My Love Affair with Astrology

My Love Affair with Astrology

by | Sep 25, 2022 | Astrology, Love Consciousness

Introduction 

When it started.

My love affair with astrology started on my twenty-second birthday, I treated myself to my first horoscope interpretation by astrologer, Vicki Green, who was also my neighbor. The session with Vicki triggered a dramatic shift in my inner world, the second within three months.

Just before Vicki’s reading

My interest in astrology was piqued in July before my birthday. I housesat for a week or two during the summer at a beautiful riverfront colonial style home in Norfolk, Virginia. The house was immaculate, and everything, and I do mean everything was in its place, except for one item that was clearly “out of place” as if meant to get my attention.

Omens and messages for the soul.

It seemed that a book had been carefully placed on the highly-waxed-light- reflecting-without-a-single-speck-of-dust mahogany dining room table. It’s somewhat askew position got my attention. When something stands out like that, it can be considered an omen or message for Awareness expansion.

There is a River

In this case, when I read the title, There is a River: The Story of Edgar Cayce by Thomas Sugrue, the original biography of Edgar Cayce that explored Cayce’s life and work, my inner mystic was intensely intrigued. Once I started reading the book, I could not put it down.

I was appreciatively intrigued to everything written in the book, but several things stood out and one of them was astrology. This was a time the internet was not available to study astrology online as so many currently do. So, the stars were on my radar when my birthday rolled around October 1st. When my neighbor, Vicki, mentioned she was an astrologer, I treated myself to having her interpret my chart.

Having my chart done for the first time.

Sitting there across from Vicki and listening to her read my chart, I was mesmerized. I had not once in my life ever had anyone talked about “me” for any length of time, much less for three solid hours like she did. Vicki said for this first session, she would focus on my birth chart. As she spoke, I felt safe, nurtured and trusting, like I was being completely understood for the first time in my life by this astrologer I barely knew.

A life instruction book that keeps up with the times.

Finally! I found astrology to be a human life instruction book I could really use, one that would teach me how to navigate my life. I felt like I died and had gone to heaven again, so overjoyed at the experience was I. The introduction to my chart gave me the confidence from that point forward to follow my life as guided from within.

I have studied astrology ever since. Even after fifty years of paying deep attention to the study, I am still a student compared to what will come to Light around this simple yet cosmically profound subject.

Most of all, my Astrology chart interpretation pointed me to self-reflect on deeper aspects of my Being. These included profound gifts and traumatic patterns. Astrology prepared me for integrating non-dual existence and how to bring balance to life-navigation in my Earth Dream role as Kaye. 

Helping others with Astrology

I started offering astrology charts to others, for free, of course. Let’s say I was obsessed and would do anyone’s chart who would let me. I would study them for hours and then when the time came, I was ready to share what I could see in their charts.

When I took a job at the Heritage Store in Virginia Beach, the owner offered to send a letter out to his mail-order customers offering my charts for sale, and I could keep all the money and could build a list of clients. Within months, I had mail order clients from all over the United States!

The more charts I did, the more I learned, and the more I fell in love with astrology, and the more I was referred. My business as an astrologer, blossomed, and I always felt like I was doing what I was supposed to do, because it was so easy, and at all sort of fell in my lap.

There’s even more to love about astrology.

Through astrology we learn how connected we are to something much greater than most of us know. We learn that life unfolds in specific cycles and patterns; some support us while others cause us to stop, look and listen to learn to flow with our charts rather than resist our connection to the cosmos.

If we listen to the wisdom of the planets and stars, it teaches us to love and accept our humanness, while discovering who we are and how to feel connected to all that is. The planets and stars guide our best decisions in any given circumstance, and as we increase our listening skills of these subtle but powerful relationships in our lives, confidence grows.

Astrology can show us clarity to better understanding our human relationships, too, and how to get the most out of them. If we’re fortunate and can look at the charts of those we love, we can better understand their motivation, strengths and weaknesses, too.

Finishing up.

Each child is born with something to give. The chart can point to one’s avocation or career path as soon as birth. Having this information can help give a child stimuli, which lines the child up to do what they love from the very beginning. A world that does this will see a huge change in one generation. 

Here’s hoping you enjoyed my blog on my love affair with Astrology. If I missed something, and you love astrology, too, let me know in the Comments. Thank you.

Love and Gratitude for the Planets and Stars,
Kaye

Eight Tips for Wisdom Seekers

Eight Tips for Wisdom Seekers

by | Sep 17, 2022 | Love Consciousness, Spirituality

Introduction

Eight tips for wisdom seekers was written years ago, but recently I was perusing them and musing whether they still stand the test of time in my heart and mind. Of course, being the evolutionary perfectionist I am, they needed tweaking, but you be the judge. Without further ado, then, hey ho, let’s dive in.

One — Divinity Identity/You are not your body or your mind.

You are living in an illusion of individual Consciousness, a spark of vibrational life that appears in a world of dreams via the intent of the Love Consciousness, or your pure, essentially rooted Divinity Identity. Your body-mind-individuality assembles within your Consciousness, which causes your senses to animate with your filtered human perspective, which, no matter how evolved you are, presents limitations when navigating life in perfect Balance and Understanding.

Two — Your thoughts and feelings are not you.

You entered the world of form with a mind containing two tools. One tool is your thoughts for navigating and making sense of this human dream. The other tool is your feelings, which, when you pay attention to their gifts, let you know how connected you are with your Source. Thoughts and feelings seem vitally important in deciphering all the sensory input you encounter in this world of form. The Truth is that when these two tools are in balance with each other, so is your connection with your Source of Being, i.e., Love Consciousness. So, you can see, they are tools, but they are not you. You are much greater than anything you could think or feel temporarily. Use the tools, and let go of identifying with them. They are not you. 

Three — You are not what you eat.

As stated above, you are not your body. However, the body is your Earthly vehicle, your temporary sacred temple of your indwelling Consciousness. Respecting this Reality is the best way to achieve optimum health and harmony. Edgar Cayce indicated that if you, for the most part, are mindful of maintaining harmonious “assimilation and elimination,” i.e., the digestive tract, the rest of your health has the best chance of being in harmony.

Ignore what you eat at your risk; sooner or later, you will most likely experience physical discomfort and suffering, physically, emotionally, and mentally. It’s hard to remember Love Consciousness when your body temple is plugged up and in distress.

You are not what you eat, but pretending you are will give you the best outcome. Health and diet are an arena of life to plunge into childlike curiosity and explore what foods serve the Love that you are. Do the research. Learn what to eat to serve and optimize your body temple.

Four — You do not die.

One day, your body will fall away, much like taking your coat off, yet who you are will remain. You will almost immediately have a greater awareness than you ever had as the human you are now, and this new state quickly expands. It is because your body- mind no longer exist to contain a piece of all that you are.

Further, you will experience considerable freedom, one without end, and a lightness of being that is filled with joy, Love, and everything that is grander than your wildest imagination. You do not, can not, and will not die.

There is no such thing as Death of what and who we are, and it’s a beautiful thing. We do not have to be afraid to die because we don’t. Humanity, for the most part, remains, at best, wholly misinformed and, at worst, duped about this critical detail. Tens of thousands of us whose bodies died came back to life to tell the same Truth. We do not die.

Five — Pain is necessary in this world of form. It’s the suffering that is optional.

Physical, emotional, and mental pain is a guide, suggesting action: a possible call for help, a change in behavior, and/or your perspective. On some level, you are called to relax and get flexible.

The pain gets more intense when you try to resist or ignore these messages. Refusing to accept, see and acknowledge the pain you’re in is suppression, which causes dysfunction, stress, and suffering. The first step is to immediately pay attention to what is happening.

If it is a physical pain you are dealing with and it’s an emergency, get help, then relax and breathe into the pain. If the pain is emotional or mental, remember this. Somebody can’t trigger if you don’t have a trigger.

If you do get triggered, seek to make peace with the underlying trauma, a unique skill-set to help stop much of the suffering in your life. At first, healing trauma in your life might seem impossible because it can sometimes feel like there is so much of it. It helps to stay present and work through things as they show up. Loving yourself more in this way will release trauma, drama, and triggered events and decrease suffering.

Six — You create your Reality and are entirely responsible for your creations.

As a spiritual being, you are very powerful and create your Heart’s desires. Desires are Sourced out of the world of Love Consciousness and then interpreted in the world of form.

You have a birthright that includes your abilities to discern your surroundings, think and/or feel as you wish, and decide your direction based on your desires and internal Guidance. Since you are the Divine Self, you are sacred and are due respect, and so are all the other spiritual beings living in bodies of form just like you.

Seven — You are subject to the consequences of your actions. 

True in thought and deed, every decision has consequences, and no one is immune. For every action, there is an equal but opposite reaction. This Universal Law helps to maintain balance throughout the World Dream.

If you are fortunate, you wise up through trial and error, mostly involving the consequences of thoughts and actions. Practice makes perfect, but not always. You can do your very best and still have terrible consequences, and these things happen, but mostly if one is mindful, one can enjoy the fruits of one’s labor.

Eight — People will be who they are.

You can’t change others no matter how much you want them to change to suit your vision of the world. People tend to act in familiar ways, and only with desire, personal vision, and intent can they/you change.

Expecting others to change their behaviors or thoughts is a well-deformed outcome, especially if you are attached to the change(s) sought. And, what if the person does change? What other changes may come with the one you wanted? You cannot control others; they will continue to be who they are, as will you. 

Conclusion 

The preceding tips can be vital guidelines for making your Earthly experience more fun, pleasurable, and harmonious. I hope you enjoyed these eight tips for wisdom seekers. See you next week. 

Usually, I enjoy writing in the third person plural, but today, I decided to leave the article written in the original second person singular. I was acutely aware of the missing “me” in “you,” i.e., “we.” We’re all in this together, this common humanity. No one is ever left out.

These eight tips for wisdom seekers belong to us all. I hope I didn’t come off as preaching to the choir as I wondered if I might and how you feel about it. 

Feel free to leave your comments. 

Love and Wisdom,
Kaye

Zen Tarot Reading for Mercury Retrograde

Zen Tarot Reading for Mercury Retrograde

by | Sep 11, 2022 | Love Consciousness, Tarot

Introduction 

Inspiration guided me to offer a Zen Tarot Reading for Mercury Retrograde in this week’s blog. It’s a good time for contemplation while flowing with this planetary retrograde motion. It began this past Friday, September 9th, and ends on October 2nd. After that, it usually takes a few days to normalize (whatever that means!) as Mercury moves out of its shadow.

It will retrograde backward through the signs Libra and then Virgo, which call us to seek balance, harmony, discernment, and practicality when looking in the “mirrors” of our lives. If we see a warped reflection, we know we’re in the funhouse instead of on a steady path.

We’ll use Osho’s Zen Tarot Deck created by Deva Padma for this reading. Each image in these cards is intended to pierce the questioner’s mind with an eye-popping awareness that can galvanize increased inner freedom.

Here’s the question for our purposes. 

What will help us to discern balance in the “mirrors” of our lives over these next three weeks?   

The Reading

Zen Tarot Reading for Mercury Retrograde

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The Significator – The Master

Any perceived mastery over others (or us) is short-lived. There are countless distractions in this life, and this is one. Recognizing the parasitic life-taking nature of this kind of so-called power in all its forms is essential for healing and understanding our Real Power, which is within us. Sometimes, we have to see who we are not, to see who we are. This powerful significator shows up in our cards to let us know that it is time for us to master superpowerful perspectives and discernment. 

Where We Are Right Now – Courage

We’re like the flower in the card right now, and while we may seem surrounded by a harsh, grey world of stone-like egoic tendencies, the Love, Light, and Life of who we are shines through the cracking façade of the ego’s crumbling false reality. It takes courage to be vulnerable and let our Light shine against all odds, but when we do, the world around us lights up, too.

What to Integrate for the Best Possible Outcome – Harmony 

The woman’s forehead and heart connect by healing energy in the card, stimulating a worthy vision for her more profound harmony and balanced discernment. The immense power it takes to support her worthwhile endeavor reflects our unfolding. This card shows the path to take that serves the best interest of the outcome of the reading question

Cohesion between our conscious navigating mind and our connecting subconscious mind creates cohesiveness, which is the key to an inner alignment and harmonious manifestation in our world dream. 

The Foundation and Unseen – Ordinariness 

This card indicates our general subconscious health in the matter. We understand how to flow in a relaxed state and be Present in our extraordinary life in even the most ordinary experiences. When others bring drama to our door, we can stay calm and help them relax; our appreciation for the everyday opportunity increases our steadfast compassion. 

Recent Past – Existence 

We came into human existence and, up until now, are still here! We know that we are a microcosm and the macrocosm in our True Existence. And so we share All That Is and the Love Consciousness from which we are all made. 

The Conscious Navigating Mind – Participation 

Participation mirrors the state of our navigating mind that we are not alone in our existence but are cooperative players with others. This positional image balances with the relaxed and flowing subconscious mind of the Ordinariness card.

We are aligning in a spirit of cooperative participation, which supports the Integration position (above) for our best outcome. We are ready to become active participants and to be of service to All That Is. 

Near Future (This next week to a month.) – Slowing Down 

How perfect a Near Future image for this reading! Our cards suggest we slow down, become more mindful these next three weeks, and harvest thoughts that navigate any rough seas ahead with mental/emotional stillness. The images suggest we spend time gathering and directing our ideas in ways already discussed in the reading. Sometimes, we think too much, but now we must take time for mindful critical thinking about how we might best move ahead after Mercury goes Direct. 

Our Perspective of Our Selves – Suppression 

Here, we see we are holding back our Light in some way. It helps to ask the question and seriously contemplate. “How can I release my trauma and shine my Light?” It’s time to let go of holding on to life-taking influences and feel the freedom we came here to experience. It’s hard to be of service to others when there are places we are suppressing Love for ourselves. Suppression (of what is Real) is a temporary state, and we are called to wake up from it. This means seeing that all the life-taking energy and influences we feel has to be let go. 

Hope or Fear – Compromise 

This position points out two sides of the same coin. The fear is we may have to keep compromising what’s important to us, and the hope is that we won’t. Hope and fear are a duality that disappears under the Light of Reality. The True Self does not hope or fear. It understands and has compassion for these states of stuck energy. 

Environment or Guidance – Success 

Larry and I are both White Metal Tigers in our Chinese Horoscopes, so the idea of riding one like in the image appeals to us. Some see this position in the cards as Guidance from Angels or other Beings of Service. If we look at it this way, we’re each guided that this is a time of celebration and success for our endeavors, to keep going, and to celebrate our feline virtues. Purr! Meow! Roar! 

Outcome – We Are the World 

How wonderful that this Mercury Retrograde marks a step toward global Unity and Oneness. As the egoic lies about who we are collapse, a grassroots effort rooted in Love is rising to heal our humanity. We can do this! We can dissolve the dualities that have become full of tension and instead find what Really unites us.

Integration 

This beautiful Major Arcana outcome to our reading portrays the ideal relaxing of opposites, where peace, balance, harmony, creativity, wholeness, and universal law guides us for a change. Imagine that. We master alchemists and lovers of ourselves, and humanity are “doing the doing.” This reading shows our beautiful like-mindedness that brings renewal. It’s already started. Keep putting one foot in front in front of the other. 

Wrapping It Up 

I hope you liked this Zen Tarot Reading for Mercury Retrograde today’s reading, and please share it with those you feel will be uplifted or helped in their healing journey. Add your comments if you like. No pressure.

Love, Light, and Laughter in Zen,
Kaye

Lucid Dreaming, Creative Navigation, and Self-Realization for You

Lucid Dreaming, Creative Navigation, and Self-Realization for You

by | Sep 4, 2022 | Dreams, Love Consciousness

Part Four: 

Introduction

Lucid dreaming, creative navigation, and self-realization for you end this four-part dream series. I initially planned the first, second, and third blogs about the value of remembering, writing down, and getting the most out of our dreams. But after posting the second one, I was meditating and heard the quiet voice within my intuition whisper. “Add one more. There’s more. Write four. Go deeper.”

Questions, concerns, and possibilities for the fourth blog bubbled to the surface of my writing mind. It’s been a thrill to revisit and remember that we can wake up in our dreams and choose among infinite choices. But where to go from here?

Any paths we decide to take in dreams expose us to inner guidance we can’t access in the construct of daily life. But if we up our dream game with consistent application, we can learn to bring balance and power to support the best direction in life for ourselves, those we love, our community, and humanity. I started getting excited all over again at the potential each of us carries with us to affect the whole. So, I decided to flesh some things out here.

It remains my core understanding that everything is here to wake us up to our True Identity in Love Consciousness while detaching from all that isn’t that. In the meantime, we can also learn how to “see, be and do Love” in human life. One by one, and as a community of dreamers, we can revive our gifts to dream of a new and beautiful world for ourselves and all. 

There are no limits. There is no better time than now to empower ourselves and our dreams. The Hawaiians believe that all power comes from within in each and every present moment. We can recognize and realize the truth of this understanding through lucid dreams, creative navigation, and self-realization.

“Sleeping and dreaming,” says Andrew Holecek, author and spiritual teacher, “offer nightly opportunities for spiritual awakening. When you know how to wake up in your dreams, you transform sleep into a portal to the most profound experiences of reality.  

Lucid Dreaming Ideas

Pretend you’re suddenly lucid for the tenth time. You’ve had some fun exploring lucidity, traveling, connecting with others, asking for insight on your work or health, and even releasing a trauma that’s been dogging you for years. Now, you’ll want to set up expanded directions for dream navigation.

What follows are ideas to prime the pump of creating with your dreams and daytime application. These are only a few out of countless possibilities. I hope they will stimulate some uniquely creative ideas to investigate in your dreams.

Creative Navigation

Possible Intentions to

  1. NEW healing modalities for the body/mind that work for most people.
  2. Clever ways to grow food and restore our soil, air, water, spirits, etc.
  3. Develop ways to ascertain the integrity of leaders and aspiring leaders.
  4. Meet master teachers of any subject that interests you and interview them.
  5. Go where you can serve others with your gifts and see where it takes you.
  6. Find “your” tribe.
  7. Probe whether there are alien life forms that help us Earthlings.
  8. The best way for you to share the true power of lucid dreaming.
  9. What do you need to know that you don’t know you need to know?

Dream questing elevates your awareness, and you quickly become a mind-bending creative expression in your sleep and everyday life, too.

There are no limits to the possibilities within. We can make lucid dreaming a pathway to heal our deeply divided society and create solutions to all our problems.

Self-Realization

Delving into my dreams to write these blogs, I eventually asked the question directly. “Can lucid dreaming help us to recognize and realize the Love Consciousness we are?” And the answer is an emphatic yes.

Even though our dreams aren’t who we are, they can help with our instruction and take us to it through dream meditation, yoga, and seeking answers to deeper quests such as “Show me my next step in Awakening.” “I want to experience Love Consciousness (or whatever term suits your heart) now.” “Take me to where I can hear directly from Jesus, Buddha, Kwan Yin, or another favorite self-realized being as to what might help me in my quest.” 

Santata Gamana states in his book, Lucid Dreaming: The Path of Non-Dual Dream Yoga. Realizing Enlightenment through Lucid Dreaming

“Transcending lucidity of dreams into lucidity of consciousness itself, regardless of its current state (wakefulness or dreaming), is the lucidity of the gods. That’s our destination.”

(We do not currently make income from recommended books, links or websites, etc. This blog has been a pure gift of my heart to yours. This could change, but it’s not the case now — so that you know.) 

 

Conclusion

Today, we explored more than a few benefits of interpreting our dreams, how to remember them, what lucid dreams are and how to get started. In this fourth and final blog in this series on dreams, we explored the possibilities of getting more out of lucid dreaming, creative navigation, and self-realization for you.

Through writing this blog for you, I felt a call to action where lucid dreaming is concerned. I want to open a new chapter of lucid dream incubation and exploration in the direction written about in the blogs. Let’s pay more attention to our dreams to see how they can wake us up to what is most important and bring balance to life all around.

Thank you for your comments.

Love and May All Your Best Dreams Come True,
Kaye