Meanwhile just completed another great adventure, the Margaret River retreat for artists, and I must say I surprise myself in regards to creativity and artwork. I always known I am a creative soul, but when we have professional artists liking my artwork, that is a surprise. It's unusual for a Virgo to be an artist, we are analytical creatures and perfectionists, while being an artist is more intuitive. Must be that Pisces Ascendant in my natal chart.
Like most things in my life, the Margaret River trip came about quickly..... there's a bit of a story to this.....
I have been attending at least three different sessions of ecstatic dancing, three different groups facilitating ecstatic dancing. Each group is different, and each dance session is different. One of them is Dance Mandala, nestled up in the hills and is the smallest group therefore the most intimate. And I am the only guy at that group, usually up to five other ladies. There are plenty of guys at the other two groups. I must say I don't mind being the only guy at Dance Mandala, the ladies are absolute goddesses.
Juditka is the facilitator at Dance Mandala, and for some reason she likes me, and so we became really good friends. Just friendship, no romance, she already has a partner, he just never comes along to the dance. So no thought of romance, I am through with all of that shit, but Juditka and I are certainly very good friends. And it happens that Juditka lives not far from me, in Morley, so we now go together to the dance session up in the hills at Kalamunda. Me the fiercely independent Virgo who likes to be independent and make my own way to places and not depend on anyone, but am quite happy to meet Juditka at her place, and I go with her in her car to the dance.
Then she invited me to the Margaret River retreat for creative souls, so I accepted her invite, and so just came back from the 4-day retreat. Again Juditka and I drove down together on the road trip to Margaret River, this time I did the driving and it was in my car. During the road trip Juditka shared some amazing stories of her experiences which is even more weird than mine and that is saying something!!!! She is also from the Pleiades. I guess that is why we became such good friends. And it turned out I was the only guy at the retreat, with 8 females.... so I say, the 8 goddesses and me.
On the first day of the retreat we went walking through the karri forests with an artist who create artworks just from the natural materials of the landscape, such as leaves, branches, rocks, or whatever else nature provides. She is quite famous for it in the region and have created such natural artforms around Australia. So as part of our walk, we were given the task of creating our own artforms using whatever materials we can find. This was quite scary for me, being a Virgo who is perfectionist, I at first wasn't sure what to do...... but I figured, well lets just dig around and see what I come up with...... and it eventually came up with this.......
Me being a Virgo, very self critical, I didn't think much of my own creation above and thought everyone's else were better. But I was shocked, everyone else including the artist were very impressed and even took photos of it. There is a simple message in this artwork, that is, we are all one and we came from the one source even though there are different colors.
At the retreat we did various activities, and various drama items which kinda reminded me back in my childhood when I attended drama school for a while. We also went on two other walks.
And then a painting session where again I surprised myself with more glowing reviews of my artwork....... these are some of my works below.....
This was a most memorable retreat in more ways than one, and it has inspired my creative soul, following in the footsteps of my wife who herself was an artist. I guess it is true, that I am a creative soul. There at the place where we stayed, there were inspirational sayings on the walls all around. And at the end of the retreat we were invited to take the saying that most inspires us, so I took this one below being very appropriate for a Virgo !!!!!!
Now with just a week to go...... tying up loose ends and getting ready for my trip to America......
Oh yes another fairly good week in the football tipping, scoring 5 and 6 in my competitions, still up there near the top..... 8th spot in the office competition. My rule of never picking the Maggies is serving me well, I never pick them cos the Maggies winning is like rain in Perth, it never happens!!!!!
Last but not least I was at the Cardiologist yesterday, and am a perfect picture of health, he was quite amazed at my progress. My blood pressure, cholesterol, glucose, liver function, etc, are all near perfect. It's as if I never had a heart attack!! I am probably healthier now than I was before the heart attack, and my weight has gone from a high of nearly 90kgs when my wife died, it was down to about 76kgs at the time of the heart attack, and now down to about 65kgs. It's what happens when on a vegetarian diet with walks, bicycle rides and ecstatic dancing.
Now the count down before I fly out from this isolated little city..........
Blessed Be !!!!!!
Bush walking with the goddesses.........
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