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July 17 through July 23, 2023

We'll awake to a Cancer new Moon on Monday, which will instill us with the drive to nurture ourselves and others. The generosity continues on Tuesday and Wednesday as the Moon dances through "big-hearted" Leo and inspires us to lean in and reconnect with those closest to us. We'll have to do a little work this week, of course, and Thursday and Friday's Virgo Moon makes these the ideal days to take care of anything we can't put off until next week. The Sun will make its grand entrance into Leo on Saturday, heralding a four-week cycle of self-love, generosity, and strength of heart. A few hours later Venus will turn retrograde, kicking off a six-week cycle of romance and relationship energy that we'll need to pay close attention to. This is the aspect that can bring lovers back from the past, (though not necessarily for a reconnection), or create the opportunity to magically connect with your soul mate. If we're in a relationship that has run its course, this will become more apparent. And if we have been neglecting the valued relationships in our lives, this will become apparent as well. All in all expect a change in some area of your relationship sector over the next month and a half, which is sure to work in your favor!

Make Your Home a Magical Tool, by Tess Whitehurst

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

Whether you live in a dorm room, a mansion, a houseboat, a studio apartment, a trailer, or anything else, your home is a potent magical tool. Even small changes in your home can create powerful energetic shifts, setting in motion great waves of positive change on all levels and in all life areas.

How, you ask? Let me explain. Hermes Trismegistus gave us the famous magical maxim, "As above, so below." One way to interpret this is that the realm of form is inextricably connected to the realm of spirit, and that each reflects, interacts with, and defines the other. Quantum science seems to agree, teaching that we dwell in a sea of energy and that everything is connected to everything else, whether it's a thought, a butterfly, an atom, a flower, an emotion, or a brick wall.

And these intricately woven connections are constantly present, literally defining and creating reality in every situation and on every level of our consciousness, including the most everyday settings and occurrences. For example, even the least metaphysically minded among us knows that something as simple as the lighting in a restaurant can mean the difference between a breathtakingly romantic evening and an embarrassingly awkward first date.

How magical, then, are our homes! It is impossible to describe the scope of their power. Whether we realize it or not, they define us by simultaneously reflecting and reinforcing who we are and how we relate to the world. For example, every time your freshly showered feet step onto your gorgeous green bathmat, on some subconscious level you might say to yourself something to the effect of, "I am lucky and I am surrounded in luxury." This belief then becomes reinforced, and begins to shape your reality to match it. It's no wonder then that even things that seem small—like a leaking faucet or a lovely little picture on the bathroom wall—can have a profound effect on our psyche (and therefore every aspect of our existence) when encountered every single day.

And, as if that weren't enough, our homes are the sets for the movies of our lives. If the set of Gladiator looked like a Hawaiian luau, it would have been a different movie altogether. Westerns wouldn't be westerns without a bunch of guns, saloons, and swinging doors, and they would probably be a lot more peaceful. What kind of movie do you want to star in? It really is up to you. Setting the stage in your home for what you want to experience in your life is a powerful magical act. For example, if you live alone and you'd like more romance in your life, make your dining table into a table for two. Lose the extra chairs, or put them in the garage. Place a red candle or two in the center. Now, the stage is set! Every time you happen to notice the table, happily imagine yourself seated at it, having a delightful candlelit dinner with a captivating love interest. Then, it's only a matter of time.

Below are some key concepts that will help you to put these ideas into action, and to interact with your home in ways that will positively affect every area of your life.

Clear your clutter. Remember, "as above, so below”? One thing that means is that physical clutter is never just clutter. It always reflects and holds in place unwanted conditions in our thoughts, emotions, and life experiences. And, when we look around our homes and everything we see is something that lifts our spirits and makes us feel good, our lives are characterized by harmony, joy, and success.

So, let go of the extras. If there's clutter in your home, there's nothing better you could be doing than clearing it. Take your time, knowing that every time you let go of a piece of clutter, your energy field is lightened and clarified, which immediately nourishes and benefits every area of your life.

Raise the vibes. As we sensitive folk know very well, vibes are real things. The vibrations of a space are based on prior conditions and feelings, but they also define the conditions and feelings that will occur in the present and future. So naturally, it's important to raise them to a high and positive level. Luckily, there are a number of very fun ways to do so. Here are a few:

• Simply cleaning your home in the usual way (provided you use healthy and non-toxic cleaners) can raise the vibrations in a serious way. You can also add aromatherapeutic oils and/or flower or gem essences to your cleaning solutions to fine-tune and intensify the effect.
• Clap loudly in the corners and around the perimeter of each room and area to utilize sound waves to loosen and dissipate old negative or stagnant energy. You can also use a drum, gong, or tambourine for this purpose. (Please cover food and beverages when you do this, including the food and water of your animal companions, as they can absorb negativity during this process.)
• Smudge with white sage or frankincense to lift and purify the vibrations.
• Mist with rose water or smudge with a sweetgrass braid to call in sweetness and positive energy.

Consciously wield the power of imagery. Look around at the imagery on your walls. What is it telling you, and what conditions is it holding in place? For each picture or art piece, even if it's abstract, ask yourself, "What's going on here? What's the story, or the mood of this piece?" I guarantee that—whether you chose the piece or not—the story or mood the piece describes is, in some important way, showing up in your life experience. That's how powerful symbolism and artwork can be.

Even if all your artwork is generally positive, you might ask yourself if it's reinforcing the conditions you'd like to be experiencing. For example, if you'd like to have more time to spend with your partner, and you have a bunch of pictures of people or animals by themselves, you might want to bring in a few pictures of harmonious-looking pairs. This will help you internalize the feeling of togetherness. Your external reality will then begin to come into harmony with your internal reality, which will naturally result in the conditions for which you aspire.

Let your home be an expression of self-love. Self-love is an all-purpose tonic that helps us to magically manifest all the desires of our hearts. And nothing could be a more appropriate vehicle for giving and receiving self-love than our homes. For example, you might show your love for yourself by:

• Getting new bedding that is luxuriously comfortable and cozy
• Fixing the broken drawer in the kitchen, or getting it fixed
• Organizing your closet
• Creating a meditation altar
• Burning incense or diffusing essential oils
• Buying yourself flowers

Read Magical Housekeeping. Interacting with our homes in a conscious way is a deeply spiritual practice that heals us, balances us, and infuses our lives with blessings of all kinds. And it's a practice that lasts a lifetime! To deepen and fortify your relationship with your home, and to fully activate its magical potential, read my book, Magical Housekeeping: Simple Charms and Practical Tips for Creating a Harmonious Home.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2010. All rights reserved.

Do you believe in bad luck? Is bad luck something that is or can be influenced in the spiritual world, or is it just coincidence? How do you get yourself out of bad luck, if you can?

Thank you!

Irene

Dreamchaser:

Irene, while most of the human race seems to believe in luck, I personally do not. I have learned through my own experiences and by watching other people that luck is something we create, or in some cases like Job in the Christian Bible, it is handed to us. I have also learned that one's mindset about life can create what appears to be more "good" or "bad" luck.

We all go through trying periods in our lives. Some would attribute this to bad luck, and others would attribute it to lessons we need to learn or just plain old living. No one leads a perfect life. Everyone has times of trouble, drama and sorrow. Some people go through very long periods of time when it appears that nothing is going right.

I myself have been guilty of blaming "bad luck" for my experiences a time or two (or ten trillion!). I often hear that expression, "If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all." That is awful thinking. We need to choose mindsets more like, "I sure am glad all this is happening before summer hits so I can enjoy myself then," or "I sure am glad I got that flat tire. I could have been in an accident up the road." That would be so much better for us.

I really do believe that our experiences are products of our thinking. If we think positive, positive things will happen. If we can see potential negatives as positives, we will make the rough spots in life much easier to go through. THAT is how you change your "bad luck" - you change your mindset. Instead of seeing everything as bad, turn it around and see if you can see the good in it. There is good in every situation. I am going to repeat that: THERE IS GOOD IN EVERY SITUATION!

Now, oftentimes we are given a whole lot to deal with at once. Some higher power deems it necessary for our growth to throw everything but the kitchen sink at us. Those are the times when it is REALLY difficult to see the positive. Those are the times we need to poke our heads WAY up over the pile and see if we can look down the road. For example, if your man says he is leaving you, you can choose to look at the present, which is horrible and hard, or you can look up over the pile and envision the future. The future promises that you will be happy again, you'll get to take that class you wanted to take, you'll get to flirt and date again, and your life WILL go on. All of that is positive stuff. Look OVER the pile when you get slammed.

One of my mantras is, "This too shall pass." NOTHING stays the same. Keep breathing and you WILL get past it all AND be better for it.

I wish you far-sightedness.

*****

Astrea?

A wise old man had a horse. The horse ran away, and his neighbors tried to console him. "Isn't this bad luck?" they said. He answered, "Maybe." The next day the horse came back leading six wild horses with it. The neighbors came to congratulate him. "This is good fortune, is it not?" they asked. The peasant said, "Maybe." The next day his son tried to ride one of the wild horses, but he fell down and broke his leg. The neighbors said, "Isn't it a shame?" The peasant said, "Maybe." Then soldiers came to conscript the youth of the village, and the peasant's son was not chosen because of his broken leg. When the neighbors came to congratulate him, you can guess what the peasant said.

When I was working on the telephone, at least 50 percent of the callers would ask me if I saw them winning the lottery. I only saw that once in five years, and that person won five thousand dollars. She called back the day after to fuss at me about her BAD LUCK at only winning that SMALL amount. (At the time, this was a FORTUNE to me!)

A man who falls madly in love with a married woman with three kids may say to me, "I can't believe I had such bad luck to fall in love with someone who was already married! Why do I always have such BAD LUCK?"

Well, I bet you can see where this is going. One person's good luck is another person's bad luck, and it's the individual's perspective that makes all the difference. If you THINK and PERCEIVE that all you're having is bad luck, then surely, that is all you will have. If you welcome the events into your life as they occur with an open mind and heart, then you will begin to see that luck is something you CREATE, not something that falls out of the sky.

We can change our bad luck to good. If we live our lives in Spirit, then we have an easier time of things. Having faith that God will work FOR us seems to lead to general happiness.

Certainly prayers are often answered, and our Guides and Angels do their best for us, but as long as we are creatures of conscious thought and Free Will, we can think that we are victims of our "luck." The person who seems SO LUCKY to us may have just as many issues and problems as we do. On the whole, however, a person who has a positive outlook will have positive experiences, and a person who insists on seeing the glass as "half empty" is not going to have great "luck." While Spirit can assist us, it's up to us to create what we want in our lives. To change the bad to good, change the way you LOOK at things that happen in your life. It's easier than you think!

Astrea:

Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.

Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!

While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!

I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!

As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.

I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.

You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!

Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.

A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.

You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.