I love when November comes around. There is a nip in the air that makes you feel frisky. Football season is in full force and everyone is working their way into a new year. November also hosts one of my favorite holidays. I adore Thanksgiving! Feasting with loved ones while giving thanks for all of our many blessings is how I like to live everyday. In November they make it a holiday! So let’s get started opening ourselves to the power of the thankful heart.
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Below is an email that I received from a gentleman who I met here in New Orleans while he accompanied his wife and a friend to their psychic readings with me. I have never been so deeply flattered and touched in my life. There are times in each of our lives when it is the most awesome thing in the world to receive praise for our efforts. This is one of the nicest thank yous that I have ever gotten and I am blushing…big time…
A cool breeze is beginning to blow into New Orleans. Here we are at Fall again, happy to see the seasonal wheel keep turning. Each time that we experience another of our quarter annual cyclical shifts I am reminded of one of favorite Biblical verses, Ecclesiastics 3:1 “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven”. This simple saying has become more poignant the more days I’ve been on earth. To me speaks of patience and endurance, both qualities of character that do, thankfully, increase with age.
New Orleans always slows down in August. The blend of heat and humidity naturally decreases one’s activity rate and about all you have energy to do is saunter and lounge about sipping mint juleps and other cold drinks. Temperatures easily hit over one hundred and the moist air becomes like honey, sticky and thick. I really like when the city winds down because it creates an atmospheric meditative state of being where your pulse slows and your cares melt away. One is enveloped by the laziness of summer and it becomes easy to bask in the stillness. I like to refer to such times as dancing in the moment because you just magically become present to all that is. 
Have you ever found yourself wearing many masks to portray different parts of yourself to different people? Did you ever find yourself altering your own behaviors to fit in? Pretty much everyone that I run into answers these questions with a yes. There is within each of us a desire to be part of the norm and also the desire to be liked. You find these qualities in most adolescents and, because of dysfunctional upbringings, many of us are not taught that it is OK to be our authentic selves even in adulthood so we continue in conformity. Often times we find ourselves being different selves to different people because we want to please them. This can cause one to feel drained because it is energy consuming to keep up all of those many parts of us. When you are being blocked from operating as who you truly are, you can feel that you are psychically splintered and emotionally exhausted. But the good news is that there are ways to connect more with your real being and I will share a few ways that I know to help liberate that joyous & free spirit – your authentic self.
Like most everyone else, I love getting fortune cookies. Just the other day I got one that read “Don’t worry about the end of the World today when it’s already tomorrow in Australia.” This prompted me to write this month’s blog about the Apocalypse, a topic everyone seems to be pondering these days. Over the past few years the queries I receive about it keep increasing. This month it is supposed to occur on May 21st. Last year it was going to be November 9th. Then there is the ever looming 12/21/2012, a date from which countless numbers of authors, screenwriters, film and TV producers are making tons of money. A lot of professionals in the New Age industry have been weighing in on the subject and I figure it’s time that I do too. So for what it’s worth, here’s my take on it.
A few weeks back, I had occasion to be really stopped in my tracks by one of lifes more extreme forms of heart ache – loss. I have had it happen before, that some event just knocks me to my knees and left uttering the eternal question, why? We all experience these times. It’s part of the human condition. Loss is the cost of living if you are doing it well. Even psychics have to experience some shockers, as strange as that seems. We are tried like everyone else and given the opportunity to grow through adversity. Perhaps it’s because empathy is an acquired skill and we in the healing arts must know pain, as deep as it gets, in order to truly help others.
Each year the season kicks off here in New Orleans on January 6th, the Epiphany, and runs straight through till Ash Wednesday. King Cake parties occur all over town helping to fatten us up before the lean days of Lent begin. Excess rules as our calendars fill with masked balls and parades. Beads become the currency of choice and cries of “Throw me something Mister”echo through the crowds. We all work diligently on our costumes which have to be different every New Year to wow and dazzle both locals and visitors. Feathers, sequins and glitter are in high demand as both Dames and Monsieurs gussy up when Carnival time rolls into high gear, two weeks before Fat Tuesday. I will go through three or four costumes in attendance at events and each will be more fabulous than the next with the grandest being worn on the big day itself when I fully give into the magic of Mardi Gras. 


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