Lightcasting February 2009
[ 23 February 2009 ]
I wrote about Lightcasting Day last month, explaining what it is & why we should (or can) do it. Well, it’s that time again! I thought I’d tell you what each sign should be focussing on this month in order to make optimal progress! Mega-big-ups, props & thanks to SoulGarden for all the excellent work they do & information they provide!
Aquarius Your self-esteem & self-worth. If you think about it, everything you want to generate comes from loving yourself. If you want to make money, you have to believe you’re valuable; if you want to be in love, you have to believe you’re loveable! Everything stems from there.
Pisces This month is about generating a new persona & a new ego. This also extends to the kind of first impressions you make & how you behave within the world. Happy? Defensive? Passive? It’s up to you!
Aries Breaking old cycles, getting rid of old fears & changing habits which don’t serve you any more. Do you feel tethered to a relationship or job which isn’t making you happy? What do you want to end for good?
Taurus Your role in society — the friends you have, the people you know & how you feel about your position in the world are all in focus this month. Visualise the social life you want to have!
Gemini Your career, work & legacy. This is a great time to think about what kind of work you’d like to be doing, think about the kind of recognition you want & the sort of impact you want to make on the world.
Cancer Changing your beliefs. Some of your old beliefs may not be working for you, & it’s time to shake them up. Open your mind & your horizons will expand. This also covers the areas of education, learning or travel.
Leo Boundaries & intimacy. Do you let people get too close, or not close enough? Do you always say yes — or always say no? How do you want to re-draw these lines?
Virgo Marriages. This basically means rethinking anything you have a long-term commitment to, like intimate relationships, best friends, careers & even the way you relate to yourself!
Libra It’s time for a lifestyle change! How would you like your daily life to be? Changing your lifestyle will impact on everything else, too. Visualise how you’d like your life to look in the future.
Scorpio Personal dreams, thinking big & looking after your inner child! You know what it is you really want, it might just be that you haven’t been listening. Pay attention & dream big!
Sagittarius Focus on your foundations. This means how you treat yourself, your home life, & recovering from or processing early childhood experiences which have impacted on you. See yourself moving on & learning, or decide to manifest a peaceful home life.
Capricorn Consider your attitude towards life — is it working for you? It’s a good time to journal or talk to your friends about how you’re feeling, it will help you get clarity & renewed focus for manifesting a better attitude.
If you’re kind of in tune with the universe & use your intuition quite well, you might have noticed that the issues relevant to your sign are already quite big in your life. For the last week or so, I’ve been thinking about relationships & work a lot — even more than usual, haha! So take the things you’ve churning around your head, write them down, & then use them as fuel to work out what you want.
I just did my lightcasting for the day, & rather than just thinking about it or visualising it — which can kind of seem a bit airy-fairy & maybe like you’re “not doing it properly” — I employed a new technique which I feel really good about!
I turned to a new page in my Moleskine journal & made three headings. Since Virgos are looking at marriages, there were three areas I wanted to look at: love or intimate relationships, work & career, & the way I relate to & treat myself. Then I stepped away from the computer (always helpful!) & started making some notes in all 3 categories. What did I want? What did I not want? How did I want to feel about it? Then when I felt like it was complete, I took a big drink of water & did a bunch of rounds of EFT while I read it aloud to myself & visualised it at the same time.
The bonus of using EFT is that it helps you clear any internal or subconscious resistance you might have to the things you’re going after. For example, if you say you want a loving relationship but you’re actually afraid of getting close to people, there’s going to be a conflict of interest. As long as you have that fear — even if you’re not aware you have it, which happens all the time — you’re going to find it difficult to manifest the things you want. EFT helps break that stuff down, & I’ve found it’s also extremely useful for helping you realise where your blockages or issues are.
What are your best tips, tricks, secrets or techniques for visualising or manifesting things in your life?
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Telling people I’m going to do things. They give me support, or ask me how Project X is going, and it keeps me on track. Not just one or two people, either – all of them!
Yes, it is a disco jellyfish/diamante squid hybrid! Haha! It’s from the Swarovski museum in Austria! Amazing, right?!
Telling people what I’m working on and then giving updates gives me a certain level of accountability for the actual doing side of manifesting, but I also like to just sit and feel what it’ll be like when I reach my goal. And I will write about it too. Actually, I used to be afraid to admit that I was trying to lose weight, but when I decided to blog about it, my friends came out of the woodwork with their support, which made me realize I didn’t have to be perfect and I could actually help people by perusing my goal.
As for the internal part, I write everything I’m thinking about the goal in my journal, why I want to achieve it, how I can do it, what fears I have about it, everything. I just write until I feel at peace with it or until I’m out of writing energy. It feels like I’m a swinging pendulum, and I just go with it until I naturally come to resting again. Then I close my notebook and go back to what I was doing. It’s the same as meditating, I guess, but it’s easier for me to focus on paper.
That jelly looks far more exciting and friendly than the box jellys we get here in Darwin!!!
Visual stimulation keeps me on track. ie post-its on my walls or posters and pictures that inspire me to keep moving forward!
gala- is eft sort of like the law of attraction (the secret?) it sounds like it, but maybe i’m getting it wrong?
great post. i didn’t try lightcasting last month but this month it seems very necessary, my life has been kind of out of control lately.
muah! emmaline
With anything in my life I want to focus energy on or improve or enhance, I give it a decent amount of thought – and I often find instinct tells me early on the direction I should be going (I just have to recognise it) – then I step back. Do something else, think about someone else, watch a movie, dance to some music. Give it as much time as it takes.
If you have faith in yourself and your universe, all the answers come to you – mostly when you’re not consciously searching for them.
Hey Gala can you please re-link to that site that Simon made about EFT? I’d like to start doing it and I remember it being good!
Wow. So my sign hit it right on!
I’ve just been having a lot of issues with my body right now…like I’m unhappy with it and I just hate that I feel fat all the time…
Well, I haven’t really had major success with manifesting anything…
Maybe just getting really excited about it so that I’m more focused on it so that it will happen? It’s easier to come up with ways to achieve success if I concentrate on the goal a lot. And tell someone about even if it’s a fish or just talking to yourself(like voice record on your phone, i do that ALL the time)
I always find it pretty crazy how spot on the topics SoulGarden describe are.
My friend just asked me out a while ago, but I told him I’m not looking for a relationship at the moment. So I’m whirling around like crazy in the boundaries department in full Leo style right now.
Thanks for posting this, Gala!
I am Aquarius and that is so dead-on.
It is what I am working on this year since my luck has not been the best in any area of my life for a while.
Time to start loving myself and projecting this love to draw what I want to me.
You know, I don’t usually put much store in astrology, but sometimes I can’t deny that it’s spot-on. I’m Capricorn, and I’ve been thinking a lot about where my life is headed, and how I’m doing with it. What’s good (my almost-boyfriend, who is absolutely AMAZING; my friends, etc.), and what’s not-so-good (my motivation, my environment, and my schoolwork). So I did like you did. I made a list of things and wrote about it. Now I’m going to do EFT (yet another thing that you helped me find, so thanks). I haven’t really been doing a lot of EFT lately, which is probably not helping with my feeling out of control.
I also realized that I really need to purge my environment. That’s why I’ve really wanted to move lately. I’m living at home with my parents (can’t afford anything else yet, even though I’m 18), and I really need to get everything set. My sister is getting married soon, so I’ll have my own room again, which will help. I need to get a new job so that I can afford my own apartment, and then get out of here!
I love my parents, but I really am doing myself NO favors by living here.
That ended up much more rambly than I thought it would. But oh well, that’s all part of it, right?
Wow. That was the most intense EFT experience that I’ve ever had. I’m feeling a little lightheaded, but exhilarated. And dehydrated, despite the fact that I’ve drunk about ten cups of water today.
Before, EFT helped me ease my mind about my problems, now it allowed me to see what was causing them, so now I can prevent them from happening again.
If I have learned one thing from reading iCiNG, it was EFT. Thanks so much. When I become a famous writer some day, I’ll recommend it to everyone (the site and EFT, both).
SoulGarden is fantastic, thanks so much for turning me on to it all those months ago Gala!
just completed my lil lightcasting ceremony. thanks so much for these reminders and guidance.
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wow, this was great as I am Taurus & been trying to find my place in the world considering work & stuff, but I felt as though I also rang true with Gemini? I think I am on the cusp… so it was a bit hard to focus.
Gala a question – does the intensity of EFT get higher if you do more rounds of it? Sometimes I only have time to do a few rounds & I forget to do it a lot these days or can’t think of things to focus on?
Though I know for sure that it has helped me in the past thru certain cirumstances… things are just hectic! <3
Writing things down always does the trick for me! Along with telling people. “Putting it out to the Universe”, if you like.
It’s like if I ever need some item of furniture I write it down and mention it to everyone I know. Eventually someone knows someone who’s getting rid of what I need and it comes my way! There’s nothing woo woo about it really but it can seem that way sometimes.
Same with goals. I love sewing stuff and want to make my living from it. I’m going to be selling online soon but meanwhile, while I’ve been writing down my goals and talking to everyone about it I’m getting offers of commissions all over the place from people I know or know through other people for specific bags and things people need for their homes :)
Never keep your goals quiet!
I think mine (Scorpio) is telling me to let go of my concerns about money, my statistical chances of a job at the end, etc. and to work like mad and train to be a barrister instead of a solicitor.
I definitely know I want it, but the latter is the safer option and I’m very much in danger of ignoring my heart and being “sensible”.
Thanks for this Gala!
Thank goodness, I’ve been a soul searching, wardrobe revamping and all in all crumble as I’m trying to redefine who I am. Nothings says new persona & a new ego like three hair colours in three days!
I’m a bit obsessive – in a good way. I’ll look into everything that relates to the goal I want until I know exactly how to do it and achieve it. It actually sounds quite researched written down, but it really is a lot of craziness! I a major fan on list making, so that’s normally high on my to do (list!). And I ask others advice as to how or achieve what I want. Right now, it’s being confident in who I am and setting up good study habits. Lots of time management and genre browsing for les deux.
You must be soooo excited about AMERICA!!
I just cut my hair the other day and had a huge heart to heart with my mom about what I’m suppose to study in uni and whether I like what I’m studying right now or whether I should even be at uni. I’m in the midst of applying at Toronto uni’s which is so exciting and scary all at the same time. I’m applying for the business program which I have no idea whether I can make it into but I’m not going to doubt things this is really what I want deep down. I also need to completely own those personal dreams and stop listening to all the negative self talk that I keep doing. I might be living in my dream city in 7 months how freakin exciting is that ?
Gemini: that is all I have actually been doing for a while now. It has been really heavy on my mind as of late. So accurate.
When I saw that jellyfish, I thought for a second it was a really odd/amazing headpiece.
i’m an aquarius and yes this couldn’t be more spot-on!
I’m an aries, and I’ve totally been thinking about these things lately!! I love when things coincide like that, it’s just so perfect.
My technique is deff writing. I write everything and anything down. I tried eft along with it like you suggested, Gala, and wowwowwow!! It helped bring up so much! :]
Does anyone else get really, really hungry after using eft??
OMG! Gala! I bought a couple moleskin notebooks last week and I really thought you were a little too fanatic over them, but now I know exactly what you mean! They are AMAZING!
Thank you so much! :D
HAH the capricorn one is so unbelievably relevant to my life right now that i can only laugh in awe.
Astrology is so fascinating! I am an Aquarius & the whole self-esteem issue is a doozy for me. What you wrote makes so much sense….I am going to try my hand at a lightcasting session right now!
The Cap thing is funny because I got into a discussion about change and blogged it – so I guess it was a post about my attitude towards life.
emmaline — EFT is an alternative healing technique which is really great for clearing emotional blockages or getting rid of old, stale beliefs which are holding you back. Using it is an AMAZING way to help your self-esteem, too — I’ve never found anything which works better!
kitten` — anyfutureyouwant.com
Natasja — It really depends. Some issues can be cleared in just a couple of rounds, while some seem to get deeper the further you go. If you feel like things are getting intense, either keep going or take a break, make some notes as to where your head is & what you’re dealing with, drink some water & go back to it. EFT can be really exhausting though, so go easy on yourself!
Zilla — I really am! I fly out this evening & am so excited. The glee only started to kick in last night!
meggiebuggie — Getting super hungry, mad thirsty or insanely tired is really common after doing a few rounds of EFT! Just give your body what it wants & you’ll be fine!
Victoria — YOU WILL NEVER DOUBT ME AGAIN, mwahahaha! ;D
Hey, I saw that crystal jellyfish up close and personal! I went to the Swarovski Crystl World last winter. It was beautiful and bizarre, and very sparkly!
Taurus here! This is awesome. I have been really down this week because all of my friends are so far away and I have made NONE where I currently live. I never have anyone to do anything with other than my boyfriend.
I have been wanting to have people over from work for drinks and such. I just make it a focus in March to make new friends and keep in contact with my old ones.
Thanks!
this is how awesome you are.
i was sitting here thinking that my brain was getting WAYYYY too cluttered, and that i needed some concrete goals and life organization and direction, and some tools to use to stop this constant over-excited over-flowing brain o’ mine – because while it’s pretty awesome, it also sucks to be hyper creative without the organization part.
so i thought “i bet gala will know!” and here this is.
these predictions are so dead on!! and EFT – i started some work with this and then forgot about it. it was really effective!!
yeah! anyway, it’s so easy to get bogged down in a cycle and then one day be like WAIT I HAVE SOME DREAMS HERE!!! HELLO!
lightcasting ahoy.
p.s. new gala-colored tea room in SF: www.crownandcrumpet.com/