Month: April 2023

Today’s rare astrological influence includes our second new moon in Aries together with the hybrid solar eclipse. This is likely to effect the next six months until the next eclipse pattern occurs. Setting intentions towards actively creating one’s future is advised.

Vision boards, brainstorming, and initiating changes are supported by this energy. Communication, travel, and electronics are likely already beginning to feel the effect of mercury about to go retrograde tomorrow. Time to walk one’s talk, slowly and thoughtfully in the direction of the future.

Where would you like to be in the next six months? What small steps can you take in that direction today? Ki to Happiness walks peacefully from this Heaven all the way towards that Heaven.

My tumultuous and delayed flight concluded with an easy pick up from my dear friend on the curb at the airport. She dropped me off in the windy afternoon at our live work space in the Vista building. Tulips I planted last September waved at me from our deck as I entered.

Bob and the cats greeted me sweetly. Homecoming, unpacking, and settling in, proceeded quietly as Chris taught my class. My nook called me to recline with my book before I closed my eyes.

What helps you when you face travel delays? What greets you when the trip is done? Ki to Happiness accepts what she cannot change and is grateful for the wisdom to recognize limitations for what they are.

As I return home to Seattle, I leave behind my home in the Midwest. My chanting practices kicked in the moment my feet hit the floor. Pulling the car out at 4;30, I drove myself in my rental car as I start my breath practices.

I sang my prayers as I walked in to the airport to return the rental. I stood on one leg as I checked in. My miracle breath practice saw me through the long security wait.

How do you handle travel stress? Can you be at home while you travel? Ki to Happiness is at home in her practices.

As I prepare to return home after this memorial trip to celebrate my dad’s life, mercury shifts toward retrograde. I’m glad to return before the 21st when that phenomenon may interfere with smooth travel. Its influence of review, revision, redo, all starts to feel perfectly timed with my plans.

While traveling, needs arose for miraculous healing for me, mom, and our relations. Some of these miracles have occurred before. Witnessing them again, brings me to a new awareness of miracles also having a possible retrograde phase.

What miracles have you experienced? Do you need any of them to occur again? Ki to Happiness welcomes miraculous healing repeatedly on all levels.

As we gathered to celebrate my dad’s life, a major storm swept into the area like a beast. Gale force winds knocked a limb down into a powerline, which hit the dry grass and started a fire at my best friend from junior high school’s property. She reached out to say they had no power or water, and were sweaty and muddy from cleaning their pond when the calamity struck.

She and her sweet husband took bird baths with bottled water, and were the first to arrive at our party. After a fine feast, and a couple of meaningful toasts, they learned their power returned. As we exited, they shared their health report, including that the six kinds of cancer they have been facing, are all in remission, no doubt having something to do with their persistent tenacity.

How persistent are you? Can you detach from calamity? Ki to Happiness appreciates tenacity.

Today, we gather together to celebrate my dad’s life. This spontaneous party will take place at his favorite Mexican Restaurant and falls on tax day which he is finally free from. Old friends will join family and raise a toast in his honor.

We couldn’t plan this in advance, as we have been attending to mom‘s process and adapting to her needs. She is ready to wear the sombrero and be surrounded by support and love. I’ll wear his watch and one of his 6 ascots, accessorizing my black dress with his finery.

How would you like your life celebrated? Can you let your will be known? Ki to Happiness aligns her will with Divine Will in celebrating life daily.

During this trip of memorializing my dad, I’ve seen a few of his surviving old friends. We shared memories and stories as we caught up on the years that have passed. Soft wet eyes and deeply held hugs continue our bonds.

Reconnecting required reaching in to the soul beyond the grey hair, wrinkles and debilitation. There, in the soul, no time has passed. Evolution has softened the hard edges and broadened the capacity for love as forgiveness has replaced any grievances.

What grievances are you ready to have replaced by forgiveness? Are you willing to reach in to the soul in order to reconnect there? Ki to Happiness reconnects from soul to soul.

After our joyous family outing yesterday, we heard about a friend’s bad news. The disease process that had been in remission has returned with a vengeance. Likely, there’s not much time left for her.

In yoga practice, we learned to transfer our identity from our body and mind to our spirit and soul. The contents of our consciousness as we transition contributes to what becomes of our energy. Physicists concur that energy continues, having never been born it also never dies.

Can you practice identifying with your spirit and soul? What would you like to see your energy become? Ki to Happiness identifies with peace and sees energy becoming free from fear, pain and suffering.

Since my dad‘s death, my mom has cleared out much of his personal effects. Clothing, toiletries, medication and old files she’s sorted, donated, recycled or pitched. In doing so, she found letters he never sent.

Without disclosing their private contents, I share with you the awareness that whatever any of us leaves behind may be discovered by someone else. Whether intentional or not, we are still learning about his opinions and attitudes. This deepens our relationship with him through what has been revealed.

What letters would you like to write and not send? If discovered, what effect would they have? Ki to Happiness encourages writing letters that may reveal our truths even if we choose not to send them.

One of the few items I have inherited from my dad is his watch. It’s on my left wrist now. It’s an old analog that lights up.

It also feels like he’s watching us. I feel him in the little bird that comes to our window by the table as we eat. I sense he’s ok and happy we are here with Mom.

Can you feel the presence of those who have gone before? Do you have objects that once belonged to your loved ones? Ki to Happiness feels dad is watching, wearing his watch like a charm of connection.