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September 2019

We Rise When Lifting Others

The New Vine Moon in Virgo Friday, August 30th demands accounts to be paid. Not just payments of money, but also payments of service to others. This is your way of helping to maintain the proper balance of income and outgo in your life. You are not here to take only. You are also here to give.

The Sun has moved into the only sign of the zodiac that is represented by a woman. She is Demeter (the Earth mother), the nurturing mother goddess who brought grain to humanity. She is a sign of mutable Earth energy, and, as such, she brings the Earth out of its Summer season and into the Harvest as we return to the Autumn Equinox, with which the cardinal Air sign of Libra, the Scales, begins.

With Mercury, Venus, and Mars clustering in Virgo too, we are affected by those three planetary influences. They are all inner planets, closer and more quickly moving. Mercury rules Virgo, as it does Gemini, but here Mercury manifests in Virgo's gifts of analysis, troubleshooting, and problem-solving. Our minds are looking for solutions! Another of Virgo's most powerful gifts is their natural ability to detect the distinct odor of bullshit. And it won't be the Virgo who stepped in it or dragged that mess into the house!

Venus, the goddess of love and creativity, is also in Virgo. You'll feel yourself pulled towards a fresh new haircut, maybe a new wallet–Venus is all about money!–and perhaps some sort of artistic crafting to switch the environment from Summer to Autumn. Venus will inspire you to try something new in her trining aspect to Uranus, planet of revolution and technology.

Mars, the god of war and action, is also in Virgo. He and Venus had their annual get together last week, and he has now moved on to find something to DO! The time for thinking about things is O.V.E.R. It is time to pick up your feet, open your mouth, and take hold of your future! Where do you start? Finding ways to serve others. And doing your share to support the Earth. Virgo will insist on your contributions this month, or you will find yourself without her support through the terror-time of Winter! Get creative. Venus will help. Do something you've never done before: volunteer in some capacity at a school, social program, or political campaign. Just DO it!

The planet Saturn will go direct in Capricorn on September 18th. These are your last days to get your accounts in order - monetary and philanthropic. And yes, Saturn is keeping track. Pluto is also in Capricorn, still in retrograde. It will be turning direct October 3rd. The two are headed for a meeting of the minds - Saturn, the god of duty, discipline, government, finance, and responsibility - Pluto, the god of the Underworld and deep, dark secrets, oil and gas and diamonds and gold, sexual secrets, and shady deals - on January 11, 2020. Every day from now till then, you can expect more digging up of ugly details in any and all of those areas. THE most important planetary alignment of 2019 will be the building up to this conjunction in January, 2020. NOTHING will be left unrevealed. These two planets do not fool around. Karma and Death… yup. Things are getting serious. Better make sure you have yourself and your accounts in order.

The Vine Moon

You will be the best you can be when you are challenged to rise higher than you have before AND when others support you as you grow. Watch my quick video from back in 2012. Nature's way is still true today!

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Outdoor Feng Shui Support for Learning

As Summer ends and kids go back to school, you find yourself yearning for learning…naturally! The new Vine Moon on September 28th brings the energy of the time of year to align with returning to the path of self-directed enlightenment. It is not just marketing hype. It is how Nature ensures your survival and encourages your ability to thrive.

To support yourself and your family in your efforts to be the best you can be, look to enhance the Earth element in your Knowledge and Self-Improvement gua in the front left part of your property.

Layer enhancements for the entire property by starting in the front yard. Add boulders or stone borders to flower beds in the front left part of your yard. Add brick or stone walkways. Include a concrete bench or birdbath. Statuary here gets you bonus points.

Move to the back yard and find this gua based on the gate closest to and in the straightest line from the mouth of the driveway. The back yard has a front left area too. Add things made of earth, or add things that bring earth energy, such as yellow flowers, squares in the print on your patio furniture, or a driveway. You can also add the Fire element to enhance Earth, because Fire creates Earth. Red flowers, pointy plants, or a fire feature here also promotes the energy of Wisdom.

AVOID Water in the front right area of your property! A little water is always fine, but water added to earth results in mud at best…at worst, quicksand. Water here in the front yard indicates infidelity. Even if only in the mind, the relationship’s foundation is destroyed. If you have water here, add lots of plants to drink the water. In my experience, such steps do serve to put off the downfall, but the downfall does come.

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This is an excerpt from a Feng Shui Workshop focusing on Health and Well-Being. You can order the audio and workshop materials from this or any other workshop at bit.ly/TKFSWorkshops

Energy Clearing Workshop for the Autumn Equinox

It is time to realign yourself with Nature's balance. Days and nights are evening out. The Light of Day now lessens and your exposure to Moonlight and Starlight expands. We move into the darker part of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, and we find ourselves snuggling in. To comfortably spend more time inside requires a shift in activities, choices, and intentions.

Summer is fast receding. The arc of the Sun's descent is more than halfway complete. Fall now merges into Autumn. Time to put away the beach balls and suntan lotion and get set for school. Time to shift the decor away from red, white, and blue that takes us from Memorial Day to Labor Day, and move towards the oranges and browns. It is time to shift menus, clothing choices, and clear Summer out of the house as Autumn slowly seeps in.

Start with a new corn straw broom for magical clearing. We will decorate our brooms with charms, ribbons, bells, runes, and colored inks and bless them for their new year of energy work. Use magical brooms AFTER cleaning with plastic brooms, Swiffer mops, or your rambling Roomba or whatever else you use to clear the floors.

In this seminar you will learn this and much more:

• Invoke Gabriel: Angel of Water, Bringer of Autumn, Guardian of Communication
  
• Draw down the moon and use each lunation’s water in your own infusions
• Exorcise past relationship/divorce demons
• Honor the Green Man energy of “Father Nature”
• Mix and match your own Simmering Spices
  
• Cast a secure circle of protection with steel or silver
• Create customized sage wands for smudging
• Enchant your own hazelnut charm for wisdom and ease of learning
• Stir up a Sky Suspension to bring richer communication and reinforce truth
  

This workshop will be presented in Houston Heights and online on Saturday, September 21st, from 10AM-4PM. Bring your lunch and wear your witch hat! Register by September 14th for only $199. Tuition after for one is $222. Bring a pal and register the two of you for $333. Bring two pals and register the three of you for $444! Tuition does include a copy of my book, The Fine Art of Enegy Clearing by the Cycles of the Seasons. Those attending online will be sent a list of materials to acquire, but those attending in person will have materials provided. Please allow mailing time! Can't attend? Get the recording only for $77. Register now at https://www.tomorrowskey.com/EnergyClearingWorkshops.html

Ready to Step Forward?

When you go through significant emotional events, it may leave you gasping for breath. I know I have cried so hard I thought I'd die. Wished I'd die so the pain would stop. And it does ease up… but it takes time. That time passes second by second at first, until it gets to minute by minute. By then your hearing starts coming back. When it gets to hour by hour, your sight starts expanding beyond your hands. When it gets to day by day, there will be good days and tough days. It will, however slowly, get to week by week and month by month. And then you realize you've gone a little without looking back. That is when it is time to begin to look forward.

Before you step out, you are wise to talk about what you have learned, how you feel now, and what calls to you now. Sometimes folks prefer to talk about the sad stuff because they don't know how to do anything else. Some folks are dream stealers. And some folks simply aren't that into you to listen to such serious stuff. I'm here for you. Let's talk about what you're up to and what you think you might like to move toward. I'm here to encourage, enlighten, and empower you. We will build a plan that tickles your fancy and calls you back out into the Light of Day. You'll know when it's time to take some steps.

Call 713-952-5429 to schedule your private coaching session today. More information at http://bit.ly/TKCoaching.

October Magic

I am headed to Pennsylvania in October to explore the mystical places in our country's history. I am also going to be teaching four workshops in Pittsburgh at a metaphysical shop called JuJu. Owner Leslie McCallister and I are excited to present some super fun topics for the Samhain Season. Tuition is $37.50 for each workshop and that does include the PDF or printed materials. Tickets to the live presentations are limited, so, if you want to go in person, get yours today on her website. If you want to attend online, register on my Tomorrow's Key website at www.tomorrowskey.com/OctoberMagic.html

Besom & Cauldron Magic - Saturday 10/19 - 1-3PM Eastern

A besom is simply a broom. A cauldron is just a big pot. But add a little intention, speak a little blessing, and the ordinary becomes extraordinary. Join us for a special Samhain season presentation by author and metaphysician, Dr. Trisha Keel of Houston, Texas. This double witchy workshop is all about adding some new touches of Practical Magic to your home for this turn of the Wheel of the Year.

The harvest is being brought in and the straw is fresh. Now is time to get or make your new corn straw broom and bless it to serve you and your home! Sweep sweet intentions into your life and sweep the nasty stuff out. You’ll learn about:

• Lore and legends of brooms and witches and their traditions
• Broom Magic
• Gifting a New Broom
• Making Your Own Besom
• Jumping the Broom Rituals
• Energy Clearing with Your Magical Broom

Once you’ve swept the hearth and threshold, light the fire and ready the cauldron. It’s time to stir up goddess magic! You’ll explore:

• Myths of the triple goddesses and their cauldrons - Hecate, Cerridwen, Demeter - and the gods who sought them - Odin, Bran, and Cernunnos
• Cauldron Magic by the Elements: Air, Fire, Water, Earth, and Ether
• Druid Cauldron Blessing Ritual
• After the Magic Bonus: Disposing of Spell Remnants

Working with Familiars - Saturday, 10/19 - 3:30-5:30PM Eastern

Working with Familiars will teach you how to tap into the magic of your pet, your spirit animal, or any animal to add its energy to your own. This workshop gives you an overview of the different powers of each animal so you’ll know if it harmonizes with your intentions. Then, select your animal - living or not - and align with its power to achieve your goals.

Animal magic adds an energy which is closer to the elementals. Nature’s realm began with the Mineral Kingdom then expanded to the Vegetable Kingdom, and next, the Animal Kingdom. The Human Kingdom is the next level of Nature’s upward spiraling growth.

Conscious Humanity is the newest Kingdom, and Nature is currently focused on bringing this to manifestation. When you open up your conscious awareness to include the energy of crystals, plants and animals in your spell work, you are weaving an incredibly powerful tapestry of intentions.This workshop provides:

• Steps to align your consciousness with the animal’s
• Ways to work with your familiar in the physical, astral and physical planes
• Lists of animal protectors by astrological Sun signs
• Step-by-step procedures for aligning with a familiar in the wild
• Traditional familiars of the gods and goddess of Ancient Greece and Rome

If you have always wanted to connect with your cat, run with wolves, or ride a unicorn, this workshop is for YOU!

Remembering Threshold Magic - Sunday, 10/20 - 1-3PM Eastern

Consider that you must BE some place in order to exist. Therefore, you are part of where you are and where you are is part of you. When you step through the door into your home, your lawyer's office, a restaurant, or even your car - everything changes. When you remember that the transition from one place to another changes YOU as well, you can take back your power as you choose to set the stage for what you want in all times and places.

Beyond the honoring of entrances as recommended in feng shui, this mini-workshop will remind you how to deal with securing your:

• Architectural thresholds: doors, windows, porches, mirrors, etc.
• Time thresholds: dawn, twilight, seasons, sabbats
• Life cycle thresholds: birth, graduations, marriages, divorces, death, etc.
• Geographical thresholds: where ecosystems touch, sacred places
• Body thresholds: the mouth is the threshold between thought and words
• Mind thresholds: waking, imagining, dreaming, brainstorming, etc.
• Garden thresholds: gates, pergolas, fire features
• Crossroads
• Cemetery thresholds
• And MUCH MORE!

Maintaining awareness of the power of place puts you in the command position, rather than the position to be commanded. If you have been waiting for the gates to the magical places to open and reveal all their mystery within -- this workshop is for YOU!

The Powers of the Athamé - Sunday, 10/20 - 3:30-5:30 Eastern

An athamé is traditionally a masculine tool used in collaboration with the cauldron or goblet, which is its feminine counterpart. This is a tool designed to direct your personal energy. They are generally double edged, and unsharpened, shorter rather than longer, with a black handle, but you can have any athamé you choose. It is, like crystals, more likely to choose you.

This tool is used to scribe, which is creating magic by making marks which have meaning. It can scribe runes or circles of protection. Lines created by human intention, especially through steel - which has been tempered in the heat of the crucible - direct the energy of Fire to align with specific words.

If you have one, bring your athamé to the workshop and learn to:

• Consecrate your knife to the Earth/East
• Invoke St. Raphael the Archangel
• Evoke its focus into your mental clarity, inspire new ideas, and release trash thoughts
• Empower the masculine tool to pair with the feminine energy of the cauldron or goblet for manifestation
• Cast a protective circle; cut the circle in case of emergency, and unscribe the magic to close the spell

The Power of the Athamé workshop will explain working at the etheric levels and why you need to remember there is more than what you see.

You: Superhero

Of the many superheroes you play, the greatest and most powerful is the true you. None of them stand without you within them. All of their actions are driven by your values. What they stand for is what you believe is right and true. They are merely costumes fluttering on a clothesline without you and your superpowers.

Your super strength is unparalleled, except when you run into a bit of your exploded home planet. Before pieces of fractured foundations, everyone takes a knee. Strong family support gives all of us the ability to fly. Some family is chosen, instead of blood. They are in your League.

Your ability to endure life’s challenges, no matter what they are, is enhanced by the speed with which you respond. You are able to think before you do things, responding instead of reacting, making Wisdom-based choices instead of fight-or-flight moves.

You are strong enough to be vulnerable and show your humanity, but when faced with injustice, you stand strong and firm to set things right. Make no mistake. You can and do set boundaries.

You use your mind to think through the trickiest situations, deducing truth and revealing it with your strategic use of the tools you have collected and developed. Your thoughtfulness is legendary.

You are able to explore situations from various points of view, sticking to solving problems regardless of how they are presented. Because you are familiar with the unbelievable and incredible, you fearlessly step forward into impossible scenarios and weave your way through and out as you do.

You are able to go as fast as the speed of life, dealing with everything that comes your way, efficiently and effectively. Sometimes you go so fast you end up in tomorrow before today, and sometimes you spring into today from long-ago yesterdays. But you live in your here and now, always doing the best you can.

Having achieved these levels of performance, you still feel you are not worthy, not enough, and not all you should/could/would be.

Silly superhero.

Take a break. Sit back and enjoy a dive into a story. You earn it every day. Be proud of yourself. Give the kid in you a recess now and then. Put it on your calendar now so you can look forward to it.

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Superheroes Change the World…

The Mysteries Revealed

Curious about all the history, mystery, and magic you see me playing with every day? Come have lunch with me on Friday and I'll tell you some stories about all these things you're curious about. There are NO PREREQUISITES to this learning. Right now we are exploring Blavatsky's Isis Unveiled: Theology - so we are studying all the history and mysteries about all the gods. This includes church miracles, sorcery, pagan beliefs, gods and goddesses of myths, the mysteries of the Gnostics, the meaning of the alpha and the omega, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, secret Masonic ciphers, the zodiac, the devil, magic, and much more!

Join me online, on Fridays for lunch and I will tell you stories about your own world. You will be amazed at how what we study pops up in your daily life. Only $60/month. All materials delivered as PDFs. Register at bit.ly/TKMysteries

Certified Feng Shui Practitioner Training

If you are feeling the tug to grow, it may be time to prepare for your own back to school. Here is a life-altering training for you to consider.

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more
painful than the risk it took to blossom.” - Anais Nin

It is not just your imagination when you are creeped out in a place. It is your awareness. That is part of your survival instinct. It should be honored and your awareness should be increased. When you can transform the energy in your own place, you can transform the energy at your office, in your car, and for other folks too.

We will honor all of your senses and then extend your awareness through divination. You'll douse using pendulums and dowsing rods. You'll consult the ancient I Ching. You will begin a new level of communication with Nature to anchor the ancient law of As Above, So Below in all you do. You will know far more about what you're stepping into that you could with a simple phone interview. And you can use these skills in many places and in many ways.

You will step out the very first day of class and right into your first professional consultation. There will be techniques and tools that ease your transition into your new career. You'll join many other professional consultants in our private Facebook group and have chances to work with them in your training.

Because Tomorrow's Key is a Gold Level School, the International Feng Shui Guild will allow you to test immediately for status as a Red Ribbon Professional, instead of having to wait a year. You will also have a life-long listing on my website in my Directory of Feng Shui Professionals.

Care to join us? The next scheduled Professional Feng Shui Practitioner Workshop will be presented October 7-11. Due to popular request, I now offer an entirely NEW OPTION: One-on-One Training On Demand! Simply choose the week you'd like to train and call me to set up the dates! Tuition payment plans are available. For more information, please visit http://bit.ly/ProFSTraining or call 713-952-5429

Remembering Incense Magic…

The use of incense in Christian churches and Jewish temples was long predated by those using incense to honor gods and goddesses in cultures around the world. Burning aromatic woods and herbs will cleanse, purify, and sanctify homes and sacred spaces, whether for life or for the performance of magic.

The Wise Men, the Magi(cians), were from various backgrounds. Melchior was a Persian scholar. Gaspar, an Indian scholar, and Balthazar, a Babylonian scholar. Initiated to the Architect level of the Wisdom teachings, they were all astrologers, astronomers, and philosophers. They were aware of their responsibilities for serving humanity.

The gifts they brought to Jesus were gold, frankincense, and myrrh. The story goes that the gold symbolized virtue, the frankincense symbolized prayer, and the myrrh symbolized suffering. But it is far more likely that the gold symbolized the stable element representing the Sun (Son of God). Frankincense is associated with the Sun, it is a symbol of the Divine, and is burned for purification of body and spirit. Myrrh, likewise, is associated with the Sun, it is a symbol of Divine Grace, and it has multiple uses in healing. (The Sun of God and the Son of God don't just sound alike by accident.)

Because incense is an element of Air, it is used to begin all magic. Simply lighting incense is an intentional effort to shift energy in a place by activating our sense of smell, which exists as we interact with air itself.

Use Incense to:

1. adjust energy in a place
2. assist achievement of altered state of awareness
3. increase focus or calm
4. cleanse or sanctify an area
5. attract or repel attention
6. send appreciation or respect
7. enhance connection with deity
8. summon Salamanders or Sylphs
9. solidify creative ideas

Forms of Incense:

Choose different forms of incense according to your environmental situation. Potpourri is an incense you don’t burn. A mixture of dried plant materials that are naturally fragrant, they are left in an open container to refresh the air. These same materials are used in making incense to burn and use different woods and barks, resins and gums, seeds and fruits, leaves, roots, flowers and spices.

Resin incense like frankincense and myrrh are burned atop a piece of glowing charcoal.

Smudge wands are bunches of dried herbs such as sage, that are lit at one end and used to focus smoke to specific places for purification.

Compounded incense is made of natural wood flour with resins, herbs, and fragrance oils. This mix may be delivered as a powder, in grains, shaped into cones or coils, or pressed onto small bamboo sticks, called joss sticks. Without the stick, the shaped incense is called dhoop.

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For the rest of this workshop and its audio recording from the live presentation, order Remembering Incense Magic for only $20 (2 for $40; buy 3 for $60 and get one FREE!) at www.tomorrowskey.com/PracticalMagicWorkshops.html

The Art of Living => Living Your Art

Beginning on Thursday, September 5th, the next phase of the Art of Living begins. Living Your Art will provide a forum for us to gather together to support each other's dreams and goals, contributing advice and ideas to give all of us the power of many minds.

Each of our meetings will be anchored by the energy frequency supported by the Feng Shui & Moon Magic lunation. We will begin in the Hazel Moon's energies of Knowledge & Self-Improvement, looking inward to love ourselves.

I will help you laser focus the Feng Shui of your environment to free up the flow of chi and manifest your best life right before your eyes, one splash of color at a time.

These workshops will be on Thursdays, 7:30-9PM Central, and the tuition is $60/month. Use the link at bit.ly/TKArtOfLiving to register through the Art of Living link.

This group will be open to ALL, whether or not they have taken the Art of Living! Sessions will be recorded in case you need to miss a meeting, so don't worry about having to attend every session.

Please invite family and friends you've thought would benefit from this training, even young folks are welcome. We all had to start learning and the earlier we figure it out, the easier life is. Let's share with the kiddos too. I invite you to bring a mature tween or teenager to any of the sessions at no additional tuition charge.