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Things run pretty smoothly this week, with the highlight being Tuesday's new Moon in Taurus. Grounding, affirming, and positive, it will set the tone for the next two weeks. The Moon resides in Taurus Monday through Wednesday, setting us on solid ground and encouraging us to get new ventures off the ground. A time of socializing and celebrations rules Thursday and Friday under the Gemini Moon, as we seek out like-minded souls or celebrate milestones in our lives with friends and family. Prepare to be a couch potato this weekend, as the Cancer Moon promotes rest and relaxation. It's also an ideal weekend to take on a creative home project, whether it's painting that bathroom or grabbing some new furniture for the living room or office. Because Cancer rules the home, it's all about adding more comfort and function to your world!

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.

Greetings from Europe. We are living near Frankfurt in Germany. For the past two years, we've experienced great trouble with one of our neighbors. The main issue is a prohibited parking area in front of our house, which they constantly violate. As old streets in Europe can be extremely narrow, our house was frequently damaged by passing cars. We therefore pushed to establish this as a prohibited parking area. Since then, the neighbors ignore us. In addition, they are constantly trying to damage our house, but as long as we don't catch them, the police can do nothing. Video cameras are not allowed, as the public street would be part of the camera's watch area. Our efforts to talk to them and offer peace proved absolutely in vain. My husband and I feel that strong negativity is coming from this family. Our other neighbors keep their eyes, ears and mouth shut in order to avoid getting involved. Sometimes I feel depressed about this and even want to move away, but what shocks me most is the fact that these people can consciously wish harm on others. What is the right thing to do? Is there a spiritual way to resolve this? I was born June 20, 1961, and my husband was born November 24, 1946. Thanks so much for your insight.

Birgit

Dreamchaser:

I'm really glad you asked this question. You may think things like this only happen to you, but there are a whole lot of bad neighbors out there. I am actually asked this question quite frequently.

I know this will sound a little crazy or nutty, but you have tried being nice and that didn't work. You tried appealing to the authorities, and that didn't work. Now it's time to bring in a little Southern Justice.

Get yourself a whole chicken. If you can get an unplucked one with the feathers and the head on it, that would be fantastic. Get yourself a bowl with some ketchup or something else red in it.

When you know they are home, go out in the street in front of their house with this chicken, the bowl of ketchup and some pots and pans. I want you to dance around in the street with that chicken and talk in gibberish so it sounds like a language they have never heard. I want you to splatter the ketchup all around the walkway in front of their house AND your house. Make sure you have the area where they park splattered really well.

Bang the pots and pans together and make as much noise as you can so that they will look out to see what you are doing. We want them to think that you are calling up some BIG powers to help you with this problem. This is a form of psychological warfare, if you will.

Next, get a container of regular table salt. I want you to pour the salt all around the parking space that they use. Make sure there is a very visible line. It is a well-known fact that salt will keep out negative energies and spirits. I often advise people to pour it around the outside of the foundation of a new house, or a house that they think is haunted.

As you are pouring the salt, I want you to say the following words: Universe, I command you to help keep this space clear. I have tried all the legal methods and nothing has worked. Now I command you to assist me in this matter. I am tired of my property being damaged by rude people. Thank you for your assistance.

Then you will need to stand there looking at their house for at least fifteen minutes. Do not say anything or do anything else after that point. I'm sure that once you do all this, no matter HOW goofy it sounds, your problem will be resolved. I am going to liken this to when you have a child that misbehaves. Sometimes if the child just sees the paddle, the child will behave without you having to actually USE the paddle.

We all know what we wish on someone comes back on us three times over, so do not wish them any further harm.

I wish you open space in front of your house and wonderfully reformed neighbors!

*****

Astrea:

Bad neighbors are awful. For the past few years, the people who bought the house next door to ours have been dreadful, so I know what you've experienced.

Ours even tried to build an eight-foot fence right in the middle of our DRIVEWAY! When they moved in, I tried to be friendly, but over the past years it has become apparent to us that they're trying to get us to move away. I sense that yours are trying to do the same thing.

Let me share with you what I learned about this situation: You can't control the actions of anyone but yourself. By becoming angry and trying to "catch" them all the time, you give them energy to create more nastiness for you.

The ONLY peaceful thing you can do is to BECOME peaceful about the whole situation. Remember: they won't always be your neighbors; sooner or later, one of your families will move.

Since there is nothing you can do about them, try to not see them at all. If something happens to your house, repair it. Since you already know things ARE going to happen, if you're prepared for them, then they won't hurt as much when they do. If they try any form of ugly behavior, ignore it. Don't let it enter into your harmony.

Learn that your anger towards them is pointless, because they don't care what they do. What that anger and frustration does is harm YOU.

Meditate on the WHOLENESS of the Universe, of which your nasty neighbors are a TINY part - and so are you! When you think about the overall vastness of the Universe, it doesn't seem so important what other people do.

As difficult as it is going to be for you, you are going to have to figure out a way to see these people in Love and Light. I PROMISE as soon as you stop all the animosity towards them, it will cease to be fun for them to do bad things to you and your property, and they'll stop. They are so starved for love and attention that acting the way they do is the only way they understand to get it.

I know from your birthdays that these folks enjoy the reactions they get from the two of you. They are highly entertained by your anger and frustration, and that is why they keep up the nastiness. If you can remove yourself from this FEELING of anger, you won't be so upset any more.

I know that protecting life and property is a basic instinct in all of us, but you can learn to just dispel the anger you feel for them each and every time something happens.

Finally, pity these poor people who have to harm others to get their kicks. Karma is a powerful thing, and eventually it will catch up with even those who seem to get away with everything. That is going to be a VERY sad day for them.

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.