Last month

This piece of advice from Dr Meg Blackburn Losey at Spirit Light was too good not to pass on:

The Masters said:

"As consciousness shifts, there are certain requirements for those who choose to shift as well. Those requirements are of Universal Law, and cannot be denied. These necessities can be done only from the heart, for if from a mental nature will fail as untruth combative with perceived truth. As considered, these are also keys to the ascension process. They are not that which is new, but that which has always been. Only the perceptions of lack, of less than, are new.

These keys are based upon the sacred geometry of the star tetrahedron, each key being a point of the star. Eight truths which are eternal. Each without the other is only part of the whole, just as you are part of all that is and has ever been."

The Keys are as follows:

• We must acknowledgement our self perfection – We are and always have been of the One both in Source and within our Journeys.
• Accept the journey for which we have come – why fight the very things which we have come to learn?
• Maintain Personal integrity – That truth which is ours amongst all other things, that opportunity which we give ourselves to find the truth within us, not that which we have been conditioned by others to perceive.
• Be that which you are, not that which you perceive others would see – You are created of light, of Grace, and of that there cannot be imperfection, only that which is of Spirit. You do not need to improve yourselves, only to acknowledge that which is your God self, your perfect being.
• We must acknowledge our value – This is different than accepting perfection. Your value is how you fit within the world within and the exterior world in which you exist. To perceive that your value is greater than another’s, or less than someone else’s brings you to lack of everything else.
• Accept Your Power – You are great and mighty. True Power comes not of ego, but the collective One of our Spirit. True Power is Gentle Power. You are of the light and in its seemingly nebulous construct is the essence from which all things are made. To fear inner power is to suggest that you are less than all other things. In Truth, power is of Grace, not of abusiveness or negative use and your Grace is born of unconditionality. True Power is that which is Love, the intentional living as co-creator from within all opportunities that are offered you.
• Take Your value, Your perfection, Your power, Your Grace into your world – In the Now that always is, change only comes from practice of change. What this means is that to effect change we must embody it. You must walk your talk, not hide that which you know. Historically, that which is hidden is viewed as heresy in relation to the accepted norm. To change this, it is to create a new accepted norm with ease and Grace by virtue of your walking within the very light from which you are created.
• Love yourselves and touch everyone you encounter with love – As all energy exchanges, what will You accept from others and what will you leave behind? You can see all others as mirrors of yourselves, that their pain also resides somewhere within us, that their joy is in our hearts as well. This is why random acts of kindness make such a difference. How many times have you said “There by the Grace of God go I”? It is true. It has always been so.

As my very good friend & occasional mentor Barb often says, "take from it whatever resonates for you", or words to that effect.

First "real" day back at work & Julie's first day at her new job & there was smoke everywhere. The people on the radio assured us that it was from fires in Victoria, some 300 Km away. Local photos & other evidence from the NASA satellite on the photos page. What you see in the satellite photo are the fires in the lower left (some of the same ones that have now been burning for over 2 weeks), the straight & squiggly line is the Vic/NSW border & the other border in the top centre right is the ACT, in which Canberra is the city. Feel free to check out the maps for more detail. And it's been snowing in Seattle!

Ouch! I've been really slack on the newsletter lately. I've been full on getting the new Weather Webcam up & running. Technical details are: A Dell Optiplex P3 500 bought on eBay, together with a 1.3 MegaPixel camera also via eBay & some webcam software that not only uploads the picture, but also keeps a local copy. It is positioned in the back bedroom with a clear view of the sky to the south & connects to the home network via a wireless card (which just arrived today, also via eBay). And some RAM on the way, to go with the motherboard & processor upgrade in the file server in the study. Unfortunately, after the motherboard arrived, I also discovered it needed a new power supply, which turned out to be a particularly good purchase, as it is dramatically quieter in the study now!

Julie has discovered that her job is not anywhere near as busy as she expected it to be. Don't know what her predecessor was on about, although some of the other staff have commented on how quiet things are. She's bored!

While we were in Tasmania, we drove up to Mt Wellington & on the way up, saw a young couple walking down. Then on the way down, we saw them walking further down. Then after a drink stop at Fern Tree, we found them waiting for a bus & figured that they could do with a lift back to town. They turned out to be Henry from Malaysia & Po-Kyung from Korea, both students at the local Uni. When we found out that Po-Kyung was heading for Canberra in a few weeks, Julie wrote her phone number & gave it to her, for further contact when she arrived in Canberra. After we had dropped them off, we discovered a camera in the back seat, so it was indeed fortuitous that they had Julie's number & we returned it to them that night. Po-Kyung did indeed contact us & we had lunch & took her out to see some kangaroos at Campbell Park. Hence the series of photos of a mother & son. And it occurred to Julie that Po-Kyung would make MUCH better use of her Korean han-bo (formal dress) than Julie ever would, so we gave her that too.

The parts for my scooter finally came in & I had the opportunity to ride to work today, suitably protected of course in boots, jeans, new jacket & gloves, plus the mandatory helmet of course. Talk about stepping out of the comfort zone all over again!

This weekend, apart from being a long weekend with Australia Day falling on the Friday, is a trip to Melbourne for Auntie Peg's 90th birthday celebration. Peg is Dad's younger sister. It looks like it will be the biggest gathering of the cousins for a very long time, about 40 years by my calculations.

And it was. We flew to Melbourne on Saturday morning & had the day to kick around, We even drove past Victoria Market & Julie didn't want to go in - must have been REALLY tired! Then collected Dorothy & Pete from the airport in the evening. Sunday, we had breakfast together. I was so tired, I plonked by bowl of cereal down on the table & the man sitting at it said, "Good Morning" & I then had to do a quick double take to say, "Oh, they're over there". We headed on into town & had lunch at Victoria Market, where we met Kevin & Edith and Steve & Anne, who had just flown in from Adelaide. It was great to see all the Cuthbertsons again & Peg just amazed me by remembering everyone's names after the first introduction. If I can be that bright at age 90, I'll be happy with that, otherwise just bury me! Julie agrees.