Enter my Mercury Retrograde Contest!

As you may know, about three times per year, from the viewpoint of standing on the Earth, it appears that the planet Mercury seems to go backwards in the sky.This is what we call Mercury in retrograde. In astrology, the planet Mercury rules thinking and perception, processing and disseminating information and all means of communication, … Read more

Happy Valentine’s Day!

© World Spirit Tarot Today, my dears, I pause in the discussion of creating a template of energy in the home, to send you a love note. Celebrate and enjoy this most delicious of holidays. No Platonic Love by William Cartright (1611-1643) Tell me no more of minds embracing minds, And hearts exchang’d for hearts; … Read more

The Home as Healing Template, Part Three

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.— Jane Austen If you need to improve your health, then you can make your home a template for healing energy. Consider the colors of your rooms. You might want to think about changing them to clear colors and tones, rather than murky ones. Bright, clean … Read more

The Healing Home Template, Part Two

What does the voice of fear whisper to you?Fear speaks to you in logic and reason.It assumes the language of love itself. Fear tells you,“I want to make you safe.”Love says, “You are safe.”— Emmanuel, from Emmanuel’s Book II To make your home a template of healing, you must first pay attention to its physical … Read more

The Healing Home Template, Part One

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters daydreaming. — Gaston Bachelard, Philosopher and poet (1884-1962)Along with improving the sense of peacefulness in your home, as I wrote about yesterday, you might also want to augment its energy of healing or spirituality. To use your … Read more

The peace and tranquility template

Why do we love certain houses, and why do they seem to love us? It is the warmth of our individual hearts reflected in our surroundings. — T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, British interior and furniture designer (1905-1976) Yesterday, I suggested some ways to arrange your home to manifest your desire for more action and adventure in … Read more

The adventure and excitement template

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.— Sheila Graham I‘ve been exploring the idea that the home is a template that sends out energetic fields that can help shape your … Read more

You are what you think

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards, our dwellings shape us. — Winston Churchill Perhaps you have heard the expression, “You are what you think.” This refers, not only to your conscious thoughts, but the unconscious habits, assumptions and attitudes that you carry with you. Those viewpoints are often most clearly shown in the home environment, … Read more

Change your Home, Change your Life

When we are authentic, when we keep our spaces simple,simply beautiful living takes place. — Alexandra Stoddard I’ve been discussing the idea that our homes are a template of energy. This template creates a fundamental pattern that organizes how our personal energy flows into the wider world. We see the results of that flow in … Read more