Today’s Oracle takes us to the Gemini weekly for June 13, 2002.
Now that external pressures are easing off you get to make some decisions. But the way your life has been going and considering the intensity of your emotions it would be more than practical to get a little advice. Not a lot of advice and not from a lot of people. Probably a measurable memorable reflection with someone you know is working on a higher deeper or more experienced level than you are. Perhaps with someone 50 or older or perhaps just an old-soul type. The theme is understanding the growth that comes only from long meaningful struggles and embarking on the path of what we could call choice with compassion.
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Aw, stormi! You truly are awesomesauce! 😀
absohugginglutely KTV! thank you for that, and for your own awesome Self! tho i’m not sure “stumbling, bumbling, mistakes all over the place” makes you so much a newby or me any less of an oldie. work place hazards, comes with the territory, timeandspace? 😉
Think I am a very new soul. Stumbling, bumbling, mistakes all over the place . . . How about a virtual hug from a new soulie, stormi?! You have so much to offer and I love your input here–you are a learner, a lover, and a giver! Keep being awesome! 😀
Wowzers, blink for a minute you might miss something eh!
Appreciate the offer as always Myst, and very happy to hear about the new home space. Still here, which is part of the meh. Seasons changing, everyone else transitioning and moving and feeling the loss of more of my sacred circles again. All good of course, opening a*new and all that, and of course they’re never “lost” like you say, just different, but it can be lonely in the process.
Thanks too sweet HugS, music is all I got. Feeling more like this one in the moment tho … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUMh8GQnDW8
After I posted this morning I knocked a book off the shelf – goddess calling for me. So I ask and received this reminder: we work on ourselves in order to help others, but we also help others in order to work on ourselves. Seems to go with this mentoring thread here, which yes, I am lucky to have access to, thank you All.
Big E – thanks for the warm up, tho I hope therapist is relatively defined, I have a natural aversion to most of them, but that’s another story. 😉
Much gratitude! ♥☮♫
Speaking of mentors, I would love to be one but I have NO idea how to get that ball rolling.
And I would only want to be one if I could still be mentored by the fine folks here. You are all really great at mentoring.
Mystes,
Wow, that is an honor, thanks. I could not afford the trip right now but I wish I could do something like that for others as well. People who come to our home always leave feeling refreshed and they tell me they feel the love and peace here (good thing they are not here when the almost-adults angst up; that can be very jarring).
To everyone here,
I also wish (if we are saying our wishes right now) that we PW ers could have a sort of Family Reunion gathering someplace central so we could all actually meet and greet in real, physical time, and raise energy and all that. I can only imagine how amazing THAT would be.
I am feeling waaay better after reading HS’s advice yesterday and hearing Len’s reading today. Sometimes the mentors are the same age (or close) and sometimes younger (as HS is) so I never reject a source for age reasons. My kids often say the most profound things just when I need to hear them.
Storm — I am warming up the “how to pick a therapist” article — which will work with the theme of mentorship.
Love EW&F, Lyd! Am partial to this one myself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twICykaRRvY
and this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DFQdn298Xo
This thread (thanks to all) has jogged a memory of living in San Francisco and Bay Area during late 60’s through 80’s. And if there is one spectacular event in that timeline that will be embedded within forevvvvah, it’s this: (December, 1981, Oakland Coliseum)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R2RsP43rmg&feature=related
(thinking)…In the middle of all the sturm n drang I’m in, am getting a lot of help and assistance, sometimes from really unexpected quarters. And I in turn am helping out others who know less than me, cos I’m not alone in this (too complicated and boring to go into). And a light just came on about how it’s all about respecting and trusting the interconnectedness with others – which is also so prevalent here…
Stormi-ormi-ormi: one more for ya… 😉
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkEeNpWMvgk
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Can’t go wrong with the Smiths! Great thread here, great energy. Actually the external pressure has never been stronger – a whole load of stuff has come up with work that has to be dealt with – loads of bureaucracy and exams to face just to earn an honest buck – yuck.
Stormi, maybe The Smiths?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IltBcAmE9E
Amanda, I don’t think so. Honestly, the first two weeks of this month were/are insane. I was sending out Rhodiola that week, I think… and packing madly for the move. And trying to please my employment overlords. And worrying about the teen. And … And … And … wrapping up this latest bout of Everything-Everywhere’ism.
(This calls for a swearword or three: Jesus-Fucking-Christ!)
So no. Resend please: mystes—-at——humandala——dot—–org
mysti — just curious if you got the email i sent you on 6/1. it was in reply to one you’d sent in (ahem) february. (oops)
wasn’t sure how your email sorts replies to old threads, so i thought i’d check….
🙂
and i’m fascinated by this thread under the oracle. cool stuff.
Be! thank you and believe me when I say the admiration is mutual. At 73 (which is just a short hop up the calendar) I hope to be half as sharp and compassionate as you are.
The apartment is good but we’ll see how perfect after the first rain. Apparently this place had some roof problems that management was in a frenzy to not let me see before I signed the lease. Sigh. Love late capitalism with its Lie-About-Everything-to-Make-a-Buck ethos.
It’ll probably be okay. There’s new flashing around the fireplace and they *tell* me (after much probing) that the roof was repaired.
HRI is the reshaping of Karma in the Crucible workshop which I loved doing, but never quite settled down on the name. Seemed too harsh – howsoever accurate.
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Dawn & Lyd… seems like you *are* the advice-station for Old Souls right now! Stormi is lucky to have us! (heh). And you are right: this Pluto in Cap period has been ~whew!~ well, hard. Just hard. I have no idea if it’ll get any “easier” but let’s just try to hold each other’s hands through this set of Ur/Plu squares and see where we land.
That’s a goal, eh? Twenty-thirteen (heh!) TWENTY-thirteen! (Heh!) 20-THIRTEEN (Ho!~)
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Oh yeah, #5 your covenant. I miss my Dames (2005-2008) howsoever we persist in residual form.
It is tricky to invoke such a group, since magickal practitioners tend to ‘go forward in all directions’ (thanks, Eric, I’m stealing that). Ours made an agreement early on that magick was subordinate to enlightenment; that is, we would *only* werk toward full awakening, and we have a clear idea of what awakening entails.
*After* the circle, we often chatted each other up for various advice/p.o.v’s/recipes. Better than church, honey.
How did we find each other? I had a gallery at the time, met some who came to openings, met another dear one (A!) at a workshop, another was a Dharma buddy, yet another who used to babysit my daughter, another who was a next door neighbor. A few others drifted in and out – the temporaries always changed the flavor of the circle, in a good way.
I’m not sure this can be created, but it can be noted and shaped when the elements are present. It was a *huge* source of insight, consolation, energy and fun for the period of our convocation.
Are you still in Las Cruces?
xoxoxoxo
M
mystes!
What a great idea – Humandala Retreat Intensives – and congrats on finding the perfect home too. Someday, if I ever grow up I want to be just like you.
be
Happy you had a chuckle, Lyd!
““Getting tired of it all”, for me, is knowing, that’s the precise moment when I can turn the switch on…as in, see myself doing it, literally.”
Just when I think I can’t handle another damn thing, that I’ve had enough and why don’t I just go dig a big hole in the backyard (and I never used to think like this, but Life in the past 4 years has been a Major Trial, as it’s been for many people), from somewhere the resolve rears its head – Dammit, I will not be put asunder, by Life, by people, nor circumstances. My *me-ness* is too important. My Aries fire, my Leo rising fire and my Irishness then rear up to do battle! I can depend on them, like the air I breathe.
“Your dog”…always amazed at the worlds my companion manages to find on the daily stroll. All the ‘sole/soul’ prints we never see, or investigate. Maybe I’ll start carrying a magnifying glass !!”
I would bury my head in our Pickles’ soft hair, snuggling him, finding joy in his personality, in his being with us, but after 17 years, the last 2 of which was a descent into doggie dementia, we had to recently put him to sleep – add it to the long list of crap we’ve lived through. We miss him terribly – it was fate that brought him to us, so he’s not replaceable, so Life does feel rather half-empty now, strength or no strength. I call his name, and am told he hears me and loves it when I do, but we’re physical creatures and he’s not here.
Well, S’LaRue, you can now come sleep on my couch in front of the hearth. Or up in the loft when the teen ain’t here. Austin is vibrating green this year (though the Goddess is also showing up as the highest mold count *ever*) – and I have this nifty new place. Albeit piled up on all sides with boxes.
Carrie, this extends to you and Len (and a few others as well). Sounds like you could use a nice runawayfromhome week. I am hoping for an exchange program when I start circulating the HRI (Humandala Retreat Intensives) in the Fall. Couchsurfing for Wavers. Ho!
Chuckling over here, Dawnbrocco, with the “getting to be your own power station doesn’t necessarily make life any easier”…now, ain’t that the truth! I can fondly recall (now) the many occasions of major ‘power outages’, just at those particular times when all felt delightful and blissful!
“Getting tired of it all”, for me, is knowing, that’s the precise moment when I can turn the switch on…as in, see myself doing it, literally.
“Your dog”…always amazed at the worlds my companion manages to find on the daily stroll. All the ‘sole/soul’ prints we never see, or investigate. Maybe I’ll start carrying a magnifying glass !!
thanks everyone. i’m out of 1-3 Ms. M! and no #4 either. well, ok mom’s #2 and cats are #3, and as helpful as they often are … for now … meh. i get it all, just tired of doing it all the time. are we there yet? where’s the fast forward button?
Stormi… #1 your consort, #2 your therapist, #3 your dog. Not necessarily in that order. A consort is someone who has agreed to work energetically with you in the continuum that ranges from anger to lust (which is shorter than you might think). S/He is not yer mammy, yer lover, yer King’o’the’Hill. S/he is like a Reiki practitioner (oh, add that #4) who is able to surf with you in the pleasure/suffering zone without attachment.
Your therapist is def #2 cause while they won’t “advise” you… well, blahblahblah. You know what they do.
Your dog (or in my case, python) loves your life. They will give you great advice, but it is pretty simple: love everything that loves you. Everything else is a toilet.
Lovelove (and *flush*!!)
M
Yes, it is exhausting, not being able to defer to someone else, and so often trying to explain oneself to ears which cannot or just do not understand.
yea, i know, it was somewhat of a rhetorical question. sometimes this old soul just gets tired of it all.
I like that, Lyd: “Individual and sustaining power resides inside.”
At no point in my entire life, even as a child or teen, did anyone else’s advice ever be what I needed (made it hard growing up, also hard being married to an emperor-type!). And most often, when I heeded someone else’s advice, I was extremely sorry, for not listening to my Self, which always told me *my* truth, no matter how unpopular said truth might seem to others.
Getting to be your own power station, though, doesn’t necessarily make life any easier!
As an over-60 and old soul, I will second ‘dawnbrocco’. Individual and sustaining power resides inside, assisting with our travels outside.
As an over-50 and old soul, I suppose the answer is – within.
where do the old souls go for advice?