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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Today was Halloween day. And it was new moon. I had a calm and nice day, all day today. Energy was so calm, loving, and embracing. I enjoyed it so much.

This year, the year of 2016, was full of hardships for my family. We had gone through a lot of uncomfortable experiences and challenges. Too much troubles and hardships for one year. It was so tough that we didn’t enjoy it at all.

However, spiritually speaking, the toughest years are the one that we will miss in the future. The reason is that we can learn a lot from tough experiences, so, we as in souls love them and enjoy them.

After 10 years from now on, after 20 years from now on, when we will turn back to our previous years, and we will definitely embrace this year of 2016 for our spiritual growth. We have gone so far this year.

Thank god… I feel our tough cycle has finally ended today, and the energy has shifted upward for us. Maybe that is why I feel so peaceful today.

I like autumn. It is harvest season. When I see lots of fresh produce in the fields and stores, I feel abundance. It is now for us to relax and enjoy the harvest season for the time being.

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Many American people have told me that they cannot understand what I say because of my strong English accent. When I was young, I used to take it personal. I use to get hurt by their wording.

I majored in English language in the university and the graduate school. At my university, I learned English Phonetics. The professor taught us how to pronounce English words theoretically. With the knowledge of Phonetic symbols, the professor trained us to pronounce each symbols. So, I know English pronunciation “theoretically”. However, knowing and doing are two different things.

During my struggling days living in America, one day when I was having a meal with many Americans, somebody made fun of my English accent. So I told him in front of everybody that “please do not expect me to speak natural English accent. I can speak slightly better grammar than Yoda”. People busted to laugh. They nodded and agreed with me. I felt comfortable. Since then, I have started feeling comfortable with who I am and stay being me.

I finally have noticed the important thing. I am Japanese and I speak proper Japanese. That is what I have, and I should be proud of that.  

I was not born here in America. English is not my mother tongue. I learned English as my foreign language. Considering that, I think I am doing pretty well. I am a Japanese living in a foreign country. In this country, I am registered as an “alien” anyway. An alien is supposed to be something that people have hard time to understand, right?

So, the same thing can be applied to everybody. We don’t need to force ourselves to become somebody else. Instead of trying to become somebody else, it might be easier to accept what we have and make the best use of what we have.

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