Believers

I met Jenn August through my favorite massage therapist Jenny Karns. Jenn had a facial emergency (poison oak I think) and needed some TLC. So I sat down to give her a session and launched into a discussion of Astrology, as well as Skin Care. I can definitely talk your ear off about both the stars and product ingredients. Must've been an alchemist in a former life!

It turned out that Jenn had been looking for an astrologer to help guide her and her clients. She is a hypnotherapist and coach who works with business women to help them "remove their blocks so their business rocks!" You can learn more about Jenn at www.beyondbusinessforwomen.com.

We talked for about an hour about her sign, Pisces, and all the cosmic stuff that was going on in the stars lately. Big heavy planets like Uranus and Jupiter were making moves in the Spring of 2011 and everyone was feeling it. I even threw in a little Tarot for good measure. At the end of the facial, I offered to send her a link to an astrologer she could talk with. She looked at me, the way that a lot of people look at me when I say goofy things, and said, "You're the astrologer that I want to talk with."

AWESOME! I've studied astrology for the last 10 years so I'm able to speak fairly knowledablely on the subject. Jenn's gentle but firm confidence in my abilities pushed me into a totally different realm. Sometimes really all it takes is one person to believe and then there you go. I've been saying that for years to my boyfriend Paul and now it seems that I should have been listening to my own advice. Thanks Jenn (plus all the other believers i.e. Mom, Tia, Paul, Taylor, Kirsten, Kate, Bianca, Candise, Ken, Dad, Daka, Jodi, Debbie, Tannis, Dale, Meribeth, Gabe, I'm sure there are others that I've forgotten don't worry if you email me I will update).

I guess my point in this post is to encourage everyone to surround themselves with believers. It's hard enough to go through this world as it is. So you might as well make it a whole lot easier if the really important people that are touching your life on a day to day basis just get it. It's not that easy to find the believers but once they are in your life, you'll know. Because they are the ones that will tell you that you can do things before you even realize that you can do them.

P.S. this is a super dooper Pollyanna post but I'm just going to chalk it up to the fact that Jupiter is in my twelfth house. Jupiter is the planet of expansion and the twelfth house is the house of the subconscious.

P.P.S. in the course of trying to figure out how exactly to spell Pollyanna, I discovered through the magic of Wikipedia, The Pollyanna Principle. From Wikipedia, "Research indicates that, at the unconscious level, our minds have a tendency to focus on the optimistic while, at the conscious level, we have a tendency to focus on the negative. This unconscious bias towards the positive is often described as the Pollyanna principle." I'm all over the pollyanna principle except I'm all about integrating the unconscious with the conscious so we are all a little more optimistic.