As I sat down here tonight (already belated due to a nationally televised sporting event) I received a phone call. From our Empress, and Honey Graham (and Max too), with a metaphysical situation which needed to be addressed NOW!
No problem, we did the best we could, but this put me in a bit of a time crunch. Just sayin’ that, how I prioritize shit in my life, kids and family do come first and as much I adore my JulieLanders, sometimes you guys get (gently and longingly) bumped to a lower ranking. So, this post will be the bare minimum.
(On a side note, I don’t know how many of you watched the game, but I very much enjoyed the half-time show. Songs that I can sing along with are aways a plus.)
This is a picture Dan took today, while standing on our back deck. I am down there, in the bike lane. I asked him to use HIS computer to zoom in and crop out all that is not me.
Can you see me now?
For those of you who like directional exactness, I’m pedaling north on West Amazon. Starting tomorrow (fingers crossed) he’ll get to join me! No, we still can’t find his bike (it COULD be in our garage….). My father loaned him one (which had been safely stashed in the barn, only slightly dusted with hay and alfalfa) that he used to ride around on job sites (like when he helped rebuild this place). Dad’s lungs aren’t doing really well this winter, so he’s doesn’t feel as though he’ll be marathon biking any time soon.
The weather guessers are saying we probably won’t get rain until Tuesday, which means that if all goes well, he and I can make it a delightful, mostly-dry-except-when-intended, Doubled Up Moonday: five cycling miles followed by an hour of swimmy exercisey time.
Staying water themed, our card today has as lovely illustration. It is also very similar to the message we got when I had to lecture us all about not setting aside any of these draws simply because of the wording, because of how definitions are often done in basic foundational language. Don’t toss this one out either, it will still have merit, even if it might not feel that way upon first glance.
(It’s one of Doreen’s decks, so get ready with your substitution vocabulary.)
“Healing Heart ~
You’re a powerful healer. Keep up the great work!
Deep within your heart, you are aware of your healing abilities. Perhaps you have received feedback from others about the way that your words or touch have helped them heal. By drawing this card, you are urged to take your healing work to the next level. You are also asked to purify your diet and thoughts so that higher frequencies of healing energy can flow through you.
By opening up to the next level, you will notice a shift in the people or situations that come to you for help. You may find the number of healing opportunities increasing, or your clients may display a greater understanding of spirituality.
Heaven wishes to support your healing work completely. If you would like to further your eduction, work in a healing center, or increase your income, just ask . . . and then be open to receiving.”
What popped into my head as I was typing this was that I could share an example of how this might be interpreted by someone who is not usually considered a “healer” in the cultural sense of how that word has come to be generally used and accepted. I’ll use our, near and dear to my own heart, law enforcement folks.
In the course of their days they will come across a vast number of people, individuals who are NOT at their best. What if 103 mentions, perhaps in passing, that he has an uncle who has found great success with AA, and someone who has been struggling with addiction (of any type) hears this. Let’s say it’s the third time a 12 Step Program has been spoken of in his/her presence. THAT may be the catalyst s/he needs to seek help, and in the long run, begin a course of healing and life improvement.
Perhaps 536 pulls a suspended driver over and has to give him a ticket for no insurance. This guy might have looked at that citation and fine as the kick in the pants he needed to finally get his proverbial shit together so that his new born baby will grow up with law-abiding parents who hold down jobs and make a better life for themselves.
And finally, there’s always the chance that 540 is called out for a hostage situation, wherein she negotiates with a desperate individual, saving lives right, left, and center, because her compassion has reached out in a healing manner so that this particular circumstance is resolved in a peaceful and safe way for all involved.
See? None of them are traditionally considered healers, and yet in their day-to-day interactions, all three of them COULD be helpful to such a degree that a healing will occur. If we apply this message to what the rest of us do, simply connecting to others with open hearts and loving souls, our exchanges with anyone we encounter will be just as beneficial.
Today’s Deck:
Magical Mermaids and Dolphins Oracle Cards by Doreen Virtue
hope Empress is OK. yes, our kids’ crises do tend to bump other priorities down a place or two. We all understand that.
Interesting card. Thanks for the examples from law enforcement. I don’t do any healing work per se, so it helps to have a different way to look at it. But it works pretty well just to see it as it relates to my own healing.
Em & Co are currently unchanged, but thank you. They still need to move, and her back/jaw is not better yet.
Ya know, as far as examples go, I was also thinking of the teachers in my life….. how many times have you guys helped a student, sure you KNOW when you are assisting. But what about all the moments you didn’t even realize you had made such an impact? Or, if we are fortunate enough in this regard, as partners-in-parenting? We may be healing a small who-knows-what for any number of loved ones, simply by (like me today) taking that extra time to just BE there.
I’m so glad this is helpful on other levels though, too.
Phew I’m so glad you clarified that healing thing with examples. Cause my first thought was; go back to massage work. No! I’ve done my time of that and I’m through.
Of course, I have some resistance to the avenue of healing I know I should be taking, but I’m surprised to say, not as much as I have to healing.
I’m about to sell my massage table and chair, in fact. I need a new laptop.
You look so good on your bike! Someone gave us the perfect bike for Jay. By spring I want to have bikes ready for Kat & me.
Speaking of spring, I got on a kick and completely redid my room. Thought I might be spring cleaning then I remembered Candlemas. Just past. Where they used to make all the new candles including using up the little bits of old ones.
That’s what I did in my room. New spaces for all the old stuff.
I’m pretty sure that last way was some funky feng shui.
meant to say – not as much as I have to bodywork – not healing. Sorry.
Yeah, I don’t see you going back to that either. No need.
Yipee for loaned, borrowed, hand-me-down, and gifted bikes!
Good call on Imbolc. Yes, it most certainly does have much to do with candles.
(That wording DOES make a difference.
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I really hope Em’s situation improves, both practical and psychic. Thanks for the transposition of healing into the LEO realm. I have often lamented that we often never get to see the outcomes of some of those interventions we’ve made. I believe that bar tenders and many retail folks do the same things in their interpersonal interactions with folks. I know my sister does.
I do like the card, even with the usual disclaimers. And Yippee for more biking!!
You are more than welcome, it seemed like the best way to SHOW how this message could be applied, no matter what the situation. And yeah, I think many of us, in the most far reaching of jobs and lives, touch WAY more folks than we ever realize. True, too bad we can’t SEE that though.
Not now anyway, on the Other Side there actually is a way to do it.
Does this mean we have to try and schedule a Foursome Biking Event? We’ve done SO well with the BBQ.
So we’ll combine the two: Bike then grill. This calender year. For certain.
It is now in writing, on the internet. That makes it true!
Interesting thought. I think fiction writers can also do healing without knowing it. A book I read this weekend made me cry a lot and it also brought some new thoughts into my mind that might be useful. Same thing with the blog writers and commenters.
When I was a kid my dad was a cop in what was at that time a smaller city (under 20,000, maybe under 15,000). There were not that many cops, maybe 20 if that many. But we had plenty of habitual criminals. We’d be out, maybe at the grocery store or the gas station, and some guy would start talking to Dad all about just general stuff. Afterward, Dad would tell us it was someone he arrested from time to time. So Dad did get to follow the lives of his arrestees, it was just just unfortunate that most of the time their lives didn’t change appreciably. I wonder if Dad ever felt uncomfortable having said off-and-on jail-inhabitees seeing him with his kids?
Oh all types of writers totally do this! And even more so now with the interwebz. The world is small and everyone is close, our interactions are not only much faster but, I also believe, much deeper too.
This weekend, I got to fix my niece’s upset stomach (heating pad, blanket, book to read for distraction), and change the steri-strips over my nephew’s stitches! Actual healing!
I think we have the to power to change lives for the better, sometimes through seemingly insignificant interaction. And I know that really good police are true “public servants”–working to make our communities better, sometimes one perp at a time.
I was making breakfast this morning (and really, I don’t even know why, because I still have calories to burn from last night’s party), and I thought “Maybe Julie is at a weight plateau because she has more muscle now from her marathon walking and bike rides!” It just popped into my mind, so I thought I’d pass it along.
You Healer, you! Nice work there, you totally worked that message.
I agree, and it’s those “seemingly insignificant interactions” that often have the most impact, because we aren’t even trying.
You are on a biscuit, Lone Woman. (I’m always so ecstatically glad when you, Sylvia, The Captain, or anyone in the House of Penii think of me!) I believe you’ve nailed this one too. I was wondering, as I powered through the water class tonight (getting tired but not AS tired), if my density is just so much different now. Add that to the age/menopause/changed metabolism situation/on-going “lack of elimination” issue, and we’ve got the Perfect Storm of Weight Plateau.
(This is your idea of bare minimum? Hmmmm…)
FGBV’s to the Empress and co. Hope by now some relief is in sight.
…simply connecting to others… weelllll… if you hadn’t ‘poked around’ as you put it, I wouldn’t have figured out why I couldn’t get out the door. And, yes, I cried. But I got out the door. For a miserable 20 min., but I went. And yes, just 20 min. made me sore. (My daughter yelled at me for doing too much.) But I went. And I took Jake, my dog, ’cause years ago he was picked over others specifically as a potential running mate. He was so excited when I got out his slip collar that he bashed his face on the door trying to get out. Greta Grace this dog is not. He is also the least trained dog I’ve ever had (long story) and I figured it would be best to work out the rules and road etiquette while I’m ‘just walking’. (Like, “No, you will not stop and eat the dead deer.” There were two on our ‘walk’.) So there you go. No ‘poking’ and my shoes would still be glaring at me from the door. So this one’s for you!
(I know I know I know, I start off thinking I’m going to be super quick and barely say ten words, then 600 (or 8) later, I’m slightly alarmed.)
Thank you, they are working through a few different things right now, none terrible, but the house dealie has GOT to be solved.
Okay, well I feel better about poking you then. Also, you totally made me smile, but tear up too, with that description of the dog and the door. Who would ever think THAT was something I’d miss?
TWO dead deers?! Gawd you lucky bastards, you! What an adventure…..
I agree, there are healers all around us if we stop to listen. Loved your examples of law enforcement. Also, liked Skye’s comment on authors. I’ve had incredible healing from tears shed over a book, especially when I take time to recognize why it touched me.
AND, there are the true trained healers too.
Like perhaps a nurse? Who continues to lend her hand (and wise thoughts) kindly?
Poor Em – FGBVs for much healing both physical and situational. My neck/jaw issues are in abeyance for the moment – for which I am enormously grateful. So I’m sending all my healing vibes her way.
Thanks so much. And yipee for you and your less-horrible pain/discomfort/mystery situation!
(Ya know what though? This popped in to my head when I read your comment:
are you grinding your teeth in your sleep? Or were?)
Healing … it is so much more than physical. Keep making things better, sweetie!!!
I will do my best, and you as well!
Hope Em’s situation gets sorted with a minimum of stress.
I love this card, I think it’s a good reminder to ourselves that even without doing anything (or thinking we’re not doing anything) we are always influencing others. It’s like the smile stories, sometimes all it takes is a smile to completely change someones day, or heal them.
Thank you, we do too. And yes, that’s it exactly. I LOVE those stories!
Sometimes the healing comes from the most unexpected person and circumstance. Hope Em feels better soon. And a new home too.
That should be the healing DOES come….. Now I can visualize you biking along, twelve pounds lighter. Very good progress, Julie. Baby Girl is here again and having a little cry, got to go.
And isn’t that one of the things that makes life so cool, those unexpected gifts?
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(And connections?
My progress is slightly stalled but I was out there today!
Kiss that baby for us.
I think listening, really listening, to someone is a healing gift. And, it’s one I can do. Then there are mommy kisses on boo-boos! I can do that one too. If we re-phrase “healing” as “making someone better in some way” than we can all do that in some way.
You do. On more levels and farther reaching than you think.
Perfect re-phrasing too. That IS the true meaning of healing.
You are so right Sister. Who would have ever thought that 103′s uncle could be my resource for sage advice on sanity. Ok maybe you did, but that doesnt count. His time with ” the cult” has been like constant therapy. He is so evolved now. <3
Pretty amazing the way shit goes huh?
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(Yeah, I kinda did know that he had it in him.
Also, congratulations! I just heard that you got some type of way fancy pantsy promotion, for being super wonderfully smart and awesome?! YES – Go you!
(We need Han to make you one of those great Employee Awards.)
Hey, I’ve been on West Amazon! Only because Google had directed me there, but I still think that counts for something. Not for much, I grant you.
Hope the Empress soon reigns supreme over the silly minions currently thwarting her. Visualizing an ideal living situation fr her.
It totally counts because you WERE there, er…. here. No matter who directed you, you got here. Counts!
Thank you so much, and we are sending healing spine/back vibes to you.
Kids come first. But you still rock one hell of a blog post for someone who was in a hurry. I’m with you on the gifts of our law enforcement officers – they deserve our genuine appreciation and respect.
Well thanks, as I said to Robin, I sit down thinking I gotta be all rushed and crap, but then I just go on and on and on and… ya know.
It would also be nice if they got paid appropriately too, but yes, appreciation is quite important.