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  • Weekly Astrological Forecast for April 11 through April 17, 2022

    April 11 through April 17, 2022

    Two important astrological events mark this week, as Mars moves into the spiritually-based sign of Pisces and the Moon waxes full in Libra. With Mars traveling through Pisces for the next six weeks, we'll be prone to following our intuition over the facts, as well as making decisions that are unsupported by logic. That's okay though, as bowing to the spiritual urges and acting on them is sure to take us where we want to go during this cycle. We'll be under the influence of the waxing full Moon all week, and this one is famous for surprising us in the area of relationships. It's not uncommon to get a text or call from someone from your past, or, to encounter someone so familiar we are sure we know them from a past life! And, if there are any areas of your life that are out of balance, this full Moon is sure to point them out so we can correct those and reclaim our equilibrium. Monday the Moon will cruise through Leo and offer a fairly easy going day, but once it moves into Virgo on Tuesday, we'll spend the next three days thinking, researching and expressing our ideas and thoughts with abandon. We'll need to take care though, as not all people agree with or appreciate our opinions, so assess your audience before waxing eloquent! The Moon moves into calming Libra on Friday and waxes full on Saturday, making for a calm and peaceful weekend. Enjoy!

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  • Exploring Your Body’s ESP

    Exploring Your Body’s ESP, by Ann Todhunter Brode

    (Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

    Many people haven't thought much about the connection between their body's sensory awareness and extra-sensory perception. They often consider ESP extra-ordinary and practiced only by adepts or psychics. But, it's actually available to anyone who pays attention to their inner senses. Although we're well acquainted with the external senses (sound, sight, taste, touch, and smell), the internal senses often get overlooked. In order to access your inner knowing, you'll need to become familiar with your inner senses. Let me introduce you.

    Your body has four distinct sensory ways to relay information from the inside. Your vestibular system records balance and movement; proprioception registers position and location; nociception detects pain and discomfort; and interoception connects you with internal awareness and emotional feeling. Though all of the inner senses contribute to inner knowing, interoception is the direct link to what we classically think of as the sixth sense or extrasensory perception. For simplicity, let's just call this your body sense.

    Because your body sense has been integral to your physical experience since the beginning, you may think of it as no big deal. But, when it comes to being intuitive, it is. Healers and sensitives have resourced their body's inner knowing for precognition, healing, and psychic ability for centuries. More recently, using imagining technology, researchers have tracked the relationship between internal sensory awareness and intuitive behavior. You may experience a bit of this when a hunch plays out or you think of someone just before they call. You may see it show up in an emotional situation, choosing to respond with your heart rather than your head. Even in a poker game, your body sense may be helping you "know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em." All of these could be just pure chance. But they could also be your ESP at work.

    ESP has several different channels of communication. Depending on how they present, these are clairvoyance, clairaudience, claircognizance, and clairsentience. Clairvoyance, known as second sight, is the one with which you're probably most familiar. But, the other avenues for sensory perception are actually more common. Perhaps, getting a hunch is a kind of inner knowing or claircognizance. Intuiting the emotions of others could be clairsentience, and hearing an inner voice telling you lay down your cards could be an example of clairaudience. When reading the room modifies your delivery, you're definitely being clairsentient. To explore some of these avenues, all you need to do is listen in.

    Listening in to your body sense is a good way to bolster your ESP potential. You can listen in while doing mundane tasks, letting go at the end of the day, or anytime you feel emotional. Listen in during romance. Listen in at work or play, Listen in when you exercise or meditate. Without judgement, observe what's going on. Notice how comfort/discomfort, agitation/calm, excitement, joy, and sorrow feel. As you listen in, observe how your body communicates. Often irrational, ridiculously literal, and rooted in imagery, metaphor, and symbol, body speak will require translation. For instance, when your body shuts down and clams up, it's saying no. When it's in the flow, so are you and all is okay. When you hear a story and you get goosebumps, pay attention. If phrases such as, "Got off on the wrong foot," "Do something half-heartedly," or, "A knee-jerk reaction" come to mind, perhaps you need to get balanced, be in touch, and calm down.

    ESP Explorations:
    You can have fun experimenting with your body sense. Just pose a simple yes-no question, turn inward, and pay attention to what you feel, hear, or sense. Here are some ways this might play out in real life:

    • Listen to your heart. If you want to know if your heart is on board with any decision, bring your internal awareness to your heart center and ask. If the area gets compressed, blocked, or agitated, it's asking you reconsider. If it feels open and calm, the answer is yes.
    • Listen to your gut. Placing a hand on your stomach, think about a project, relationship, or investment, and notice what happens. If you feel a tense, fluttering, or a sinking feeling, your intuition is saying be careful. If your belly feels soft and content, the answer is yes.
    • Listen to your emotional body. If you're with someone, even a stranger, and your body gets a sudden hit of emotion, ask yourself if this is yours or not. If it's yours, it'll feel familiar and informative. If it's not, it's telling you something about the other person's emotional state.
    • Listen to your inner voice. If you're mulling over a question, listen to the words that pop up. These can show up as random sayings, something overheard, or the lyrics of a song stuck in your head. Why not mine these words for meaning to get your answer?

    Think how many times you've been told to listen to your heart or trust your gut or go with your feelings. Perhaps this is where ESP begins. To take it a step further, set a goal to pay attention to your inner wisdom and put it to use in everyday ways. Let it help you make decisions, fine tune communication, be self-aware, and change your mind. Don't be afraid to put it to the test. To start, let your body sense lead the way in the little things and evaluate the results. Like any work in progress, remember that you're learning as you go along. The more you use it, the more accurate it becomes. Putting it to use simply makes it get stronger. Pretty soon, you'll trust it as valued partner for the big things. When you align intuition with intention, you have a powerful combo.

    Social distancing has given us time to slow down and pay attention close at home. Why not take some time and explore something old to find something new? All you have to do is direct your attention inward and be a curious observer. Exploring a bit of ESP is no longer fringy, esoteric stuff. It's literally part of who you are.

    Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2022. All rights reserved.

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  • Double Vision: Big Questions About Dreams

    I know these are some very big/general questions, but dreams fascinate me. Why do you think we dream? Do all dreams have meaning? Do we go somewhere else - to another realm or dimension - when we are dreaming? If I dream about someone, does it mean they are having the same dream I am at that time?

    Gregory

    Susyn:

    You ask some very interesting questions. There is plenty of scientific information available on dreams, so I presume you're looking for metaphysical information here. From this angle, dreams take on rich meaning and importance in our lives. There are all sorts of different types of dreams; let's take a look at the different meanings and messages associated with each of them.

    There is evidence that through our dreams, we can process subconscious fears and concerns. In this way, dreams can be considered problem-solving devices that the psyche uses to address situations we are repressing when we're awake. For example, if we're hesitant about confronting someone in real life, we may have a dream about having a dramatic argument with them.

    Other types of dreams can be considered prophetic. These usually involve us viewing a specific event that could happen in real life that involves people we know. When we have this type of dream, it's always a good idea to write down the details so we can take a closer look at them or compare them to actual events later on. Recurring dreams carry a common theme; they are like blinking lights, trying to get our attention. These dreams usually require that we do some soul-searching or make important changes in our lives.

    Sometimes, we misinterpret an out-of-body experience as a dream when in truth, our spirit is leaving our bodies to explore other dimensions of existence. In this case, we are having experiences as real as when we are awake, we're just having them on another plane. It's true that two or more people can have the same dream at the same time. We don't usually discover this until we compare notes with them. Since most of us don't share our dreams with those we dream about every day, these dreams happen far more than we tend to realize.

    Though we all dream throughout our sleep cycle, we usually only recall a fraction of the dreams we may have on any given night. Notice that you may experience your most vivid dreams just as you drift off to sleep or right before awakening. This is a part of the sleep cycle known as the alpha state, somewhere between deep sleep and full consciousness. In this state, we are more apt to remember our dreams.

    To decide which dreams we need to pay attention to, we have only to note our emotional reactions to them. Whether they create fear, joy or uneasiness, intense feelings indicate that a dream is of particular importance. When we can't forget a dream for some reason, it's wise to get some expert help in interpreting it, for that's a sure sign that our subconscious has something important to say.

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    Oceania:

    Studies of brain waves demonstrate that we cycle through two different types of sleep during the night. During deep sleep, the mind rests and brain waves are steady and long, like those of a peaceful ocean. During active sleep, the mind is busy dreaming. Brain waves become choppy and short, as if the ocean was being stirred by strong winds.

    Imagine electrical impulses blinking through your brain as you dream and recalling significant images, sounds, thoughts, feelings, news and challenges from the day before. As these memories are sorted, the mind does what it always does: it tries to make sense of random data by combining it into a meaningful storyline. One difference between dreams and wakefulness is the fact that, when we're awake, we can rise above the mechanical workings of the mind and evaluate them for meaning. This is not the case during dreams, which is why unlikely events so often seem plausible in them.

    While not all dreams carry meaning, the wisdom of our unconscious minds may see a solution to one of our problems and offer a meaningful message in symbolic form. I recently had such a dream in which I took a house-sitting job for a friend on vacation. On the first night, someone broke into her house and attacked me, but I mustered my strength, overpowered him, and threw him out.

    I next heard a wise voice tell me the job was dangerous. I replied that I was committed to the job and would complete it; should the burglar return, I'd fight him off again. The voice said it was unreasonable to complete this task and suggested I tell my friend I would not risk my well-being. I was surprised I hadn't considered this option. I figured once you committed to something, you made the best of it.

    Upon waking, I looked for parallels in my waking life and found one: I'd taken on a commitment to walk my neighbor's dog whenever she needed me to, for I worked from home and she didn't, and her hours were long and unpredictable. At some point, the commitment became too much, but whenever exhaustion broke into my world, I tackled and overcame it, as I had the burglar. My dreaming mind escalated the severity of the situation to get my attention. Since resigning from the dog-walking job, I am much less stressed. A small change can make a big difference!

    I admit that I could be wrong, but I don't think we leave our bodies when we dream, and I don't think the people we dream about meet up with us or even share the same dream. While dreams provide daily custodial maintenance of our minds, their greatest gift is to offer wise new perspectives on our challenges, along with fresh solutions.

    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.

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