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The week kicks off with a diligent Virgo Moon on Monday, urging us forward to get our lives in order through Tuesday. Decision-making, list clearing, and organization of our current projects will be the highlights of this 48-hour phase. The rest of the work week (Wednesday through Friday) flows smoothly under a balancing Libra Moon, with the highlight being Venus’ move into Taurus, one of the two signs it rules. Venus in Taurus will bring out our tendencies for luxury and beauty for the next few weeks, and we could find ourselves strolling through estate sales or online perusing auction sites in search of that perfect lamp, purse, or painting. With the Moon spending the weekend in Scorpio, this is a great time for us to go inward, touching base with our spiritual sides or simply regrouping and socializing as the Gemini Sun promotes conversation, investigation, and fun interactions with the special people in our lives.

Five Ways to Add Joy to Your Life, by Emily A. Francis

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

I have been speaking about joy as a key emotion, one that the body stores, for quite a few years now—and I have a different offering for you about joy and how it is experienced inside your body. Happy is one thing, but joy is something felt deep within the entire body and muscle memory system. Take for example the smell of perfume or cologne that your first great-love used to wear, the smell of a cherry tobacco pipe that your Grandpa used to smoke, or the leather car seats of a new car. Notice how, when something tickles your olfactory senses, you are instantly transported back in time to a place where you felt a height of emotion. Your whole body gets involved. Joy is deeply felt inside when we remember it and when we experience it for the first time.

Joy doesn't just come in the loud moments. Joy shows up in silence. It shows up in the quiet as well as the excitement, and, most of all, in the present. Even if you are reliving memories and re-experiencing moments of joy, you are taking them from the past and bringing them exactly to the present. It's a moment of getting still and sitting with the joy as it comes. That's when you close your eyes, take it all in and savor it for everything that joy is.

Joy is not a buzzword. It is an emotional experience that opens up the senses and nourishes your soul. It ignites your muscles and your mind. While I would love to make this a simple list of things that could add joy to your life, which I will, I want to invite you to find joy for yourself that isn't easily listed. Joy is deeply personal and heartfelt. Finding a bit more joy in your life requires you to put yourself out there into new adventures and new experiences. As I list five ways to add joy to your life, I will ask that you add to this list as you read and see what comes into your thoughts as something you want to discover. Joy comes with purpose, and taking a chance and switching up the regular moves with a few side steps, skips, and twirls. So, let's dive in!

1. The biggest and easiest way to add joy to your life that I can offer is to take a trip. Gifts don't have to come in boxes; they could just as easily come as adventures. Change it up and give yourself permission to use some of your savings and see a part of the world you have always wanted to see. The amount of tickling that this will do to all of your senses is beyond description. Seeing other parts of the world and how other people live opens us up and expands our perception of the world. It's an extremely sacred gift for yourself; take it when you can.
2. Take a new class somewhere near you. Whether it be a cooking class, cake decorating, dance class, photography class…whatever it is, it requires you to step to the right and get out of your comfort zone to elevate your own daily experiences of life. Once you start looking for one, you'll be shocked at how many things have been right down the road from you all along. If you've been contemplating doing something like this, this is your sign to go for it.
3. Change up one of your meals a day. This idea comes to us from the Mediterranean. Food is magic if you know what to do with it. In the Mediterranean, the key is to simplify it. You don't have to learn some new elaborate recipe at all. I'm talking bread, olive oil, cheese, and maybe a nice glass of wine or a mocktail if alcohol is out of the question. Take small, simple, ripe foods that are currently in season and make a little charcuterie for yourself or for whomever you would like to share a meal with. Slice up some fresh bread and take a small amount of olive oil and stir into it some fresh herbs such as rosemary, basil, and thyme (this is the trifecta of spices in Malta) and then sprinkle the herb-infused olive oil over the bread and eat it as is, or lightly toast it. Add some fresh greens and top it with some fresh feta and maybe some pomegranates since it's that time of the year. Top the greens with the same herb-infused olive oil. No need to have to do more than that one drizzling! Something so simple and delightful will immediately make you slow down and be intentional with your meal practice. It's about being present in the food and to the experience as the food enhances your awareness of taste, touch, and smell.
4. Make a date with someone important to you. If you've been meaning to call your best friend or family member, pick up that phone and schedule a date. Go have coffee or tea or wine. Go make that date a priority. Meals are not meant to be eaten alone, and neither are your coffee breaks. In the Mediterranean this counts as a whole meal, going for coffee. It's slow-paced and satisfying. It's stimulating conversation and it elevates a regular day. I do this so much more in the Mediterranean than I ever did back in the United State. All the time, people ask me to meet up for coffee, and I've finally started taking them up on it. It turns out that my days do seem just a little bit more alive when I do this. We are hard-wired to crave human interaction. Stop hiding behind that keyboard and go get your coffee on.
5. This one comes down to you. The other suggestions all asked that you expand in some way and add more or do something out of the ordinary. Joy can come in the smallest and simplest of ways. This one is all about you. This calls for you to sit still for some part of every day for at least seven days and see what you notice about yourself. Learn to take some time out and get quiet so that you can hear yourself think and feel your feelings. It's a time of simple self-reflection and checking in with yourself so that you can ask yourself questions and be clear enough to listen for your natural responses. We spend so much time being told what to think, what to buy, and what to do with almost every aspect of our lives. We are consumed by the outside world so much of the day. I'm asking you to sit still with no distractions for however long you want to be still in some part of each day and then notice how that affects your whole system. It will open a pathway for joy. Let it in.

Joy doesn't have to be some life-changing, explosive experience. It can be felt in a multitude of ways as you open up to its presence. Joy is a sacred energy, and it usually comes with its best friends, purpose and gratitude. To add more joy to your life, simply be open to noticing it when it shows up. Things show up when you do!

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2023. All rights reserved.

I seem to be very sensitive to those I care deeply about. My question is, every time something major or even just upsetting happens in my life, I get jolted awake by my phone ringing in the middle of the night. When I go to answer the phone, there is no one on the other end. My caller ID display also doesn't even register the call, but the ring is so real and sounds so identical to my real phone that it wakes me up. The other night a close male friend of mine and I worked out some serious issues that left me feeling peaceful but also very drained. Around 1:00 a.m., I woke up to the phone ringing, and assumed it was him, but no one was there when I picked up, and no number registered. I then lay in bed thinking and praying for my friend. I often know and feel what he's feeling when we are apart, and I am learning to either turn this off when it gets to be too much for me, or send some loving energy back to him if I feel he needs it. This is just one instance of many. What really baffles me is how I can actually hear the phone ring if it's not really ringing. What is this? Or who is it? And is this truly connected to upsetting experiences in my life?

Noelle

Dreamchaser:

You're actually dealing with two separate things here, so I'm going to break them down. The first is the phone ringing. As I have said many times here, spirits are REALLY great at manipulating the telephone. You hear your phone ringing because it really IS ringing.

When you get down or troubled, every being/ entity around you wants to help, but they can't until you ask for that help. Once we ask, they are like little worker bees scurrying around DOING for us. You said you were laying in bed thinking and praying for your friend and your phone rang. I think that is an amazing example. That is Spirit's representative saying, "We hear you and we are on it." I think that is FABULOUS!

Often people can find LOGICAL explanations for events like the phone ringing, the TV turning on or off by itself, the radio turning on or off, lights flashing, etc. In my opinion, it is very hard to see a logical explanation for continued phone activity with no call displaying on the Caller I.D. and no voice on the other end. Spirit wants to give us signs and that is what is happening here. We can try to find logical reasons for it, or we can just accept it for what it is.

The other thing that you are dealing with is the energy transference that you described that is happening with your friend. We CAN feel someone else's emotions when we are emotionally tied to them (or even when we are not - but that is another column).

You are doing really well in seeing that you can protect yourself from this sometimes draining energy, or turn it around and send LOVE back. That is a VERY important lesson. When we have people who are tapping into our energy in any way, we need to learn how to protect our energy. We can choose to wrap ourselves up tight and not allow anyone to access our energy. We can also choose to go into a bubble so our energy can get out, but no one else's energy can get in to access ours.

Finally, we can be an open channel that just is free-flowing LOVE. I am glad that you see the difference, and are learning how to gauge your energy levels. Your situation with your friend did NOT make the phone ring. It was not him and it had very little to do with him. You were in bed praying for him and sending him LOVE. Your spirit workers simply wanted you to know that they heard you and they were carrying out your requests.

You can ask them to chill with the late night phone calls! They have no concept of human time.

I wish you more wonderful signs from Spirit!

*****

Astrea:

Most of us try to be sensitive to those we love. I can easily accept why you think your caring nature can run deeper than other people's. When you love someone, it's always true and deep, and the level of understanding you feel with those people does seem "MORE" to you in some ways than what other signs allow themselves to feel and communicate.

The phone is probably just ringing in your head, because you don't have to hear the telephone actually ringing to get the message. This is a SIGNAL for you to pay more attention to something that you've either just experienced or just chosen. Somewhere in your past, an elderly aunt or grandmother told you a story (or more than one!), and at the end, she said, "And then I heard a little bell go off in my head, and that's when I knew..."

Your subconscious registered this phenomenon as a small child or young adult, and now, whenever you are facing a difficult problem, situation, or event, YOU hear "that little bell go off in your head." This alerts you to something that is actually going on that can affect you - something you need to pay more attention to.

Everyone gets these "messages" differently. I usually get hit on the head literally, because I'm too stubborn to recognize something as subtle as your telephone sound! I know other people who see a certain item when they are supposed to be paying more attention, such as a color or a feather, or the wind blowing around them in a certain way. To others, these messages come in dreams or visions. Those people are VISUAL, where you are more AUDIAL in the way you receive your messages. "Hearing" the telephone ring alerts you to something you should be examining more closely.

Your Guides have given you a form of communication that seems REAL and CONCRETE whenever you need their help and guidance. It even works for you when you don't know you need to ASK for it. The telephone ringing reminds you that you are never alone, that you are being watched over from Spirit, and that there is always a place where you can get information and understanding about any situation you might find yourself in.

You're lucky! The phone ringing (whether in actuality or in your head) is something to clearly alert you to the fact that you may not have seen every angle of a certain situation. It gives you the opportunity go back and view all sides of a problem. Expect this to happen and use this "alert from Spirit" wisely!

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.