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Vol.8 Issue 1
January 2004
June Michael, publisher and editor
Kathleen Wood, co-editor
Catrina E. Davis Roach, webmaster
www.pathtotruth.com
In this issue:
First, you should know that everything in the universe is composed of energy. According to the Hermetic teachings, life is based on the Law of Vibration (everything vibrates at a particular rate), Law of Cycles (everything revolves according to cycles), Law of Polarity (everything has an opposite that is to be in perfect symmetry) and the Law of Rhythms (everything has a natural swing back and forth.) So how do you find out your vibratory rate and how it fits into the Divine Plan of life?
The Science of Numbers is the sacred language of the Creator. If you want to find out how God creates, just study Sacred Geometry, called the Language of Light, the Kabala, Feng Shui, Geomancy and of course, Numerology. Numerology is that branch of the Science of Numbers that tells about the composition and vibrational energies of humankind. Specifically, it tells why our souls reincarnated, our mission and destiny, karmic debt (s), and the challenges and achievements we will meet on our spiritual journey.
An important aspect of a numerology chart is the universal year. The universal year is synonymous with the calendar year. We are now in 2004 calendar year. Each calendar year is part of a nine-year cycle. The nine-year cycle is based on the primary numbers 1 through 9. To find out the universal year for any calendar year is a very simple procedure. You just add all the numbers of the calendar year until they reduce to a single digit. For instance: 2+0+0+4=6 and so does 1995 (1+9+9+9+5=24 and 2+4=6)
Each universal year gives humanity the opportunity to experience both the positive and negative energies of the primary numbers 1-9. Here are some facts about the universal vibration six that you need to consider as you prepare for 2004.
June Michael is an intuitive numerologist, Chios Master Teacher and Healer, and author of Path to Truth: A Spiritual Guide of Higher Consciousness. Find out the hidden knowledge in your name and birth date that has a great influence upon your life path. Email path2truth4u@yahoo.com for more information or an appointment.
Start the New Year with a labyrinth walk: The labyrinth is a very ancient
spiritual tool combining the sacred geometries of the circle and spiral. The
way into it is the way out. What a wonderful way to start the New Year by walking
the labyrinth to heighten your intuition and receive guidance. For more information
about Labyrinths go to www.labyrinthos.net.
JANUARY 1, 2004 – Arlington, Virginia
"Wishes for 2004” - NEW YEAR'S DAY LABYRINTH WALK
Where: Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington, VA"
When: January 1, 2004 from 2:00 to 6:00 pm
The Labyrinth Project of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington will
be holding its annual New Year's Day Open Walk. Come join us
from 2-6:00PM. Live Music (harpist and flutist) will accompany
us as we join others in walking with our dreams, hopes and wishes for the New
Year. The intention of the walk is to begin the New Year mindfully - being
totally present as we leave the current year and its triumphs and failures,
highs and lows, behind. Let these gently go and begin a "new walk,"
welcoming what is to come with a sense of calm and inner strength. Through meditating
on the labyrinth, we take some extra time to connect with our inner Self, that
part of us that is timeless and beyond the days, months, and years, which tend
to take over our lives. Making this connection with what is eternal can ground
us to handle those days and months as they come and can bring a reassuring perspective
on them. Contact: JaneMcKeel@aol.com
THE LABYRINTH IN THE AMERICAS (History of the Labyrinth)
By Jeff Saward
In the Americas, the labyrinth is found in native cultures in a surprising variety of localities - etched into the sands of the Nazca Plain in Peru, in use among the Caduveo people of Brazil and scratched on boulders and rockfaces in Northern Mexico, New Mexico and Arizona. How and when the labyrinth reached these locations remains unexplained.
Among the Hopi of Arizona it is depicted in two forms. One variety symbolizes the Sun Father, the giver of life; the lines and pathways represent the road of life to be followed and the four points where the lines end represent the cardinal points. The other form is known as Tápu'at (Mother and Child) and has a subtle reconnection of the lines to produce one labyrinth within another, depicting the unborn child within the womb of its mother and cradled in her arms after birth. The labyrinth is also seen as a plan of the concentric boundaries of their traditional lands which have secret shrines hidden at key points around their circuits.
The Tohono O'odham and Pima tribes of Southern Arizona weave baskets from dried grasses, leaves, stems and roots of desert plants, and the labyrinth appears on these as a design commonly known as the "Man in the Maze," or the "House of Iitoi" or "Siuku Ki"; its significance is explained in the myth of Iitoi, the ancestral founder of the tribes whose spirit resides at the top of a mountain. From time to time Iitoi's spirit, in the form of a small man, would sneak into the villages and cause trouble. Making good his escape, Iitoi confused the people with all the deceiving turns on the track returning to his home. Thus on the path to the centre of the labyrinth one can see Iitoi and trace the mysterious and bewildering journey leading back to the peak of Baboquivari, a sacred centre of the tribal lands.
Jeff Saward, editor of Caerdroia - the Journal of Mazes & Labyrinths
Jeff's remarkable new book Labyrinths & Mazes a comprehensive
history and guide to labyrinths worldwide, with over 400 photos and illustrations,
is available from good bookstores and directly from Labyrinthos - the Labyrinth
Resource Centre - Website: www.labyrinthos.net
- e-mail: info@labyrinthos.net
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The Power Of Intuition
by Judith Orloff, M.D.
Author of Second Sight and Guide To Intuitive Healing
I'm a psychiatrist and intuitive in Los Angeles. What I do isn't my job. It's my life's passion. With patients and in workshops, I listen with my intellect and my intuition, a potent inner wisdom that goes beyond the literal. I experience it as a flash of insight, a gut feeling, a hunch, a dream. By blending intuition with orthodox medical knowledge I can offer my patients and workshop participants the best of both worlds.
Now, listening to intuition is sacred to me, but learning to trust it has taken years. I've described the details in my memoir Second Sight which is meant to assure anyone whoever thought they were weird or crazy for having intuitive experiences, that they are not! This brief synopsis gives you a taste of the book.
I grew up in Beverly Hills the only daughter of two-physician parents with twenty-five physicians in my family. From age nine, I had dreams and intuitions that would come true. I could predicts illness, earthquakes, even the suicide of one of my parent's friends. This confused and alarmed me, as it did my parents who were entrenched in the hard-core rational world of science. At first they tried to write my intuitions off as coincidence. Finally, though, after I dreamed my mother's mentor would loose a political election--which to my horror came true--she took me aside and told me, "Never mention another dream or intuition in our house again!" I'll never forget the look in my dear mother's exasperated, frightened eyes, nothing I ever wanted to see again. So from that day on, I kept my intuitions to myself. I grew up ashamed of my abilities, sure there was something wrong with me.
Luckily, I've had many angels in human form who've pointed me to my true calling as a physician. In the sixties I got heavily involved with drugs in an attempt to block my intuitions out- obviously not something I'm recommending to you! Following a nearly fatal car accident at age sixteen when I tumbled over a treacherous 1500 foot cliff in Malibu Canyon, my parents forced me to see a psychiatrist. This man was the first person who ever "saw" me--not who he wanted me to be, but who I was. He taught me to begin to value the gift of intuition, and referred me to Dr. Thelma Moss, an intuition researcher at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. She was to become my mentor and guide to developing my intuitive side.
While working in Thelma's lab I had an amazingly specific dream, which announced, "You're going to become an MD, a psychiatrist, to help legitimize intuition in medicine." When I awoke, I felt like someone was playing a practical joke on me. I'd never liked science, and I was bored around all my parent's doctor-friends. I was a hippie living in an old converted brick Laundromat with my artist-boyfriend in Venice Beach, working in the May Company's towel department. (I've had a great love of towels and sheets since!) The last thing I envisioned doing was medicine. But because I was beginning to trust my intuition, I enrolled in a junior college just to see how it would go. So one course became two, became fourteen years of medical training--USC medical school and a UCLA psychiatric internship and residency.
The irony was, that during my medical training I strayed far from the intuitive world again. Traditional psychiatry equates visions with psychosis. Working in the UCLA emergency room, I'd keep seeing psychotics who were wheeled in screaming, strapped to gurneys, accompanied by cops with billy clubs. These patients professed to hear God and to be able predict things. They also felt their food was poisoned, and that the FBI was on their tail. No one tried to sort through this mishmash of claims. Typically, patients would be shot up with with Thorazine, hospitalized on lock-down inpatient units until their "symptoms" subsided. Seeing this so many times I doubted whether it was safe or appropriate to integrate my intuitions in medicine.
When I opened my Los Angeles psychiatric practice in 1983, I had every intention of it being traditional; I'd use medications, psychotherapy, but I didn't intend for intuition to play a role. My practice was extremely successful. Since I was a workaholic and also loved helping people, I had twelve hour days, though very little personal life. But then I had a heart-wrenching wake-up call that changed everything. It was an intuition that a patient, on antidepressants, was going to make a suicide attempt. Because she was doing so well--nothing supported my hunch--I dismissed it. Within a week she overdosed on the antidepressants I'd prescribed and ended up in a coma for nearly a month. (Had she not survived I would've been devastated.) The hardest part, though, was that I thought I'd harmed her by not utilizing a vital piece of intuitive information. This was intolerable for me. From then on, I knew, as a responsible physician, I had to integrate my intuitions into my work.
After this episode, my journey to bring intuition into my medical practice began. I didn't know how I'd do it, but I put out a silent prayer to the universe to help me. Soon, I began meeting people, more angels, who showed me the way. Gradually I grew comfortable with my intuition, set out to write "Second Sight." This took me seven years to complete because I had so much fear about coming out of the closet as an intuitive. I was afraid of what my physician-peers would think that they'd mock me or blackball me from the profession. My mother warned, "They'll think you're weird. It'll jeopardize your medical career." Ah Mother: I loved her, but thank god I didn't listen. Finding my voice as a psychiatrist and intuitive has been my path to freedom.
Sure, there's a risk when you stretch yourself, but the rewards are enormous. Now, I'm blessed to travel around the country giving workshops on intuition to auditoriums full of extraordinary people--health care professionals and general audiences alike--who long to embrace their inner voice. I'm heartened to see that many physicians are eager to deal with patients in the new way I offer. Recently I gave an intuitive healing workshop at the American Psychiatric Association convention, an annual gathering of the most conservative psychiatrists in the world. I'm pleased to report the response was wonderful.
I'm sad to report that my mother didn't live long enough to see this. In 1993 she died of a lymphoma. But,on her deathbed, she decided to tell me our "family secrets." She told me, "I want to pass the power onto you." I was astounded to learn that I came from a lineage of intuitive healers on her side of the family--my Jewish grandmother who did laying on of hands in a shed behind the pharmacy she and Grandpop ran in Philadelphia. East coast aunts and cousins I'd never met since I grew up in California. Also, my mother, herself, had a strong inner voice which told her how to treat patients for over forty years. She'd listened to this voice and secretly used her innate healing powers to keep her lymphoma in remission for many years. "Why didn't you tell me?" I asked her. She said simply, "I wanted you to lead a normal, happy life, not to be thought of as weird like your grandmother was." Oh Mother... I'll always be grateful for what she shared, but, still... she'd waited so long. Even so, I believe in the wisdom of the paths we've been given. Mine has been to fight for what I believed in despite what my parents or anyone said. An invaluable but rugged lesson in empowerment.
These days, no matter what I'm going through, especially when my heart is torn in a million pieces my intuition has sustained me. I hope that my journey in "Second Sight" can help you. One thing I'm certain of: if you follow your intuitive voice, you can't go wrong. Stay true to it. Intuition is about empowerment, not having to conform to someone else's notion of who you should be. It's about being true to yourself, and all the goodness that comes from that.
Judith Orloff, MD is a board -certified psychiatrist and a practicing
intuitive. She offers this article and her story as a glimpse into her memoir
Second Sight which is a compelling portrayal of her journey, struggles,
and the triumphs she faced in opening up to her intuition. She is also the author
of the bestseller Guide to Intuitive Healing. Her third book Positive
Energy is due out from Harmony Books in April 2004. Dr. Orloff is an assistant
clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA and an international workshop leader.
Her work has been featured on CNN, PBS, A&E and NPR. You can visit Dr. Orloff
's web site at www.drjudithorloff.com
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Angelic Message
Who Is The Goddess?
By Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway
Many people are surprised to learn that Goddess History dates back to the earliest civilizations. It's well documented that ancient societies worshiped feminine forms of God -- typically as mother, earth, nature, and the Holy Spirit, or as deities who personified feminine attributes.
Our ancestors saw the Divine Feminine as the source of all that is and they depended on her to sustain their very lives. Her power was expressed in the image and stories of literally thousands of Goddesses from cultures around the world. For example, just a bit more than 2000 years ago, Cleopatra actively worshipped the Goddess Isis in Egypt and Julius Caesar erected temples to the Goddess Venus in Rome -- less than 40 years before Jesus Christ was born!
Ancient Goddesses were treated with the reverence modern religious culture now offers to Jesus, God, The Father, Allah, Krishna, and Buddha. And they were called upon for everything from ensuring fertile crops and easy childbirth to attaining wealth, health or, even, a peaceful death.
Many of the world's cultures continue to worship, honor and pray to female deities. The Hindu, Buddhist, Tibetan, Native American, South American and African cultures are among those that always have, and continue to, commune with the Divine Feminine.
Like the Hindu Goddess of Fortune, Lakshmi, or the Chinese Goddess of Compassion Kuan Yin, many of these Divine Females represent specific abilities and powers. Today, they are still lending a hand - or four! Clearly, contemporary women need support in modern ways: Getting that job, finding that fabulous boyfriend, nabbing that great apartment, tapping into their own abilities and powers, and discovering the true Goddess spirit within!
The Goddess -- and Her many forms, and faces -- is accessible to modern women for divine inspiration and guidance, yet she can also be appreciated for Her archetypical meaning and the metaphor of female prowess she represents. On a global level, we desperately need the Feminine Divine to balance our world. On a very practical level, it's time for women of today to develop "Goddess Consciousness" that will help elevate self-esteem and empower personal and professional growth.
C) 2003 Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway, all rights reserved
Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway is an interfaith minister and non-denominational wedding officiant. She is also a spiritual counselor and author devoted to empowering women's self esteem and spirituality. She's a love and relationship columnist for SoulfulLiving.com, LoveMagazine.com, and HealthWise Magazine and is the author of A Goddess Is A Girl's Best Friend: A Divine Guide To Finding Love, Success and Happiness (Perigee Books, December 2002). Visit Rev. Laurie Sue at www.GoddessFriends.com and www.WeddingGoddess.com.
Books for the Spirit, Mind and Body
Chios Healing is an ancient healing method using light and color to bring balance
and harmony to the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies. Class levels
II and III for certification to become Chios Master healers and teachers are
now ongoing. If you are interested in level I or think that you qualify for
levels II and III contact June at path2truth4u@yahoo.com.
Treat yourself to the best birthday present you can give yourself or someone
else an intuitive numerology reading. Find out the hidden knowledge in your
name and birthdate that has a great influence upon your life. Email path2truth4u@yahoo.com
for more information or an appointment.
Full Moon Meditation is a time to connect with the power of the Moon and the feminine principle. She rules the water elements of the earth and the emotional body of humans. Experience the power of the Moon in a group setting, receive a free one card (tarot, sacred geometry or angel) reading, Reiki or Chios healing and massage therapy when available. Dates: Jan 7, Feb 6, March 6, April 5 at 7:00pm. Please email June at path2truth4u@yahoo.com for location and to confirm your attendance.
Low on energy or have some energetic defect, contact Reiki and Chios Practitioners (Level II) Faye Drummond and Joyce Graham at giving touch@aol.com or joyous touch@aol.com for a healing.
Don’t just treat your symptoms, eliminate the root cause. Enter into a healthier, unlimited life through the Healing Gateway. Contact Sherry Dmytrewycz, spiritual Counselor and intuitive energy consultant at uallr1@cox.net or visit www.Healinggateway.com.
Concerned about the health or beauty of your hair? Well, who’s working
on your crown chakra? Your hair stylist is not just working on your hair, he
or she is also working in the area of your crown chakra. His or her energy directly
influences this very important energy center. Contact Cosmore Marriott, a “healing”
hair consultant and stylist for more information or an appointment at Brightstarcos@earthlink.net
or call 202-544-6151.
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