Horizons Magazine

Soul Centered Astrology Report s
by
Andrea
de Michaelis

Hello and welcome to the December 2006 Horizons Magazine. After suggesting everyone watch The Secret Movie ( www.thesecret.tv ) I received several emails about it, and this one sums it up: “Thank you for suggesting I watch The Secret Movie. I watched it and thought it was wonderful. I guess it’s just another way of saying what I’ve heard so many times before, but putting all of the power to me alone, rather than some outside source. I’ve read about The Law of Attraction in your magazine, but watching the video seemed to make it clearer to me. One thing it helped me to see was I don’t really have a clear-cut idea of the specifics of what I want or what my goal is in life, so I’m working to change that. Thanks so much for being a part of the “answer” to that for which I ask.”

It’s really a joy to do Horizons and, from the feedback, I know it is appreciated. I feel blessed to be the one that gets to put all the articles together, choosing my current favorites each month. I wrote back to her: “Remember it’s ok to just have a general “goal” to live a good life and be well thought of and be useful to others. You don’t have to necessarily be specific and say I’m going to be a fireman when I’m 30 and a graphic designer at 40 and a ... unless those are things you know you want. If you don’t know what you want, then one goal would be to identify some goals that sound fun. One goal might be to stay tuned in to your intuition so you can be guided toward new projects or people or events that help you clarify some goals. When I did that, I started doing this magazine that I have NO training in. But the Universe guided me along and before I knew it, I was a publisher and it was all magically working out...”

I’ve just learned that the Spiritual Cinema Circle is offering their members The Secret as part of their December DVD collection along with three short films. For a limited time, as a special offer for the month of December, new subscribers to The Circle can receive a FREE trial membership (you pay just $4.95 shipping) by visiting; www.spiritualcinemacircle.com/secret or by calling: (800) 556-0129. Speaking of neat stuff going on this month, this is the 60th Anniversary of Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda. This book, still one of the most popular books ever published on yoga and meditation, was the first ‘spiritual’ book I ever read, and I am enjoying re-reading it again. I’ve got a great excerpt from it in this issue and there is a special website www.ayanniversary.org with lots of goodies - check it out!

Since visiting The Monroe Institute ( www.monroeinstitute.com ) I have begun to contemplate various aspects of my life. If you’ve done The Gateway Voyage, please email me at HorizonsMagazine@aol.com so we may discuss it.

My ‘dreamlife’ has become more vivid and complex as a result. I am coming to understand several things that have happened to me in recent years. Every few years, it seems a good friend falls out of my physical proximity. Usually this is when someone moves away, as my neighbors and best buds Doug & Trish did last year. We are in touch, I just miss meandering back and forth here in our woods together each day. And like my friend S, who stopped speaking to me after what I thought was a minor instance in July. And like my favorite sister in law Debbie who moved to Portland, Oregon from China 2 years ago; we email often and have many of the same interests. We read the same books and like Monroe and Seth, etc. We do more inner journeying together than we do outer contact, so we are still as much in touch as ever.

I admit when Doug & Trish moved, it brought me out of my shell. I have a tendency to stick close to home and office, and whoever is physically, geographically in front of me the most is the one who tends to be my best buddy. For the last ten years, anytime I wanted some human contact, I could just mosey on next door and have a few minute chat in the garden or a quick cup of tea. Or we’d bike ride at sunset together. Sometimes I could go weeks without having to go anywhere or see anyone else, because those brief touchstones were all I required to feel balanced and in touch with humanity.

Now they are gone, I have become closer to several other friends, and new friends = new activities, new topics of discussion = new desire within me = the formulation of ideas = new projects to be excited about! I feel I’ve taken a quantum leap into a new arena, and I’m reached a new level of fun and freedom. Although I publish Horizons Magazine, I know very little about the publishing business or about media or marketing in general.

I know that I attract my experience to myself by virtue of the thoughts I think on an ongoing basis. I know that if what I am thinking now is not bringing me a life I enjoy, then I need to change the content of my daily thoughts. I know the easiest way for me to change my self-talk is to create a visualization script and use it several times a day. And that’s how I do my marketing and promotion, too.

I have several daily sessions where I spend about 5 minutes visualizing my advertisers and writers and readers having delightful beneficial surprises in their lives, and much financial success. If I have ad space to fill, I will visualize the perfect ad being attracted to go there. And it will appear. If I need a new distributor in a particular area, I will ask for one. And get one. So basically, what I know about marketing and media promotion is the same thing I know about anything else: you envision it, you attract it, you allow it.

Several new friends are publishing professionals, and their ideas prod me to look at what I do from a different level. It is also through them that I am becoming more familiar with several popular authors and the work they do. This naturally drives the topic to what we are each excited about experiencing in the future, and that’s always my favorite topic.

Last week I became aware that this is the first time in many years that I have felt deeply inspired by so many people in one time period, on an almost daily basis. Every so often I get the shivers up my spine, just tickled pink that I get to be ME right now and have so much fun in my work. And I also know the shivers are signs that my body is bringing itself into balance with the new vibration I am growing into.

When I look around my external landscape right now, yes many faces and places are new, but I am growing into these new things also. I understand how I could only come here on my own, having left behind what felt comfortable and familiar. I would not have vibrated in this new place at this time if Doug & Trish were still next door and I hadn’t had to venture out of my shell. Some friends have come with me and some have not. Some, we no longer have mutual interests, or it becomes clear we are travelling different paths. For whatever reason, we just don’t vibe together anymore. So I stop to look around and see who is being thrown right in front of me this day, and ask myself to be open to the highest potential I can glean from our interaction. I’ve learned that when I pay close attention and listen for the subtlest of clues, I am ready to catch any opportunity that comes my way.

Little by little this year, I have cleared out another entire layer of physical stuff. And I was already down to having no clutter! It seems the less things I have, the more open space I have between molecules, the better and more free I feel. And the better and more free I feel, the more good comes into my life! Just last month I had to finally get a new garage door, after 22 good years. I realized my cookware was 30 years old, so I replaced it. It’s amazing how much more ease of operation there is driving in to the garage now, and delight in cooking. And to round out for 2006 the clearing out of old stuff, my cell phone leaped into the washing machine.

Cell phone in the washing machine! Aaaaugh! I pulled it out and immediately removed the battery and SIM card, then came to the computer and Googled “cell phone washing machine.” The general consensus was “place phone in a 125 degree oven for 5 hours.” I opted instead for a timed 15 minute bake at 200 degrees, the lowest setting on my toaster oven. Long story short, that was not the thing to do. I called Cingular to ask if I was somehow miraculously covered by insurance, despite the fact I’d baked my phone after submerging it. And I was! The replacement phone arrived via Fed Ex 18 hours later and I charged it up, put in my SIM card with my original cell phone records and, voila - no address book. Hmmm, I took it in to Cingular and was told that my address book all along was not being saved to my SIM card, but to the phone itself. So I lost all my numbers. I had not put them all on the database in my computer, and I had them only in the cell phone. And this two days before going out of town to a conference, were I would be connecting with others via cell phone only! hehehe I had to laugh! The phone was originally programmed by someone who moved out of my life this year, so it was an appropriate send off, along with all my phone numbers. hehehe My lost phone records contained the private numbers of a literal Who’s Who of recognized metaphysical and spiritual authors and speakers and their publicists. Ah well, obviously time to release the past and move forward! So if I had your private number before, please email it to me at HorizonsMagazine@aol.com so I can re-enter it in my new phone.

I had a final great idea for the end of the year 2006. I have long needed a new system of sorting the incoming email, since I answer it all myself. So I decided to categorize. Now when mail comes in, I have one screen name I will forward any potential new articles or artwork or press releases to, until I have time to download and review it, often 90+days. Another screen name I forward anything I personally am interested in, yet may not be for Horizons. I keep at the main screen name all ads and fan mail, and questions about the upcoming issue of Horizons, and I read and answer these daily. This way I don’t get distracted during final layout week by having 200 unread emails, when only 6 may be ads I need to see today.

Now I need to officially schedule time to go to the new screen name to download and review article and art submissions. I need to officially schedule time to go to the other screen name to read about what Andrea is personally researching right now. It helps me avoid burnout when I make time for the various aspects of myself like this.

So, this month I have learned or been reminded of:

• along the spiritual Path, friends will come and go.
• new friends = new activities, new topics of discussion = new desire within me = the formulation of ideas = new projects to be excited about.
• what I know about marketing and media promotion is the same thing I know about anything else: you envision it, you attract it, you allow it.
• I would not have vibrated in this new place at this time had I not left behind what felt comfortable and familiar.
• when I pay close attention and listen for the subtlest of clues, I am ready to catch any opportunity that comes my way.
• I for too long had my physical and psychological space cluttered with unnecessary things and thoughts that I was used to. Once those were removed, wide open spaces could be seen, which sparked new impressions and new ideas.
• even when I seem to “lose it all”, in the big picture it really doesn’t matter all that much - everything can be recreated anew.
• it’s exciting to have a blank new canvas to work with - infinite potential!

Enjoy our offering this month.

Life is good! Hari Om.

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