Virgo & Universal Balance (=Healing Within) = A Virgo with great universal balance will help heal your heart.
1/5/13 – Crown & Libra (=Pisces) = Using intuition & communication share the accomplishment of a goal and it will free your restrictions to developing your own personality & talents.
1/6/13 – Universal Balance & Universal Truth (=Law of Limitation) = Universal balance + Universal Truth Creates Limitation.
Session a success? Yes! Started to heal within as mandala deck confirmed; it is only the beginning however. This session just spoke to beginning the healing process from within. I may have healed from outside inward, but beginning to heal within from here on out.Capricorn, Taurus and Virgo; they are all involved in terms of healing from heartbreak. This just speaks to the major roles that these signs are playing in my life in terms of the astrological energy itself and the actual signs (people) involved. In order to achieve a well rounded life, let the universe take its’ course. You have created the foundation. Don’t worry about the rest. This affirmation just seems to speak to the fact that what happened was supposed to happen, and that it sparked the foundation for something wonderful (just what the other psychics have been telling me as well…). Sometimes a limitation will reveal the universal truth created by the attraction. This affirmation is just a reflection of our situation. The other person had a position of authority (the limitation) but that very aspect may be apart of the attraction as well for both parties. Both people had a bit of power the other person was attracted to either societal wise or just personal and spiritual wise. Under all great foundations come with an expression of universal balance & Free Will! For a great new year foundation go with the flow! This affirmation just seems to say that if I want things to go well in the beginning of the new year related to the situation I’m dealing with, don’t think so much and just go with it! A Virgo with great universal balance will help heal your heart. This is just saying that the Virgo energy will help me through this situation; energetically as well as actual people too (two psychics who were Virgos have read for me in this situation). The Vigro energy wants me to learn how to adapt to different people and situations by finding ways to make myself useful. Its’ energy wants me to hide my vulnerability, and focus attention on what I’m doing rather than who I am. The energy wants me to deflect attention away from myself, and focus on other people by praising their talents and virtues, or by criticizing fault behavior or personal imperfection. Using Intuition & Communication share the accomplishment of a goal and it will free your restrictions to developing your own personality & talents. This affirmation is just reminding me that when the goal is accomplished to share it with others (the obtainment of the relationship with this person) because by doing so, my personality and talents (?) will grow as an individual. Universal Balance & Universal Truth creates Limitation. And finally this affirmation just confirms that sometimes using great patience and protection of a truth limitation needs to be imposed… and that may mean anything from creating distance between two people or actually manifesting a limitation on the (other) person.
So there you have it! This is what the universe wants me to learn about what I’m going through. Perhaps it could be of use to you as well and what you’re perhaps going through too. <3
Incorporating Perfume Bottles into Ritual/Meditation Work
Etsy has these cute little perfume bottles of animals. Stylistically they aren’t my thing, something I would buy to display on a shelf because generally speaking they are a bit tacky (in my opinion). I tend to combine ideas into new ones and have been thinking on a spiritual level lately and thought I could use these cute animal bottles in my rituals/meditative work for the sabbats. I’m currently looking at an owl bottle for Candlemas/Imbolc in February. I’d wrap up the ritual supplies I used in the bottle and carry it around with me.
Candlemas Animal Symbolism: Bears, eagle, groundhogs, owls, ravens, sheep, snakes, stags
Ostara Animal Symbolism: rabbits, hares, robins, dragons (associated with eggs the earth and fertility), lambs, chicks
Beltane Animal Symbolism: Swallow, dove, swan, Cats, lynx, leopard, goats, rabbits, honey bees
Litha Animal Symbolism: butterflies, caterpillars, sea creatures, wren, robin, horses, cattle, satyrs, faeries, firebird, dragon, thunderbird
Lughnasadh Animal Symbolism: Griffins, Basilisks, Roosters, Calves, Centaurs, Phoenix
Mabon Animal Symbolism: dogs, wolves, stag, blackbird, owl, eagle, birds of prey, salmon & goat, Gnomes, Sphinx, Minotaur, Cyclops, Andamans and Gulons.
Samhain Animal Symbolism: Stag, cat, bat, owl, jackal, elephant, ram, scorpion, heron, crow, robin
Yule Animal Symbolism: yule goat (nordic), reindeer stag, squirrels, yule cat, Sacred White Buffalo, Kallikantzaroi-ugly chaos monsters(greek), trolls, phoenix, yule elf, jule gnome, squirrels, wren/robin
Using these Animal Symbols in our meditative/ritual work we call upon their energy to help us in each season.