It Never Rains In Perth......

Referring to an old song.... "it never rains in Southern California".... I often think of Perth, it never rains in Perth either...... except five minutes after I spend half the night watering the garden!!!! Here we're on a roster system for watering our gardens, we are allowed only two days each week to water the garden, and on those two days we can water only either early morning or at night. The two days are determined by house\lot number hence a roster, and for me it is Tuesday and Saturday. So here tonight I was spending half the night watering the garden. The weather forecast did say 30% chance of rain later at night, which usually means it won't rain at all, it is just more like cover their arses in giving the forecast!! So I went ahead spending half the night outside watering the garden, shifting sprinklers, etc assuming as per usual it won't rain. Then I finally finished, and went back inside..... and five minutes later I hear the very rare sound of water droplets on the roof...... RAIN!!!!!! Arrrrgh!!!!! So I wasted half the night!!! But if I didn't water the garden tonight I would have to wait four days before I could water again, we're not allowed by law to water outside our roster. Such is life in this drought stricken city of Perth.........

Anyway my favorite holiday is coming up...... Halloween!!!! I just soooooo LOVE Halloween!!! It's the only holiday that I decorate my house for. I never decorate for Xmas or any other holiday. The other great benefit for Halloween is it doesn't bring bad memories. Halloween was not celebrated in Australia during my childhood, it became popular only in more recent times, so it has no bad memories associated with it. Xmas and the other holidays has bad memories from my childhood but not Halloween. Its just that due to being such a dark soul that I am with paranormal experiences, Halloween just so fascinates me. I do remember as a child I'd read about Halloween in the books I read about America and I would wish that it was celebrated in Australia. I always had been fascinated by the paranormal, hence my interest in Halloween. And nowadays we always have the trick and treaters coming to my door. I place some decorations out the front, and a bowl of candy to hand out to the trick and treaters, the only time we interact with the neighborhood kids! ;)

Halloween is indeed one of the Christianised adaptation of one of the eight Pagan holidays of the year. The Pagan holiday in question is "Samhain" which is celebrated on November 1st in the Northern Hemisphere (in the Southern Hemisphere it is "Beltane"). It is given as the start of winter on the Pagan calendar, and according to legend it is when the veil between the physical world and the spirit world is at its most thin, hence it is the time when we connect with the spirits of our ancestors, relatives who passed away, and other spirits. And so the night prior to Samhain, October 31, is said to be when the spirits from the other sides appears and walks this planet. Not all of those spirits has our best interests at heart, so in ancient times the Pagans would wear masks and disguised themselves so to protect their identities from these spirits. Sometimes these spirits would come knocking on one's doors, so they would have gifts prepared to appease these spirits, and those who didn't have gifts risks being cursed by the spirits - hence the tradition of "trick" or "treat", and people dressing up in masks and costumes.

The Christianised version of Samhain is "All Saints Day". As we all know, Christians seems to have a knack of adapting Pagan holidays for their own holidays hence Christmas (Yule) and Easter (Ostara), etc. Samhain is the day when Pagans make contact with deceased loved ones and ancestors, and so All Saints Day is when Christians (Catholics) makes contacts with the Saints, that is, praying to the Saints. It was alternatively known as "All Hallows Day", and so the night before became "All Hallows Eve" - hence,  "Halloween".

Here in the Southern Hemisphere the correct name of the holiday is Beltane, given as the start of summer. We Pagans in the Southern Hemisphere (such as Australia) keep our holidays at opposite times of the year due to the opposite seasons. While Samhain marks the start of the darkness of winter, Beltane marks the end of the darkness, so our celebrations are different. However it can still be said that the spirits from the other side still does pay us a visit albeit for slightly different reasons ;)

In my instance I see "movements" all the time even with the lights on !!!! ;)

Meanwhile back at work.....

How the govt decides which positions will be made redundant in the Public Sector......

Private Enterprise and the Public Service after govt budget cuts......

All Good Things Comes to an end eventually

And in the case of vacation time, the end comes very quickly!! It seems only yesterday when I began my vacation, and now seemingly in a blink of an eye I am back at work. Back to the daily routines from the moment I wake up until I go to bed again, and the weekend routines which mostly revolves around preparing for the next week of work. So much to do and so little time to do it in.

I am on the physio program for another six weeks, this helps to break up the work routines a bit, being at the sessions on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. I do rather enjoy these sessions, and being able to add to the weights on the machines every few sessions.

Now my current fitness and recovery regime being back to work. On the non-physio days, three days per week, a bicycle ride to work about 12 kms, and back home again after work. Then on the physio days, Tuesday and Thursdays, a bicycle ride to the bus interchange at the railway station, about 6 kms, then take bus the rest of the way to the hospital for the 1-hour physio session, then the return journey by bus, followed by the bicycle ride back home. Then I just drive into work for the afternoon. And during the weekend I usually ride between 50 and 60 kms on the bicycle.

And so that is about it..... nothing much else happening.... just trying to get used to being back at work now.......

Just as I Predicted

Well just as I predicted the Hawks became the 2015 Premiers, and I even predicted close to the winning margin..... I predicted about 50 points, and the actual winning margin was 46 points. Sheeze I wish I was this successful in all of my tipping!! But just remember I did predict that the Magpies would not be in the top 8, and that came true too. So I'm able to get some things right, but just not enough of it to quell the curse of the minor planet Chiron (known as "the wounded healer") in my chart, equated to the curse of Mother's death which happened at the start of Chiron's transit in my Ascendant Sign Pisces, where it was located in my natal chart. That is, prior to Chiron's transit I had won prize money each year in our office tipping comp even reaching equal 1st place in 2009, but since Chiron entered Pisces back in 2011 the year of Mother's death I had never won any prize money and my ranking seemed to be getting worse. So now football is over for another season, we just now have the cricket and the basketball coming up.......

Meanwhile back at the ranch....... my mundane life.......

The holistic GP I saw last week..... well it was most fruitful even if rather cathartic at times. I spent over an hour with her, that is unheard of with anyone else in the medical profession. Seeing any doc, whether it be a conventional GP, hospital worker, or even the Heart Specialist, I'd spend no more than 10 minutes with them, perhaps 15 minutes tops, and the Heart Specialist charged me a fortune for my 15 minutes with him!! I did get half of it back on Medicare but still very expensive. I was charged approx the same amount for my extended time with the holistic GP but it was for four times the length of time, and again being a GP I still got money back on Medicare, about 70% which was very good for Medicare!! Any subsequent visits will be cheaper as I wouldn't be spending so much time with her but probably still longer than with my conventional GP.

One thing this holistic GP did which no one else in the medical profession had ever done was to analyse my diet. I had told almost everyone else I saw in the medical profession about my vegetarian diet and they'd just more or less say..... "uh whatever"..... None ever took the time to find out more about what I eat aside from the standard mantra "eat less fat" and "eat less sugar".... But with this holistic GP, she had me to do a typical week's menu of what I usually eat, then she analyse it, and came to the conclusion that I was not eating enough protein - said to be a common trait with vegetarians. Meat contains most of the proteins of a typical diet, so just cutting out meat usually results in far less proteins. I knew this from before but I thought I had made it up with more spinach and other greens, plus nuts and vegetarian "mince" made from seaweeds!! But no still not enough proteins. This could explain my low energy at times in spite of my fitness regime. Sometimes after a bicycle ride I find myself needing a nap. So anyway she suggested some seeds such as some Quinoa and Choi seeds that can simply be added to most meals, which it turns out is available in the Health Food aisle of the supermarket. This and other minor changes in my dietary regime.

And well the word "holistic" did mean just that..... holistic!! We talked about everything, even spiritual topics, astrology, paganism, even about ETs..... all with a GP!!!! If I talked about half of these topics with a conventional GP I'd be committed to the looney bins!!

But also we talked about my dark past..... the 8 years of Hell..... the abuse.... the failed relationships..... death of Mother and my Wife... family issues..... depression..... suicide attempts...... Again things I'd never talk about with anyone else in the medical profession..... well I should have known, by seeking a holistic GP I would have to be dealing with ALL aspects of my life, including the dark aspects, the Pluto-Chiron config in my natal chart.

Anyway after this visit I ended up with some herbal remedies to compliment my current heart medications and to help with my heart condition. These remedies are available only through the GP and I have a month's supply of them. So I have a month to decide whether to run with this holistic GP which will mean dealing with the dark aspects of my life, or to stick with the conventional medical profession which deals only with the physical aspects which in spite of my heart condition is the most healthy part of me!!!!..... with only a passing mention of any psycho conditions such as depression.

So that was the most significant part of my week...... I continue with my physio session, this was week 5 of the sessions, so have one more week to go before being assessed again..... and my bicycle rides..... and that is about it..... nothing much more happening..... just one more very short week to the end of my vacation!!!

Speaking of vegetarians......

Family issues.... I can relate!!

And relationship issues...... story of my life..... LOL

And my life in summary.......