Life on this planet: Samhain, Heart Specialist and Venus Ritual

This past week has been a momentous week with my visits to the Heart Specialist on Tuesday and Thursday, then last Friday the Venus ritual. This was the start of Samhain, known as the witch's new year, and represents the start of winter. The traditional date of Samhain here in the Southern Hemisphere is May 1, while the exact day or "celestial" Samhain fell on May 5, last Friday when I did the Venus ritual, and represents the exact half-way point between Mabon the Autumn Equinox and Yule the Winter Solstice.

First my card readings......

My cards for this first week of the witch's new year.....

-5 of Wands - Threat - To use reason and emotion to deal with challenging or frightening circumstances rather than resorting to animal instincts. My gifts and tenacity should enable me to overcome any challenges.

-Knights of Swords - Determined - One armed with great intelligence and ability. A clear sense of right and wrong. No appreciation for ambiguity. Unstoppable once decision been made. A staunch ally whom I can always count on.

-3 - Inspiration - A vision or calling, receiving help from the universe to fulfil this calling. Magic and synchronicity abounds. To be open, trusting and receptive to the signs. Trust that the vision or calling will be fulfilled regardless of any current circumstances.

-42 - The Word Wants To Be Written - The drive to be creative. One's childhood and life's circumstances often conspire to stifle one's creativity, being made to conform to society's 3D values. Now is the time to deal with these issues and to allow our creativity to flourish as we fulfil our callings.

Summary - The two Tarot draws almost certainly pertains to this economically horror month of May, having just taking a large hit from the fees of my Heart Specialist appointments, and another major hit coming with my car license falling due. These represents threats to my savings plan for Peru, and my Virgoan determination to overcome these threats. I do have allies in the higher realms.

The first oracle, Inspiration, being drawn just after the completion of my Venus ritual for wish fulfilment, my wishes being related to my calling. Nothing happens just by coincidence. So in spite of the challenges, my calling will be fulfilled. The second oracle builds on the first, another card that often gets drawn. Needing to allow my creativity to flourish regardless of the past or current circumstances.

Next my Pagan card readings which I draw every six weeks on the "sabbats" or Pagan holidays, this one being for Samhain and pertains to the next six weeks until Yule the Winter Solstice.

My Samhain card for the next six weeks to Yule

-1 - The Rider - 9 of Hearts - The card that showed itself a couple of Sabbats ago. Good news coming soon. Excitement. Negativity being shortened in duration. Hopefully this will pertain to my Peru trip as I start seriously making plans and most likely booking my air tickets in these next six weeks. Or that my Venus ritual will bring quick results!!

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Now my very expensive appointments at the Heart Specialist. Last Tuesday, the day after traditional Samhain, I went there for the Stress Test. I caught the train there since it is easier and cheaper to do so, I live just around the corner from the train station, and the Heart Specialist is within walking distance of a train station. So after using my Virgoan skills to work out train schedules and which trains to catch, two in total, I embarked on my expedition to the Heart Specialist. The Stress Test went well. I was hooked up to the heart monitor and other machines, also taking my blood pressure throughout the exercise. Then I was on the tread mill basically walking, and the tread mill sloped upwards to simulate walking up a hill. The pace which started slow was increased every three minutes until either something unusual came up with the heart monitors or I simply got too tired or exhausted to continue. For me it was the latter. Both my heart and blood pressure were well within normal ranges throughout the exercise, it was only my legs that got tired once the pace increased to jogging rate where I was just about to jog. All of my walking paid off here, but well since I never jog or run, well just not used to that. The biggest stress were the fees, even after I gotten half of it back on Medicare, it was still very expensive.

Then I went back to the Heart Specialist on Thursday to learn of my test results. My biggest fear was that I get a "false negative" which would necessitate a further and more expensive test. Apparently there are two types of the Stress Test, one being twice as expensive as the other. I was on the "cheaper" one, "cheap" being VERY much a RELATIVE term, akin to saying a mansion in Dalkieth is cheaper than a mansion in Peppermint Grove.

Well it turned out that my results turned out well and I didn't need such a further test. Indeed all of my numbers, such as from the blood test, were near perfect, especially the cholesterol, not bad going considering that high cholesterol runs in the family, with Mother and my Auntie both dealing with high cholesterol despite their almost fanatically healthy diets and lifestyles. Ironically Mother didn't die from any vascular or heart related causes, it was something entirely different!! Of course I am on cholesterol meds which according to the Heart Specialist am destined to be on these meds for the rest of my time on Planet Earth. The only point of some concern was my blood sugar was a wee bit too high, that be from drinking too much Coke due to being so under stress about things lately such as Mercury's retrograde and the high cost of the Heart Specialist visits!!!! We Virgos are very anxious creatures to begin with, so we are easily stressed, and easily given over to addictions such as Coke. Nevertheless I was still well short of the danger mark for pre-diabetic, my general fitness, weight loss and my regular walking are what saving me from anything worse.

But some good news from the Heart Specialist. I was taken off one of my meds, which happened to be the most expensive of the meds, being at the maximum capped price under the Medicare pharma scheme. So I am now down from four meds to now three. The other three meds are much cheaper, the three of them adding up to near the cost of the other meds. So my meds cost, which was costing me an utter fortune each month, is now cut in half. This will help my cause for my Peru savings plans. However according to the Heart Specialist, the other three meds I will be on for the rest of my days on Planet Earth. One of them is for cholesterol, one for blood pressure, and the other for making my blood thin so it won't clog up around the stents.

Then on Friday the Venus ritual which I wrote about the previous blog. So for an explanation and web link to the actual ritual refer to my previous non-football blog. Here I will just share about what happened during my ritual........

Friday Evening of the ritual.....

Now on this Friday evening I did the ritual, and then as per instructed, while the candle is burning, treat yourself to some luxuries, treats, pamper one's self, etc. For me this means a premium pizza with chocolate lava dessert which I don't usually get. Normally when I get a pizza I just get one of the "value" pizzas with no dessert. So a premium pizza with chocolate dessert is my definition of pampering myself!!

So I went online to order as usual..... alas the shop is CLOSED!!!!! Um.... OK.... I know this is Perth but that struck me as being a little unusual especially being a Friday night!!! Well it was only around 5pm so I thought perhaps it doesn't open until after 6pm or something. Usually on a Friday night I go to church with my cousin then order pizza from that shop after church so by the time I reach the shop on my way home it be ready. So I waited until after 6pm to attempt to order the pizza, and the website said the shop was STILL closed!!!! OK something is wrong here..... especially after I checked the opening hours on the website and according to that the shop should be open by now!!!!!

Well the website suggested an alternative list of pizza shops, so using Google Maps I figured out which one was the nearest. However "nearest" was very much a relative term, for it turned out to be a 15 to 20 minutes drive depending on whether I luck out on Perth's notoriously inefficient traffic lights system where the lights often changes to red just as you reach the intersection - that happens to me more often than probability theory would suggest!!!! The allegedly "closed" shop I usually go to is only 5 minutes away!!!

So now using Google Maps to plot the quickest possible route to this next nearest shop. Being in a part of town I never visited before didn't help matters, and it was dark by now so harder to navigate!!! Once I figured out how to best get there I placed my order. And well despite getting nearly lost due to Perth's sometimes non-existent street signs I managed to get there without much drama. Next thing was to actually find the shop in this very unfamiliar mall complex, it wasn't a big mall but unfamiliar!!! Fortunately pizza shops are usually located on the outside, and so it wasn't long before I actually found it!!!!!

On my way back home with pizza in hand, I went by the "closed" shop and I saw what was going on. It looked like the shop was being renovated!!! Either that or it is being closed down and being replaced by something else. I sure hope not!!! Cos this shop is only five minutes away, and this next nearest shop is 15-20 minutes away!!!!!!

Of course being of Virgoan energies I try to figure out what all this means!! Not sure this is a good thing or not!!!! I do note that I still gotten my pizza goodies as planned, but I had to go a different way into unfamiliar territory in order to get it. This might mean that my wishes won't be fulfilled as I expect them to be fulfilled, but fulfilled in a different way from a different source, indeed an unfamiliar source that is far out of my comfort zone!!!!

Saturday Morning expedition to a river to complete the ritual......

Here at dawn I departed on the 90 minutes road trip armed with the ritual items and my laptop with Google Maps. I first drove towards the spot where I did the ritual previously, however I saw a copper who pulled over a hapless motorist and both happened to be parked right at the entrance to the road to the site. I took that as a sign not to go there this time.

I then proceeded towards the alternative location that looked good from Google Maps. Alas!! I found that both roads to the river were blocked!!! After several attempts to find an alternative route to the river I decided it was time to find a parking spot off the road and bring out my laptop.

So I saw from Google Maps by going further south there is what looked like another road to the river. So when I got there... Alas!!! That road was also blocked!!! Well there was a camp site but you needed to pay and get past the gate to get in. So after another consult with Google Maps I saw that the road I was on eventually came to a T-junction and the road crossing the T goes to the river. One way or the other I am going to get to that river even if it means bush bashing on foot hiking through the bush to get there!!!

Well by the time I gotten to the T-junction at last victory!!! There was a sign at the junction pointing to the RIVER!!!! Yay!!!! So indeed the road does take me to the river, indeed it crosses the river.

The roads were all gravel by the time I reached the T-junction, and almost came to grief a time or two when huge potholes seemed to manifest right in front of me giving me little time to avoid them. I think I was being looked after. When I finally gotten to the river I was so overcome with joy that I somewhat foolishly drove down into the small flood plain area just below the bridge. Well there was a track into there but it was a steep drop from the gravel road, and probably more suited to 4WD or "all terrain" vehicles.

Now finally the ritual. Being so far upstream the river wasn't very wide but still a fair deal of water and fast flowing, just what you want for this ritual. My wand broke during the ritual!! That's the 2nd wand that came to grief!! My energies were so high!! I wasn't doing anything in particular, was just holding the wand in my hand when it suddenly disintegrated, and one of the crystals dropped into the river but I managed to retrieve it.

After casting the bun into the water and doing my Light Language invocations, I felt to wander downstream a little to check on the progress of the item. Alas it was stuck.... again!! This time on a semi-submerged branch that had fallen into the river, and just beyond my reach. So I grabbed a piece of wood and threw it in an attempt to dislodge it but I missed. The 2nd attempt also missed. When I found another piece of wood for the 3rd attempt I noticed the bread seemed to be working itself loose.

It turned out the bread managed to dislodge itself without any help or effort from me, and it was once again well on it's way downstream and into a pool. I was going to follow it some more but this time I felt this won't be necessary, and now it's time to just trust it.... to just trust the bread will go where it should be going.... deep into the woods where magical creatures will do as they will with it......

Now to get myself outta there!!!! And I almost didn't make it as I attempted to drive back up the steep incline. My wheels were spinning and digging up dirt.... and well I did make it out eventually, either had just enough momentum to make it back onto the road, or I was "pushed" out! ;) But I won't be making this near-fatal mistake again, being out in the middle of nowhere with no phone reception and not another human soul in sight!! There is a pull-over area just to the other side of the little bridge, I will be using that next time even if it mean walking a little further!!

Now I did my bit..... now to just move on with my plans and get on with life while I wait for the fulfilment of these three wishes.......

As part of the ritual I placed the piece of paper with three wishes inside the bun with the 5c coin and some honey, then a candle on top. The candle was lit and once the candle burned itself out, the whole bun was then cast into the river. OK I will not reveal my three wishes, that way you can be sure that when the wishes are fulfilled it will be due to the ritual sparking the Goddess and hence the universe into action to fulfil the wishes. But I will say it does NOT include a Collingwood premiership or even Collingwood winning more games - the Goddesses are certainly very good but there are some things which even Goddesses cannot perform!!!!!

So now a more mundane week looms, back to my routines, back to the full week of work, with nothing much else planned. No more news on the ongoing and drawn out process of the bond fiasco. And any plans to get a new phone on a new plan is on hold until both Venus and Mercury moves out of their "shadow zones" from their previous retrogrades. Venus moves out of her shadow on May 18, and Mercury on May 21 about two weeks away. Then I will get off the very expensive Telstra plan since my contract is now over, and most probably bundle with my Home Wireless provider which should cut my data costs by about half, this will also help my cause for my Peru savings plan.

Now for a laugh either with or at my quirky sense of humor.......

A good reason not to access the media ;) ;)