What’s Keeping You Down?

A lot is written at this time of the year reminding you to be grateful for what you have and thanking God or your Creator for your blessings. Yes, it is good and important to be grateful and set aside one day per year to express that gratefulness but what about the rest of the year? Most people miss the vast difference between being grateful and living a life in gratitude.

The definition of grateful is having or showing the desire or reason to thank somebody for something. For example, at Thanksgiving families express gratefulness for the past year and look forward to the year ahead. The definition of gratitude is a feeling within of being thankful, appreciating and acknowledging all there is in your life and in your surroundings no matter how poor or opulent.

When you feel like you are settling for second best or always pursuing “stuff” you are experiencing a non-gratitude attitude which can result in a feeling of overwhelm, unhappiness and great discouragement – or all three. The chains of “always wanting more,” “self-doubt” and “second guessing oneself” are paralyzing. A gratitude attitude breaks those chains, frees and empowers you.

Identify Toxic Thinking

A Feng Shui lifestyle is more than just the location of your home or office and the placement of your belongings. A Feng Shui lifestyle also includes balance in your thinking, emotional well-being and a gratitude attitude. Out of this balance emerges the future you wish to create.

If you are constantly wanting and seduced by unending materialism, too much television, the mystique of endless hours on social media, food cravings and eating, the latest electronic gadgets or non-stop sports, there is little or no room for a peace-filled non-wanting balanced life that comes from a gratitude attitude.

Tear Down the Walls of Seduction

Where do the walls of seduction lie in your life? What areas seduce you into thinking “if you only had more,” “if they only treated me better,” “if my family was in contact more,” if only my home was bigger or in a better neighborhood,” “if only I could lose weight” or “if only I had more money”? This type of negative thinking creates blockages in your life and prevents you from finding joy, being at peace within, and living happily in the moment.

Key areas of seduction that cause such blockages include:

• Home – too small, wrong neighborhood, outdated decor
• Personal appearance and image – too heavy, too thin, not tan enough, not enough clothes
• Family and children – never call, take advantage of, unequal relationships
• Hobbies – too few, too many, too time-consuming
• Money – too little, poor investments
• Career – too few promotions, too little prestige, too demanding, not challenging enough
• Friends – too few, too many, unequal relationships
• Social media and technology – always in contact but never connected

Isn’t it time for you to tear down the seduction walls that chain you down and prevent you from having a gratitude-filled joyful life?

Unchain Your Future

Create a new thought loop. The easiest way to unchain your future and experience a lifestyle filled with gratitude, joy, freedom and to create a better tomorrow is to stop limiting yourself to your internal negative thinking. Get rid of that constant negative loop that says “I can’t,” “nothing goes my way,” “it’s someone else’s fault,” “I don’t know if I made the right decision,” or “what if tomorrow is worse?”

Replace those negative thoughts with gratitude thinking such as “I will take responsibility for the way I feel, the choices I make, the job that I have, my relationships and my time; and am grateful for what I have.” You can also use the first few lines of the Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr.

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

Choose to awaken each day with a grateful heart. A gratitude attitude permeates the heart and soul and is a way of life. Use your senses to find gratitude in every waking millisecond.

• see beauty and abundance in your surroundings and within
• hear the joy of birds in the country, a dog in your yard or bustling city sounds
• taste the food on your table, a snowflake falling or the salt spray of the ocean
• smell the fragrance of a newborn, fresh laundry, newly blossomed flowers or baked goods
• feel joy where ever it appears, a birthday cake, leftover meatloaf, the hug of a friend whether virtual or in person

A life lived in gratitude is empowering and will shout joyfully in appreciation for all that is good in the world which makes room for all the blessings yet to come.

Learn Tarot Online, International Tarot Association, ITA-Tarot.com, AstroLuckIndia.com School, Online Tarot Courses, Tarot Basic Course, Tarot Advanced Course, Tarot Professional Course, Tarot Reversals Course, Tarot Spells Course, Tarot And Your Dreams Course, Past Life & Karmic Tarot Course, Tarot And Numerology Course, Tarot And Astrology Course, Tarot And Your Psychic Powers Course, Online Tarot Certification, Tarot Website Seals, Tarot Certification Board Of America, American Tarot Association, Tarot Organization, Tarot Certification

Visit Us At: www.astroluckindia.com! - Astrology Consultancy, Numerology, Tarot, Vastu, Feng Shui, Horoscope, Puja For Love And Relationships, Pooja For Wealth, Pooja For Stop Delays In Marriage, Pooja For Getting Success In Business

Reviving the Magical Question: What's Your Sign

Human beings give undo importance to the the question: What do you do? Americans, especially, seem fixated on the question. As a Cancer-ruled nation (the zodiac sign, not the disease), how we make money, consume and survive fascinates everyone. Nothing wrong with fascination, except for how mechanical the question eventually becomes.

The inquisitiveness with 'what you do?' is amplified in a bustling gathering like a party, where there might be lots of unfamiliar folks milling about the watering hole. The animal in us wants to feel secure, so an answer to the vocation question telegraphs relief, helps us orient and relax. "I'm a clerk. Oh, and you're a nurse. Cool." Our cards are on the table. As if our job comprises the entirety of what we're about as a person. In the early 70s, counterculture party peeps, still high on the dawning Aquarian Age, devised a much more interesting question: "What sign are you?" I miss that question, and I'm all for restoring the quirkiness of that social strategy.

I attended a party last night where the notion of small talk wasn't appealing -- I mean, if I'd a choice between banal dialogue and watching The Real Househusbands of Hoboken, I'd probably have stayed home and downloaded the torrent. What can I say? I've a Moon in Scorpio with Pluto on the ascendant, sometimes my intensity and aversion to the low-grade shrill of chitchat gets the best of me. During a party I can usually toggle over to Venus and let her Gemini-informed esprit take over, but last night Pluto's Darkman archetype set the conversational tone. Too, a couple of gin and tonics had lubricated things up enough that I became daring and announced to everyone I met, right out of the gate, that I was an astrologer. Usually I don't.

Revealing that I'm an astrologer violates each factor of my grandmother's firmest axiom: "With strangers it's best not to discuss sex, religion or politics." I'm sure a lot of you grew up with a similar rule.

There's a mysterious, occult association with astrology which mirrors, in some ways, the powerful buzz of sexuality. Too, there's a New Age assumption about stargazers. It's similar to announcing to someone that I'm, say, a Presbyterian, or (worse) that I collect quartz crystals and Enya CDs. And then finally, a political moment is evoked too, because immediately the person I am talking to must analyze the situation and take a quick vote on how she is going to react and spend the next five or ten minutes. Similar to when someone tells you she's a Born Again Christian -- you figure if you stay put past that disclosure you're doomed. Some people don't 'believe' in astrology' and find the subject doltish. But, to be honest, they're the exception.

Here's the thing -- the big thing -- for people and the subject of astrology: Astrology and astrologers evoke the primordial image of the Oracle. Astrologers are connected, through lineage, to an eons-old experience that touches the heart and soul of each of us. That's what archetypes are: Universal experiences that form the bedrock of our psyche, our human being-ness. You have a mother. I have a mother. We both partake of the Mother imago. You wonder about existence, how your life is situated and where it is heading. I wonder about my life in the same way. That wonder, that curiosity about one's essence and the future, can easily conjure the archetype of the Seer or Oracle. So imagine you're at a gathering, eating shrimp cocktail and suddenly an oracle is standing next to you, holding a gin and tonic. It can liven things up.

Even the staunchest rationalist is impacted by the Oracle aura and will usually override their skepticism with a suspended, self-negotiated curiosity. I had a Taurus once challenge me by doing the hackneyed "OK, what sign am I?" schtick. Because Taureans are the only people left on the planet still doing this at parties, I naturally guessed correctly. He acted as though he didn't register my answer and immediately pointed to two women that were standing beside us. "What's their sign?" he asked. Both ladies were stylishly dressed and made a striking sort of 'bookends' impression on me. "They're both Libras," I replied. And they were. (I'd even amazed myself at that point).

Then the Taurus was all dogged, focused attention, ready for some earnest astro-dialogue. Experience has taught me that Taurus folks generally have a very childlike desire to believe in the irrational, and this usually shows up as a fascination with ghosts, Ouija boards and similar spook show stuff. It's the oddest thing. But it's very Taurus. It's the closest they'll let themselves come to the oracular. And so what? It's a start.

Of course the water signs -- Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces -- jump right into the pool with me -- they seem relieved to have someone they can talk to about their relationship to relationships. And because they have spent most of their lives trying to figure other people out, the typology of astrology appeals to them. The water signs are most aligned with the mystical impulse as well. Their imagination is keenly developed, they leap easily into the concept heaven and earth are connected. They like the romance, the poetry of that notion.

Fire signs appreciate the romance of astrology too. But not from the relational angle. They're interested in astrology because it imparts insights and revelations about their favorite subject: Themselves. Aries, Leo and Sagittarius already view life through a mythic lens. They are interested in forward motion and what can be conquered in their quest to evolve and create. It's no coincidence that the solar system's most dynamic celestial bodies 'rule' the fire signs. Jupiter (the largest planet governs Sagittarius), Mars (the most energized, rules Aries) and the Sun, an actual star governs Leo. All of that is just fine with fire. Of course they'd be associated with the big players -- they're fire signs MOFO!

Earth signs find this sort of talk frustrating -- what does it have to do with the nuts and bolts of living? As I noted about the Taurus peeps, Virgo and Capricorn have an innate skepticism in place. This has to do with control. As in not losing it. Astrology translates as a force that is beyond one's ability to guide or diddle -- a maddening predicament for the earth folk. Though Virgos, because they like categorizing things and people, will take to astrology as a way to file something/someone away in that giant library within their head.

Gemini, Libra and Aquarius act like they're interested, but secretly talk to other people about you as though you're a homeless person who managed to crash the party. Their rationale nature can get the best of them. If they do engage me on the topic of astrology they will often argue or challenge me because, well, that's just how air signs do things. They figure out where they stand on issues by first opposing them and then weighing what they observe through the oppostion and then they decide (MAYBE) how they really feel -- maybe. But oddly enough when an air sign 'converts' their interest in the subject becomes unquenchable. They become excellent astrologers; their objectivity allows them to bring the astrological concepts to life, communicating with clear language and a balanced perspective.

Oracles, the great and minor ones, through the story of time, are always connected with the mythological. The same as astrology and its hidden origins. A horoscope, as astrologer Wendy Ashley notes, is the "map of a myth," and the astrologer's job is to uncover which myth is most fitting their client's chart. "The word 'myth' is related to the word 'mouth' and mirrors myth as a 'story.'"

It's been said that God created humankind because She enjoys stories. I'd agree. The author Robert McKee responds when he says: "Stories are equipment for living." And then I'd add that God created the art of astrology for men and women to make sense of their world, inner and outer, by studying the syntax of the universe -- God's grandest story yet.

I always think of the 'O' in the word "oracle" as an open mouth. In the beginning was the word. The word being that oracular link between heaven and earth.

"What do you do for a living?" This question might be better put as: "Where are you going?" And fair enough. We're all doing our best to manage the mystery of existence down here. And if heaven can help a little bit, inform my conversation with a bit of oracular stardust, well, I can't imagine having a better job for myself.

Visit Us At: www.astroluckindia.com

Free Daily Horoscope	Free Match Making	Free Sexual Compatibility
Free Tarot Relationship Reading	Ask A Burning Question Tarot	Free Numerology Report
Free Tarot Career Reading	Tarot Email Reports	Horoscope Reports
Puja And Homams	Instant Answer Tarot Reading	Yagya For Wealth
Remedies For Getting Success In Business	Puja For Love And Relationships	Black Magic Puja