Several days ago, our microwave had started acting weird. When we opened the door, the turn table did not stop, kept turning around. Then, this morning, it completely stopped working properly. It does not warm up the food anymore.

The first thing popped up in my head is the inconvenience without a microwave. It is very convenient to warm the food up with just one minute. Now I have to use the gas stove to warm up my food.

I used the gas stove to warm up my food. It only took 3 minutes or so. It was not that bad. And the food tasted good too.

My thought went back to the year 2000, when I completely stopped drinking cow milk. At first I concerned about inconvenience. What should I do for the coffee milk? What should I do when I want to eat ice cream? What about the time of eating cereal? However, my concerns went away quicker than I thought. There were many alternative for cow milk. I just needed to get used to it. Nowadays, there are even more alternative choices for cow milk, such as soy milk, almond milk, and cashew milk.

Probably it can be the same for the life without a microwave. For several days, I will feel inconvenience, but eventually I will get used to the life without it. It won’t be a big deal.

In recent years, I started hearing about the health risks and harms from using a microwave. I have met at least 5 – 6 people who have given up using a microwave. They told me the transition to the life without a microwave went smoothly. One day, their microwave stopped working and they decided not to buy a new one. So, it might be the good timing for me to completely stop using a microwave. I decided not to buy a new microwave.

It might be a god time for everybody to think about out super convenient life. Do we really need everything that makes our life convenient? There will be some things that we should go back to our parents’ age and our grand-parents’ age when they did not have all of the convenient tools.

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Since I launched my small business, I have been working on the marketing strategy. And I have been thinking of my capacity and preference in marketing strategy.

When I think of marketing, I visualize two images; a hunter and a fisherman.

I know myself being as a fisherman, rather than a hunter. In my image, actively going out to sell relates to male energy. And my image of male energy is being a hunter. On the other hand, passively waiting for the candidate customers relates to female energy. And my image of female energy is a fisherman.  

I don’t think I can become an active hunter.  But I can become an active fisherman who puts a whole bunch of baits on a fishing pole.

It reminds me of two Sabian Symbols. Aries 21 degree: A pugilist enters the ring, and Aries 22 degree: The gate to the garden of desire. My horoscope teacher explained the energy of these two symbols like this. Aries 21 degree describes a fighter. The person are fully motivated to grab what they want. They are willing to fight to get what they want. They make extra efforts to get it. They grab the victory. It reminds me a male energy.

On the other hand, Aries 22 degree describes an attractive trap. The person makes themselves look weak so that they can attract necessary supports and helps. It reminds me of a female energy.  

I think both energies are good. It is up to us how we get what we want; by either using a male energy or a female energy.

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In Japan, in order to get a driver’s license, the majority people go to the driving school for about one month. In my days, it cost me about $3,000 for the driving school tuition.

The instructors at the driving school were usually male who had retired from their main job. I would say most of them were men over 60s. At the school, we learn the driving technique and traffic rules along with the mechanism of the vehicle.

Most of the classes were boring, but there was one instructor who was popular among the students. His appearance was just the same as the other instructors; he was a man over 60. What made him popular was his unique ways in teaching. He would often talk about something invisible.

He said we need to extend our energy field when driving a car. Those days the term “aura” was not commonly used. I think what he meant was “aura” but he used the term something else, such as “energy field” or “conscious field”. He used the term “something beyond our physical eye vision” and “something relates to our sixth sense”. In my personal opinion, Japanese people are naturally used to these “something“, so I think most students naturally understood what he meant.

He picked two students and let them stand in front of other students. One student was told to close his eyes, and the other student was standing behind him. The second student was told to come closer to the front student, slowly and quietly. And the instructor asked the front student to raise his hand when he felt something behind him. Then, he raised his hand when the other student came too close to him.

The instructor explained that we all have the energy fields surrounded by physical body. And when something enters in our energy fields, we can somewhat feel it. For example, while we are driving, somebody suddenly enters right behind our car, we will feel it though our sixth sense or our gut feeling. Usually it comes with something uncomfortable feeling.

I think this instructor was advanced and brave to talk about that. It was 1990 when not many people openly talked about energy field.

Nowadays people have started openly talk about the energy fields. Our physical body is surrounded by some energy layers. They are “The Ether body” “The Astral body” “The Mental body” “The Causal body”.

I agree with the instructor’s advice. He said that daily practice is the key to extend our energy field. We should practice on trusting our gut feeling on a daily basis.

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This morning my daughter had a dental appointment in the early morning. It was done very quickly so that we made it before the school started. When we arrived at the school playground and I was about to leave, my daughter started shedding tears, clinging on me tightly. She said she loved me so much and she did not want me to leave her.

Then, seconds later, we were surrounded by several children. They were my daughter’s friends and classmates. They hugged her, rubbed her back gently, and calmed her down. They said to her “it is okay, we will have a good time together in school, you can see your mom after the school”, stuff like that.

I was standing in the center of the children’s circle with my daughter, in awe.

My heart was filled up with lots of love and hopes. What I just experienced with these children was just awesome. This is the ideal world that we want to make, right? When somebody feels sad, other people go there and send their love and kind words to them. They stay together until the person feels better.

Children are amazing teachers. It is our (adults’) responsibility to take good care of children so that we can learn more from them. Children are the one who will contribute to make our world to a much better place in the near future.

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Today was a big day for me. My day started with my friends’ text message. She was surprised to see my picture and the article about me in the magazine delivered with the local newspaper, Sunday edition.

The article was written professionally. Very well written article. The article contains the brief history about myself; how I had started learning horoscope chart, how I have continued my learning, and how I currently convey the message from the horoscope reading to my clients. The article also contains my main purpose of my reading services. The editor properly caught what I wanted to convey to the reader.

I heard from my friend, that one of our common friends recommended the magazine editor about me and my business. She never mentioned that to me. I thought of her being so humble, helping me without telling me her efforts. I really appreciate for her support. Also I know my business mentor talked to the magazine editor about me. So, this magazine interview made it possible with other people’s support. I am so grateful to know that I have some people who are supporting my business.

Vitality magazine article. Page 16 to 19.

https://issuu.com/wickcommunications/docs/v-nov2016_final/1?e=1225821/40458057

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I don’t remember exactly how and when I heard this joke. The speaker told this story as a joke, but not everybody was laughing. The story goes like this.

There was a very old couple. They turned to over 90 years old. The husband had treated his wife very badly, verbally abusing her all their marriage life. All their family members, including their children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and even relatives had witnessed that. The husband never treated his wife nicely, but the wife always stayed being calm with a gentle smile on her face, all the time.

One day the old couple celebrated their long term marriage life. At the celebration dinner, one of the great-grandchildren asked the great-grandma the reason why she could put up with her husband for his verbal abuse. The great-grandma confessed her little secret helped her to stay calm. And her little secret was….to use his toothbrush for cleaning the bathroom every day all the years….

I am not sharing this story just to scare you. I want to share this story because this story is scary and at the same time, very sad. Our spouse, husband and wife, is supposed to be our best friend and best cheerleader. He/she should not turn to our enemy. In order to avoid to live with an enemy in the same house, let’s have a conversation with our spouse. Let’s respect one another. When we open our heart to one another, and have a good talk, we can find some types of solutions.

I think the sad part of this story is that the couple had both given up to talk to one another, for many years. I believe nobody should suffer like this. I believe everybody has right to have their life happily. In order to make it happen, we should not give up to communicate. I believe good communications will serve us better solutions for our happiness.

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I am a foreigner at the place where I live right now. I am Japanese living in America. It can bring inconveniences. In many ways.

I chose my life to live my former half in Japan and my latter half in America. And I have started my spiritual work in America. I was wondering why in America, not in Japan. Because here in America, people still have a hard time to understand my English accent and pronunciation. I thought it would be much easier for me to do my job in my mother county, Japan.

My spiritual work is to convey the messages from Spirits. Messages from Spirits are mysterious, because we cannot see or hear them in our physical senses. When people face to something mysterious, their natural reaction is to fear. Fear for not understanding that.

I convey the mysterious stuff, with a foreigner’s physical appearance and foreigner’s strange accent. My inconvenient aspects actually help people to reduce to have fear. People naturally think “oh, well…, I don’t understand what she is saying, but she is from different culture anyway. It is totally okay with me for not understanding what she is saying…” The great part is that people don’t completely refuse me, because we naturally are attracted to something mysterious.

In Astrology, we have Sabian symbols. Sabian symbols were created by the American astrologer Marc Edmund Jones with the help of the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler. The 360 symbols are the detailed reading method in a horoscope chart reading.

Some Sabian symbols describes “Chinese” “Hindu”. I think the creator of the Sabian Symbol used these foreigners as representative of something mysterious, something hard to understand. And people will be intrigued to something mysterious and try to understand that. I think my privileges of being a foreigner is the same logic as the Sabian Symbols. Being mysterious can function as a buffer so that people don’t need to fear for not understanding clearly. Being mysterious can also function as a magnet to attract people’s interest to know more about that.

So, same thing can be applied to everybody. If you have something that you feel inconvenient, it might be the one that also brings you some privileges.

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This morning I had a fun dream. I was dancing with many people. We all were laughing and expressing our own unique way, but the dance pattern was somewhat same. In front of us, there was one male figure and he was the one who led us how to dance. When it came to the difficult steps, I could easily visualize his steps right in front of me, so that it was easy for me to follow him. That was how everybody could catch up with him in his every dance step.

I asked my family souls what the message was from this dream. They said it was a reminder that I am not doing my job alone. Lots of people and spirits are working together with fun, just like in my dream.

Right now I am devoting my time and energy to my favorite things to do; the spiritual work. Sometimes I feel lonely, feeling like I don’t have enough supportive people around me. But in reality, I do have very powerful supportive people around me. Constantly encouraging me. Giving me great ideas. Praying for my success. Not to mention, I always have my family souls around me. They are all my powerful cheerleaders.

I feel great to know that I am not alone. We are all connected, and we all are dancing together and having fun. And we are all facing to the same direction, the same goal.

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During our lifetime, we have several life transitions. Saturn Return is one of such transitions.

The planet Saturn makes one orbit around the Sun in about 29.5 years. And so, every 29.5 years, the planet Saturn in the sky returns back to the same place where it was at the time of our birth. So, roughly speaking, we have our first Saturn Return at 28-30 years old, the second one at 58-60 years old, and the third one at 88-90 years old.

Maybe, the third one will not impact us that much, because we will have developed a thick skin by then; we won’t get affected not so hard. But as for the first Saturn Return, I think everybody will experience huge impacts in our life transitions.

During Saturn Return, people tend to experience something radical; life changing events. Some people might experience to force to change their career, while others might experience to hear strong urge from their soul to do something. Experiencing life changes can be stressful. Staying the same situation is easy. However, if we stay in the same situations, there is no opportunities for us to grow up and to improve ourselves. Therefore, once in a while, we need the strict and stubborn grandpa energy to face our weakness and overcome them for our further steps.

In my image, the planet Saturn is like a stubborn grandpa. He can be scary because this grandpa powerfully forces us to do something. But we need to know that this grandpa is full of wisdom and knowledge; he is doing so for reasons, for our highest good. So, the Saturn Return will usually force us to face to the different direction from the direction where we were facing. The new direction might be our original life direction that we had planned before we were born.

Also we need to know that this grandpa is humble and does not like to cling on unnecessary things. Therefore, during the Saturn Return, we might lose something that we had been clinging on. We might feel sad to lose them, but in the end, we will find something more important for our life. When we lose something, we make open space to receive something new. The grandpa Saturn is actually needed for our life to remind us of our original life plans.

In my personal life, my first Saturn Return was April 21, 1999. I had the huge life changing events during my first Saturn Return. I visited Navajoland December 30th 1998, and I met my husband in March 1999. These events were the beginning of the new chapter of my life.

Nobody can predict exactly what will happen during their Saturn Return. But I can at least say that we don’t need to feel scared of Saturn Return. Everything happens for reasons, and the events will make us stronger and wiser than before, and bring us back to the right direction in the end.

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Last night I had a severe pain in the back of my right eye. It accompanied with a very bad headache too. I went to bed earlier than usual, but I kept on tossing around with the pain and could not fall asleep.

After midnight, I finally dosed off. Right after I was in my dream state, my family souls quickly showed up and conveyed the message to me. Message was to cut it off my cravings to sugar products. They said all the pains come from the excess amount of sugar products. Then, as usual, they woke me up so that I can write down this message.

As I woke up and wrote down the message, it really made sense to me. Last month, I kept on eating sugar products; chocolates and candies. In the western culture, as soon as October comes up, all the stores start selling the Halloween decorations with lots of chocolates and candies. Every time when I went to the grocery store, I was not planning to buy the sweets, but I ended up buying them. Then I started eating them every day, very frequently.

I noticed I have gained extra 5-6 ponds in last month. And, I had a constant sharp pain in my left shoulder. My family souls told me once I cut off my sugar craving, my body will start functioning normally. Right now, I am abusing my body to the extent that they are screaming for pain.

I appreciate my family souls to have conveyed this message. I will cut off my cravings to sugar products. Because I want to live long and happy life with my family. In order to make it happen, first I need to take good care of my body, listening their voices every day.

So, this is a message to everybody who is naturally drawn to sweets during the holiday season. Let’s listen to our body. Let’s take good care of our body. We can easily say NO to our cravings to sugar products. It will be easier than we think. We need to be aware of our tendency, and intentionally switch the tendency to the preferable choices for our body’s needs. Our body needs a good amount of exercises, good amount of fresh oxygen, good amount of laughers, and good amount of fresh organic produce.

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