Recently while I was browsing YouTube late at night, looking for any new videos about Indigo Children or Druidry, somehow I happened upon Angelo Nasios and all he had to say about his experience as a professional Tarot reader.

The cool thing – he’s young, incredibly knowledgeable, has a snappy and infectious sense of humor, and he’s doing all the right things to position himself as an expert in what he’s passionate about – Reading the Tarot!  He posts regular videos on YouTube, has a business website, a tarot blog, and also uses facebook to show others his passion.  I don’t even think he’s barely 23 or 24, but he’s doing everything right with regard to our “new era of social media” and what I call “expert soloprenuership.”

As a web designer and coach for solo business practitioners – I can safely say that Angelo’s web presence can teach quite a lot!

So I decided to friend him on facebook and also buy a reading!  Angelo delivers his tarot readings via email, but they are just as inspiring, passionate, and sometimes full of the same wit he displays in his YouTube videos.

I’ve been changing a lot too, so for my 2-card reading, I asked a simple question (ha! – simple..hmm.) – What is my path to self-improvement or self-actualization?

You can download my reading here to see what his work is like!

So because I have also been there as a soloprenuer with passion (heck.. I’m still there), I want you all (yes all of you!) to get your own reading from Angelo, even if it’s just a 1-card reading.  Go Get it HERE!  NOW! Spread the love for this up and coming rising star, and maybe learn some things about yourself in the process with the question you ask.

To buy a reading from Angelo Nasios and learn more about him and the Tarot visit his websites!
http://www.angelonasios.com/

http://www.thatstotallytarot.com/

I thought I would end my series of posts on living car-free with a more positive note. I’ve found a lot of joy and happiness along the way! There are so many other paths that a person can take to experience life, and my walking out of car culture helped me to see and feel a richness that I couldn’t have experienced in an automobile.

As an introduction of sorts, here is a video by the Swapathgami Network in Udaipur, India. Many thanks to Manish Jain and Shikshantar for producing wonderful films like this! While this video addresses more of the system of Education, I believe it applies to our very thought processes and lives. We can close the book on what everyone expects us to do or be, and truly live!

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This is my call to you all in 2011. Release your fears, and disarm yourself. How many times do we let fear and anger get in our own way, limiting us from our own progress? We do not need to chase our demons away. All we need to do is let go and release into this fear, experience it, and reach out for support if we need it. I believe that 2011 is a shifting time. It’s time to stop blaming others. It’s a time to stop wielding our defense mechanisms to others and to our inner self, and to start opening up and releasing patterns in our life that don’t serve us.

Disarm Yourself – Now.

About the video:
Dash Berlin is a big rising star in the DJ world. He and Emma Hewett had the #1 dance song in Europe last year with “Waiting”. This video was shot in Brisbane, Australia, and all of the proceeds from the sales of the single, “Disarm Yourself”, are going toward flood relief in that area.

I realized that I skipped around a bit with Julia Stewart’s Free Coach Training program, and completely forgot about the module – What Drives Your Client. Interestingly, it was probably the Universe or my Higher Self that allowed me to take this module right at this time.

A great exercise in this module is to List 20 things in your life that you are “tolerating.” These are the things that are happening or that you are putting up with that aren’t allowing your life to move forward, or to pull you forward.

Here’s a portion of my list.

I’m Tolerating:

1. Not having an organized office space at home
2. Not having enough furniture to feel I could entertain guests
3. Not having a clean or uncluttered space to meditate or do yoga
4. How every flat surface in my apartment starts collecting piles of paper

So, these were all environmental influences on me that were keeping me a little stuck in feeling motivated.  The clutter, disorganization, and arrangement of my living space just wasn’t in line with how I wanted to live.
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I’ve been diving into the concept of Indigo Children, New Children, Indigo Adults, and the like for quite some time now. I feel like I should put up a bit of a loose definition for what it might mean to be an “Indigo Child” or an “Indigo Adult.”

Though the consensus is that these children and adults have always been here on the Earth in some fashion, placing definitions or a conceptual framework around “Indigo Children” is happening more now. First characterized by psychics, mediums, and new age philosophies – children with heightened sensitivities, gifts, extraordinary talent, intellect, and spiritual grounding would appear to have “an indigo aura.” But now, what New Age theory began is being looked at closely by scientists, psychologists, health professionals, parents, clergy, and others. There is a perception that children are evolving, and that a certain percentage of children really have tipped the scales like never before seen, in the areas of intelligence, IQ, aptitude, adaptability, learning, etc.

And with new paradigms, come new problems. Many of these kids just don’t fit into our world and the structures built for them, and they often are diagnosed and labeled ADD, ADHD, Aspergers, Autistic, etc. Many children with these diagnoses and labels also show these same heightened abilities, but have varying degrees of difficulty adapting to the world around them.

Some believe that Indigo Children are here to help us to evolve as a human race, and that they are worthy of our attention. The world has changed, and we face problems and situations which we’ve never had to face. Are these “Indigos” part of a group that can lead us into a new, better, and changed world?

In future blog posts, I’ll talk again about Indigo Children and Indigo Adults, but I also wanted you to see some videos that can also show you some of the evolution that’s happening. Take a look at these great kids and what they can do, and then ask yourself, “Could kids be evolving or learning at an accelerated rate?” and moreover, “If there is some truth to this evolution – what’s our responsibility to these kids? How can we change our thoughts and our world to help them flourish?”

“How could we change as people, if we fully supported their development?”

Enjoy all of the videos!

It’s time for me to kick things into a higher gear with the Free Coach Training program. The first open exam period has passed, and 31 new coaches have passed the exam! Congrats to those new coaches!

I just finished the Universal Paradigms class, and of course, LOVED IT! (No surprise.)

A few of the things I took away from the class, in the form of quotes:

“The Universe is not only stranger than we know, it’s stranger than we CAN know.”

And yet.. at the same time.. “We create the Universe.”  (cue the music to 2001: A Space Oddessy)

Ok! Read that again! Let’s now talk about embracing a big black hole of Paradox!

I can barely talk about this, really, as there isn’t much of a language to talk about this paradox, but I’ll try.  So, the human mind, which is part of our human body, a small and insignificant speck in the universe, is insignificant, yet important!  Our minds and consciousness HAVE to be held as important, if we can indeed create a Universe that is both “stranger than we know” and “stranger than we can know.”  Could there be something more at play?  Are we in fact limiting ourselves by our small and insignificant “size” in the massive Universe?  Our holographic nature and observation actually collapse the wave-form of our very Universe, so that we can discover it, look at it, measure it, etc.  Can it be that all of us simply ARE the Universe waking up to itself?  Are we simply projections of energy in carbon-based bodies, here to collect data, co-create the Universe, observe and collapse wave functions, and all the while have fun just not understanding?  Hmm..  Ponder that for as long as you like.

I’ve often said to people that “I would rather live a life Discovered than a life of planning.”  And all the while, in reality (or.. not..) we create the Universe that we discover (or.. don’t..).  Or we do and don’t at the same time..

Coming down to Earth for a moment.  What I think I really took away from this, was the thought that “OF COURSE WE’RE MORE.”  We’re more than just people out wandering about.  We’re more than the sum of our experience.  We’re more than our relationships, our thoughts, emotions, etc.

We are more than we know, and we’re more than we CAN know.

For me, when I start to embrace this and believe it, doors start opening up for me.  I’m able to choose something different or shift my thinking.  I’m able to feel more connected to the Universe and whatever “grand scheme” might be “out there” or coming from my very co-creative consciousness.  I feel more connectedness somehow when I think that I’m more than “what I am.”    And perhaps any clients, friends, family members, or colleagues we have might benefit in the same way if we passed on this information or “blueprint” into thinking and perceiving ourselves.

So, what might you choose differently if you knew and felt deeply in your consciousness that you were MORE than what you knew, and MORE than what you could know?  Would you do the same thing you are doing now?  Could you navigate the Universe (that you knew you created) with more ease?  Would you need to find a way out of the Paradox?  How would you “show up” every day of your life if you knew and felt this?

…Ponder THAT for a while!

A little peek into some of the youtube videos and blogs that I sometimes view with this post. I’ve been a follower of The Truther Girls for a little while now, and this video speaks volumes right now to what I’m going through as well right now, and the things I’m talking to folks about too.

Ask yourself – What has my fear really done for me lately? Enjoy this video!

The Virgo New Moon takes place the morning of September 8 at 6:30 am EDT/ 3:30 am PDT. This is a very interesting New Moon because the moon is very close to the Earth right now. One can assume that the magnetic pull and effects of the moon can be very amplified on our mind/body/spirit because of it’s closeness. Also, from an email I received tonight, this Virgo New Moon “makes no aspects to the other planets, which is unusual. This means that it’s free to work on its own, drawing us down like a seed to germinate within our souls a fresh sense of who we are. That’s Virgo’s mission to help us know ourselves and belong to ourselves. “

After reading the book, New Moon Astrology, by Jan Spiller, I’ve been practicing making wishes within the 8 hour period of the New Moon. Since this new Moon in Virgo is here to help me to more know myself and “belong” or “embody” myself, I thought I would make some wishes.

“I want to find myself easily embodying my greatness, or my higher self. I want to easily find myself letting go of those aspects of my ego that get in the way of this higher self in my relationships, and the self-talk about future possibilities for my life, work, and relationships.”

“I want to find myself letting go of expectations, attachments, or patterns that no longer serve me, so that I can discover my life as I co-create it – allowing for more celebration of life rather than evaluation of life.”

What are your wishes on this New Moon?

I wanted to post this YouTube video of Rebecca Hilton’s Ode to Ireland. I feature this song in Episode #3 of the Northern Druid Podcast. Enjoy!

Last week I was in Minneapolis for the 2010 Mayday Parade. This annual parade is a celebration of life and is put together by In The Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre. With over 50,000 spectators and attendees at the festival in Powderhorn Park, I’d say that MayDay was a huge success!

Enjoy the photos on my Flickr Photo space!