I’ve had several serendipitous occurrences that verifies to me I’m on the right track.  When you’re aligned with Spirit, or connected to your Expanded Self, It gives you ‘cookies’ or validations.

The first was a mixup of dates.  At the end of October, I booked a mini-break out of town with my husband but forgot to write the exact dates down.  I thought it was the second weekend of December.  I scheduled a radio appearance for Dec. 5th, and said ‘yes’ to East West Bookshop to do readings there on Saturday the 12th.  Then I realised that’s when I thought  I’d be out of town, so I called East West before their Dec-Feb. calendar went to press and cancelled the 12th.  Afterwards I found the condo confirmation for mini-break and it was for the first weekend!

I decided I just had to go ahead and do the radio interview whilst on holiday, and regretted nixing East West, feeling it was too late to change things there as the catalogue was already printed.

Then I received an email from the radio host saying their show was being pre-empted for a football game and could we switch to the 12th?  Perfect.  And because of the time of the interview, I couldn’t have done East West that day as well.

Meanwhile, I’ve started an additional radio show of my own on Blog Talk Radio, just for giving free psychic readings.  My Contact Talk Radio show has had increasingly interesting (and well-known) guests, which have been filling the entire hour, leaving me no time to take listeners calls (or the guests take the calls, to promote their own services).  I’m booked until mid-February with guests, so I won’t be able to start scheduling new ones for just 30 minutes until then.

Just got an email from Mike Dooley’s publicist saying he’s no longer doing 60 minute interviews, only 30 minutes.  Perfect.  My January 12th show I can talk to him the first half, and do mini-readings for the rest of the show!!

The final occurance isn’t fully formed yet.  When I decided to add the Blog Talk show to my schedule, I hadn’t anticipated how energetically demanding it would be.  I feel like I’m in a lot of effort which I assume is going to effect my ability to create.  However today when I was the most tired and pressed for time, I had a full show of callers.  If effort is supposed to be a deterrant to spiritual creativity, I should have none.

I’m giving it to the end of the week to decide if I’m going to continue with it.   If it shows evidence of bringing in income, either calls for private readings, mystic mentorship coaching,  matrix energetics sessions or signups for my new on-line class then I’ll continue. At this point what I may do is instead of 5 mornings a week, do less.

On the other hand, all this effort hasn’t yet yielded the income I’m desiring.  I suspect if I do *stop*, the flow will come in differently.  That’s what I’m anticipating for January when my rates go up.  Less readings but more income.  On the other hand, that’s also when I’m starting to teach my new on-line class, so that will require an acceleration of activity (recording video lessons, emailing students, etc.).

Sometimes an acceleration of activity doesn’t deter manifestation, but enhances it.  A key to Law of Attraction is, after putting out your request to the Universe, is to let go of what you desire.  If you’re too busy to think, you’re not dwelling on what you do or don’t have.  You’ve mentally ‘gotten out of your own way’, which allows the Universe to bring it to you.

That’s it for now.  I’m curious to see how the rest of the day/week goes…

Private Practice Session Rates

My current rates have been $150 an hour/$75 per half hour (unchanged since 2007?)
My rates are changing to $275 per hour/$150 per half-hour starting January 1st, in keeping with the value of services provided.

Existing Clients

If you are have had a had a full priced (not discounted) reading from me in 2009, you can continue to receive 2009 rates until March 1st, 2010.  I will need to have record (e.g. PayPal payment) that it was full priced and not discounted (I.e. “East West” rate) or if you book a full priced session between now and December 31st, I will honor the 2009 rate for any sessions you book through March 1st, 2010.

Gift Certificates

Any *Gift Certificates* purchased in 2009 will be honored throughout 2010.  (Besides Christmas, think ahead to upcoming birthdays, etc. this year)!

East West Bookshop

East West Bookshop sets it’s own limitations on session fees; they are $25 for 15 mins. $50 for 30 mins. and $100 for 60 mins. those fees remain unchanged through March 1st, 2010.  I will *only* offer these rates for sessions at East West Bookshop.

My Radio Shows will continue to offer free mini-readings for callers when the schedule permits.

I do readings at East West Bookshop on Wednesdays from 12-6pm.  I leave the house early, because it takes up to 2 hours to get there, and I have to allot time to eat something before I get started!  With the traffic and ferry schedule, it takes 2 hours to return.  So for a 6 hour day, I’m gone 10 hours.

I figured for it to be worth my while, I really need to earn $300 a day, which shouldn’t be difficult, if I’m asking $50 for 30 mins and $100 for a 60 min. session.  Actually, $350 to $400, because I give East West 20% of my earnings.

It’s rare I hit $300, let alone more.  And this month alone, there was a day I only made $35… (the same day I filled in for someone who was sick and ran a free group until 8:30pm) and last week I went the entire day without a reading.

Driving home I was pissed.  What  a huge waste of my time.  Especially when my private practice rate is $150 an hour (and going up to $275 in January.  See previous post on Money Game stuff).  Short of quitting, what could I do?

Suddenly I remember an article by Molly Gordon, who coaches artists and entrepreneurs.  She was coaching an artist who was bemoaning selling her original artwork at street fairs.  “You don’t sell your original art at street fairs.” Molly told her. “You sell postcards and prints.  You save your original work for galleries, where you can be paid what they’re worth.”

I thought of the psychics whom I mentioned in the previous post.  They certainly aren’t doing readings at street fairs, nor bookstores!  And I’ve quite doing psychic fairs, except for Boeing’s Parapsychology Club and Vashon’s Strawberry Festival, although read the end of the post about them.

It hit me, I shouldn’t give my full time away for less than it’s worth, but I can do mini-readings, ‘tasters’ for the real thing.  So I decided to offer 15 minute readings for $25 (same price as at Boeing) and keep the $50 for 30 minutes for the time being, but not do 1 hr readings at the store.  If they want my full time, they need to pay for it.

The clincher was the day I earned $35.  Someone came in who said they couldn’t afford $50, so I gave them what ended up being 25 minutes of my time.  Shortly afterwards I saw them buying something at the bookstore.  Not a big something but indicated that they actually did have the $50, they just didn’t want to pay me it!

Today I’ve earned $125; someone took advantage of the $25 special which ostensibly pays my East West fee. I guess that breaks down to $20 an hour (not counting my 4 hours of travel time).  Pretty good wages if I were a checker at Whole Foods.

Another idea I decided to take action on was to do a regular (weekday) radio show on Blog Talk Radio.  BTR is free, whereas my weekly show with Contact Talk Radio costs $585 a month.  My CTR show has become more focused on my guests (something I want to correct in the future, going back to ½ hr interviews and doing readings the rest of the time.  A few weeks ago a guest got the time wrong and no-showed, so I spent the entire time taking listeners’ calls, and one of them contacted me later for a 1 hr reading at my regular price.  On CTR I have guests scheduled until February, so I’m not able to shift the format for a while.  I decided to instigate the weekly show where I just “Mystically Muse” (e.g. talk about topics that interest me) and take listeners calls, solely me, no guests.  Since it costs nothing, there’s no risk.  Right now there’s maybe a dozen listeners (versus 400 or so on CTR).

What’s interesting is, right when I’m poised to raise my fees (I’ve now decided $275 an hr, $150 a half hour) I’ve created these two situations where I’m giving even more of my time away.  Then again, the mini-readings at East West and the freebies on BTR are something I can offer people who aren’t able to pay my full fee.  *If* my East West schedule picks up (it may take a bit more publicity and the December catalogue, where the $25 fee would introduced for the first time, hasn’t come out yet.

I’ll see how the show is going by then.  Perhaps I’ll change the schedule to coincide with his.  Or he may get work elsewhere in his company.  Or if I still only have twelve listeners, I may scrap the idea.

All of this is Money Game musings (a good blog title).  None of it’s a Phase 2 perspective.  Although the part where I realized that here I am poised to increase my rates and boom I add mini readings and a daily radio show seems like it could be my Expanded Self at work.  Or I’m just accelerating the effort.

Again, I’m just trying out these two ideas (= I felt motivated to try out these two ideas) and will stop when I feel motivated to stop.

Meanwhile I’ve been sending out a PR for my book (it took me 7 or 8 months to getting around to doing so) and I’m going to be on 3 or 4 other radio shows so far.  It’s been a learning experience, tweaking the PR and today after talking with one show I’m probably going to rewrite it entirely.  Still offering up the book, but putting me (as a fascinating person with all these other services to offer) forward.  Because it seems that people aren’t so hot on interviewing fiction writers, but do like psychics and life coaches.  Okie dokie.

I suddenly got the images of planting seeds, the kind of seeds that need to over winter in order to germinate.  True to my style, I’m doing it by the seat of my pants, I’m seeing how other people have done it (all the people I’ve interviewed on my show), and gradually increasing my experience and comfort zone.  Pretty fun.

It’s a Player perspective when it’s effort in order to pay the mortgage.

It’s an Expanded Self kind of thing when it’s fun.

This week,  I had a Healing Spectrums session with Thomas Gates (who was on my show a few weeks ago) and yesterday I interviewed Mantak Chia and Dena Saxer of Universal Healing Tao and authors of Emotional Wisdom: Daily Tips for Transforming (emotions)… and on November 17th I’ll be interviewing Jon Gabriel who lost 225lbs using visualization and whose Gabriel Method has helped others do the same.

It’s a body growth period time.  Thomas Gates’ session focuses on healing trauma so I requested a focus on some specific body stuff.  I’ve recurring aches and comprehension challenges from a car accident many years ago.  I’ve had some pesky pains that Western Medicine has diagnosed and I’m choosing to not get on their roller coaster ride of treatment.  What came up, however, was emotion.  If you’ve been following this blog, you’ll know that’s been the prevalent theme of growth recently.

Dena Saxer talked about the importance of grounding and put forth the POV that emotions were ‘Soul’s communication to us’.  I liked her reminder of grounding (something I’m still going round and round about since embarking on this accelerated expansion route a couple years ago.  However, I view emotions as body’s communication to Us as Spirit (Expanded Self, Large Self, Essential Self).

And Jon Gabriel talks about using visualization to communicate to our bodies.  I love that.  Although I’ve always seen that Spirit and Non-Physical communicate to us through images, now I see that Body responds to us that way, too.  And I love that he has that awareness.

What I notice is that my body responds much like a 3 or 4 year old.  And my emotions (when they’re mine and not empathically someone else’s) are pure communication that it’s hungry, tired, wants comforting or reassurance.

I’ve been on this accelerated path of growth, combining Matrix Energetics and Robert Scheinfeld’s system.  M.E. takes me into the Quantum Physics realm where nothing is stable, everything is random, and thus anything is possible.  Robert Scheinfeld views this as a holographic universe similar to a video game – so the body isn’t real, because nothing in this reality is real.

I now know the feeling reality of both, and am coming full circle back to ownership of my original information as well as all the techniques in my spiritual toolkit.  I don’t dismiss the stepping stones to my new level of awareness any more than a gifted dancer would diss their beginning ballet classes from childhood.  If you look carefully at most new dance techniques, you’ll see the foundation of ballet in them.

However my earlier techniques did have distortions in them (much the same way that ballet murders your feet with toe shoes).

So I’m back to being Spirit with a body (as I am Spirit with all the bodies in my awareness, but this body sitting in this chair typing this is my focus in the moment).  Because I like being my Expanded Self in this reality.  And I can ground through this body, because even though as ES/Spirit I’m from outside this hologram, which is beyond vibration, we’ll humour the holographic belief about vibration.  Grounding  stabilizes, helps body feel safe, helps bring “Spirit’s” lighter vibration into form, yada, yada.  The way I use it, it balances higher vibrations with lower vibrations, similar to Mark Dunn’s “dropping down” technique.  And it doesn’t slow you down (people unused to grounding sometimes feel that way).  It helps you embody changes.

There’s more to this musing, but I have to take this body to East West Bookshop, because in this reality, it’s “time” to start my “workday” of doing psychic readings!

It is an interesting and amusing day.  I walked into EastWest and there was only 1 reading signed up.  A half hour for $50.  I’ve calculated I need to make at least $300 to make it worth my while to be here.  It takes up to 2 hours (including a ferry ride) to get here from Vashon Island, plus gas and ferry fare.  Actually, I need to make more than $300 because I give EW 20%.  To clear $300 I need to make $400.

In an earlier post I was talking about raising my prices and being pretty disgruntled about my current creation and wasn’t certain about continuing w/ EW into the new year.  So today I find myself volunteering for extra shifts, because one of the other readers is very ill and unable to fill her slot for an unspecified period of time.  I’ll be doing an extra long Wednesday next week, because she had an evening event I’ll be doing, and I said I’d be happy sharing her Thursday evening slot with the other readers on ‘any Thursday that I’m not reading here on a Saturday’.

Thing is, I genuinely like the people who run East West.  They are wonderful, gentle and sincere souls.  They start each workday with an Attunement (ala Findhorn) and time to pray for people who’ve requested it.  I’m just disgruntled with their monetary limitations.

And I’m not enamoured with the commute, although it’s fun if I can combine it with other errands.  Gas and groceries are cheaper in Seattle, there’s no Target on my island, etc.

All of these are Money Game considerations.  Time and space is a body level illusion.  My main reason for accepting working at EW was a chance to work in Seattle again after a decade or so of being focused on my tiny island.  I viewed it as an opportunity to expand my connections, and it certainly has done that.

As I’m writing this however I’m aware that I’ve been gradually expanding beyond physically being present with people.  I’ve stopped teaching classes face to face.  I only meet with one coaching client in person, the rest are over the phone. 99% of my private reading clients are phone clients and from out of state (if not in other countries).  So I think that I’m aware of evolving beyond commuting to a physical location to meet with and attract new people.

I started a shift in June that hit up against some limitations.  It’s called ‘breakdown, breakthrough’ in coaching language, and ‘a growth period’ in my old psychic jargon.  I’d completed my first 3 months of my radio show and felt the energetic expansion.  Boom! Several things converged from several areas that appeared to slow me down.  In reality it’s all part of the spiritual remodel.  You decide to increase the square footage of your ‘house’; add a master bedroom and bathroom and a skylight, and conceptually you feel wonderful.  Then you have to live with contractors, sheetrock dust, and plastic over the hole in the roof while the project gets worked on.

Here I am four months later feeling like no expansion has happened, but it has.  My radio show has increasingly interesting people as guests.  I have more and more repeat clients.

No, I don’t have a Home Transformational System to offer people.  No, I haven’t recorded any new YouTube videos since December.  No I haven’t created any on-line classes or coaching programs.  I started those in the summer and didn’t have the momentum to continue.  I *have* started writing Adventures in Density & Effort which is a non-fiction book, a travellers’ guide to life on Playground Earth.  I have the introduction and a few pages of chapter one completed.

I need help.  As I write that, I know that I have Help.  I have an entire ocean of unseen helpers that can fill any of my requirements.  It would be nice if they were in physical form – a Publicist to get me on other radio stations with my current book Tapestry of  Time (write the friggin’ press release Joan, send it out to the media list provided by Contact Talk Radio).  A Virtual Assistant to help me do the aforementioned.  Some Techy savvy person to help create the Home Transformational System?  To help structure the on-line classes?  I have the curriculum, it’s just putting it in on-line form.  A webmaster to update my site?  Or make it so I can update it more easily myself!

Really? It’s just do it (when I typed that before, my fingers hit the wrong keys and it the sentence suddenly came out in bold and at about size 16 font)!

That’s the answer.  What that means for me, a Taurus, is to put my head down and plough through all the imagined obstructions.

My illusion of a lunch break is over.  I’m going back to East West.  I haven’t any other signups for the afternoon, but that hasn’t stopped readings from appearing out of thin air.  If not, I’m continuing writing Adventures In Density & Effort.  And trusting that the illusion of the mortgage gets paid this month!

My cell phone is crapping out on me.  I either need a new one or a new battery.  I went to Radio Shack this morning and discovered a new battery is $50.  I could get a new phone for free, but then I’d have to commit to Verizon for another 2 years, and I’ve been undecided about this cell phone company for months now.

As I left Radio Shack with my old cell and old battery (talk time – 15 minutes before it dies), I mused about how much the Money Game has a hold on me.  I’ve gotten so much better, in that I’m no longer compulsively tracking numbers and expenses (the only thing I felt I could control, since being self-employed, income varies wildly from moment to moment).  I know that when I express appreciation for something, the amount comes in to support it.

I’m clearly not operating as my Expanded Self, for which manifesting is effortless and Money is an imaginary concept.  I’ve got my eye on the end of the month, when I need to express appreciation for my Radio Show and my mortgage.  (Donations towards either would be tremendously appreciated).  I’m grouchy about my current hourly rate (see earlier blogpost).  And bottom line, I’m tired of my friggin’ contracted attitude!

I’ve created such an amazing storyline around  Money.  For one thing, I grew up in several different countries, so my first monetary system was pounds, shillings and pence, and my second was rupees and paisas!  As a I lived in modest suburban homes and rather grand houses with servants.  Even as an adult I manifested travel around the world without a thought to cost.  And, I’ve also created time on food stamps, not being able to afford toilet paper!

10/21/09 Update.  As what usually happens when I start worrying about Money, things flow in to prove me wrong (usually right after some mild setback masquerading as a mountain).  I’ve created a client pay me early, plus two additional readings, to nearly add up to be the right amount of appreciation for my Radio Show.  So the initial “curse” (judgemental term) of being self employed – not knowing how much is flowing towards you – always manifests as a blessing (unlimited amounts can flow towards you).

I’m becoming clearer and clearer of how contracted I’ve been over the illusion of years.  And gaining great clarity of how I want to move forward.  I look at someone like Carol Tuttle who obviously is making (the illusion) of six figures (numbers game) and I immediately thing “I don’t want to work that hard”.  Which goes back to the days in my story line when I was working 70 hour weeks, community 300 miles a week, when my children were in pre-school and kindergarten.  I don’t want  to get burned out again.  For one thing, Carol’s children are grown and she has plenty of help!  And – it’s ALL storyline.  Marc Allen, who wrote “The Type Z’s Guide To Success” doesn’t work Mondays, doesn’t start work until noon, and still has a very successful publishing company and has created (the illusion of ) millions to boot.

Anyone can create anything they want.  Poverty is equally as creative as wealth.  “It’s as easy to create a castle as a button” to paraphrase Abraham-Hicks.

This blogpost is still a work in progress, but I feel like publishing it and updating it later.  Gotta go “to work”.  LOL – I “work” as a Psychic, doing readings 1 or 2 days a week at East West Bookshop, as well as my own business doing readings, Mystic Mentorship coaching, occasional weddings, and my weekly radio show.  It’s all a marvellous, wonderful, creative GAME.

I’ve been aware of a Mood coming on.  It’s been fairly subtle, just noticing flashes of annoyance, and imagined conversations where I get quite pissed off.  Am I just premenstrual, is someone ‘in my space’ or is something bigger going on?

Six years ago I had a transformation after a 5 month health challenge.  I got REALLY PISSED OFF at Western Medicine, went totally alternative and completely reversed my situation without surgery or medicine.  Western Medicine was/is this giant WALL of beliefs and concepts masquerading as reality.  It took an enormous amount of energy to break through it.

It feels like something similar but without as specific a topic as my health.

I’ve notice themes popping up with my volunteer work, with groups I belong to, as well as random clients.  I’m not suffering fools gladly any more.

There’s a dance between irritation and engagement.  I can use my reactions as a navigational tool, to know what part of the playground I don’t want to play in any more.  It actually doesn’t mean avoiding the playground, because in my Phase 2 work, I know the hologram can change as any moment.  You break through the illusion and things change.  Someone experiencing conflict in the workplace will ‘reclaim power’ and Monday morning everyone’s harmonious.

Before Phase 2, I used to pride myself on being friends with difficult people. (?!)  I was fiercely loyal to a narcissist.  I was good chums with a pot addict.  Then I woke up and ‘weaned’ myself from those kind of attachments.

Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby is a great example of how *not* to engage with those other aspects in your hologram!  Just avoid sticky people in the first place!  It reminds me of the title to a book “No is a Complete Sentence”.

I suspect that’s what’s really going on.  I’m coming to a place of greater awareness and requiring clearer boundaries.

10/21 Update – the Mood is passing through, there is greater Awareness and also greater emotions.  It’s one of those times where my telepathy & empathy is heightened.  Today, driving into Seattle, I started naming every thought that came into my head – about bills and income, “Money Game”, about not exercising “Body Game” about sensing a panic attack “Emotions Game” (and also) “Psychic Game”, being aware of driving past the local Police Station “Human Game“, awareness of relatives on the East Coast and their different growth experiences, “Relationships Game” (and also) “Psychic Game“.

When I got onto I-5, the traffic was incredible.  I was aware of driving through DENSITY and EFFORT!!!  I started reminding myself of Julia Rogers Hamrick’s brilliant creation “EasyWorld” “I choose to live in Easy World where everything is Easy”.  It worked somewhat.  I reminded myself I could experience Easy World even if I were creeping through traffic and rain and wet roadways.

I have an analogy for moving through patterns of morphic fields (that some would call Life).  It’s like jumping waves at the beach.  Some waves are small and it’s thrilling to leap and feel them passing through.  Some are huge and instinctually you start wading towards the beach.  Bad idea! The wave crashes over you, you tossed and turned by it.  Experienced ‘wave-jumpers’ know to dive through the big waves.  You quickly emerge through the other side – exhilarating!

The traffic wasn’t exactly a wave, it was a big, dense tide of energy, collective effort and frustration.  However, it’s all My Hologram.  It’s My Storyline.  I, as Consciousness, created it.  I can move effortlessly through it, or I can resist it as real.  My choice.  When I resist, it feels like I’m stuck forever.  When I don’t — I get to Starbucks perfectly on time to have a chai and check email before going to East West.

Why?  Well, first I reread Havi Brook’s blogs, part 1 and part 2

Havi is someone who I respect and enjoy, even though I’ve never met her, and only read her blogposts and Tweets.  But she’s obviously making a living doing what she does, and even employs folks to help her.

I was intending on raising my rates at the beginning of last year, when I took on doing my radio show.  Then I started doing readings at East West Books in Seattle.  They didn’t want me to charge even my current rate.  I struck a deal with them to charge what *they* wanted me to charge for the first three months, and then go up to the highest rate they charge for readings.  Actually, only one reader gets to charge that rate, and that’s Jennifer Starr who’s been working there 4 years. Jennifer is someone else I like and respect (she was my very first coach).

That rate is still 1/3rd off my regular rate.  Which is less than I want to be charging.

I’ve rationalized continuing with East West because it expands my exposure (their catalog goes out to like 25,000+ people), and allows me to work in Seattle.  However, I give them 20% of my earnings.  Which doesn’t always add up at the end of the month (my time vs. cost).  Now they’ve added two offices in the back of the store, which ‘healers’ can rent for $150 a month.  They don’t get the advertising East West provides, but they can charge their regular rates.

Why do I want to raise my rates?  Because I’ve been doing what I do for nearly 27 years.  Because there are others out there less experienced and less capable charging more.  Because I like my radio show and would like to keep doing it (at this moment I consider it really expensive advertising).   Because I have a mortgage and two kids in college?  Mikelann Valterra has some great information on this in her book ‘Earn What You Deserve’.  Someone else I like and respect.

One thing she points out is that men end up earning over 6 figures more than women in the course of their career simply because they ask for it! Do I *really* need to justify earning a decent living?!?!?

Oh, how’s this for synchronicity – I went to Mikelann’s blog to find a the exact numbers for the above anectdote and found a great blog article on charging what you’re worth and she quotes Havi Brooks! Yeah, baby!

They both make the point to factor in not only the physical hour you’re with the client, but the administrative time and your life experience as well. For me, my time includes the hours I spend marketing every day, getting the word out about my offerings, my weekly radio show which people can access for free (and can call in to get free readings from me), my weekly Ezine (a form of free classes or lessons).  Besides 27 years of experience (I started doing professional readings in 1981 started teaching spiritual classes in 1984), I have 5 years of metaphysical training (well, make that eight years by now), 2+ years of coach training and have been working as a professional coach since 2000.  Oh, and 3 years doing Matrix Energetics, 2 years as a Certified Practitioner, including traveling with the M.E. seminars as a facilitator. Still, I know I’m leaving out some things.

It takes me about 2 hours to drive in to East West Books, and 2 hours to get home.  For a six hour shift, it takes me 10 hours.  How much should I be earning per day there?

Have we mentioned the value I provide to my clients? The life changing results they’ve had? The emails I receive after each Ezine and Radio show?  My website is filled with such feedback!

Here’s what I’m announcing:  Come January – my hourly rate is going up.  My coaching rate is goi ng up, too.  If you are a current coaching client or contract with me as a coaching client *before* January 1st, you will continue to receive my current rate until March 1st.

At this moment, I can’t raise my rates at East West (although reading several more of Mikelann’s blogposts may change this).  But I can consider whether on not to continue reading there next year.  Or I may stay considering their fees as an ‘intro price’ for folks.  Or I may start renting there.  I’m sitting with this and measuring my acceptance/resentment balance.

As I was writing this, I realized another intuitive, whom I helped get started, began charging the rate I was intending to raise my fees to, back in 2004.  Another psychic, with no prior reading experience, started out charging TWICE as much as I am currently.  She based her pricing on research and the ‘respect factor’ (she found she respected the higher priced seers more).

Also, Carol Tuttle’s EnergyHealingBootcamp provided some great clearing around this issue!

Here’s what some other psychics charge:  Jaena Moynihan: $150 -30 mins, $275 – 60 mins  Dorothea Delgado $350 – 60 minutes Erin Pavlina $497 -30 minutes, $797 -60 minutes (phone readings; add $100 for in person readings, “wait time 1-3 weeks” for appt.) Sally Owen $275/$350 -60 minutes or $375/450- 120 minutes (depending on the kind of reading).

All of them are very capable psychics.  You should check them out.

What am I looking at charging? $250 an hour.  Looks very reasonable now, doesn’t it?

I’m listening to the podcast of my radio show from last week.  There were some audio problems (which doesn’t sound all that horrible now) and I’m reliving the intense anxiety I experienced during the show!

Usually I handle things with aplomb; things don’t phase me, the show must go on.  However I was interviewing Lola Jones, who is someone I’m inspired by, and so this particular airing was *really* important to me.  I was *tortured* with thoughts of how unprofessional we must seem to her!  Now I’m listening to it, it’s not so bad – I just sound really subdued (as I was busy breathing, grounding, trying to stay centered)!

I think the last time I felt this was when I interviewed Amit Goswami, who I felt was by far the most ‘well known’ guest I’ve had on the show.  And it was just a prerecord, but the producer wasn’t ready for us (even though I’d confirmed the time with her earlier).

Yet, when I interviewed Marc Allen, another person whom I hold in high esteem, it went great!  (I should listen to it again, as a warmup for today’s show.  This anxiety isn’t good preparation)!

The thing with live performances is that you have to just shake it off and go on.  If you flub your lines in the previous scene, you can’t let it ruin your acting in the entire play.

Using another analogy, Roz Savage, ocean rower and upcoming guest in November, “leave it on the wave behind”.  Roz has had to develop tremendous mental discipline in order to successfully solo row the Atlantic and now the Pacific.

It’s good advice for life as well.  Every day is a new creation.  If we dwell on our past mistakes, it’s like walking backwards.  We miss all the wonderful possibilities ahead of us!

So I’m experimenting with this new blog.  My regular one “Adventures In Density & Effort” contains the articles from my weekly Ezine of the same name.  It’s on Blogger.  I’m testing out WordPress as it’s linked to my new webhost.  At this moment I’m not entirely convinced it’s better, although I do like the templates.  The intention for this blog is to post every couple days, more in touch with what’s personally going on with me, rather than the Ezine blog articles (although they’re based on experience, often, as well).

Okay, now to walk the doggies and prep for this afternoon’s radio show!

My first blogpost on this blog is inspired by the theme I’ve (temporarily) chosen.  It’s called Benevolence! And it comes with an interesting photo of sprouted grass (we don’t know if it’s ordinary lawn grass or wheat grass or catnip).

When I read folks and see green in their aura it has to do with a growth space they’re in.  The shade of green denotes the part of the cycle they’re experiencing.  If it’s bright, spring green, it’s brand new growth.  It’s the colour of birth, death, divorce, unemployment, marriage, relocating, you get the picture.  It’s the colour of newly seeded grass pushing up through fertilized ground.

Medium green means they’ve been in this new phase of growth for 3-5 years.  I call it ‘maintenance green’ because it’s when you have to work to keep up the new you (that you became out of the intense growth space you went through).  It’s when you need to start mowing your lawn.

Dark green means you’re getting stagnant.  You haven’t been mowing the lawn.  You need to get out the machete!

Khaki green is out of present time energy.  It’s usually in someone’s space when they’ve come from a family or school reunion, or had to move back in with the ‘rents.

I’m in a bit of a growth phase myself right now.  I visited my 83 year old mother in September and spent 2 weeks in Khaki green land.  She’s rented her townhouse since 1987.  Technologically, it’s from an even earlier time.  She doesn’ t have voice mail or an answering machine.  I was on *dialup* for most of my visit with her.

Coming back home was a relief, but I came down with a cold and spent the last two weeks on Airborne (*great* stuff)!  Managed to keep up the regular work load but frustrated I’ve not surged forward the way I’d like to.

For instance – I have to invite more folks to be guests on my radio show (empty slots start October 27th).  I have a list of people I’d like to ask; just haven’t sent the email.

Since August, I’ve been wanting to write a PR for my book, “Tapestry of Time” to send around to other radio stations and places.  I’ve the lists of places, just haven’t written the PR.  I know it won’t be hard once I’ve started.  Just haven’t started.

Also need to come up with specials for my different mailing lists to respond to, to generate extra income in this new season.  Wanted to do a “Harvest Moon to Halloween” offer.  Isn’t the Harvest Moon like, tomorrow?

I can use my cold and Mercury Retrograde as excuses.  I can go the spiritual route and say there’s Divine Timing and my Expanded Self hasn’t been motivated.  I could have used the time I spent creating this blog to churn out a friggin’ PR, fer chrissakes.

It’s a growth period.

It’s 11:11am.  Time to publish this and go to East West and do readings…