posted February 27, 2010 09:50 AM         

Suicide is a very personal choice.
I realize many people have strong opinions
about it, but, ultimately, it is a choice
which we are in no position to judge.

For many, the choice is made on a gut-level,
while, for others, it is a calculated risk.
For all we know, it may be the wisest thing.

I have long suspected that we are all here,
incarnated in matter, on accout of assumptions
we made regarding the relation of spirit and matter.
Namely, we are prejudiced in favor of matter,
and compulsively seek to have ourselves and
our ideas manifested and reflected in matter.
We do not have proper reverence for the immaterial.
Until we understand this, and reverse our values,
I suspect, we will continue to reincarnate.

Two recent meditations on this position:
What Did Plato Really Mean?
The Most Needful Thing (Is Not A Thing)

posted February 27, 2010 10:11 AM         

Two more examples as to my feeling jaded about readers.
I helped friends out at a few psychic fairs.
I sat for hours listening to the Spiritualist ministers/readers doing readings. The readings were so, stock and fake, I felt sad for the gulliable folks getting rooked by those frauds.
Also the Aura photographer...
After awhile I realized that she had sets of filters/backgrounds to fake each aura portrait. The colors would be different each time and then stop and repeat over and over.
And...on a psychic radio show a caller called in to one of these fakes and begain screaming and crying because her daughter was dead...yet the fake medium had told her that her daughter was going to get well soon and trust in spirit.
And...another guy called in asking if his future had any happy news in it.
The fake medium goes on and on about all kinds of happy happy joy joy things, most years from now, after asking if the man had a family, and then contimued lying to beat the band...
when the caller said,"thanks for nothing, I have terminal brain cancer and a few weeks left before my family has to go on without me".
Sadly too many readers out there are like that.

By the Way,
the only good readings are ones I have received from GeocosmicValentine(spelling?) and several others here at LindaLand!
Blessings and love to all!

posted February 27, 2010 10:14 AM         

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posted February 27, 2010 02:12 PM         

As those privileged to be gifted occult knowledge, we should not create more karmic debts. Hence, my dear, DO CHARGE

$5 or $25 or $50 or $75, based on affordability.

posted February 28, 2010 12:25 AM         

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[ The ones who promise to pay, have the money and then dont, they unnecessarily bring a bigger karmic debt upon themselves. ]

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God's methods are soooooo mathematically precise, that if you undercharge, the true due comes to you 3 fold.

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You wont be stopping free services but so many will be comfortable utlizing your services if they can pay something.

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posted February 28, 2010 01:02 AM         

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Ruler of the 12th in the 8th house,
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Hmm... Venus rules my 12th house (Libra), and I have Venus in Gemini, conjunct the cusp of my 8th house.

posted February 28, 2010 04:09 AM         

When an Astrologer like me or any other astrologer OFFERS a FREE READING, we nullify the karmic debt. The user WILL BE ABLE to use that knowledge. It is when we OFFER a paid service, even for one dollar, and a poor chap cannot pay for that, then that knowledge can get blocked, until he or she pays for it in another way. Good wishes, helping another with his or her own knowledge and so on.

The way you have dissected my post without grasping the spirit of my message, it is a clear cut blockage issue. If I knew you wanted to dissect a post like a Lawyer, would I not have written like a lawyer with tons of clauses and ruined my intent, to see you prosper by doing what you love? Never dissect a friends message. Feel and Grasp the intent.

posted February 28, 2010 07:37 AM         

When I ran off to my appointment yesterday, I was thinking that when I'd come back to my computer, I would write something along the lines of what IQ wrote. It would have never sounded the same, of course. We all have a different perspective. I know nothing about karmic debts vis-a-vis payment for services. What I do know is from my intuitive knowledge of human nature. I was going to say that I had a distinct feeling you were hung up on the topic of wealth. Like somehow you felt that if someone had expendable money, they wouldn't be a good person. Not that extreme - I don't know how to put it into words - but something along those lines. Maybe that staying "poor" gave you a better opportunity to be a good person. Anyway, IQ just came out with it and diagnosed you with a block. My planets in Libra make me beat around the bush a little. But I think you need to take into consideration what IQ said. And I think you need to think on this: sometimes people feel better about getting something if they've paid for it. There's no guilt attached to it, because they've paid... it wasn't a "handout".

I think you, Lexx, can combine your sense of volunteerism with a "professional practice" where you're paid for your readings/healings. I think that's what IQ does.

By the way, my reader in New York is currently charging $110 for a 50 minute reading or for a healing. Others who have equal (or less talent than her) are charging anywhere from $150 to $700. She asked the advice of a lot of people when trying to determine what her fee should be, as she is transitioning from a completely different career and really had no concept. I was one of the people who told her to keep it on the low end, given the state of the economy. I also told her that if someone called and asked about payment options, she should take the hint and reduce her fee, since that person obviously needed her assistance but couldn't pay $110. I do think you can offer a service for payment but be flexible when need be.

I was told (in a reading with another psychic/medium) that I should practice something like tithing - give to others at least 10% of what I had. Whether the source was legit or not, I find that concept appealing. If we all, according to ability, gave a certain percentage of what we earned away, wouldn't the world be a better place? And along those lines, what if you, Lexx, charged enough for your readings that you could afford to live in better surroundings, or live in the same place but enjoy more food or more goodies... but consistently gave away your services to a certain percentage of needy people? Could you live with that?

posted February 28, 2010 11:44 AM         

A pure action, we know, can later, -- and many times over, -- be put to impure use. In fact, there are few, if any, temptations which compare to the temptation of having, at one time or another, exhibited exceptionally virtuous or masterful behavior; to remember our past goodness at a time when our intentions may not be quite so good.

Every action arises, and divests itself, from a virtually unconscious tangle of contradictory and complimentary impulses, and every action contains within itself the seeds of all relevant possibilities. But we like to think that there are simply good and bad actions, and that once an action which is entirely, essentially, or predominantly good or bad has been committed, it can never be raised or lowered from its place. Keats wrote: "A thing of beauty is a joy forever," and this is true. Yet, even the most eternally enchanting objects, actions, and ideas may be viewed through a dirty or distorted lens.

While we may speak of cancelling out or transcending our karma, or the karma of others, it seems more likely that this occurs, if it occurs at all, on a level utterly removed from ourselves. The Grace of God, or that which apparently dissolves rigid karmic patterns, does not seem to wait on our command, or even our invitation. Rather, it enters into our lives, thoughts, and actions, much to our surprise. It is always a reminder. Not something called to mind, but something which interrupts the normal, or usual, continuity of thought. A gentle nudge that partly rouses one from the deepest sleep.

There is no impulse within us capable of remembering God, or willing ourselves into wakefulness. On the contrary, it is precisely this self-conscious will of ours which seems to inhibit and prevent our full consciousness of the presence and will of God. Nothing we know, and no impressions we have kept, however cherished, however consecrated by rites or holy names, -- nothing at all that we have seen or been is capable of putting us in mind of God; for the breath and life of God is something quicker than the eye, more dynamic than the mind, and expressing infinitely more dimensions than the flesh. It comes over us, and startles our spirit, so that we can only remark, "What?! -- What was that?!!" It is only in the aftermath that we reflect to ourselves, "What else could it have been, but the hand of God?"

posted February 28, 2010 12:03 PM         

The images of poverty, sins/snobbery of the misguided rich, they all contribute to prevent abundance from reaching us through our subconscious mind. Abundance is a birthright.

If Lexx makes money, exponentially more people will benefit. Without having to worry about bills, she and her husband can multiply their psychic services.

posted February 28, 2010 12:21 PM         

Neither you, nor anyone else, should have to assume guilt for introducing digressions. Who's fascistically linear agenda are we offending, anyway, when we follow the free stream of thought where it leads, through bend and break and frothing waterfall? Must we harbor and encourage suspicion against one another, every time the stream takes a, likely or unlikely, turn? Besides, don't digressions frequently breathe life back into dying threads?

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crabbypatty. <3<3<3
Thank you for your offer <3
I shall keep your offer on file.
However, I would want to pay you.

iQ...
You claim I ripped apart your previous reply.
Since when is replying line by line trying to understand what exactly you mean, a bad thing? If one is trying to get clarification of what another means, then questions will be asked and quotes made. And I did so iQ, because it still does not ring right to me, and I do not see where I missed your points.
I am not trying to fight with you, but your statements seem strange to put it nicely.
Your next reply had one good line....but the rest....hmmmmm......I do not agree with your "diagnosis"...too Hayes style nonsense thinking in my opinion. Maybe we are simply having a communication problem? I would prefer it were so. Is it?

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Not at my best at the moment.

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posted March 01, 2010 03:09 AM         

I must clarify this point:
"If a poor non payer ASKS for a reading, they are not going to get one as you deem them unworthy of it".
No, they will get the reading from me if:
1. They promise to give time, knowledge or money to someone else, in accordance with their wishes for what they value the reading.

2. Promise to pay that which is affordable be it one buck or five or fifty in the future.

If they promise and they do not keep it, the knowledge gets blocked. They have a karmic debt too but I release them from it for mutual benefit. If I dont forgive and forget, I may be pulled back for another Earth incarnation. I have done this for about $1500.00 worth of readings over the years.
What can others give me that God cannot? You may ask then why I accept donations for readings. My view then is that I am not God to be Infinitely Self Sufficient, and I have no right to refuse the donor the joy of giving.

If they do not want to promise nor pay, then I offer a basic reading for free so that they can then use their own inner guidance to maximize the chart's knowledge.

About poverty in general, a poor man is very rarely a bad man, but is poor because of keeping the doors of abundance closed through his thoughts being focused largely on fear and poverty. Rhetorical question, when was the last time any of us praised and felt genuinely happy for a rich bloke, thinking he must have done something great to achieve that wealth?

posted March 01, 2010 12:21 PM         

However you do not know me well.
I stopped writing to you because you appeared (yes, while I feel, sincerely wanting to help)very preachy and closed minded, as if you knew what was best for me and your way was the best or only way.
And you did not know me well then, nor now either.

I do not feel I am blocking abundance.
No one wants to do such a stupid thing,

Yet you still seem to feel people block abundance and good fortune.

Well sometimes the luck of the draw just happens.
Maybe you are lucky and some are not.
I did not ask to be born with multiple birth defects, nor did I ask to be abused and raped as a child, nor to be a sickly child.
As an adult from a large family, college was something out of my grasp. So I worked a factory job, and became disabled after an accident.
I had two opportunities to marry millionaires.
However I did not marry for money, but for love. So we are both poor.
So, in your mind...what? I should have married one of the rich guys and not blocked a chance at abundance?

I really do not get how a person can block abundance unless they choose to be a bum and do nothing but drink and lay around, or some such thing.

Please explain!

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Have you ever lived on the streets or in a box, eaten out of trash dumpsters, and wondered how you were going to survive?
Well I have.
So maybe crabbypatty is correct to a degree, because my poverty has made me be able to understand the struggling people planetwide and to want to help.
By the way, I help rich folks out too with their troubles.

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I do indeed praise such rich folks!
In fact did that just several weeks ago!

So, that makes me wonder iQ about how you think even more.

So I can assume that you personally would not be happy for the rich fellow's abundance?
Again, the following makes no sense to me..

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posted March 02, 2010 02:27 AM         

But you are right, I do have a block. If I point out what I think to be a block in anybody, then part of that block has to exist in me somewhere. This knolwedge is part of my path, that everyone is a reflection of our own Self.

Your meticulous posts have helped me to further introspect and I hope I can clear this block out for attracting even more abundance [which need not be just cash, it can be better health, more knolwedge] in life.