Quote de jour
"Our deepest wishes are whispers of our true selves. If we listen to them and create an action plan, we can make them true."
~LMW


This is the almost full blue moon in my front yard.

Never mind wishing on a star. There is a rare blue moon tomorrow on New Year's eve. This full moon is the "wishing moon" and there's no better time to make a wish for the new year, create a vision board, and focus on what you really want to manifest in the next year. It's not only the end of a year, it's the end of a decade. This is normally the time of the year when people trot out their new year resolutions: to lose weight, stop smoking or make a million dollars, but how many succeed? Not many.

So, before you make your wish list or paste pictures your ideal life on a vision board, do this;

1) Think about what you really want, not what you don't want. Write it down and ask yourself: Why do you want it? How would you feel if you achieved it? Most often people don't want what they think they want. We may think we want a Mercedes but when we dig deeper we may find we really want a vintage Chevy, and it's actually our parent or spouse who wants the Mercedes.

2) Focus on what you want and what you don't want. If you want to get married to your ideal man. Don't make a list like of what you don't want such as; I don't want a lying loser like my last boyfriend.

3) This is the clincher; why most people don't succeed in manifesting goals, wishes or resolutions. Early in life, we lose touch with our core truth, of who we truly are. Our beautiful, pure, loving selves get distorted by limiting beliefs like the lack of abundance, that we don't deserve good things, that we aren't good enough. If you don't love and accept yourself, no vision board or visualization tool is going to work because self-sabotage will rear its ugly head. If you want to lose weight and you try to manifest from a place of "I hate my body and I want to get rid of fifty pounds", it's not going to work. We need to come from a place of self-love.
If deep down, you feel you don't deserve happiness, your soul mate and your own private island, it won't happen. Vision boards are all the rage since Oprah sang their praises last year. I first learned about them in 1985 from the queen of creative visualization herself, Shakti Gawain. She called them "treasure maps". It's been my new year's tradition for many years to create a vision or manifestation board for the coming year. I've tried every size and shape, collages, paint, symbols, words colors, you name it and I've finally figured out what works and what doesn't but that's not our focus today.

I'd like to share a simple Blue Moon wishing spell. Tomorrow evening take a silver coin outdoors under the moon. It doesn't matter if it's cloudy or not. Hold the coin and focus on your wish, say it three times out loud. Make sure it is what you want and is phrased in the present tense. i.e. I wish to manifest the perfect new job for me in 2010 or I can easily lose twenty pounds in a healthy way.Then, leave the coin under the moon all night. In the morning, take the coin and use as a good luck talisman to keep in your pocket, place in your handbag or on an altar.

My wish for you in the coming year is a smooth journey towards love, peace, joy and wisdom. Make 2010 your best year ever!