Hide our blessings...

Daily Forecast for Jan 4, 2009

Philippa Castle:
Welcome to Your Daily Forecast for Jan 4, 2009
by: Kim Rogers-Gallagher

Your Birth Date: 04/05/1967

Prepare to Meet Your Public
Sun Conjunct Asc
Jan 3, 2009 to Jan 4, 2009

If you want some attention, now is definitely the time to go out there and get it. If you don't -- well, let's just say you should remain behind closed doors. You'll be impossible to miss, and incapable of being ignored. Keep a pen on your person -- for autographs, of course.

Love
Venus Semisquare Sun
Jan 2, 2009 to Jan 4, 2009

It may not be the best date you've ever had, but hang in there and forget about what you thought was going to happen. You just might be happily surprised.

Energy
Sun Conjunct Asc
Jan 3, 2009 to Jan 4, 2009

You know how you feel on your birthday? Like the rest of world should stand up and pay homage? This is your secondary birthday. Alert the media early.

Career
Mercury Sextile Saturn
Jan 4, 2009 to Jan 6, 2009

You won't take kindly to anyone who tries to come between you and your calculator, computer or cellphone. Do try to stop short of napping with these devices, though.

The Law of Communication

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Let's go for a little walk

Under the moon of love

Let's sit right down and talk

Under the moon of love

I wanna tell you...



Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.

The Law of Attraction

If I could have a soul portrait...



















this is what I would choose. I've heard it said that those around us and our environment is a reflection of who we truly are.Deborah Jean Baker (Dalgleish) is my sister and the mother of this most glorious child, Sandi, pictured here at peace, creating ripples of contentment in the fresh springwater dam above Honesuckle Cottage, our home, at Oak Grove Farm.

Vulnerability

When you are at your most vulnerable, your experience gives you the faith and confidence to overcome your fears.

St. Sebastian - Fear of Being Me

- Fear of my ego

- Release of fears of finances

It's virtually impossible to move forward whilst looking backwards and if you do, you're sure to stumble and fall.

I have done a lot of horse-riding through the years. I bought this diary for the year 2000, with photographs of horses at liberty, by Robert Vavra. The dream-like quality of his photographs inspired powerful emotional and spiritual responses in me and I have used it many times since then as an oracle, for myself and close friends.

FW: Colleen-Joy's Weekly Lesson - The gift of our tumours

Hello Philippa

The gift of our tumours

My biggest fear was simple; I was terrified of being visible. A large brain tumour grew above my right eye when I was 3 years old, and it threatened both my sight and my life. Memories of my childhood included: being laughed at, stared at and of being frightened by people (well because I was frightening to them). The tumour was eventually removed and I died twice during the operation. But despite that; the tumour was gone (by age 9 after a 2nd surgery), I lived for years terrified of being visible.

I bet you didn’t need a tumour to hide some part of you away for fear of the judgement of others? My tumour became a gift. Today I know that had I not faced death, I would not have found life; had my sight not almost been lost, I would have never learnt to look deeper, and had I not learnt about hiding the “unlovable parts of myself” I would not have learnt to love myself and then others.

When I was afraid of people, I didn’t like people. We never like the things we fear and then we find every reason we can to be separate, to hide and to make ourselves small. I didn’t like people because I was convinced that they didn’t like me (I was trying to beat them to it). That was until the day I learnt something so simple, that it changed my life forever. That even if I stand on stage in front of hundreds of people (which I now do as a speaker), no one can see me! We don’t see each other, instead we see ourselves, we see the missing or exaggerated parts of ourselves, the parts we love, the parts we don’t, the parts we wish we were more of and the parts we wish we were less of…all there showing up as other people. That is why if you want to understand humankind; you need only to truly understand yourself. It was only when I learnt to have a relationship with myself and to love the tumours (real and imagined) in me, that I could have relationships with others and experience love for them.

Make your relationship with yourself a priority. Treat yourself with the care, love and compassion that you would hope others would treat you. Love yourself, especially the tumours (the unlovable parts of self). Then when people with real or imagined tumours show up in your life, your heart will not close, it will stay open and you will feel compassion and love for all people.

Here is a link to a video about me (and therefore about you).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0a9o37RPf8%20

I’ll be sending you an e-mail later today or tomorrow to invite you to be a part of something special. I want you to be a part of the inspiration for my next book.

Much love and joy,

Colleen-Joy

Professional Speaker, author and InnerLifeSkills™ Coach

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P.S. This week’s class in JHB Bryanston is on Relationship Healing, it’s a very powerful 2 week course. If you can make it, I highly recommend it! Simply e-mail mailto:pages@iafrica.com?subject=Relationship%20Healing%20Course for booking information.

Colour Therapy for moi...

• Melissi is a friend of mine in Stanford. She is originally from the UK and is a colour therapist with her own business Colourworks. I was introduced to her by Aveline, a red-headed angel if ever I met one! When I first got to know her husband, Tom, he simply said, oh, I see you are also a witch... The energy connection between us was obvious and apparent, right from the start. Their horses... well, that's another story altogether, suffice to say it was an honour and a priviledge!
• Recently Allanize Mouton, of Village Life photographic fame, asked me to dance & model for a portrait in her new coffee table book. She is putting together a collection of Stanford's history and present village life. This photograph is from the first photo shoot at the historic Barn on the Bend. Annalize, thank you, it is most certainly a priviledge and also fills me with excitement. I am really looking forward to seeing the results of our recent photo shoot at Rooibos House.

I played with the hues and saturation effects in Macromedia Fireworks because, today, this is how I like to see myself... perhaps Melissi can explain the colour interpretations?

Vulnerability: today, tomorrow, together...

Today you said you saw my video... but it was a little early in the morning - you'd rather like to watch it later. Your other comment about us being able to make a lot of money with it... It is my Unplanned Sunshine gift to you - I would like to think priceless! An experience akin to seeing our Cape Eagle Owls doing it in our Oak Grove under the light of the silvery moon on Sunday 1 July. The late Brenda Castle's birthday and the late Lady Diana's birthday.

The Lovers card affirms my alter ego is a port key to a Soul Mate or deal, whose superpower is compatibility in the midst of reconciling dichotomy to interconnect as a whole new entity or 'color.' To be or not to be: at ultimatum or rival tensions mounting, negotiating acceptable trade-offs validates our unique perspectives to reflect what each lacks for a balanced voice of truce. When we're together I'm beside myself, so I concede mutual vested interest, incentive or opportunity to my other half for valued consideration. For only by the power of self-respect in reciprocal vulnerability, need and compassion do 'me and thee consummate we.' The rest is all a dance on the sidelines of Cinderella Pandering or prohibition, or around a Bermuda Triangle of bottom line temptation to cheat by provocation, promiscuity, or shame. But here at the gate of impasse, I still have a choice and my pride.

Me my soul and I...

Reckless is my middle name - or that is what the Universe seemed to just mention!

I am reminded of the story of myself as a two year old. There I was, with my parents and older sister, aboard a luxurious Portuguese sailing ship making its way from Cape Town to Mozambique. As a toddler I was placed in the creche with a mixture of children, however, being the only Blondie aboard, I became the subject of much curiosity. In later years I was told the attention and touching seemed too overwhelming for me and I proceeded to bite my seeming oppressors until my mother was called to witness the teeth marks and I was removed from the situation. I always recall the photo taken of me sleeping in an elegant lounge chair whilst my mother, resplendent in a long, shimmering turquoise ballgown, danced the night away in the ship's ballroom.

I believe that as I mature I am quite capable of fending off unwanted attention without having to resort to either biting or waiting for someone else to remove me from the situation. Well, at least that is the lesson I have hopefully learned!

In a dream I had the very close and undivided attention of someone who made me feel exceptionally uncomfortable, however, being the 'good girl', I merely turned the other cheek, so to speak and confronted the forces within. My shadow self, projected as it were, as the dark energy of my husband, merely stayed there in the shadows, refusing to come to my aid and merely observing. It was the strongest archetypal image of being both submissive yet in control simultaneously. Well, it is said that the God and the celestial beings dwell in paradox... In the dream, the masculine energy that was so in my face received the sharp end of my wrath, much to my own amazement.

How do I feel now, in this moment, letting the thoughts and words simply flow forth through my mind and out of my fingertips? If people are nice to me, curious about me, want to touch me or have a part of me that is both so their own problem as well as an opportunity for me to draw boundaries that I am both comfortable with and confident that I can maintain with grace and integrity.

That about sums it up and in the moment of creation I rejoice in the experiences of the past and remain in gratitude for all that is perfect and all that is not perfect in my life. The opportunity to grow as soul on planet Earth in 2007 is as miraculous as the fact thatI have been run over by a commuter train yet am here to tell the tale.

And, so the tale begins... I suspect there will be a twist in the end of the tale as such has been my experience, not to mention the tist in the tails of both my youngesat dog and my youngest cat.

I read yesterday that many of the best philosophers changed their minds often. Well, this picture in my 2000 diary spoke to me about myself and my philosophy for life.

The caption insert is merely the entries made for the week opposite that particular horse picture. This is a study of my own life - and perhaps one day I'll make head or tail of it...

As a postnote, I did promise God that, as I had been a fence-sitter and not believed either way in Him/Her for the 27 years to then, I made the choice to believe 100% for the next 27 years. The results of this mystical excursion into the domain of belief are promised in the form of a book to be published around my 55th birthday. It was not long before the title came to me and has stuck around ever since. I have Divine copyright and trust this shall suffice. "RIVERS OF LOVE, LIFE & SOMETHING ELSE..." by Philippa E Castle



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Philippa Castle

Tel:0829434327

http://www.oakgrovefarm.co.za/

My heart aflame with a desire...

... I can barely contain; with a passion I dare not deny; with a flame that can never be extinguised; with a fire that drives; and with an energy second to none...



I have never read Gary Zukov's Soul Stories, it seems I have been so busy creating, experiencing and being blown away by my own. There is no denying that Love is what it is all about. And by popular definition, God is Love. In the circle of Life, like yin and yang, darkness and light, the flip side of the coin of Love is Hatred which is in each and every one of us, however, Love is more powerful. Love is a choice and that is the Gift of Life!

On a more personal note, "Love is all around me, it's everywhere I go. I know I'll always Love you, it's just the way it goes. You know I love you, I always will, my minds made up by the way that I feel, there's no beginning, there'll be no end, 'coz on my Love, you can depend. I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes, you know I'll always Love you, it's just the way it goes..."

I am...

I wandered lonely as a cloud... Thank you to some famous poet whose name escapes me for the moment.
I was told to keep my feet on the ground and reach for the stars! Thank you David Gresham, I think.
The quote I most remember from my late father, Allan Clive Baker (my Allan in Heaven...), is "Rather make a fool of yourself than be a fool!" If I could now imagine that the next thought in my head is from him, then, it is a new saying, i.e. "Live long and prosper!!"
My husband always asks me who I am being grateful to when I give thanks in my own little ways, like blessing the coffee before we drink it (yeah, he catches me doing it sometimes). When I say blessing, I am meaning placing my hand over the glass of water, or plate of food, or Protea Compacta seed, or whatever, and focussing my attention on what I am doing and talk in my mind to whom ever I feel I may be addressing at the time, whether that be my Creator or any other Angelic being, Master or person, past or present. Having received the full Reiki attunements (not Mastership) for hands on and distant healing well over 9 years ago, I am comfortable with being a channel and easily feel the "Chi" or "Ki" flowing through me.
I am... an enigma maybe, the girl in the yellow dress maybe, when I said Paradox, Parabox, Parabat you Doos, it was with all the love in the world... :) I cannot always explain myself and why should I?

My saying to you and anyone else out there who actually gives a shit, is this:

"The paradox of life is to be afraid of love, when all there is, is love and fear."

p.s. I think I miss Nama the most... .

Casting the I Ching

Late Saturday night I used three R5.00 coins to cast the I Ching... The oracles are Understanding and Wealth.