Ok so let’s have a gender debate on whether as a female you’d pay a sex worker or not?

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I have an awful feeling thanks to Julia Gillard there are a lot of women who once might have shown some interest and passion towards the whole subject of sexual equality but now just find the whole thing temporarily tiring and cheap.

 Last week that rubbish about men with blue ties and god knows what, was really just the icing on the cake.  There’s no two ways about it, she uses the sexism card in a manipulative and utterly transparent fashion and I find her depressing for so many reaso.

 So although a conversation that broke out amongst a group of girls I was with late last week might have been deemed a little what goes on tour, I decided that it also might be time to have a ‘sex’ debate that had a slightly new angle and wasn’t purely designed for any brownie point convenience.

 It started with one of the ladies saying “If I won Tatts Lotto tomorrow I would treat myself to new sheets every day and someone to make the bed so I could have that new sheets feeling every day.”

 Without missing a beat, another single lady in her 40’s, who runs her own successful company, and who’d had a fairly intense work week, shot back with “If I won Tatts Lotto tomorrow I’d pay a gigolo to come around and give me some loving every Monday night.”

 Miss Sheets then responded by saying what a great idea it was and that she’d also part with cash for that. 

 The interesting part of the suggestion was that it became clear as we went around the room of 8 ladies, is that exactly 50% of them were adamant they would do the same if they knew there was a company out there that would be discreet and none had any issue whatsoever with the idea of sex in their home with a complete stranger. 

 Now this is what I call real sexual equality?

 I was left a little bewildered by all this, not only because of was on Team ‘No Thanks’ to sex and paying for it with a stranger but more so because it seemed to be something half the room not only had thought about, but was bang up for.  For want of a better expression…

 Naturally the columnist in me was gagging to get a few more details so I asked the first girl why Monday night?  To which she explained it would take the ‘edge’ off the week.

 Another mentioned Wednesday, ‘hump day’ as she called it, without appearing to be making an intentional ironic and cheesy joke.  Her reasons, ‘just something to look forward to, to get you through the rest of the week.’

 ‘It’s not to replace the emotional connection that we’d all love in a relationship; it’s simply like buying a block of chocolate, it’d make me feel good and I work bloody hard so why don’t I deserve it?’

 All of the pro-gigolo girls agreed the guy didn’t really need to be that attractive, ‘he just needs to know what to do and have the right equipment in order to do a good job.’

 Statistics were then flying all over the room such as supposedly 85% of all tradies getting hit up for sex on their house calls by women.  Facts that clearly will not be substantiated in this column but certainly sounded scintillating on the night.

 I have no doubt the whole thing may seem a little gross to those who sit on my team where that sort of concept just doesn’t have any appeal.   And it may leave a larger portion of women than men wondering what sort of bizarre females I choose to hang out with, however if we women want to be truly considered as equals, then we need to accept this sort of conversation is one that has been had amongst the boys dating back as far as we go.

 It may not deserve national debate, but nor did that blue tie nonsense last week.

WOMEN BEHAVING BADLY CAN BE FUNNY….IT CAN ALSO BE DRAINING AS HELL

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Since when did watching television become more draining than running a 15K marathon?  Apparently since women carrying on like bitchy teenagers became oh so fashionable.

I just cannot believe how saturated our TV screens are becoming with all these terrible reality shows that promote women who have no regard for anyone else’s opinions nor any sort of respect for themselves.

I feel partly to blame for this new craze of crazed women who will snipe and swipe on queue, because I became a fan of one of the original bitch-fest TV successes out of America known as the Real Housewives of New York.  Since then TV franchise has become a huge hit which now includes other American cities where the women are equally kicking off about all and sundry.

It’s possibly a cop out to say, that this sort of show was right up my couch potato alley because I find human behaviour really rather fascinating.  This particular show was a fascinating and shocking insight into the extremely unevolved minds of wealthy women with disappointing life priorities.

The women on this show made bitching or being self-righteous their priority over what seemed to be their children, their husbands and anything else of real matter.

But the show with its women behaving badly framework seems to have had a spin off effect on the shows being made here locally.  Which is not at all ideal.

I’m not a cooking show fan, so I realise I’m in the minority here but I couldn’t even bare the TV ads for that last series of My Kitchen Rules, which was purely thanks to this embarrassingly obvious format of going “hey here’s some clichéd outrageously bitchy girls dishing it up to the other contestants”.  But it went on and on.

C’mon, are we really that fascinated with such one trick pony?

As for Celebrity Apprentice, I mean, can you shut up and let me speak please….? A line I’ve pinched from pretty much every episode of the show thus far.

How sad it is that the likes of Prue and Roxy are showing Australia just how some women seem to think they need to behave in order to appear powerful. Just being mouthy and socially ignorant does not make a tough woman in the positive sense of the word.  It just makes them appear tough.  A bit like beef jerky.

Although these women could be easily dismissed as knowing how to play up for the cameras, which naturally there is plenty of that going on, the infuriating thing is that it undoes so much of the good work women have tirelessly been chipping away at for centuries, in order to not be taken seriously and not be unfairly stereotyped.

No one wants to be around the energy of these sorts of women.  I certainly don’t and even though I make a concerted effort to weed out these toxic personalities in my real life, even just flicking over to watch shows that celebrate these monsters is draining even just from my couch.

Cat fights and female drama on TV is becoming really, really boring.   It’s contrived and it makes me wonder, how dumb exactly the TV networks actually think we are?

The ladies on Celebrity Apprentice have done themselves absolutely no favours and reputations stick.  Stephanie Rice has shown she has no respect for her elders, let alone someone she claims to have always looked up to.

She cried like a baby, hurt that Dawn Fraser had hit back at her nonsense.  She showed that just because she says Dawn was her hero, in reality she’s proved what she’s really saying is, ‘I admire her achievements back then but now she’s just an annoying old lady’, which stinks.

Roxy and Prue epitomise that so yesterday attitude of how to be a successful woman in business by steam rolling everyone.

If only there was one more button on my remote, one labelled SHUT UP! I’d push it a lot.

She’s played countless fictitious heroines but Angelina Jolie has herself always been the toughest character of them all

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When Angelina Jolie isn’t in the news regarding her movie roles, she’s usually making headlines for trying to save the lives of the less fortunate, in so many ways and so many countries that it would require most of this newspaper pages to cover.

She is the type of woman who most women can’t deny they are fascinated by.  What is she like?  Would she steal my husband then save my children from impending danger all in one afternoon?  She is one of the greatest enigmas of the modern age and appears to be just as powerful and heroic as the characters she plays.

It is with a sense of tragic irony that a woman so well known for trying to do her bit to save or improve the lives of so many others, has been secretly faced with the question of how she go about saving her own.

If the pure thought of any woman faced with the decision to have a double mastectomy full stop wasn’t a great enough challenge to get one’s head around, hers as so many other parts of her life have been, has the extra layers of facts to weigh up.

What I mean is as we know although she has been diagnosed as having a rare genetic gene known as BRCA1, which is believed to carry a high risk of causing breast cancer, she does not at this point actually have breast cancer.

Any woman facing the thought of losing their breasts, albeit having a reconstruction, would be a seriously shockingly painful thing to endure.  As women our breasts are one physical element that define us and that make up our feminine selves. And most of us thankfully through good health are able to take them for granted.

So on top of all this, I can’t help but wonder what other factors or beliefs she might have had to grapple with, given, and as a presumption, that someone who has lived such an extraordinary life such as she has, often has heightened spiritual beliefs about the world and the human mind, purely because the one they are living, is on a level that is so surreal compared to most of us.  It’s why so many hugely famous people tend to follow a religion that isn’t mainstream because they themselves don’t live in the mainstream.

They don’t follow unusual religions because they are bored or because they’re trying to be cool and different, they follow them because they yearn for answers to what doesn’t always get answered through the more simple religious doctrines the rest of us tend to follow.

I wonder then in regards to this, how she sifted through both sides of the subject of the power of the mind, which is infused in most spiritual philosophies?  As written and discussed in thousands of best selling books, the power of the mind is believed to be something that can through the right mind training and disciplines, manifest incredible things that we do want in our life.

 

But the power of the mind can also work in a negative way by the fact that if you have something in your mind that you fear, then it is equally believed in some cases, that that can also manifest itself to come true if it’s on your mind often enough.

Not to diminish scientific facts that show in many cases someone having a high risk of a genetic disease does end up coming true, but many popular spiritual teachers believe this can sometimes also be reversed.

Angelina will be hailed as a hero for her decision to have her preventative double mastectomy because regardless of anything, she has proved she is one in every sense of the word. But I don’t doubt, that for someone as complex as Angelina, her choices would have played even more deeply on her mind than some of us may think.

Either way, once again Angelina has been the catalyst for a subject worthy of complex thoughtful debate all over the world.

When was the last time you had a pap smear test ladies? There’s NO excuse to keep putting it off

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When was the last time you had a Pap smear test ladies?  If you don’t immediately know the answer to this question, then you are the reason why I’ve just shot a lighthearted video about a heavyhearted issue for the dedicated bunch at SA Health.

Our aim with shooting a video that’s pokes a bit of fun at the issue is that we all know without doubt there’s a couple of reasons why we don’t even chat about the subject that much even with our girlfriends.

Firstly, no one’s every going to really get excited about having any part of their body scraped with a silver implement are they?

And secondly, no one really wants to talk about something that might have been sitting in their ‘to do’ box for far too long, when they know damn well that they’ve just been nagging someone else to do the responsible thing for themselves, yet they can’t do something similar for their own health safety reasons.

Sure we can put off paying for the electricity until that very last moment when the reminder bills get so covered in red ink that they’re practically growing horns and slapping you across the face.

We can even put off going to the dentist and just pray that our absence won’t result in a drill stuck in your mouth and leaving with a lisp.

Mothers especially can always find an endless list of things they believe they have to get done to make sure everyone else they love in life is looked after, yet when it comes to themselves, it gets thrown so far down the list that it’s either flat out forgotten or it becomes that thing that pops in your head every so often but gets shut down with a “It’ll be fine!” or “I’d rather not know.”  The latter of which is a cop out which only results in playing a game of Russian Roulette with yourself.

But the fact is, cervical cancer is a reality for all women but it doesn’t have to be a death sentence in 90% of cases if we just committed to getting checked regularly.

I wonder how many men, have asked their partners lately, “When was the last time you got checked?”  Probably not nearly enough because we women don’t even discuss it even though we workshop everything else absolutely ragged.

What SA Health cleverly wanted to do by filming this video which you can check out on their website http://www.sahealth.sa.gov.au is put out there a little viral campaign that all of us can forward on to the women we love, via email, Face Book, or even Twitter to remind them that just because you may be concerned that you might get back a result that isn’t completely clear, in most cases the whole point is that if you get a test that says you’ve got unusual cells, then you can get them treated before it’s too late.

I remember not being so great with my regular checks, that when I finally went for my test the receptionist informed me that the doctor wanted me to come back to discuss my results.  24 hours later and with anxiety almost blowing my eyeballs out of my head, I was told they just needed to have another look to make sure there wasn’t a problem.

There wasn’t thank god but I won’t be ever that slack with my health ever again.

The whole point is that it’s up to all of us to remind each other that putting certain things on our life admin to do list just has to be done.  If we all just took a moment to ask a woman we love when the last time they got checked was, there would be far less statistics of women who die of cervical cancer.  It’s that simple and it’s that crucial.

As our video says, cervical cancer can be as aggressive as a Boxing Day Sale, a simple way to avoid this is to just going and get checked.

 

 

 

 

Just because I strut around carrying a computer all the time, does NOT mean I have a tech-ing clue what I’m doing with it

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I spent 3 bloody hours trying to Skype a friend yesterday.  Boringly my internet usage ran out so I then had to café hop up and down a busy street searching for free WIFI which wasn’t as easy as I’d thought. Eventually at the near three hour panic mark, I thought I’d hit the jackpot.  

However now I’m sitting at the shittiest café on the strip, perched on a dirty brown seat that might get me pregnant , so low down in comparison to the table that if I’d actually been able to Skype connect, I’d have appeared as suspicious pair of eyes at the bottom of my friend’s screen.

The following day after no less than 30 emails to my friend keeping her updated on my progress as if I’m running the Amazing Race, she replied “Wow Petts you’re having a serious tech nightmare!”  This was a nice way of saying ” Wow Amber, it’s really not that bloody difficult, what is your problem girlfriend?”

What I was, am, and quite often having, and what I feel should be added to the dictionary, is a serious tech-mare!!  Close in every way to a nightmare except you’re awake but you still can’t quite get there. Helpless and hopeless…

So it was a rather surreal moment last week when I had two women accusing me of being a techno genius.  I mean I’ve been called a couple of things in my time but techno genius?  Nope.

The serious misunderstanding as I saw it, occurred whilst on a night out at the movies with my mother and her two friends, when I glanced over at one of them who was squinting away trying to read a text from her son. She pulled the phone in close to her face, then away and so on.  All the while mumbling about her age and being totally blind without her glasses.

When I too squinted at her screen, I remarked “I don’t think it’s your eyes, a four year old would struggle with that, it’s so dark.”

Apparently she’d been having ongoing problems with her new Iphone, not being able to read texts or even hear when it was ringing.

I grabbed the gadget out of her hand as I warned given my track record with phones and anything that has an ‘on’ button I was unlikely to be of any help.  I went into her settings, turned the brightness up, then the volume which were both at their lowest setting.  .

Shreaking like she’d just won Powerball or stumbled on a plunge pool in the desert, she starts accusing me of being a ‘technical genius’, as my mum and the other mate start backing her up.

Mum even starts bragging “oh she’s always been amazing at things like that!” Um, no I haven’t Mum, you’re making that up.  Anyone that’s ever known me,  knows as a running joke that I lose the plot all the time over technology.  I just DO NOT get it.  But now, apparently I’m the incarnation of Steve Jobs.

My point in all this nonsense is, you may think that the whole world knows something that you don’t because you didn’t grow up with technology. I’ve finally taught my 71 year old mother how to send emails and she thinks it’s heaven but she was never going to get there with her $80 an hour IT guy coming to her home because she was too self-conscious so she learnt nothing.

I’d call her after he’d left every time and say “so when am I getting an email?” , to which she’d reply that she still didn’t really know what to do.  I couldn’t quite understand what was going wrong until I realised she was just having a brain block through fear, not because she didn’t grow up with technology.

Think about who you might be able to keep in contact with more by knowing the basics, that would really make your day?  Grandkids overseas, old friends interstate? Then try to destroy the illusion that  just because people like me who carry their computers everywhere, does not mean we have a clue what we’re doing with them, a lot of the time.

One of the best websites I’ve found if you’re interested in the Moon Cycles and how they might affect you

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FROM www.thepowerpath.com

The theme for May is MANIFESTING.

This is a very powerful month and you would be wise to use it well. The theme of manifesting brings up many areas to work on. There is plenty of material around this theme for growth, change, elimination, study, breakthrough, expansion, balance and alignment. It continues to be a creative time with lots of opportunities for beginnings and endings but the main focus that will give you the most for your efforts is the study and understanding of what MANIFESTING is all about. So treat this month as a daily workshop on manifesting and set an intention that you will end this month with a greater understanding and ability to manifest. Insert the intention for magic and miracles whenever possible as this is a good month for both magic and miracles.

This will require exploring your current beliefs about how everything in your life becomes manifest and understanding it in such a way that you become empowered with the ability to be more conscious about how you manifest your life. This understanding is crucial at this time as we are in the window of eclipses (there are two this month and there was one in April) providing us with great power and opportunity and offering us a portal for changing what we believe about our ability to have what we want.

In recent years there has been much study and a greater understanding of the quantum field, the energy that holds all possibilities, and how to access it to change certain trajectories and cycles that seem to run our lives. For most of us it still remains a deep mystery and we are always trying to understand the mechanics of how and why we manifest what we do.

Why do some people seem to manifest great financial prosperity and others struggle their whole lives with a deep poverty consciousness?

Why do some people manifest good relationships that others only yearn for?

Why do some people manifest nothing but misfortune with every decision?

You could blame the differences on astrology, poor imprinting, your parents, karma, and the actions and choices of others, all valid considerations. However the patterns created by these influences can be worked with in a positive way. They can be changed as long as you can extricate yourself from the lineage of low havingness and the icons you have bought into over your lifetime. (Suggested audio “The Family Icon”) Icons are strong and they go beyond the family and can include collective experiences such as the Great Depression or the Holocaust or a great Famine or a significant War. We are all made up of an intricate set of patterns and to understand how the patterns are linked is to begin to understand what and how we manifest.

Some people manifest wonderful things for their business and work and are terrible at manifesting right relationship. Others have all the love and support of community and friends and loved ones but no money. And others still have great amounts of money and support and even good relationships but very poor health.

So what is that all about?

There are different lessons for each of us about what and how we manifest. The way that our belief systems are linked up has everything to do with what we end up creating for ourselves. For example, as a child if you witnessed a family member that put financial success over and above quality relationships with the family and there was conflict and resentment about that, you may have made a subconscious decision that love and financial success do not mix. Therefore subconsciously you would choose one and eliminate the other.

If you witnessed or experienced that lots of love and passion and attention in your family somehow created emotional conflict or that what one parent manifested caused the other one to have negative emotions, you may make a subconscious choice not to manifest love and passion in your life.

In the same way, if you witnessed or experienced as a child that the only time you could manifest love and caring attention to your body was to be in poor health, then your belief about having caring and attention for yourself would require manifesting poor health throughout your whole life.

All of us have made strong subconscious decisions early in life to separate ourselves from what we saw or experienced that we did not like. So there is a built in block to manifesting anything that is linked to a negative experience. The examination of self and what makes us who we are is key to changing our relationship to the way we manifest.

The value of what you manifest is related to the value you have for yourself. Not the value that someone else places on you but what you place on yourself. There is an erroneous notion that manifesting requires something from the outside, some element outside of us that comes in and makes it happen. Although support is necessary, it is our own energy field that draws towards it the elements around our intentions and turns them into manifestations. Your intention and thoughts and beliefs are the ones that attract the material that creates your life. So it is important that you examine your beliefs about what you think you need from somewhere else in order to manifest, and your expectations of that happening.

Understanding how intentions work is another aspect of understanding manifesting. If you set an intention and are clear and committed and certain about that intention without a doubt, send it into the quantum field and send it from your heart. The worst thing you can do is then to begin to worry about that intention not manifesting. Because, guess what? You will confuse the quantum field, which will then feed the worry and take its direction from your worry that the intention will NOT manifest. All the energy will go into NOT manifesting that intention. It is a true discipline to set our intentions free without worry or micromanaging them, and it would be so much simpler if we could all just energetically lobotomize our minds. This is a great month to work on this discipline of clarifying our intentions; committing 100% to them and then letting them go without another thought or worry.

There is also an erroneous belief that in order to manifest something you must “go after it”. Although there always needs to be a balance between being and doing, giving and receiving, there is way too much emphasis on going after what you want. Once you set your intention, you need to let it go and then relax, take action as appropriate timing dictates, but let it come to you as you magnetize your desire, and refrain from worry or obsession. It will only get in the way.

The scarcity complex

The scarcity complex is the definition and belief that there is a finite amount of energy, money, health, relationship, love etc. to go around and if you have an abundance of it, it means someone else goes without. Or if someone else has what you believe to be more than their share, then you go without. Where did that come from? Wherever it came from, it needs to go the way of all old patterns that no longer serve.

The truth is there is an infinite amount of source and it is only your attachment to something you manifested because you believe it is the best you can do and you fear losing it and ending up with nothing that keeps perpetrating that belief. If you believe it, it will be so. The challenge here is to stretch outside of that box and begin to experience the infinite possibilities of infinite source.

We all need support but many of us look for and expect support from the wrong people and the wrong places. Anyone who has a limited view of manifesting and a strong mind set about who you are, what you are capable of, what you should have or not have, is not a good prospect for support. Support yourself first. Build a strong inner relationship within yourself first. Work on your own beliefs and intentions. Then see who or what shows up to support that. You may be surprised. They probably won’t be the ones who are closest to you.

Remember to work with the concept of magic and miracles and all possibilities.

The opportunity this month is to truly shift your understanding and experience of manifesting in a very positive way.

The challenge will be dealing with all the doubt, negative thoughts and whatever else comes up around this issue of what and how you manifest. Remember that when stuff comes up and you are facing some of your “not-so-fun” manifestations, that you have the power to change, transform, eliminate and shift. Remember magic and miracles.

How the month shows up:

YOU PERSONALLY

This is a great opportunity to work through any and all issues around manifesting. You will need discipline to examine neutrally where you are currently in your life, what old patterns run you, where they came from, how you identify with or against them and to shift your beliefs about your own value and what you can have. Because of the personal nature of the work, it will be important that you honor your boundaries and stay away from the entanglements of brought on by what other people think you should be or do. Remember that manifesting should not “need” anything from the outside except the appropriate support. So this is the month where you can also examine your support and be more discerning about where it comes from.

Evaluate what you are currently manifesting in all areas; financial, relationship, community, environment, physical support, health, energy, enthusiasm, right work, enough play and rest, inspiration etc. What needs work? Where are you lacking the right kind of support? What are your expectations? Are they appropriate? You may not get all the answers in a neat little package but if you set the intention to do the work, it will start things moving in the right direction.

RELATIONSHIPS

What are you manifesting? Is it good? If not, examine your relationship with yourself. What are you manifesting there? Criticism? Judgment? Poor health? Lack? Irritation? Lethargy? Do you feel connected to your essence? Do you expect someone else to fix it?

Start there and then move on to your relationships with others. What are you magnetizing? If you feel a lack of understanding and support, you are probably experiencing the same thing in your relationship with self. Do you take care of yourself? When was the last time you thanked yourself and your body for being there for you? For some of you, this month will be all about rebooting your relationship with self. If you focus there, manifesting better relationships with others will automatically follow.

THE ENVIRONMENT

What kind of environment have you manifested for yourself to live in, to work in, to play in, and to rest in? Is it satisfactory? What do you think you deserve and what do you believe you have to put up with as a compromise to some situation or to “pay your dues”? What have you manifested in this life in terms of your environment? Is it cluttered or full of low frequency stuff? We are focusing on your personal environment as the place to start. Once you get an understanding of manifesting what you want in your personal environment you can move to the greater environment and participate in manifesting a better community and global environment.
Begin to look around and to see the whole environment as a manifestation of a collective set of patterns and beliefs. If you can shift the way you experience the environment as a co-creator and not a victim of it, you will gain a greater understanding in how you can participate in manifesting what we all desire.

HEALTH AND THE PHYSICAL BODY

What you manifest is what you experience. The body will definitely speak to you this month and you will get to see exactly what you have manifested for yourself. The good news is that you can change it. Remember magic and miracles. Your body is perhaps the best barometer for where you are in any process, as the body will get your attention the fastest and the most powerfully. How can you support your body this month? How can you be more responsible? You have to really own your 100% responsibility for your body before you can manifest exactly what you want in relation to your body.

As you work with this concept of responsibility, your body may go through lots of mood swings as the challenges of doubt and deserveability come up for examination. Remember that you are the architect of your life and whatever has manifest is entirely of your own creation.

FINANCE, PROJECTS, PARTNERSHIPS, BUSINESS

This is perhaps the best area this month to make progress you can track. Because of icons, old patterns, conflicting belief systems and lack of personal value and deserveability, the area of manifesting success in work and finances is a favorite study for most of us. Pick something this month and work on it. Do you believe in the scarcity complex? Do you routinely manifest a lack of support? Do you believe in your talents and skills or do you wait for someone to take pity on you? You can do a lot of work in this area this month. Follow the threads of your beliefs to the roots and make changes. Practice setting your intentions in a clear and committed way and then release them without worry. Practice magnetizing the right people for partnerships, and allow the right timing to dictate your actions.
The opportunities for manifesting are truly amazing this month.

DATES AND TIME FRAMES

May 1-8: Evaluate what you have manifested so far in your life. Coming from the place of gratitude, decide what needs to change. Once you set your intention, watch for things to come up that try and derail you from this new position you are taking of increasing your ability to manifest.

Pay attention to when you are overdoing, overworrying, over attached to the outcome and overthinking everything. This is a time that will show you what is out of balance and where you are out of balance. Set boundaries against the doubting mind that tries to tell you it’s not possible to have magic and miracles.

May 9: New Moon and Solar Eclipse is at 6:29 PM Mountain Daylight Time. This is the second eclipse out of three and makes for a powerful time of setting intentions. A New Moon is always a good time to come to a still point and reset anything that is not working. So take some time to evaluate what you have manifested in your life that is no longer a welcome situation. Use the new moon time to make a commitment to change it and set some intentions in that direction.

May 9-16: This is a time of fallout and doubt as well as energy gathering momentum and moving forward in spurts and bursts. Be careful that the spurts and bursts are moving things in a positive direction. You may feel slightly overwhelmed and even chaotic as the new intentions and focus on manifesting meets old patterns that surface from the deep subconscious. If you have a strong emotion about something, the next minute that could change and you could feel differently.

The best way to navigate this time is to be very flexible and not to make decisions based on what other people think. Follow your heart especially in your intention to manifest.

May 17-23: This could be an intense and wonderful time of breakthrough and change. The change could be sudden and permanent. Intend for magic and miracles to happen during this time. Harness the power of this time for your manifestations. Be clear about what you want. Boundaries may be important as other people’ strong intentions encroach upon your turf. Collaborations and support containers can empower as long as everyone is on the same page.
May 24: Full Moon with a Lunar Eclipse is at 10:26 PM Mountain Daylight Time. This is the third eclipse and bookend to this powerful and transformative time. It is difficult to predict what the fallout may be from what has been stirred up during this month but you can expect some big energy to be moving around. The potency of this time could trigger security issues, judgment and doubt. Hopefully you will have had synchronicity and signs during the month that will keep you focused positively on your newfound abilities to manifest. This full moon is a time to recommit to what you know in your heart to be true about what you want to manifest.

May 24-31: This is a higher centered time of enjoying the fruits of your discipline and anchoring the lessons around manifesting. If you have worked with the energy of the month and stayed out of doubt, you can expect magic and miracles to manifest during this time. Even if things are looking on the outside like they are falling apart in your life or you feel pressured and confused by responsibilities or the rapid pace of what is coming into your life, you can still take a breath and have great gratitude for the movement and the manifestation.
The best medicine is to be in delight about the beautiful things you are manifesting in your life and to be in humor about the not so welcome things you still seem to be attracting. Remember it is all a process and some of what you put into motion this month may take several more to manifest.

Have a great month and have fun!

Blessings,
Lena

New Audio: Navigating May 2013.  This is a helpful companion Audio to the monthly forecast. In this powerful month of possibilities and challenges, this audio is highly recommended to guide and support you to make the most of what is possible. Excellent discussion, suggestions, visualizations, and icaros by Anna and Lena. (link here)

I disagree with judging others on their choice of religion…however… what’s up with the Window Of Islam series?

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Last June I wrote of my experience at the Mind Body Spirit Festival where I had stumbled upon a group of nice Muslims people there promoting their Window of Islam series.

I wanted people to think about how terribly judgemental we as a society can be when it comes to people we don’t know, living their lives in a way we don’t understand.

There were three men in white robes there and two women in black burqas.  I wanted to share my experience of my own feelings of judgement that happened and then passed all in the matter of seconds, when one of the women turned around to face me, her eyes peering above the niqāb I believe it’s called, which is the side-attached cloth that covers the face below the eyes.

It made me think how often human nature results in us freaking out about something purely because we can’t quite see the full picture, so we jump to a negative conclusion.  Within seconds I diffused my own misguided fear pang of ‘who’s behind there?’ by noticing that the lady standing right next to her, also in a burqa didn’t have the nigab attached therefore her lovely smiling face was there for all to see.

I chatted and interacted with the Muslim gentleman manning the stand as I wrote back then, and came away with a feeling of having a nice, unexpected little moment with people I had not had such a chance to connect with thus far.  The exact sort of thing my nature drives me to do so and gives me a lot of joy.

In the weeks that passed this event and well on from writing about what went on, I got to listen to a couple more of the audio CDs these people had given me, however this time, I did not like their tone.

I will be honest; I was starting to feel like Reese Witherspoon’s character in Legally Blonde.  Just a little naïve and with a mug sign on my head visible from more than a mile or so away.

I want to point out that not all the listening material designed to educate me on all things regarding Islam and the Quran had raised my suspicion, there were a number of them about creation, our planet and the evolution of life that were very interesting to me.

Unfortunately there were also a couple that sounded an awful lot like attempted brainwashing to me and I believe should never been allowed to be on display at an event like the Mind Body Spirit Festival.

This is supposed to be a space that has a reputation for being all encompassing of all people’s beliefs and theories and never a place to cultivate judgment or anger.

After the information that has come out in the last weeks since the Boston bombing, I have decided to put my hand up and say that I might have been a little quick to gush about my Islamic experience because not all of it really did end up good.  This makes me very cranky considering I went in with the idea of being open to understanding someone else’s beliefs.

But when those beliefs started to sound like I was being commanded to submit to the evidence of Islam, all words that were used over and over and over again, my inclination is to remind anyone living in this country, pushing others to deny another’s right of their religious choice, that the veil of suspicion placed over your choice is not likely to drop anytime soon if you go about things like this.

I took the time to listen to the ideals of Islam and to find out the spiritual guidelines that Muslim people in this country choose to live their life under, not just to be ear bashed about how everyone else has got their religious stories wrong. 

The information that has been revealed in the wake of the Boston bombings has made my tolerance for a message with a tone that doesn’t feel right to me, all that much lower.

 

With tragedy comes hero’s…what else comes is the Crime Scene Clowns who get in the way.

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With the horrific scenes that have been coming out of Boston over the past week, it makes you realise what an enormous job government officials in any country  have to undertake by way of trying to protect innocent people, having to tend to the needs of those injured in the bombings as in this case, supporting the grieving families of those who have been killed or awaiting news on an injured loved one.

The scope of what goes on behind the scenes by all sorts of officials trying to do their respective jobs to unravel the mayhem brought on by a couple of insanely twisted people, is just overwhelming in it’s gravity.

And then you get these mind blowing morons in the mix, all clambering around trying to get their moment in the drama.  People that do not need to be anywhere near a crime scene but flock to it like maggots to be a piece of old meat.  Crime scene clowns thinking they’re in a scene from CSI.

I was watching Fox News as the shoot out at MIT university was unfolding, as one of the Boston bombers and subsequent bomb suspects had been shot dead.

One young Fox reporter standing by the road introduced a man who appeared to be in his 60’s, a man who apparently lived somewhere in the town but not actually in the heart of the chaos, yet there he was, acting like a educated citizen being treated like a  credible witness to what was being watched on TV networks all over the world.

The serious issue here is, that this stupid twit of a bloke, explained that he’d been at home, heard one explosion and then heard another.  He described the town as not normally being a place where such violence would normally go on, so much so that he said it was not even a place where you’d even see much police presence. Thankfully for officials as this was all kicking off, it was the early hours of the morning so there weren’t a lot of people actively in the area.

Except this half-wit known as Mr Grimes, who went on to share after the second explosion, to which he then heard the sounds of several sirens screaming into town, he had the bright idea of leaving his house with his wife still in bed and hopped in his car headed in the direction of the drama.

What sort of person thinks it’s a good idea from even a personal safety point of view to hurtle towards an unknown, obviously highly dangerous situation so they can find out what’s going down?  This is the absolute epitomy of the anti-hero, knowing that if there’s sirens being heard that would tell a person with a brain that maybe the police may have it covered?  Although, as is tragically the case in this Boston story late last week, even the police, heavily armed and highly trained don’t always make it back to their families.

It’s an utter disgrace for this man and others who siren chase in these types of situations, who by their idiotic judgement calls based on the adrenalin of drama, who go and clog up a street where police might be needing to keep clear so they car get through.  Adding another element of police distraction by having an unnecessary person close to a critical scene who now they have to worry about protecting him as well.

The worrying trend these days with all of us having our cameras on the ready inside our phones, is that everyone’s so obsessed with being the one that gets the footage of something hideous going down.

If a crime scene is unfolding no matter what country it’s happening in, it’s our duty to those who are already risking their own lives to protect, to get out of the flipping way and let the officials do their job. These people shouldn’t interviewed, they should be told to nick off. For want of a much stronger set of words that I’d really rather use.

With the horrific scenes that have been coming out of Boston over the past week, it makes you realise what an enormous job government officials in any country  have to undertake by way of trying to protect innocent people, having to tend to the needs of those injured in the bombings as in this case, supporting the grieving families of those who have been killed or awaiting news on an injured loved one.

The scope of what goes on behind the scenes by all sorts of officials trying to do their respective jobs to unravel the mayhem brought on by a couple of insanely twisted people, is just overwhelming in it’s gravity.

And then you get these mind blowing morons in the mix, all clambering around trying to get their moment in the drama.  People that do not need to be anywhere near a crime scene but flock to it like maggots to be a piece of old meat.  Crime scene clowns thinking they’re in a scene from CSI.

I was watching Fox News as the shoot out at MIT university was unfolding, as one of the Boston bombers and subsequent bomb suspects had been shot dead.

One young Fox reporter standing by the road introduced a man who appeared to be in his 60’s, a man who apparently lived somewhere in the town but not actually in the heart of the chaos, yet there he was, acting like a educated citizen being treated like a  credible witness to what was being watched on TV networks all over the world.

The serious issue here is, that this stupid twit of a bloke, explained that he’d been at home, heard one explosion and then heard another.  He described the town as not normally being a place where such violence would normally go on, so much so that he said it was not even a place where you’d even see much police presence. Thankfully for officials as this was all kicking off, it was the early hours of the morning so there weren’t a lot of people actively in the area.

Except this halfwit known as Mr Grimes, who went on to share after the second explosion, to which he then heard the sounds of several sirens screaming into town, he had the bright idea of leaving his house with his wife still in bed and hopped in his car headed in the direction of the drama.

What sort of person thinks it’s a good idea from even a personal safety point of view to hurtle towards an unknown, obviously highly dangerous situation so they can find out what’s going down?  This is the absolute epitomy of the anti-hero, knowing that if there’s sirens being heard that would tell a person with a brain that maybe the police may have it covered?  Although, as is tragically the case in this Boston story late last week, even the police, heavily armed and highly trained don’t always make it back to their families.

It’s an utter disgrace for this man and others who siren chase in these types of situations, who by their idiotic judgement calls based on the adrenalin of drama, who go and clog up a street where police might be needing to keep clear so they car get through.  Adding another element of police distraction by having an unnecessary person close to a critical scene who now they have to worry about protecting him as well.

The worrying trend these days with all of us having our cameras on the ready inside our phones, is that everyone’s so obsessed with being the one that gets the footage of something hideous going down.

If a crime scene is unfolding no matter what country it’s happening in, it’s our duty to those who are already risking their own lives to protect, to get out of the flipping way and let the officials do their job. These people shouldn’t interviewed, they should be told to nick off. For want of a much stronger set of words that I’d really rather use.