Synchronicity and success

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Astrology, Black Seeds, Employment, Gigs, Job, Leather boots, Little black dress, Predictions, Reggae, Success, Synchronicity, Zombie

I’ve been off the air most of the last two days. Things have been a tad hectic.

And I’m sorry to say I have been holding out on y’all a little. So here it is – a synopsis of the last week, with a focus on my Thursday and Friday…

The other week I wrote about my most recent Vedic astrology phone reading on Sunday and some of the predictions that I was given.

One of the main things I was interested in, is if I was EVER gonna get a job again any time soon. Now, in my post about the reading, I wrote: “Josie thinks I should be offered a job pretty imminently“. Imminently was my interpretation of what she actually said – which was, “I won’t be surprised if you get a job this week“.

I didn’t convey exactly what she said because you know, I was lacking confidence. Not in Josie’s prediction, just in myself. And it was a pretty definite statement. But guess what??

Yep! I FINALLY HAVE A NEW JOB!! Start Monday. Whoo hoo!! 🙂

I had my first interview with them on Tuesday afternoon. The fact this interview happened at all was amazing, since I’d somehow managed to include an old email address with my job application. Doh! Quite unforgivable for someone who’s a geek. So they were trying to email me and getting a permanent bounce. Luckily for me, they actually bothered to pick up the phone and call me anyhow.

I was booked in for an hour, but when we looked up it was ten minutes short of two hours. I met with the company owner and their Business Development Manager. Things definitely felt positive, but I’ve been there before in recent times, so I wasn’t gonna believe it just yet.

But in that session, they asked for my references and told me they wanted to see me for a second interview. As I was leaving, the guy who owns the company said: “I feel like we’ve all had a really great connection“. Sounded a little like what you might say after a good first date! But… so far, so good.

Then I got the call about another day of temp work on Thursday. And then I had my morning saved by a very kind human being. The temp work was pretty much doing nothing all day and getting paid for it. Sweet!

Thursday night my friend L and I had tickets to a gig (awesome reggae band called the Black Seeds).

In the afternoon, I checked my emails to find out I’d been asked back in for a second interview on Friday. I said yes ofcourse. BUT I didn’t have any suitable interview clothes with me… so after I finished doing nothing all day at 5pm, I hurried over to the big mall near L’s work.

Once again, I said a couple of quick prayers – let me find something to wear for tomorrow’s interview, let me find it quickly and make sure it goes with my black leather boots (the only footwear I had with me).

As many of you gals out there well know, shopping for something specific in a short timeframe isn’t always easy. But I found a funky little black dress and some accessories within thirty minutes!

Unbeknownst to me, L had told a certain boy of our plans for the evening. The one who recently caused me some confusion. He kinda invited himself along. So the three of us had drinks, then dinner (which the boy went out of his way to pay for). Then t’was off to the gig. My word, I had no idea Kiwis could rock the reggae so well! I was a bliss zombie before the night was out – we crashed around 2am.

But good news about the state of confusion – I have no idea what this boy’s motives are, but I’ve definitely decided he’s not for me. He plays things way too coy which aint good for a straight shooter. I need things to be a little more upfront than that! So I’m just going to enjoy his friendship and that’s all. [Relief!]

Friday morning I rocked up for my interview in my cute ‘n’ funky outfit and was pretty much offered the job straight up. This time I was in there for almost four hours – talking through some more of my experience, looking at some technical stuff and then they took me out to lunch! Its a very small business full of smart and friendly people. Think I’m gonna like it there.

The money is actually a little more than I wanted, and my first day on Monday will be a road trip to meet some clients a couple of hours out of town, tagging along with the Business Development Manager.

It will be different, working with only a handful of people instead of the large corporate world I’ve come from. But I think its definitely a good thing, and a much needed change from “same-same” experienced in large companies with so much corporate bullshit and red tape.

And then three for three – on hearing the good news, my parents decide to spring for dinner. Perhaps they’re just glad that soon I’ll be getting out of their hair?? 😉

So yay! I wanted to thank those of you who’ve been listening to me mope and complain here. New adventures await…

~Svasti

Vedic hotline

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Astrology, Jyotish, Not happy Jan, Sandhi, Sanskrit, Vedic

Today I had a phone reading with my Vedic astrologer. She lives in the US, and this is my second reading Josie (like most people I name on this blog, that’s not her real name).

The first reading was in person, but by necessity this one was an international call – thanks phone cards!

I’d kind of forgotten it was meant to be this weekend which is somewhat amusing. Why? Well, there’s been a bit of a raging debate over at GO! Smell the Flowers in which I’ve been one of the, um… is the right word protagonists? Or perhaps just captain of debating team A on the “For” side of astrology?

I’m definitely NOT suggesting anyone has to believe in astrology, but my main point is that from those experiences I’ve received very useful and accurate information. Not all of it is 100% accurate ofcourse, because the future does change depending on the choices we make. But in terms of describing past, current and near future events, I tend to find Vedic astrology works best.

Also… from my viewpoint, I tend not to harshly criticise something I haven’t experienced for myself, nor do I like to disparage others for what they’ve experienced. This is partly what I objected to so strongly on GSTF.

Anyhow, moving right along…

I booked a session with Josie not long after I got back from overseas, knowing I’d hit a major cross-road in my life and not knowing what to do about it. Little did I realise at that time just how HUGE it was gonna turn out to be, what with the can’t-get-a-job-to-save-my-life situation, the family stuff and the rest…

However I screwed up the first booking because whilst I’d got the time difference right, I’d called a day too early forgetting that her Saturday was my Sunday. And I’d made plans the next day so I couldn’t keep my appointment and had to wait three more weeks. Not happy, Jan! (That’s a very Australian reference).

So this morning it was. Adding to the time difference issue; last night the clocks moved forward an hour for Daylight Savings. Given the astounding lack of capacity my brain has for numbers I had to hold fast to the idea that if I didn’t change my clock forward and still called at the time according to that clock, I’d be okay. Small miracles!

Josie is kind of my whole yoga school’s number one astrologer or Jyotish. She’s also very good friends with my Guru, and understands that his students aren’t interested in the usual astrology questions so much as the spiritual kind. She’s a little bit ‘out there’ like an old stoned hippy, but she’s very accurate and intuitive.

In fact, the first thing she says to me is: Oh, you’re at a VERY big cross-road! You’re right in the middle of a sandhi.

Sandhi is a Sanskrit term meaning gap/space between two objects. This can be useful for some things, such as meditation. But it’s not so great for trying to make anything happen in the external world.

Apparently the planet ruling careers has been in a transit in my chart, and so not really available. According to the prashna, there’s no way I was going to get a job during this time. But just recently it moved to a ‘much better place’ in my chart and Josie thinks I should be offered a job pretty imminently. [please please!]

However, I’m either gonna be in this job for a short period of time and then get one I really like, or I’ll have a bit of a tough time in it for a while but in December or January things will pick up.

The best news of all – which I knew about last time – is that next year I move into a new planetary cycle for seven years which is meant to be a very powerful time for me. The cycle I’m in right now is Moon, which is debilitated and weak in my birth chart so it was never going to be a fun time for me for anything other than following my spiritual practices. At the very beginning of the Moon cycle is when I met my Guru – but other than that my life fell to pieces.

Such as, I broke up with my then fiancé. Then hot on the tails of that, I had a very hot and heavy affair. The end of that relationship spurred me on to the depths of depression and thoughts of hurting myself. After some travel and more contact with my Guru in the UK, I met and fell in love with someone and I couldn’t believe my luck. But then he decided we’d be better as friends and I spent the next several years being in love with him whilst retaining our friendship. Which was great, but also really sucked until I stopped being in love with him.

I think I’ve discussed some of my other bad relationships in other posts here including the grand finale of being assaulted. But basically I travelled further and further into my spiritual practices and at the same time my relationships have sucked majorly – when I’ve had them at all!

Apparently this is mostly the fault of my debilitated moon. Darn moon! It’s also the moon that’s caused the endless instability in my life (e.g. moving more times than I care to remember). Oh, and it’s supposed to mean that I’m meant to marry a foreigner.

Josie also picked up on my depression – which I never mentioned to her – saying oh yes, your moon placement shows it’s very easy for you to be brought down emotionally, and things are never as bad as you think they are. But right now you’re depressed and it’s hard for you to see things any other way.

But she says hang tight – changes of a very good kind are on their way come January. It’s meant to be a time of great empowerment and change for me. I’ll know myself more deeply. There’ll be much career success and a change of career into the things I’ve always wanted to do – out of the corporate world and into the world of things like acupuncture or permaculture. Eventually I’m meant to be a teacher of “ancient oral traditions” of some kind.

Unfortunately, 2009 doesn’t look so rosy for relationships… more aloneness! But there will be more overseas travel, more time in Thailand at our retreat center.

There’s more ofcourse, but it’s a little more private so I won’t publish it here.

However – a final note on astrology charts and readings.

Generally, they show expected outcomes, and unless a person puts in some serious effort, their near future according to a reading is unlikely to change. Certain events in time periods further out can and will change, however some are more difficult to impact.

But my Guru gets very frustrated with his students if we stick too religiously to our charts and what “Josie said…” Regardless of the number of times she’s predicted events for us in the past.

His expectation is that as yogis and yoginis, we can and will impact our karmas through our practice. And as such, it’s possible to “jump off your chart” and change the future.

For example, every reading my Guru has ever had said he was supposed to have died of a heart attack already and that he’d never have children. I think Jyotish’s still look at his chart and wonder how he’s alive, not to mention his wife and gorgeous son.

So, I guess the key to any reading is to respect it, but not see it as written in stone. Certainly however, it’s helped me understand what’s just been happening as well as the near future.

In any case, I’ll keep you informed as to the accuracy of this particular reading.

~Svasti