Our theme this week has been about “birthdays” – birthing babies, birthing new projects by choosing to move forward with new ideas, new thoughts. Today’s throwback is from a bit over a year ago. Every day is a birthday for your next step!
ROSEMARY’S INSPIRATION: What Are You Ready to Birth?
September 30, 2014 — RosemaryMy “Two-Minute” Video for this Week: What Are You Ready to Birth?
ROSEMARY’S NEWS
September 29, 2014 — Rosemary
We’ve met our Tristan! It is so exciting to be with our new grandbaby. You can Skype or FaceTime but it’s not the same as being together in person.
Babies always make me think of bringing something new into the world. New life, new projects, new ideas. We are still in the energy of the New Moon of September 24 so it is a good time to be focusing on new projects as the moon waxes.
We are also now in the Sun Sign of Libra – Harmony and Balance, Fairness and Justice. Bring harmony into your life without looking for a static kind of balance. Get into the flow. Creative energy flows and you must express it or you won’t be able to stay in balance.
If you’re wondering about your next step in the direction of your creative ideas, then listen on Wednesday, October 15 whenThe Oracle Speaks. I will be channeling The Divine Feminine to give you guidance about the energies of this Libra period. Join us in person in Maryland OR online OR on the phone. You can participate from wherever you are. AND you will be able to ask questions during the event. Get the details here and register to join us on Wednesday, October 15 at 7:00 pm Eastern Time.
Sorry this is so short this week but I need to get some Tristan time in! I’m loving having a new grandson! It’s amazing how much ‘grandma love’ keeps growing with each additional grandchild.
Have a great time being creative this week!
ROSEMARY’S EXPLORATION: Create Your Baby!
September 26, 2014 — RosemaryWhat is waiting for you to create NOW? Not next year. Not someday. But now.
It is easy to dream up great ideas and to plan to make them become reality, but until you take action to create them in the physical plane, they will remain ideas. What is on your drawing board that is waiting for some action?
I am not a fan of regrets or of looking backwards, but when I hear someone say that they wish they had done something differently in the past, I want to suggest that they take action in THIS PRESENT MOMENT instead of looking to what might have been.
You are always at choice in your life. You are always ready to create your next ‘baby.’ No matter what the circumstances of this moment might look like to you, you can always choose to move in the direction of that creative idea, that dream.
What is one step that you can take to give a signal to the Universe that you are ready to make that dream become a reality? It doesn’t have to be huge. You don’t have to have all your ducks in a row. You don’t have to have worked out all the steps required to finish it.
You only need to know what the one next step needs to be.
And then you need to take that step!
Creating something requires a choice to move and an action to follow up that choice. Are you focusing on what you don’t have available? Are you focusing on the overwhelming nature of the full project instead of the requirements of the one step in front of you?
The most important choice that you make is the choice of thoughts that you will think.
Really. This is most important. Your thoughts really do create your reality. Many people try to deny this but worrying about something you DON’T want energizes that which you don’t want. You want to program your unconscious mind to focus energy on that which you DO want and you make this happen by choosing your thoughts to support the direction of your creative dream.
When you have a creative idea, when you get an inspiration, that idea exists in another dimension and you have been given access to that idea as the ‘keeper of the creation.’ It then becomes your responsibility to pursue that creation.
Do you feel that you have an overwhelming list of creative ideas and that you can’t possibly accomplish them all? This is a great place to be! You are being invited to capture the ideas and then to use your intuition to prioritize the development of those ideas into projects.
It is important to ask yourself, ‘Is it mine to take action on this idea?’ Sometimes your role is to receive the idea and then to hand it off to someone else or bring it to a team. Sometimes your creative idea meshes with someone else’s for great synergy.
But if you don’t take action in the direction of those creative ideas, how will you find the partner? How will you make everything come together? How will your creative idea ever become reality?
Start your creative process TODAY. Figure out your ONE NEXT STEP.
Nine months (or earlier!) from now, when your creative ‘baby’ is born you’ll be glad you took the action you decided to take today!
ROSEMARY’S THROWBACK THURSDAY VIDEO: MuseLetter: Be Your Authentic Self!
September 25, 2014 — RosemaryHere’s a video from last December that continues the theme of stepping forward and living our “real life” independent of our stories or those of our heritage. It’s time to live an “authentic life.”
You Are Not Your Stories – Richard’s Commentary
September 24, 2014 — RichardHere’s the core of Rosemary’s Exploration from Friday:
It is so easy to ‘story ourselves’ into our victimhood and we hide behind our stories until it becomes difficult to find the real person behind the mask of story.
I love this little phrase: “story ourselves into victimhood.” And sometimes the stories are not even our own, but our parents’ stories or even multi-generational stories passed along through time.
An example of this is my parents’ stories from the era of the Great Depression. My Dad had to quit school after the 8th grade to go to work to help support the family. My Mom tells of a Christmas when she got an orange in her stocking as her only gift! Those times were tough, no doubt! And, for Mom they created a deep sense of insecurity around money and a sense of fear around not having enough. Yet, growing up on a Wisconsin dairy farm we always had enough.
My mother’s sense of “lack” has been passed along in my unconscious mind and I continue to work with this story. I have always had enough – enough to eat, comfortable shelter, great jobs, a fabulous family – everything a guy could ever want. But there is a little voice in the back of my mind that still says things like: “we can’t afford that”, or “maybe someday when…”
As I look back I have been blessed, taken care of, never experiencing the “poverty” my mother spoke of and carried forward in her stories. But a small piece of her story is alive in me. I am not that story and I work on moving it out of my life, catching myself in the feeling of lack, remembering I am not lacking in anything and sensing a deep trust that I will always be taken care of.
Rosemary adds: The only reason to tell a story is to show how you’ve grown beyond it so that you can help someone else experience the same growth. I can safely tell my “money story” because I have grown beyond it. And I continue to grow beyond it!
We are in California now visiting our newest grandson, Tristan. A few days before leaving I checked our financial accounts and mentioned to Rosemary we would have to be mindful of the budget on the trip. Within two days she booked a client for a year-long program, paid in full! Trust is always preferable to any sense of lack! The reminders just keep coming.
It’s OK to remember the stories, just don’t get stuck in them. Remember the lessons and move on.
And enjoy the New Moon, Wednesday, 2:14 am EDT.
ROSEMARY’S INSPIRATION: Be Your Real Self!
September 23, 2014 — RosemaryMy “Two-Minute” Video for this Week: Be Your Real Self!
ROSEMARY’S NEWS
September 22, 2014 — Rosemary
The Fall Equinox is here! Woo Hoo! Temps are cooling down in Maryland. (Can you tell I’m not a fan of being hot?)
The Autumnal Equinox occurs on Monday, September 22 at 10:29 pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). We are moving into a new season that allows us to shift gears for the next 3 months. AND we have a New Moon this week, on Wednesday, September 24 at 2:14 am EDT.
The New Moon is the time when we can start something new, invite in new energies to support us in our endeavors, gain new perspectives.What newness are you looking for in your life? Spend some time on Wednesday thinking about this and issuing the invitation. The Universe will hear you!
We will be visiting our NEW grandson! Finally getting to hold him in person! Face Time is great but it is a poor substitute for being there with Tristan and his Mom & Dad. If you are in the LA area, let’s see if we can hook up while we are there. (In case this is news to you, Tristan was born July 31 and arrived 3 ½ weeks early!)
The next The Oracle Speaks channeling event is scheduled for Wednesday, October 15 at 7:00 pm EDT. I channel The Divine Feminine and attendees, in person, on the phone or online, can ask questions. We do record these important messages so, even if you can’t attend, you can register and receive the recording. The previous messages are inspiring and informative! More info here: The Oracle Speaks
Some exciting things are coming up this Fall! In addition to The Oracle Speaks events every month, Richard & I are presenting The Sacred Marriage: Finding Balance in an Unbalanced World at A Community of Transformation (ACT) on October 12 with a followup all-day workshop on October 25. Email me if you’d like more information about these: rosemary@TheScientificMystic.com Both events are in the Annapolis, Maryland area.
Plus the next Possibilities Playshop will be on Saturday, December 13 in Severna Park, Maryland. Save the date!
I’m so excited about plans for 2015 that I can’t reveal yet but it’s going to be an amazing year! In case you didn’t know, and I just discovered that someone I’ve known for many months didn’t know that I am an ordained minister and design custom rituals for weddings, funerals, etc., I do offer a one-day intensive Personal Breakthrough Day that I call the ‘FedEx mode of getting it done.’ If you are ready for a real breakthrough and don’t want to spend months to get there, send me an email and we can explore your transformation on the fast track! rosemary@TheScientificMystic.com
Must note that our grandson, Cody, is celebrating his 16th birthday this week. Happy Birthday, Cody! I can’t believe you’ll be driving soon!
Celebrate everything NEW in your life this week!
ROSEMARY’S EXPLORATION: You Are Not Your Stories
September 19, 2014 — RosemaryHow many times have you heard yourself repeating a story about something that happened to you, or that you learned about yourself as a child, or that some parent or teacher convinced you was true and, yet, inside, there was a niggling doubt that that story is still true about you today?
Or maybe you keep telling that story without even realizing that it belongs to the past and no longer holds any truth for the you who is showing up in your life today?
It is so easy to ‘story ourselves’ into our victimhood and we hide behind our stories until it becomes difficult to find the real person behind the mask of story.
Years ago (okay, decades ago) I sold cosmetics at home parties part time (yes, your guess is right about which one!) and I had a woman attend her neighbor’s party to try out the new cosmetics. She came in wearing orangey makeup over deep pockmarks and sat at the table with the others to follow the program, removing her makeup and trying on what I was offering. After hearing her friends around the table exclaim over her new look and how great she looked, she requested some additional cleanser, got out her bag and reapplied her orangey stuff before she walked out the door to cross the street to her home.
The hostess was embarrassed and apologetic but I assured her that it was okay with me. Each of us needs to feel comfortable about the way we show up in the world. This woman needed that mask before she could even walk across the street to go home. She ignored her friends compliments and went behind the familiar mask, even though the new cosmetics were more flattering.
How easy it is to wear what’s familiar, even if it’s not the best for us? We sometimes find comfort in the familiar when it is painful just because we don’t want to move into new energy.
What is your security blanket? What mask do you wear that keeps you hiding from your beautiful real self because it is familiar and comfortable, even if your real self is more beautiful?
Uncovering the real self behind the mask is the work of personal growth. The transformations can be amazing! And it means letting go of the old masks, the old stories that we hide behind before we can shine the light of our real self out into the world.
I have a problem with some of the support groups out there that have you staying the victim of your story by repeating it over and over again. Your story is A story. It does not define WHO YOU REALLY ARE. The only reason to tell a story is to show how you’ve grown beyond it so that you can help someone else experience the same growth.
Listen to yourself and your chatter. Notice that your stories might be repeatedly keeping you the victim instead of being stories of empowerment. Notice that you might be hiding your inner light behind a mask that you can shed now.
You are not your stories. Let the light of the real you shine into the world without a mask!
Mystic Messages 
Create Your Baby! – Richard’s Commentary
October 1, 2014 — RichardRosemary and I just returned to the East Coast from LA and our first visit to our newest grandson, the baby who was the inspiration for Rosemary’s post this past Friday. It is wonderful to have a baby in the family again, even one who is 3000 miles away! We are now inspired to see him often, to watch him grow and to nurture him along his way, as only grandparents can!
And by writing this I have formed my own “baby”, one of my “next steps” in the process of living the life I choose. My intention is to play a significant role in Tristan’s life, no matter where his parents choose to live. Meeting him and being with him this past week reinforced his “calling” to us for our attention! Now I just have to make it all happen. How?
The answer is in Rosemary’s post:
The most important choice that you make is the choice of thoughts that you will think.
Really. This is most important. Your thoughts really do create your reality. Many people try to deny this but worrying about something you DON’T want energizes that which you don’t want. You want to program your unconscious mind to focus energy on that which you DO want and you make this happen by choosing your thoughts to support the direction of your creative dream.
So, I am choosing to think that I will spend significant time with Tristan as he grows and develops no matter how far apart we may live. I have been traveling much of my life for much less important reasons; I intend to continue my journeying well into the future! And I do know that my thoughts and intentions create my reality. Here is a minor story to prove Rosemary’s point.
During our trip to LAX from “the Valley” yesterday traffic was heavy – imagine that! But we had allowed plenty of time and neither of us was worried about our schedule. My boarding pass indicated I was “pre-cleared” through TSA to even save time through security screening. Rosemary set two intentions as we approached the airport: an easy bag-check process and she would join me in the “pre-cleared” line! I was so confident that we were in good shape that I set no intentions for myself as I dropped her with the bags and then left to return the rental car. Here’s where my lesson began!
As we pulled up to curb-check the bags a car was about to pull away where I needed to be; after a brief wait I pulled into that spot right in front of the skycap desk. As I got out and popped the trunk a skycap came to help with the bags; it couldn’t have been easier! I left Rosemary to get the claim checks and raced off to the rental agency.
And I hit a wall of traffic on Century Boulevard! It had been shut down to one lane for an emergency repair. I crept a car length or two through each light cycle. I finally made it to a gas station to top off the tank before returning the car; there the pump wouldn’t take my credit card so I had to go into the store twice, once to get the pump on and once to retrieve the receipt! After a half-hour delay and increasing tension I finally got on the bus to return to the airport and join Rosemary.
Security wasn’t too bad by this time and I breezed through on my pre-clearance. And Rosemary? Yes, she did talk her way into the pre-cleared line as well! We made it to our gate with plenty of time to spare!
Once again the power of intention, that “thoughts really do create reality” hit me over the head! Rosemary had set her intention for a very smooth bag-check and screening process. I had not paid attention nor set intention for a very smooth rental return process! And as I became frustrated in the traffic jam my frustration was compounded at the gas station!
A trivial example perhaps, but: Really. This is most important. Your thoughts really do create your reality.
PS: We will be seeing Tristan in November as he travels to the east coast for a family visit and again in December as we travel to LA on business! Thoughts really do create our reality!