Sass and Soul Resources for the Spirit

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Sass and Soul is a Spiritual Resource for Inspiration and Transformation.

During the last 20 years I have studied the global religions on a search for meaning and Truth.

My own life experiences as a Wholistic Life Coach and mentor for individuals and small businesses has led me to develop a resource for information on Manifestation and Transformation.

I found that the most perplexing question for people is What did I come here to do?

My friends, clients, associates on this glorious path were commonly linked to a perception of Universal love and peace. So…

How do we get there?

How do we use our own passions and talents to achieve this?

How do we manifest inner abundance and maintain that?

How do we work with Love to achieve and BE the change?

On these pages are resources, ideas and contacts for beautiful enlightened and courageous seekers who shine their light by simply being themselves. 

Join us, inspire us!

Love and Much Happiness.

Astrology of the Soul Course

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This  Course teaches you to access your Birth Chart, unique to you, and in 3 weeks you will be reading it on a basic level.

The classes run for 6 weeks and fill rapidly, first in best dressed!

I facilitate the Course on a Spiritual and Personal Development level.

We cover your Life Purpose and how to communicate, love, achieve success and evolve in our own individual way.

Astrology provides outstanding insights into the individual psyche. After teaching for 15 years I have developed a way to fastrack this personal development through knowing yourself. This is the starting point to any Spiritual and Personal transformation.

Classes are limited to 10 people. Your Birth Chart is supplied  for free. You have copious notes, access to my extensive library and knowledge and the unique gift of sharing with 9 other extraordinary classmates. It is fun, emotional and totally exciting! Expect an intellectual and personal challenge and “aha” moments.

Each week we have 2 hour blast of WOW! Join us soon.

Contact Karen@businessbutterfly.com.au I offer individual Chart Readings, Vibrational Healing and Clairvoyant/Medical Intuitive Readings.

Please note, October Course is full. You are welcome to place your name for further scheduled Courses.

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Into The Wild

Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding, rendered speechless by emotion!

Boris Pasternak, Dr. Zhivago
Russian novelist, poet, & translator (1890 – 1960)

I purchased the movie Into The Wild, this week.  I loved its message which was for me, personal and so sad. I wonder  how many times we  reject what we want the most because we don’t know to retrieve it.

One of my favorite scenes is when Alexander Supertramp, Christopher McCandless ( played by Emile Hirsch), writes the quote from Boris Pasternak’s Dr Zhivago. He writes Happiness only real when shared. When he dies there is such a glorious light but such a profound grief for the reunion of love that never came. His sister and parents never reunited to share their pain and repair their relationships.

All the messages in the film held the thread, for me, of lack of connection.  The main character rejects the world, and loses his connection with it. He trades people for animals, nature and plants. These things are part of our beautiful world but love is the sustenance for our wellbeing. The things he related to the most, as a trade-off, proved to be the direct cause of his death.

In finding himself he realised, in that full circle,  he was looking for his family. Love is confusing because the greatest source of our pain can be directly connected to someone we desperately love. In knowing this we run and choose the mediocre or total disconnection. We avoid the pain and the connection.

Chris had the novel, Dr Zhivago with him when he died.  Boris Pasternak , the author,  won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958, and he had Hamlet recited at his funeral. The political culture condemned his translations of Shakespeare for Russia. Dr Yuri Zhivago in the novel loved his Lara but could not have her and spent his lifetime objecting to the social constructs that eventually destroyed him.  Ironically all share, through a perception of being wronged, a great void of loss of love and misunderstanding.

An except from the book describes Dr Yuri Zhivago:

Zhivago resented talk of lofty ideals when it was uttered by shallow-minded people living empty lives. At the same time, he saw beauty in everything. He saw it in death and disease, in nature, and in people’s battered desire for creativity and order.

The painful thread of connection with these three people is relevant to me. To accept and give love, we must communicate it and find the courage to release  fear, without expectation of outcome. So often we hold onto a grudge and seek those who want to only praise us and see our positives. If words of criticism are from those who love us, we must stop and listen because they love us enough to tell us how to be our best. Most importantly, they will remain with us while we make the changes,  walking at our pace, alongside.

In the end we only have each other.  Love makes sense of life.

Me

Where do I begin?

Dr Zhivago: I think we may go mad if we think about all that.

Lara: I shall always think about it…

Dr Zhivago:  Happiness is only real when shared.

“Even more than what they had in common, they were united by what separated them from the rest of the world. They were both repelled by what was tragically typical of the modern man, his shrill textbook admirations, his forced enthusiam, and the deadly stillness coldly preached and practiced by the countless workers in the field of art and science in order that the genius must remain extremely rare.

They loved each other greatly. Most people experience love, without noticing there is anything remarkable about it.

To them- and this made them unusual- the moments when passion visited their doomed human existence like a breath of timelessnesses were moments of revelation, of ever greater understanding of life and of themselves.”

An exerpt from Dr Zhivago,  Boris Pasternak 1957

Warrior of Light

Warrior of the Light
“A warrior of the light does not spend his days trying to play the role that others have chosen for him. A warrior of the light does not waste his time listening to provocations; he has a destiny to fulfil. A warrior of the light knows his own faults, but he also knows his own qualities. A warrior of the light always does his best and expects the best of others. A warrior knows that the farthest-flung star in the Universe reveals itself in the things around him.

It is even more difficult to define a path for yourself. The person who doesn’t make a choice dies in the eyes of the Lord, even though he continues to breath and to walk about the streets. For a man has to choose therein lies his strenght in the power of his decisions.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.”
Paulo Coelho

The Tourist

“I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.” Anais Nin

I like this quote so much. I am a visual person and learn this way. I scan everything and have poor eyesight so I probably squint a bit! People and places fascinate me. Anything new and anything old.  I like the quote because I think it means you make love to whatever is your passion, you love it. It makes your heart sing.

Some things make my heart skip: chocolate biscuits, a good coffee with piled whipped cream, a baby, old people holding hands, beautiful fabric, artwork that has a story immediately, precious books, cards from old friends, favorite scarves, stockings that are sheer as, beautiful lingerie, my cat, my children, joy for others as they get simple pleasure from their work or passion, flowers especially roses, silver birches, those plants that look like lambs ears that you have to stroke, open fires, the beach on a windy cold day all rugged up, holding hands, cuddles, quiet days at home with the blinds drawn and the fire on, music that I love, architecture that is solid and inspiring, soup, fresh cake just baked from scratch, hot showers and long languid baths, my dressing gown, football, butterflies and dragonflies, chess (I am the Queen), laughing, antiques especially fine wood, other peoples stories of how they met, stationery, pens, and the list goes on a little bit. But not much. I am just thinking how simple or even free these things are…

I am lucky, so lucky.

Are your Stars out?

“The ultimate question is not ‘Were you successful or weren’t you successful?’ … The real question at the end of your days when you’re judged.., ‘Were all your stars out? … Did you live up to your potential?” J.D.Salinger

Today was a day where I had my stars out. I went to a place that I remembered and acted upon,  in every important emotional way. It attracts  painful  circumstances and people to transmute it. It was my subconscious, my ancestral encoding and it was past lives.

I have no judgement about the process because I was taken through a transpersonal journey in the hands of an experienced professional with many gifts. The feeling I have is of profound gratitude. She guided me back to me through a dross that is universal in theme but particular to me in her presence. I was, am willing to undertake every personal journey of consciousness to continue on the best way I can.  The breakthrough moments were profound and permanent. Every experience and person and the pain and blame was my own. That is where we all become confused. We think someone is to blame. The child within operates on lines of blame and excuses.  The parent within explains and tries to fix it, blaming themselves.   The functional self lives with an integration of the masculine/feminine that is within. It does not blame but finds  solutions. It is all compassionate and unconditional.

I received an understanding of such magnitude that it was an excruciating release. The nervous system expelled, the subconscious revealed and the higher-self, soul, whatever you want to call it, ran the show. The driver in our machine operates on the subconscious and the wounds carried over from group consciousness, past lives and ancestral “stories”‘ are carried to be transmuted through crises and pain. Universally, we experience rejection/guilt, abandonment.

There are moments in life which make you feel more alive. They are simply magical. They have no concrete form but they are synchronistic, serendipitous validations that a higher order is in place. It must be, as Salinger stated, when you put your stars out.  On the way to the session I yelled out “What the F…!” as someone cut in front of me. The number plate on his car was WTF !  I generally ask for signs when I know something important is coming up. My sign is typically a feather.

I asked for the sign as I stepped from the car and walked across to the therapists office.  I knew I had given who ever gives me my feathers no time to deliver that outcome. I ran over the road and stepped onto her doormat and there was the most perfect black and white feather; just lying there.  I picked it up and anticipated an extraordinary last session.

I needed the humility of saying , I am imperfect in so many ways. Help me know why, and more than that I want to get down to that dirty, dark stuff in the most difficult way, if that is needed.

I do not make judgements on past lives.  I am open to that idea but do not seek reasons for them to have existed.  Today I lived, breathed and transmuted my three stories of inexplicable grief,  guilt and non deserving.  The experience was part of a greater three hour journey to the unconscious, where I exist perfectly, and I found out why I attract circumstances and people to me. It resonated as utter truth.

Just as the stars can best be seen in the dark, I worked the dark to get my stars out.  Whoa, what a ride!

I came away with a greater compassion for those who I perceived have wronged me but a greater compassion for myself to realise my loops and patterns were mine to break, mine alone.  I rewrite my own story “workin’  the dark”  to get my stars out.

And, as Meryl Streeps character in The Devil Wears Prada says:  That is all.

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The Whale

The Female Whale

A female humpback whale had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a line tugging in her mouth.

A fisherman spotted her just east of the Faralon Islands (outside the Golden Gate ) and radioed for help. Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so bad off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her — a very dangerous proposition. One slap of the tail could kill a rescuer.

They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her. When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles. She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, nudged them, and pushed gently, thanking them. Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives.

The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth says her eye was following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.

May you, and all those you love, be so fortunate…

To be surrounded by people who will help you get untangled from the things that are binding you.

And, may you always know the joy of giving and receiving gratitude.

I pass this on to you, my friend, in the same spirit.  Hugs.

Life is short … forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably… and never regret anything that made you smile

P.S.   This is a true story sent by a friend.

The Call

The Call

I have heard it all my life,
A voice calling a name I recognized as my own.

Sometimes it comes as a soft-bellied whisper.
Sometimes it holds an edge of urgency.

But always it says: Wake up my love. You are walking asleep.
There’s no safety in that!

Remember what you are and let this knowing
take you home to the Beloved with every breath.

Hold tenderly who you are and let a deeper knowing
colour the shape of your humanness.

There is no where to go. What you are looking for is right here.
Open the fist clenched in wanting and see what you already hold in your hand.

There is no waiting for something to happen,
no point in the future to get to.
All you have ever longed for is here in this moment, right now.

You are wearing yourself out with all this searching.
Come home and rest.

How much longer can you live like this?
Your hungry spirit is gaunt, your heart stumbles. All this trying.
Give it up!

Let yourself be one of the God-mad,
faithful only to the Beauty you are.

Let the Lover pull you to your feet and hold you close,
dancing even when fear urges you to sit this one out.

Remember- there is one word you are here to say with your whole being.
When it finds you, give your life to it. Don’t be tight-lipped and stingy.

Spend yourself completely on the saying.
Be one word in this great love poem we are writing together.

© Oriah Mountain Dreamer, from the book The Call, Harper Collins, 2003

The Actor as a Metaphor

The American actor James Cagney was once asked by a novice actor for advice. Mr. Cagney put all his acting chops and wisdom into his response, “You walk in the room, plant your feet, look me in the eye, and tell the truth.”

It is like life, we assume a role, interpret it and go on stage to perform. It takes wisdom to know if the role is yours or for someone else.  If it’s not yours, best to pull out before the audition. There will be those who walk out and those who will stay to the end. There are those who forget who they are are and fluff their lines and leave a trail of chaos for others to manoeuvre. Their timing is wrong, they do not see the light and stand in the shadows and bump into the set.

We are all guilty of, at some time, of leaving before the end and staying too long after our roles have ended. We act without thought of the impact on others and we leave the light and become shadows of the set.

Like life, when we act badly, our audience, or those with whom we share our lives do not applaud. The ego convinces us to return to the stage for one more role, one more accolade that never comes.  Bad actors are the ones who seem to be saying “look at me”, I am not here for you, but here for the applause you will give me.  If you cannot see that I am good then I will find someone who will.

As the leading man, or woman,  we stand with our fellow  actors in the light;  use the set to our advantage, follow the script and honor our contract.

Thankyou, Mr Cagney, for reminding us to act, well.

The Ten New Laws of Love

These are the ten new laws of love. I have placed them here for all to read. They are essential tools for re-evaluating current relationships. They are consciousness goals for future relationships. What do you think? The Ten New Laws of Love™

• Chemistry: The First New Law of Love Chemistry is the magic, the special energies that signal partners possess the raw material for success. Chemistry is not optional because it provides the synergy couples need to get through the rapids of relationship — and keep them high on course to their grandest goals
• Priority: The Second New Law of Love Priority is a couple’s commitment to keep the health of their relationship front and central. It asks partners to begin to psychologically “leave the nest” of their first families — and to address any compulsions and addictions, including codependence — in order to be fully available to their second family.
• Emotional Integrity: The Third New Law of Love Emotional Integrity asks partners to create an “emotional safe zone” with each other. They do this by taking responsibility for their feelings — especially by learning the difference between “acting them out” and expressing them healthily. This law also guides partners in identifying and healing blind spots and “buttons” that cause disharmony in all relationships. Deep
• Listening: The Fourth New Law of Love Deep Listening is the greatest act of love — and a skill. It is partners’ ability to hear each other’s words, and the feelings underneath, with compassion and empathy.
• Equality: The Fifth New Law of Love Equality is about fairness and respect. It involves acknowledging power imbalances in the relationship and helps partners see through the tyranny of unnegotiated — and often antiquated — roles, responsibilities and unconscious expectations.
• Peacemaking: The Sixth New Law of Love Peacemaking is a couple’s commitment to maintain their emotional safe zone through the use of anger management and conflict resolution tools and New Couple agreements.
• Self-Love: The Seventh New Law of Love Relationship landmines are precise gauges of pockets of low self-love and unfinished emotional business from childhood. This law teaches partners how to deeply defuse conflict and fall back in love with everyone.
• Mission in Life: The Eighth New Law of Love This law teaches that true love cannot be sustained until both parties are on some level engaged in his or her own true work. Mission in Life is partners’ commitment to the fulfillment of their own and the other’s life purpose. Intimates are either a mission’s most powerful support or its most formidable saboteur.
• Walking: The Ninth New Law of Love Walking involves addressing the primary insecurities that plague all partners, because emotional and financial dependencies can mean slow death — of respect, trust and passion. When intimates are willing and able to leave the relationship if need be, it’s their best insurance that they won’t!
• Transformational Education: The Tenth New Law of Love Transformational Education is the fail-safe mechanism of the Ten New Laws of Love. It represents partners’ commitment to do whatever learning and healing is necessary if they get stuck on any of the first nine laws

Seana McGee http://www.newcouple.com/about/tenlaws.html

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