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[onawah]

Another melted cat

[ulli]

Posted by onawah (here)
Thanks Running Deer for the brownies (raw cacao actually doesn't have a lot of calories--it's the butter and honey in the fudge!) and thanks for the calming vibes--I need that! and thanks to Ulli for the insights, which sparked some reflection.
I have read some of Perls, though I am more into mysticism, Wicca, Zen, etc.
update: ...but also into Krishnamurti, Gurdjieff, Gnosticism, Wingmakers, etc.
But I am familiar with the theory that anyone who appears in our dreams is actually an aspect of one's self.
I think what the dream was about was the fact that, although I am a Leo, I have a lot of Gemini in my chart and though I used to be much more active, nowadays due to my disability (bad knees, ankles, etc. so it's painful when I am on my feet) I have kind of surrendered myself to the Geminisque factor and am spending way too much time online networking, signing petitions, doing activist work which I feel is of service to others, but I overdo it, and so am not serving myself well in that way.
That need to communicate is strong, but what is working best for me now in that regard is working on my life story.
I could really let the rest go and it would probably be good for me to do that.
(Sometimes I think it's better to be LESS in service to others!)
I need to get more creative with my writing and also get back to doing more collage work, which gets me out of my mental body and more into my imagination and heart.
Kerry demonstrated how it's good to have the computer in that she fixed it, but it can "run away with me" (I am compulsive with it), as the printer did in copying out stuff that wasn't really needed (repetitive work like signing petitions, sending letters to Congress, etc.).
And she complimented my collage work, which is something I know I should do more of because it gives me such deep satisfaction.
That message has been coming through loud and clear for awhile, but I'm just now really starting to act on it more, having resumed writing my life story after a couple of years of that being on the shelf, and making collages (just finished one and another presently in the works).

Being your communicative self (Gemini) or your practical, loving self ( Leo) that in itself IS service.
Whatever you chose to do, or be...unless you are just lying around on the bed and screaming at people for not bringing you the next bag of potato chips or diet soda fast enough...
To me, anyway, this means you are being of service.

[onawah]

Agreed, I just want to be as effective as I possibly can in making as much change for the good as possible.
Making one's self a healthier, more informed, happier facilitator for service is also part of being effective....they can't be separated from each other.
I think Lily Earthling was saying something about that recently on a forum.

[ulli]

Posted by onawah (here)
Agreed, I just want to be as effective as I possibly can in making as much change for the good as possible.
Making one's self a healthier, more informed, happier facilitator for service is also part of being effective....they can't be separated from each other.
I think Lily Earthling was saying something about that recently on a forum.

Well, to tell you the truth, I think about effectiveness every day. I guess this happens to all who are carrying the reality of that deathbed moment at all times. To arrive at that point "this is it, I'm done here" and knowing that one has used all of one's talents to the best of one's ability.

During my Baha'i years I met Madame Rabbani, who shared a dream she had. In her dream the whole world was flooding, and the floodwaters were rising very quickly. And everywhere there were people drowning in the waters, and others who were on higher land trying to save them.
And then she thought why isnt Abdu'l-Baha helping them. And then she saw him, on some hilltop, by himself, fiddling with a machine. And she went up to him and asked him why wasn't he helping to get people out of the rising waters.
And his reply was, Abdu'l-Baha is building the machine that will make the floodwaters go down again.
So this caught my attention regarding effectiveness.
He also used to say to people in his talks "The important must give way to the most important."
But then I thought if a person is already prone to be ambitious, by nature, like me Capricornian, then perhaps having a more relaxed existence can help me become more effective in the long run.
Because any anxiety about outcome, if it became an obsessive- compulsive endeavor, can then sabotage the outcome.
There really are no easy answers other than to carry on with one's quest for truth and being, and a little help from one's friends upstairs.

[ulli]

[ulli]

Just heard that our dear friend's son just passed away.
May Kyle find the ocean of eternal happiness.

[RunningDeer]

Fly free, my friend….

Posted by ulli (here)
Just heard that our dear friend's son just passed away.
May Kyle find the ocean of eternal happiness.

[onawah]

CBDs for the UNMUNCHIES
Apparently marijuana can also be used to get rid of the munchies, according to Dr. Rima, General Stubblebine's wife.
http://drrimatruthreports.com/cbds-for-the-unmunchies/

[Sierra]

Kyle

Dance in joy Kyle.

[Stephanie]

Posted by ulli (here)
Just heard that our dear friend's son just passed away.
May Kyle find the ocean of eternal happiness.

Beautiful Light, shine on bright....

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[Fairy Friend]

Be at peace Kyle. Your light shines on. Your love shines on. Peace to the family.

[Flash]

My full blown heart goes to both the mom and son who got to live within his soul again. Really sorry for you my friend, with much much love, Flash

[ulli]

"The world beyond is as different from this world as this world is different from that of the child while still in the womb of its mother. When the soul attaineth the Presence of God, it will assume the form that best befitteth its immortality and is worthy of its celestial habitation. Such an existence is a contingent and not an absolute existence, inasmuch as the former is preceded by a cause, whilst the latter is independent thereof.
Absolute existence is strictly confined to God, exalted be His glory. Well is it with them that apprehend this truth. Wert thou to ponder in thine heart the behavior of the Prophets of God thou wouldst assuredly and readily testify that there must needs be other worlds besides this world."~Baha'u'llah
All lives are nothing but preparation for those other worlds.
May Kyle's soul now be able to soar between them.

[TargeT]

On a happier note, I'm planning a surprise birthday party for my wife... her best friend/horse trainer / vet tech is "surprise" moving down here this weekend (her bday is Saturday) which is going to make my wife SUPER happy (BFF 'n all that)... plus her favorite number is 42 and this is her 42nd bday

there are hotel ruins near our house (used to be a huge resort back in the 60/70's) that we are going to throw the party in.. it's an AWESOME location.

gonna drag a generator over and stick it away in a room somewhere so it won't be loud, hired a DJ and I'll string lights up around the place, buy a few gallons of rum and mixers... should be a blast!

But with Tminus 5 days to go I'm not sure how I'm going to pull it all off.


I don't mind these kind of challenges though.

[avid]

Sshhhh! Of course she'll know now, you've blasted it over the internet! Never mind, it will be wondrous as back-up horsey well-being bff is comng to stay, Erik, your heart is in the right place ❤️

[Foxie Loxie]

Hope you have blast, Target!!

[TargeT]

Posted by avid (here)
Sshhhh! Of course she'll know now, you've blasted it over the internet! Never mind, it will be wondrous as back-up horsey well-being bff is comng to stay, Erik, your heart is in the right place ❤️

oh she's way too busy to read this forum..

the sekret is safe!

if anyone has any cool ideas I could toss together in a week or less i'm all ears!

I'm buying a few hundred feet of LED string lights to run around the columns and tops of the archways at the hotel.. plus a few 5,000 watt shop lights for accent lighting of the structure itself (no direct light, all will be reflected or the LED string lights, which aren't very bright) the DJ and booze were no brainers,, the friend coming down is the only real special part so far...


last year I did a great suprize birthday, but the year before was the best.

I told her she had a "special ride" I set up her now best-male-friend on the island as a tourist that was going to propose at a special beach (this would have been our tours first proposal & she was super nervous)... but in reality I had all our friends and family at the normally secluded beach. We had a hooka tent set up, 3 Grills, a couple of "Beverage" locations and tons of people..

When she showed up she was running late and super frustrated that "the beach had people on it, who are all these people??"


haha, she literally walked into her own party & due to the frustration didn't realize what was going on until she was in the middle of her friends, then she cried a little....

trying to top that this time, I think we've invited around 100+ people so hopefully there will be enough friends

[RunningDeer]

The misleading title is intentionally left off this 30 second clip. Rather than the words embedded on the video, I watched the little one’s art. She’s got an explosion of energy and lotta spunk.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yByix1i-mw0

[ulli]

If God is the ocean and all of creation are the waves then we are the droplets in the spray.
And some get washed up on the shore as foam.

[ulli]

Posted by TargeT (here)

Posted by avid (here)
Sshhhh! Of course she'll know now, you've blasted it over the internet! Never mind, it will be wondrous as back-up horsey well-being bff is comng to stay, Erik, your heart is in the right place ❤️

oh she's way too busy to read this forum..

the sekret is safe!

if anyone has any cool ideas I could toss together in a week or less i'm all ears!

I'm buying a few hundred feet of LED string lights to run around the columns and tops of the archways at the hotel.. plus a few 5,000 watt shop lights for accent lighting of the structure itself (no direct light, all will be reflected or the LED string lights, which aren't very bright) the DJ and booze were no brainers,, the friend coming down is the only real special part so far...


last year I did a great suprize birthday, but the year before was the best.

I told her she had a "special ride" I set up her now best-male-friend on the island as a tourist that was going to propose at a special beach (this would have been our tours first proposal & she was super nervous)... but in reality I had all our friends and family at the normally secluded beach. We had a hooka tent set up, 3 Grills, a couple of "Beverage" locations and tons of people..

When she showed up she was running late and super frustrated that "the beach had people on it, who are all these people??"


haha, she literally walked into her own party & due to the frustration didn't realize what was going on until she was in the middle of her friends, then she cried a little....

trying to top that this time, I think we've invited around 100+ people so hopefully there will be enough friends

You are doing it right, Target, and you are not even an astrologer.
I always tell clients with Leo partners that the greatest sin would be to forget the Leo's birthday.
Just as I tell parents of Virgo children to get him/ her a small pet.