Month: July 2003

Scorpio week of July 3rd:

“You’re like an arrow in flight, Scorpio. You’re a half-cooked feast, the fifth month of pregnancy, the week before a big election. When I turned my psychic vision towards you just now, I saw an image of a worker bee freshly returned to the hive to perform the dance that will tell its companions where to find a patch of blooming snapdragons. Have you ever mastered a second language? Where you are at this moment resembles the time right before you attain fluency.”

Compliments of FreeWill Astrology

Now, this is one I can see. I’m almost done with my room, which means more clean space in the house. And, it means I’ll be ready to open business, eventually! Home sweet Home.

My ceiling is purple.

In other news, and along the tangent of a previous post….I was watching a toddler walk through my store today, and I realized. She’s walking properly!!! Now, I’m sure that seems weird, but she was. First her toes, then her heels, bouncing around in front of my counter. As I was watching her, I realized that when we’re young, we actually have pretty good movement mechanics, and then slowly replace them with bad movement mechanics. Now, while our bodies are different from our quadreped counterparts in the animal kingdom, the movement of our legs is, for the most part, the same. They’re the power source for major movement with our ankles, knees and hips providing us with shock absorbing abilities. That’s why sprinters are told to run on their toes, they get a quicker and more powerful movement through that route. So, why have we ditched our natural method of walking? Got me. I’d venture to guess that it’s the way we’ve suited ourselves to our environment. However, it’s also resulted in horrendous posture, shin splints, tired heels, and various knee problems. The problems work their way upward, thanks to the fact that many of us put most of our body weight on our heels, instead of somewhere over our arches. And then off to one side or the other, instead of in the middle.

So, now comes my challange. As you all stand, during the day, or walk, notice where your weight is going. Is it evenly distributed between the ball of your foot and your heel? Is it evenly distributed across the ball of your foot? When you walk, do you walk heel to toe? What sensations do you notice when your heel first contacts the surface your walking on? Attempt to walk toe to heel, even if you have to do it barefoot. How does that feel? What sensations (besides it feeling odd) do you get when you walk this way?

Utilizing the answers, come up with a method of change to make standing and walking more comfortable. Trust me, it’ll feel good.

So, the ceiling is now done. Well, the rest of the sanding needs to be done and then Thursday I can begin the actual painting. I’m very ready to have my own personal space. Not that I don’t have personal space, but this will be all mine, only to be shared with a young girl that I may or may not meet. The good thing, is that, by the end of this week, I will have meditation space and will be able to set aside more study time for my hobby studies.

In other news, I got a polite lecture from my mum about being financially independant. The ironic thing is that I asked for my monthly allowance to be decreased, which she didn’t do. With the new living arrangement, I can pretty much subsist without her help and my business is starting to to take in more money. I think I’m going to give it a couple more months, and just split up my current monthly into a bi-monthly or a tri-monthly. I keep my budget low, the only major expense I’m saving for is a new car, and my monthlies on that will be pretty low, given what I’ve got for the downpayment. Such is the life.