Magickal Happenings with Oshuyn...

I have so many tarot books sitting here unread, decks screaming for my touch and projects dancing around in my head wildly but not a drop of time.  I recently added a couple little gems to my collection of reads such as 'Tarot Flip' by Marcus Katz & Tali Goodwin, 'Tarot Lovers' Diary 2011' by Karyn Easton at Paranormality.com, 'Tarot Journaling' by Corrine Kenner and 'Psychic Tarot' by Nancy Antenucci with Melanie Howard.  Add those to my vast supply of neglected tarot books sitting lonely on the shelf desiring the touch of my hands and the gaze of my longing eye. 

I seem to eat, sleep, breath, live and dream tarot but it seems like I never have time to sit down and DO IT!  I carry books with me in my purse when I go out just in case I can sneak a moment in and it never seems to happen.  I have my bookshelf next to my desk in quick reach just in case I have a break and that's not working either.  I have my 'read now's' on a special place on my desk designated just for my magickal 'stuff' and I grab them for a couple minutes and get pulled away.

I think I need a tarot vacation!  Days..maybe even weeks (I WISH!) to do what I LOVE and yearn to do full-time.  It will happen with time, some rearranging and re-organizing, some putting-my-foot-down action.  Hubby... kids... you'll have to wait...it's time for me and TAROT!

I just heard the most amusing comment...that I should stop practicing witchcraft because I have opened the door to the devil and brought out bad energy in everything around, that I need to get rid of my witchcraft stuff and not just throw it away because all the evil spirits that are drawn to it will never leave then, that I need to burn it.

If you could have seen my face or my fists clenching in rage you would have sworn I was going to blow like a corked volcanoe...'stand back dad, she's gonna blow!'.  My daughter was standing there for this conversation I was having on the phone.  She heard what the other person said to me and got the look on her face like 'oh sh*t, mom is gonna loose it'.  With her knowing who I was talking to and me knowing my gifts and beliefs as I witch I calming and nicely asked if they they actually know what 'practicing witchcraft' meant.  "It means bad things".    Nice comeback, seriously. 

If you want to call someone's beliefs out then you better be prepared to discuss what you think or know to be their beliefs.  I don't run around and call you out on your beliefs  I don't question why you carry on about who was nominated as the head of your lady's aid group of your church "did you see what she had on when she stood up to give her speech, and she is our new lady's aid president", "did you taste what they brought for the potluck, we should ask them to come back", "you need to dress nicer everyone is going to see you at church look like that".    I'm not too sure God cares what I wear, I think he cares what I believe and how I act and where my heart and spirit is. 

I think someone needs to make a reality show based around the life of a witch, an everyday witch.  Here is my schedule:

5am:  alarm

5am - 6:15am: make breakfast, start coffee, pack lunches

6:15am - 6:50am:  start sorting through work email while making sure kids get their teeth brushed and have bookbags and get them to the bus on time

6:50am - 8am:  if I have tons of work then work, maybe surf a little on the web, etc

8am - shower, breakfast for me, clean up what was left from the morning in the kitchen and then back to work

9am - 5pm - logged in for work and work my butt off

5pm - 8:30pm -  out to the ranch for chores and to ride some horses

8:30pm - home to get everyone fed, laundry, clean and finish up more work

In all the in-between time I am a mom, wife, daughter, work full time, horse trainer, tarot reader, I find time to cuddle with my kitty and pet my daughter's dog, grocery getter, chef and friend.

My day is no different than most.  I may read a different kinds of books than you in my spare time.  I always have tarot cards, runes and rocks in my purse but who cares I'm sure you have strange things in yours too.  I may burn incense for reasons other than 'just to smell pretty', I may say a prayer at night to my Goddess and God who may be different than who you give thanks to, if you give thanks at all.  But at the end of the day I've accomplished what I need to without any ill will towards anyone.  I have put forth all that I am in thanks for all that I have and is to come.  I may be a little quirky, a little odd, a little free spirited and giggly but if all the above things that make up my day point to me being a witch and 'practicing witchcraft' then My Goddess Bring It On!

Educate yourself before pointing fingers and calling someone out.  It just makes you look less intelligent than you are trying to be...and it's just plain silly.

Be In Your Brilliance!

Oshuyn

For the past couple years I had a client who I did some VA work for that was a handful, and that is putting it nicely.  A few months ago I had the pleasure of terminating her contract with me due to finding a stable, full time client. 

This woman, along with her husband, were pastors of their own church.  They have 7 children.  She and her husband are also full time real estate brokers/agents who have their own real estate company.  Working for this woman was a very trying and testing situation!  Daily emails on religion and if you did not do what you were told by her then you were going against God and would suffer in hell, that the devil had taken over your soul and that is why you were not responding to her emails at 2am when she wanted something.  (At 2am there's an excellent chance you'll find me in my bed and not at my computer!)

I always felt sorry for her children.  Every aspect of her life, all the possible issues, she made very public.  She sent out daily email's to her followers.  I am not a follower but she took it upon herself to include my email address.  They have very beautiful girls who compete in beauty pagents all the time and win.  The 2 oldest daughters are out of high school and are trying to make a life but their mom (and dad) have so much to say on this...

The oldest daughter and her boyfriend have been together for 2 or 3 years, live together against her parents wishes.  Her dreams are to be a horse trainer and do something in photography.  She is a truly gifted girl and is more than so many parents could ask for in a child. 

The second oldest daughter graduated high school and received a full ride scholarship to attend college which meant moving into dorms.  Again, a very beautiful and talented girl.

Their mother's daily emails would go on about how the devil has taken over her daughters and how they were such sinners and were going to hell.  Pages and pages of preaching and prayer requests for her daughters.  Over the course of the 2 or 3 years I had her as a client she progressively dove into her religious beliefs like wildfire!  When her and her husband were not getting along we all knew about it, the emails would come flying out claiming he was possessed by the devil and was trying to kill her.  That the fire of the lord was in her and you couldn't put it out, that every word she spoke was the word of God and if you went against her you were sinning against God himself. 

All this time I kept my mouth shut about my beliefs and how incredibly insane she was starting to sound.  I love the passion in which she lovers her God, but to start forcing it upon peope in such ways and to start claiming you yourself are God and to sin against you is a sin against God - very unhealthy.  I have so many emails with such harsh words and accusations or preachings, I'm not sure what God is really that mean or hateful or rude, it would make your jaw drop if you read them no matter what religious belief you are of.

About 2 months ago I was told her business was failing and she was unable to pay bills.  I was informed a few weeks ago that her husband left her.  She openly called him out on Facebook stating that the devil has taken him over and wants bad things to happen to her now.  Then yesterday I was told that she got to spend 5 days in jail.  She found out that her oldest daughter is pregnant and went bonkers, must have been physical to spend 5 days in jail.  No one would bail her out and now she has to take anger management classes.

I feel this is her God's way of trying to put her in her place a little.  I don't think he is too happy that she has put her self on the same level as him, an equal.  It's one thing to strive to be god-like but it's another thing to claim you are just as good as god.  An example of The Law of Three at work?  Karma at play?

Be In Your Brilliance!

Oshuyn

The extreme humidity is somewhat saying good-bye, a blessing of crispness is entering the air and windows can be opened to enjoy the slight, fresh breeze.  A few signs that Fall is making its entrance into my aura, so the wheel turns.  I love the colors that start to emerge as the sun seems to take a deeper, rich shade this time of year, casting its golden beams upon the once vibrant green leaves that are now deepening in color also, welcoming the resting colors of golds and browns.  Soon they will do their beautiful dance and entertain me, drifting and floating and twirling from their treetop homes to the cool ground below as Mother Earth welcomes them with caring arms.  She hugs them and embraces them, also thankful for the dance they perform and they rest with her and give her the nutrient and energies they have so willingly collected. There seems to be an energizing peace this time of year.  An awakening to what lies ahead of us.  A warning to the animals to finish up their tasks of gathering and playing because soon a blanket will cover their playground.  For me this is a time to start my journey inward, a time of reflection.  A time to take a long look into what was, what is and what will be.  A time to gather, a time to let go, a time to learn and embrace. 

May you turn with the wheel, as the wheel waits for no one.

Be In Your Brilliance!

Oshuyn

I woke up with a pot of coffee in mind and then maybe a couple hours of work...then play, play, play.  It's now 3:51pm and I finally logged off from work stuff.  Yuck!  Going to settle down to some tarot work.  Been gathering all my notes from over the years, all my ideas and 'ah ha' moments, all my feelings and revelations.  I've been putting them all into my computer for easy access at my fingertips.  My goal is to create my own deck, it's always been a dream.  So...time to soak into my tarot world and enjoy the rest of my day...

Be In Your Brilliance!

Oshuyn

I had to share my mommy-proud moment.  Our local TV station holds an audition and the winner gets an all expense paid trip to an actual audition and the ability to walk to the front of the line and audition in front of judges.  She didn't make the cut but held her head high and has her eyes set on next year...

Brai's American Idol Audition

Be In Your Brilliance (just like my daughter was!)

Oshuyn

We survived the 4th of July holiday weekend although at some points I was beginning to wonder.  Have a little bit of work to do today, need to run some errands and then hopefully will have time to work on my move to making work-life transition into what I know it is meant to be.  Taking a few more courses in some things - healing and coaching type courses so I am VERY excited about getting that going.  I wish I could shut everything out and submerge myself into that place for a while but life calls, lol.  Have to sit down and discuss the home-schooling vs regular high school with my daughter today.  She is very indecisive and can talk herself into one thing one second and the complete opposite the next, sometimes it drives me batty but there's a reason for it somewhere.  Been working with that horse that we decided to start, still no name so I may have to 'speak' to him about it this afternoon when I go out there.  So, off to find the wonderment and amazement of what my day will bring.

Remember that things happen for a reason, even the bad things.  The key is to see the positive in the bad things that happen.  Embrace it with a positive mind if it was a learning lesson.  Know and feel the positive energy of what that not-so-positive thing is leading up to.  The only way these positive outcomes will happen is if we invite it in unconditionally and openly.  If you let even one spark of negativity enter your thoughts or feelings you are closing the door to the positive and good. 

Be In Your Brilliance!

Oshuyn

It's quiet in the house this morning...I enjoy these moments.  My daughter has been in drivers ed since school has been out - a month long course comprising of driving instruction at 7am and class from 8:30am - 10am Monday thru Friday - what a long month it's been.  She received her certificate yesterday with a passing grade.  Although she is excited to get her full license I know she is more excited to sleep in.  (She doesn't actually enjoy driving yet anyways).  So no running her to school and picking her back up today.

My son is happy, his girlfriend got back in to town safely.  Her family is from Zamora, Mexico and they took off June 6 to go back home and visit family and to work on their house they still have down there.  They asked if my son could go, which we were going to let him, but he decided since it was more of a family trip that he would let them have their privacy and not worry about having a tag-along.  My son will be 15 in July.  Yes, young for trips with girlfriends but we are very strict parents when it comes to our kids (if you ask them they might break down in a ranting rage about how they have no life, poor kids learning responsibilities, they will thank us later) and his girlfriends parents are very strict also, VERY.  He has gone over there a few times and is allowed to visit when her parents are home, same rule applies here.  Her father speaks some English and her mother doesn't speak any but can understand some.  They have been 'dating' for 9 months now.  Really cute couple.  It's funny when she breaks out the spanish to my son when she is questioning him and he has no idea what she is going on about.  I have the Rosetta Stone Spanish software and told him that he should have worked on that while she was gone...but Xbox was more important I guess.

I have taken on a few more learning paths the last week or so.  I'm very excited about that and will be implementing and using them as soon as I complete the courses.  My goal is to have an online place and an actualy physical place here in town to offer courses, healing, spiritual and metaphysical counseling, readings, coaching and friendship.  Ahhhh, the wheels are in motion and the excitment is filling my aura!

Saturday it was 98 degrees with a heat index of 113, crazy warm.  But we're in Iowa so what do you expect.  We have finally gotten a break in all the rain.  Our hometown is under a flood warning but it's so common for it to flood.  I remember when I was little my dad and I would drive down to where it was flooding through town and drive the pick up on the road through the water slowly and my hubby and a couple of his brothers would be there standing in the highway and spear fishing.  Dad and I would sit in the pick up and since I was little I could crawl through the back window of the truck and sit outside in the back and watch them spear fish.  But we have a clear and sunny week of temps in the 80s here so not too bad.

My daughter has started barrel racing, she is using a friends old horse that has been sitting in the pasture just enjoying life.  He wasn't the easiest of horses to work with, whoever owned him previously used to beat at his face a lot for whatever reason so he hasn't been able to be haltered and tied up because he comes undone and snaps the harness or whatever he's tied to.  We (hubby and kids mostly) have been going on daily since last fall breaking (training) horses for this friend.  He has around 30 or so.  His kids (27, 24 and 21) all rope or barrel race still but don't seem to have the time to help train all the horses that are out there.  So our kids are getting a lesson in responsibility and building and earning respect.  They don't enjoy spending hours daily out there training on horses that aren' theirs while the the adult-kids sit around and just expect things to be handed to them.  But my kids feel very accomplished when they are able to jump on that colt or horse after weeks of round-pen training and saddle breaking and are able to ride it. 

So the girls told my daughter she should find a horse and barrel race with them, which she has been dying to do anyways.  She found an old horse that none of them wanted to use and she built up a lot of trust with him, and still is, and she is racing him.  She named him Cat Stevens, yes after the singer (she was working on a report at school on the 'hippie' era at that moment) and the last 2 races she has taken points and money.  She is even an official member of the NBHA.  My hubby went and got her her own horse, just a 2 year old and not broke to ride yet but getting there.  Here is a pic of him, he's the one on the right, he's a buckskin named Slow Poke...

He will be ready to race next year.  He was actually a free horse, more so a rescue mission I guess, wasn't getting the proper care where he was.  Do you remember the movie Hidalgo, where Viggo Mortensen won that huge race across the desert on a small mixed breed horse.  Well Slow Poke has no papers and since he wasn't feed right when he was younger may not grow up tall-tall, but he still has a couple years left to grow.  So I'm hoping that they will go out next year and kick some butt, lol.  He moves nice and is very attentive, So Mote It Be! 

We started a 4 year old that I'm hoping I will be able to have if he is willing to part with him.  The horse isn't anything that I would pick as far as color or kind but for some reason him and I have a bond at the moment, I even dreamt of him 2 nights ago so hubby is going to talk to the owner and see if he's willing to part with him. 2 days ago he was tied up to the hitching post (learning how to stand still before you start to train on them) and a butterfly landed on his right leg and the horse continue to just stare at me, then the butterfly flew away and came into the barn and landed on the ropes next to where I was standing...

Butterflies have always been drawn to me for some reason, landing on me all the time or constantly floating around me.  So then I had that dream of that horse so something is connecting us at the moment.  We'll see what happens.

My hubby saved me from having to be a terrible person last night.  My dad's youngest brother has some severe issues, all the family are aware of this.  He is constantly tryingt to find every illness or sickness in the book to come up with.  If you are having it, he has had it and is going to tell you about it.  If you employ him, he's going to find a way to draw unemployment on you due to injury.  You never want to let him borrow your things such as a tractor because he'll somehow get hurt and try and sue you.  He has worn out his welcome at many doc office, clinics and hospitals and the insurance companies hate him.  He's committed himself to the hospital for mental issues and will openly tell doc's that he is thinking about hurting himself so they 'have to' report it and committ him.  He's just very attention-needing and none of it has any merit, very sad.  My dad was hospitalized last May, never sick always healthy, and after 2 days in the hospital they emergency life-flighted him to another hospital because he was really sick, we were told there was no chance of him surviving.  After a month of sleeping on a hospital waiting room couch he was released, still not well but tryingt o move forward.  The family was called in several times, which meant this Uncle was there.  All my family know that I speak my mind and now how to do it in a very honest yet rational way, and they know where I stand with this Uncle.  I say things they all want to say, I'm not afraid to be the one to point the truth out.  That moment at the hospital when teams of docs were telling me my dad was going to die was not the time for him to be running his mouth.  He demanded a print out sheet of all of my dad's files so he could find a specialist because he KNEW he had what my dad had and KNEW he was just a few days away from dead.  The not-so-nice me had to surface, yes screaming and some finger pointing but what was said was the truth.  So we drove dad home and no sooner did we walk in the door in follows this Uncle.  My dad is tired and very ill still, and we prop him in his recliner.  This Uncle goes downstairs and helps himself to the beer and proceeds to loudly boast and crab about his life.  We decide that if I make a few comments about dad needing sleep and leave he would get the hint.  So I go back in the morning and find out that my Uncle said until 10pm that night because he didn't want to go home to his wife and drank beer at my parents house and poor dad was in so much pain.  So I called my good Uncle was crying because he wanted to see my dad so bad but knew he needed rest and warned him that I was going to nicely call the crazy their crazy brother.  I made my call with a bunch of people around as witness and thanked him for his concern and for stopping because I knew that dad appreciated it and said I'm sure you noticed that dad wasn't even talking because he is still very ill and needs so much sleep and quiet for quite a while yet and that dad would like him to stop but only during the day and for short periods of time because that's all he can really handle.  This uncle called my good Uncle and flipped out about me, and then went over to my dad and was screaming at my dad about who do I think I am that my dad would clearly pick him over me because he is his brother???   For one - no he wouldn't, I'm his daughter - and two - why are you screaming at a man who was just released from the hospital and still very sick???  I haven't spoke to him since.  They had a huge party for my dad in August celebrating him coming home and my Uncle walked around like a mad-man, every stays clear of him they don't like to talk to him or my Aunt (very difficult people), I was ready for him to try and talk to me because I had a mouthful but he kept walking the other way when he saw me.  This hasn't been the first run in with this Uncle either.  A few Christmas's ago we couldn't make the huge family party because one of our kids were sick so we stayed home.  His grandson who was 2 didn't get a gift during the grandkids exchange and he open flew off the handle about how I ruined Chrsitmas for his grandson - who was only 2 and did get several other gifts while there.  So when this came back to me I placed a phone call to him.  My Aunt answered and I said I needed to talk to my Uncle because I heard he was talking about me and I wanted to hear him say those things to me since they were about me.  My aunt told him this and he didn't want to talk but he could hear me (not sure why, I think he was scared) so I spoke my mind and hung up.  Later that night my dad called (which I had already warned my dad and my good uncle that I was calling him and they said go for it) and my crazy uncle was admitted to the hospital because I gave him a heart attack, that's what he told my dad anyways, and he never had one.  So the big family joke is my ability to cause heart attacks.   Anyways...My dad calls 2 days ago and warns me that my uncle is going to call me and wants to know if he can stay in my house for 2 weeks because he'll be working up here in the city which is only 1 hour at the most from his home.  Dad told him that all the beds are full in my house (which they are not, we have plenty of room) and he told dad all he needed was a little piece of the floor.  Dad saved me on that one because he actually called while I was talking to dad so it went right to voicemail.  Then dad calls back a few hours later and said he called him and told him to grab a sleeping bag and to crash at my grandma's (their mom's) empty house since they are selling it.  It has water and electric and fridge.  So problem solved.  Last night we were out doing horses and my uncle calls and says he is stranded at WalMart and needs a ride up to my grandma's house.  He had called about an hour befor that but I was busy and didn't grab my phone.  My hubby is a little irritated about this since grandma's is a few blocks up from WalMart (1 mile of very easy city walking).  So, me trying to abide by my witchy belief's and play nice, I told him we would stop.  Come to find out that he is hauling dirt with a semi and didn't make it back in time to grab his vehicle before they locked the gates.  Also come to find out that none of them like him and he isn't doing a good job and they locked him out on purpose - he should have gotten back in time and he was the only one locked out.  So he leaves this huge semi parked in WalMart and we give him a ride up to grandma's.  Then he asks for a ride back to the truck in the morning.  This is where I stop talking and my hubby kicks in. 

Uncle: I need to be down here by 6.

Hubby:  That time doesn't work for me.

Uncle: Oh, you must sleep in.

Hubby:  No, we're up at 5, but our routine includes family breakfast and coffee and we're not changing our routine.

Uncle: 6 is what time I need to be here to get back in time to load.

Hubby:  Looks like you're going to have to hoof it.

Uncle:  That will take over an hour.

Hubby:  Looks like you better leave early then.  No big deal it's all downhill to WalMart.

I'm sitting in the middle of them and almost dying!  So we pull in to my grandma's townhouse and he is loudly crabbing about the neighbors questioning who he is (which tons of cuss words in there, and my uncle seriously looks like a serial killer).  The windows are down in the truck and the neighbor are sitting outside within just a few feet of us grilling.  And these are not just any neighbors - I know them from helping my grandma so much when she was fighting with dimensia and his son is in my daughter's class and she has had a huge crush on him for years.  He's one of those all-american looking kids.  She always freezes and can't say anything which is totally opposite of me so when I'm up there and they are out I always say hi.  ---   One day she calls me freaking out because there was a car load of boys that stopped there and I was helping load some of my grandma's stuff into my dad's truck for him.  The boys are looking at me and I said hi and said I'm pretty sure you boys go to school with my daughter.  They asked who she was and I said her name and they were all yeah we know her.  They went inside and came out after awhile to leave again and all say 'Good bye Mrs. J'.  One of them texted my daughter and said they had just talked to me and she was freaking about what I said to them.  With my empathy everyone seems to be very easy around me and I have a peaceful yet energetic vibe so it's really easy for others to talk to me.   ---   So my unlce opens the truck door and gets out realizing the neighbors are sitting there grilling (he's a mooch) and he starts to kind of talk with them.  I'm all exctied because my daughter is in the back of the truck (we had the little work truck so no room for all of us in the front) with her dog.  I am quickly telling hubby about this kid our daughter has a huge crush on and that I talk to him all the time when I'm up there.  Hubby is trying to tell our daughter to hurry up and get out of the back and into the front so we can leave and not have to talk to my Uncle anymore.  My daughter is completely froze because here sits this boy she is ga-ga over and she is sitting her her dad's old, dirty, falling apart truck they use to just run out to do horses and she is all dirty from working horses and has her cowboy boots and spurs on (mind you we live in a very city-city area, all the kids in schools here don't really have a concept outside of city life).  She has her dog in her arm and is frozen standing in the door of the truck.  I have already said hi to this boy and I'm telling my daughter as I'm giggling uncontrolably to tell him hi too.  Hubby yells at her to unfreeze and say hi and to hurry up and get her ass in the truck.  She turns really quick and does this 'hi', it was a moment from a movie where you see someone that you think is out of your league and you're face to face with them and then do the dorkiest thing in the world, that movie, lol.  She jumps in the truck and we tear out of there before my Uncle has time to say anything.

So I'm in the truck freaking because I felt like I should be nice and give my Uncle a ride, hubby is freaking because there was no way in heck he was going to give him a ride in the morning and let him ask for stuff from me after he says such terrible things about me and can't to my face, and my daughter is freaking because she just saw HIM.

BUT, my Unlce was a good excuse for my daughter to text this boy and tell him we're sorry about my Uncle being there and that he is in NO WAY a reflection upon my family because we DO NOT claim him.  This text brought on a night of texting between the two.   He does have his girlfriend still, the more popular girl in their class who treats him terrible (one of those expeced relationships since he is the most popular boy and she is the most popular girl) but I think he is questioning it.  He asked if we could come up because he wants to meet me because I seem really "cool and fun".  So I see my day being filled with 'mom do you want to run up and say hi' all day.

I called my dad immediately when we got home and asked if he had gotten a call from his crazy bother yet.  He did.  I asked in the last few minutes.  He goes no.  I said then you'll be getting another one.  I told him what happened.  Dad told him to call a taxi when he called him and said he was stranded and looking for me.  Dad was happy that my hubby took over and told him we were not giving him a ride, dad said he wouldn't have either.  My dad is a little less tolerable with him than my good Uncle.  My good Uncle was hospitalized a few months ago for a heart attack, brought on by this bad brother of theirs.  This bad brother insists on helping my dad and uncle farm (they are farms and have ground together) and my dad refuses to have him help and will tell him no and my good Uncle feels bad for him at times and let's him help and stresses a lot about it.  This bad Uncle ruins a lot of things as far as machinery or dumping grain, etc. 

Interesting night, still giggling over the site of seeing my daughter completely freeze in front of this boy with her dog under her arm.  She worries a little about what the kids say at school, she isn't a complete city girl, she likes to get down and dirty sometimes and doesn't care that it was 98 out and she had shorts and cowboy boots on to try and keep cool or that her leash for her dog at times is a piece of twine from an old hay bale or that to cool off you can go jump in a the creek with your dog...

It's hard trying to find out who you are when you have so many influences around you.  It's a blessing when you are able to be in touch with your true inner self, there is such a peace in that.  Be who you really are, otherwise who's life are you living?

Enough rambling, my house with quiet and my mind is active as always. 

Be In YOUR Brilliance!

Oshuyn

Many things to do today and this day forward!  I have been doing a little pick-up transcription work over the past 3 days. 

It was time that I dropped my main client - the one that was the pastor of her own church.  So many things have happened in her world over the past couple weeks, it's kind of funny but really isn't.  Everyone got very tired of her telling us if we don't obey her demands it is like going against the word of God and that we would go to hell.  The non-stop emails and phone calls at 9:30pm and more emails in ALL CAPS DO THIS NOW just had to end.  She is a huge believer, which is great, but I'm not sure that the Christian God really works that way?  I would hope not!  She started getting into a little hot water with the banks she works for as a broker and it seems to be spiraling downward from there.  She lost one of main VAs, myself and then they started dropping like flies.  To this client - I hope that you find peace and understanding somewhere hidden down inside yourself and I hope you really do hear the true words and feel the true love of your God soon, So Mote It Be!

This has opened my doors more to what I really want to do, to embrace my true passions.  It is really funny how life works out that way.  A loss opens doors for growth and new things.  I picked up a transcription gig, some cash flow in, I wasn't sure at all what they were but what the heck, it is income.  It turned out to be a group of calls about breaking out of corporate America and embracing your true self and doing what you were meant to do and finind your life's purpose.  Some of the speakers so far (I am right in the middle of them so I haven't heard them all yet) are Paige Stapleton & Brian Stark, Valerie Young, Stephanie Gunning, Maria Gamb, Pamela Slim and are hosted by Matthew Goldfarb.  I have been pretty mesmerized as I am going through it all!  It has actually been difficult to transcribe because I am getting so caught up in the power of their words and these wonderful ah-ha moments!

The past 3 days I have been graced with more and more signs, more and more validations that the path that I walk is indeed my true calling in this life.  Big plans ahead, so many ideas racing through my mind, I have found the kick-in-the butt that I have needed to take my leap of faith and embrace it with a huge grin. 

I hope that all of you find your inspiration and embrace it!

Back to transcriptions for me at the moment with the gears in my head constantly spinning with creativity for what is to come.  Although it is dark and rainy today, although the thunder is roaring and the lightning is crackling I see the brightness and feel it! 

Be In Your Brilliance ~

Priestess Oshuyn

It's one of those mornings that seems like a magickal moment was made specifically for me.  Alarm goes off at 5am and I fall into my typical routine of making coffee, packing a lunch, making breakfast and feeding the cats.  It has been raining off and on all night but at the moment I was heading to the sliding door to open it to some fresh air the sun tried to poke out to bid me good morning.  A rainbow appeared long enough for me to grab a picture and then disappeared as mysteriously quick as it came.  The sky turned dark and the sun was trying to meet it's power, sort of a 'between the shadows' moment.  I stared out the door mesmerized at the beauty of all that I was being shown.  I wondered how many others stopped in their daily routine and took in the awe of such magick. My hubby came out and sat down at the table and asked why I was smiling.  I told him to look outside, quick before it's gone and I told him of the rainbow and that I was meant to capture the picture.  He glanced up and nodded and went back to his egg and toast. Maybe no one else saw that moment, shared the beauty, felt the magick and witnessed the wonderment in what we have around us.

My life has been changed forever, I will never get that exact moment back, it can never be created again, so I will cherish it and know that it was meant for me.  No matter what is going on in our lives we can't be too busy to capture the gifts we are given.  In this life, in this world, in this time when so much can or is going wrong...there is beauty and positive energies all around us.  It's up to us to capture it, or let it capture us.

This picture doesn't do my magickal moment justice but I am sharing it with you.  May your day be filled with magickal moments and positive, beautiful energy!

Be Fun, In Light & Love -

Oshuyn