I loved this post by Kathleen Verigin and
June 21, 2013June 6 Email Newsletter
June 7, 2013“I tell people to stand in their power. Knowing what you want is so critical in having a vision. If you focus on how you can give and help others instead of falling into your fear, step by step, day by day, you will accomplish what you want. You will get there!” Joanne McCall, Money Stories
Hi Friends
Also, in last month’s email I talked about the 19 year cycle of eclipses and looking at what we want to let go of or begin or continue working on. I just realized that this “calling” was three 19 year cycles ago! And now 57 years later I’m living that “calling”!
What did you want to be when you were 10-14? Give it another look. Maybe that is what you are really supposed to be doing, and maybe, like me, you are already on that path!
* This past Sunday was the first Dark Moon Drumming Circle and it terrific. Thanks to all who attended. See below for upcoming dates.
* I’ll be the guest on Pam Oslie’s Radio Show on KZSB July 1 between 5 and 6 pm! See a link to listen on the web in the events section in the middle of this email.
* On Sunday, July 21st I’ll be offering a Self-Publishing How-to workshop. If you’rewriting a book you want to publish I’ll share lots of tid-bits. Check the events section for detail.
* Fourth, visit my blog: gmnite.wordpress.com. You can sign up for an email each time I update by clicking on the Follow button in the blog sidebar. And Click here to read Cathy Breslaw’s interview with me.
And may your path be filled with love, peace, and mindfulness as you walk into the great and wonderful unknown. Connie Hill/Grandmother Knight
Third Eclipse, May Drumming Circle, & More
May 22, 2013Friday night at 9:25 pm is the final eclipse in in a series of three spring eclipses. This one is in Sagittarius which is about opening up, new philosophies, travel, expansion, independence and restlessness. If this eclipse aspects any of your chart’s planets then you can expect changes. At the drumming circle this Saturday night (5/25) we’ll drum to open us up to possibilities. And of course we will send out energy to the planet, to those around us who need healing energy, and as well, send energy to each of us. I hope you’ll join us. Wednesday night, May 22, I’ll be leading a short workshop in North Plains (info below). We’ll be talking about your money story and how to work with it to increase your abundance and flow.Third, on Sunday June 2, I will be leading a Dark Moon Drumming Circle in Tigard at 6 pm (please note the time has been changed). The Dark Moon time is about ending one cycle and getting ready for a new one to begin at the New Moon. Bring any personal issues that we can help you release with drumming, also bring the names of friends we can drum for.
Fourth, my book, Money Stories, is available as an ebook and paperback on Amazon, and at New Renaissance in NW Portland, Jacobsen’s Books in Hillsboro, at Toad Hall and Mari’s Books in Yachats, and at Crystal Wizard in Glen Eden Beach. I’ll be signing books in Yachats at the end of June so let your coastal friends know.
Fifth, if you’ve read my book, I’d love it if you’d post a review on Amazon and/or at Powell’s website. It really helps sales to have comments. I can’t tell you how much I’d appreciate it. And I’d love it if you were to purchase a copy as gifts for friends or family.
If I don’t see you Saturday at the drumming circle I hope the Sagittarius energy helps you open to your next steps. I send peace and healing to each of you.
Connie Hill/Grandmother Knight
Upcoming Events:
What: Potluck 6:30 pm, Guest Speaker at 7 pm
Taurus Eclipse Newsletter
May 8, 2013“There comes a point where peace does come and I know that whatever is happening in my life is for my highest good.” Quirina Kryger, Money Stories
Hi Friends
Uranus and Pluto are shaking things up like a Mt St Helens eruption, helping us to release old issues and make room for new beliefs and ways of viewing the world. Neptune and Chiron are dissolving old patterns and view points, and making space for healing. The eclipses are helping us
1. look deep (Scorpio Lunar Eclipse) and “muck out” old stuff we have carried for years, and lifetimes;
2. love and value our lives and those around us (Taurus Solar Eclipse on 5/9); and
3. let go of old beliefs and push boundaries out so we can see the world with open eyes and an expanded heart (Sagittarius Lunar Eclipse, 5/24).
With Saturn touching the first two eclipses we can either become the authoritarian, pessimistic side of Saturn or look around and begin to manifest and see differently. I choose the later. And a Solar Eclipse is a great time to begin new processes.
Each of us will experience these energies, just from different areas of our lives. For me, my money and energy houses are being activated, as well as my vision and belief houses.
Second, this coming weekend I’ll be in Yachats taking copies of my book to Toad Hall and Mari’s Book Store. Please let any friends down there know they can get a copy in either of those places.
Third, beginning on Sunday, June 2, I’ll be offering a Dark Moon Drumming Circle on the Sunday evening closest to the balsamic moon. It will be in Tigard at the Eldorado Villas Club House. We’ll start at 7 pm. If you are interested, email me for directions. Other Dark Moon Circles are scheduled for July 7, August 4 and September 1.
Fourth, visit my blog: gmnite.wordpress.com. You can sign up for an email each time I update by clicking on the Follow button in the blog sidebar.
And may your path be filled with love, peace, and mindfulness as you walk into the great and wonderful unknown.
Connie Hill/Grandmother Knight
More/Less/Enough
April 23, 2013So, since my post on 4/10 lots has happened. First, I have spent time contemplating more/less/enough.
* What would enough look like in my life and what could I rearrange now to have what is there now be enough? I’m still working on this rearrangement, but think that maybe I can use the upcoming Lunar Eclipse to let go AND manifest. This Lunar Eclipse is in the sign of Scorpio which always takes me deeper than just surface: if I give up this particular thing how am I going to feel afterwards or what can I learn about myself.
What I already know is that if I try to make huge changes all at once, I’ll feel deprived, angry, unwilling, the changes will not last and I’ll fail. It took me several years to make exercise a willing part of my life (sometimes I still feel unwilling, but that happens less often).
* The more vs less: One of my favorite blogs is zenhabits written by Leo Babauta. His blog–and his books are full of ways to look at these concepts. His book The Power of Less talks about the joy of limiting ourselves and how we can have more by actually having less.
His principle 6 is about starting small. We usually think we have to do it all or as muc as we can crowd in, but he says “Choose something so small that success is almost guaranteed. Sure, a small success is not as satisfying as a big success, but it’s only small in the short term.” He also says that “gradual change is longer-lasting.”
So tonight is looking at the expenses and then I’ll see where that takes me.
* Also, over the weekend I spent some time making a couple of new vision cards. ( I take 8 x 5″ pieces of matt board that one of my daughters cuts for me. Then I cut or tear pictures out of magazines that represent a topic I want to focus on.
In my book, Money Stories, Pam Oslie talks about visualizing money falling from the sky all around you. I’ve been having trouble visualizing this so I decided to make a card that represents this. Look at what I cane up with:
Tried to make this image my screensaver, but it didn’t fit well. I did find a photo I’d taken of a pile of money and it makes a fabulous background. Let me know what you think of my card.
Connie/Grandmother Knight
My Story of More vs Enough
April 10, 2013I have spent many years wishing I had more, more time, more support, more energy, more money. In the process of writing my book, Money Stories, a couple of those I talked with talked about more vs enough. Jennifer Louden talked about a bookmark she had which said “What is finally enough?” Jennifer continued saying “To me the connection between story and enough is really intimately connected.”
“In my book The Life Organizer, part of my goal is to offer questions that crack open your story in different areas of your life. “What is finally enough for you ” is a great question to crack open your money story. So often our money story is linked to a sense of “If I can just get more then I will have enough.” As we know, that is a never-ending chase for “enough” that never arrives. I call it “filling the God-shaped hole.”
Take a minute and think about what enough means to you. Have you ever had times that felt like you had enough of anything? What did that feel like? For me, I have felt that feeling of enough at times and what it feels like is that I’m satiated after a good meal. Or like I’m content where and as I am. That feeling doesn’t stick around, but I think my personal work right now is keeping that feeling around more of the time.
Drumming Article
January 21, 2012January 20, 2012
HI Friends
Here is a great article about me. It was published in the
January 2012 issue of NW Boomer & Senior News,
Portland/Vancouver Edition. Click on the pdf’s below to read it.
Hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Hugs Connie
Standard time tonight
November 6, 2011Saturday 11/5/11
I have been trying to stay conscious about how this whole time change thing works this year. I feel like I’m not that upset by the change this year, but I’ll let you know tomorrow when the impact hits. Connie
Back to Standard Time
November 3, 2011This coming Sunday, 11/6, is the end of Day Light Savings Time for 2011. I wrote about this in my monthly email for November. I added a list of suggestions for dealing with how the time change makes us feel.
One of the most important of these points for me was to get a full spectrum light and see if that helped. Instead of a lamp I got a full spectrum light bulb which I put in one of the living room overhead fixtures I don’t use often. Now, each morning while sitting on my couch and working I have the light on for 20-120 minutes.
I have done this every day for the last week. I don’t know if it has helped me feel better, but it has helped me be more focused on being mindful and exploring what’s going on with me rather than fighting the change or feeling victimized, angry and out of control because of it.
I have had times of discomfort, but for the most part it has been a time of meditativeness and internal exploration. I’ve taken time to work on my book and to be more focused on that. So, I guess what I’ve felt the most is that I’m back in charge of my life.
So the other points I put in my last email were
1. to change the way I viewed the time change
2. to journal about the time change
3. to make sure I had some packages of soup in my freezer
As I was writing this, I realize that I have done all of the points I suggested. I haven’t changed the fact that the time change will happen, but I have, for right now this minute, changed how I feel about it. I’m no longer dreading it. I’m seeing it as an accompaniment to the color changes outside!
Oh, and one other thing I’m doing. I upped my dose of vitamin D that I take daily. My doc had suggested 4000 units of vitamin D. I’ve been taking 2-3000/day, but I raised it up again to 4000 units. All of these things seem to be helping me overall. I’ll keep journalling about this as the time changes this weekend and after to see what happens.
On my path Connie/gmnite