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

HI THERE YOGIS and friends…

Only a few more sleeps until my birthday.  Thank you to those who have responded with best wishes, and those who will be attending. ALL WELCOME. Because we are still COVID CONSCIOUS, we can’t have a big gathering, but, signing in and keeping distance, sanitising, and drifting in from 2pm in the afternoon should meet all the requirements.  I am hoping for nice weather, the garden is good, so is the deck, so we will be able to spread out.  If you plan to sit near the pond, bring mozzie spray (just be aware).  Reminder about parking (we have “sensitive” neighbours) – Please park on the white gravel, the empty driveway of the empty block opposite, or the nature strip in front of the studio 37 Morris Rd. Woodend.

RUMI – THE WAY OF PASSION

I have been inspired as you have by the poems of Rumi, and The words of the Prophet Mohamed (dictated to him by the Angel Gabriel), and have been reading them before my meditation time in the morning.  Would you like to join me..maybe Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday at 7pm? You could drift in, and drift out.  No need to sit for any length of time – even 3 minutes is good.  I will read a poem, then we will silently meditate on it.  I will probably sit for about an hour (except for Tuesday with the Sutras starting at 7.30pm), but you don’t have to.  Please let me know you would like to join, I will organise a start date, send you an ID and we will go from there.  It will be by donation.  I would like it to be term by term.  To join in please email yogafirst2@bigpond.com.

Rumi says that wherever you are and in every circumstance, try always to be a lover and a passionate lover. By the way,  I am sure that he did not mean going around being Mother Amma, hugging and kissing everyone….  People who do that are trying to meet their own needs for love, and not necessarily the needs of others.    Rumi was met by God in the person of Shams of Tabriz,   and is someone who has possessed and lived love in its splendour, with a realisation so complete, so multifaceted and deep that he goes beyond all denominations and definitions to show humankind the fullness of what a human in love and empowered BY GOD, can become.

Teilhard de Chardin before he died said “Humankind is being brought to a moment where it will have to decide between suicide and adoration”  I believe that moment is NOW”.  It is your decision.  Will you choose “Goodness”? If you have read the Gita you will know that Krishna asked this question of Arjuna.. that the whole of this book is about Duty and Devotion.  What do you worship? Some worship money, some their job, some people what they imagine to be freedom.  Some people even seem to worship themselves.  We all worship something.  It is time to choose. CHOOSE LOVE…

 

MEDITATION

How does meditation effect you?  Well, yesterday morning I had a beautiful encounter in meditation and sobbed for most of the day – about everything.  I tried to watch the news, but it was almost unbearable.  Everything is so sad, so much about loss, about trouble, about death.  I am personally not afraid of death, but death that comes suddenly to others was very raw.    I am trying to live in the world and most of the time it is difficult.

One of my students talking about my drawings said that she imagined I was thinking about being underwater.  I actually (and beautifully) feel at the moment that I  am under spiritual water, I am in a sea of God’ness, and when I come up and out of it, I start to cry.  I am crying, but I am not sad – love and grief living together..  If you meditate with me, it might happen to you.  As Rumi says, “the journey has to be taken, with all its suffering, all its pain and all its splendour”.

I look forward (as always), to meeting you on the mat.

Namaste.  Jahne