Third Eclipse, May Drumming Circle, & More

Hi Friends
Friday 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:

Discovering Your Money Story & Change Your Life 

Wed. May 22  7-9 pm 

Where….10215 NW 313th Ave, North Plains, OR 97133

When: the 4th Wednesday of each month.
What: Potluck 6:30 pm, Guest Speaker at 7 pm

Suggested donation $5.00

What is your money stories and how does it influence your emotional, spiritual, and material life. We will look at our money archetypes, how they influence our present financial reality and help or hinder changing our bottom line. I’ll use stories from my book to illustrate how struggles with money can become guidelines to greater balance and healing, and how to our money archetype can actually help us manifest abundance.

Full Moon Drumming Circle: Drumming for Love, Light, & Well-Being         Saturday, May 25      6:30-8 pm    $12        at New Renaissance Bookshop

Drumming clears, shifts, and releases stored energy in our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual bodies. We’ll drum for our personal healing, then, we’ll act as conduits for planetary healing. Bring drums, rattles and/or other musical tools. A few instruments will be available. Call New Renaissance at 503-224-4929 to register for this circle.     **Copies of my new book will be available to purchase.**

Dark Moon Drumming Circle

Sun. June 2     6 pm     Suggested donation  $5 

Drumming clears, shifts, and releases stored energy in our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual bodies. We’ll drum for our personal healing, then, we’ll act as conduits for planetary healing. Bring drums, rattles and/or other musical tools. A few instruments will be available if you don’t have one. Email me at gmnite@yahoo.com for directions.

So You Have a Book You Want to Self-Publish: Let me show you how!

July 21  1:30-4 pm  $32    in Tigard

Do you have a book you want to self-publish and don’t know how to do it? Even if you do you’ll learn something new! We will talk about some of the best options to self-publish and go through some of the points you need to know as you make your decision. I have just gone through the process and it is CLEAR in my mind and I’d love to share what I’ve learned with you. Self-publishing is much easier and less expensive than I had ever imagined. Email me at gmnite@yahoo.com for directions.

Taurus Eclipse Newsletter

 

“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

        We are smack in the middle of 2013’s spring eclipse season. Thursday is a New Moon/Solar Eclipse, which means the sun and moon are in the same signs: Taurus. And that means a bit of a slow down from the frantic pace of Aries and Scorpio Moons (the last New Moon and the 4/25 Lunar Eclipse).     So more about the eclipses. They come in 19 year cycles. As I write this I’m thinking back to 1994 to see what was going on in my life back then. I had just begun my job at New Renaissance Bookshop. My issues back then were pretty much what they are now: resources, energy, time, money. But now I feel on the verge of changing that. In the introduction of my book Money Stories I say it’s not a how-to-book, and it’s not, but since publishing it my whole energy around these areas has changed. Some of the change is due to the process of publishing but at least half is due to the major shake-up aspects that we are and have been experiencing: Uranus square Pluto, Neptune conjuncting Chiron, the three Eclipses, Saturn opposing into these eclipses. These are causing me and us to look at life in new ways.

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.

     My book has been eye opening for me. When I got the first copy I couldn’t believe it was done. I even felt mixed up and almost depressed for a minute or two: it seemed anticlimactic. But then came feelings of pride and joy and a sense of accomplishment. Last month I predicted that the eclipses connecting with Saturn could bring “either a struggle or a manifesting of money, and the struggle could bring the seeds to manifesting.” It feels like the struggle (the time and energy it took to finish my book) is in fact bringing the seeds to manifest better money karma.

     What have these aspects brought up for you? What are you ready to release as this cycle ends and the new one begins? If you need help figuring that out please email me and we can look at your astrology. But no matter what, I hope you will join me with the intention of opening our lives up to possibilities.

Several other things: Last month I said my book would soon be available as an ebook on Kindle, and now it is, check it out (Amazon). And I’d be very grateful if you would write a review for my book on either the Amazon or Powell’s website.
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