Horizons Magazine

Soul Centered Astrology Report s
by
Andrea
de Michaelis

Hello and welcome to the October 2006 issue of Horizons Magazine. What an exciting month this is! I am taking Level II Pranic Healing with Master Stephen Co. At the Level 1 intensive in August, we learned the basics of energy anatomy, of working with the energy aura, learning to feel the energy, to clean away congested energy, and to supplement areas in the aura that have a pranic deficiency. We learned to activate the energy centers, or chakras in our hands, to become sensitive to prana. Among those taking the weekend intensive were doctors, nurses, massage therapists, acupuncturists, chiropractors, ministers and, some like me, just plain folk with an interest in healing. All of us Lightworkers, although not all would not call themselves that.

Also this month, galpal Beth Head and I are doing the Gateway Voyage at The Monroe Institute ( www.monroeinstitute.com ). We're driving there and taking the week long residential program. We're excited about our adventure! My interest was peaked by the books of the founder, Robert Monroe, in Journeys Out Of The Body, Far Journey and Ultimate Journey. Although the institute will tell you that the purpose of the Gateway Voyage is not to give you an out of body experience, they say, "The out-of-body state and tools that may be utilized to achieve this particular state of consciousness are covered in the Gateway Voyage®, but that is only a small part of the program's overall scope." They describe the Gateway Voyage as "an on campus six-day intensive program designed to provide the participant with tools that can enable: development and exploration of human consciousness; deeper levels of self-discovery; expansion of one's awareness; willful control of that awareness; communication with and visits to other energy systems and realities." Being an explorer of consciousness and having experienced many different dimensions of reality, including the out of body experience, I am excited to take it to the next level.

I wrote earlier this year that I found myself spending too much time in my new recliner, so after careful consideration of is-that-what-I want-to-spend-so-much-time doing? I took it out to the curb. Before I even walked away from it, a pickup drove up and the man asked what was wrong with the chair. Nothing, I said, I just don't have room for it anymore. Not a lie, it's true I no longer have room in my life for something that encourages me to be inactive *hehe* So he loaded the chair onto his truck and away he went.

I was walking around the block the other day and saw the same man with the pickup, dragging the recliner out to his curb, and I asked why he was getting rid of the chair. He said his wife claims it is haunted! But, he said, he sat in it every night and it never felt haunted to him. So when his wife saw us talking, she came outside and said when she'd sit in the chair after the kids were down for their naps each afternoon, just as she was falling asleep she would feel ghosts hovering around her, moving around and touching her. She said they never did it to her husband or the kids. And that was why they were throwing it away, so none of the kids got in the chair and had something happen to them.

I walked away thinking that was weird but didn't think too much else about it, since I am busy with final layout thoughts. Later it occurs to me: usually afternoons were when I would sit in the chair. Since I've been preparing for the Monroe Gateway Voyage, all year long I've been listening to their audiotapes and doing out of body exercises. If I sat in the chair later in the evenings to proof read, I did not do the OOBE exercises. So when the wife sat in the chair in the late afternoons to nap, my invisible helpers must have thought that was their signal to help me out so we could be on our way, only it wasn't me and they scared her!

Being a busy mother, she might have even had the thought as she reclined each afternoon - "help me out of here!" or "take me away from this!" which the invisible helpers might have taken as a signal it was time to begin a session. Since her husband was in the chair in the evenings, that wasn't the time I would do OOBE work, so the helpers didn't come to him. That is what I figured out though, or rather, what came to me in meditation when I wasn't even thinking about the topic. Maybe they thought I was too busy to make the appointment myself *hehe* and thought she was my stand-in.

It makes me wonder what we look like to them though if they can't tell us apart... I'm just kidding - kind of ... I think really it's just a thoughtform attached to the chair, doing an automatic action whenever someone assumes the position.

But of course thoughtforms can be deactivated - or deprogrammed from their own source - or exorcised or ghost busted, however you want to label it. But I don't feel the need to go explain it to the husband and wife ~ I don't want crosses being burned on my lawn :) Now 20 years ago I would have felt lead to explain it to them and make them understand it. I've lightened up considerably since then.

A good buddy was just diagnosed with breast cancer and asked for some helpful thoughts while she begins the healing process. I emailed her this:
Ok so the important thing right now is for you to find new fun things to think about, even before your biopsies. It is absolutely possible for you to have such a change in thought, to change completely your belief as to the condition and wellbeing of your physical body, that the biopsy is absolutely clean and what looked suspicious yesterday can be nowhere to be found. I've seen it happen a lot of times. What you could do - or what anyone could do who is ready to make a giant change in their life - is the following. This is a Sure Fire Recipe to Initiate Change:

1. Don't try to change your thoughts right now on resistant topics such as money or relationship or work, because this is not the time to focus on those. Those topics can wait a few days or a week while you do a serious few-day-workshop within yourself (I do this all the time on different topics).

2. Find a couple of new things to do. You want to purposely change the energetic pattern you have right now. You want to shake it all up and let it settle back down in a new pattern. You right now are the Lightning Struck Tower card in the tarot. A breakdown of the present situation and a preferred, new pattern emerging. Some of these new things could be:

A. Moving furniture around at home. I do this every month or so, since I am using that as one of my practices to improve my health. Changing the energy at home so it keeps the chi flowing smoothly. Make yourself a new place to sit and read or listen to cds. From here on, every time you sit in this space, it will be your trigger that you are beginning an internal workshop, an inner cinema treatment, a learning process where you will just relax and listen or read and know that your memory will retain the info you need to retain.

B. Clear out clutter. Freeing up the energy (like old emotional baggage attached to items) will free up some of the blockages in your physical body as well. Trust me, this stuff works. These exercises help you progressively lower your resistant thought. When you lower your resistant thought, the good things you want will begin coming in to you, including restored health. It's all related. Trust me.

C. Begin a flirtation with someone. The purpose of this exercise is to change your focus to a new direction that feels more fun and lighthearted than where you are right now, and to keep you emotionally focused there several times in each day.

D. Listen to the Abraham-Hicks cds in a place where you can relax. Maybe in a bubble bath with a glass of wine. Maybe setting the scene in your new sitting area, lighting candles, some incense. So, you go into your sitting place and set the scene and listen to the tapes. I think the Abraham stuff helps you "get it" the easiest. They are fun to listen to also.

E. Try a new cuisine for a week or more. The purpose of this exercise is to bring a new dimension to something you do several times a day. It also gives you something fun to learn. You don't want to try to diet right now, right now you're in the info gathering mode, so just do some new things relative to food that feel interesting and fun.

F. If you read my editorials each month, you can skip this part. If not, it's not that I ever have anything earth shaking to say, but I give lots of personal examples of my own lessons in my personal growth transformation that can be helpful to know. They are listed by topic on the website www.HorizonsMagazine.com.

G. Buy a new favorite outfit or two. You can't afford not to. The energy of wearing something new instills a sense of hopeful expectation, of infinite possibilities! The point of this exercise is to have a new "daily energy sweeper" as you move throughout your day.

H. Install a new mirror. Anywhere, any size. I decided last year to replace all my closet doors with mirrors and boy the energy freed right up! The rooms now look so much bigger and brighter. They definitely feel like there is no stagnation anywhere in the room. Even a small new mirror in the hallway or next to the front door, the height of your face, or face to waist would be perfect. Whenever I look into a mirror, I smile, so this exercise also reminds me to smile.

I. Begin keeping your attention during the day on your ajna or third eye center. You just want to train yourself to look through that eye also, as you go about your day. To begin to entrain the higher perspective.

J. Do a few minutes of breath meditation each day also, just sit and imagine yourself breathing in thru your heart and out thru your third eye. Nothing fancy. Do it for a few minutes every so often during the day. It will begin change happening to your inner and outer worlds.

Enjoy our offering this month. Hari Om.

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