Meditation and Psychic Healing

I was at the New Living Expo last year, and got a reading from some folks at Psychic Horizons (students in their program--a good reading), and I saw them give a talk, and they were one of the better presentations I felt.

When I either get a new job or start making more money, I will be taking a class in this program. They seem like they take a really no-nonsense approach.

Anywho, I'm checking out their website, and they have some free introductory videos, and I'm watching them, and I notice that people in the class are talking about the feelings that they have in their bodies during the meditation.

I also noticed myself some pain-ish kind of feelings in my head during the meditation. Anyone who meditates knows that when you do it, you are often distracted by feelings in your body, and in a way, this is your body tuning in to itself.

Listening to the woman in this video, I'm realizing that's the beginnings of psychic healing (of your own self anyway, and once you get good at doing it for yourself, being able to help others probably soon follows) because if you can feel it, that is part of knowing how to access it to change it.

(Approaches the blogosphere, like Bill Hicks with a third eye squeegied clean, eyes burning with conviction and comedy, imaginary cigarette between fingers--it's good for gesturing and punctuation!)

Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize, Stephen Colbert was on Larry King this weekend, and I got up before noon this morning. I looked at myself in the mirror and said, "Hey, I'm a witch, damn it!"

You see, I decided something, folks. All of this depression and life circumstances stuff is gonna leave. I'm gonna use everything. All of my knowledge, my Silver Ravenwolf books, my Tarot cards, my pantheistic gods, my relationship to the angelic intelligences, is gonna be brought to bear on this problem.

I am gonna develop my own techniques, meditational formulas, etc. And I will win.

How much do we love me right now, guys?

Mood: awake
Music: "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor

As It is Written, Let It Be Done...

Over the past couple of weeks, I have been thinking about the fact that though I have been kicking around the periphery of paganism for many years, I have never actually joined anything, or had any kind of ceremonial ritual setting myself apart--I did when I was a Christian all those years ago, but not as a pagan.

I almost had one last year with a group, but backed out at practically the last minute. It wasn't the time, these weren't the people (although, I hasten to add, many of those folks were very cool people.) Since that experience, I've come to believe that my spiritual path needed to be solitary, although that didn't mean it was any less of a path than someone initiated into a group, an order or a coven.

In the past few days I received *signals* that now was the time, that I should work up a self-dedicatory rite, and perform it.

Therefore, let it be known, that I, Hermgirl, today dedicated myself to the service of all the gods, to the honor of the Lord and Lady, to the glory of Hermes my patron.

The Oracles

Tarot: Two of Cups, Three of Swords, The Hermit.

I believe the significance of this is that we have two disparate forces, the two of cups and the three of swords are like yin and yang, love and hate, pleasure and pain, coming together. Adding two and three gives you five, which is the number of the Hierophant, which is my soul card. This represents the good and bad in all people, and the need to accept them both together. The Hermit is a counterpart of the Hierophant, where the five is about orthodoxy and teaching and listening to teachers, the nine is about going off alone and listening to your own still small voice. Also the significance of 2007 as a nine year.

The I Ching of Mi-Lo: Trigram 64

Before Completion: Things are difficult, but ther is great promise. Be careful and very deliberate. You could still blow it. Do your due dilligence before proceeding.

Bibliomancy:

His blade of human knowledge, natural astuteness particularized by long associations with cases in police court, had been tempered by brief immersions in the waters of general philosophy.--from The Portable James Joyce

Theme of the year: Gnosis

We'll see how things are in a year and a day.