Dear Yogis,

ZOOM MEETINGS:

Friday 6.45pm: FREE Pendulum/tarot meeting
Saturday 2pm: Tarot+Art class.  Make boards, Medicine Grids, Cards.. its up to you
Sunday 10am: The Gita Study

(and those interested in Rumi on Tuesdays at 7.30pm?)

Email me to get your zoom ID’s for these meetings. yogafirst2@bigpond.com

GETTING BACK TO BUSINESS.

Getting out and about,  it still feels like we are on holidays or still in lock-down. How does it feel to you?   Some businesses are crazy busy, (the service industries) and some businesses are disappearing.  There are rather dreadful images of shopping malls across America becoming huge,  empty,  weed covered shells.  Amazon of course is buying up the bigger ones and turning them into distribution centres.  Changes are happening in our town too.

How is your business?  How is your life?  Is it good? Is it bad?  How are you changing and adapting to meet what is happening across the globe?  How adaptable are you? – This will determine your success.

For myself I am getting up close and personal to my TAROT.  I am looking at the tarot again, and interpreting the cards to help those of you are who are doing chakra work.  This is valuable work (and the tarot are an important tool) because we need to power up our engines and The Chakras are key.   You can’t be all you were meant to be if you only have half the fire power you were destined to have.  Who are you, and where are you going – what is your purpose in life?

Tarot Readings with me are available via zoom or in the studio.
Please email to make bookings or enquire.  yogafirst2@bigpond.com

THE FREE PENDULUM (ESOTERICA) MEETING TONITE, FRIDAY,  AT 6.45PM  ALL WELCOME.

You may not think this would interest you – but if you want a Divine friend, mentor, and advisor always to hand (your very own SHAMS), then you will get much out of this meeting.  The pendulum is not a replacement for God.  It is merely a conduit, and through it flows energy..  it is not magic, it is not satanic (although banned in some Japanese cities I am told), it just harnesses available energy.

THIS FRIDAY WE WILL MEET OUR GUIDES. You will meet your guide, and I will show you how. I am not meeting your guide for you, you will be meeting your guide for you!

 

TUESDAY STUDY GROUP:  

COULD BE WE WILL START STUDYING THE PASSION OF RUMI after we have finished The Diamond Cutter.  I have been speaking to you of Rumi – but what about Shams?
Shams begs God, “Give me one person who can bear me, one person who is brave, clear, strong and wild enough for me to shatter and remake in such a way that I can give everything I have to the world.”
“What will you give me in return ?” asks God of Shams, and Shams replies: “My Life.” 

 

NIRVANA AND YOU…..

One day a disciple of Buddha came to him and said “You know Nirvana, you live Nirvana.  Why don’t you give us Nirvana?”  Buddha said “I will give everyone Nirvana, but first, go around in the village and ask everyone what they want, then come back and tell me what they most want.  Then I will give everyone Nirvana?” 

This was very pleasing to the disciple and he went around and asked everyone what they most wanted.  Naturally one said a Porsche, another said a girlfriend, another wanted a boyfriend, and others said more money.  No one wanted Nirvana.

Living this life, right now, right here is designed to bring us to the point where we do want Nirvana and Liberation.  The highest and most effective, most passionate and most tender form of love is to serve the growing Christ, or the growing Buddha or the growing Rumi and to go on bringing the entire feast of love,  to the table of love right to the end.

If we can rise to this wonderful challenge, devote our lives to it, and turn the forces of madness and negativity against themselves, not in hatred or anger but in pure service and love, then and only then can we become channels for Divine Grace.  Only then will Divine Power be given to us to transform apocalypse into hope.

On the Day of Resurrection I will call out, “Where are those who love one another through my Divine glory alone, and for the sake of my glory alone?  Today I am offering them refuge and sweet refreshment under my shade, for this is a day on which there is no shade but my shade”  (The Qur’an)

We are on that day.  We are always on that day.  I am in this moment, I have always been in this moment – as have you.

 

I will meet you on the mat.

Namaste.  Jahne

TAROT DECKS/READINGS

THE NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS AND NEW BEGINNINGS…

Setting Spiritually Inspired Goals using the Tarot and Pendulum… If you don’t  or can’t pray or meditate, if you haven’t made a connection, if you haven’t felt “The Presence” around you (yet), then use the tarot to find the path.  You could use anything, you could just sit.  God will come to you.  Ask the question, find the answers, move forward.  

RUMI had Shams.  You can work with The Divine, as close to you as Shams was to Rumi, and you can make contact whenever you want to.  You could talk with your Guide or your Angel if you feel more comfortable doing this in the beginning, they exist on many levels at the same time and are always available for you.  It is up to you.  Rumi Recognised Shams as his Divine Teacher.  He didn’t expect a replica of anything… he just knew.  Everyone you meet has a message for you.  

Remember – as it says in the Qur’an –  “NOTHING CAN BEFALL YOU THAT IS NOT ORDAINED BY GOD”.  This applies to everything that happens to you, down to the smallest thing, even the Tarot.  It is wonderful, it is comforting, and gives great peace.  You can move forward in your life and be sure that God is with you wherever you are in your life.  You don’t need the tarot for this of course.

It says in Revelations “He is coming in the clouds”.  Perhaps what is meant is personal clouds lifting so you too can see the face of God? It is time.

Remember, nothing comes without opposition especially in this work.  I just want to help you find the path – God doesn’t ask me to do easy things.   You are where you are today  perhaps because of an idea you call “FATE”.  What is “fate”, but the Hand of God?  As I have said before in the newsletters – the great gift of God is that “She” allows us to re-create ourselves second to second throughout our lives.  Never letting go, never giving up on us, always loving us.  Have a good thought, have a bad thought, let them go, move on.  There is only one sin – refusing to choose goodness. 

To talk to God all you have to do is TALK TO GOD.  You don’t need an altar, a candle, a yellow robe or to go to a mountain.  Just chat.

If Neale Donald Walsh could have Conversations with God, you can too.  He is like you – a person seeking answers. Not him or me finding answers for you  – you finding them for you.  Your guide, your journey.  It isn’t hard and there is not a RIGHT WAY.  You could do it this afternoon if you really wanted to, and I guess that is the answer.  Do you really want to?  This step could really be the key in moving forward.

Just to remind you – Start the new year off knowing your resources, your challenges and your lessons.  Spiritual, healing .. whatever.   You can also work on finding your guide, (even talking to God if that is what you are looking for).  And don’t forget our FREE tarot/pendulum zoom on Fridays at 6.45pm  It is free and you can bring along any questions you need answering about the how-to’s.  I can’t do zoom readings within this one hour…I can however talk to you about things I see and feel.  I can help you start the conversation for yourself.

FOLLOWING IS THE ACTUAL “LORD’S PRAYER”directly from the Aramaic which is probably the main language Jesus spoke.  I would imagine He also spoke Hebrew.. I therefore imagine that he taught in those languages, not English and of course not censored by Popes or Kings.

O Birther! Father-Mother of the Cosmos.
Focus your light within us – make it useful.
Create Your reign of unity now – as in all light,  so in all forms.
Help us to love beyond our ideals and sprout acts of compassion for all creatures.
Animate the earth within us, as we feel Your wisdom underneath us supporting us all.

Grant us what we need each day in bread and insight.
Loose the cords of mistakes binding us, as we release the strands we hold of other’s guilt.
Don’t let surface things delude us,
But free us from what holds us back from Your true purpose.

From You is born all ruling power and the life to do,
The song that beautifies all,  from age to age it renews.
I reaffirm this with my whole being.  Amen.

I WILL MEET YOU ON THE MAT.

NAMASTE.  JAHNE

 

 

 

Dear Yogis,

What a fun get-together we had for my birthday – and no, I didn’t take a photo – I never think of it!  Katie was there and she takes ten photos of a baby’s every breath, of every flower, and not even she remembered!  But we who were there don’t need photos – it was FUN, and we don’t get enough of that!  Thank you to those who came.  It was such a memorable day – and it hasn’t finished, I still have a couple of get-togethers to attend.  My granddaughter had three day birthdays and I could never understand it, but now I do.  What a fabulous thing to do!  Try it.  Much better that one huge party – not that it is possible with covid, everything has to be “spread out”.  Even parties.  The photo is of “orbs”  I have visited them, and they are with me, with us.  We are never alone (even at birthday parties) ….. Sometimes they become visible to us.  They are always the same – we change.

The new year is well and truely started.  What is your new year resolution?  At my party, the group there (after the happy birthday song) and the toast, asked me to name one goal – a memorable kind of goal – that I have for the new year.  Here it is.. I want to learn Qur’anic Arabic.  Not just by rote (which many people do).  I want to know what God said.  The Qur’an are the words of God, direct and unadulterated.  If you read a translation you are reading an “interpretation” and we all know how wildly inaccurate these can be – just take the Bible for instance.  Learn THE WORD, then read THE WORD.  That is my plan, and I know it is not an easy one.

Learning Arabic is going to be made easier, and I am going to have to be disciplined because a number of you have said you want to learn with me!  Now, I love to teach, but I have never taught a language before, and I certainly will need God’s help to do this.  I find that this is both daunting and exciting.

Because my father spoke Arabic (mostly to my mother when he was cross – there are so manly poetic ways of expressing displeasure, and love) I am very comfortable with the sounds, but I have never written it which I will have to do.  Not the beautiful script, but the English phonetics to pass on to you. We will get there.  I am waiting for a book… and will move forward with you once it arrives.  It may take a little while.  In the meanwhile we will just do our usual newsletters, and I will let you know how I am going learning the language by ear.

RUMI

At my party, as usual people asked me about things that are inspiring me at the present – and the poetry of RUMI certainly is.

Rumi didn’t always write fabulous poetry about love.  He was brought up to be strong and academic by his father,  a Sultan and a pillar of his community.  Rumi did all the right things and it was supposed he would follow in his father’s footsteps..  Ring a bell?  We all try that.  We all try to live up to other’s expectations.  It worked until he fell in love, totally in love, for the first time with “Shams” (which translates as “the sun”). Shams wasn’t just a lover, he was a teacher, a miracle worker, and a voice of The Divine.  The Master appeared in the form of Shams, and most importantly – Rumi recognised Him..

Rumi knew whom he had found.  He left his family and his children, and lived with his love.  He became a wild man – laughing, dancing in the street, drinking.  All the things he had been warned against and all motivated by wild, abandoned love.  It was only a short time until a member of his former family took matters into their own hands and killed Shams, thinking that this would cause things to revert to how they were – they didn’t, they couldn’t.  After a period of deep grief and mourning, Rumi began to write poetry.

Those of you who are creative will know that great joy and great suffering propels great creative endeavours.  Great art (even great science)  generally does not come out of a humdrum, boring, “meat and three veg” existence.  Pain and release of some kind unlocks the flowering of art.  Not everyone who experiences this will have the impact that Rumi did, but they will experience the release and the love if they allow it.  If they follow it.

There is a Melbourne Art Collection Called THE DAX COLLECTION.  It was assembled by a Dr.Dax who worked at Royal Park Infirmary in Kew,  a place for people deemed to be mentally infirm or unbalanced (or other such euphemisms).  Unlike many of the doctors there, Dax asked his patients to make drawings throughout their stay.  When they arrived, their drawing (in my opinion) would be fabulous, exploding , and glorious.  As the treatment progressed and the clients became “sane”, the paintings became more and more “ordinary” until at the end of their stay, were not even worthy of storing in a filing cabinet.  There is a lot to be said for “Wild Abandon”.  I believe I do have a painting in the Dax Collection, submitted by my doctor and painted when I was going through a period of intense grief.

“Anywhere you find a lullaby, leave; safety is the final danger.
When you come across a storyteller know a house is being destroyed.

How long will we fill our pockets with dirt and stones?
Let the world go.  Holding it, we never know ourselves, are never airborne.

I lost my world, my fame, my mind.
The sun appeared and all the shadows ran.  I ran after them but vanished as I ran.
Light ran after me and hunted me down.

Circle the Sun, and you become a sun.
Circle a Master and you become one.
You would be a ruby if you danced around this mine.
Dance around Him and you will glitter like gold.  (Rumi)

 

AS ALWAYS I WILL MEET YOU ON THE MAT.
NAMASTE. JAHNE