Lipstick Mystic

A lot of people I’m in touch with right now, both personally and professionally, seem to be going through a “friend cleansing period.” This is when you take stock of people you’ve allowed to be close to you, emotionally, professionally, or personally, and you REALLY look at the energy they are bringing into your life. Is it truly supportive? Or is it more in the vein of “I’ll tolerate you and project a feeling that you should be GRATEFUL for my positive regard.” Is it conditional affection? Or is it unconditional love? Is it “I hold the highest, best thoughtforms about you, and I always see you as a perfect, beautiful being,” or is it “You’re a piece of shit or I don’t agree with a lot of what you do/say/are, but I will pretend to care about you.”

As your psychic sensitivity increases, your psychic empathy — your ability to read people’s true intentions and feelings — will also increase.

And you can end up discovering some TERRIBLE, even heart-breaking things about people who have been your friends for YEARS.

But….seeing the TRUTH is ALWAYS better than believing lies. Casting out emotional poisons, toxic friendships that aren’t really friendships, and people who hold limiting, low or even hateful thoughts about you is VERY important if you want to be healthy on all levels. Because if you’re still intimately linked with these people, it WILL drag you down. It creates auric leaks or energy leaks in your auric field, which make it very hard for you to raise the necessary energy to be healthy physically, financially, and creatively.

You can feel guilty about jettisoning some of these friendships; I know I have in the past. But there wasn’t a single friendship I’ve let go of that I’d want in my life now. Given a few years and a bit more life experience, and assuming that you move on into much healthier, nurturing, and progressive situations, you’re not going to feel remotely attracted to toxic people from your past.

So. . . friend cleansing can be a GOOD thing. A wonderful thing.

It’s not always COMFORTABLE, though. At least in the short-term. It can take anywhere from a few weeks to a few months for that live psychic wire that still connects you and that other person to completely dissipate.

And this can be EXTREMELY difficult if it’s a family member you’re trying to break free of. I have a dear lioness-hearted friend who is one of the bravest people I’ve ever met in this regard; she’s always used a very simple litmus test when determining whether or not to stay in touch with genetic family members: “Is the person someone whom I would consider a friend? Do they bring positive energy into my life?”

And if they fail that test, she has no problems breaking off ties. She also grew up in a very difficult, abusive situation, so she has had to get this hard-edged and crystal clear about things for her own sanity and well-being.

But we could ALL learn something from that.

For example, the whole notion of inviting a million family members to a wedding never held any appeal to me. These are people I’ve usually spent a great deal of time and money on in the past, sending them generous holiday gifts, attempting to engage them with emails and letters, and most of them know little about me, couldn’t care less about me, and don’t even know my current phone number. Several years back I stopped attempting to engage most of them except my own really sweet and loving parents and a very lovely aunt of mine. The rest? Meh. Fuck ‘em. I have a psychic cousin of mine whom I used to adore who wouldn’t return my phone call when I called her right after my heart attack; and she has complained to the extended family, “What’s wrong with Jennifer? She doesn’t call anymore.”

Fuck her.

Another aspect of daily life that makes breaking off connections with toxic people even more complicated is the FUCKING INTERNET. Because if you’ve got Facebook friends or Twitter followers or LinkedIn colleagues or blog readers or website visitors or people who still know your email address, you can still have energy from that person coming to you for quite some time. And it can be painful and difficult to completely break those ties.

I want to share a modified version of some ideas I recently shared with someone who is going through her own challenging, yet energetically liberating and spiritually necessary, friend clearing time. Even though she had broken off ties with this person, she soon realized that she was still getting psychically slimed by this person just by being connected to her through the Internet.

I chimed in to say:

Yes, even the Internet creates a psychic link with people — the worse of course being texts or live chat, with Facebook a close second, and any other type of construct where you have no control over that person contacting you is almost as bad — like where people can post comments on your blog or Facebook wall or whatever. Even personal email carries a lot of energy.

Get this….I sometimes get slimed by people responding to posts I’ve made at old discussion forums going back some six years! I’ll wake up feeling a slight “disturbance in the Force” and then look at my website stats to see where traffic is coming from and, sure enough, some “dialogue” will have been stimulated somewhere where people are responding to something I wrote ages ago (usually calling out Reiki or other entity-ridden metaphysical systems and trying to help people understand some of the issues involved). And I can clearly see the cause (people getting their knickers in a twist surrounding me) and the effect (me feeling attacked–it’s like low level hatred floating around, not pleasant!).

So there is very much a “live wire” created through Internet contact, unfortunately.

This is because of all the crystalline and metallic components within our computers and communication systems. They’re strong conduits not just for physical energy but for psychic energy, too.

Think of how often people work with crystals for healing, meditation, psychic work and so on. There’s a simple reason; they are AMPLIFIERS of thought, making it easier to “see” things psychically or project thoughts outward. So then you have a worldwide network of crystalline and metallic components that increases the intensity of how humans communicate now. If we only talked face to face, or even phone line to phone line, it wouldn’t be so STRONG out there. Strong can be great when two people share a loving energy, but when you’re standing in opposition to someone about something it makes things terribly intense.

Electric violet healing energy projected throughout your aura, done kind of like an immune system boost, really helps block out these feelings of discomfort, but you also have to work at core damage where you are still resonating with those people’s low thoughts about you. Keep working at clearing out the PLACE INSIDE OF YOU where this stuff can grab you and make you feel bad at myself.

This is one of the reasons why I gave myself permission a couple of years ago to fully “own” my righteous anger and let loose with the four letter words when required, because sometimes you need to assume a posture that isn’t so soft and yielding, so you’re standing up against bullies — energy bullies or verbal bullies!

With old relationships it can take a little while for those feelings of vulnerability to pass. It’s kind of like a romantic breakup, where you might still be processing stuff. Try to avoid the tendency to go, “But X is really a good person, s/he means well; maybe I’m wrong to minimize or cut off contact.”

No, you’re not wrong! There’s an energy contagion there that isn’t healthy to be around and it’s certainly not going to help advance you in life! Negative “energy cooties” from a toxic person can really keep you immersed in bad situations or bad vibrations, and that in turn makes YOU start to resonate with worser and worser stuff. And as you work to heal yourself you’ll become more “allergic” to cootie carriers.

After a clearing period you’ll often find that things are very quiet for a little while as you go through a system “reset”, and that’s when you will want to be very gentle on yourself. You’re kind of in the womb recovering and gestating into the new you. Then, after that time, you’ll start to notice more cool and energetically “clear” people turning up in your life, and that will be the sign that you’re over the hump!

I’d like to continue with my monthly series in which I spill secrets, dig up dirt, and generally debunk cherished notions about what each sun sign is like. These ideas will also apply to you if your rising sign (also called the ascendant) or moon is in that particular sign.

If you missed the past two articles in this series, you’ll find them here:

Some Secrets About Aries You Might Not Know

Some Secrets About Taurus You Might Not Know

And just so you know, the sun will be in the sign of Gemini from now until Friday, June 21st at 1:04am Eastern (New York) time. So all of us will be affected by those strong Gemini vibes throughout this period.

The astrological “glyph” or symbol for Gemini represents two twins, Castor and Pollux of ancient Greek myth. Gemini is an Air sign, and it’s largely denigrated for being “schizophrenic” because it has such a dual nature. Geminis are usually described as being contrary, unreliable, and unable to make commitments or make up their minds.

Which isn’t true at all.

I’ve never met a Gemini who wasn’t brilliant; like the other Air signs, Libra and Aquarius, they have incredibly sharp minds. To say that they lack intellect or sufficient willpower to make decisions is just a big, fat lie.

Geminis have something really special and unique going on, something that doesn’t happen with the other signs.

I identify with Geminis somewhat even though I don’t have any planets in the sign of Gemini in my birthchart. You know why I GET them?

My spiritual path is largely a shamanic one, and I was taught long ago that a shaman needs to learn how to walk in both worlds — to navigate in an effective way down here in the physical realm while AT THE SAME TIME remaining attuned to the energy dimensions that permeate and move through this one. It requires a really challenging type of life, where you stay physically grounded in day to day reality and you don’t run off to join a convent or retreat from the world in order to meditate and be close to Spirit. Instead, you need to bring spiritual energy and spiritual wisdom to bear AS YOU MOVE THROUGH DAILY LIFE. You use this energy to create, to shape, and to optimize things.

The shamanic path is not a reflective path. It’s not the classic mystical path of sitting on a mountain top somewhere, contemplating the stars. It’s more of a “roll up your sleeves and get to work trying to fix things down here on this planet” path. It demands a LOT.

Sometimes, it’s very hard to walk in both worlds. I find that I have to keep my psychic abilities slightly open pretty much all the time so I can remain acutely aware of the energy issues going on in various environments, social situations, and natural settings I find myself in — so if I’m called upon to do something, I can respond in the moment. Or at least, I can get to it pretty quickly. It’s like constantly being on call as a doctor, only instead of your patients being people with physical wounds, you might be called upon to fix a damaged ley line, help spirits of dead animals or people make a transition to a higher realm, bring love and light-hearted energy to a room full of depressed or unhappy people, and other metaphysical “projects.”

And this work goes on ALL THE TIME. I don’t really take “days off.” My days off consist of putting together notes or doing more research so I can apply those ideas to my work and also bring those concepts through in my books and other publications.

Most people, when they learn to access their psychic abilities, have to establish a certain protocol at first. They set aside times for meditation, shamanic journeying, or just generally “tuning in” and trying to communicate with their angelic helpers, with the Earth, with Great Spirit, and so on. It’s not something that is happening every day.

There’s a reason for that. It takes a while to shift your brain chemistry so you can easily and safely achieve a light Alpha “trance” state while ALSO remaining fully awake and lucid, so you can remember what’s happening. Some people can pick this skill up pretty quickly. And by quickly, I mean in three to five years. That’s what it was like for me.

Others might find it tremendously difficult to access this part of themselves because they have demanding, LOUD lives — kids to look after, an overly-scheduled lifestyle, and so on. I don’t live that way so I have the luxury of taking lots of quiet, reflective time to tune in.

By the way, one lifestyle is not BETTER than the other. But they are DIFFERENT.

Gemini has a similar quality — of living in two dimensions at the same time. In very psychic Geminis, they take very naturally to the shamanic pathway because it’s pretty easy for them to access their intuitive right brain while ALSO keeping the left brain alert and active. For less psychic Geminis, they experience this sense of being in two realities a bit differently.

Geminis are natural time and probability travelers. As I talk about in my new book about time traveling, time and probability are one. If you want to shift a situation you find yourself in, you can learn how to raise enough energy to shift to a different timeline or a different probability. Geminis KNOW HOW TO DO THIS. I would imagine if you canvassed the attendees at a Doctor Who convention, there would be a high percentage of Geminis in attendance, because they identify so readily with the idea of jumping around in time.

But this makes it a little. . . tricky. . . sometimes to be in an ongoing, intimate relationship with a Gemini. On the surface, it will seem to you that your Gemini lover craves variety and likes to mix things up all the time. One minute, he’s telling you that he wants to buy an old house and renovate it. The next week, he’s talking about investing in a luxury condo with furnishings included instead of doing all that work to redo an older home. As you see him consider various options, your temptation will be to force him to make just one choice, to eliminate the other path.

But Geminis HATE to do that. For them, the Tardis machine is always running. They always want to know that they can switch and do something different at the last minute if the urge strikes.

If you’re the partner of a Gemini, this can drive you CRAZY unless you, too, understand the wisdom of not locking yourself down on one path or immersing yourself in a heavy timeline in case you realize it doesn’t feel right to you later on. If you have a lot of Air signs in your chart, especially Aquarius (but Libra, too) you’ll find this a fun quality.

If you’re more of an Earth sign who doesn’t like change so much (Taurus, Virgo, or Capricorn), or you’re a passionate and determined Fire sign who hates complexity and demands easy answers (Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius) this quality Gemini has of wanting to be in two places at once might not bode well for longterm happiness in a romance.

But the key to unlocking the mystery wrapped in an enigma that is the Gemini spirit is to know that Gemini’s primary gift is his ability to constantly optimize, fine-tune, and adjust his timeline to be happier or more harmonious.

What does that mean, in real terms?

The essence of the Gemini’s spirit is his art of taking things moment by moment and making decisions “live time” instead of doing a lot of advance planning. The creative energy of Gemini is all about shifting back and forth, trying different things, then trying different things on top of those things, and creating a fascinating tapestry of experience, insight, and perception.

People mistake the times when Gemini is a little withdrawn or the Gemini has pulled away emotionally from a relationship as being REJECTION by the Gemini. And nine times out of ten, it’s not. It’s just the Gemini stepping back and thinking about all the other intriguing branch off points he can access through time and probability.

If the Gemini loves you, he or she will bring you along for the ride to the next situation, the next creation, the next timeline.

But if a Gemini senses that you HATE someone who is intellectually complex, and you for some reason interpret vibrant intelligence and curiosity about life as being REJECTION, they won’t want to be around you for long.

If you were abandoned in some way as a child and suffer with feelings of abandonment when your lover doesn’t text message you every five minutes — a Gemini is not for you!

If you take things personally when someone gets caught up in new hobbies, new creative passions, or new projects — things that maybe you don’t have much interest in — and you feel rejected or threatened by this person expanding his or her mind — don’t date a Gemini. It won’t end well.

Geminis, through their unique, almost alchemical connection to time and space, need a LOT OF ROOM to continue experiencing a broad, full, big life. And this can’t stop just because you get married to a Gemini or have kids with a Gemini. That part of the Gemini still needs to be expressed and fulfilled, or your relationship will become poison to him.

The successful marriages I’ve seen between Geminis and other signs are ones in which the spouse maintains a rich, vibrant social life and/or creative life OUTSIDE THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE GEMINI.

Or, the spouses are similarly wired, appreciating new adventures, changes of scene, diverse social groups, and so on. If you hate these things, don’t get involved with a Gemini.

If you need a boring little home life where your honey is with you all the time and you cease to exist as INDIVIDUALS but become embedded in routine together, it’s not going to work out.

I see this theme a lot in failed relationships, where the partners settle into a comfortable routine together, but along the way, the stop embracing any outside education, travel, spiritual ideas, hobbies, or passions. Then the kids come, and it’s 18 years of no longer having any interests outside the home.

DON’T DO THAT TO YOURSELF. Life isn’t meant to be static, to be the same. That goes against our very nature as constantly-evolving, constantly-changing beings.

And don’t require that of your Gemini loved one, either, as it will destroy what is most magical and beautiful about them — which is the Gemini’s fabulous ability to learn, expand, and entertain multiple, complex possibilities at once.

If you have a Gemini rising sign (also called the ascendant) then people will initially see you as quite worldly, eccentric, and intelligent. But unless you have other planets in Gemini, this might be more of just a social energy that you use, not your true personality. For example, you’d probably handle yourself quite well at a dinner party featuring diplomats or celebrities from other countries; but deep down, you don’t want to marry someone from that world or have homes in multiple countries. You crave a more traditional domestic life.

If your moon sign is in Gemini, you’ll manifest those aspects of always wanting to entertain multiple options at once VERY strongly in your personal life. One minute, you’re best friends with someone. The next minute, somebody else is your best friend. And then it will change back again. In romance – oy, vey! It will be tricky for you to feel 100% emotionally bonded to a longterm partner. In fact, you might be happiest if you live your life more honestly and entertain serial relationships or even polygamous ones, as long as all parties involved are informed of your intentions.

I hope this article has helped you understand the Gemini’s unusual, highly intelligent, time traveling spirit a little better! I find that Geminis are horribly misunderstood by most astrologers, and they are a really cool and fascinating sign. They often feel like they have to pretend to be something that they’re not because society and the “tribal mindset” don’t usually embrace brilliant, unconventional people.

If you love a Gemini, or if you’d like to understand this time traveling/probability shifting talent of yours a little better, I HIGHLY recommend my new book, which is about real life time traveling. You’ll learn how to anchor a more productive, abundant timeline by healing damage to your time body, which is one of the subtle energy bodies that surrounds your physical one.

Maximus the cat, my younger ginger cat, likes to go for walks out in the woods with me. We don’t venture too far, as I don’t want to wear him out. But he likes to follow me down to one sacred area where an elder tree has a lovely wood deva connected to it, and I like to sit and make offerings of loose tobacco and meditate.

That log where Maxi is sitting is the one I like to sit on. Usually in that part of the woods I just try to pay my respects, send love to the various representatives of the nature kingdom, and LISTEN. You really become aware of how most of the time, we humans just have these frantic little monkey brains, and we’re constantly chattering to ourselves about nothing in particular. When you learn how to slow your energy down, get grounded in your roots and your physical body, and embrace the natural environment as something bigger and vastly more important than you, that’s when the magic can really happen.

It took me a long time to learn how to “hear” trees. They communicate in almost a tactile way, a combination of imagery, feeling and touch sensation. If you sit and send out a sincere burst of love to a tree, usually the tree will be so delighted that he or she will instantly beam a burst of love right back at you. This form of communication is the most basic form of psychic communication, and every species I’ve ever encountered can communicate this way. This includes rocks, animals, plants, and even Mother Earth herself. They also communicate in more sophisticated and complex ways, but sometimes when you’re learning to develop your “Earth speak” you need to start with your A B C’s; learning the basics.

Also, creatures will test your energy. If you just sit there demanding stuff from them, trying to conjure up spirits to cast some random spell on someone like a stupid, self-centered black magician, they won’t take much notice of you. They’re not interested in doing that type of work.

The various denizens of the natural world share a joint creation with humanity. This planet was created as a place where an incredibly diverse array of species could come to feel, emote, create, experience strong things through their senses, and communicate with each other. While some evil types came along later to try to pervert and hijack the Earth’s evolution and humanity’s evolution, their influence is waning, and the kind, gentle creatures of this place are starting to establish a more dominant energy. When you spend time out in nature being quiet and absorbing energy data from all the wonderful teachers surrounding you, you realize that this is true.

The kind energies gaining strength on this planet aren’t heavy, they don’t dominate in the sense of being pushy, loud, or aggressive.

Instead, think of the soft, pervasive warmth that spreads across you when the sun has been behind the clouds for a while, and then the sun comes out and starts to cast its comforting, nurturing heat at you. It’s a gentle unfolding, a gradual gaining of mass and strength and intensity.

While there are certainly times to get into the fray with somebody or something and be a spiritual warrior standing toe to toe with evil, in an attempt to shift energies that have become too dark, too terrible, and too abusive, the REAL spiritual warfare going on on this planet right now has a very different tone. It’s more like a warm hug gradually enveloping the planet and all the creatures living here.

Beings who can’t handle love, who can’t handle peace, who freak out at the thought of losing all that insane chatter in their messed up little monkey minds and returning to a more synchronistic, harmonious way of interacting with this world, are going to have more and more problems.

Embrace a different way of thinking, feeling, and living, and you’ll be just fine.

I talk about this a lot in my new book. I describe how time as we know it is changing or collapsing, and we’re moving more into shamanic time or synchronistic time. The old notion of the 24/7 work week and our societal addiction to constantly focusing on the FUTURE instead of living more fully in the PRESENT, with our whole hearts and minds, is shifting.

If you resonate with this idea, check out the book.

And no matter what, try to get outside more. Sit with a tree. Listen to the birds. Pet the cat. Walk the dog. Hug your children outside in the sunshine. Explore this beautiful, miraculous place we call home, and let nature bring healing and balance to your over-stressed, over-worked nervous system.

If you missed it, you also might want to check out this four part article series about how to get grounded: Mother Earth with Some Messages About How to Get Grounded

I want to show you something interesting.

This past winter a gifted healer was sending me some photographs of the incredibly clear colored healing energy that comes through her hands when she works with people as a professional massage therapist. She doesn’t do Reiki; in fact, she’s a passionate protector of those who have been harmed by Reiki or victimized by Reiki teachers. She’s just an incredibly gifted healer.

I work with many different energies when I do hands on healing work, but since I don’t have a healing practice where I see people every day one on one, my skills are nothing like hers. I mostly just do hands on healing work for my family and my pets these days.

Still, after looking at her pictures, I thought I’d see if I could consciously project energy of different colors and frequencies out of my hands while holding my hand against a dark background and catch something interesting in a photograph.I focused on bringing through a nice light whitish green energy.

I was sorely disappointed. When I first looked at the pics, I thought that nothing had really showed up in them except my silly man hand. (At nearly six feet tall, I have big hands to match!)

However, as I took a closer look, I realized that something DID show up in one of the photos.

The outer edges of my hand appear blurry because I was moving it when I took the photo.

But take a close look at the ring I’m wearing.

See that bit of light that shoots out of the ring?

Doesn’t it look a little……snakelike to you? Or wormlike?

The other pictures I took just seconds before this photo didn’t have that snakelike thing, even though I was holding and moving my hand exactly the same way.

Now, you could say that that little shooting light thing coming off the ring is just an “artifact,” and it happened because I was using a flash on my camera to take the picture.

But why didn’t it show up in the other pictures in the series? I took about five or six of them before this photo.

I don’t wear rings very much. I’ve just gotten out of the habit. I don’t like the feeling of energy being restricted in my hands.

But in recent years, my sweet parents have been watching one of those jewelry channels on TV a lot, and sometimes they buy me pretty rings as gifts. They are always set in silver, and this particular ring has a cluster of five small peridot stones. The bright green of the peridots is very pretty.
Peridot is a semi-precious gemstone, and it’s considered the birthstone for people born under the sign of Leo.

Once in a while I’ll be going out somewhere and I crave a little sparkle, and I’ll put on one of the rings my parents have given me. I hadn’t even really consciously noticed that I had this ring on when I was taking the pictures of my hand that night.

But I have to say……that ring has never had GOOD energy. I just feel a sense of loyalty or appreciation for it because it was so sweet of my parents to give it to me.

And also….in owning this ring….I never followed my usual protocol that I use whenever I bring a new crystal or gemstone in to my home. I didn’t cleanse it with sage or clear it with a nice expelling type of energy like electric violet. Normally, I do this with any new crystal or stone I’m working with. Stones you buy in stores, and especially crystals you buy in New Age type shops, are often riddled with energetic crap. They tend to pick up a lot of “Klingons” on their journey through different merchants, middle men, and store owners.

And in New Age stores, be very careful if you purchase a piece of jewelry or a crystal, because the owners of the stores often fill up their stores with various manipulative spells, to induce you to buy something from them, so they will make more money. So you can be bringing home what looks like a very nice crystal or stone, but it has layers of goop in it that need to be cleared out before it will become a healthy and helpful spiritual tool for you to use.

I had forgotten to do all this when my parents presented me with this pretty ring, which came in a fancy blue box. Mostly, the ring sat in its box on a shelf, and once in a while I’d take it out to wear it for a few days.

Anyway…..it’s NOT a good sign if what appears to be some type of snake or wormlike energy parasite presents itself in a photo, attached to a ring you’re wearing!

One thing I find interesting about this is how it took me a few minutes to meditate and really “charge up” with the cleansing healing green energy I was bringing in. Maybe that’s why nothing showed in the first photos I took. Then, when this photo was taken, maybe the healing energy I was using in my hands was making this little critter UNCOMFORTABLE and so he made a jump for it.

Gemstones and crystals go through so much discomfort and abuse on their way to a store. The peridots used in this ring told me that they weren’t happy, and that that THING had been piggybacking on them for a while.

So I took some sage and smudged the stones and the silver really well, and I also did some other clearing on the ring and the stones to make sure that any unwanted hitchhikers were gone.

One theme that recurs throughout metaphysical literature and the experiences of exorcists, healers, and psychic types, is the mystery of “the serpent” or the snake or the negative reptilian energy. I’ve found that energy snakes or energy worms are definitely one type of parasite that can create illness or low vibrations in people, places, and things. I’ve written a bit about snakes appearing in dreams and their different meanings here: Snakes in Dreams.

Really poisonous or “venomous” people who are always lashing out with bitter attack and attempting to harm, destroy, or demoralize other people are often loaded with snakes. I’ve been involved with shamanic healing sessions where hundreds of snake attachments were being pulled out of someone, and then their physical or emotional ailments went away. And last year when I was being aggressively, constantly psychically attacked while I was working to bring out my new book, my own system was getting very weak and I was developing some scary physical symptoms. I did a lot of clearing on myself, but probably the most powerful healing session I did was a shamanic journey where I visited a level of the upper worlds where there is a group of healers who gather through space and time. They call themselves the “keepers of the flame,” and they sit near a huge fire outdoors that is constantly tended by an ever-changing group of helpful healers.

One healer from the group did some work on me, and he expelled a lot of snakes from my chest and heart area. As I talk about in my new book, I once rejected the attempts of a CIA subcontracting group to recruit me as a remote viewer, and afterwards I was viciously attacked, while alone in my bedroom at night, by a mysterious human in black clothing who beamed a terrible energy into my heart. I instantly had a heart attack. I was very sick for about two years until I completed a very long and determined series of healing work, some done on me by gifted shamans, and some the byproduct of me learning some very necessary psychic street smarts and self-defense techniques. After that, I didn’t have any more problems with my heart; this was after two years of mostly being bedridden, in constant pain.

So my chest and heart are “trick areas” that I have to keep a watch on. And while writing the book and creating the section where I describe the exact chain of events that put me on the CIA’s radar, and while describing what too often happens to gifted psychics, I was attracting some….um….ATTENTION again. And my vulnerability made me re-absorb some of that incredibly evil and murderous “snake” energy that the dark characters associated with the military industrial lodge and their “black ops” programs work with all the time.

Anyhow, you don’t want snake energies in you! They correlate with fear, and if your fear gets strong enough, it will turn to self-loathing or self-hatred, which then moves into hating others, which then results in venomous, nasty rage and acting out to try to destroy others. Or if you’re a nice person, you’ll tend to internalize the energy and get seriously sick.

Last summer I had to work very hard to control my fear because I was being told that I would be killed if I brought out my book. I suspected it was just another bullying attempt, meant to demoralize me, but even so, I had to get very clear about my desire to bring out the book, no matter what. And I also had to keep banishing yucky, invasive energies that were being projected at me in a very strong way while I worked on the book. I made the decision to go the whistleblower route — hide in plain sight, as they say. Go loud, go big, or go home, right?

By the way, RIGHTEOUS ANGER, of the type of a mother lioness protecting her young, is one of the healthiest forces in the universe. This is because it comes from a place of love, a place of bravery, and it carries an intention of working tirelessly to cast out evil and stand up to abuse.

People sometimes see my four letter word-riddled rants here, or my fearless confrontations when I’ve taken on somebody who is trying to destroy me or my work, and call that “not being spiritual.”

Spiritual warriors learn to own their righteous anger and use it as a force for good. It’s one of the energies that healed my heart all those years ago. And it’s an energy that allows you to take up more mass on your timeline and cast out evil, inverse, or psychopathic types who want you to back off, give up, or give in to their “void” type of antimatter energy.

NOT ON MY WATCH.

Let’s work to get rid of the snakes together, shall we?

I’m an unabashed, lifelong, Taurus groupie. So what I’ll be sharing with you today about Taurus is going to be colored by my fan girl attitude toward this majorly cool Earth sign.

Earlier this spring when the sun was in Aries I thought it would fun to starting doing a monthly feature here where I talk about some of the hidden, controversial, cool and/or deranged, or just plain interesting aspects of the signs. And I wanted to do this right around the time the sun moved into a particular sign, starting the four week period of the sun being in that sign. (You can read the piece I did about Aries here: Some Secrets About Aries You Might Not Know.)

I fell behind a bit with my writing because of some server upgrades and other carryings on. But I still want to celebrate Taurus a bit and tell you some of interesting things about this sign before next Monday, the 20th, when the sun moves on to Gemini. I’ll talk about Gemini a bit at that point.

So — are you ready to do some astrological exploring?

By the way, if you missed my older article about my love/hate, complex, and highly-nuanced relationship with astrology, you’ll find it here: Are Newspaper Horoscopes Real or Fake? You see, I’ve been writing silly, mainstream horoscope columns for newspapers, magazines, and websites for about a decade now, and it’s so frustrating that these publications just have editorial space for very brief, very superficial glances at what’s going on with each sun sign. And there’s never any room to talk about rising signs, moon signs, Mercury signs, Venus signs, and so on and how each of us is an astrological “mutt” with many different astrological influences going on. But, c’est la vie.

I keep syndicating my astrology columns as sort of an anchor to keep my brand name out there. (My trademark, Lipstick Mystic®, cost a lot of money to register, and by law I need to keep it active in order to be able to continue using it). And I also think of it like spreading breadcrumbs. . . people might find some silly horoscope I wrote and decide to check out this website, where they’ll find my much more in depth teachings on life, the universe, and everything — with an occasional dose of cats or other fuzzy animals thrown in for good measure!

By their very nature, sun sign horoscopes can never provide a complete picture of what is going on. Sun signs are just one piece of the larger, richer “tapestry” of your psyche. Your sun sign CAN be a great indicator of some of the major themes you decided to explore in this lifetime, though. The sun sign is basically the filter through which your soul looks out at this reality. Aries sun sign people have a mission to be very direct and very courageous even when they don’t yet have all the facts and rules, and to basically march forward boldly into danger. Pisces, on the other hand, will take a LONG time to consider all the angles of something, anticipate different outcomes, and to also psychically “sniff out” the vibes in a given situation. You see how these two very different dynamics in a personality can change the emphasis of that person’s life? The Aries life experience and the Pisces life experience are very, very different.

So. . . let’s dish about Taurus!

Yeah, yeah, Taurus is an Earth sign, and it’s represented by the symbol of the bull. I think we all know that. Conventional astrology paints these folks as being stubborn and unable to let something go long past the point where it would, logically, make sense for them to do so.

But is that really true?

Only partially.

The Taureans I’ve known were all healers at heart, and their ability to push, push, push at something until it finally fucking gives way is one of their finest qualities. It’s called IDENTIFYING A PROBLEM and WORKING YOUR ASS OFF TO TRANSMUTE DARKNESS.

When you’re the person who is receiving this type of attention from a Taurus, it’s not always comfortable! That’s why whiny heineys like to go, “WAAAH! That Taurus won’t stop telling me that my shit stinks and I need to get my act together, s/he’s so stubborn!”

What Taureans actually have is a laser-like ability to hone in something that doesn’t SMELL right, that is out of place, rank, or disordered. And as practical Earth signs who are heavily invested in making this planet a better place, they can’t just not respond. Instead, their nervous system is hard-wired to probe, to explore, to dig, to poke, and yes, to sometimes make people feel uncomfortable while the poking is going on!

This unique gift makes Taureans excellent healers, doctors, nurses, caregivers, hands-on-healers, holistic healers, writers, artists, and creators. They intuitively GET what needs fixing, what could use harmonizing, and they have great instincts to bring more refined and balanced energies to the situation. They’re also great therapists, teachers, coaches, ministers/spiritual teachers, and musicians. And I’ve known excellent feng shui practitioners, interior decorators, architects and psychics with their sun or moon sign in Taurus, too.

Forget Scorpios and Pisces. The REAL love affair of the zodiac is between the sign of Taurus and the world of music.

Most Taureans have lovely speaking and/or singing voices, and most of them are drawn to performing music, composing music, or, at the very least, “listening to music fanatically.” They live life with an inner soundtrack. Hearing a love song from their teen years instantly transports them to that time and place, helping them to relive every moment of that experience. And music that was on the radio during a BAD time in their life, if they hear it many years later, can instantly send them back into that black hole or dark time.

For a Taurus, music is a powerful metaphysical tool. It can transport them to other timelines, it can heal them if it’s good music, and it can pull them into a BAD place if they are forced to listen to music that resonates with terrible times from their past.

If you’re a Taurus, it’s important to know this about yourself. You don’t have the same relationship with music that other signs do. And people who live with you will need to understand that you probably need to have music on all the time, or you need to be listening to your Ipod all the time. Or perhaps you are just one of those Taureans who is very PURPOSEFUL with music, using it as a tool. You have certain music you need to be listening to when you make love to that special someone. You have specific tunes or artists you have to listen to when you’re working out. You have certain music that helps you to work at the computer or complete other types of tasks.

The problem with music is that it will tend to PROGRAM you. It leaves a powerful psychic imprint. One part of this imprint is the words of the song itself, which almost always plug you in to certain types of experiences (lost love or torturous, melodramatic relationships being a HUGE theme in most music). And if you are absorbing messages from music on a daily basis that detail sad love experiences or disastrous types of emotional heartbreak, this will take its psychic toll on you. It programs you at a subliminal or subconscious level to expect failure with relationships and pain in romance or marriage. You have to be careful about this!

The other type of programming that happens with music is you will be cording in or connecting to the energies of the artist who created the music. If it’s vocal music, you’ll mostly be connecting to the psychic energy of the lead vocalist, who is using their psychic “toolbox” to produce the right emotions and energies to make the song work. If it’s instrumental music, you’ll be connecting more to the composer, and to some extent, the session musicians.

Art is very powerful; it forms a link between “sender” — in this case, the vocal artist or composer — and “receiver” — you, the music listener.

And since most people listen to music in a type of low level trance, an Alpha state, their minds are EXTREMELY receptive to receiving “programming” or reality shaping by mindlessly absorbing the energy data of that music.

So for Taureans and everybody else out there, be AWARE of how you use music, what it does to do you, how you are responding to it.

Is it lifting you up? Or is it making you moody and helpless and making you relive bad times in your life with messages of lost love, suffering, and so on?

As an empath, I was lucky I grew up in a home where we mostly listened to classical types of music. And that’s what I played when I became a pianist. Vivaldi, Bach, and Mozart have very high vibrations in their music and their music will help to open up your throat, third eye, and crown chakras. When you’re growing up as a teen it’s nice to have those energies around.

I was also involved with theater, and the times when I had the leading role in a musical and was immersed in singing a dozen songs or so every night in a performance, I saw how the music and lyrics really became a hologram, a virtual world that the actors all stepped into every night. It was really interesting, but I didn’t like how the songs would end up stuck in your head after a while because we were performing them over and over again. I never would have felt comfortable doing a hit Broadway musical for a year or more — it would have driven me nuts.

The problem is that if you have music playing in your head all the time, that’s a sign that you’re being programmed by that music, by those lyrics, by the messages contained in it. And you need to be very conscious and aware of what you’re allowing into your psyche, especially if you’re on a path of doing a lot of self-healing and you’re working to expel psychic clutter and goop that you’ve picked up from your past, from your family, and even from past lives.

If you’re doing a lot of self-healing, I recommend instrumental music. This could be jazz, classical types of music, Native American flute, or albums featuring your favorite solo guitar player, pianist, or whatever. If you layer vocal music into the equation, then the words of those songs are going to start interfering with any DEPROGRAMMING you’re trying to do by adding in PROGRAMMING. When your psyche is a little raw and open from doing a lot of healing work on yourself, you want to create more of a cocoon effect where you’re not letting harsh or aggressive music into your system. (And when I say harsh or aggressive, hard rock or even heavy metal music or trance music has its place; there’s nothing wrong with a good beat! But better to listen to the stuff that doesn’t have vocals thrown in if you are doing a lot of clearing work on yourself.)

So if you have your sun sign, rising sign/ascendant or moon sign in Taurus, please read through this article again. I’ve tried to given you some tips and insights that will be especially helpful to you. And if you love a Taurus or have a Taurus family member, hopefully you’ll have a few new clues about this person’s psyche.

Sun sign Taureans “lead” with that part of their personality that needs to make, to create, to heal, or to fix. They’re great at working with their hands because they’re the most tactile of all the Earth signs. (The other Earth signs are Virgo and Capricorn.)

Moon sign Taureans are a bit more analytical. They NOTICE stuff that is out of whack, stuff that is out of balance, or aspects of a person that are unwell, but they aren’t always as motivated to act upon these impressions. They CAN learn to do this, though; I’ve known an excellent veterinarian and at least one chiropractor with their moon sign in Taurus and no other planets in Taurus.

If your rising sign or ascendant sign is in Taurus, you’ll express the more “performer” aspects of the Taurean personality. There’s pretty much no way that you won’t be involved with music at some point in your life, either as a hobby or working with music professionally. Or if you’re tone deaf, your lovely speaking voice could lead you to become an actor, voiceover artist, or radio personality. You won’t resonate so much with trying to FIX things and heal people or animals, that’s more Taurus sun sign or moon sign territory, but you will express the more artistic, creative aspects of this placement.

I hope you enjoyed this article — feel free to tell your friends about it if they have a sun sign or moon or rising sign in Taurus. Maybe it can give them a few good ideas to consider.

And don’t forget, I DO offer astrological consultations by email; my style of astrology interpretation really focuses on looking at the “wounds” in the chart or the unexpressed, hidden talents shown in the chart — and then I give you tips on how to heal or enhance these things. Sometimes people ask me to also look into relationship situations and compare their charts to other people’s charts; we can do that, too; I like to help troubleshoot problematic relationship situations. Scroll down my Shop page to find out more about ordering consults: Shop.

Those are three cute baby foxes, or fox pups. I offer them to you as an apology for how disrupted and WEIRD things have been here at my blog these last few weeks. Look for things to normalize now, and expect my blog posts, healing articles, rants and raves to be published on a more regular schedule. Last year I was stalking two dens of fox pups out here where I live and I caught the babies when they were still at that young and trusting stage, like a tiny puppy. They allowed me to sit three feet away and photograph them.

I mean, forget winning the lottery. Forget persuading Brad Pitt to date you. Getting to interact with these lovelies was the ULTIMATE win. It just doesn’t get any better than that.

So today I want to talk to you about…..babies! Baby foxes, baby groundhogs, baby birds, baby EVERYTHING!

I’m blessed to live on a large farm with loads of woods and secret places where mama animals have their young each spring. This time of year when I go out for my shamanic walks, to check in with the trees and the nature devas and Mother Earth, I’m frequently lucky enough to observe some adorable baby animals, along with their hard-working mums.

This spring has been very cool, so I haven’t been out as much as usual going for my walks. But I have been checking out several spots on the property where there are these neat networks of holes in the ground, usually hidden beneath tree roots and root systems, where animals like foxes and groundhogs frequently birth their young.

We’ve seen fox pups out here many times over the years, and the fox mamas (vixens) seem to drop their pups in different places each season.

Last year I definitely won the fox pup lottery when I was able to sit near two fox dens in close proximity to each other. Two different vixens were raising a total of THIRTEEN fox kits or fox pups. I caught them at the stage where they were still a little wobbly on their feet, and they weren’t yet “afraid” of a big monster like me lurking in the bushes, trying to take their photograph or capture them on video.

I don’t know if you had a chance to see them, but I published the results of my fox quest here last year. I cultivated a sneaky shamanic technique of working on pretending I was a tree, cultivating a very still and calm (and decidedly NON-HUMAN!) energy so the little pups wouldn’t sense danger when I was around. I was lucky. It seemed to work.

I also made some videos of these little guys and posted them at my new YouTube channel. These are probably the best two videos of the pups:

Three Fox Pups Close Up

Thirteen Fox Pups

If you look closely, you’ll see that these foxes have white-tipped tails, just like their mums do. For some reason, the foxes here on the farm all have distinctive, white-tipped tails. Kinda cool.

The groundhogs and the foxes seem to have a delicate real estate negotiation process. The mama groundhogs claim one set of holes in the ground for their babies, and the foxes claim a different set of holes, and it all works out okay. Some years, they switch. That’s what happened this year. I had been out on my walks checking all the past fox dens to see if there were any new pups but I didn’t see any. Then I spotted a mama groundhog and her four babies in one of the old fox dens. It turns out, the fox and the groundhog did a switcheroo, and when I checked out one of the old groundhog areas, that was where I found a fox den this season. I just saw my first pups there the other day. There are at least four pups, possibly more. But they are a little too mature, too alert and wary of humans, to sit there and let me photograph them. Darn! So I might not be able to get any good photos this year.

But still…any day when you can see fox pups is a GREAT day. And these are sitting in a patch of woods just off of one driveway, so we can sometimes see them when we’re leaving the farm to drive somewhere.

Another set of babies we see each year are the interesting birds, usually various types of finches or barn swallows, who have their young up in the eaves of the barns. And then we have a bird’s nest up in one corner of our porch that is also usually occupied by a mama and her little ones. It can be hard getting a good photograph of them; last year I managed just a few photos, like the one here at the left. Right now a new mama bird is busy feeding worms and grubs to her tiny, floppy-headed babies, but you can’t really see the little ones yet. When they get a little bigger and more mature and they can hold up their heads on their own, then we’ll be able to see them up in the nest.

So….babies, babies, babies! As a huge animal lover, I ADORE this time of year. Nature is so vibrantly alive; the trees are green and glorious; the flowers cast such enchanting scents and have such pretty flowers; and the nature devas are talkative, cheerful, and always ready for a little “gossip!”

Last year I wrote a little bit about the baby birds and my thoughts on them:

Cricket Vortex Part 2 Plus Baby Birds of Cuteness

I also wrote about my ghoul hunting cats, plus updates about the baby birds, here: Ghoul Hunting Cats Plus Baby Bird Update

When you find yourself with baby animals near your home, or you see them regularly on your drive to work, there is a nice spiritual message involved with getting to witness fertility and creation in the animal kingdom. It can encourage you to get in touch with your OWN need to create, to make something, or your OWN need to nurture and care for someone. These themes are very strong at this time of year, when we’re all reminded how lucky we are to be alive and how exciting and lovely this world can be; and when we take the leap of faith to create, to do something, or to nurture someone, we are adding a powerful voice of positivity and progressive energy to this planet. By daring to take up space, to anchor yourself in some real way here, you are setting out on a bold adventure that can ONLY lead to marvelous, life-enriching experiences.

As humans, sometimes we overthink things. We wonder about the pros and cons of a situation, instead of just jumping in and following the natural flow of creativity and fertility as it is meant to reveal itself in our lives.

The animals, who are more in tune with the cycles of creation and procreation, have a lot to teach us.

You might not decide to have thirteen kids like those two fox mums did last year, but chances are, there is some other big, creative, and exciting project living inside of you — and it wants to come out!

Spring is the perfect time of year to access those energies, to meditate on them, enhance them, and bring them forward.

Here’s to everybody having a healing, productive, and magnificent spring!

(And if you live in the Southern Hemisphere, how about if we send you some of those vibes so you can use them, too?)

Here’s what I think about guru types who promote drug use, escapism, idealizing the notion of “ascension,” promoting the fantasy of “escape through a Camelot portal to a higher dimension” or indoctrinating people into wanting to “join God/Yahweh up on His Spaceship – I mean, Heaven – during the Rapture.”

PFFFFFFT! (*sound of a horse, like this handsome boarder of ours, making a big, wet, raspberry*)

Let’s make it two raspberries.

PFFFFFT!

Okay, let’s throw in a really smelly fart.

And see that stinky, festering pile of poo a little off to the right of the horse’s bum?

I think I’ll name it Kris Krepcik. Or — hmm, a name will come to me. Hold on.

Anybody who ASSISTS a guru type in promoting the crap I talk about above is just as stinky as the actual guru type.

Since I wrote my little rant the other day claiming that Stuart Wilde’s recent death was a GOOD thing (he allegedly died from a heart attack, but really from having done hundreds of ayahuasca trips and also drinking too damned much), I’ve received a FLOOD of new letters from people. Some of them attended the last events that Wilde appeared at, where he appeared frighteningly out of it and was showing clear signs of advanced drug and alcohol addiction. Even so, he was up to his usual tricks, trying to separate the attractive women from their boyfriends or male companions. One woman said Wilde told her that her male friend had a “demon girlfriend” with him so she should give him up. Yeah, right. We all know who the “demon boyfriend” really was; Wilde and his colleague Kris Krepcik, who culled the cute girls and kept them away from their “less-evolved” boyfriends and husbands at the various ayahuasca retreats and “Redeemer’s Club” gatherings they held over the years. They destroyed marriages, encouraged one woman to sell her Steinway so she could afford to attend an event, and more.

In some ways, the stuff they do and did is par for the course. Others like Stewart Swerdlow and Frederick Lenz (aka “Rama), both smaller time players in the New Age/sewage movement like Wilde was, operate(d) out of the same playbook. They count on their students and customers never sharing notes, never talking about what happened. And they count on victims being ashamed, like the many brave women who posted about Stewart Swerdlow. These ladies claimed that during private readings with Swerdlow, he told them that their sexual energies were blocked and that the only way to heal was to fuck him. These women came forth a few years ago and posted on the hyperspace cafe forum about this, but eventually their posts were hidden away, I believe, in a private section of that forum. Stuart Wilde also apparently tricked some women into letting him help to trigger a sexual healing spot that only HE could find, of course, at a certain point within their vaginas.

I am DEFINITELY in the wrong business. If I told the cute guys out there that I was the only one who could help them with their girlfriend troubles, and it was going to involve paying me thousands of dollars for a private retreat and private consultation with me (during which I wouldn’t be wearing many clothes), and that this “treatment” might involve me probing their dangly bits a little — but, no worries! It’s part of me being an advanced avatar or whatever — then, hell, my life might be VERY different, indeed!

Of course, my honey dude of over 14 years — you know, the soulmate guy I have an ongoing, blissfully functional and loving relationship with — might object.

So, um, maybe not.

But, really.

WHAT THE FUCK is making people fall for this shit?

Is it something in the water?

I mean, Wilde, Krepcik, Swerdlow and Lenz aren’t/weren’t even remotely attractive, physically. All of them were the greasy, pimply kid who couldn’t get dates in high school.

If you’re going to date a living god, at least find one who washes.

Or maybe, find one who isn’t quite so fond of wearing a dog collar (Frederick Lenz was found dead in a pond behind his home wearing a dog collar. Dude was into some funky stuff, and his method of operation was to tell his followers that they couldn’t date each other — and this left all the women ripe for the plucking. He had a harem, basically, of all these poor brainwashed women.)

If you EVER find yourself one on one with a mystic, a guru, a psychic, a spiritual teacher, a yogi, a minister, priest, rabbi, therapist, doctor, or anybody else who is in the profession of helping people — and who should be doing so dispassionately, with professionalism and care, maintaining careful boundaries — and SOMETHING ISN’T RIGHT…..

Spread the word IMMEDIATELY. Call for help. Scream. Go home and write a negative review about that person on Yelp. Start a Facebook page, website, or blog exposing that person’s crap and inviting others to share their stories. Or visit Rick Ross’ excellent Cult Awareness Forum or the wonderfully snarky Cosmic Connie, where many such abusive characters are constantly being exposed. Read the stories of others who have gone through some of what you went through. Post your own stories. DO SOMETHING.

Okay?

The more we let these characters fester in the shadows, the more victims pile up. The damage for many of these folks is quite extensive, lifelong, and debilitating on all levels.

DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.