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Two major planetary shifts rule the heavens this week, as Pluto moves into Aquarius on Tuesday and the Sun exits Scorpio for the fiery energy of Sagittarius on Thursday. Pluto in Aquarius speaks to great karmic changes ahead, and though they may be subtle at first, we’ll come to see new inventions, resolutions, and an expansion of personal freedom over the coming years, as Pluto will make itself at home in Aquarius for the next 18 years. The Moon hangs out in Cancer on Monday and Tuesday, turning our attention to home and family at the start of the week. Spoiler alert: Mercury will be going retrograde next week, but could start showing itself as soon as this Monday, so watch for electronic glitches and miscommunication! As the Moon enters Leo on Wednesday for a few days, our generosity and humanitarian sides are sure to emerge. The Sun will enter Sagittarius on Thursday, another sign that makes advocacy and justice for others a theme. The weekend unfolds under a Virgo Moon, which will inspire an early “winter cleaning” or making detailed lists about how we’re going to spend the remaining weeks of the year. It could even inspire a resolution list or two, but the main theme is getting organized and sorting through the details that will bring it all together.

How to Develop Awareness of the Aura’s Different Layers, by Richard Webster

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

This exercise will help you become aware of your mental, emotional, and physical bodies. You will need approximately thirty minutes to perform this exercise. Make sure you will not be disturbed, and that the room is reasonably warm. The exercise involves eleven steps:

1. Sit or lie down comfortably on your back. Close your eyes, and take three slow, deep breaths. Allow yourself to relax. Think about your physical body and how it tirelessly works for you. Touch and feel your body. You might stroke your stomach and chest. Gently examine your face, arms, and legs. For a minute or two, appreciate your magnificent body and everything it does for you, day after day.
2. When you feel ready, place your hands by your sides. Take several slow, deep breaths, and then gradually allow all the muscles of your body to relax. I normally start with my toes, and gradually work my way up to the top of my head. Another method is to tense different parts of your body for a few moments, and then let go. This causes the muscles to relax. Another useful method is to visualize the number 100 in your mind. Concentrate until you can clearly see it. Once you can see it clearly, allow it to fade away and be replaced by the number 99. Make this number as clear as you can, and then let it fade away. Continue counting down until it becomes too much effort to continue. By this stage your physical body will be completely relaxed.
3. Become aware of your physical body, and think about your different internal organs, such as your heart, lungs, stomach, and kidneys. In your imagination, feel them in the same way you did when you stroked and touched your body. It makes no difference if you don't know their exact size, shape, or position. Simply feel them in your mind, and appreciate them for everything they do for you.
4. Take a slow, deep breath and forget about your physical body. Think about your emotions, and allow yourself to feel them. Think about something that upset or annoyed you in the recent past. Allow yourself to experience the feelings in your body that this experience created. Notice any changes in your body as you relive this experience. You might notice a sensation of tightness in your stomach. There could be changes in your blood flow, and you might feel tension in your body.
5. Take another slow, deep breath and let go of that experience. Replace it with an exciting, rewarding, or happy incident from your recent past. Again, relive this incident recalling all the details. Notice any changes in your body as you relive this scene. You may feel a sense of excitement. You may find yourself smiling. You may notice something in the area of your heart.
6. Take a slow, deep breath and focus your attention on your heart. Allow feelings of love to flow through your entire body. Notice any feelings or sensations in the area of your heart.
7. Take another slow, deep breath, and this time pay attention to your thoughts. We all have some fifty to sixty thousand thoughts a day, most of them random. For a minute or two, try not to evaluate any thoughts that come into your mind. Simply let them come and go, and move in any direction they wish.
8. When you feel ready to move on, focus on a thought as it passes through your mind. Examine it, and deliberately change that thought into something else.
9. Take a slow, deep breath and lie comfortably, thinking about the meditation you are about to finish. In this calm, peaceful, relaxed state, you can see that you are much, much more than a physical body. You have experienced the effects that your thoughts and emotions have on your physical body. You have seen that you can deliberately change your thoughts. Consequently, although you can't see it, you possess an emotional body and a mental body, in addition to your physical body. You have also experienced an outpouring of love in the area of your heart. This is a chakra position; the chakras play an important part in the effective functioning of your subtle bodies.
10. Remain in this quiet, peaceful state for a minute or two. You might like to repeat some of the stages again to experience the different sensations they provide.
11. When you feel ready, take three slow, deep breaths and open your eyes. Lie still for a minute or two, and then get up. You will find it helpful to eat or drink something after this exercise, as this helps to ground you again.

Excerpted from The Complete Book of Auras, by Richard Webster

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

Do you believe it's possible to affect physical objects with our minds? For example, can people really bend spoons with their minds or move objects without touching them? If so, are there any limits to what we can do? I'd really love to experiment with this, and would appreciate any advice or information you can give me. Thanks!

- Sam

Dreamchaser:

When I first read this question, I didn't know what to say, as I don't have personal experience with telekinesis and don't know much about this subject.

Having said that, do I think it's possible to affect physical objects with our minds? Absolutely! I believe that our minds are capable of much more than we realize. I don't know the exact percentage, but I do know that we are using just a tiny fraction of our brains on a daily basis.

I think that we could learn to do almost anything. One of the most interesting things I ever saw happened many years ago when I was still traveling the world with the band of fools known as the U.S. Navy Divers.

We were sitting in a bar and I was talking to some U.S. Navy SEALs about their extensive training. (They go through some of the most rigorous training in the world.)

To make a long story short, one of them was telling me how well trained their sense of hearing was. To demonstrate, he had me go outside with one of my friends and one of his friends and walk all around. I went back and forth across the street, walked in circles, etc., all the while keeping track of my movements.

When I came in, he told me exactly where I had walked. He said he could hear my footsteps even though he was in that crowded bar with the noise of music, people yelling and other stuff going on. That right there proved to me that we can teach our minds to do ANYTHING.

Some say only people who are actually telekinetic can perform telekinesis. I'm not sure if that is an ability we all have that just needs to be turned on, or if some people have it and some people don't. I do know that we all have various potentials that are dormant inside of us, just waiting to be activated.

Reiki energy and kundalini energy are two examples of energies that need to be turned on or activated. Telekinesis may relate to one of those types of energies. It seems to me that the only way you can find out if you have this ability or not is to learn about it and see if it turns on.

I have no idea how to advise you to start learning about telekinesis, other than to tell you to start reading everything you can on the subject. I imagine there are about a zillion books in print about various ways to train your mind.

I would stick with the more reputable authors, especially at first. Also, in my research I read over and over again that if you can learn algebra, you can learn telekinesis, so believe in yourself and just start studying.

I wish you and the objects around you a safe flight!

*****

Astrea:

My favorite novel about psychokinesis is Carrie by Stephen King. In it a young girl who is battered by a crazy mother takes her anger out on everyone at the high school prom.

From time to time I've had what I call Carrie Attacks. Most of my telekinesis seems to affect electrical current, which may be the way the whole thing works.

I don't set out to zap anything, but fluorescent lights don't do very well around me if I'm in some kind of agitated state. Over time I've learned to control myself better, so while bulbs sometimes pop or shoot sparks, they don't explode and fall anymore.

Bending spoons is not telekinesis. Psychokinesis or telekinesis actually comes from an electrical impulse that moves through the person to the object that is to be moved. It takes a great degree of concentration to control but it CAN be done.

Once a person develops this ability, they can usually learn to move small objects with their minds. I have one friend who turns the water on in the tub before she bathes. She says it took her about four years to learn how to do that, and she doesn't do it often because it unnerves her husband so!

To learn to do this takes tremendous concentration and lots of energy, and it's never as dramatic as it looks in the movies. (I don't know anyone who does this who still eats any kind of meat.)

Lighter things like crumpled paper are easiest. If you can get a ball of paper to roll even a quarter of an inch (and sometimes this takes hours), you're well on your way to moving, well, not mountains, but maybe a cup or the stapler on your desk.

I must warn you: this is NOT some kind of lightweight magic. This can take years of practice, and frankly I don't know many people who have that kind of time to waste on moving discarded paper.

As for spoon bending, I always get a kick out of watching stage magicians do that, and I've had the dubious honor of working with a few of them. Often magicians who do big stage illusions also do something called mentalism.

Spoon bending falls into that category, along with guessing which lock can be opened by a key sealed inside an envelope, or answering questions about something someone is holding in the audience while blindfolded.

I'm not going to reveal the tricks of that trade, but if you're interested, there are lots of how-to books on the subject. To begin, look for books by Ted Anneman, as his instructions are the best.

Before you start, here's a quick tip: Sterling silver spoons are a heck of a lot easier to bend than those made from stainless steel!

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.