meditate

My clients often ask me how to communicate with their animals. The most important skill you must master before you attempt telepathic communication with your pet is the art of relaxation. If you follow these basic instructions you can achieve a state of relaxation rather quickly. Unplug the phone, turn off the television and radio, lock the door if you have to. If there is a particular piece of soft music you like, listen to that. I like to be still and quiet with no music. You will find what works best for you.

Can you smell it? Come on, breathe deep, in through your nose. The air is changing, rebirth and renewal glides around us like transparent layers of peace. The chill is gone and the birds have changed their symphony to one of hope and anticipation. Spring is here.

So what should I write about in this season of rebirth that has any tie whatsoever to grief and loss? Where is the thread that is woven through both issues? Grief is negative and full of hopelessness. Spring is about optimism and joy and… resiliency. Oh, resiliency, an occurrence of rebounding or springing back. I think I've found the correlation. But now what should I do with it? Hmmm. I'll be right back. I need coffee, and maybe so do you?

From my 2010 overview (written in 2008): “In 2010 disciplinarian Saturn and change-making Uranus shift signs from adaptable Virgo and Pisces into proactive, dynamic Libra and Aries, and they both form an unsettling, innovative T-square with transformative Pluto in Capricorn. ..While this wild astrological earthquake can break open the potential of the future, it also puts stress on the cracks in the culture… Stress along the fault lines can literally shift the ground underneath us as the elements remind us of their primordial power.”

As I sit to type this article, I become conscious that my writing is really more of a message than an article. It is a communication, a means to share what’s in my heart and some of what is in my gut, with you, the reader. I also realize that I do this with intention; an intention to give you hope, to touch you, to bring tears to your eyes. To be with you, to actually sit with you and to listen to you. Am I there in the room beside you as you read this? You decide.