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Completion 07/21/2009

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So, July’s scope has remained unposted up to now and I beg forgiveness for my tardiness. July is a universal nine-month and I’ve been busy in the 3-D world, tossing and giving things away to make room for the new stage to beset in August. But we’ll get to that in a moment.

For the rest of July, make sure you have your work clothes on! For these final two weeks, gear up for a mad push to make ready, jettisoning those things that have finally come to a point of completion. Happily move items out of the “I’ll-make-use-of-you-one-day” pile to the “thanks-for-the-memories-and-there’s-the-door” pile. Tear through closets and scary drawers, bulldoze through the messes of mishmash accumulating in those untended nooks and crannies, find things you’d thought you’d lost…believe me, you’ll be happy you did come August 1st.

This works on a relationship level too. There may be a strong current of unspoken feelings underpinning your various associations with others. Fear may have kept you from verbalizing your true sentiments. Now however, it may be appropriate to daylight these concerns.

July operates under the principle of surrender, as in acknowledging that it’s the fate’s very own Miller Time. Time to prepare for and call it a day; time to put things to bed and say we’re done. However difficult, we can feel touched by a magical grace when allowing ourselves to finish with something (or with someone), even if we have we have a hard time with the idea of parting or letting circumstances evolve into something completely different.

It all hinges on the idea of balance and equilibrium. For new things to come into life, a corresponding number of things must-often emotionally-leave. This is where the energy of August sweeps in on a confident world wind of discovery.

So be proactive and keenly train your eyes toward your august goals…

Chutzpah! 06/01/2009

Posted by Lisa Ann Courington in Forecasts, What is numerology good for?.
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To write a column about future events, about predictions and projections, you’ve got to have more than a little moxie, you’ve got to have (at least while you’re writing said column) some ego at your back.

After all, I present thoughts here to you not as The Gospel, but as a gospel, a set of teachings and beliefs that I am immodest enough to believe have some impact on how you go forth into the world. That my friends takes some Chutzpah.

And it is in the spirit of Chutzpah that I encourage each and every one of you to go forth and find your own gospels to proclaim from your own personal mountain tops. June is an 8-month universally and it calls each to own their own territory, to be self-possessed of their particular talents and skills.

Revealing yourself and your natural or earned gifts won’t be as hard as you think because this exercise does not have to devolve into a narrowly vainglorious pursuit. Rather, acknowledging your part, your responsibility in this world shows great depth of character. To a person we have a part to play in this life and the rest of the world is waiting for us to fulfill our contract.

Granted, not all of us will be great intellectual sages, neuroscientists or highly paid healers. For some, our function is hidden, buried away from view, perhaps taking place on the microscopically invisible cellular level. But that does not make it any less important.

When you are in step with what you are on the planet for, when you accept your place in the schema that we know as our universe, you make the world a better place, not just for yourself, but also for everyone else.

Think about this for a moment. It’s a fairly potent concept.

Find your calling. Answer it. ‘Nuff said.

Happy June!

Enough is enough already! 04/30/2009

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There comes a point in every year when, really, it’s all a bit too much. Too much anger, and tumult and bluster, too much heartache and putting up with.  There’s even times when there’s too much wine and comfort food to help forget, too much gallows humor with its look-over-your-shoulder nervous laughter, and yes, though we are out of practice, too much retail therapy.  There’s simply a time when there’s just too, much, much.

And that’s the land we inhabit right now; we’re here.  We desperately need a break from each other, from our brains and the saturated culture and the multi-mediumed, well-meaning messages from a savvy and well-meaning president.  There is no easy fix for our overdose except a reduction in stimuli and the fullness of time.  If this were France, it would be August and we’d all take a nice long holiday in the country, baking in the purgatorial luxury that is a 4.3-week annual vacation.

In the absence of the purifying high noon of a French August, May is prime time to get away.  You and every one of your peers need room for quiet contemplation without the weight of thought.  Put as much infinity between you and your cares as you can.  The universe will cooperate and provide a few handy gaps to get lost in.  But even without the cosmic assist, most of us would do best to be scarce or at least otherwise committed to some type of convalescence when optional burdens come a calling– especially when they are temptingly dressed in tragedy de jours’ clothes.

Take advantage of this deeply self-preservation moment.  Drop out of sight for a while to a dreamless sleep so that you may wake refreshed in time for June’s doubtless rigors.

Life “is” 03/31/2009

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In the words of astro-sage Ralfee Finn, when viewed from an esoteric angle, our current universal cycle is cyclical, meaning we’ve all been here before and cosmically speaking it’s a teaching point.

Not that I’m saying that when terrible things happen to good people that they deserve them because they need the lesson.  No. I am emphatically not saying that (nor do I think Ms. Finn is).

What I am saying is that life is. And that “is” contains many unpleasant circumstances (and very nice ones too but that’s a subject for another day).  Bad times (and good times) happen no matter what I truths I accept.

But I’m choosing to learn (and you may as well) from what I’m living through so that the next time I come up against these selfsame conditions, I have a bit more experience at my back.  It’s what we all hope for when facing the stark unlikelihood of everything going our way.

I do believe sooner or later if we’re still on the earth, the wheel-of-fortune will turn, euphemistically. the sun will shine and our burdens will ease…at least for a little while.

In April, we have the opportunity to put the philosophy of John D. Rockefeller into action. The philosophy that “every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty” flowed from the lips of an individual who wanted for nothing.

Most of you reading here will not have that experience in full…however many of us do have rights, opportunities, possessions and a peace of mind that can qualify as the envy of many.

In some small part, each of us has the skills, knowledge and talents to weather an aspect (however small) of the current tumultuous times.  Extend a hand to the person you *can* help as you grapple with your own indigence in whatever form it manifests.

Don’t be surprised (and accept graciously) if the same courtesy is extended to you.

Universally, this month, we’re all subject to the circular turns of dharma and karma.

Additional emphasis for personal years:

  • One: Movement, freedom and a thirst for life emphasized
  • Two: Home front situations, harmony and partnerships emphasized
  • Three: Limpid introspection, truth and clarity emphasized
  • Four: Organization, focus, money and effects of previous actions
    emphasized
  • Five: Shedding of the old; dramatic completions emphasized
  • Six:  New partnerships, connections and pioneering coalitions
    emphasized
  • Seven: Insights, wisdom revealed and  cooperative harmony emphasized
  • Eight: Joy, celebrations and consequences emphasized
  • Nine: Pragmatic, sensible conclusions emphasized

March 2009 02/23/2009

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What is it about our never-ending crusade to better ourselves? To shortcut pain and heartache and despair? Why do we yo-yo between acceptance and rebellion? Perhaps it has to do with the nature of reality which we can’t ever really know until it resides in the past. Should we courageously push on with the struggle or should we more bravely understand that the real battle lies in our ability to accept life as it comes?

Is it better to be passive or active, angry or subservient? Listen to our precious, virgin inner voice or shut its treacherous stream of denunciation? Who knows? And among those who say they know, to whom should we cleave as the authentic source of truth?

The answers? All. None. Some. The latter. The former. Many. Few.

Yeah, pretty helpful isn’t it?

The truth is none of us, not down to the most prescient psychic knows what is right for you or me. It’s (with a hat tip to Joan Didion) all just a play-it-as-it-lays life. A confusing kaleidoscope of decisions in which what seems right for one person may not actually work for the gal or guy seated right next to us. So when you read these numeroscopes realize that what matters is not what I write here. What matters is how you interpret it…how you take it. Because the part you play in filtering the messages you receive is inseparable from your own happiness, your own well-being. So sift through my latest contributions to the universe and make it your own.

The universal energy of this March lavishes us (or engulfs us depending on your perspective) with the singular opportunity to make choices: big ones, little ones, all manner of from the smallest, insignificant of decisions to life altering, scene shifting, sea-changes

Whatever we do, our essential being-ness is our own personal beacon subtly or overtly influencing our fortunes over the next month. The point is less that there is a right and wrong (although such moral grammar cannot truly be separated out from the human condition). The point is that we realize that choice-points such as the ones we’ll be faced with this month simultaneously make all the difference and no difference at all.

It’s the way our actions flow (or conversely don’t flow) from these determinations that make the difference. Life is a series of acts in which we do or don’t do things. The trick is to find the flow between the wax and wane, to find the rhythm that ultimately is most US. It’s that freedom, to know our place in the moment (or how to course correct) that gets us closer to that numinous and elusive state: happiness.

Adjust 01/30/2009

Posted by Lisa Ann Courington in The weekly muse.
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One of my favorite authors, the late Octavia Butler , wrote a piece that was entirely about pushing through toward a goal. In her piece entitled “Furor Scribendi”, she talks about the positive obsession writers need to have toward their writing craft…that the pursuit of what they want should happen even in the absence of inspiration, time, encouragement, basically, in spite of everything.

That’s kind of how I see all of us working our way through 2009, moving forward, sometimes imperceptibly, in the face of that entire media onslaught, all that bad-world-sliding-into-worse news and completely involved in our own personal dramas and predicaments. We must continue on but perhaps it doesn’t have to be quite as bad as we think it will be.

Lot’s of things have and will go wrong right now, it’s a fact but lots of stuff will still works too. Not to be a Pollyanna but managing expectations (there’s that word managing again!) do make a difference.

Back in 1982, recently referenced as the last time economic conditions were this distressing, I was a student, just learning to live on my own wits. My parents could no longer fund my education and I had worked most of the summer and fall to make enough to return to my rainy little college town for Winter Semester.

I lived with three other dysfunctional girls in a tiny thin-walled two-bedroom apartment on next to no money. Fun for us was trying to see how many free donuts we could score on Sunday mornings from the apartment manager’s office (we’d take turns going down to her office and say we were getting donuts for our other roommates. Our take some weekends was 16 donuts! We’d live, sugar-stupored on those free donuts for the rest of the week). Another pastime was taking long walks, going on bike rides, reading books at the library, or going to see the occasional super–cheap movie on campus. Once in a while we’d watch television on a 13-inch hand-me-down black and white TV with broken rabbit ears. Our only personal electronics were our cheesy little clock radios.

Life was spare and small but looking back on it not as bad as one might think. There were always things to do and I can say I was never actually bored. Possibility existed everywhere and I though I grew weary of my food choices (generic cheerios, Turkey legs, top ramen, mac ‘n cheese, and aging bargain basement vegetables), I was not bored by life. In fact life seemed to beckon me and indeed I felt closer to my authentic self. Not long after this time (with other roommates and in a different low-end apartment) I took up the study of numerology. I credit my uncluttered life for that gift…for without the time and space wrested from the pursuit of acquisition and keen consuming, I never would have had the pleasure of learning to my own drummer.

All this isn’t to say we should be happy to sink so low financially that we’ll all have to live ascetic lives. But turning away from indulgence can shed light on certain abundances not predictably self-evident in times of excess.

Life and numerology works on the principle of cycles and right now we’re in a major cycle of adjustment. This week, take care to adjust yourself accordingly.

February 01/27/2009

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Universally February will be the handmaiden of all that change that we’ve
heard so much of late. We mightily want our circumstances to shift but
they cannot unless we take the proper steps.

Those proper steps are what the universal energy of February offers us–a
rough passage through to the other side. This second calendar month is a 13/4, the sign of the cornerstone and the white rose. In the former, we sweep the playing field clean of debris and distraction and go to work on the
fundamentals. If these first bits aren’t set correctly, the entire enterprise is put in jeopardy. The meaning is clear-this groundwork must be undertaken with care for everything else after will reference it. It will lead us down a path: the straight or the crooked.

The white rose is derived from the tarot-based expression of a 13/4. It
is the symbol on the flag we somberly fly over our landscape and is synonymous with the material burdens we must release including the blinding acceptance of
unexamined concepts and notions that dumb down any attempts at conscious
living.

Ironically, this is also descriptive of the surge of emotion
following the lucid acknowledgment that we need not be slaves to certain
beliefs, the poster child for the Ah-Ha moment where restraints, literal or
figurative are thrown off.

The Best of the Old – The Brightest of the New 01/16/2009

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It’s rather trite and disingenuous as a numerologist to say things are changing…because anyone who’s got their eyes open can see that that trend is there.  We expect change at the New Year and at the dawn of a new presidency.  We expect change when the stock markets hit record lows and unemployment rises to levels not seen in decades.  We expect change when weather patterns shift in ways we would have said were impossible just a few years ago.  So I’ll not say things are changing…we can all discern that to a lesser or greater extent on our own.  But what I will say is that the New Year expects us not just to react to change (by ignoring it, eagerly awaiting it or fearing it) but to *manage* it.  2009 then demands more than just our visceral response; it requires engagement.

Cooperation and Completion
Universally we’re in an eleven master year, factored by the sum of a two energy (the feminine, calm, harmony, associations) and nine energy (dramatic transitions to completion, the Mother Teresa number).   Combining these two energies is a bit of a trick…because collectively we’ll be straining to maintain the structural equilibrium still available from the previous cycles all the while preparing for something different and unknown to move into place.  Priorities must be shuffled *and*  sensitivities need to be accommodated.  It’s a delicate two-step toward we don’t know what…and the restrained anticipation of the other shoe dropping can lead to bull-in-a-china closet impatience or a profoundly detached fatigue.

What works
The spirit of gratitude helps us focus on what has gone right with our lives up to now…it’s a great time to take stock on what’s worked.  And ideally an acknowledgment that change is essential to our maturation as a species and a planet can help us more easily move toward new paradigms no matter how outlandish they may appear from our current perspective.  Yes, it will be bumpy but in Master years we’re all called to a higher standard.  When we meet it, we’re catapulted toward eye-popping potentials and formidable growth.  It’s a sea change to an entirely new level.

So there it is…the artful universal prescription for the New Year.

May you combine the best of the old with the brightest of the new…

It’s a tool for understanding yourself 01/03/2009

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Why Numerology?

So why do people need numerology ( And when I ask that question, I’m really asking why I needed numerology)? Well, first, I firmly believe everyone needs a little something to get them through the thorny patches, the bits where life runs roughshod over our psyche’s. My native Catholicism didn’t pan out for me. Nor did any of the traditional Protestant religions I test-drove in college.

I liked the idea of spirituality, something with a narrative but I chafed at the idea of a figurehead…I don’t want a mediator, someone with whom I must negotiate with to get through the proverbial narrow threshold. And I had no burning need for a personal guru, thank you very much.

No, I hungered for something intensely personal, very customizable and interpretable by yours truly…that’s the way I wanted to play it. Again, this is what I wanted, so back to the original question, so I’m theorizing that’s what others may want too.

What’s so special about Numerology?

Numerology is a belief system that will meet you where you are, wherever that happens to be. Seeking simplicity?

If you can add and subtract, the basic tenants of numerology are open to you. If you want a deeper drink, an examination of the compound consequences of cycle and personality, numerology will certainly lead you down a more complex road until you reach the inevitable butterfly effect…each warp and weft of our lives and the lives of others blended with destinies of place and time… combining and collaborating in an elaborate, ever shifting symphony!

But the point is still this: you pick your path, it’s the ultimate Web 2.0 philosophy.

What about all the other options out there?

Of course there are many, many other disciplines under the sun that will promise the same…I’m not saying that this way outshines them or is more accurate, more pure, etc. This is just the one that appealed to me one day in 1984 whilst I was whiling my way around a new age fair. You know, when the student is ready, the teacher and the subject will reveal itself? The student is ready, the teacher and the subject revealed itself. Yup, it happened, just like that.

Get your timing right with numerology 01/03/2009

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This is another in a series of what is numerology good for…

It’s good for planning.

Since the first time I learned how to fiddle with numbers, I’ve been using them to determine when to make a move and when to hang in there. In our free-will world you can start, end or continue anything whenever it strikes you. But right timing as well all know can provide just the boost necessary to push us over the finish line first.

When is the best time to start a creative project?

Each year features a different vibration. See how your year can influence your creative dreams-

* In a one year, your creative project will be less about the process and more about YOU. You being known for your wit, innovation and unique way of seeing the world. You introducing something specific, original and state-of-the-art.

* In a two year, creativity can be a tool for illumination and healing. Your original talents will gain accolades if and when they are trained on bringing peace and tranquility to a situation or when funneled towards creative problem solving.

* In a three year, your creative project success will be fueled by your authentic self —all the elements that make up the real you. Projects that showcase your unique spin on the world and that are expressed honestly have the most purchase. These creative pursuits can also, in and of themselves bring you great joy and which in turn can motivate you to meet your highest potential.

* In a four year, the natty details of your creative process will dominate. How can you be an painter, writer, musician, artiste, etc. and still keep a roof over your head? How does cash flow work? Who are your clients, your suppliers? How air tight are your current contracts? Where will you sell your goods and/or services? In a four personal year, in true entrepreneurial fashion, your passion can be transformed into a vital business.

* A five year brings great energy to exploring the different ways in which your creativity can flow. You’ll feel driven to check out all options, possibly to your detriment. While it’s true sowing some wild oats can bring amazing creative breakthroughs consider the consequences of ‘no limits’ before you fly without a safety net.

* A six year focuses artistic vision and elan in the domestic realm. You use your creativity to bring more comfort, more flair and more beauty into your surroundings. Such creative talents are both supportive and soothing to those who come to you for solace.

* On the face of it, a seven year doesn’t look particularly creative…but the opportunities are particularly fertile. A seven year can be a creative’s best friend because it is the sabbatical year, an extended time granted by the cosmos to take a hiatus from normal cares to pursue dreams closest, most hidden and most dear.

* Anyone from crafter’s to ballet dancers can attain a very high level of achievement in an eight year. An eight focuses cumulatively on how effectively we’ve been working toward our creative goals. With the eight drive, talent and confidence, success, especially material success is highlighted.

* Nine personal year’s are like the proverbial icing on the cake. The results of the creative efforts of the past 8 years come to a head and can peak in a spectacular ways. Nine years are nostalgic and cathartic…you’ll reflexively review and critique decades-long progress toward your creative goals. Naturally you’ll also assess how to make the best of your next cycle, retiring some creative goals and strongly considering the resurrection of others.