Cats can show you the way

I keep having wild and domestic cats connect with me in unusual ways. Looking further into that, I found this on a website:

“The Cat

According to author Ted Andrews of Animal Speaks, cats wild or domestic have certain qualities in common. They are associated with myth and lore, magic and
mystery. Nine lives, curiosity, independence, cleverness, unpredictability and healing. Those with this medicine should also study its color, size and breed for a
deeper understanding.

Cats have more rods in the retinas of their eyes which enable them to see effectively in the dark. The dark is often associated with mankind’s fears. Since the car is at home in the dark, it serves as a valuable ally into the world of the supernatural and the unknown and can help those with this totem move through their fears efficiently.

The energy field of a cat rotates is a counterclockwise direction, the opposite of a human energy field. Because of this, cats have the ability to absorb and neutralize energy that affects humans in a negative way. This is part of the healing medicine that the cat holds.

If something affects you in a negative way place a cat on your lap or find a cat to pet. Your energy field will immediately realign itself and inner balance will be restored.

Because of their x-ray vision, acute hearing and high intelligence they were used throughout history as guardians and protectors. In ancient Egypt cats guarded the temple gates and were used to ward off evil.

If cat appears in your life the blending of magic and mystery is at hand. A trustworthy teacher, the cat will guide you into the world of self discovery and transformation.”

http://www.sayahda.com/cyc1.html

New family photos

Alright, I’m a sap for this stuff. So, indulge me.

It’s weird to sit here and watch the economy go through this melt down

I am sensitive to people’s emotions and have been feeling the general panic and fear in the air all month. That part is hard. I really sense that because of their fear the majority of people are making drastic modifications to their spending habits. The scale that I am feeling it on is strong enough and widespread enough that it can really dump fuel onto the fire and make everything slide even farther. Part of the panic is that people have lost trust in the system, the government, etc., and are starting to question everything they have previously accepted as fact.

So many of us have held onto jobs we don’t really like because we think we need health insurance as well as pay for housing and things we think are necessary to sustain ourselves and our families.

A lot of us have to have the big price-ticket education to get the jobs to pay for these things. We have to have the cars and the clothes to go to the jobs. It’s such a soul-crushing, vicious cycle and a distraction from what’s really important.

When we start to find out that the health insurance is just paying for surgeries, medications and tests we really do not need (mostly) and that we can live more simply and that the educational system is really just another big business the larger picture starts to emerge.

We begin to see the bigger picture and to realize that so much of this is a trap and a distraction. It’s the ugly side of capitalism … a system that creates and markets artificial needs, fake disorders/diseases, inflated job requirements, all while peddling a sense that the mainstream is where we all should strive to fit.  Social and political bias is in store for those who don’t live in accordance with these “norms.”

When you DO get off that merry-go-round and start getting back to basics it’s amazing how many of those things we thought we needed are not needed, at all. Taking back responsibility for shaping our own lives and health and communities is where it all has to go…where it all has to go for us to survive these changes and build a new way of living.

Imbolc vision

I’m trying to start capturing my dreams and visions on paper with sketches and paintings. This is my first quick sketch. It was how I saw myself during a guided meditation/visualization during an Imbolc journey at Wanderland. We were honoring the Goddess Brigid.

Amazing little OTG home

Neighbors/friends just finished their new, little farm home that is pretty much Off The Grid (OTG.)

I find the concept of producing your own (limited) energy very intriguing but the thing that really gets me is that they (and other friends) do not have a refrigerator.

Go figure!

See the photos >>

A spider story

From a Hopi creation story in a myth book:

“Spider Grandmother helps the humans evolve from lower animals, over time in several stages. After three stages in chambers underground, the people climb to the surface. Then, Spider Grandmother teaches them how “to weave.”

The depiction with the story has a twelve-petal sun flower, perhaps suggesting the pattern humanity will learn “to weave” at the forth stage, the Heart chakra. “

Note: Interesting the tie in with sunflower…that is the flower that always will symbolize my friend, Mike, because of the sunflower seeds he planted in the garden we put in together. While we worked though the pain of his loss, held the memorial and the months that followed, we could see those sunflowers he planted growing taller and taller. We always felt his presence strong in that garden. It was a very healing place for all his friends.

Spider epiphany…

Interesting that I just got an email from a guy I know…I only hear from him a few times a year. We met and had some big chemistry and then he went home to Lake Tahoe…and we continue to email, infrequently…

So, his email was a reply, of my reply…this big thread. I could follow it all the way down to when I told him about being sick because some spider bit me. I checked the date and then it started to make some weird kind of sense…in time and space.

The spider bit me over the same weekend that Mike died. Or just a few days prior. It happened right before I launched into this spiritual journey.

I have not figured out what my fear of spiders is really about but I know that I have often called, following my intuition, “following the thread.”

Are the threads part of a web? Am I afraid I’ll be trapped? Am I afraid to meet, “Her,” the great spinner of all these threads???

More to think about…

Kill your refrigerator!

Okay, now I really have something to think about; life without a refrigerator.

I didn’t even realize that some people choose to live without one (they choose that??) until I came face-to-face with it at my friend’s house. It didn’t even register, at first, until I took a more careful look at Lane’s kitchen, today, and I realized she really wasn’t kidding. They don’t have a fridge. Huh? Go figure. Then she started explaining how you really don’t need a fridge for most food items.

Yet another notion about something we think we have to go out and work hard for because we must have these “necessities” just to live. WRONG!

Talk about a mind-blower. So, now, what else have we been raised to think we “must have” that we really don’t need at all? TV, fridge, car, car insurance, electricity to run the stuff, gasoline, the newest fashions, razors, anti-depressants, MRIs, elective surgery, techno-gadgetry?? How many of us work jobs we hate because we need to money for these things?

It boggles my mind.

I did a little poking around on Google and saw that there are, in fact, more people going totally “off the grid.” Here is a blog from a guy who has been OTG for 30 years or something…wow!

http://littlebloginthebigwoods.blogspot.com/

AAAAAAAAArachnophob-EEEEEEEE-ia

I’ve been having an intense fear of spiders since last spring. That’s when a spider bit me on the butt when I was sleeping. I’ve had that happen, before. I get an allergic reaction to certain spiders and the bite gets red and hot and itchy and very large. That happened the last time but I also felt unwell for about 4 days. I researched types of spiders and, based on my reaction and how the bite area looked came to the conclusion that it was probably a jumping spider that bit me.

After that I became quite fearful of being bit and getting sick, again. I frequently wake in the middle of the night, out of a deep sleep, thinking I feel something crawling on me and jump up, switch the light on and shake out all the covers.

This is quite a bummer.

Especially, since, sometimes it IS a spider crawling on me. See, the sad thing is that this place I’m living in has more spiders and spider webs per square foot that any place I’ve ever lived in. I knock the webs down and clean and put the little arachnids out into the cold and they keep coming back.

One night I stumbled into the bathroom, switched the light on and to my horror there was a spider on my face. AAAAAAACCCCKKKK!!!

A few nights ago, when I was watching a movie, one raced over and down my hand. Not fun at all. So then I get to start having the night panic thing all over again.

I got a few specimens of the spiders I have around here (they do weave funnel, shaped webs) and pretty much ruled out that they were anything like Hobo’s, brown recluse or black widows…that takes a bit of the edge off the panic.

Oh, and the fact that my cats hunt down and eat the spiders. They even warn me if they see on on the ceiling or wall. They are my guardians.

So, now I’m thinking about what this spider thing means. It keeps coming up, it won’t go away. I’m being bugged. I was bit in the butt because I needed a kick in the butt about something? Come to think of it, I was stung in the butt last fall by a yellow jacket… My butt sticks out there so it could just be a target by default, though.

Guess I need to meditate on this one.

Moscow Cats Theater

I’m putting these videos up for my friend, Jaye. Jaye loves cats more than any loving soul on this earth!

It is amazing that this man adopted and trained cats that were abandoned, feral and stray! I have personally trained many kinds of animals (including cats) and am amazed and dazzled by the behaviors these cats are performing.