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		<title>Astrologer Susan Miller LIVE in Chicago March 21, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you ever wonder why I take so long between posts here on my site?
It&#8217;s always something important, but this time,  I&#8217;ve got a story for you.
Last November I went to the Apple Store in Chicago to meet Susan Miller.  Yes, the Susan Miller of Astrology Zone fame. The world-famous astrologer.  Have you ever been [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Finternalwilderness.com%2F2010%2F02%2Fastrologer-susan-miller-live-in-chicago-march-21-2010%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Finternalwilderness.com%2F2010%2F02%2Fastrologer-susan-miller-live-in-chicago-march-21-2010%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>Do you ever wonder why I take so long between posts here on my site?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s always something important, but this time,  I&#8217;ve got a story <strong>for you</strong>.</p>
<p>Last November I went to the Apple Store in Chicago to meet Susan Miller.  Yes,<strong> the</strong> Susan Miller of <a href="http://www.astrologyzone.com/forecasts/">Astrology Zone</a> fame. The world-famous astrologer.  Have you ever been to her website?  When you read your (incredibly accurate) horoscopes there, you feel as if you just met a wonderful new best friend who loves you, wants to help you, and that you can trust.</p>
<p>I approached Susan that Saturday because I wanted to interview her for this site, but what  happened after that, I could never have anticipated!  I called Susan for the interview at her home in New York City, and instead of an interview, we talked for over an hour about our childhoods, our lives and all of the things that astrology has brought into her life.  Part of that discussion centered around a live event she had scheduled in New York for the end of January, and I asked her if she&#8217;d ever consider doing a similar gathering in Chicago.</p>
<p>Her reply was very earnest: &#8220;I would LOVE to do a day-long gathering in Chicago! There are so many people interested in astrology in the Midwest -  but I don&#8217;t know anyone who lives there to help me put it together.&#8221;  As you&#8217;ve probably guessed, I stepped right up.</p>
<p>This past month, Susan, her agent and I have been working with the Drake Hotel in Chicago to <a href="http://www.americadirectbook.com/product.asp?PID=17&amp;prodID=17">bring you an all-day event with Susan on Sunday, March 21st!</a> This is such a rare occasion!  It&#8217;s never happened before, and we&#8217;d love for it to happen again!!</p>
<p><a href="http://internalwilderness.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/susancp.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-576" title="susancp" src="http://internalwilderness.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/susancp.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="402" /></a></p>
<p>The day will begin with registration at 9:30, a Continental Breakfast once you&#8217;ve checked in, and the seminar will begin promptly at 10:00.  Susan will speak on the year 2010 from many angles for two hours, taking many audience questions.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ll then break for a three-course, two hour long lunch during which Susan will circulate among the tables to say hello.  The luncheon is included in the ticket price.</p>
<p>After lunch, we&#8217;ll meet again at 2:00 pm and Susan will speak until 4:00.  Susan&#8217;s presentations are always lively, funny and packed full of real information that you can use.  And she loves to take audience questions!</p>
<p>At 4:00 pm Susan will sign books for an hour or so, and then our day will be complete.</p>
<p>The Drake is offering rooms for this event at $159 for a king or two standard beds! This is an unheard of price for a hotel room in one of the most famous hotels in Chicago. <a href="http://www.astrologyzone.com/community/"> If you&#8217;re looking for a roommate, click here and share the cost</a>.</p>
<p>Now, here&#8217;s a little secret I learned when I saw Susan at the Apple Store:  find out what your Rising Sign is before you come to the Drake.  Audience members at the Apple Store, when chosen to ask their question, would always begin with, &#8220;I&#8217;m a Taurus with Virgo Rising,&#8221; or whatever their sign combination happened to be. It turns out that Susan can give you a much more accurate answer to any personal question you may have if she knows your Rising Sign as well as your Sun Sign.</p>
<p>How do you find out your Rising Sign?</p>
<p>You must know the date, time and place of your birth.  There are many websites that will calculate this for you. I use Astro.com.  Find out this information before you come to Susan&#8217;s event in Chicago.  It will make a huge difference in the information she can give you.</p>
<p>Seating is VERY LIMITED and tickets will only be available for a short time. So come down to the Drake Hotel. You&#8217;ll have a chance to meet Susan Miller &#8211; she is such a treat &#8211; and I&#8217;d love to meet you, too!</p>
<p>If you have questions, <a href="mailto:deb@internalwilderness.com" target="_blank">just send me an email</a></p>
<p>To purchase tickets,<a href="http://www.americadirectbook.com/product.asp?PID=17&amp;prodID=17"> click here</a>.</p>
<p>See you then!!</p>
<p>And if you&#8217;ve read all the way to the end, then remember &#8211; <strong>The Luckiest Days of the Year are February 27 and 28 </strong>- do something outside your normal routine! Enjoy the lovely energy.</p>
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		<title>Healing With the Touch of a Finger</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I read that John Travolta and his Scientologist friends are going to Haiti to help.  Help is needed, that’s for sure.  I also read in a related article that a Scientologist named Randy Meyers from Michigan had travelled to India after the tsunami to heal survivors by touching them with his finger.  Meyers, an [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Finternalwilderness.com%2F2010%2F01%2Fhealing-with-the-touch-of-a-finger%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Finternalwilderness.com%2F2010%2F01%2Fhealing-with-the-touch-of-a-finger%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>Today I read that John Travolta and his Scientologist friends are going to Haiti to help.  Help is needed, that’s for sure.  I also read in a related article that a Scientologist named Randy Meyers from Michigan had travelled to India after the tsunami to heal survivors by touching them with his finger.  Meyers, an auto mechanic, said that he does not need you to believe that his method works, for it to work for <span style="text-decoration: underline;">you</span>.</p>
<p>His method was described this way: “he is helping them heal themselves, eradicating pain waves and allowing energy waves to flow, clearing pathways for nerves to run errands of anatomical necessity, liberating the spirit to align with the body&#8230;”</p>
<p>This is the kind of story that just grabs my attention.</p>
<p>Not because so many believe that Scientology is a cult, or because I have never seen anyone become permanently healed by just the touch of a finger…</p>
<p><a href="http://internalwilderness.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/scientologylogocp.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-563" title="scientologylogocp" src="http://internalwilderness.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/scientologylogocp.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="326" /></a></p>
<p>…but because it seems like it <strong>should</strong> be true.  This is the allure.  This is the trip wire into taking one illusion and replacing it with another.</p>
<p>First of all, I believe that Mr. Meyers really believes that he is helping – and truth be told, whenever he encounters a tsunami victim and shows his compassion – he IS helping.  There is a special healing that happens when one person shows another that he or she cares enough to engage.</p>
<p>But let’s look at his other belief: that he can heal with just the touch of his finger.</p>
<p>You know that I’m a skeptic (as paradoxical as it appears on its face), and I’ve seen a lot of people make a lot of claims in the realm of healing, but you know and I know that if anyone had found that magic incantation, that magic touch, that magic wand, then the world would already have beaten a wide and wooly path to their door.  That healer would be either a world-famous multi-quadrillionaire,  or just a straight-up Angel of God – no two ways about it.</p>
<p>No one fitting that description exists on Earth, yet, we want to believe that they do.  But why?</p>
<p>Well, there are several reasons, not the least of which is that we think that we’re so important that, of course, we are entitled to be healed – and instant healing would be even better.  We&#8217;re locked in a special relationship with ourselves, and we have a really hard time seeing around it.  OK, the ground is getting mushy here, stick with me.  How important are we?  Who are we? And why are we needing healing?  Obviously something isn’t right in the Universe if we aren’t the perfect, whole, radiant beings that we’re told we are, by just about everyone in the self-help world.  Why do we keep buying that line when it’s <strong>ALWAYS</strong> the exception and <strong>NEVER</strong> the rule?</p>
<p>So, how important are we? Apparently, not important enough to stay whole and radiant and so forth.  But that only applies if we believe we’re real…and whether we are really critical to the story we find ourselves in.</p>
<p>There is no way I can address all of these questions in one post, so I’m going to do it in installments.  This installment is called, <strong>“Are We Real?”</strong></p>
<p>Are we? Can we prove it to anyone? Keep in mind that you might well be arguing your case to someone caught in the same illusion as you are.  You may say to me, “my eyes see you, my ears hear you, my hands can feel you, so therefore, we are both real.”  Let me ask you a question: If you follow your five senses – let’s take touch, for example – through the skin, up into the brain that receives the signals and converts them into something we recognize…where did that come from, that ability to believe that we feel?</p>
<p>Did it come from God? If it did, why did he make a faulty product – a product that breaks down and needs fixing, and then gets old and dies?  A product that, while having some pretty thrillingly miraculous systems,  hates and kills and lies? If God is all we’re making him out to be (perfect, all-knowing, all-loving, and so forth), then either a perfect God made an imperfect creation……..OR………there’s something not right with our assumptions.</p>
<p>“But the Devil! HE tempted man and man fell and became imperfect!” The devil? He’s more powerful than God? He can take God’s perfect creation and hobble it? Really?</p>
<p>“It was a Free Will! Man became willful and chose sin, and now he’s paying the price!”  Can a perfect God create something that can will itself to become imperfect?  Or, as I’ve heard asked so many times, “Can God make a rock so heavy that he, himself can’t lift it?”</p>
<p>C’mon! Let’s get some critical thinking started here.  We <strong>don&#8217;t</strong> know how we got here. We don’t even really know where ‘here’ is – much less who ‘we’ are!  It seems miraculous if you take the long view, and I agree – there’s something like a miracle going on&#8230;.it ‘s just, just that it’s such a fractured miracle.</p>
<p>So we stipulate that there’s something unexplainable (maybe even miraculous) going on, skip all the hard thinking and zoom to the end of the theorem – miraculous stuff appears to exist, I appear to exist, ergo, I am miraculous (and can perform miracles).  Yikes!</p>
<p>If the Scientologists, or anyone else for that matter, figured out how to really, really, really heal others, then what’s up with a God who let centuries of mankind suffer and die until that person was born?  And if you’re a healer, wouldn’t you also have to be a peacemaker?  Or would war and suffering be your raison d’etre?  How wrong is that?</p>
<p>Mankind’s saving grace and our biggest problem is that we believe there’s something out there that we can’t quite wrap our arms around. It’s our biggest problem because we judge that we must own it and define it and limit it and put it in a big building and use it to manipulate others.  It’s our saving grace because it gives us our transcendent moments and beckons us to keep searching for answers.  Deep down in our hearts we know that if we use it to make judgments, we are psychologically killing ourselves.  Because when we judge, we somehow imagine we are as powerful as the devil we just gave those impossible powers to – we’re mightier than the Miraculous Unknowable – the God.  We can take creation – God’s product, if you will &#8212; and make a decision about it.  “So there, God – I’m the Boss of YOU!”</p>
<p>“I’m the boss of you” yet I don’t even know who or what I am.  But I feel mighty entitled, anyway.</p>
<p>If we’re going to learn to stop judging and therefore to stop psychologically killing ourselves, we’re going to have to start sometime.  How about re-reading that last big paragraph and allowing yourself to laugh at yourself &#8211; then start right now?  Who will know?  I’m not talking about judging if the floor was properly swept or the coffee was cold – I’m talking about the subtle things that shoot right by us.</p>
<p>When you watch the news about Haiti tonight, watch your thoughts.  You may recognize a couple of these gems:</p>
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<li>People who loot are bad.</li>
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<ul>
<li>That guy suffered a loss of limb, but he was visiting a brothel – he got what he deserved.</li>
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<li> Brown skinned foreign people don’t feel things the same way ‘we’ do.</li>
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<li>Scientologists (or any group) are whack-jobs, they shouldn’t be there &#8211; they&#8217;re just making a bad thing worse.</li>
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<li>The Haitians weren’t smart enough to build infrastructure – what did they think would happen?</li>
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<p>Go back to the picture in this post and check your reaction again &#8211; then apply forgiveness to the one who needs it the most – <strong>YOU</strong>.  It might not answer the question, <strong>“Are We Real?” </strong>but it will put us in touch with the transcendent side of the equation, and that is the only side that can logically contain the answer.</p>
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		<title>I Need a Tarot Reading RIGHT NOW!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever said those words? I know I have.  Sometimes I can get so caught up in the process of my life that I focus in on the details instead of the themes.  What’s important here is your emotions: where are they?  Are you wearing them on your sleeve?  Can you not think straight [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Finternalwilderness.com%2F2009%2F12%2Fi-need-a-tarot-reading-right-now%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Finternalwilderness.com%2F2009%2F12%2Fi-need-a-tarot-reading-right-now%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>Have you ever said those words? I know I have.  Sometimes I can get so caught up in the process of my life that I focus in on the details instead of the themes.  What’s important here is your emotions: where are they?  Are you wearing them on your sleeve?  Can you not think straight because all of your other thoughts are being shouted down by your anxiousness?  Can your friends tell by looking at you what’s on your mind?  Yes, yes, we’ve all been there.</p>
<p>So – is this a good time to get a tarot card reading? In general, I’ll have to say, “no.”  This anxious period that we’ve all experienced is what I call “transition time.”  When crazy feelings like the ones I mentioned abound, you are most likely right in the deep center of going through a change.  The wheels are turning – you’re moving from the known to the unknown.  You’re scared.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-541" title="spanishwallcp" src="http://internalwilderness.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/spanishwallcp.jpg" alt="spanishwallcp" width="400" height="300" /><br />
In reality, though, most of what you’re going through is already finished, and it’s that last break from your old self and your known issues that can scare you the most.  So, what will a tarot card reading do for you at this very point in time?  Well, first of all, your questions are probably the wrong ones.  In this state of acute uncomfortableness you may think  that you have not yet made the change you saw coming.  The reality is, it’s all over but the shouting.  To make those nervous feelings go away, we will all tend to ask questions like:  “When will &lt;my problem&gt; be over?”  Questions of ‘when’ are moot at this point.</p>
<p>Instead, take a moment and think of the theme of your life.  Before, maybe you were single – and now you’ve fallen in love – and you’re not prepared to admit how much it scares you.  Or perhaps before you were an employee – and now you are the employer – and the stack of unknowns in front of you are dizzying.   Try to put your finger on the new theme in your life.  Imagine you are not on the threshold of that theme, but down the road a way.  Now, you’ll have questions that are more concrete, and that will deliver more satisfying answers should you decide to get your cards read.</p>
<p>Timing is everything, and just because we want, or think we need something RIGHT NOW, doesn’t make it our best choice.  Our lives are what they are.  Let’s not give our power away when we are perfectly capable of getting through a transition time gracefully.  Those transition times are when we actually define who we are most completely.  Not even the best tarot card reader in the world can do that for us.</p>
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		<title>2010 &#8211; A Mystery or A Gift?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here come the holidays.  Such a stressful time.  When they draw to a close on New Year&#8217;s Day, what will you be preparing for in 2010?
Every New Year&#8217;s Eve I sit down with my Runes and draw one rune for each of the important themes in my life: my marriage, my children, my work, my [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Finternalwilderness.com%2F2009%2F12%2F2010-a-mystery-or-a-gift%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Finternalwilderness.com%2F2009%2F12%2F2010-a-mystery-or-a-gift%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>Here come the holidays.  Such a stressful time.  When they draw to a close on New Year&#8217;s Day, what will you be preparing for in 2010?</p>
<p><strong>Every New Year&#8217;s Eve I sit down with my Runes</strong> and draw one rune for each of the important themes in my life: my marriage, my children, my work, my friendships and all the many things I juggle in a given week.  Weeks that turn into months in the blink of an eye.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll always have my cards read, too. I look ahead to the promise and challenges heading my way in the coming year, and I often refer to my notes from these two yearly rituals throughout the year.</p>
<p>I regularly hear this common refrain, however: <strong>&#8220;What if something bad is going to happen?</strong> I don&#8217;t think I want to know!&#8221;</p>
<p>My response is always the same:<strong> &#8220;If you know what&#8217;s coming, you can prepare for it &#8211; and sometimes even avoid it.&#8221;</strong> That&#8217;s the beauty of a reading. Without that inside knowledge, we just live our lives walking into invisible doorframes.</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>There really IS a better way to go through your year!</strong></span></p>
<p>Get ahead of the curve of your life.  See it from a longer perspective. Or give that gift to someone you care for.</p>
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<p>Life just keeps coming at us.  But knowing what&#8217;s in store is invaluable.</p>
<p>Happy Holidays from my family to yours!</p>
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		<title>An Afternoon with Susan Miller</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday one of my very favorite astrologers, Susan Miller, came to the Apple Store in Chicago to present her new astrology software and iPhone applications to an eager audience.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Finternalwilderness.com%2F2009%2F11%2Fan-afternoon-with-susan-miller%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Finternalwilderness.com%2F2009%2F11%2Fan-afternoon-with-susan-miller%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>Yesterday one of my very favorite astrologers, <span style="color: #800080;"><strong>Susan Miller</strong></span>, came to the Apple Store in Chicago to present her new astrology software and iPhone applications to an eager audience.</p>
<p>I arrived early to find Ms. Miller happily chatting with a woman, so I waited my turn.  I had to laugh to myself because Susan herself said in my <a href="http://www.astrologyzone.com/forecasts/">AstrologyZone</a> horoscope for that very day that “Sun in Scorpio and Uranus in Pisces is likely to make this a winner on so many counts. Things will go really well, and <strong>if you need to travel over this weekend, events will just click perfectly into place</strong>.”  I had travelled a couple of hours to get to the Apple Store, and here I was, waiting to speak with Susan <em>in person</em> in a very relaxed and friendly way.</p>
<p>When I sat down with her, I explained that I was at the event to cover it for my website, and she reacted so happily, as if I were Oprah! Her response was so warm an vivacious!  Of course, her website is one of the longest-running on the web, but she really made me feel at ease and special.  She is as empathetic and joyful as she appears to be in her writings.</p>
<p>Susan offers a yearly calendar on her site that I happened to bring along.  I asked if she would autograph it on the March 2010 page because both my husband and I are Pisces, and she revealed that she, too is a Pisces.  She happily sat for the photo below, and then I took my leave and found a place to sit in the mini-lecture room.</p>
<p>Susan brought along her business partner, <strong>Henry Seltzer</strong>, who had developed a software program called <strong>Time Passages </strong>which is really comprehensive – more for the non-novice, however he did many demonstrations of its usefulness.</p>
<p>He called people from the audience to come up and he set the program up for a short, one question read based on the chart that the program produced on the screen behind them.  While he was doing that, Susan answered questions.</p>
<p>The very first question was about <strong>December 21, 2012.</strong></p>
<p>I chuckled, because both of these esteemed astrologers had the same reaction to the 2012 story as I’ve had for years: There’s nothing special about the actual date 12-21-12, astrologically or mathmatically.  Even the year itself doesn’t cry out “Armageddon” (although Susan confessed to TiVo-ing all the shows on the subject).  Instead, they both felt that either the Mayans just got tired of chipping stone and picked a numerically aesthetic date to end it, or they just ran out of stone.  I’ve studied the 2012 subject in depth and have not been convinced by anyone’s doomsday argument.</p>
<p>The rest of the presentation was riveting, and I’ll present random notes below to help the curious (myself, included) to get a handle on astrology basics that I learned that afternoon.</p>
<p><strong>Susan invited me to interview her, so please send me a comment with the questions you’d like me to ask.</strong> I’m hoping we can set up our chat very soon!</p>
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<h2><span style="color: #003300;"><strong>Astrology for Beginners</strong></span></h2>
<p>Your Sun Sign is important, but equally important is your <strong>Rising Sign</strong>.  When you read your horoscope, read both your Sun and Rising Signs.  How do you find out your Rising Sign? You must know your time and location of birth. I sent off for my birth certificate to solve this riddle because Susan says that you must know your birth time to the minute (even the second! &#8211; says she).  Then, go to <strong><a href="http://www.astro.com/">Astro.com</a></strong> and have your birth chart drawn up for free. Go to the interactive horoscope section and you&#8217;ll find your your Rising Sign.</p>
<p>At the very top of your chart is the <strong>Midheaven</strong>.  This is what you’ll be known for in your life; your ultimate contribution to the world.</p>
<p><strong>The 9th House </strong>is where you’ll find meaning in your life.</p>
<p><strong>The North Node</strong> is where you’ll find your life’s purpose.</p>
<p>When <strong>Jupiter enters your sign,</strong> plant seeds for the future. Make good choices for yourself at this time. Susan made a point to say that Jupiter is entering Pisces in January 2010 and will be there for most of the year.  2010 is Pisces’ year – “a handful of emeralds for every Pisces” as she put it.  The outcome of these choices should last for a decade.</p>
<p><strong>The ‘Luckiest Day of 2010’ </strong>– February 28.  Plan something big and fabulous!</p>
<p>On June 26 we’ll experience a monster eclipse – known as a <strong>Cardinal Cross.</strong> This is a good example of how spending time studying astrology is a good use of one’s time, because you will want to make the most of this eclipse.</p>
<p>Watch for some really radical changes across the board next summer.</p>
<p>Planets move in 4 ways during their trip across the heavens:<br />
<strong>The Conjunct</strong> – plant the seeds, begin the new project<br />
<strong>The Sextile </strong>– growth begins and flourishes<br />
<strong>The Square</strong> – challenges arise<br />
<strong>The Trine</strong> – opposition crops up: are you still committed to the seeds sown during the conjunct?  This is the time when we either perfect our commitments or end them.</p>
<p>Learning to read your chart is like learning a new language. Take is slowly, have fun!</p>
<p>And watch for my interview with Susan Miller!</p>
<p>Henry’s astrology software is called<a href="http://www.astrograph.com/astrology-software/"> </a><strong><a href="http://www.astrograph.com/astrology-software/">“Time Passages”</a> </strong>and is available for the PC and the Mac.</p>
<p>Susan’s iPhone and Blackberry Application is called,<strong> <a href="http://www.mforma.com/astrologyzone/index.php?PartnerID=Susan%20Miller&amp;BannerID=120x120_btn.swf&amp;Country=US&amp;Referring_Website_Page=www.astrologyzone.com&amp;Game_Name=astrology%20zone%20mobile&amp;AgentID=">“Astrology Zone Premier”</a></strong></p>
<p>You can order Susan&#8217;s <a href="http://www.americadirectbook.com/product.asp?PID=3&amp;prodID=3"><strong>2010 Astrology Calender</strong></a> here.</p>
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		<title>Question Authority</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My father told me that. When I was a teenager, I fell under the spell of those two words – because ‘the Man’ didn’t have my best interests at heart. He had an agenda. I had to ask questions!
Lo, all these years later, I still question everything.  I know it must seem a paradox: I’m [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Finternalwilderness.com%2F2009%2F11%2Fquestion-authority%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Finternalwilderness.com%2F2009%2F11%2Fquestion-authority%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>My father told me that. When I was a teenager, I fell under the spell of those two words – because ‘the Man’ didn’t have my best interests at heart. He had an agenda. I had to ask questions!</p>
<p>Lo, all these years later, I still question everything.  I know it must seem a paradox: I’m a skeptic who is trying to find the truth in unorthodox ways.  Sometimes even I can’t wrap my own head around that.</p>
<p>But let’s take it apart.  The world shows us a picture of reality.  That picture is actually an interpretation of reality.  Whatever the world is, we define it to keep it manageable.  That means that we emphasize some parts, and barely acknowledge or ignore other parts.  That’s perfectly acceptable – our minds couldn’t parse all the information out there on a constant basis. We would have to break it down.  The perfect example of this is ‘burn-out’ – an overload of information that’s gone on for too long.</p>
<p>I talk a lot about logic because I like it.  It’s dependable.  It’s pretty constant.  But logic can’t explain everything.  If it could, there would never be blog posts or conversations about the ‘why  and the what‘ of it all.  After years of trying to get to the bottom of this very paradox, I finally came to MY conclusion:  Logic can only take you so far down the path of your life.  At some point, you have to let go of its hand, sit it down by the side of the road and continue going on your search.  Don’t lose your way back to Logic, though – you’ll need him often throughout your lifetime.</p>
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<p>Notice that I didn’t say you should leave your Common Sense back there with little “Logic.”  Because now your common sense has to really kick into overdrive.  Let’s take an example:</p>
<p>I recently watched the movie, “Australia” about a make-shift family trying to survive World War 2 coming to the shores of that continent.  In one scene, the family must cross the Never-Never, a desert wasteland that we’re told cannot be crossed under threat of certain death.  An Aboriginal guide appears and leads them to the other side.  He does this by singing to the rocks and to the water that they are trying to find.  And he listens for those things to sing back to him, telling him which way to go.</p>
<p>Of course, they all arrive safe and sound on the other end of the Never-Never, but let’s pretend that the movie is real.  Logic says that this amazing feat was an accident – a fluke – it couldn’t be done the way it had been portrayed.  OK – that’s logic talking.</p>
<p>Common sense says that they arrived at their destination against all odds, so there might be something to this singing thing.  Level-headed westerners would want to see it done again and again.  We like our scientific proof, and surely, if I can get scientific proof (using the scientific method), I’m all for it.  But the more interesting stories in life seldom work that way.</p>
<p>So now what?  Well, throughout the movie, the Aboriginal guide sings to affect change many times.  And each time the outcome he seeks is the one he receives.  Same method, different application.  Common sense says that’s probably acceptable.  Logic says it’s not.</p>
<p>Let’s pretend our lives are a movie.  Let’s pretend that we can star in whatever DVD we want.  Then, let’s pretend the movie is real.  What’s to stop us from choosing the movie that suits our agenda?  Poor, poor me likes to watch the movie where I was unfairly treated.  Angry me likes to watch the movie where I vanquish all the people in my way.  Altruistic me watches the movie where I save the day.</p>
<p>If our search has gotten us this far, perhaps we can start to think about this “I” who is choosing the movies that we call our lives.  What is ‘my’ agenda?  Whose interests am ‘I’ serving?  What’s ‘my’ payoff?</p>
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		<title>Halloween 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
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Halloween is a holiday that is changing.  I thought it had completely died this year.  Not one single trick-or-treater came by the house, whereas last year, we ran out of candy &#8211; twice!
I&#8217;ve noticed that more and more parties for adults are springing up, and not just parties that are a reason to [...]]]></description>
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<p>Halloween is a holiday that is changing.  I thought it had completely died this year.  Not one single trick-or-treater came by the house, whereas last year, we ran out of candy &#8211; twice!</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve noticed that more and more parties for adults are springing up, and not just parties that are a reason to drink &#8211; but full-blown Halloween Parties with costumes, music and contests.</p>
<p>I was invited to read cards at a wine bar this year on the night before Halloween.  I agreed with the owner that I would read for free for anyone who came in costume.  Since this is a rural/forested area, I really didn&#8217;t expect anyone to dress up.</p>
<p>Was I in for a surprise!</p>
<p>Hansel and Gretel, Pinocchio and the Blue Fairy, Michael Jackson and the Mad Hatter all showed up, and in serious costumes, too!  I was set up in a separate room above the party, and the line formed as soon as I arrived.  Of the 20 or so people I read for, not a single one had ever had their cards read. That made it really fun for me.  I love the cold read, and readings only lasted 10-15 minutes so I had to get it right the first time.  I read for people (and creatures!) of all ages and backgrounds.  Even I am amazed as every reading unfolds: no two readings are alike.</p>
<p>On Halloween Night I read at a local, very popular restaurant.  I had my own table right up in front of the room, far away from the nearest patron, so although my client and I had audio privacy, I was visible to everyone in the room, and they could see that the readings were &#8217;safe.&#8217;</p>
<p>Before I left for this party, I had been engaged in a conversation online with professional Tarot readers, all discussing whether it was right, or even proper to remove some of the scarier-looking cards from the deck before doing entertainment-style readings. Many readers stated that they would not do such a thing, but one of them had landed her first paying gig on the stipulation that she remove the Death card, and others.  She asked the opinion of the professional members of the forum.</p>
<p>My personal feeling is that you can remove any cards you want..you can leave half of the deck at home..it doesn&#8217;t matter &#8211; if the cards want to say something, they will, and they&#8217;ll use whatever you give them to work with.  So, I promised the forum that I would remove some cards (sanitize my deck, as they call it) for one of the two Halloween gigs I had.</p>
<p>I removed the Death card before going to the the restaurant last night.</p>
<p>As soon as I began the readings, I was glad I had removed it.  After all, the owner &#8211; a good friend of mine &#8211; would not have been happy if clients were anxious during their dinner.  I can&#8217;t blame him &#8211; owning a restaurant in this economy has to be a singular challenge.  The people I read for were such sweet folks who came to support a local business.  I was so relaxed that I felt like I was in my own living room chatting with friends.  And the clients were as varied as the night before.  At this venue, I didn&#8217;t put a time limit on the reading, I just read until it naturally came to a close.</p>
<p>The woman pictured above sat at the table with me and as always, I asked her name. &#8220;Nicole,&#8221; she said &#8211; but I already knew that.  She&#8217;s a local newscaster, and I watch her every evening.  She was a fun read, and her boyfriend graciously took pictures of us to post here on the blog.</p>
<p>At about 10 pm the restaurant was empty and I began packing up my things.  As I was folding the table cloth I brought, I looked down, and there on the floor was the Nine of Cups &#8211; wedged underneath the leg of the table!  Now, the Nine of Cups isn&#8217;t the world&#8217;s happiest card, but it&#8217;s not as loaded with symbolism as the Death card or the Tower.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m still wondering how it got there &#8212; and more importantly, WHY!</p>
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		<title>Interview: Gary Renard &#8211; The Law of Attraction and A Course in Miracles</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
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I met Gary Renard years ago when he published his first book, &#8220;The Disappearance of the Universe.&#8221; I was intrigued by what his book said, and continued to have conversations with him over the years. Gary teaches A Course in Miracles. The Course is not something he developed, it was originally scribed in the 1970s. [...]]]></description>
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<p>I met Gary Renard years ago when he published his first book,<strong> &#8220;The Disappearance of the Universe.&#8221;</strong> I was intrigued by what his book said, and continued to have conversations with him over the years. Gary teaches <strong>A Course in Miracles</strong>. The Course is not something he developed, it was originally scribed in the 1970s.  However, Gary studied the Course in a most unusual way &#8211; he was taught by ascended masters who appeared to him in the flesh!  The entire story is told in his first book, and I think the content of the book is worth everyone&#8217;s time to read and absorb.</p>
<p>Lately, there&#8217;s been a lot of talk about <strong>The Law of Attraction</strong> (LOA), and many new teachers of this system are appearing every year.  At first blush, LOA sounds a lot like the Course. Using your mind to make changes is a theme in both paths, for example.  But there are some real differences between them, too.  So, I asked Gary to talk with us today about those differences.</p>
<p>I think you&#8217;ll be challenged by our discussion!  <a href="http://garyrenard.com">You can visit Gary&#8217;s website here</a>.</p>
<p>Without further ado,</p>
<p><strong>Gary Renard:</strong></p>
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		<title>Unusual Ways to Use the Tarot</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
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Finding Lost Things 
Pushing Through Your Creative Block 
Checking in with those Who Have Passed AwayUsing the Tarot
There is a technique a reader can use when looking at your cards to see other things besides your life situation and the future you&#8217;re setting up.  When you&#8217;re having your cards read, you can divert the reading [...]]]></description>
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<p><big><span style="font-weight: bold;">Finding Lost Things </span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Pushing Through Your Creative Block </span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Checking in with those Who Have Passed Away</span><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Using the Tarot</span></big></p>
<div style="text-align: left;">There is a technique a reader can use when looking at your cards to see other things besides your life situation and the future you&#8217;re setting up.  When you&#8217;re having your cards read, you can divert the reading to these areas at any time. They do require a shift on the part of the reader which simply means that I must take a moment to look at the cards another way.<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><big><span style="font-weight: bold;">Here are some examples:</span></big></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #660000;">Finding Lost Items</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;">Once a friend called me and asked if I had taken her &#8216;Christmas Pan&#8217; home with me when I&#8217;d come for dinner the week before.  I told her that I didn&#8217;t have it, and after we established that she&#8217;d spoken with the other guests and checked her cupboards thoroughly, I took out my cards.  As I turned them face up for the reading, I laughed.  The first card that I turned over was a picture of the god, Pan. Since we were looking for a lost pan, and Pan showed up, it was funny enough, but Pan is a god who is known as The Trickster, so I expected something crazy to happen &#8211; and it did.</div>
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<div style="text-align: left;">As I looked through the cards, I understood that if my friend went back to the cupboard and just looked inside, that something would get her attention in there.  When I told her this, she said, &#8220;Oh, Deb, I&#8217;ve taken everything out of that cupboard a dozen times! It&#8217;s not in there.&#8221;  I challenged her to look, and within a few minutes she was calling me back to say that when she opened the cupboard, it was sitting at the door in front of all the other pans!!  Strange, I know, how did it happen, exactly &#8211; I&#8217;m not sure.  But the cards brought the episode full circle!</div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #660000;">Breaking Through a Creative Block</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;">Pushing through your creative block is a very different scenario, entirely.  Suppose you&#8217;re a painter or a writer. You&#8217;ve gotten paying work doing what you love, and out of nowhere comes a block &#8211; a mountain that you can&#8217;t seem to scale.  The technique for addressing this is the same for the reader, but perhaps a little less exciting for the querant.  The reason for this is, the block is always of our own making, and we have to take a good hard look at things we&#8217;ve been trying not to see.  These situations tend to be so client-specific that it&#8217;s difficult to find an example that would make sense to anyone reading this.  However, know that this is a practical use of the cards, and one you might use.</div>
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Even if you don&#8217;t know how to read the Tarot, you can pull cards yourself for a particular character or plot and using what you see, find elements of the story that perhaps you didn&#8217;t think of.  This is an easy way to jar loose some ideas that are stuck.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold; color: #660000;">Communicating with Those Who Have Passed On</span><br />
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I have had people ask if I could speak with their relative or friend who has passed on.  I have made the connection many times.  Once, during a reading for a mother who had lost her child, I was getting clues about their life together and was sharing them with the mother.  There didn&#8217;t seem to be any message for her, and as I was picking up my cards, I glanced down and saw the King of Cups. The words flew into my head, &#8220;You never go to the water anymore.&#8221; When I spoke them to the mother, she burst into tears, as the family had stopped going to the beach since their beloved daughter had passed.  It was her favorite thing to do as a child.</div>
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<div style="text-align: left;">Another time, as I was reading for a friend who had lost the love of her life, I suddenly felt that I should just close my eyes to look and listen directly to him.  He showed me a flame and told me to tell his love that whenever she saw a flame, that it was him watching over her.  At the end of that reading the energy in the room was so dense that we both had to go outside for a walk and some fresh air.</div>
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<div style="text-align: left;">Don&#8217;t be afraid to suggest other ideas to me during a reading. I&#8217;ll always try for you if you&#8217;re asking an ethical question. If you want to know what the secret forumla is that your competitor has developed, I can&#8217;t help you.  But if you have out-of-the-ordinary types of questions, that just require a little more or different effort on my part, I&#8217;m happy to help.</div>
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		<title>What is a Tarot Reading all About?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
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No one knows who invented the Tarot.  The first Tarot cards seem to have appeared in Europe sometime in the 1500s. Many people think that they were first invented as a regular deck of playing cards (albeit incredibly beautiful), and that their use as a tool of divination came later.  Tarot cards are a tool [...]]]></description>
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<p>No one knows who invented the Tarot.  The first Tarot cards seem to have appeared in Europe sometime in the 1500s. Many people think that they were first invented as a regular deck of playing cards (albeit incredibly beautiful), and that their use as a tool of divination came later.  Tarot cards are a tool to get around your conscious, logical mind and down into the forces that are driving your life.  Besides looking into your life, they can see how others&#8217; agendas, hidden even from themselves, can affect you.</p>
<p>It goes without saying that a Professional Tarot Card Reader understands and can interpret tarot cards. The degrees of understanding and interpretation vary depending on a host of things: does the reader study when she’s not reading? Does she listen to other opinions about the meanings of the cards? Can she pick up the deck and read anyone cold, or does she need to “get to know them” first?  Does she read often?</p>
<p>I think you can see for yourself why all of these questions are important, but all of them take <span style="font-weight: bold;">time</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">practice</span>.<br />
The more time that’s put into study along with a real passion for connecting with people heralds the true beginnings of a Professional Tarot Card Reader.</p>
<p>One of the most important words I use to describe myself in the world of the Tarot is “Professional”. This word has important meanings to me, because some things cannot be taught or bought – they have to be earned with experience. And experience counts for a lot.  I&#8217;ve been reading the Tarot for 25 years, and every single reading is different.</p>
<p><big style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Spells and Magic</span></big></p>
<p>Why will I willilngly read the tarot, but I won&#8217;t do any spells or magic? The short answer is, spells and magic don’t work. I know, you lit that candle and your wish came true that time. Or you stood outside barefoot one night, looked up at the stars and asked for help — and it arrived just before everything fell apart. I’m not saying that these things don’t happen, and I’m not saying it was just a coincidence. In truth, I’ve done those things myself!</p>
<p>Spells and magic are something we do all day, every day. We tend to look at the surface of our lives: how can I make more money? will I get a better job? will I fall in love? Maybe we hook up with a business guru to solve the money and job issues. Maybe we get a new hairstyle to begin to solve the love problem. But these subjects really can’t be addressed without going deep below the surface of who we think we are. And the hairstyle and guru are magic spells that we cast in hopes of attracting our desired outcome without doing the heavy lifting.</p>
<p><big style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">What&#8217;s Really Going on During a Reading</span></big></p>
<p>If you think life is happening <span style="font-weight: bold;">to</span> you, then I challenge you to read further. Reading tarot cards (or any form of divination, for that matter) is really a form of mind reading. In the hands of a mature reader, you can learn much. But how in the world can I read your mind??  It’s because if I believe in anything, I believe in quantum physics. Quantum physics says that there is only one mind. We’re all joined.</p>
<p>When I read your cards, our minds join. Because I know that whatever ‘bad’ thing is happening to you will pass, I can<br />
direct you to the next ‘good thing’ coming…but actually, it’s the joining of ‘your mind’ with ‘my mind’ in a spirit of non-judgment that begins a healing. That healing is the real heavy lifting. Healed minds don’t have to search for spells and magic to fix their problems, because the word ‘problems’ has taken on a new meaning. (And ‘life’ has taken on more entertainment value!)</p>
<p>So, yes, your reading may cover subjects like your job, your love life, your future — and you will receive good insight into those areas.</p>
<p>But remember, we all need healing to some degree. And the true path to healing has nothing to do with magic, and everything to do with joining our minds.</p>
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