Wishes Can Come True

Jerry W. Willis and Suzanne Lieurance are coauthors of a new book, The Life of Your Dreams - Building Your Life and Career Around the Things You Love Most, due for release in March 2008. If you need help creating the life of your dreams, visit their blog at http://www.thelifeofyourdreams.net for additional tips and articles that will help. While you’re there, ask them your most pressing question about building the life of your dreams or email suzanne@workingwriterscoach.com with your question.

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Click on the words above: “Brought to you by the Number Eight.” Print it out and put it in your wallet. Then print out another one and put it on your computer if you use a computer to make your money. Print out another one and put it in your office or cube or anywhere else that you can see so that you will remember what it is for.

What is it for?

Prosperity. That seems to be the number one wish these days, however you define prosperity.

If you are an energy worker, work up a spell for Friday: 08/08/2008 which adds up to 26 which adds up to …wait for it…8.

I got this from Raymond Grace’s CD on Prosperity, which I highly recommend if you like a down-home, folksy, logical approach to managing energy, past present and future.

Some thoughts on the number 8:

From Wikipedia on chinese number meanings:

Eight

The word for “eight” (八，捌) in Chinese (Pinyin: bā) sounds similar to the word which means “prosper” or “wealth” (发 - short for “发财”, Pinyin: fā). In regional dialects the words for “eight” and “fortune” are also similar, eg Cantonese “baat” and “faat”.

There is also a resemblance between two digits, “88″, and the shuang xi (’double joy’), a popular decorative design composed of two stylized characters 喜 (xi, ‘joy’, ‘happiness’).

Telephone number 8888-8888 was sold for USD$270,723 in Chengdu, China.

The Summer Olympics in Beijing are scheduled to open on 8/8/08 at 8:08:08 p.m.[2]

A man in Hangzhou offered to sell his license plate reading A88888 for 1.12 million yuan.[2]

Dragon Fish Industry in Singapore, a breeder of rare Asian Arowanas (which are “lucky fish” themselves, and, being a rare species, are required to be microchipped), makes sure to use numbers with plenty of eights in their microchip tag numbers, and appears to reserve particularly numbers especially rich in eights and sixes (e.g. 702088880006688) for particularly valuable specimens.

From PR NTR KMT

Eight (8) has the primary numerological meanings of wholeness, change, leadership, power.

Jewish Qabalah: The Number Eight is the eighth Sephira. The name of the eighth sephira is HVD, Hod, Splendour.

Planet: In numerology Saturn vibrates to the number 8.

From Crystallinks

Spiritually eight is the goal of the initiate, having gone through the seven stages. Eight is Infinity - Paradise regained.

Eight is solidarity as the first cube and it denotes perfection by virtue of it’s six surfaces. There are eight winds and intermediate directions of space. Eight represents the pairs of opposites. The octagon is the beginning of the transformation of the square into a circle and vice versa.

Cultural References

Eight in many cultures and ideologies seems to have similar meanings:

• Felicity
• Perfect rhythm
• Regeneration
• Resurrection

In some myths the eighth day created the new “man” of grace. After seven days of fasting and penance the eighth day becomes plenty and renewal. 7+1 is the number of the octave which is a continual theme in all esoteric belief systems. The knowledge of frequency and sound are a vital key in the ancient “mystery schools”.

Buddhist tradition: eight is completion, all possibilities. There are eight symbols of good augury.
Chinese system of belief eight represents the whole. It is all possibilities in manifestation. Eight is seen as a good luck number. The PAKUA is the design depicting the eight trigrams and pairs of opposites, usually in a circle, the circumference of which symbolizes time and space. There are eight delights of human existence.
Christian: Eight is regeneration and rebirth. The font is usually octagonal as symbolizing the place of regeneration. There are eight beatitudes.
Egyptian: Eight is the number of Thoth.
Hebrew: Eight is perfect intelligence; splendor. The digit value of “IHVH” is the “Number of the Lord”. The Temple was sanctified in eight days.
Hermetic: In their system there is one chief God, (eight minor gods) Thoth/Hermes was the inventor of numbers and geometry.
Hindu: 8×8 symbolism is the order of the celestial world established on earth. Temples are built on the pattern of the MANDALA, which is the 8×8 symbol. In their belief system there are eight regions of the world, suns, divisions of the day, and eight chakras.
Islamic: The throne which encompasses the world is supported by eight angels, corresponding to both the eight divisions of space and the groups of letters in the Arabic alphabet.
Japanese: Eight is the “many”. There are eight Gods in the heavens.
Platonic: Plato has eight spheres of different colors surrounding the luminous pillars of the heavens.
Pythagorean: Eight is solidarity and stability.
Sumero-Semitic: Eight is the magic number of Nebo.
Taoist: Eight to be All possibilities in manifestation with the Pa Kua representing the forces in the phenomenal world. There are eight Taoist genii or immortals.

Tune in tomorrow for the next logical step.

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Rowling should be the poster child for Law of Attraction and Manifesting. She created a whole world and world view from the mythology of Europe and the legends of magic, with her own modern humorous twists based on understanding of how people think and what makes them afraid.

Her hand crafted version of this book was a new item last Christmas, and now both a collector’s edition and a standard edition are being pre-sold for this Christmas season, to be released on Dec. 4th. The

These tales provide backstory of the wizarding world, with footnotes by Albus Dumbledore. I can’t wait to read it, and it reminds me of all the fairy tales I want to write. Rowling is my hero. I have a novel based in fairy tales that is in the editing stage, and part of my wish is to share in the readership that Rowling has built, even though my characters are much older than Ron and Hermione.

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One of my wishes is to become famous–maybe not with my face splattered all over People magazine, but a name that people know. I am building myself a platform on the internet and today I have proof that it is working.

I Googled myself, and I am 18 of the top 20 listings. The other two are for a Charlotte E. Babb who was an artist int he 1800s. Her poster of a couple of angels apparently still sells pretty well.

This is part of my dream, and it is coming true.

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< img src="http://www.gaffney-sc.com/images/peach.gif">Yesterday as I was driving home, I got to the railroad track, and sure enough, a train was blocking it, just sitting there. That’s not too unusual, and as the train was not moving, I just shut off the motor and decided to wait a few minutes. A flatbed truck pulled in behind me and a few other cars, but then one little truck drove down beside me to turn around, which I thought was strange. Why not just take the cut-through road?

But then he stopped and chatted with the man in the flatbed, all in Spanish. The flatbed driver hopped out and got two large baskets of peaches from the back of his truck.

Mmmmmmm….peaches! The railroad track goes through a neigborhood where people walk because they don’t have cars. So the flatbed soon attracted some passersby, and the driver made a few more sales. I decided I had waited long enough on the train which showed no signs of moving on, and did the three point turn.

AS I started back to the cut-through, I asked about the peaches…$12 for a big basket. When I rolled the window down for him to put them in the front seat, they smelled like warm sunshine and sweet tea. These were local, ripe peaches, not some fuzzy rocks shipped in from somewhere else. People have heard of Georgia peaches, but these are from the Gaffney area, immortalized by the Peachoid.

I cruised on home, hungrier by the minute with that wonderful smell beside me–it’s hard to eat a ripe peach and drive without getting sticky all over from that wonderful juice.

When I pulled into my neighborhood, I saw one of my dog-walking neighbors, a nice lady who does not speak any English. She looks Eastern European with her babuska and her little black ragmop dog. I stopped and handed her a couple of the peaches, that being as many as she could handle without a bag to put them in. She beamed and said thank you. Nothing like sunshine shared.

I am so glad that I didn’t get upset about having to wait for the train. If I had just sighed and taken the long way around, I wouldn’t have any of those glorious peaches. Roses aren’t the only thing to take time to stop and smell…and eat. I’l'l be up to my elbows in peach juice tonight as I peel and slice them for freezing. Yummmm.

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Have you ever had the sensation of thoughts speeding around the inside of your skull like a motorcycle in a cage at a county fair? This usually happens at 3 am when some mosquito thought buzzing around your mind wakes you. You can’t stop thinking, and you get wound up in your circle of thoughts.

You do have a choice.

You can ride the thermal like a hawk on a sunny day, or you can circle the drain. “Circling the drain” is dark jargon used to describe terminal patients, those who are just at the edge of death. Like dishwater spiraling in the sink as it goes down the drain, you can bring your thoughts and emotions into where you feel trapped and in the dark about what to do next.

Or you can change directions and float upward by changing the content of your thoughts.

It takes practice. But that is why “the secret” is a secret. The law of attraction works on your emotional state, not on the thoughts, the words that your mind uses to make meaning of your physical sensations.

If your fantasy of having a new carrera, mulitple streams of residual income and a hot date every Friday night does not make you feel warm and fuzzy, then it isn’t likely to happen. Even if you work hard to get there, you are circling the drain of failure if you don’t change your thoughts to those that make you feel good.

A simple distraction from the downward spiral is to count your breaths. It’s a form of meditation. Breathe in, hold for a bit, breathe out, count one. Repeat 25 times, if you can. You’ll likely be asleep before you get to 15. If not, keep counting. Breathing is good for you, and less stress-producing than counting sheep.

If appropriate, go outside and sense any living thing–a tree, a flower, a bush, a bird. By sense, I mean smell, touch, listen to, view, taste it physically or in your imagination. Of course you can’t really touch a living bird chirping in a tree high above your head, but you can imagine the feel of it in your hand, its tiny heart beating, its soft feathers, its beak pecking you to get away. You can taste the air and know that it supports the bird. You can listen to the sound of the leaves in the tree and caress its bark as it cleans the air.

Your feelings are affected by your thoughts, and your thoughts are explanations of why you feel the way you do. Today’s depression may only be a backlash from yesterday’s sugar high, chemical rather than some archetypal hangup about your childhood. Even with chemical imbalances, you can choose to think of things that you can appreciate, even if it’s your ballpoint pen, your keyboard, your favorite t-shirt. It helps you get back in balance to find a bright spot, physically or psychically.

You do control what you think. So are you going to ride the thermal? You can see so much better from up there what to do as the next logical step.

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The Summer Solstice, June 20, is the longest day of the year in tthe Northern Hemisphere. In the high latitudes, the sun does not set but circles the horizon.  The energy of the year builds up to the Solstice as we make plans and take actions toward the goals we have set.

In European tradition, the Solstice was the middle of summer, rather than the beginning. There was much work to do to keep the crops growing: weeding, tilling, fertilizing.  The work of preparation is done, and now the work itself has begun, with the work of preserving the harvest to come later.

While many of us think of summer vacations from school, we may miss the intense energy that is available to us to make our goals happen. Half of the magic is creating the visualization, writing down what we want, and getting the picture clear in our minds. But the other half is doing the work.

What are the actions that you can take today to begin living the life you desire? If you want a garden, but you live in an apartment, perhaps you could get a plant for the window. Perhaps you could volunteer in a  community garden or park, or at least visit one.

Rather than focusing on the money that you want, focus on what you want to do with it. I am still deciding what kind of new car I want, but I’m pretty sure it will be painted copper, unless the car makers come out with a purple I like better. I got to drive an HHR when I rented a car in California last week, and I liked it a lot, even though it is much narrower than my minivan. I could turn that baby around in two lanes with one hand! I will be test driving other cars to see what it feels like to drive them.

I have a vision of a cabin high in the mountains with geraniums hanging from the wide shaded porch that faces south. So I have geraniums on my front porch.  I stand on my porch and listen to the breeze in the trees and imagine the mountains in the distance.

That summer solstice energy inspires me to write, and I admit, I’ve been very slack about keeping up this blog.  But with the summer energy, I want my skills to get growing, so I am working the ground they come from. This post is a result. I am doing the thing that I want to do, which is writing. Writing is easy. Writing is fun. And the summer is the best time to let the words flow.

What are your goals and how can you them a bit more today?

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I read a lovely post about designing a tarot spread over at http://tarotbyarwen.blogspot.com. She explains her method of designing a reading to answer a specific question and then interprets her reading. She is literate and witty, with a wide knowledge of literature and goddess lore.

My kind of girl.

Her comments about “old tapes” reminded me of the first time I went into therapy. I had a lot of memories and misperceptions about various things I had been told growing up. I learned to visualize the reel-to-reel tapeplayer and blow it up ala Mission Impossible. For those children among my readers, this was a show back int he 70s where Peter Graves would get a cassette tape with a mission, and as soon as he played it, it exploded. I’m sure it wouldn’t get through Homeland Security these days, but that was back in the day.

The messages in those old tapes do represent a list of missions we need to accomplish to make our wishes come true.  The tape that says “You’re fat!” needs to be erased and taped over with a new message “I take responsibility for my health.”  “Life is hard” can be revised to “Life is good.”  “You’re not good enough” can be transformed into “I’m the best me I can be. ”

Blowing up the tapes works, but re-recording them works better. It takes the same amount of energy, but it lessens the resentment and anger that the mental explosion perpetrates.

What tapes are you revising?

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Yesterday was the moon completed a cycle on the sun side of the earth and now is visible again, a slim crescent in the eveining sky at sunset.  Tarditionally, the new moon is a good time to make a new beginning. Now, one of my grandfathers planted and did all his activites”by the signs”  depending on where the moon was astrologically, and the other didn’t. Both were reasonably successful in growing food for their families. 

What is the benefit of keeping track of the cycle of  moon?

One, it helps you to be more aware of the natural environment. As you pay attention to the natural world, you become more aware of cycles. You can align your energy with that of the physical world.  Women who keep their bedroom dark during the nights when the moon is not visible at night tend to regualte their menstrual cycles–if they don’t stay up late in artificial light.  Being aware of the seasons helps you to be grounded and centered, which helps you focus your intent on what you want to do.

Two, it helps you gain clarity and focus. If you go to the trouble of looking up in which sign the moon is, or if it is between signs so that you can pick an opportune moment for your task, you have put much more forethought into it. If you are aware of the zodiac energies, you can better prepare to use them. For example, giving a talk in the light of the moon when the moon is in Gemini, would give you a boost in communication skills, a facet of air energy. But if that same talk must be delivered in a fire sign, say Aries, you may want to plan some calming activities for yourself and your audience, or you may plan to fire them up for action.

Three, even if you are not sure that it makes a difference, you have put some thought into it. My mom had some dental work to be done, so she asked the oral surgeon to do the work on a day when the signs were in the lower part of the body–Capricorn, Aquarius, or Pisces. He agreed. The surgery went well, even if only because my mother was more confident.

Some people will write a wish on a piece of paper and put it in a special place on the day of the new moon, with the expetation that the wish will be manifested. Today I wrote myself a check as sympathetic magic to receive payment for my writing. I have several gigs in the works, but I wanted to have a physical experience of receiving the check.  My new beginning it to bulid a business as a writer. I made the check out for nough to pay off my house, my student loans, my credit cards and a new car.  Do I expect to receive it? I am aligning my energy to believe that it could happen. I’ll let you know.  I will not be disappointed if it takes me more than a month to overcome the poverty consciousness of fifty years.

What is your new beginning?

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I’m not an affiliate, but this looks like a great idea to me.

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