Happy New Year All!

                                                

Every year we say "THIS year will be different!  I am going to set aside money, I am going to diet, I am going to get into shape..." and we all truly mean it, but when it comes down to it, how much follow through do we really end up having?

Well, here is a fun tradition that my mother in-law who is Austrian (still lives there) does every year.  It is called Bleigießen (pron. BLYE-ghee-sen).  It is meant to "see into the future" much like tea leave reading, but it is done with small lead figurines.  In general, what you do is you melt the small lead figurine in a spoon by holding a flame under the spoon, when it melts, you quickly drop the spoonful of now melted led into water and watch to see what shape it takes.  Whatever it's final shape will determine how your year will be, or what you should look out for.  The following is a link that shows the meaning of the resulting shapes; for instance, if your lead turns into a ball, then the meaning is that "luck will roll your way".  Here the link: http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art174525.asp

What? no lead?  Not to worry, this can also be done with wax!  You can do it one of two ways, you can shave wax off of a candle and melt into a spoon, or you can burn a candle and tip the melted wax into the water.  This does work best with beeswax or pure wax.

This is a clean, fun game of fortune telling for the New Year! 

Enjoy, be safe and be open to all that the Universe brings you in 2012!  And remember, the gifts you ask for may come in all different shapes and sizes and not necessarily the packaging you might be expecting.

Blessings,

Margaret

have been there when Divine Love was being taught by the Great Teacher himself?  What if you could have stepped into the shoes of Pontius Pilate, Joseph of Arimethea and a host of other characters and had a birds-eye view of history in the making?  What if you were shown a story that may prove to be very different than the one you learned in Sunday School?  Would you read it?  Out of curiosity and a need to know, wouldn't it just gnaw at you to see if maybe there are things you still don't understand? 

                                                           

Good news, now there is an awesome book available on Kindle (through Amazon.com) or Kindle for the PC or Mac (which you can download for free at Amazon.com) that promises to answer these and many more questions!  This is just volume 1 of 6 and the Prologue itself will get you hooked.  Written in easy to understand current day English, it reads like a great novel.  Once you experience some of the characters, you won't be able to put it down and when you do put it down, you will still be grinning from the antics of the various characters.  Please indulge yourself in some well written history that is both comical and extremely informative.  Through it all, the message of Divine Love radiates straight to the heart.

Want an inside peek?  Go here and read some excerpts from the blog: www.zephyrusarchives.com or go to Amazon.com here:

Dear God:

                                

Please note: I must put this disclaimer on this blog; this blog does NOT refer to anything having to do with addictive behaviors (drugs, alcohol, food, etc.) and the treatment thereof. So please read this in the spirit in which it was written.

In these challenging economic times, it seems like we are constantly battling the temptation not to give up or give in to the mini-skirmishes that make up our day. Well, have I got news for you! Sometimes it is to our benefit to give up or give in.

                                            

Yep, you read that right. So often we are busy battling what turns out to be ourselves that we fail to see the message that is awaiting our attention; “We've got this one you delightful human, move on to the next challenge!” and that would be the Universe and all those who look after you sending you that message. When we wear ourselves out swimming against the tide all the time we find that we tend to get nowhere fast. The proper way is to swim with the tide. So, the next time another life challenge smacks you in the head, instead of trying to smack it back, l-i-s-t-e-n to what it is saying. It is saying, “we are here to help. Sit this one out, have faith that you will be taken care of.” And then, have that faith.

“Giving up” is simply another way of allowing new information to come in, it is not always a negative, the same thing with “giving in”.   It really is okay to give in to your child once in awhile instead of making a nightly battle of something. Perhaps there is something to learn or more importantly, something for your child to learn. It is very much like Einstein's theory of insanity, "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result each time."  If you want different results, you must do something different!

So, when it feels like the world has got you down, remember Einstein's words and perhaps that “something different” will be to do nothing but to drift with the tide in faith for a bit.

One last thought, when you are struggling with the idea of “giving up”, I would invite you to listen to Jo Dee Messina's song, “Bring On The Rain” (YouTube link below). I guarantee that you won't make it through the song without shedding a few tears, but they are tears of relief. It is by far one of the best songs of the last 2 decades that shows the strength of spirit and sometimes that strength of spirit is to have faith and to rest so that you can live to love another day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFV-asKz4Vc&feature=fvsr

Hang in there, this too shall pass!

Blessings to all,

Margaret

This was sent to me and I wanted to share it with everyone.  Enjoy! -M

The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island.  He prayed feverishly for God to rescue him.  Every day he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming.  Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to protect himself from the elements, and to store his few possessions.

One day, after scavenging for food, he arrived home to find his little hut in flames, with smoke rolling up to the sky. He felt the worst had happened, and everything was lost.  He was stunned with disbelief, grief, and anger.  He cried out, 'God! How could you do this to me?'

Early the next day, he was awakened by the sound of a ship approachingthe island! It had come to rescue him! 'How did you know I was here? 'asked the weary man of his rescuers. 'We saw your smoke signal,' they replied.

The Moral of This Story:  

It's easy to get discouraged when things are going bad, but we shouldn't lose heart, because God is at work in our lives, even in the midst of our pain and suffering.  Remember that the next time your little hut seems to be burning to the ground. It just may be a smoke signal that summons the Grace of God.

You may want to consider passing this on, because you never know who feels as if their hut is on fire today.

You find yourself upset, unconsolable, desperate in fact and what do you do?  You call a psychic.  You ask the psychic questions who presumably answers them honestly and without fanfare.   You start to calm down, feel some relief and move on.  The next day, something unsettling happens again, you call that same psychic again to find out whatever you can about why you are feeling this way or why "this" has happened to you, the psychic again, presumably answers your questions, gives you appropriate guidance and you move on.  Soon, this becomes a habit, a daily habit, perhaps a twice or three times a day habit.  Before you know it, you are calling a psychic or several to find out what will happen if...fill in the blank.  You have now handed over a majority of your decision making power to a psychic.  Someone who cannot and does not walk in your shoes, but most likely has the ability to tell you what obstacles you may encounter if you choose to do "this or that".  All of this to ask the question, at what point do you resume responsibility for your actions?  It is an easy self-made trap to fall into.

I say all of this because a disturbing incident came up for a wonderful client who calls me very often to discuss a myriad of things, relationship, business, etc. none of which have been about any potential legal issues.  The question came up after this poor soul was briefly incarcerated, why I didn't see this taking place?  While it is a very good question, let me answer it with another one; why wasn't I asked about the potential outcome of the known (by the client) or potential illegal activity?  It was very sad because what this wonderful person assumed was that because I didn't see it, then of course it wouldn't happen!  Not the case!  It is not my reading that caused the incarceration or "bad luck", it is the action or perhaps lack of truthfulness of the person doing the action that caused this to take place.  This breaks my heart because it is this kind of irrational thinking that allows people to be taken advantage of because they hand all of their decision making responsibility over to a psychic or in much more severe cases, to cult leaders.  We are here to help you not to take over your life!

The truth of the matter is, even had I been asked, I may not have seen the same outcome, but then again maybe I would have.  Regardless, it is imperative that we take responsibility for our actions and our decisions, including those decisions to call a psychic.  My goal is to give you as much guidance as I can possibly give you on any question that you have.  It is not possible for me to scan your entire life's activities and tell you 'hey, you know that pack of gum you stole back in 1999? You're gonna pay big time for that!".  If you are honest with a psychic and you say, "hey I did this and that and I may have inadvertently done something that can get me into trouble, what does it look like will happen to me?" then we can focus on that issue and the people surrounding it and give you the best guidance we have.  Obviously there are many cases where a Reader will pick up on negativity around a person even if that person is asking about someone else.  In this particular case, the information may not have even been clear to the client and perhaps they did not know how to ask the question or even if one existed.  The point is, we get out of life whatever it is that we put into it.  If you knowingly put negative energy or action out there, the law of attraction and Karma have proven to us that it WILL come back to you in some way or form.  It is not the fault of your Reader if you did not tell them the whole story or any story at all.  Somethings will come through much stronger in ones reading than other things.  For instance, you may be asking me about an ex-lover and your Guide may want you to know about a financial issue that is about to smack you in the face, I will tell you that.  If I get nothing aside from the answer to the question you ask, then perhaps one of two things is at work here: 1) This is not something we are to know or 2) There is a life lesson, a.k.a. Karma at work.  Please know that this is not to say that psychics can never be wrong, on the contrary, no one judges us harder than we do.  I am the first one to admit that I can be or am wrong sometimes.  However, we cannot be wrong (or right) about something we never even talked about.

The moral of the story is, ask the question if you want to know the answer, especially if it doesn't come up during the reading, it may not be as big a deal as you think.  Then take responsibility for your actions!  As Readers, it is something we are forced to do on a daily basis, right, wrong or indifferent (and in a very public forum) and most Readers will proudly stand behind their readings (the good, the bad and the ugly).  We are here for you to help you, and you help us as well by allowing us to help you!  For that, we thank you very much. 

Much love and blessings to you always,

Margaret

I had a call sometime back and it has been bothering me ever since.  The caller didn't seem to understand that I have little to no recollection of the details of a reading from the day before.  As a matter of fact, after all was said and done, it was clear that I was being tested - not a good use of the callers money to say the least!  Suffice it to say that I likely did not pass the test because the questions were different, the energy of the subject was not the same - and news flash! it never will be!  What I mean, and I have written about it numerous times, the energy of a subject or person WILL change simply by virtue of the fact that we are looking at it, so no, it will NOT be completely the same as the day before!  For instance, if you ask me about your career, but secretly you are wanting to know about your love life and you are thinking that I can read your mind (you sly little devil you) - you're wrong!  If you ask me about your career, then I am going to give you whatever I get on your career.  Just because we spoke the day before does not ensure that I am going to remember what your supposed real issue is - I can only go forward based on the information you give me.  If you want to know about someone we spoke about at length the day before and if things still look the same, then ask!  Do not waste your hard earned money trying to test me, neither one of us will come out ahead.

Contrary to popular belief many of the psychics in the world are not mind readers, but yet there are a few.  Instead, look at me like the old fashioned telephone operator (think the 1940's) with the headset that has the huge microphone and the switchboard is nothing but a mass of holes to plug my headset and your wire into.  If you don't tell me where you really want to be connected to, then I will waste precious time and money plugging my headset jack and your wire into a multitude of holes until we hit the right one.  It is better just to tell me who you want to talk to or where you want to go.  I simply am not going to remember from the day before what it is that you want.  Look at it this way; you are in your car at a very busy intersection and you are at a red light.  Can you remember the colors of all the cars, the makes and the directions they were going...the next day?  Probably not because you've been so many different places since then.  See what I mean?

Anyway, the point is, make the most of your reading.  If you are griping about the amount of money you are spending, then be more prepared and do not try to "trick" the Reader.  We both have better things to do.  In this economy we all want to get the most mileage out of our dollar as we can.  I work very hard at giving as much information as possible, but if we are playing a cat and mouse game, it is a waste of that money and a huge increase in the frustration levels for both of us.

Be smart.  Be prepared.

Blessings to you all for a great weekend!

Margaret

Folks, I REALLY am here!  While it is not extraordinary that my phone won't ring for 2 hours, it isn't typical either.  So imagine my dismay when I learned that Keen put me on Alerts without my knowledge because the phone never rang!  Grrrr!

Keen experiences a lot of technical issues, some they don't even understand and most I don't either.  So, please be patient and know that if you see me on Alerts, please give me a try, as there is a 99.9% chance that I am here and Keen attempted to put through a call and the phone just never rang.

Thank you for your patience and the continued opportunity to offer you insight!

-Margaret

Does this phrase frustrate you? Ever wonder why Readers want you to be specific with your questions? Why do so many of us choose not to do "general" readings? Well the reasons are really quite simple!



The primary reason it is in your best interest to be specific is because we can better focus on the actual issue.  For instance, if you ask me: "what are Jake's thoughts of me now?" I will tell you something like: "well he isn't sure where he stands with you, he feels a little confused, but he cares about you..." this response may leave YOU feeling confused!  However, if you ask your question like: "Jake and I had a conversation last night about his level of commitment.  What did he get out of the conversation? Can I expect any change?" My response to that will have much greater detail about his feelings regarding that specific topic and what his thoughts are about the future and his participation in the relationship.

When most Readers are asked to give "general" readings, it becomes a little overwhelming because a general reading can take off in a multitude of directions - which isn't a bad thing, but it eats up your precious time and your hard earned money!  In fact, your questions may never get answered and you may feel like the whole reading was a waste.  So, if you want a "general" reading be prepared to spend additional time and money and be prepared with some questions in case the Reader hits on some areas you want further clarification on.  Please keep in mind that no decent reading can be done in 5 minutes or less, certainly not a "general" reading.  Personally, I don't do "general" readings.  If asked, my response will be something like: "I don't do general readings but if there is one specific area we can focus on, that will help and we can go from there..." sometimes you just need a gentle push in any direction to get the ball rolling.

What do you do if you don't know what question to ask?  Literally, pull something out of the air!  Start with something like "can you tell me how my employer feels I am doing at my job?" often that will trigger things that may really be on your mind.  It is not uncommon for people to get the equivalent of "white coat syndrome" (elevated blood pressure, blank mind, etc. when a doctor walks into the examining room) when having a reading for the first time or talking about something deeply personal or emotionally difficult.  Not to worry, we are professionals and often we have been through similar things!  I will always treat you with love and compassion, so fear not, we are here to help!

I would like to thank all of  you who have taken the time to be "specific" so that I can give you the best reading I can with the information I have.  It is this kind of teamwork that can make readings very exciting!

Thank you, good luck and don't forget "PLEASE BE SPECIFIC!"

Blessings,

Margaret

Dearest Friends,

 

I want to take a moment to thank you for your patience in trying to get through to us Readers.  While I cannot speak for every Reader here on Keen, I know a great many of us are experiencing some continuting technical issues that simply have not been resolved.  I would ask my clients to please be as patient with me as possible and keep trying to get through when you see I am available.

These are connection issues well beyond my or any Reader's control.  Please know that every time your call is dropped, chances are at least 99% that the Reader you were speaking with reports it to Keen technical support.  We could use your help as well.  Every time you experience an issue that cannot be explained by a dropped cell phone call, then please, please, please, report it to the Keen Help desk by going to the Keen home page, selecting the HELP tab and scroll down to connection issues.  This lets Keen know that there truly are issues and it also helps to protect your investment as well.  It is embarrassing and frustrating to us as Readers not to be able to connect with you when these things happen.  Keen is usually good at addressing such issues however if they don't see it as being a big enough issue they may not put much energy into it.  So, if you have technical issues such as:  difficulty adding money, call being disconnected while adding money, call being connected but dead air, it seems as though the Keen recording just keeps cycling, and any other issues, please report them to the Help desk.  By doing this, you help Keen resolve the technical issues and you help us the Readers stay in touch with you; our favorite people to talk to! 

We are grateful to be of assistance to you when we can connect so please help us help Keen stay on track by being their eyes and ears too.

 

Many blessings of thanks to you all for your continued support,

Margaret

 

              

 

It sounds very fairytale-ish doesn’t it?  Well why not?  Why not keep believing that if you keep moving forward on faith and wisdom that things will get better?

It is true and hard to hide the fact that 2009 has been an extremely challenging year for everyone in every corner of the world.  It is easy to think that we are the only ones experiencing this difficult economic downturn and try to hide from it, or worse we buy into it and “accept” things as they are and it starts to define us.  We cannot allow our egos to take control of this fear even for a minute because the minute we do, we start turning the dimmer switch down on a bright future.

As Pollyannish as it sounds, we are the only ones who can change our lives and our futures and it starts with believing that we can.  It starts with feeling that we are changing it.  It comes from that sense of comfort when you have paid all of your bills and have money left over.  It is that feeling of ultimate success when you get the call from the employer with your dream job and they offer it to you.  It is the feeling of dreaming and believing that this incredibly tough time will pass and we will be strengthened not weakened by it.  We will have more wisdom, we will have faith that the end result will be exactly as we believe, feel and dream it to be, and so it is.  Because we believe, feel and dream it to be.   “Fear is stepping out into the darkness and not knowing what is there.  Faith is knowing that you will find a safe place to land or will be taught to fly”.  The authors name escapes me, but it was actually a scientist who came up with this in the ’40’s.  Here are a couple other quotes to get you believing, feeling and dreaming and out of the fear:

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.  Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice.  And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” –Steve Jobs

“Do you know why we fall down? So we can learn how to get back up!” Author unknown.

Charge into 2010 with a new resolve to shed the old blanket of fear and distrust and create a new blanket woven of your dreams and the faith and the feeling that in 2010 they WILL come true!

Have a safe and fun and uber-enlightening New Year!  Grab it by the tail and show it who is boss!

Much joy and happiness to you all!

 

Margaret

 

Is this what you think whenever a Reader tells you, “well you know, you do have to take free will into consideration”, you think “what a cop out!”  Well guess what my friends?  It isn’t a cop out, on the contrary it is a Universal Law.

 

A psychic should not tell you what choice you will actually make, their job is to tell you what choices there are for you to make.  It is very much the way our Guides work.  Your Guides will NEVER tell you what you should do, they will show you your options, but YOU still have to make the choice.  That is the whole point of free will, otherwise the entire human race would be at a complete standstill while we wait for someone else to make decisions for us!  It would take away a most basic human right; freedom.  Just imagine if you called me and asked me, “Margaret, what will I decide to do about this job?” and I tell you “well you will decide to pass on it”, then another Reader tells you “you will decide to take the job”, this back and forth will put you squarely in the land of confusion, doubt and mistrust. 

 

We have a wonderful internal guidance system called intuition.  Every human on this planet has it whether they can express it or not, it comes with the whole human experience.  My belief is that part of our job as spiritual beings having human experiences is to use each experience to grow in our spiritual-ness but we can’t do that if we have others making choices for us.

 

So, the next time a Reader tells you that the reason so and so didn’t contact you was because of free will it, no matter the other extenuating circumstances excluding death, it is the truth!  However, it is important that we also tell you what else is going on around that person so that perhaps we can try to understand why he/she made a different choice other than what was seen based on the path they were on at the time of your reading.  Our job and at least my goal, is to give you as much insight as possible to assist you in making your own choices regarding the situation with much greater clarity.

 

Blessings to you all for peace, harmony and tons of laughter!

 

Margaret

 

                                               

Working from home sounds so luxurious and freeing, but quite frankly, it can be very unbalancing.  When I worked in corporate America for too long, it too became very unbalancing but it was easier to spot and therefore make a correction. So try to keep this in mind when you roll out of bed in the morning, do the half awake prison shuffle into the bathroom, then to the kitchen to get your first cup of sunshine.  Change things up a bit, even the littlest bit of variety helps change the balance of your day, even your life in a positive way.  If you normally put your pants on one leg at a time, go crazy and try putting them on both legs at a time!  Force yourself to slow down and write your kids’ names on their lunch sacks with your left hand or non-dominant hand.  You know that street you pass by every day but turn away from because you’re in a hurry? Well take a 2 minute detour and go down that street and see what’s down there!  The Universe has many gifts for us, but sometimes we have to help bring them to us by creating a little out of balance in order to find the balance we need! 

  

As an Advisor, you know you’ve been logged onto Keen too long and need some balance when:

 

1.   You press the pound (#) key when ending a phone call with your mother.

2.   You answer a question from the boss of your “regular” job with “…well my Guides are showing me…"

3.   Someone at the grocery store asks what time it is and you reply “within 1 to 3 minutes of  5".

4.   You yell at your misbehaving 6 year old “now you go to the corner and meditate on it!”

5.   You say to your husband (significant other) who just went out and financed a new car for you, “what were you thinking?!  Don’t you know that we are in a Mercury Retrograde?! Geeze!”

6.   You walk into your doctors office and inform him that your throat chakra is blocked.  He disagrees and tells you that you have a sore throat from talking too much!

 

Bringing balance into your life actually helps you find the joy in your day everyday!

 

Keep dancin’ and never forget to smell the roses!

 

-Margaret

 

Ever wonder if anyone actually ever reads the multitude of resumes received for a particular job?  Well it wasn’t until I slipped into upper management in the corporate world that I found the answer; it all depends on the resume or story that stands out the most!  There were many I couldn’t even get through, they were way too long and instantly rejected.

 

Many people make the mistake of writing down their job history rather than being a bit more brief about it.  You have to have something to talk about in the interview don’t you?  As a matter of fact, I quit calling my resume a resume and renamed it a Job Qualifications Brief.  It was after all a short story outlining why I was qualified for the job in question.

 

The following is an excerpt from a larger work I will be publishing.  This is an overview and should help get you started on a great resume, or Job Qualifications Brief:

 

 

List the job title, employer and employment time, e.g. “Lead Supervisor, ABC Widget Company, 1/10/05 thru 7/12/08”

 

Never include more than 10 years worth of history and never include work history that does not pertain to the job(s) you are applying for.  While it is great you were a grocery store clerk for 3 years in 1979 and it does show longevity and likely great customer service skills, but what does that have to do with being an electrical engineer today?  If the job history is a bit spotty, there is a way to summarize all of it which I will cover in a separate section at a later time. 

 

Briefly list your responsibilities in that job, not every single one.  E.g. “Trained, supervised Team of 8 production line employee’s; maintained production records; verified their accuracy; implemented company policies and procedures….” 

 

Now this is the most important part.  Explain why you are worth hiring in as few words as possible, adding to the previous paragraph.  E.g. “was responsible for 30% growth of the Satin Widget Line, accomplished 45% with the use of Team Management skills thereby increasing profitability by 12% to 15% for 3 years…”  Ask yourself these questions: “Why am I better than the guy/gal behind me? How did I contribute to the bottom line and to what degree did I actually contribute?”  Nowadays, employers are more concerned about what you can do for them than they are rewards, awards and in some cases even education!  While all of these are important, it is imperative you are able to answer these questions and that the information is verifiable, that is where some of the awards and recognition will come in handy.

 

USE YOUR SPELL AND GRAMMAR CHECK!  There is nothing more frustrating as an employer than to see someone put so much time and energy into a great presentation and then misspell a word or use the wrong tense or even just the wrong word, it does not send the right message!  I have been in sales, banking and mortgage for many years and I must say, I was very hard nosed if I saw someone who bragged about their perfection but somehow failed to use all the tools in their toolbox like spell check or grammar check, or even just another set of eyes.  Face it, if writing is not your strong suit, then work on it, take an English class, what have you got to lose – except a job??  Here are some no-no’s:

 

 

The wrong use of the words their and there.  Their is possessive, they own  it; it is theirs.  The word there is a noun, it is a place, a destination it is also an adverb, “there, there now, don’t cry”, or it is an intensive “wow, that Bob there is a good looking guy!”

 

The complete improper use of the words, then and than.  They mean completely different things and yet they are mixed up all the time!  The word then is an adverb, it refers to a point in time, “first we do step one, then we do step two”.   The word than is a choice or a qualification between 2 things; “Chris is much taller than Susie”, “I would rather have chocolate than vanilla”.

 

The most misused words I have ever seen is your and you’re.  Your is a possessive adjective, it describes who it belongs to; “it is your sandwich”.  Whereas you’re is just a conjugation of two words; you + are = you’re.  Here is an example of the proper use of both words in a sentence: “Your soup is getting cold, you’re going to eat it aren’t you?”

 

Better yet, invest $15 bucks in yourself and get a good dictionary.

 

Remember, no one is perfect although many will try to convince you that they are.  You only need to be concerned with what you want and sometimes writing a good resume that will stand out is just like dressing the part for the job you want.  No one is saying you have to be an English major, but you do want to come across as the competent and intelligent person you truly are.

 

While this is just a jumping off point to help get you started, stay tuned!  Next time I will cover the extreme importance of a great cover letter.

 

Good luck!!

 

Margaret

Callers, first of all thank you for your patience with me and other Advisors who have seemingly been on calls for hours on end while you wait patiently in line!  Sometimes Keen experiences "technical difficulties" where the Advisor shows as being busy and on a call when in fact that isn't the case, thus making it impossible for us to take your calls.  I am confident that Keen will get this handled promptly so we can once again take your calls; until then, thank you for your patience!  I look forward to chatting with you and getting your weekend readings underway!

 

Blessings to you on this magical day 8-8-8,

 

Margaret