tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40246122999065990732024-03-12T20:39:04.170-07:00SNAKE OIL/ JIM VENTURASnake Oil:
Grow, play, evolve, experience, this world, while recognizing our true essence stretches far beyond it.Jim V/Snake Oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00746873887985304530noreply@blogger.comBlogger117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024612299906599073.post-8187864277634338952024-03-11T17:26:00.000-07:002024-03-11T17:26:51.303-07:00March April 2024 Snake Oil/Yes Dear<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Snake Oil </span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Yes Dear</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhuEhGnGgCuYZw39U3izdMnvsr5Rq7vv36_mxVj9SxhiCvQexnEBI-us42g4E3doPahdmE-Zh_uYLAs4j8MBc9lD3ul508QJlF54beS_xxkHk5x23yPgrBdd1DwviXS06spO80OOd3gcnh2HRgqoNa_si2VVfnS5KHgGg8ytPkvRXE1l0voxZeZ9I6X4Sx6" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="408" data-original-width="612" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhuEhGnGgCuYZw39U3izdMnvsr5Rq7vv36_mxVj9SxhiCvQexnEBI-us42g4E3doPahdmE-Zh_uYLAs4j8MBc9lD3ul508QJlF54beS_xxkHk5x23yPgrBdd1DwviXS06spO80OOd3gcnh2HRgqoNa_si2VVfnS5KHgGg8ytPkvRXE1l0voxZeZ9I6X4Sx6" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />When I work with clients one of the most frequent subjects I get asked about is relationships. “When will I find one? Where is my soulmate? What do I need to do to help my current relationship? Should I stay in my current situation or find something better? Will I always be alone?” This aspect of life often doesn’t match our ideal and it’s frequently packed with at least some challenge. Most relationships fall somewhere between almost perfect or on the other end seriously toxic. I once had a female client who was uncomfortable and embarrassed about being controlled by her possessive, dominating boyfriend. We discussed possible solutions and she decided it might help if he came to see me. Aside from being in denial about whether he was controlling at all, and he really was, he tried to manipulate and control me during our session. It was not a successful attempt and he left likely thinking, and telling her “I was not qualified.” There is unquestionably a need to prioritize healthy compromise in any relationship. It is important to recognize that when one does commit to a mate, to some extent the partner needs to be a higher priority than friends, family, or even children. The bond needs to be strong for a relationship to thrive, but choosing a healthy mate in the first place is tremendously important. A bad choice can have extremely bad repercussions for ourselves and those around us. Many of us will at some point go through the lesson of choosing a toxic, dominating partner who may pull us away from family, friends and what is best for our personal happiness. While a good mate can be very beneficial we still need other people and a healthy support circle. The fantasy of “the two of us leaving everything behind and moving into a little cabin cut off from the world” rarely, if ever, works out.<br /><br />My first encounter with a manipulative mate was back when I was about twenty two. She was not actually my mate though. I had a best friend for about two years named Matt. He was two years younger than me and he had a cousin named Tammy who he was very close to. We all hung out often, smoked a bit of weed, ate pizza, and went to a lot of concerts, typical of late teens, early twenties stuff in the late eighties. I saw amazing groups like Pink Floyd, Rush, Yes, and the Fixx with Tammy and Matt. It was a wonderful period in my life. Matt met a girl at his job named Maryanne. He was head over heels in love and thrilled by his first real girlfriend. She was in good shape, pretty, but had a bit of a hard not to notice controlling side. I worried I might be too judgmental about her, but something was off. Weeks into their relationship she was pregnant and she and Matt decided to get married. All of our friends actually had a good time at their rushed wedding a few months later, but we did place odd bets humorously on how long it would last. We did not share that sarcastic appraisal with Matt, as he was really happy and we didn’t want to ruin that. The party was rushed, a bit cheesy, with a lot of eighties music, and Matt did his share of a popular drug at that time. We saw a lot less of Matt during his wife's pregnancy but he invited us over to see the new baby months later when she was about three months old. Maryann was visibly annoyed that we were at the apartment and seemingly annoyed that we existed in the first place. The baby was super cute and Matt was a proud dad, but clearly Maryanne hated me and Tammy for some reason.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgpsR7buGMuMh3UhlaWnbSCoc6_tqLE2EDmzHDo54qku95X7EoFuxLVwUxyZQh9_h1mDpHeADC9JO1Vd8ccpkuHuvF1_wdWyTmFzy6CDMKQD_UAiKgQSBUzbzXuv_p2ttX28biQw9tnsvIVFVPxCbTx0tpFGOfGcGBTBLbO6Qt5jS-W7sFnEFTlXPwe8GVu" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="370" data-original-width="612" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgpsR7buGMuMh3UhlaWnbSCoc6_tqLE2EDmzHDo54qku95X7EoFuxLVwUxyZQh9_h1mDpHeADC9JO1Vd8ccpkuHuvF1_wdWyTmFzy6CDMKQD_UAiKgQSBUzbzXuv_p2ttX28biQw9tnsvIVFVPxCbTx0tpFGOfGcGBTBLbO6Qt5jS-W7sFnEFTlXPwe8GVu" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /><br />Weeks later Tammy called me to share that Maryann had forbade Matt to see either of us anymore. She threatened to leave him with the baby if he stayed friends with us. It was bad enough to block him from seeing me, but also the cousin who was like his sister was something truly ugly. I had never encountered this type of controlling type of individual before. Matt was submissive to her request. Tammy filled me in on bits and pieces she heard over the next two years. Inevitably Maryanne gained a lot of weight understandably while she was pregnant, but was lax in taking it off and gained quite a bit more weight. Matt worked two jobs so she could be a stay at home mom. About two years later Maryanne got pregnant by another guy she was having an affair with and then filed for divorce from Matt. I saw Matt after his ordeal when he came to my job to apologize for losing me as a friend and how he treated Tammy and me. I was impressed by his willingness to own all of it and I did forgive him, but things had changed and we hardly saw each other after that. About a year later I left NY and moved to Phoenix.<br /><br />There were many times over the years when I saw both manipulative controlling men, but also women. It didn’t matter whether they were male or female, gay or straight, but universal anger themes about “who you are flirting with,” making the partner lose touch with friends and family, isolating them, playing on guilt, and even mild stalking were things I sadly saw too often. When I was about fourteen I was first exposed to a physically angry woman when I saw my friend Richie's mom punch her husband in the face though their kitchen window. Richie told me it was normal. I had a client for a few years who was a psychologist herself but was with an abusive man who got so angry at her for both real and imagined slights. He locked her in their basement for four days as punishment. When I was working as a waiter in my early twenties I became close friends with one of the waiters, a truly sweet, handsome, young nineteen year old named Nick. He had dreams of going to school to be a pilot. He talked about his dream often with excitement. Weeks later he got his girlfriend pregnant and decided to marry her and take on another job so they could live in a small basement apartment to raise the child. A noble thing to do and he clearly loved her, but his plans to go to school and to be a pilot went out the window. He took on a second job cleaning houses with his fiancé. I could see sadness in his eyes about abandoning his dream, but he was also truly in love. She inevitably made him quit the restaurant and I never saw Nick again. <br /><br />Over the years I have seen quite a bit of controlling stuff in the arena of relationships. I had a client who was a regular for about a year. There was extra excitement on her part when I did a Tarot reading for her that showed her meeting an air sign male. She met an Aquarius man a few months later and married soon after. She and her spouse got involved in relationship coaching. I even saw him once and he was impressed with my skills until he read a column I wrote that mentioned God, All That Is, and he was outraged. He was a devout atheist and told her that “this kind of talk is nonsense,” and forbid her to see me for sessions, and to be removed from my mailing list. A milder funny example is when a very attractive, one time client of mine met her “soulmate” and seemed very happy. He was a good guy and quite devoted to her. When I saw pictures of him on social media in a hideous pink and peach sweater uncomfortably posing in a field of flowers, I suspected that while she probably loved that picture, his eyes portrayed another sense. It looked like every ounce of his masculinity was forced out of his body. <br /><br />Almost two decades ago I became friends with a late twenties, in shape, vegan, attractive, old soul named Lars. We inevitably worked together in a restaurant when I was in my early thirties and pretty much became like brothers. I really got along well with Lars and I saw him as my little brother from another mother. An old girlfriend of his named Phyllis, who was a few years older than Lars, moved back to the valley after they were estranged for about three years. She was an energetic, lean, attractive woman with frizzy blonde hair and well educated. Phyllis was about as far left politically as one could possibly be. She was a bit of a hippie chick who fought with her more conservative parents often. She attended every left wing march, women's rights, Bernie Rallies, pro LGBTQ rights, and even had a thing for rescuing animals. Unfortunately her and Lars relationship was toxic. She stalked him, they fought often, and he retaliated by dating a stripper to make her nuts. I did a reading for her by her request and suggested that if Lars was meant to be in her life the crazy fighting needed to stop and she should trust they would find a way to come together. She was not happy with my advice. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhy1WydVDUiHX5KPy1N9MzHy-khcujWSSpTs91L2_w-vybUm2tQQU9niJM83-l9Cl9uyrWx4CwGuJ_SnmXb5yiq8ayV7NLmsFc-2he23cA1SnRWc2UhaB7BISYKRsYaPDbcGjyWuHdhNNaOZvzhPSOUY3SMoqe2CbpFE1_2B2zAwmWyeAg2QBsLwnkOqkHo" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="500" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhy1WydVDUiHX5KPy1N9MzHy-khcujWSSpTs91L2_w-vybUm2tQQU9niJM83-l9Cl9uyrWx4CwGuJ_SnmXb5yiq8ayV7NLmsFc-2he23cA1SnRWc2UhaB7BISYKRsYaPDbcGjyWuHdhNNaOZvzhPSOUY3SMoqe2CbpFE1_2B2zAwmWyeAg2QBsLwnkOqkHo" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /> <br />I saw a bit of Phyllis’s anger surface a few times, and while she was a very loving, caring person, I often could see some questionable over reactions to even minor things. Lars came to my apartment in a state of extreme worry. He had gotten her pregnant during the peak of their wars and she was adamant about having the baby. He confided in me that he was seriously thinking of running away, even changing his name, and starting his life over. This was how uncomfortable he was with the extremes and her at times scary behavior. I suggested he could co-parent without them being together but I thought the running away plan was not workable. He left my place still shaken up, then called the next day to invite me to their wedding! Phyllis was about four months pregnant for their backyard wedding and was somewhat cordial to me, but actually never spoke to me at the wedding, and also after they moved in together. She was still angry about me telling her to stop stalking him. The wedding was cheesy and rushed and I had flashbacks to years earlier when I was at a similar wedding. I was proud of myself for not suggesting they play the song White Wedding by Billie Idol, a bit of Sagittarius restraint on my part! Instead they played a lot of mostly eighties songs they both loved. While the wedding seemed bizarre, it was still kind of fun. This time I did not verbalize to anyone about how long I thought their would last, but the Deja Vu was trippy. Their parents were left to clean up after the backyard wedding. Lars and Phyllis climbed into the car to drive away to their honeymoon theatrically to a song they both apparently bonded over years before when they first met, “Get Out of My Dreams, Get Into My Car” by Billie Ocean.<br /><br />After some months of me still talking to Lars somewhat or grabbing lunch, Phyllis wanting nothing to do with me. Finally things changed when she had little Bess. Phyllis asked Lars to contact me to come see the baby while she was in the hospital. Phyllis and I hugged and never discussed any of it. I made an internal vow to keep the peace and to even get to know Phyllis to keep my friendship with Lars strong. Bess grew up and a few years late they had another little girl named Georgette. Bess often challenged her mother and made Phyllis crazy. Bess was smart and humorously called her mom Phyllis instead of mother. She was very grounded and while she clearly loved her mom, she seemed to know Phyllis was a bit nuts. For almost fifteen years I was part of the family. Most holidays, and usually twice a month I would hang out at their home. I saw the kids in plays, sporting events, we bought each other gifts and I was very much a part of all of their lives. Both Bess and Georgette called me Uncle Jim. It was really nice being part of that family. I even got to be friends with Phyllis too. Lars got really sick when the kids were still very young and his loyal wife Phyllis stuck by his side through a very rough ordeal. Thankfully he healed, but Phyllis was left always terrified of Lars getting sick again and became quite a bit of a hypochondriac. <br /><br />I knew they both really loved their kids dearly and were good parents, but I always thought they were a little too focused giving the kids whatever they wanted. Both were very far to the left in their politics and parenting approach, but it was never my place to comment so I didn’t. Lars opened his own Pilates studio and did fairly well in his business. He was a chronic pot smoker though. Even to the point of smoking weed while making his coffee each morning. It was a little extreme for me, but he handled it and I thought it worked for him, maybe even masking some childhood trauma. Phyllis either joined in from time to time or angrily fought him on it. Yet while Lars was at times a bit cheesy, he clearly loved being a dad. One of the cheesiest things he would ritually do was watch ET the Extraterrestrial every year with the kids. He especially loved the song Turn on Your Heart Light by Neil Diamond. He would ask me to sing it when I did karaoke at times and often requested the song to be played by Alexa when I was over at the house. A truly stupid song, but my buddy loved it and I saw it as one of his weird but still likable quirks. I thought that even though they fought a lot he was still fairly happy. But Lars did have this fascination with aliens and often talked and read books about alien abductions. I half joked that maybe he longed to be abducted and taken away!</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbheQf8wXd5eWLECknhItq3lb9aiFhZeVQQ7ozzgmaGgXw4j6QrLQh5hk-KqCI8Fbq38vljvCMaJRExD4HQq9zooQlqPqn2JMXJ9qak3MiYDalNmM09CD6z5tzbN5VmCsyOFY3lJ5KC0jhKzBjF0iD8ulB5AxfYV5yYFRUIDM1XSXv33GlulU74lDQtNHW" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="364" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbheQf8wXd5eWLECknhItq3lb9aiFhZeVQQ7ozzgmaGgXw4j6QrLQh5hk-KqCI8Fbq38vljvCMaJRExD4HQq9zooQlqPqn2JMXJ9qak3MiYDalNmM09CD6z5tzbN5VmCsyOFY3lJ5KC0jhKzBjF0iD8ulB5AxfYV5yYFRUIDM1XSXv33GlulU74lDQtNHW" width="168" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /><br />Phyllis was always coming up with schemes for a new business or side hustle while she also prioritized being there for her kids. Following through on those plans was often a problem. She was a great cook, especially desserts and decided to market her treats first from home, and then hopefully a small shop with her specialties, trifles and designer donuts. To her credit she was really talented and her desserts were delicious. I made suggestions for marketing but she didn’t want to hear most of them. I went to college for advertising art and marketing, so usually people appreciated my insight. After weeks of work, see was ready to begin sales and excitedly showed me her design logo. Phyllis had a notable theatrical side in her younger years doing plays, singing, and doing interpretive dance. She had a stage name she went by in college and high school; Sassy. She thought it was better to go with Sassy because it was a “cooler name than Phyllis,” for her new business. She came up with “Sassy’s Trifles, and Designer Donuts.” The problem was the amount of work required to make those spectacular desserts, making a profit, refrigeration, delivery. When I told her that people might also think of something not so pleasant when seeing her logo because when shortened it was ST-DD. That insight made her furious with me. She for some reason blamed me for not telling her sooner, but she wouldn’t let me in on her plans, how could I warn her?</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgaarWxEjHC7OsZFuZl90642n6ejlMPmpm0mvOFiNN_nanpKOjkjnjyel6CJz7DQubPEE4JE3PgEpI2XZ-gYZdmJjmnyg0y39pJ5zGCXnMSwokIK-kvKlBeVj6Zm26LlMwsJiVn3-ssP7BRz0qopGGgsxdpCGR4h-ABpDwrDSilxE_dLTcADGqa1v1Sclrx" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="408" data-original-width="612" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgaarWxEjHC7OsZFuZl90642n6ejlMPmpm0mvOFiNN_nanpKOjkjnjyel6CJz7DQubPEE4JE3PgEpI2XZ-gYZdmJjmnyg0y39pJ5zGCXnMSwokIK-kvKlBeVj6Zm26LlMwsJiVn3-ssP7BRz0qopGGgsxdpCGR4h-ABpDwrDSilxE_dLTcADGqa1v1Sclrx" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /><br />A few weeks later the Covid scare came along. Both Lars and Phyllis shut down their businesses like most of us were told to do to “flatten the curve for two weeks.” I saw Lars for what turned out to be the last time a few weeks into the Covid Shit show. I intuitively felt that when he left my home it would be the last time I saw him. He was scared about passing along the virus to any of his clients or his family. I wondered if after almost twenty years of friendship if he ever heard anything I taught him about illness and that it was always multilayered, not random and we were not powerless over it. At the same time I also understood his fear. My family and many of my friends went info fear mode and wore the masks, stayed inside, avoided people, obsessively wiped things down, and followed all the crazy rules. Thankfully one by one, most of my friends started waking up after a few months and began to see how some of these well-meaning suggestions, and fear tactics from the media were mostly ludicrous. Not surprisingly, Phyllis dived into every cliche, ranting about staying at home, how everyone needed to be vaxxed, posting on social media sites about how selfish the rest of us were to go outside, yelling at other people about their noses popping out of their masks, and the ultimate crime of not staying at home and getting food delivered like they “responsibly were.” So much for the makers of the food and delivery people though, I guess they were expendable. Even after almost two years of all the extremes from both right and the left perspectives i observed she would still post passionately on Facebook about how “This will never end because of all the anti vaxers, and non-mask wearers were killing everyone.” My trips to Vegas when it reopened probably made her think I was selfish. I am guessing my posts about how I was not getting pulled into any of this fear and would continue to use natural holistic methods for handling all of it made her head explode. She inevitably unfriended me and blocked me as well on social media. She either made Lars do the same or he chose to for his own reasons.<br /></span><br /><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhB1ElkJyVz8dowiwY_jdlBVNGxApMXljBepsDnXCrZ-jop0wkJ6mbHKuXCNGs0tlxvax-4NDYZLQWPoCd6hQ7cWNEQxzv7F9F9IUkO5GalAFkLABsacRSSWAJu8n-3G3JRpPga1s1Zkgdka3CQ4A37UfGBVeNF9zBdgtSeMEU_svBj_sUAidzEkjQRsRGq" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="202" data-original-width="380" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhB1ElkJyVz8dowiwY_jdlBVNGxApMXljBepsDnXCrZ-jop0wkJ6mbHKuXCNGs0tlxvax-4NDYZLQWPoCd6hQ7cWNEQxzv7F9F9IUkO5GalAFkLABsacRSSWAJu8n-3G3JRpPga1s1Zkgdka3CQ4A37UfGBVeNF9zBdgtSeMEU_svBj_sUAidzEkjQRsRGq" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Looking back on all of it, I remembered something significant. When I first met Phyllis she had a sweet, adorable cat. When you would pet Zagnut he would purr and then after a few minutes he would just snap for who knows what reasons and viciously claw and painfully bite you. He was truly his moms reflection (in spiritual terms her familiar). Both Lars and Phyllis cut me out of their lives. I was also removed from all their family and the friends that I was connected to for so many years. My position as Uncle Jim was also terminated. The experience in my early twenties with Matt and his wife was uncomfortable but this was about five times worse. Other than the staggering cruelty I dealt with in my mid-twenties when I found myself abused by the criminal I briefly lived with, who stole from me and nearly destroyed my life, this un-friending from people who were like family was now the second worst thing on my life list of terrible experiences. It honestly took me awhile to finally forgive them, but for the most part I have. Prolonged focusing on the “gall of someone doing this to me” might inevitably destroy my gall bladder or similar eliminative organs and I will not sacrifice parts of my body to stay in resentment. I have no doubt that there were financial, emotional, health, discomfort about notable heavy weight gains, and other contributing factors they were dealing with that had nothing to do with me. And likely knowing Lars, a bit of shame and even resignation on his part, knowing Phyllis would find ways to punish him if he went against her. The experience smelled a bit karmic to me both on their end and my own. Maybe I was like Phyllis or was afraid to stand up to a controlling mate in another lifetime, and my Higher Self choose to experience this uncomfortable situation for growth and to balance some karma? <br /><br />It would be dishonest to claim that I have never done anything cruel to a friend or a mate. In my teen years I was at times jealous, possessive, and even punished a few friends by making my other friends stop talking and hanging out with them when they did not follow “Jim’s rules.” Still, I left all of that behavior behind in my late teens, and it was behavior I was not proud of in my history. I never have made romantic partners give up family or friends, so seeing this behavior from a fifty year old woman was startling to say the least. But this is what obsessive fear will do, and the Covid years really heightened some very dark things in human behavior. The need for compromise and to prioritize a partners needs are absolutely a necessity for any relationship to grow and thrive. Still, when a mate makes you abandon family and friends, isolates you and puts you into incredibly uncomfortable situations, it is wise to examine whether the relationship is positive and worth staying committed to. This is clearly a major lesson in the human experience. Life and relationships change, and sometimes they even blow up to propel necessary growth. I resisted the martyr game of “did they ever even care about me theatrics,” they unquestionably did care about me. The fear they were sold in the media was just something they could not overcome. A better conclusion for me is that I am in a wiser, more balanced place, and while I have fond memories of those friendships, anyone including friends or family with those extreme levels of fear are no longer a good fit for me. Growing sometimes means leaving people behind.<br />2-2024 Jim Ventura <br /> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Notes</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4lPHVa3GUEZe_yjWyJzzM9W4Mln9gEcBbA9ew1s6JYccGdXcCIpfa1KhxgTr1FVWe-bRLr9pdLB07CZCpnkoDaayA17O7dPg7jwdv6lmuB1gfO3u5ZhB7kkTKuaELP-VHYjVCHz1JfCMJw4HufF13Rmv_jtg4BqUUogRPsF_jdJ8JksoKOpFY3qEcR-U5/s374/image005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="374" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4lPHVa3GUEZe_yjWyJzzM9W4Mln9gEcBbA9ew1s6JYccGdXcCIpfa1KhxgTr1FVWe-bRLr9pdLB07CZCpnkoDaayA17O7dPg7jwdv6lmuB1gfO3u5ZhB7kkTKuaELP-VHYjVCHz1JfCMJw4HufF13Rmv_jtg4BqUUogRPsF_jdJ8JksoKOpFY3qEcR-U5/s320/image005.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />While I enjoyed writing this column, and have wanted to talk about this subject for quite some time, it may be the longest column piece I have ever written! I had to edit out a lot of other representative cases. Sadly there have been so many examples of the craziness that I have observed over the years, often a part of relationships. While I always change the actual names of my characters, some details (including a bit of wise ass added humor, and I did quite a bit in this one!) of my stories are based on real experiences. I purposely went into a bit of detail about obsessive behavior during the Covid years for many reasons. I knew many people that were tossed aside by friends or family for having the “wrong point of view.” The sometimes sanctimonious theatrics were heavier on the left, but the extremes of some conspiracy theories on the far right got a bit bizarre and judgmental as well. For me as an old soul, I saw from the beginning that so much of the fear and “what you should do” felt intuitively like other periods in our human history. This one was a scientific version of crazy. While modern scientific perspectives have only been around for a few hundred years, religious extremist equivalents have been around for centuries. I will go into this in more detail in a future column but forcing a person to do something and taking away choice is one of the main components for creating karmic ribbons that must inevitably be burned in this life or another. And while I focused on some of the real negatives that may surface in relationship, it is important to also remember that there are many positive aspects of what healthy relationships can bring into our lives. When true love is present without the need for obsessive control it can make our lives more fulfilling and impact people all around us in positive ways. In Druid tradition the spring equinox is the time of “Reception of Wisdom” and May first is known as the Beltane, or the time of the Lovers!<br /><br />I launched a sophisticated, informative new site last month at BuyMeaCoffee.com. You can find my posts there at <a href="http://BuyMeaCoffee.com/Venturawora">BuyMeaCoffee.com/Venturawora</a>. (and yes this is not a misprint) This is going to be the place for the best of all my past material (columns, and videos) as well as the first place I will always launch new material. It will contain some of my navigational techniques for living your most empowered life. There will be new adds and many of the techniques I have learned that really work and shared with regular and semi-regular clients over the years. There is no cost to check out my 2-3 times a month posts. There is also an option to buy me a coffee or two (hence the name) feature where you can do just that if you feel the pull for any reason. There is also an option currently for only a $60 a year donation that you will get you on my Coffee followers mailing list for extra navigational tips, and insight directly emailed to you each month. It will also allow you to book personal sessions at any time for the heavily discounted quarterly regular client rates! You can book the sessions as much or as little as you choose and also buy gift sessions for friends and family at those rates. I will also be starting an every other month radio show just for followers on the coffee site where you can listen or call in and ask questions about any type of metaphysical subject with me and also just enjoy a virtual chat and hang-out.<br /><br />The new year seems to be off to a great start for me, and seemingly for a lot of people around me. I like the vibe so far of this year of the wood dragon and number 8. You can check out my video post about all of this on my YouTube channel. You can cut and paste the link here in a browser. <br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM8zRvbueNw&t=67s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM8zRvbueNw&t=67s</a></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <br /> So far of all of my social media channels Tik Tok has the strongest following. About twice a month I post animal totem videos and explanations about what spirit animals and guides are all about. You can find me at Animalspeaks there if interested.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />The winter was a cold and rainy one. As much as I enjoyed the retreat inward, and truly ran with it like never before, with lots of benefits, I am happy to see signs of spring! Wishing everyone some cool vibes as the spring season commences. Cheers, Jim V<br />3-2024 <br /><br /><i>“Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.” Novalis</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>New Client Special 2024 January 1st thru October 31 St., 2024 Special:</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP1A4At9_NW8F6SnN_Kn1yJzCOzmnupa-FiMwGVM9dh_NZAjpKG5e-TyeyDm1UyWHuQ7IyQwCQIOGaBqmovvVxSWa4ps9CqXklmOd4r5v7R9KzbwUtRBl-c4mdxegzX4zDiRDR1AWYwjQwVmmSdj8cUMn9ufY8DzlB6mu9k3MAcultwoCKxRR1B7raebBo/s300/th-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="186" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP1A4At9_NW8F6SnN_Kn1yJzCOzmnupa-FiMwGVM9dh_NZAjpKG5e-TyeyDm1UyWHuQ7IyQwCQIOGaBqmovvVxSWa4ps9CqXklmOd4r5v7R9KzbwUtRBl-c4mdxegzX4zDiRDR1AWYwjQwVmmSdj8cUMn9ufY8DzlB6mu9k3MAcultwoCKxRR1B7raebBo/s1600/th-1.jpg" width="186" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />$10-15 off listed rates for your first 45 minute session, 70, or 90 minute session! Debit and credit card payments get $10 off for 45, 70, and 90 minute sessions. Local in-office clients can get an extra $5 off for cash or check payments for sessions. If you want to buy a new client a thoughtful gift of a session for a friend or family member you can also take advantage of these rates! </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><i> </i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” Mahatma</i> Gandhi</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><b>Channeled corner. I read many, many books from different trance channelers in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. Unfortunately many of them are now out of print, but I still have a huge collection and will share some of the best material I have collected over the years.</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Learn to enjoy Change</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEin_Whsc767vubB2Ji0J9LfTrc919jChAAqvShmy_LNUPjjTHvp84lrEv6Qn4kkzPq4iUfqIGHO2_SUtzTVlXedz1LdaNxITXOHj15qDSkQbzOqSmu2oYfoBw0yqyH1EKJeXRrJUpMRrPGK1le89BMG3Hw6HGOm8ZUfrc43h1PBFPfjIt5peczv7tIOcxoq" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="380" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEin_Whsc767vubB2Ji0J9LfTrc919jChAAqvShmy_LNUPjjTHvp84lrEv6Qn4kkzPq4iUfqIGHO2_SUtzTVlXedz1LdaNxITXOHj15qDSkQbzOqSmu2oYfoBw0yqyH1EKJeXRrJUpMRrPGK1le89BMG3Hw6HGOm8ZUfrc43h1PBFPfjIt5peczv7tIOcxoq" width="240" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><br />“In your society, you are born in an atmosphere of fear surrounding the experience of birth. Many, if not all of you, unconsciously use fear as a motivator in your life. You wait until situations become fearful-indeed, even make them fearful-in order to motivate yourselves to change. Now, it is a kind of addiction, and I would recommend that you become conscious of it. Then, as you experience the drama and struggle you create for yourselves, be conscious that you are choosing your reality and that you can choose to change and move without creating suffering and consequent fear to get you to do it. <br /><br />We urge you then to be innocent about your desires for change and to remember that change on the planet, which is in constant motion, creating night and day, creating the seasons, is natural, so you need not wait until you have a great deal of fear motivating you to make change. You can consciously and innocently seek change, knowing that it does not need to create separation, hurt, and pain for others or for yourself when you do it consciously and innocently. Then you can let go of using fear as the motivator and instead use joy and aliveness as the motivator. Once you use joy to motivate you to action, feeling the joy in your body actually creates your feeling more alive, vitalized, and motivated to act. <br /><br />So, because these are so wired from your early experiences when your parents told you, ‘you must do this or else,’ and you experienced fear and anger and then acted upon it, you think you have to have those emotions to get into motion. No! It is just your thought, based upon your past experience, that creates those connections. And you can easily begin to choose to act from joy and know it is innocent for you to be joyful without having to be angry or fearful.<br /><br />Both men and women have come to believe that the physical has cycles of pleasure and pain. Often you use pain to get pleasure and then begin to fear pleasure because you think you will then have pain. How to get over that? Stop creating pain to get pleasure, and you will release the belief that once you have pleasure you must have pain. You will learn to surrender into greater and greater experiences of pleasure and life and joy on a regular basis. You cannot shift into a millennium of peace while holding the thought of the pleasure/pain cycle...”<br />Seth Channeled by Jane Roberts<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Snake Oil Radio</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJWhxf12-f1Lof4wtQ5GfHZK-dM7-FiYirTknrjnBupl-nif4SIhXh15JfLwKHwaFdgGJ3ad6Ee02gpdxUr10iOmZU-43sAGaIKzzeZhhA38jtaoWG3LaPssH8Nag-bgfSWTxBYrLI-zrSEWoVLxEFlfCbMAtIkphzvKGWNnDT7EpEgn8TVJihUDURuKYa/s300/snake-oil-salesman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJWhxf12-f1Lof4wtQ5GfHZK-dM7-FiYirTknrjnBupl-nif4SIhXh15JfLwKHwaFdgGJ3ad6Ee02gpdxUr10iOmZU-43sAGaIKzzeZhhA38jtaoWG3LaPssH8Nag-bgfSWTxBYrLI-zrSEWoVLxEFlfCbMAtIkphzvKGWNnDT7EpEgn8TVJihUDURuKYa/s1600/snake-oil-salesman.jpg" width="300" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />Thursdays at 3:30 pm (there will be two live broadcasts this period)<br />My next live broadcast of Snake Oil Radio will be Thursday, March 21st at 3:30 p.m. mountain (Phoenix) time. This 45 minute show will expand on my current column’s subject matter. It will also offer an opportunity for you to chat with other listeners in the chat room with comments and your thoughts about the topic of discussion. If you miss the live show, you can catch any of my previously recorded shows on the website’s archive. You can also catch Snake Oil Radio on iTunes and similar locations for podcasts.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />To hear a live show, all you need to do is be at a computer and tuned into: <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura">http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura</a> or on your phone. You may also access it by going to the site and type “Snake Oil” into the search option. You can also go to the shows that are currently “On air” at that time and find me. The call in number is 646-200-3966 for questions and comments IF the show is offering that (please check, many of my column shows don’t).</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><i>“You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too.” Prabhat Ranjan</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><i>“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” Oscar Wilde</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u> </u><br />Here’s my contact information to make an appointment for a session, or information on current classes: Email: Venturasag@yahoo.com (BEST method for contact).<br />text only: (602) 349-0746 Phone calls: (602) 957-3035 <br /><br />Information about the different sessions and types of readings, classes and services, past Snake Oil columns, and how to order my books and audio CD’s can be found at my website: <a href="http://JimVentura.com">http://JimVentura.com</a>. <br /><br />“Friend” me on Facebook to get other extra offers and in between column extras! Signing up for my fan page will get you even more extras and first shot at reading specials. Simply click on “like” on the fan page and you will automatically get my weekly updates. <br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl</a><br /><br />I have a few other media channels other than my monthly radio shows and FaceBook:<br /><br />Subscribe to my YouTube Channel (approximately once a month 6-12 minute videos) at J Ventura Snake Oil. <br />Instagram at Venturawords ( Astrology updates and other insight on short 90 second reels) <br /> Tik Tok (animalspeaks) where I do short but powerful 2-5 minute videos about how to use animal totems and spirit animals!<br /><br />All personal sessions/readings for 2024 are: Full (70 minutes) $120.00; Shorter session (45 minutes) $90.00; Extended session (90 minutes) $145.00 (Two people can split an extended session back to back for $150.00 total although no other discounts will apply). Mini phone session 20 minutes $40. Email me for information about my Regular Client Program for even bigger discounts on session prices with the added benefit of monthly or quarterly check-ins. Purchasing 3 prepaid sessions also brings sizable discounts. Some examples; 3 prepaid 45 minute monthly sessions is $155 total or about $52 a session. 3 prepaid quarterly 70 minute session are $245 or about $82 a session.<br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNZKuBNhPCpIIVG4YfTXlLMFWYj-ob2H-CApZ4U14hwtlRtP8JwIoGAcFAKoF-8bNxN2qnFzrQwQMeUdRmq5Ol4CiueLWn5YZ-flKFTYGL5HPYU3iA8qh0uNujAWu2NF0DlMqkiITVyfEV1ec2sbMvg2fgq471_By560YseFCAQa6PlyrSJ9A4KHQAFcGH" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="417" data-original-width="626" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNZKuBNhPCpIIVG4YfTXlLMFWYj-ob2H-CApZ4U14hwtlRtP8JwIoGAcFAKoF-8bNxN2qnFzrQwQMeUdRmq5Ol4CiueLWn5YZ-flKFTYGL5HPYU3iA8qh0uNujAWu2NF0DlMqkiITVyfEV1ec2sbMvg2fgq471_By560YseFCAQa6PlyrSJ9A4KHQAFcGH" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><p></p>Jim V/Snake Oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00746873887985304530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024612299906599073.post-44048575483289509912024-01-13T12:07:00.000-08:002024-01-13T12:07:44.625-08:00January February 2024 Snake Oil/Essence Contact<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b> <span style="font-family: verdana;">Snake Oil</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Essence Contact</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwmqQG6AQ6WxC0ZVB3hxy9RvEVdiQzKFtpO2kF-S2vm1X5Ja6BeIK9kovsRkakdT-t3x8MN06EDgjw7HM70B3C1qxeOrwIaI6S_f4MQrNh5q9dtFrDYUG_5u-y9WnvKEHnaw2iXyhLFvjL153xsvViiNfgEKpLDATFtxsec-hG4lB9cokxe-zWlhnhq3rS/s540/360_F_576003763_c62aQwIjSw3BaFhHtjtl1Z85GyoLtBtK.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="540" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwmqQG6AQ6WxC0ZVB3hxy9RvEVdiQzKFtpO2kF-S2vm1X5Ja6BeIK9kovsRkakdT-t3x8MN06EDgjw7HM70B3C1qxeOrwIaI6S_f4MQrNh5q9dtFrDYUG_5u-y9WnvKEHnaw2iXyhLFvjL153xsvViiNfgEKpLDATFtxsec-hG4lB9cokxe-zWlhnhq3rS/s320/360_F_576003763_c62aQwIjSw3BaFhHtjtl1Z85GyoLtBtK.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /> </b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />The first time I read about what essence contact was I immediately understood what was being explained because I had already experienced this many times during the first two decades of my life. I came across the concept when reading a series of books called the Michael teachings. I was about twenty one years old at the time, and knew that during my childhood, essence contact happened fairly often. Making that connection to my essence was fairly easy to do before I was hit with the pressures of who I “supposed to be” according to peer pressure, my parents beliefs about correct behavior for our family, what our religion told us to be, and inevitably growing internal fears about my lack of self worth. I wondered why I perceived many things so differently than a lot of the people around me, not uncommon for an older soul as a child. In spite of mounting fears, I still often had pockets of times where I just felt happy, like I belonged, even fit perfectly in the world because I was quite simply meant to be here. Even if I wasn’t sure what I was here for exactly, the fun and enthusiasm about the potential of life were still fortunately stronger than my fear. <br /><br />What is essence contact? Essence is the core of who we are. There are seven essence types, some being more common place than others.* It is the role we become when we are cast (not thrown away but by choice for experience) from the Tao (God) to begin to experience a series of lifetimes. In each reincarnation or lifetime we are always the same essence, although Astrology and Over-leaves (life goal, mode, and attitude) will change to give us unique experiences for each lifetime. Essence is our direct contact to our Higher Self. It is the bridge that connects us in an unbreakable way to the Tao or God. Commonly when an individual experiences a near death event and feel they saw God, in truth it is far more likely that they are seeing essence directly. The magnitude of love from essence is interpreted as meeting God. The Tao itself is so enormous that it would be difficult for us to fully comprehend this while in a physical body. <br /><br />Experiencing essence contact happens when we are not actually trying to! It often feels like fully plugging into the present moment. It can feel like a circuit that completes or a light has come on and you just simply “get it.” When this occurs it moves us immediately to the positive poles of our over-leaves and our astrological wiring. Fear is not part of the experience and we may even temporarily move into what is know as the higher centers. It is a brief release from Maya or false personality. Time can seem elongated or even become meaningless. Often the magnitude of essence contact, however long or brief, afterwards can feel almost that we are in a positive way, burned clean or back on track.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ2c2pL8ZNrOfm3S8AQgVBOQ7rApTEv_pkS90xP-Bz45a_94aJPAeA0Dn7R4m1M3PQRQZ18u9HS14tSAnLzR8xMfZwyJK5Fg_LuaV76gqFedGBcLOWQ6-Z-eQguXZHrqhJ4imCnTRggJ_hGdv0xhVxkqYn6e49Ztzli-I52bfKWs5C74eAYeoBsCazIWkg/s259/images-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="142" data-original-width="259" height="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ2c2pL8ZNrOfm3S8AQgVBOQ7rApTEv_pkS90xP-Bz45a_94aJPAeA0Dn7R4m1M3PQRQZ18u9HS14tSAnLzR8xMfZwyJK5Fg_LuaV76gqFedGBcLOWQ6-Z-eQguXZHrqhJ4imCnTRggJ_hGdv0xhVxkqYn6e49Ztzli-I52bfKWs5C74eAYeoBsCazIWkg/s1600/images-3.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br />When I was a child I often felt this during times of play, and I played a lot. I was so immersed in joy at whatever I was doing either alone or with friends that I simply feel completely carefree. Often when I tried to play the same game another day or recreate similar events it did not pack the same magical punch, even though it was usually still fun. I once felt essence contact when I was driving my first car at about age seventeen and struggling with fear and doubt about my abilities to drive and do other “adult things.” I was waiting at a cross walk when I observed a handicapped man in a wheel chair slowly passing by. He was a character with colorful flags attached to his chair, a grin on his face, a holder for his beverage, and he just was excited to get across the street to his destination. I immediately felt connected to him. I was impressed with how he was just fully himself, and just like I perceived him to be, my fears of inadequacy disappeared in that moment. It was a wonderful feeling of not only being happy but that he was perfect, I was perfect, and so was the world. <br /><br />I had many times when I felt this sense when taking a hot bath in my teen years while reading in my crowded house when the bathroom was finally just mine. I frequently experienced essence contact when I snuggled in my bed with two dogs at night in a NY winter. There were times when I laughed so hard with friends or even family that we cried because it was overwhelming in a really good way. I especially felt this when I was the one who actually started the contagious laughter. There were times during my artistic years when I was drawing or painting when I got in the zone and it all just flowed and I created something amazing. I often felt essence contact when listening to music. There were many songs that did this for me so the list is quite long. A few examples were the first time I heard And You and I by Yes, Secret Separation by the Fixx, and more recently Babylon by David Gray.<br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkVx8nn11tpvwcOh14OQYsYaHxVODrwI485ogvfQoDQHBLcdst__UU4BsdsD9GhH0re22DUqaMgmdiG5XYfkZg5xgk4SvW4bHXLW9mqtUV7KGXvZoTB_DYpS4yPvbUyOLSn_QQWAg_OjW896dngP0UNH8IZ8SV2boxkTmm568DLm1BbX4Ka6WMFOPDDL_x/s1500/Father-daughter-wedding-dance-100523-1-0be8c9de8d134414be7703e0e4585235.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1500" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkVx8nn11tpvwcOh14OQYsYaHxVODrwI485ogvfQoDQHBLcdst__UU4BsdsD9GhH0re22DUqaMgmdiG5XYfkZg5xgk4SvW4bHXLW9mqtUV7KGXvZoTB_DYpS4yPvbUyOLSn_QQWAg_OjW896dngP0UNH8IZ8SV2boxkTmm568DLm1BbX4Ka6WMFOPDDL_x/s320/Father-daughter-wedding-dance-100523-1-0be8c9de8d134414be7703e0e4585235.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />It is common for people to try to achieve a sort of essence contact with alcohol or drugs. There can be a makeshift form of essence contact that is stimulated this way. So while it is possible, it is far less desirable with these methods and often has uncomfortable repercussions. Often the belief that the drug IS the way to get you there is grossly misconstrued. The achievement of essence contact is unique for everyone. A mother may feel essence contact during childbirth or when she holds her child for the first time. Often through a connection with a partner during a period of early romance, and later with sexual union, essence contact may occur when a shared link of chemistry is in play for a couple. A father may feel essence contact while walking his daughter down the aisle at a wedding or with the father, daughter first dance. A fireman may feel it while rescuing someone from a burning building. Any type of artist may feel essence contact when they are in the zone and have just created inspiring artwork. A traveler may feel this when going to a place for the first time and feeling like they are returning to something they somehow have already magically seen or they are transformed by the customs of another culture. Watching one’s family or friends enjoying themselves, chatting, and eating food you have prepared may trigger essence contact. A performer on stage may flow perfectly into the role during one particular show that just seems to line up and they flawlessly became the character they were portraying. A soldier might feel this at some point on a mission where he or she fully feels part of a team with purpose. A religious individual might feel truly connected to God or Jesus in Christian tradition during a religious service, singing in a choir, or any type of experience, although sometimes this can lead to zealous dogma about it being the ONLY way. The variations are infinite. Experiencing any type of wonderful event while amazing is still noticeably different from actual essence contact. <br /><br />Mature and older souls tend to be more inclined to experience essence contact although any soul age may do so. Older souls tend to get this experience more often and naturally because they tend to block the contact far less. This is why younger souls (again this has nothing to do with chronological age) often enjoy being around older souls without consciously realizing why. Essence contact can be contagious. Being around someone who is going though it, or has it happen more frequently can act as a trigger for others. In one of the books I read on the subject the author shares what a individual baby soul (the soul age where one is all about setting up rigid rules and structures to follow either comfortably or uncomfortably during a lifetime) who at age twenty is working as a camp counselor. He spontaneously pulls out his guitar in the evening when he and the children are sitting around a camp fire. He plays songs for the preteen children and many sing along and some even playfully dance. The hour flies by magically and everyone has a wonderful time including him. When he goes to sleep later in his tent his thoughts quickly turns to worry and fear. He wonders if he somehow had inappropriate or even sexual feelings toward some of the children, and whether what he did was unclean or just wrong. He does not have actual inappropriate thoughts toward the children, but religious dogma, repressed sexual development and beliefs that level of happiness feels suspect as fear and ego taints the rehashing of the event. He quits his job the next day and decides it is better to not ever work around children. He rarely allows essence contact again after this in this lifetime.<br /><br />Another way to achieve essence contact is during times of extreme suffering. There may be experiences of crisis, like a suicide attempt, notable despair, physical trauma, or painful loss when essence may step in and take over. This can often act as a reboot to life purpose when one is falling too far off the larger life plan. Some near death experiences after being revived physically because of the brief contact with the Otherworld, will re-track the individual to the original plan they diverged from. The contact with essence may create new purpose and a sense there is more to do in this life. <br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGAfl1WfYizlGHYzcbdHQrCJhuKl0yONdvPIwMAYQ72Acly-ATQssQJz5yhZ61qU28rDOV8XPfEmmN0fi9Zjnhmk4f4Kt8L2BBwrTTxlbUF02FdG_9SVnBN4Q2vimjfsWx4ZdbteQ2CxK2P7Yr4wX3QbplgTeb41e3xEvC7Y0yFx4DiflUe12zlEXXST4Y/s810/old-souls-1-min-810x536.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="810" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGAfl1WfYizlGHYzcbdHQrCJhuKl0yONdvPIwMAYQ72Acly-ATQssQJz5yhZ61qU28rDOV8XPfEmmN0fi9Zjnhmk4f4Kt8L2BBwrTTxlbUF02FdG_9SVnBN4Q2vimjfsWx4ZdbteQ2CxK2P7Yr4wX3QbplgTeb41e3xEvC7Y0yFx4DiflUe12zlEXXST4Y/s320/old-souls-1-min-810x536.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />When essence contact becomes more frequent especially for mature or older souls, it brings us back to ourselves. It is not uncommon for those around someone more aligned with their essence to think it is possible for them too. This can trigger something like “Wow, what is it that they have, I want that too, and maybe I can have it?” Essence is love and fear is the force that will block it. Fear in the physical world can be difficult to avoid but by no means impossible. It is often sold in the media, praised by those in its grip to strive for, or it may become a part of an internal voice that can masquerade as practical and valuable, what I like to call “hugging your cactus.” Fear can be disguised as “you would be foolish not to listen to what I am saying.” While we can’t strive for essence contact with a specific formula and there will unlikely ever be a pill to get us there, we can make essence contact more frequently. When we allow more love of self and others, release judgement, spend more time in the present and allow ourselves to be who we were meant to be, this minimizes that voice of fear and naturally creates more opportunities to allow essence contact, a worthy endeavor indeed. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Jim Ventura 12-2-2023</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br /></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Notes:</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTTbmnFrePcf_VC_HuK35MMf9WvcZoDjvfXHCe7eGt-oFmvPAWOqS6bTPUtXOk8Ps7yQdXKT-OolT0pxNVRJSxVZSVjmQyeaVxHM9Hc7C3BX8G4N4YDuQgHZge_kIjvRp5lpVPC-ge5zalS8cRCwCLyWvIP3KSdwoWiVHNzXCUSDqMdPZhyJ-c3C-LTq9i/s374/image005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="374" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTTbmnFrePcf_VC_HuK35MMf9WvcZoDjvfXHCe7eGt-oFmvPAWOqS6bTPUtXOk8Ps7yQdXKT-OolT0pxNVRJSxVZSVjmQyeaVxHM9Hc7C3BX8G4N4YDuQgHZge_kIjvRp5lpVPC-ge5zalS8cRCwCLyWvIP3KSdwoWiVHNzXCUSDqMdPZhyJ-c3C-LTq9i/s320/image005.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />As mentioned in this newsletters story above, there are 7 types of essences. A brief outline: Artisans (positive pole creativity, negative pole self deception or artifice), Sages (positive pole dissemination, negative pole oration), Warriors (positive pole persuasion, negative pole coercion), Kings (positive pole mastery, negative pole Tyranny), Servers (positive pole service, negative pole bondage, or frustration), Priests (positive pole compassion, negative pole, zeal), and Scholars (positive pole Knowledge, negative pole theory). This information in more detail is part of many things discussed including over-leaves and soul age, I teach in my Michael classes. Information about signing up for these and other classes later in the newsletter.<br />2024 is here! We are in a universal year of an 8 and in Chinese astrology the second week of February starts the year of the Wood Dragon. The vibe is likely to be intense and colorful to say the least, but with the potential for great accomplishment for anyone willing to fine tune their unique niche or talents and go bigger! You can check out my YouTube video on the universal new year in more detail on my channel at J Ventura Snake Oil or cut and paste this link into your browser.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6rpfSsKAVn1hV4xw2rsxQQ</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> You may request your own personal new year look by contacting me by email for availability.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />I will be teaching a really cool class all about tuning into animal totems for locals in the valley in Tempe AZ on January 21st. As of this writing there are still openings for this two hour class and it is only $11.00 to attend! Email me for one of the remaining spots and more information about the class also later in the newsletter.<br />Special note to previous Regular Clients who were in my program at one time but dropped out for any number of reasons. A few of my regulars along the way, for one reason or another did the “ghosting thing” sadly and just stopped answering my “It’s time for your next session” emails. While I will never understand this approach (and fortunately it is not very often) when a simple note to me about choosing to discontinue your regular sessions would have been a far, far better way to go, you can still request a session if you choose. You can just book a session when you choose to according to your own individual needs, once, or twice a year, or whenever. Sometimes the structure and commitment of the program is just not for everyone. The notably discounted rates will no longer apply, but future sessions randomly are still an option. <br />Information about how to join and the many benefits of my Regular Client Program later in this email. Wishing everyone a wonderful new year ahead. Cheers, Jim V <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>January’s New Year Newsletter Special!</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />January is a popular month to have a New Year overview session to look at primary themes, challenges, and opportunities for the coming year. One symbol from each of the many different oracles I work with will be pulled to highlight 2024 for you. A New Year reading is a great way to start off your New year! Your New Year reading will include:<br />Angel cards<br />Viking Rune stones<br />Druid animal totems<br />Lakota Indian cards<br />Numerology personal year<br />Tarot Archetypes<br />This session can be a 45 minute (may have to choose only 3-4 of the oracles listed), 70 or 90 minute reading. Current Snake Oil subscribers get $5 off) for booking this session and any of the sessions I offer. You can purchase one or more extra session at also to use later in the year or to give to a friend. Local in-office clients who pay for their session in cash or by check get another $5 discount! Email or call to set up your appointment, Venturasag@yahoo.com </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVXqE1Z1FxurO2prAooEANX3daoWQ8ZFT9Ls7luw00kWtci2UMKCN1hCx7tlDc7h3gLRf9_tjdPAmZ_WE9wi90LFyTkIKk_Wld2mxAmkiTZquZDf6uBx4Kpec1a80oylAk3ePO0O5Pws1Npr2HyTXbI8qMeq37iIa_pvLHWoncx-HJ1BafiNwqzXNWBPQG/s276/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="276" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVXqE1Z1FxurO2prAooEANX3daoWQ8ZFT9Ls7luw00kWtci2UMKCN1hCx7tlDc7h3gLRf9_tjdPAmZ_WE9wi90LFyTkIKk_Wld2mxAmkiTZquZDf6uBx4Kpec1a80oylAk3ePO0O5Pws1Npr2HyTXbI8qMeq37iIa_pvLHWoncx-HJ1BafiNwqzXNWBPQG/s1600/images.jpg" width="276" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxMmi53l9BFICxqTGui9DJ2ooUZ0wvlT7pXNcVJyuAUJ0yNVOmFwsrI0ANY9bZUMLGkyZ3w4ufLJB4sZq3hF3bfrUkbyav4VLilgdliiJL1nD5NaFw5vtAiH14nYAhs8gz8seaLOaKZ3zERs6L25D5m46EpLN2ny1IXdZtQ5P1FD9fz3yRYd0ggdx41dbU/s240/240_F_615840109_ZJhHBKEZcSxpPYpAaNGjmrCRRpi6JA8t.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="240" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxMmi53l9BFICxqTGui9DJ2ooUZ0wvlT7pXNcVJyuAUJ0yNVOmFwsrI0ANY9bZUMLGkyZ3w4ufLJB4sZq3hF3bfrUkbyav4VLilgdliiJL1nD5NaFw5vtAiH14nYAhs8gz8seaLOaKZ3zERs6L25D5m46EpLN2ny1IXdZtQ5P1FD9fz3yRYd0ggdx41dbU/s1600/240_F_615840109_ZJhHBKEZcSxpPYpAaNGjmrCRRpi6JA8t.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>“Sometimes in order to be happy in the present moment you have to be willing to give up all hope for a better past.”<br />― Robert Holden</i><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>New Client Special 2024 January 1st thru May 1st, 2024 Special:</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIIOW6TUuYJGqvPRtFnL0mKZd89s47hfDksGW_F8g4yzQAAF1pXgEhossTFYIFbUgCYHLUjZ1g2FyRwdS1ETNT38fREmXjMR4jdWVjW7VeKwrZ0u-VgrIXj3ZWY-sY1FOR6FgAm7B93WMTPhmEBw9bIxNrvkYn18aB5HxrvKgU1cRgP0IKIU0BjhNm2uom/s1280/2-Ways-Baskets-Improve-Your-Gift-Giving-Skills.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1280" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIIOW6TUuYJGqvPRtFnL0mKZd89s47hfDksGW_F8g4yzQAAF1pXgEhossTFYIFbUgCYHLUjZ1g2FyRwdS1ETNT38fREmXjMR4jdWVjW7VeKwrZ0u-VgrIXj3ZWY-sY1FOR6FgAm7B93WMTPhmEBw9bIxNrvkYn18aB5HxrvKgU1cRgP0IKIU0BjhNm2uom/s320/2-Ways-Baskets-Improve-Your-Gift-Giving-Skills.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />$10-15 off listed rates for your first 45 minute session, 70, or 90 minute session! Debit and credit card payments get $10 off for 45, 70, and 90 minute sessions. Local in-office clients can get an extra $5 off for cash or check payments for sessions. If you want to buy a new client a thoughtful gift of a session for a friend or family member you can also take advantage of these rates! </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><b>Channeled corner.</b> I read many, many books from different trance channelers in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. Unfortunately many of them are now out of print, but I still have a huge collection and will share some of the best material I have collected over the years.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />This is a fascinating explanation about some of the after death conditions channelled by Jane Roberts (Channeling William James). This brief passage from the book talks about the author’s experience of living in the “Otherworld” or “Heaven” after his physical death. I think both metaphysical and even some religious people will find this information to be very insightful. Jim V</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><i>“Nowhere have I encountered the furnishings of a conventional heaven, or glimpsed the face of God. On the other hand, certainly I dwell in a psychological heaven by earth’s standards, for everywhere I sense a presence, or atmosphere, or atmospheric presence that is well-intentioned, gentle yet powerful, and all-knowing. This seems to be a psychological presence of such stunning parts, however, that I can point to no one place and identify it as being there in contrast to being somewhere else. At the risk of understating, this presence seems more like a loving condition that permeates existence, and from which all existence springs.<br />The feeling of safety mentioned earlier is definitely connected here, in that I know no evil or harm can befall me, that each of my choices will yield benefits, and that this loving condition upholds me in all of my ways. As in life I was always aware of an underlying melancholy, I am here always delightfully conscious of an extraordinary sense of safety that leads, say, to heroic acts and courage-naturally. There is the constant feeling that the universe is with me, for me, and with and for all others at the same time. Not only does it not conspire against me, but ever lends its active support.<br />This willingness to help is everywhere apparent and promotes, of course, a sense of ease that, at the same time, stimulates the personalities abilities in ways most difficult to describe. While I mention this presence as itself, so thoroughly does it pervade everything that attempts to isolate it are useless. All theological and intellectual theories are beside the point in the reality of this phenomenon. I know that this presence or loving condition forms itself actively to seek my good in the most particular and individual ways; yet that good is in no way contrary to the good of anyone else, but beneficial...<br />...The living often equate death with darkness, for how can the dead see? Even if the spirit hovers beside the body, the corpse’s eyes are closed. How can the spirit have vision, disconnected from the organs of sight? Yet here I am surrounded by illumination that emanates from everywhere-colors more sparkling than any I knew on earth, light of enchanting varieties, not even or monotonous but strangely alive in its own fashion. It emanates from what I see, but also seems to be inherent all about me, whether or not there is anything so to be perceived otherwise...”</i><br />Jane Roberts The after death Journal of an American Philosopher. The World View of William James</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><i>“The Person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” Chinese Proverb</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i></i><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Upcoming Event: Discovering your power animals and totems How to talk to and use the wisdom of animal spirits and guides.<br /></b></span><br /><br />Animals in the natural world mirror attributes of humanity. Tik Tok Channel (animalspeaks) host Jim Ventura will show how anyone can draw strength and insight from the different animal totems we find on our life path, and also how to choose specific animals for personal </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrF2bqdgDjdWolJFGmCTuorm8HfQYNJmQyRgUQE-hZ1saGRmGvLh4drHFAYXYKIctHzSUc3BXwXH9GLTmojIOngNGqnYmBGEb_FhdJDbokFuyMdbG044cf217FVcuB3zr4PoVD320eR6b-KhfyLOYI2QuGEC0aJ3bRvOd2ABqDnWkMSD9p5NPffkPJsiDR/s4803/wp3929808.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3330" data-original-width="4803" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrF2bqdgDjdWolJFGmCTuorm8HfQYNJmQyRgUQE-hZ1saGRmGvLh4drHFAYXYKIctHzSUc3BXwXH9GLTmojIOngNGqnYmBGEb_FhdJDbokFuyMdbG044cf217FVcuB3zr4PoVD320eR6b-KhfyLOYI2QuGEC0aJ3bRvOd2ABqDnWkMSD9p5NPffkPJsiDR/s320/wp3929808.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />empowerment.<br />The discussion would be able to reach a wide range of ages. Many people and especially children have a natural affinity for, and love of animals. The insights discussed will offer helpful navigational suggestions to not only live peacefully with the animal kingdom but to understand their unique vibrations and to draw guidance from the natural world.<br /><br /> A few examples for discussion: Bear teaches us about how to be powerful. Dog teaches us about the benefits of loyalty. Crane teaches us about patience and being selective. Goose and duck help us open to healthy partnerships. Stag teaches us about pride, dignity, and confidence. The many animals covered offer a wide range of vibrational benefits that can be life changing.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> The class will be <b>Sunday January 21st 2024</b> from Noon until 2:15 pm. Location Sozo Healing Center in Tempe AZ. All adults and teenagers also welcome. A maximum of 20 people. Prepayment suggested for a discounted rate of $11, or $15 on the day of the class if there are still openings. More Information about the series and to hold one or more of the limited spots contact instructor Jim Ventura at VenturaSag@yahoo.com. <br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Intuitive and Oracle reading classes 2024</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO-Lm-SzrStqCiEpd3KMcebGNOP9IAPCPb3sLR_ub31TtZVnQODlTRLmj9woUAFxCF3QsxlxG-TuZcphzXwRvFR8tyYKDzeDhcdCiLcN7gsbzzA3Hl5tIr4c3aBd4YSEOXD2wIQCEg1OvXdeG5Yo4a0gtcsN4xIxiE5RaP_AZ6nNGGxpD3_-sR_D_yILI-/s612/glowing-light-bulb-and-book-or-text-book-with-futuristic-icon-self-learning-or-education.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="408" data-original-width="612" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO-Lm-SzrStqCiEpd3KMcebGNOP9IAPCPb3sLR_ub31TtZVnQODlTRLmj9woUAFxCF3QsxlxG-TuZcphzXwRvFR8tyYKDzeDhcdCiLcN7gsbzzA3Hl5tIr4c3aBd4YSEOXD2wIQCEg1OvXdeG5Yo4a0gtcsN4xIxiE5RaP_AZ6nNGGxpD3_-sR_D_yILI-/s320/glowing-light-bulb-and-book-or-text-book-with-futuristic-icon-self-learning-or-education.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><br />While I no longer host group classes in my home, some of my most popular classes are still available! Now classes can be in-office, by phone, or through Face-Time, even Zoom.<br />You can take one introductory class or continue with a monthly class for up to six months for any of the classes offered. Each instructional class is 90 minutes. You may schedule a one on one class in office or by phone for yourself, or have a friend or family member join you and split the costs.<br /><br />Single one person class: $55.00 or 3 classes prepaid $150.<br />2 people option: $70 for each class ($35.00 each) 3 classes prepaid $180 ($90.00 each).<br /><br />Email me for more information and my availability calendar to book your personal intuitive and oracle development classes. my email is Venturasag@yahoo.com<br /><br />A few of the currently 18 options, contact me by email for full list:<br /><br />1. TAROT CARD READING<br />Whether you have some experience with Tarot or have never explored this oracle before, Tarot classes will assist you in understanding the wisdom, insight and potential guidance contained in Tarot cards. The classes will focus on teaching you how to read the Tarot for yourself and eventually for others. The Tarot can be used for prediction, to accelerate spiritual growth, and increase your awareness or “navigational life skills.” If you don’t have a deck, assistance will also be provided on choosing the right deck for you. Whether you plan on using oracles for self guidance, or wish to expand into doing readings professionally, the classes will assist you on your road to mastering the Tarot.<br /><br />2. ASTROLOGY-101 <br />Astrology classes will teach you all of the basics to read any Astrology chart. You will learn to interpret your own chart, as well as those of others. You will gain insight into house placements, signs, symbols, angles, retrograde planets, cusps, transits, etc... We will explore how powerful the influence of astrology is in our lives. Working with your unique astrology chart (western astrology, Placidus house system) will help you with understanding yourself, your unique skills, challenges, and how to use this knowledge to navigate through your life with more empowerment. <br /><br />3. MICHAEL MATERIAL<br />* What is your soul age? The soul age of friends, family, and people all around you?<br />* How do past lifetimes influence us in the present?<br />* What does karma feel like, and how does it work?<br />* How does your chief negative feature impact your life, and can it be changed?<br />* What happens when your partner is an idealist and you are a realist?<br />* What is your life goal? Is it dominance, acceptance, flow, discrimination, growth, revaluation, or submission?<br />*What is your essence, your soul mate’s essence ? Artisan, priest, king, server, sage, warrior or scholar.?<br />* What is a soul mate, task companion, heart link?<br />* What is your centering and what do the higher centers feel like?<br />After this workshop you will understand all of these questions and many more, and more importantly have the answers.<br /><br /><br />What is the Michael teaching?<br />The main goal of the Michael teaching is agape or unconditional love. The teaching views life as a learning game in which fragments of the Tao - that essential part of each human being - set up lessons which continue over lifetimes. These lessons are learned via the personality which Essence chooses each lifetime. Michael teaches us what the components of the personality are so that we can learn to use and see these components in ourselves and in others. In that way we can learn to understand why human beings behave as they do. Michael is composed of 1,050 individual Essences who have lived on the physical plane and now teach from another plane. One of the most basic and important principles of the teaching is that it is not a religion or a belief system. Michael encourages their students to self validate all of the information they receive. The system was originally in print in many, many volumes of information. “My studies of this material have been extensive and now I offer what I have learned to my students” Jim Ventura (Old Scholar). The classes will help you to use and understand the material without the need to read all the out of print books. This series is highly recommended! <br /><br />4. PAST LIFE JOURNEYS<br />All aspects of past life exploration, from hypnosis, dreaming techniques, past life regressions will be discussed. By understanding the influence of karma and the past lives we have already lived, we will show how our past experiences affect us in our present life. The class focuses on setting up a past life journal, and explores the progression of our soul’s journeys. Astrology, Numerology, and many other tools will be utilized to aid you in becoming aware of your past lifetimes. The classes will increase understanding relationship patterns, release fear and phobia’s, letting go of allergies, and other blockades are some of the many possibilities connected with this type of study. “Desire to live again, because that will be your lot in any case.” Nietzsche<br /><br />5. Intuitive development<br />I have been studying many different aspects of metaphysics for 38 years now. I’m well versed on many different subjects in the field. You can tap into this data base of knowledge! I am like a living breathing huge set of encyclopedia’s! You can use a class or a series of classes to discuss developing your intuitive abilities in a number of different areas. Some examples: Lucid dreaming, out of body experiences, crystals, how often should you do readings, developing empathic abilities and boundary setting with others, talking to angels and spirit guides, meditation, the meaning of repeating number messages say to us, adjusting vibrations as you grow, channeling, chakra clearing, etc...When we commit to listening more to our inner self it is natural to change many different aspects of the way we live life in the process. </span><br /><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><i>Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain</i><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Regular Client Program</b></span> <br />My Regular clients enjoy working with the many different types of oracles I work with for enlightenment. But a good portion of them work with me in the form of an enlightened counselor, and life coach. Discussing what you are going through or working on at each time is definitely healing but also allows added insight from my many years of navigational consultations and the wisdom of working with a very old soul! <br />One of the best programs I have been doing for 25 years now is my Regular Client program. The program is designed to benefit my clients at multiple levels. Clients who enroll in the program come in every three months for personal sessions (monthly, or every other month sessions are also an option). This can also be done for out-of-area clients by phone. Session prices are discounted for Regular Clients. The focus of the program is on consistent work in developing your intuitive abilities, learning how to navigate more effectively through life by using the signs and signals that are all around us, and conquering fear-based programming permanently. We also get to work with all the many different oracles I currently work with! My Regular Client Program has resulted in some tremendous spiritual evolution for hundreds of people over the years. Some of my Regulars have gone on to do spiritual counseling, or similar types of work and some are healing and guiding others personally and professionally. The progress I have seen over the years among the majority of my Regular Clients has been phenomenal. It is wonderful to see the spiritual, physical, and emotional progress I have assisted in motivating. So many of my Regular Clients have dramatically changed the way they now view life and are enjoying a more enlightened point of view. You too can join this program as well, just ask.<br />More about the Regular Client Program... This program was designed to create an easy, cost-effective way for my clients to progress in their spiritual development. <br />When we are consistent at attending to our body/mind/spirit, we naturally move through life with more harmony and greater joy. When our spiritual awareness is heightened and fine tuned we are often happier which helps us to enjoy all aspects of our lives, including occasional personal challenges because we see them as inevitably beneficial. We can truly assist the people around us. Human beings learn by example. Your intimate partnerships, friendships, family, and children benefit when you are in a good space.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />The Regular Client Program makes it easier to prioritize keeping your spiritual, emotional and even physical “garden” free of weeds. In China, the professional soothsayer is a reverent and dignified calling. It does not attract the sort of suspicion it does in the western world. In fact, in most eastern cultures, seeing an oracle reader is a sign of wisdom, success, and prestige. If you have an interest in increasing these attributes and working with a highly skilled navigational consultant then the Regular Client Program may be right for you. Email for more information and pricing.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> Snake Oil Radio</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc5X4AQuIFgq5HkRq6yfI3r1VbOdSSraLPF7m_Dv-fZXgvLqDvXZy27qyG-7ofF8FsPPO1NpvpsiNMHJE5FprSN1yfsM2YNYfrCR-5mpv_OnUHxB4egbuf-cFznx0YBrlzwO-NRCcKwcZgMs77zIViPS-Ci3N_PhyPPQQVK3QGiL-RqWI-YwdWtuuIyDMP/s194/image007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="167" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc5X4AQuIFgq5HkRq6yfI3r1VbOdSSraLPF7m_Dv-fZXgvLqDvXZy27qyG-7ofF8FsPPO1NpvpsiNMHJE5FprSN1yfsM2YNYfrCR-5mpv_OnUHxB4egbuf-cFznx0YBrlzwO-NRCcKwcZgMs77zIViPS-Ci3N_PhyPPQQVK3QGiL-RqWI-YwdWtuuIyDMP/s1600/image007.jpg" width="167" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />Thursdays at 3:30 pm (there will be two live broadcasts this period)<br />My next live broadcast of Snake Oil Radio will be Thursday, January 18th at 3:30 p.m. mountain (Phoenix) time. This will be a live interview show and my guest Megan will also take questions halfway thru the show!<br />There are many roads to healing the heart and unlocking self-love but one of the most powerful is using oracle cards, divinatory cards that are used for reflection and personal exploration.<br />Master Healer Megan Edge is the creator of The Heart's Journey Oracle Cards, inspired by her own journey to self-healing. The deck of cards is not only visually stunning but also holds the power to unlock hidden emotions, bring clarity to challenging situations, and offer guidance on navigating life's intricacies. About Megan Edge Since 2007, Megan Edge has been helping people via her counseling services with a focus on empowerment and deep healing of emotional, energetic, and physical trauma. After three decades of study in the metaphysical fields of Astral Projection, Runes Stones, Dream Work, Tarot, Chakras, EFT, Auras, Angel Therapy, and Past Lives, completing various certification programs along with degrees in Social Work, Women’s Studies and Geology, she has been named a Master Healer. A generational forager, Megan has ethically harvested from the forest since a child and now, through her shop, Beyond the Garden Gate, she shares Mother Nature’s healing bounty with her teas and tinctures. She is also the creator of The Heart’s Journey Oracle Cards. Discover more at: <a href="http://meganedge.ca/">http://meganedge.ca/</a><br /><br />The next broadcast will be February 8th will a live column read and discussion. This 45 minute show will expand on my current column’s subject matter. It will also offer an opportunity for you to chat with other listeners in the chat room with comments and your thoughts about the topic of discussion. If you miss the live show, you can catch any of my previously recorded shows on the website’s archive. You can also catch Snake Oil Radio on iTunes and similar locations for podcasts.<br />To hear a live show, all you need to do is be at a computer and tuned into: <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura">http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura</a> or on your phone. You may also access it by going to the site and type “Snake Oil” into the search option. You can also go to the shows that are currently “On air” at that time and find me. The call in number is 646-200-3966 for questions and comments IF the show is offering that (please check, many of my column shows don’t).</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><i>“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” William Arthur Ward<br /></i><br /><br />Here’s my contact information to make an appointment for a session, or information on current classes: Email: Venturasag@yahoo.com (BEST method for contact).<br />text only: (602) 349-0746 Phone calls: (602) 957-3035 <br /><br />Information about the different sessions and types of readings, classes and services, past Snake Oil columns, and how to order my books and audio CD’s can be found at my website: <a href="http://JimVentura.com">http://JimVentura.com</a>. <br /><br />“Friend” me on Facebook to get other extra offers and in between column extras! Signing up for my fan page will get you even more extras and first shot at reading specials. Simply click on “like” on the fan page and you will automatically get my weekly updates. <br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl</a><br /><br />I have a few other media channels other than my monthly radio shows and FaceBook:<br /><br />Subscribe to my YouTube Channel (approximately once a month 6-12 minute videos) at J Ventura Snake Oil. <br />Instagram at Venturawords ( Astrology updates and other insight on short reels) <br /> Tik Tok (animalspeaks) where I do short but powerful 2-5 minute videos about how to use animal totems and spirit animals!<br /><br />All personal sessions/readings for 2024 are: Full (70 minutes) $120.00; Shorter session (45 minutes) $90.00; Extended session (90 minutes) $145.00 (Two people can split an extended session back to back for $150.00 total although no other discounts will apply). Mini phone session 20 minutes $40. Email me for information about my Regular Client Program for even bigger discounts on session prices with the added benefit of monthly or quarterly check-ins. Purchasing 3 prepaid sessions also brings sizable discounts. Some examples; 3 </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">prepaid 45 minute monthly sessions is $155 total or about $52 a session. 3 prepaid quarterly 70 minute session are $245 or about $82 a session.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimtKQf-3wmIAGeknX1YOJ0Ml7MN4tzNUrExVJpPxW-amuyTzYFUAGgiU5KpMJEKt-dJ_J24LvI6deRm-Ob5sLlqpv3NseKVnuCHiOVkmNVHRld53JxusPD4kqhSKCqd2z4op1NvT3fRhJ9a1C0eKWT-NuOtMGLWNb_CbWzy6K9MyD0_DHBToprXtoeBeZm/s400/831b5798ad01e93173fd092d58190cf0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimtKQf-3wmIAGeknX1YOJ0Ml7MN4tzNUrExVJpPxW-amuyTzYFUAGgiU5KpMJEKt-dJ_J24LvI6deRm-Ob5sLlqpv3NseKVnuCHiOVkmNVHRld53JxusPD4kqhSKCqd2z4op1NvT3fRhJ9a1C0eKWT-NuOtMGLWNb_CbWzy6K9MyD0_DHBToprXtoeBeZm/s320/831b5798ad01e93173fd092d58190cf0.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>Jim V/Snake Oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00746873887985304530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024612299906599073.post-33402077706003020162023-11-07T14:24:00.002-08:002023-11-07T14:24:35.604-08:00November December 2023 Snake Oil/Gratitude and Thanksgiving<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Gratitude and Thanksgiving</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfXGv5kS0MhdKuYgjFiIjY0YJ_nxv7f3Qnh6sxnoM6b9waWCe_rb3JzvnkfH9MH3X3gstSrsTCdl5a6L2q-NJ5_D3Bhuk39ZSc2BZzoQOFzVTN9bmgFXPJ5nqg-L57snbHTv8GWhc7INvP4M6IwElZ9tgPNRo9PJjTN6tkmF2HPgnRX69qURU6s06jAnXR/s1200/greeting-card-for-thanksgiving-day-brown-table-with-royalty-free-image-1695482022.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="1200" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfXGv5kS0MhdKuYgjFiIjY0YJ_nxv7f3Qnh6sxnoM6b9waWCe_rb3JzvnkfH9MH3X3gstSrsTCdl5a6L2q-NJ5_D3Bhuk39ZSc2BZzoQOFzVTN9bmgFXPJ5nqg-L57snbHTv8GWhc7INvP4M6IwElZ9tgPNRo9PJjTN6tkmF2HPgnRX69qURU6s06jAnXR/s320/greeting-card-for-thanksgiving-day-brown-table-with-royalty-free-image-1695482022.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />This column is a partial repeat of an essay I wrote back in October of 2011. Twelve years later I still have to remind myself to remember the many benefits of focusing on gratitude and how many things I truly have to be grateful about. In a notable way while I still get frustrated, it seems my fifties self versus the me of my forties tends to be far less irritable. In many ways my perspectives have shifted. The practical details of life like cars, appliances, and many of the things we tend to collect in life that inevitably break down, and are often ridiculously expensive to repair, have not changed; things wear out and break. The endless details of marketing connected with having my own business, while having interesting new elements to them, are still at times very time-consuming. The at times unreliability of regular clients that I feel like I have to chase down sometimes (like a personal trainer being in a position to have to push his clients to work out for their own good), along with no shows, unanswered emails, getting too far behind in their payments, while tiring, have neither decreased or increased. The overly busy weeks followed by painfully slow business weeks are still about the same. What fortunately shifted in my fifties was how I look at all of these things. I now truly understand what the positive pole of Capricorn actually means. “I USE” is understanding the wisdom of how problems can propel us toward solutions or make us stronger versus irritation and complaining, or going to the extremes of feeling like a martyr.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />In some ways each new decade can bring us added gifts of new perspectives and vision. While our outer eyesight may require assistance like reading glasses (I am still lucky and only need the dollar store readers!), other aspects of vision can potentially expand. I used to lean far more to the left politically in my younger years. Years of observing the same nonsense and manipulation that at times can be part of left ideologies has moved me closer to the center. Rather than the often common swing used to resolve the discomfort by moving to the far right and simply switching to the flip side of crazy, it has became more clear that both sides have some wisdom and both sides are at times bordering on insane. Sitting in the center and being more of an independent feels far more comfortable.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrB8tMXJi33eGJuUJkrQyX43VJunVUAce7gIFAIMjBdb0RbXTBAxaWRFwqdKDr8ys0_-uONv16XO9Ki6b4NZANGpge5DbRBq7WQOM2bjoENfOabxgq_PU06s635W-48gDOp5fQRrcJhnqc3tLpv66jnFmxv3N7DNadXec4IdCFdXtlZRfwPzysyWg1TaWL/s275/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrB8tMXJi33eGJuUJkrQyX43VJunVUAce7gIFAIMjBdb0RbXTBAxaWRFwqdKDr8ys0_-uONv16XO9Ki6b4NZANGpge5DbRBq7WQOM2bjoENfOabxgq_PU06s635W-48gDOp5fQRrcJhnqc3tLpv66jnFmxv3N7DNadXec4IdCFdXtlZRfwPzysyWg1TaWL/s1600/images.jpg" width="275" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />The repeated struggles with inconsistency in my business and with a few unreliable clients in part has led me to decide to focus on new forms of income like writing another book. In fact I not only I finished another new book but am now part of the way through two more. Allowing the natural mutability of my Sun sign to expand into new ways of making an income from book sales, public speaking, and online classes and events was a perfect solution. And while some of these things are still in the works, I have no doubt that in a short period of time I will be successful. In fact, just the willingness to move in these new directions alone feels like a victory. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />Another important aspect of wisdom arose from dealing with a few painful rounds of kidney stones a few years ago. While I was in no way hit with all of them at once, I also had to deal with diverticulitis and a brutal round with sciatic nerve damage. I put my studies of alternative medicine, trigger points, yoga, healthier diet, and healing foods to the test. Most importantly, I was willing to get to the root of the emotional and limited belief patterns that were creating the illnesses. Pushing stones through on my own, the tremendous pain of diverticulitis, and trying to get out of bed with debilitating back pain was not fun and even at times terrifying. I resisted the usual agreed societal solution to take pain blockers, or to use western medicine to resolve or more often mask problems. This commitment was really putting my money where my mouth was. All the methods I had studied for years turned out to be not only real in theory but also actually worked. I am free of all of these ailments and now quite healthy for a man my age. While at times a scary process, afterwards it left me feeling like a fearless badass who can tackle anything that comes along. I USED the difficulties.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFiPYoAiQaZq5LXloPC413Px2xw0byvXqu45BO2d-Sm46oMqtwLC8fnuzf8iQWRyubiuUXd9jshtzKMOn7NXTNtiPEI3sCZvROBwCKjk675XNJoa1dnSzTbwkZkuYj4NT0vS1T-n35Cct_trTNQkj2dVirFHaOAL47haxHP6gUACHrVWv1a7kAU15HewpD/s640/board-5534043_640.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFiPYoAiQaZq5LXloPC413Px2xw0byvXqu45BO2d-Sm46oMqtwLC8fnuzf8iQWRyubiuUXd9jshtzKMOn7NXTNtiPEI3sCZvROBwCKjk675XNJoa1dnSzTbwkZkuYj4NT0vS1T-n35Cct_trTNQkj2dVirFHaOAL47haxHP6gUACHrVWv1a7kAU15HewpD/s320/board-5534043_640.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />A great example of this was applying this new knowledge and experience during the Covid years where the fear of “What if it gets me, or I give it to my loved ones?” was a debilitating, even terrifying motivation for many people all over the world. I stood back from all the theatrics about going out or staying in, wearing masks or not wearing them, the extremes of whether to inject pharmaceuticals into your body or not, how many people could be on an elevator, etc... I walked through an understandably difficult time for many dispassionately. I really did understand why it brought so much fear and did not judge those who got pulled in. My studies of how and why we experience illness for over more than three decades were extremely helpful. The majority of the population have little or no understanding of the many layers of how illness come to us. I knew without the slightest doubt (well I honestly did about two weeks of mild fear than that dried up fairly quickly early on), that if I got this illness, I knew exactly what to do to push it through and heal. It became increasingly clear, while not all of it was nonsense, the suggestions from the media and the loudest and strongest voices, like washing your hands by singing happy birthday, staying away from everyone (stranger danger), and not going outside, etc...were mostly gibberish. We had an opportunity as a society to start a conversation with people about preventative medicine and healthy, practical homeopathic methods for healing and of course we ignored this. The only fallout for me sadly was a few friends and family that cut me out of their lives, many after knowing me for years, who put me in the “Jim is reckless and dangerous” camp. I used this to my advantage as well. Being around people who live in such extremes of fear and questioning my character is not healthy for me, so while the losses did hurt, it was inevitably a good thing. I USED the cruel treatment. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmUPnIkum9ZQPJBm8xFEpIoui8eksBdsTmGgR88ztk-A8rYUpnXY0j338pMjWVtv5YDnZ1q-1_ha0WKm3TIAyXhOAnBYNZ3pPyaHFZt0mCrQv0PYeN6UHs8z-o6UTsDos2ifXR0xs8sg6GLGwifGOMxv9WP2bwvGM2qT3g9Td_NBu5nFET723PiA1Ub50f/s275/images-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmUPnIkum9ZQPJBm8xFEpIoui8eksBdsTmGgR88ztk-A8rYUpnXY0j338pMjWVtv5YDnZ1q-1_ha0WKm3TIAyXhOAnBYNZ3pPyaHFZt0mCrQv0PYeN6UHs8z-o6UTsDos2ifXR0xs8sg6GLGwifGOMxv9WP2bwvGM2qT3g9Td_NBu5nFET723PiA1Ub50f/s1600/images-2.jpg" width="275" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <br />Probably one of the greatest accomplishments that I am grateful for is being relaxed about my lifelong seemingly endless quest to “find the right mate.” I am currently single, and while I remain open to something amazing if it comes along, I am truly comfortable alone. If a partnership of value is in the cards, it will be far better than past relationships because the mirror reflection of that individual will be of someone who is also open but comfortable with themselves. If I spend the remainder of my time in this life, probably anywhere from about two, three, or four more decades, as a single man I can honestly say I am truly cool with that. The sense that success in life must be connected to finding the “right” mate is something I am neutral about and that feels really good.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />Thanksgiving is nearly here again and it’s one of my favorite holidays. I get to indulge (this makes the Taurus ascendant part of me happy) for a day or two and then go back to a sensible eating pattern, well honestly maybe more than a few days. While many of us have had difficulties in the past and maybe still in the present, we can still find things to be grateful for in our lives. A gratitude journal is very useful for this purpose. While it may be difficult to remember to consistently write in it, like all potentially good or not so good things we will eventually become addicted to it. It’s one addiction that is seriously good for us! While some of the conditions around the original Thanksgiving (Pilgrims and Indians) were questionable to say the least, the idea behind it is still solid. Gratitude and a healthy giving and receiving ratio are necessities for staying balanced. Healing requires committing to resolving and fixing what isn’t working, not just endlessly thinking about “how someday I am going to finally take care of this,” or “this is my lot in life and there is no changing it.” Shifting our focus toward what is positive and what we are thankful for moves us into a place where we inevitably create more things to be thankful and grateful for. <br />Jim Ventura 10-2023<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Notes:</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGoFusOoZoadpg9kbic68lLzbCMEnDr9zeV69-xX28smzqYEIKvtUzhAgVxqXVbJYGdGcDx7o0yDQKnGt6f1vVUdC9qEwH1NP7joCxX16P4W1wwRDGoxuTyuCM155vCOAuvlLu5IGMbBN_xzKUecCXBW1P1j0CJGZFtlCv8xGeAd0xUK_hUWl3ip7FHiw7/s374/image005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="374" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGoFusOoZoadpg9kbic68lLzbCMEnDr9zeV69-xX28smzqYEIKvtUzhAgVxqXVbJYGdGcDx7o0yDQKnGt6f1vVUdC9qEwH1NP7joCxX16P4W1wwRDGoxuTyuCM155vCOAuvlLu5IGMbBN_xzKUecCXBW1P1j0CJGZFtlCv8xGeAd0xUK_hUWl3ip7FHiw7/s320/image005.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />The big holiday season is here. Phoenix went from a still lingering too hot climate to an instantly cool fall, not exactly something uncommon. And like many people I am dealing with some days of itchy eyes and bouts of crazy sneezing, still overall it is a great time of year. My only complaint would be that there are so many people here. There was a heavy migration of people to the state for a lot of reasons and we are in what is called snow bird season with an added influx of winter visitors. Driving makes me nuts sometimes. Still, the amount of good things here and the Autumn season itself far outweigh any negatives. We get about 7 months of perfect or near perfect weather from now until June. I am particularly grateful for having had the wisdom back in 2004 to buy a condo before the mortgage and rent explosions in the last few years. My mortgage is not only very inexpensive but the condo is now worth over three times what I originally paid for it!<br /><br />I am continuing the seemingly slow process of finding a literary agent to rep me for my books and to connect me with the right publisher. In the meantime I continue to write new material so when I get that squared away I should be able to get a new book in print in a short period of time. I continue to also do edits on the work I already have done. I did a Mah Jongg card reading for myself four months ago (info in this newsletter for how you can set one up for yourself) and the solution to two areas of challenge in the West position was the Jade card. Its meaning is worth and perseverance. The advice being “In China Jade is prized above gold. When Jade is taken from the ground it is a lifeless piece of dull rock. It only acquires value when time, work, and skill have transformed the raw stone into an object worthy of admiration by an emperor...” Clearly great advice and I am on it!<br /><br />My Tik Tok channel has been growing faster than my other channels (Instagram and YouTube) so far. Animalspeaks is all about how to understand animal totems. A big hit this fall has been talking about somewhat fictitious animals like the four dragons, earth, air, fire, and water. I even did a fun video about how to handle trolls! I am following this growing success and interest by offering a two hour event at Sozo healing house in Tempe. Part of the proceeds of a very inexpensive class will go to the Humane Society. It is all set for Sunday January 21st at Noon. I am also looking into doing this seminar at some local Phoenix and surrounding area libraries in 2024 as well. I will likely offer the seminar via Zoom for those who don’t live in Phoenix but are still interested. If you intrigued about either the live event in Tempe (A maximum of 20 people at the center) or a potential spot when it is set up for Zoom probably in the spring of 2024, best bet is to email me for info and to reserve a spot. <br /><br />I am doing an interview show on my Blogtalkradio with a personal trainer and a holistic health product expert on November 16th at 3:30 pm (Phoenix time). It is called the Trifecta of Healing! Especially for anyone who has experienced complications for long term Covid, or from the vaccine, there will be some helpful info about that. More about the show later in this newsletter.<br /><br />Saving the best for last, all returning or new clients receive a $10-$15 discount of all 45, 70, and 90 minute sessions booked in November and December of 2023! This also includes buying gift sessions for friends and family or for yourself to use anytime in 2024. Up to three can be purchased for a total of up to $75 off. More info later in this newsletter.<br /><br />Wishing everyone a lot to be grateful for this year and to be open to even more in 2024! Hey that rhymes! Cheers, Jim V <br /><br /><i>“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, or won. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” Denis Waitley<br /></i><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>November and December Gift certificates Special: $10-$75 off all sessions!<br />This offer is for New Clients and Returning Client!</b></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidtr8yP5osV4MO2cJzl77Nvl0qZLj5ILm1ytxJmfv3auQpbaLzpFtKFlc_jI9XLAy9bNe2kIsBP_boTH1zcmCFDRVnTWcz7Unty0VP8-HxLYXcWISZbM7Yqx5eGWh0tZ4WCoqalaYPZwzv2c3_Wv5D0ZY7H5nrMiXsnmyNa30XiTtrC2GriEIhKT8c_ghW/s1280/2-Ways-Baskets-Improve-Your-Gift-Giving-Skills.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1280" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidtr8yP5osV4MO2cJzl77Nvl0qZLj5ILm1ytxJmfv3auQpbaLzpFtKFlc_jI9XLAy9bNe2kIsBP_boTH1zcmCFDRVnTWcz7Unty0VP8-HxLYXcWISZbM7Yqx5eGWh0tZ4WCoqalaYPZwzv2c3_Wv5D0ZY7H5nrMiXsnmyNa30XiTtrC2GriEIhKT8c_ghW/s320/2-Ways-Baskets-Improve-Your-Gift-Giving-Skills.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />The holidays are approaching. Give a gift to someone you love that they will really appreciate: a reading/personal Navigational consultation with Jim Ventura. All sessions booked at this time AND all gift certificates purchased from November 11th, 2023 until December 31st will be at a discounted rate for clients who are currently on my mailing list (receiving Snake Oil or following me on FaceBook, Instagram, or YouTube) and new first time clients as well can take advantage of the special!<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Special discounted rate:</b></span><br />$10.00 off my current listed prices for any 45, 70, or 90 minute sessions. You can also purchase up to 2 gift certificates (or decide to purchase a follow up session for yourself to use in the coming year after your session) the second gift certificate is $20 off my listed prices. If you purchase a third it will be $40 off that one! A maximum of three sessions or gift certificates may be purchased at this time. In-office cash or check payments can add an additional $5 off the total price.<br /><br />Price list for services are at the end of this newsletter and on my website. The gift certificates are good for one full year and can be used any time during the remainder of 2023 and all of 2024. I will either mail them to you or, if you prefer, mail them directly to the people who you want to receive them (snail mail or email). You may want to buy a gift certificate(s) either for friends, family or for yourself to be used anytime in 2024. Sessions can be in-office or by phone, Face-Time. or Zoom for out-of-area clients.<br /><br /><br /><i>“As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December’s bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same. Donald Westlake<br /></i><br /><b>Channeled corner. </b>I read many, many books from different trance channelers in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. Unfortunately many of them are now out of print, but I still have a huge collection and will share some of the best material I have collected over the years.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><b>Q. If you have a destiny, where does reality creation fit in? To what extent does destiny predetermine your reality?</b><br />Lazaris: You do have a destiny, if you so choose. This is how it fits together: There is no sense of predetermination in the fullest extent of that word. Your life is not really mapped out for you. It’s not laid out so neatly. What is true is that between lifetimes you, as a consciousness, go through a whole lot of growth. You experience the death process, being dead, going to heaven and those sort of things.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />Then you get tired of it and realize, ‘Is this all there is?’ Then all the backdrops fall away, and you get to work. You start reviewing the lifetime that you finished. You review it in retrospect and in relationship to the other lifetimes that are all concurrent. Then you decide whether you want to move through your growth without returning to physical form or if you want to pick another lifetime to experience.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />In that process of picking another lifetime, what happens is that you create broad strokes. You decide you want to learn about this, and this, and this, and you want to experience that. You create what we call the broad strokes of your life, the broad, sweeping gestures in your energy. Then you enter into this life. Your consciousness, your massive consciousness, all of a sudden confines itself in this infant body, and you forget all of what went before. You don’t remember. Well, some children do remember for awhile, but they soon forget. The amnesia sets in, and they forget.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrX0TQ63CB8y3X9foBw-INMt7ms1TTrmvzrJfvHR425tGCyk6g3yWwTswZXbUmiKH_RMVh3t1sutVgXVQReRn1psBLuu2Rdd_tHYJlX7C9LmYNmFBd98M3aDv8U-FDuoD9NSKl3Mu0huIAOTY8Sc2Qkr5YkscLmjR0K7k5VVSUWq2-Itk6qqbfXLg9mw5V/s970/destiny-sign-represents-pointing-progress-and-future.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="970" data-original-width="970" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrX0TQ63CB8y3X9foBw-INMt7ms1TTrmvzrJfvHR425tGCyk6g3yWwTswZXbUmiKH_RMVh3t1sutVgXVQReRn1psBLuu2Rdd_tHYJlX7C9LmYNmFBd98M3aDv8U-FDuoD9NSKl3Mu0huIAOTY8Sc2Qkr5YkscLmjR0K7k5VVSUWq2-Itk6qqbfXLg9mw5V/s320/destiny-sign-represents-pointing-progress-and-future.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />You have there broad strokes in your life. You decide, for example. ‘I’m going to come from broken home. I’m going to have a broad sweeping illness here.’ Or, ‘I’m going to grow up and deal with love in such a way as to have several very hurtful relationships.’ You decide on those broad strokes. You also have things you want to accomplish in the lifetime. ‘I want to learn this and accomplish that, and I want to be of service in this way or that way, or whatever.’ But every moment you can change it.<br />For example, maybe you put a broad, sweeping stroke in your life that you were going to have a tragic accident and be crippled. As you approach that time, you change your mind. ‘I don’t want to do a tragic accident, I’m going to change this.’ You don’t have the tragic accident, and then your whole lifetime changes, absolutely it does.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />You have free will, at any moment, either to accept the pre-decided, sweeping generalities in your life, or to change them. If you accept the broad, sweeping generalities, you still have to fill in the day-in and day-out existence where indeed you exert your free will, where you create that reality.<br />You see, you are the one who is creating the broad strokes, and therefore you can change them. When we talk with many of you, as well you know, we psychically tell you what’s going to be happening, what you’re creating, what you’re generating. Basically what we’re telling you is the blueprint that you’ve laid out for yourself. You have decided what you are going to create, and therefore you’ve laid out a blueprint, like an architect...</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />From Lazaris Interviews book One Jach Pursel</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><i>“I don’t regret the things I’ve done, I regret the things I didn’t do when I had the chance.” Unknown</i><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Snake Oil Radio</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcqnGcftlkjnm8DFFVG6HsJpf7A3RB3yvzed7lWBZK8pjObK0R38iEbScSdmC-5cBpCF97sRj3Vl978-AH7BipaPbZhp1LrNEQ49hj71HHIVonSTAfoDGFRFakR-qu9zoreHco2eZO0Bvg3ybZQeiSTpD_Rb1_h5a-q4d4JPMSVEZDr35O7_7zRXK-hG__/s194/image007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="167" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcqnGcftlkjnm8DFFVG6HsJpf7A3RB3yvzed7lWBZK8pjObK0R38iEbScSdmC-5cBpCF97sRj3Vl978-AH7BipaPbZhp1LrNEQ49hj71HHIVonSTAfoDGFRFakR-qu9zoreHco2eZO0Bvg3ybZQeiSTpD_Rb1_h5a-q4d4JPMSVEZDr35O7_7zRXK-hG__/s1600/image007.jpg" width="167" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />Thursdays at 3:30 pm (there will be two live broadcast this period)<br />My next live broadcast of Snake Oil Radio will be Thursday, November 16th at 3:30 p.m. mountain (Phoenix) time, followed by December 14th column read show. Each 45 minute show will expand on my current column’s subject matter. It will also offer an opportunity for you to chat with other listeners in the chat room with comments and your thoughts about the topic of discussion. If you miss the live show, you can catch any of my previously recorded shows on the website’s archive. You can also catch Snake Oil Radio on iTunes and similar locations for podcasts.<br />To hear a live show, all you need to do is be at a computer and tuned into: <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura">http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura</a> or on your phone. You may also access it by going to the site and type “Snake Oil” into the search option. You can also go to the shows that are currently “On air” at that time and find me. The call in number is 646-200-3966 for questions and comments IF the show is offering that (please check, many of my column shows don’t).</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><b>The Trifecta of Health and Wellness! Thursday November 16th. One hour special show.</b><br />Join me for a live show with my two special guests discussing how to heal and be at our best spiritually, physically, and with all natural homeopathic products. My two guests will be open to questions about halfway through our one hour interview show.<br /><br /><b>Shawn Nieman</b><br />Shawn’s services include personalized diet, fitness, and nutrition plans. Shawn specializes in strength training, customized fitness and health programs supporting you every step of the way with affordable packages. He can be reached at 208-217-6943 or maxmusclelife@yahoo.com.<br /><b>Jen Dillon</b><br />Jen has over twenty years experience with working with many different natural products that led her creating a line of natural beauty products, natural supplements, herbal remedies, and aromatherapy and homeopathic medicines. She has recently developed a Homeopathic Detox Protocol for helping people with long term Covid symptoms and adverse vaccine reactions. Getdetoxed.us<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Upcoming Event:<br />Discovering your power animals and totems<br />How to talk to and use the wisdom of animal spirits and guides.</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFqh_Ai0rRL4CE8g-BILVKa3fyAIVi7gEjPeomlEKLo2vRQaEgy62Fm3aZi10kniTxdpvlFf761Gtn91M9CiBj9G7ZeumcaXMG6IWJbAJr0q9vTX6L8wT1W8pnAmlJjLkvc-PwKvMCt2g_kZoKRHYjS_2YZLPaZ6mtn-Pa-wZDzNuNrDjylhhBipgGQbSl/s4803/wp3929808.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3330" data-original-width="4803" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFqh_Ai0rRL4CE8g-BILVKa3fyAIVi7gEjPeomlEKLo2vRQaEgy62Fm3aZi10kniTxdpvlFf761Gtn91M9CiBj9G7ZeumcaXMG6IWJbAJr0q9vTX6L8wT1W8pnAmlJjLkvc-PwKvMCt2g_kZoKRHYjS_2YZLPaZ6mtn-Pa-wZDzNuNrDjylhhBipgGQbSl/s320/wp3929808.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />Animals in the natural world mirror attributes of humanity. Tik Tok Channel (animalspeaks) host Jim Ventura will show how anyone can draw strength and insight from the different animal totems we find on our life path, and also how to choose specific animals for personal empowerment.<br />The discussion would be able to reach a wide range of ages. Many people and especially children have a natural affinity for, and love of animals. The insights discussed will offer helpful navigational suggestions to not only live peacefully with the animal kingdom but to understand their unique vibrations and to draw guidance from the natural world.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />A few examples for discussion:<br />Bear teaches us about how to be powerful. Dog teaches us about the benefits of loyalty. Crane teaches us about patience and being selective. Goose and duck help us open to healthy partnerships. Stag teaches us about pride, dignity, and confidence. The many animals covered offer a wide range of vibrational benefits that can be life changing.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />Instructor Jim is a Navigational Consultant, oracle reader, and author. <br />His expertise includes: Astrology, Tarot, Numerology, Druid animal totems, Angel cards, Viking Runes, and Lakota Indian teachings. He teaches workshops and classes on developing intuitive abilities for practical use in every day life.<br />The class will be Sunday January 21st 2024 from Noon until 2:15 pm. Location Sozo Healing Center in Tempe AZ. All adults and teenagers also welcome. A maximum of 20 people. Prepayment suggested for a discounted rate of $11, or $15 after January 11th or on the day of the class if there are still openings. More Information about the series and to hold one or more of the limited spots contact Jim Ventura at VenturaSag@yahoo.com. </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDfXf_6trlQq6f5nwhK_2ZN8MrEYjlsc8J4zVx9iztrxaHMZ2SJbAhUmGM5JFbmUGXUuztxzUg65XKg0UxW8pEELGBakchwJ7SbaraaV9UyJkMwM0xTjHklBxQBzBuF8r8NDDGhytLcwwwrI-m-fP_rMOHIr-_KmbYDqziQekByvvQuuzwF4z2UENdbvEe/s1524/1113923167.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1524" data-original-width="1066" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDfXf_6trlQq6f5nwhK_2ZN8MrEYjlsc8J4zVx9iztrxaHMZ2SJbAhUmGM5JFbmUGXUuztxzUg65XKg0UxW8pEELGBakchwJ7SbaraaV9UyJkMwM0xTjHklBxQBzBuF8r8NDDGhytLcwwwrI-m-fP_rMOHIr-_KmbYDqziQekByvvQuuzwF4z2UENdbvEe/s320/1113923167.jpg" width="224" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><i> </i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i> </i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i> </i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i> </i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i> </i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i> </i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i> </i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i> </i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>“The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and the capitalism stole it from the Christians.” George Monbiot</i><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Spotlight on one of many sessions I currently offer. This is “old School” card reading at its best:<br />Mah Jongg card reading!</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNUwjIm6alrTMLPcujA0Y_BdGyU4T0brWij99gwoUG3WstbRq1e05bTsmOnOURDKczEwQeKbwYNtreYszdqcs72G8JYHuQZICaIiYKsljJwslhphw1Yk4pu9kgOEUjDROpIzb0QketI6Zfp6-be9D8Mj6UYC0mXK84rL2vc5VMau5-kv5yLvem72ok4b5z/s1000/81j0gU836DL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNUwjIm6alrTMLPcujA0Y_BdGyU4T0brWij99gwoUG3WstbRq1e05bTsmOnOURDKczEwQeKbwYNtreYszdqcs72G8JYHuQZICaIiYKsljJwslhphw1Yk4pu9kgOEUjDROpIzb0QketI6Zfp6-be9D8Mj6UYC0mXK84rL2vc5VMau5-kv5yLvem72ok4b5z/s320/81j0gU836DL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />More than a decade ago was the last time I did a Mah Jongg card reading for one of my Regular Clients. It has been more of something I would do for myself every year or two and while it was not an Oracle that I was as proficient in like Tarot, Runes, Druid animal totems, or Numerology, it was something I did get better at with practice over the years. I pulled them out about 4 months ago (the readings are a look at six month spans of time) and it was really interesting to do one for myself. The last time I did one was three years ago. It has been especially absorbing to watch how it has unfolded in the last few months and is turning out to be quite accurate now looking back on the original layout of cards. My current sessions with clients tend to be more about getting into insight about their lives and how to transform limited patterns or themes, but it is cool to go “old school” on occasion for the sheer fun of watching how, and if the cards line up over time. I thought that if I didn’t continue to practice with them I might lose some skill. Thankfully that is not the case, and one of the weird benefits to being an old soul and now an old man lol!</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />Similar to Feng Shui, the directions themselves and where the cards and symbols land in the spread are extremely significant and offer further insight. There are also what are called Guardian cards that may show up that offer extra blessings or protection. Seeing how sometimes two or more of the same card resurfaces in the spread is also really fascinating.<br /><br />I recently did my first one remote (with someone over the phone who didn’t actually pick the 13 or more needed cards for the spread) and she was both excited at how accurate it was and how fun! Currently about 70 percent of my sessions are now by phone. If one is a local or visiting it can be extra fun of course to do the session in office, but by phone or face-time, Zoom is also a great idea.<br /><br />I suggest a 70 minute session for this (or even 90 minutes) Clients currently in my regular client program of course get their already heavily discounted rates. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />Feel free to ask me about info on joining the program. If you are looking for insight and a really fascinating session you can request booking a Mah Jongg session and/or purchasing one for a friend or family member by emailing me at Venturasag@yahoo.com <br /><br />Here’s my contact information to make an appointment for a session, or information on current classes: Email: <a href="mailto:Venturasag@yahoo.com">Venturasag@yahoo.com</a> (BEST method for contact).<br />Phone calls: (602) 957-3035 text only: (602) 349-0746 <br /><br />Information about the different sessions and types of readings, classes and services, past Snake Oil columns, and how to order my books and audio CD’s can be found at my website: <a href="http://JimVentura.com">http://JimVentura.com</a>. <br /><br />“Friend” me on Facebook to get other extra offers and in between column extras! Signing up for my fan page will get you even more extras and first shot at reading specials. Simply click on “like” on the fan page and you will automatically get my weekly updates. <br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl</a><br /><br />I have a few other media channels other than my monthly radio shows and FaceBook:<br /><br />Subscribe to my YouTube Channel (approximately once a month 6-12 minute videos) at J Ventura Snake Oil. <br />Instagram at Venturawords ( Astrology updates and other insight on short reels) <br /> Tik Tok (animalspeaks) where I do short but powerful 2-5 minute videos about how to use animal totems and spirit animals!<br /><br />All personal sessions/readings for 2023 and 2024 are: Full (70 minutes) $120.00; Shorter session (45 minutes) $90.00; Extended session (90 minutes) $145.00 (Two people can split an extended session back to back for $150.00 total although no other discounts will apply). Mini phone session 20 minutes $40. Email me for information about my Regular Client Program for even bigger discounts on session prices with the added benefit of monthly or quarterly check-ins. Purchasing 3 prepaid sessions also brings sizable discounts. Some examples; 3 prepaid 45 minute monthly sessions is $155 total or about $52 a session. 3 prepaid quarterly 70 minute session are $245 or about $82 a session.<br /><br /></span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq12WiE2oRzhPXuNvExbfH8ImcacCBO5edUjTWQpR5zu5Njse7lzNH7AOw_j7xWLKydrmI91aFswFyBnDieN5BB3VT4VyJNVOrHjy-As3O3dzL9IJ1cSI7sUet56TOcUs8tlFNJwixynuFUYnoXtQUU19MHjea0S0y-BCq8HMJE_YY_yrdm9YI6HmZAbC0/s1181/alexandru-morariu-runes-project-19-ehwaz.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1181" data-original-width="1181" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq12WiE2oRzhPXuNvExbfH8ImcacCBO5edUjTWQpR5zu5Njse7lzNH7AOw_j7xWLKydrmI91aFswFyBnDieN5BB3VT4VyJNVOrHjy-As3O3dzL9IJ1cSI7sUet56TOcUs8tlFNJwixynuFUYnoXtQUU19MHjea0S0y-BCq8HMJE_YY_yrdm9YI6HmZAbC0/s320/alexandru-morariu-runes-project-19-ehwaz.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Rune Stone 17 Ehwaz Movement Progress Horse The artist who created this found a physical way to share how a Rune reading can impact and transform us!<br /><br /><p></p>Jim V/Snake Oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00746873887985304530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024612299906599073.post-34629216178502375972023-09-11T16:09:00.003-07:002023-09-13T12:44:23.783-07:00September October 2023 Snake Oil/Nice To Meet You Again For The First Time<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b> <span style="font-family: helvetica;">Snake Oil - Nice To Meet You Again For The First time</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGKWjFbFVsZCxjQdghnnjm5gzOc8mCCzTo_DzI7Ou0-u617e6jYPQ-m3oaEjd50TvlbGFkFZ84UQY_LUe-sixB9VLEIN1CS9W19woFhT3B5NedtgFFbR0hiGi5Ndu5WklzNDyeV281ZBHwuKLUa2aOyeLN1kQc-yO7nF7_GanYO5pCyjQhTGCNJeIuLBGH/s600/pexels-photo-2465080.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGKWjFbFVsZCxjQdghnnjm5gzOc8mCCzTo_DzI7Ou0-u617e6jYPQ-m3oaEjd50TvlbGFkFZ84UQY_LUe-sixB9VLEIN1CS9W19woFhT3B5NedtgFFbR0hiGi5Ndu5WklzNDyeV281ZBHwuKLUa2aOyeLN1kQc-yO7nF7_GanYO5pCyjQhTGCNJeIuLBGH/s320/pexels-photo-2465080.jpeg" width="213" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /> </b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />Growing up in a suburb of Long island in the late seventies and eighties was very fortunate. Our neighborhood had some permanent human fixtures and always a revolving door of new neighbors coming in. More often than not the new arrivals had kids. My friends and I would curiously size up their belongings as they were unloaded from the moving trucks but also looked to see if the new kids were in our age bracket. Sometimes they were just annoying babies yet a surprising numbers were around our age. We would decide how, if at all friendly we would be with the newbies. The ones we did become friends with were of course brand new faces but familiar in some ways too. The quick bonds that often formed were a bit remarkable. It was like they were meant to be there but we didn’t consciously think about how or why they showed up. It required little effort and mostly enthusiasm and excitement to introduce the new kids to the neighborhood. We inevitably filled them in on the cool neighbors, the crazy ones, the ones to watch out for, and what we did for fun. Sometimes they would just become an extension of the group we already had and other times they would take the role, for a while of one of our best friends. This might create turmoil and even jealousy for previous best friends you had less time for or discarded in the process, but it was just part of shifting loyalties. For me this was generally focused on who was the most fun, or who I was attracted to in one way or another.<br /><br />The same pattern was part of my school years from elementary school through college. The placement of someone next to you in home room, in gym class, or any class for that matter was at times a quick opening of doors. Sometimes it initially began with having a little crush on your new friend and at times it was even reciprocal. Most notably for me (and I suspect much of the population in general) it didn’t matter whether the individual was male or female and it was rarely about actual sexual contact especially in the preteen years and more about an unexplained connection. The reality of human beings having some elements of natural bisexual tendencies, or platonic feelings that are still notably fervent is even more clear when we are younger. We tend to over-sexualize these aspects of our reality and see this through a limited lens versus the true multilayered aspects of why we are drawn to other people. Chemistry goes far beyond such simplicities as just sexual attraction and often includes being asexual but still having an intense love for another person. You can see this so clearly when two eleven year olds are best friends, whether male and male, female and female or male to female. It can seem like they are inseparable and truly adore each other, quite simply because they do! There were many silly childhood songs with taunts like “ Johnny and Mary sitting in a tree k-i-s-s-i-n-g, first comes love then comes marriage then comes little Johnny in a baby carriage...” The same joke or variations of it were based on a lack of understanding of our human need to have a close partner. Similar comments were often used to poke fun at really close same sex friendships as well. When we move out of our teens and become older, we tend to use creative, descriptive words like “Bromance.” </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPSLSS0fKwkFs6wGnvJcmItJU5oXnYV-gPAhxzrjBfFJiV1PPhPxo9A4HEJMSuGXN36jqhCFTlUFFzbi6VaQjSCQktbrNvattO3-84EQEZtZsEDZSSPlQIxekom7yNDN70M2EndUvhqlQlIQKXNDNVlRoIYE6WJpRj8debG1JcrYvZkKYNYrstBC0XGsPi/s290/friendship-interpersonal-relationship-bromance-love-png-favpng-r0VQ8Lnukh8A79yaennKYEQW8_t.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="253" data-original-width="290" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPSLSS0fKwkFs6wGnvJcmItJU5oXnYV-gPAhxzrjBfFJiV1PPhPxo9A4HEJMSuGXN36jqhCFTlUFFzbi6VaQjSCQktbrNvattO3-84EQEZtZsEDZSSPlQIxekom7yNDN70M2EndUvhqlQlIQKXNDNVlRoIYE6WJpRj8debG1JcrYvZkKYNYrstBC0XGsPi/s1600/friendship-interpersonal-relationship-bromance-love-png-favpng-r0VQ8Lnukh8A79yaennKYEQW8_t.jpg" width="290" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />I saw this instant pull of “meant to be friends” in the different restaurants I worked at in my late teens, twenties and my early thirties. There were young men and women (and once my best friend for years when I was twenty, was a 43 year old woman) I was immediately drawn to. We would sneak away on a break or decide to meet for lunch or a drink after work, and this would happen very quickly. This magnetic pull for me was triggered on occasion at the gyms I worked out in, events I attended, clubs I was part of, and other unique places. The process, while always different, still had a thread of noticeable patterning. It felt like you were attempting to rapidly fill each other in on your lives so far. Often you would find similarities or even extreme disparities that you were equally excited by. Whether the affinity was just for a few weeks, months, or even years, they were often instant glue. Some type of chemistry was always common. You may or may not have actually found the person attractive but the urge to hang out was always strong. For me, many of the people I was drawn to I had an almost instant respect for or/and they were just simply appealing to be around. And most important for me was they got my weird sense of humor and sometimes matched it.<br /><br />When you step back and analyze the process, it is truly astonishing and clearly not simply by chance. The way life, the Universe, Spirit, God, or whatever term one may prefer, orchestrates family moves, school changes, the pull to be at the same restaurant or office, gym, etc... is unquestionably magical. When I left NY in my mid-twenties, I left a fairly close family, group of friends, and my sense of security behind. It was scary but I still knew I needed to make the change. For a number of different reasons I needed to do this, some reasons were immediately obvious and others became clear later on. The apartment complex, gym I joined, along with my new restaurant job brought a whole new group of friends, and even family to me rapidly. I would inevitably create a support group in just a few months and while they were technically new faces, many were quite familiar to me as well. I personally see no contradiction in this seeming duality.<br /><br />What is actually happening when we meet brand new people that are new in one way but are also oddly familiar or just seem to fit perfectly at the time? There are a number of ways to look at this. One is karmic bonds. When you begin to understand that we do indeed reincarnate and have many lifetimes as we evolve, learn, and grow, we are bound to have souls we have been with before. They may be in different bodies, and in different times and places, yet the pull or essence is familiar. We may know some souls possibly as friends in one lifetime, enemies in another, part of the same family, as parent and child, coworkers on projects, or even romantically. This can explain the familiarity and the urge to be around them again. We are rarely conscious of the specific reasons but we are pulled just the same. This can also account for the very common pull of feeling like there is a rush to seemingly catch up with each other. Outside of family configurations, body type attraction whether sexual or just that we feel conformable with the other person, is often part of the pull to reconnect. A belief in reincarnation or lack of a belief has little to do with the process. <br /></span><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv0Hqd0m7jY5jPpGOrXxwuw04Vv8xSRWDNe97-KfuLGroWuRO0xeVxZNffzl8D2URssfz16lxRyc20vjfUre24QJ6VwmUuMSMlpZwj5LHfKy1TZd_CEoUJCoU4rw3M9_lVqoje1_NNIiQ6n_i3CdQsvhyrHmpTSaamdeZJ_MUbc--ToBwT4Fe-E3UHQ60X/s294/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="171" data-original-width="294" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv0Hqd0m7jY5jPpGOrXxwuw04Vv8xSRWDNe97-KfuLGroWuRO0xeVxZNffzl8D2URssfz16lxRyc20vjfUre24QJ6VwmUuMSMlpZwj5LHfKy1TZd_CEoUJCoU4rw3M9_lVqoje1_NNIiQ6n_i3CdQsvhyrHmpTSaamdeZJ_MUbc--ToBwT4Fe-E3UHQ60X/s1600/images.jpg" width="294" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><br />Another valid point of view may just be compatible astrology, wiring or Over-leaves (Michael teachings*) We may be drawn to others because they reflect a similar level of current evolution or soul age. The experience can even be viewed as meetings directed by your Higher Self to help each other or to complete some positive karmic interaction. In some cases it may also be some not so positive or even uncomfortable karmic exchange. Another point of view is the instant familiarity is because a future version of yourself (in this lifetime) will be with this individual soul and you are in a sense reaching back in time directing you to each other; making sure you meet. This explanation gets into the true nature of time and how in some ways it can be viewed from the perspective that all time is actually simultaneous, but still experienced sequentially. Some of these ideas or all of them can be accurate, but what they all share in common is the need to connect and to validate the contact. Some of our more intense meetings may be planned between lives before we are physically born. Again the complexity of what drives this is at times hard to fully understand. Fortunately we don’t need to understand this for it to work. In a similar way we don’t have to focus on all the actions required to make your heart beat or any of our organs work. The universe also handles the intricate details of meetings and connections beautifully. </span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><br />I think many of us are led to believe that if a relationship whether friendship, working one, romantic or otherwise goes sour or ends it has somehow failed. Nothing could be further from the truth. Every individual we meet however long or brief impacts who we are. Maybe they help us to reflect aspects of what is best in them and to bring those excellent parts more into play in our own lives. Maybe they are inevitably difficult teachers who show us something reflected in ourselves that we need to let go of, or they may even uncomfortably teach us what to not to let ourselves become! Often in many of our affiliations over time we inevitably drift apart for any number of reasons. At times previously appealing relationships may end in unexplained ways or even ugly ways. Even if we had a good vibe, or were inseparable for years, we may change or drift apart, or we simply just outgrow the need to be together. Some relationships go through break-ups and occasionally we may even reunite again! And at other times the relationship has served its purpose and needs to come to an end because further contact may prove unwise. The Viking Rune stone of fertility (Inguz 8) speaks of this aspect:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZJSt0sNmxVZrVpwcnTxpHTWMB7y8cU7zvuTUaXxxjSqYeUVVOnmi24CJ4aDE7v_Il5jkLArNGD54Q5VZAmmt5ZdzOLdBnUg70fZsmTQEhuMyiMDzuFU6H78KjYg-ESDy_SzjPVvJ5lx0rZJmuMqCbD3iH-HA-An5vC1DhVS9D6E0ViB3uNAv-SUxL2rPJ/s640/Parting-Ways.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="411" data-original-width="640" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZJSt0sNmxVZrVpwcnTxpHTWMB7y8cU7zvuTUaXxxjSqYeUVVOnmi24CJ4aDE7v_Il5jkLArNGD54Q5VZAmmt5ZdzOLdBnUg70fZsmTQEhuMyiMDzuFU6H78KjYg-ESDy_SzjPVvJ5lx0rZJmuMqCbD3iH-HA-An5vC1DhVS9D6E0ViB3uNAv-SUxL2rPJ/s320/Parting-Ways.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />“You may now be required to free yourself from a rut, habit or relationship; from some deep cultural or behavioral pattern, some activity that was quite proper to the self you are leaving behind...”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />All of our associations have value. When any partnership comes to an end for whatever the reason, it’s the idea that it all went wrong somehow that can cause us pain. Focusing on the amazing aspects of how it came together, whatever its value was, even if brief, places us back into a wiser and more positive perspective. And, by allowing the next and maybe even better connection to inevitably show up is where both wisdom and excitement, just like we playfully had when we were children keep the game eternally fun.<br />Jim Ventura 8-2023</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Notes:</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiir9VF4N1Ai9v5HmkiRpRlGLSXO6XnbgXhpoqQlvuzaoYZXzh5iMutvxXbufMiBjgRN3swVbOQLxOWBwklFGq6WGRI2KC-etiPxZO4CRBTrn78EnARiKjYONF_3-xVibeN3dUBZ_WdWAz-Xjl4yaylUKn7Z0hLRYc--KgS17c8JUre2SmTWLCuRZKpipf7/s374/image005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="374" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiir9VF4N1Ai9v5HmkiRpRlGLSXO6XnbgXhpoqQlvuzaoYZXzh5iMutvxXbufMiBjgRN3swVbOQLxOWBwklFGq6WGRI2KC-etiPxZO4CRBTrn78EnARiKjYONF_3-xVibeN3dUBZ_WdWAz-Xjl4yaylUKn7Z0hLRYc--KgS17c8JUre2SmTWLCuRZKpipf7/s320/image005.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />*The Michael teachings are available with me both as a session or you can take a series of classes (solo or with a friend) if interested. You can find info about this and other classes on my website or by emailing me.<br />While it is typically still fairly hot in Phoenix usually until late September, we are also thankfully starting to see the hints of Autumn. It was a very brutal summer, similar to the summer of 2020 but without the many layers of crazy fear, loss, and contradictions of information connected with Covid. Looking back on that period in the world and especially in the US, and how that was all handled is fortunately in the rear view mirror! Hopefully we learned from it...</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />As my following grows on social media sites like Instagram, Tik-Tok, Face-Book, etc... (and yes, in a modern age, like it or not, it isn’t an ego thing to use these sites, it’s somewhat of a requirement for marketing...) I seem to be getting more and more people messaging me to chit chat. Sometimes they are trying to become friends, long distance pals, or even to try and date me. It runs the gambit of women and men, and now everything in between in terms of “applicants.” I did the long distance thing once back in my early thirties, and learned it is definitely not for me. I think this current heavy social media messaging is a modern day equivalent of getting paper or post card fan mail for any creative person that is in the public eye. It reminds me of a line from a song I often do in Karaoke; Rhinestone Cowboy by Glen Campbell “Getting cards and letters from people I don’t even know and offers coming over the phone...”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />I make a reasonable effort to respond about twice a month to some of these messages, but it does get a bit annoying and I probably get labeled as arrogant or closed off for my limited responses. I communicate for a living. It isn’t arrogance as much as it is limited time, and honestly it is simply impractical to handle multiple conversation especially when probably thirty percent aren’t actually the people they are claiming to be! I am guessing when I get published with my next two books this will increase, but I am not letting that deter me in any way from achieving those goals. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />I finished my book “My Cast of Characters,” and I am about one quarter of the way through a second volume. The process of finding a literary agent and publisher is a true lesson in perseverance. It is a good thing that I have that built into my wiring (good amount of fixed astrology in my natal chart, and perseverance Modus Operandi in my Michael teaching chart)! I am also looking to publish volume two of snake Oil. I already have Volume One (Available on Amazon or in-office) that I self published ten years ago but prefer to go with a publishing house for my next endeavors. I have been marketing for many years and while I will continue to, I could use the help! Since I started writing the column back in late 2003 I now have 130 columns! </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />My new YouTube video posted in late August. It is something I have been sharing with my Regular Clients, and current students (email me for information about either of these programs if interested) so I decided to share something truly powerful on a few of my social media sites. It is the ultimate manifestation process to bring amazing things into your life. The video explains how to use the mantra, or focus of all seven chakra's unique perception versus just the excellent affirmation of “I am now,” to recreate areas of your reality. You can cut and paste this link to the video in your browser, or go to my YouTube channel and look for new videos in search engine by J Ventura Snake Oil. Subscribe if you would like to get an update when a new video first drops. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> <br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOT0EGKTrek&t=12s</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />Wishing everyone a relaxing start to the fall season. Cheers, Jim V<br /><br /><i>“I love the arrival of a new season-each one bringing with it its own emotion: spring is full of hope; summer is freedom; autumn is a colorful release, and winter brings an enchanting peace. It’s hard to pick which one I enjoy the most-each time the new one arrives, I remember its beauty and forget the previous one whose qualities have started to dim.” Giovanna Fletcher</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><i>“I’ve never known anyone yet who doesn’t suffer a certain restlessness when autumn rolls around... We’re all eight years old again and anything is possible.” Sue Grafton</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><b>Channeled corner.</b> I read many, many books from different trance channelers in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. Unfortunately many of them are now out of print, but I still have a huge collection and will share some of the best material I have collected over the years.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><b>Divine Grace in the Physical World</b><br />“How does one recognize Divine Grace? How does one know its face? And how does one know when Divine Grace has been shunted aside, betrayed, in pursuit of some less worthy goal? </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />Again, Divine Grace is the source of your world, the great limitless fuel that powers your every moment, from the smallest atomic building block to your mass civilizations. Always, always, it seeks to bring into actuality those events that will be of greatest benefit to those involved.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsLtstcCEuNHDHKnYifCdo_vEbQy0VlDYInszXx8VByL6Fho2Wmcv365D-zEtssfpc33Pxsn7RQOJ5TPpyPMUxb4pT0P-fzQiEz40XtxQzAHlGuLR_pAT9BIUZLW6gaPblt7oOPVh2lBTWCKAhrDO9RNDNrR8IZ2vK4ZzF2kdCePYlHIMk8OCK-WPqkU_f/s251/images-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="201" data-original-width="251" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsLtstcCEuNHDHKnYifCdo_vEbQy0VlDYInszXx8VByL6Fho2Wmcv365D-zEtssfpc33Pxsn7RQOJ5TPpyPMUxb4pT0P-fzQiEz40XtxQzAHlGuLR_pAT9BIUZLW6gaPblt7oOPVh2lBTWCKAhrDO9RNDNrR8IZ2vK4ZzF2kdCePYlHIMk8OCK-WPqkU_f/s1600/images-2.jpg" width="251" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />Divine Grace manifests most clearly on your plane as respect. What is respect? Respect is when you allow all others the right to ride their own Divine Grace as they see fit, understanding that you each live in a cocoon of your own creation, a highly private yet publicly shared existence in which each individual, pursuing his/her own greatest fulfillment, automatically and unconsciously contributes to the advancement of the species and planet as a whole.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />Respect then is when you allow all others of your species, and all others of all species, their private place, time and path. Respect allows no place to coercion, force or violence against another. Respect is an intuitive acknowledgment of the uniqueness of each individual, each species, each form physical matter can take, a deep understanding of the greater cooperation that underlies your world, as each species and individual contributes its unique perspective, its private experience, to the shared venture on which you have embarked.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />Respect is how Divine Grace manifests itself in your world. When you respect another, you recognize and acknowledge the Divine Grace within the other, understanding that it is not necessary for him or her to follow your footsteps in order to reach greatest fulfillment.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />Notice we do not use the word ‘love.’ It is not necessary that you run around flinging your arms about every person and four-legged manifestation of Divine Grace you stumble upon. There will be those whose paths differ so markedly from yours, whose inner awareness of Divine Grace has been so blunted by fear, that you are unable to connect. You need not love such individuals. You must, however, respect their right to pursue their path as they see fit, regardless of how obvious the deleterious outcome is to you.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />You need not love all you meet. Understand that they share the same source as you. All That Is pouring itself into the physical world through the fluid medium of Divine Grace, you grant them respect.<br />The rule of thumb to follow then, when considering a choice or decision, whether individually or en masse, is to ask: Does this course of action respect my integrity and that of all others who may be affected? Will this action be only of benefit to others, or do some stand to be harmed by it? Am I, or are we, acknowledging the Divine Grace manifest in every aspect of creation...” From the book: Whatever Happened to Divine Grace? Ramon Stevens</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><i>“Winter is an etching, Spring a watercolor, Summer an oil painting, Autumn a mosaic of them all,” Starley Horowitz</i><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Snake Oil Radio</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b></b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-vR6hiY_yTbQ_arrw2VBhmniLV-2p9tA5laC2bMXkoi_t3dO81dbCF5GWYo1tfpQMOXhYB1sKnNEdQdrL4WXxDggT2Q98M_iA3zP6HDJBL_v1qEBfTdj9Unf2wE_sSm7RteR9dj0AAXUQZsuofQy_ZS8D1ISw4Y7GY-6U-E-GQcynobRHt_1dkcIcs07V/s194/image007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="167" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-vR6hiY_yTbQ_arrw2VBhmniLV-2p9tA5laC2bMXkoi_t3dO81dbCF5GWYo1tfpQMOXhYB1sKnNEdQdrL4WXxDggT2Q98M_iA3zP6HDJBL_v1qEBfTdj9Unf2wE_sSm7RteR9dj0AAXUQZsuofQy_ZS8D1ISw4Y7GY-6U-E-GQcynobRHt_1dkcIcs07V/s1600/image007.jpg" width="167" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /> </b></span><br />Thursdays at 3:30 pm (there will be two live broadcast this period)<br />My next live broadcast of Snake Oil Radio will be Thursday, September 28th at 3:30 p.m. mountain (Phoenix) time. Each 45 minute show will expand on my current column’s subject matter. It will also offer an opportunity for you to chat with other listeners in the chat room with comments and your thoughts about the topic of discussion. If you miss the live show, you can catch any of my previously recorded shows on the website’s archive. You can also catch Snake Oil Radio on I-tunes and similar locations for podcasts.<br />To hear a live show, all you need to do is be at a computer and tuned into: <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura">http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura</a> or on your phone. You may also access it by going to the site and type “Snake Oil” into the search option. You can also go to the shows that are currently “On air” at that time and find me. The call in number is 646-200-3966 for questions and comments IF the show is offering that (please check, many of my column shows don’t).</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><i>“We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them.” William Arthur Ward</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>New Client Special 2023 January 1st thru November 1st, 2023 Special:</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlpl1GVArZkwW6WRhe16OukUnYhwfJLHcVN8qo9I0ni69ME6ZbmucET1aZ2-BuNln4nvIxt_CQlbAkqv7mz1Xe1TdKoPd6CQCC-0x0hmQf5f31q3FNWmDTEJfQyNAdhoAhyzEiNYsYLcN2oBhv3VohqnWqWAdXgPxiK-ffDIs0OtLY68Az0yGarupQtDv3/s1280/2-Ways-Baskets-Improve-Your-Gift-Giving-Skills.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1280" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlpl1GVArZkwW6WRhe16OukUnYhwfJLHcVN8qo9I0ni69ME6ZbmucET1aZ2-BuNln4nvIxt_CQlbAkqv7mz1Xe1TdKoPd6CQCC-0x0hmQf5f31q3FNWmDTEJfQyNAdhoAhyzEiNYsYLcN2oBhv3VohqnWqWAdXgPxiK-ffDIs0OtLY68Az0yGarupQtDv3/s320/2-Ways-Baskets-Improve-Your-Gift-Giving-Skills.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />$10-15 off listed rates for your first 45, 70, or 90 minute session! Debit and credit card payments get $10 off for 45, 70, and 90 minute sessions. Local in-office clients can get an extra $5 off for cash or check payments for sessions. If you want to buy a new client a thoughtful gift of a session for a friend or family member you can also take advantage of these rates! </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><i>“The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.” John Maxwell</i><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Spotlight on one of the many oracles I use when working with clients:<br /><br />Tarot Cards</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhea2Susk_8ajUc5QRPFonbu7tPuT-O8dO45yLWPCjcfiq9TG3XDREiFSMUmT3_W61dhg0f6AQEdwYMSvrnvnvFkdPIwPw0nim8VlXuO2diyV9XAk6wBUc8C9WuV8rwp_lxpmkJkR9HprPms3m-8oSfyXw7JDvceFJnHT7lLaVVl0ayPjEiNuK2TC2iaMEC/s480/360_F_46937034_wIGxZbUMJxiuBPIucoTAEZPlKrNM9Dgv.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="480" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhea2Susk_8ajUc5QRPFonbu7tPuT-O8dO45yLWPCjcfiq9TG3XDREiFSMUmT3_W61dhg0f6AQEdwYMSvrnvnvFkdPIwPw0nim8VlXuO2diyV9XAk6wBUc8C9WuV8rwp_lxpmkJkR9HprPms3m-8oSfyXw7JDvceFJnHT7lLaVVl0ayPjEiNuK2TC2iaMEC/s320/360_F_46937034_wIGxZbUMJxiuBPIucoTAEZPlKrNM9Dgv.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />People are often both fascinated by the Tarot and sometimes a little afraid of it. Movies, television and other sources portray ominous themes that heighten the inaccurate perception that cards are dark somehow and all about predicting your future.<br /><br />The truth is different readers use them either as a therapeutic device (like I do) or as a tool for prediction. Prediction without insight, explanation, understanding and even storytelling connected with the cards is, in my opinion, less desirable and may at times be misguided.<br /><br />The Tarot is a potential detailed road map. While we have both joy and difficulties at times (there are hazards on the physical plane) and have to deal with some things beyond our control. To a large extent we are always in the process of creating our own reality by our beliefs. A good card reading can act as a bridge between your Higher Self and your conscious mind to see what is working (so you can do more of that!) and where you may need to readjust yourself, accept temporary obstacles, and realign.<br />100 percent accuracy is never possible, nor is it desirable. Instead seeing what influences are current and what is likely to come up in the near future is an amazing way of seeing what you are creating anyway! I find the more open my clients are (including myself when I do a spread about twice a year), the more accurate the reading.<br /><br />I use it as a tool to help my clients glimpse into where they are currently and what may be ahead. My perspective is if there are areas that are working well it’s important to acknowledge that. In the areas that are difficult, I make suggestions about how to shift the current path to a more beneficial one.<br /><br />The detail of the cards are what is so fascinating:<br />Court cards represent people in ones “court” or around us, and aspects of the self.<br />Minor Arcana represent the many details of practical life.<br />Major Arcana represent larger themes, archetypes, energies, and ones ideals.<br /><br />Example:<br />6 of Cups. Happy memories, reunions, reminiscing, cherished ideals from the past, domestic harmony, celebrations and holidays, positive connections to home and family.<br />Reversed: Need to let go of dwelling on unhappy past events. Rigidity and being stuck in the past. Unresolved childhood hurts. Holding onto aspects of ourselves or friends and relationships we have outgrown.<br /><br />I generally recommend Tarot for people 16 years and older. The symbolism of work and practical matters has less relevancy for young children.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM84TfbIDw7EWr-hkgiy40bjtyLforT-zBkVSD6to6hknZwQN4uD7V8xKwp7hLEJiR0fSw7cmkCOOnhczOAmb6YTliTVdLKu7KIHRimRKXf2yM_JD4WdEstWPmQ04BjoccDgHEArLdwci5ZS6Tv2LCLhp6gYKbdJanndAKgNSlaWRmsHllBMIq1s0MqkHt/s640/apple-256263_640.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="424" data-original-width="640" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM84TfbIDw7EWr-hkgiy40bjtyLforT-zBkVSD6to6hknZwQN4uD7V8xKwp7hLEJiR0fSw7cmkCOOnhczOAmb6YTliTVdLKu7KIHRimRKXf2yM_JD4WdEstWPmQ04BjoccDgHEArLdwci5ZS6Tv2LCLhp6gYKbdJanndAKgNSlaWRmsHllBMIq1s0MqkHt/s320/apple-256263_640.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />I also teach Tarot classes. You can purchase a block of three ninety minute classes for as low as $50 a session! No tests, just the fun of learning this incredible art form with someone who is able to help it all make sense. Both Tarot readings and Tarot classes can be in-office for AZ residents or visitors, or by phone, Face-Time, or even Zoom. Email is always the best way to book: Venturasag@yahoo.com<br />Information about other services can be found at <a href="http://JimVentura.com">JimVentura.com</a><br /><br />Here’s my contact information to make an appointment for a session, or information on current classes: Email: Venturasag@yahoo.com (BEST method for contact).<br />Phone calls: (602) 957-3035 text only: (602) 349-0746 <br /><br />Information about the different sessions and types of readings, classes and services, past Snake Oil columns, and how to order my books and audio CD’s can be found at my website: <a href="http://JimVentura.com">http://JimVentura.com</a>. <br /><br />“Friend” me on Facebook to get other extra offers and in between column extras! Signing up for my fan page will get you even more extras and first shot at reading specials. Simply click on “like” on the fan page and you will automatically get my weekly updates. <br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl<br /></a><br />I have a few other media channels other than my monthly radio shows and Face-Book:<br /><br />Subscribe to my YouTube Channel (approximately once a month 6-12 minute videos) at J Ventura Snake Oil. <br />Instagram at Venturawords ( Astrology updates and other insight on short reels) <br /> Tik Tok (animalspeaks) where I do short but powerful 2-5 minute videos about how to use animal totems and spirit animals!<br /><br />All personal sessions/readings for 2023 are: Full (70 minutes) $120.00; Shorter session (45 minutes) $90.00; Extended session (90 minutes) $145.00 (Two people can split an extended session back to back for $150.00 total although no other discounts will apply). Mini phone session 20 minutes $40. Email me for information about my Regular Client Program for even bigger discounts on session prices with the added benefit of monthly or quarterly check-ins. Purchasing 3 prepaid sessions also brings sizable discounts. Some examples; 3 prepaid 45 minute monthly sessions is $155 total or about $52 a session. 3 prepaid quarterly 70 minute session are $245 or about $82 a session.</span><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheZBqPsm2deyvRgQz1y6vzS-3s63_cX2ycM3IpgZILKcTbkftnHDA3x7f82LeQc8zHUmUqzP-lcdodLWsf5zu5G3c3vHOMXqwkkI7ojN7VrZNeXQa3_io4tUq8lLDtMFFbCVokpqdFcFfi5WrukpSjgu2X6__X1-_BvF2SizI-AtH2piYc2lGaXpwSuD7U/s540/364061111_813665710212252_469184051690506113_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="513" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheZBqPsm2deyvRgQz1y6vzS-3s63_cX2ycM3IpgZILKcTbkftnHDA3x7f82LeQc8zHUmUqzP-lcdodLWsf5zu5G3c3vHOMXqwkkI7ojN7VrZNeXQa3_io4tUq8lLDtMFFbCVokpqdFcFfi5WrukpSjgu2X6__X1-_BvF2SizI-AtH2piYc2lGaXpwSuD7U/s320/364061111_813665710212252_469184051690506113_n.jpg" width="304" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><br /><p></p>Jim V/Snake Oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00746873887985304530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024612299906599073.post-77787862634841973322023-06-27T22:43:00.000-07:002023-06-27T22:43:22.344-07:00July August 2023 Snake Oil/Stupid People and Rainbows<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">July August 2023 Snake Oil<br /> Stupid People and Rainbows</span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmZCO8NyNr1khE41jtpZa-9BB7JL77hL-q1CMYket9J7xWNMA1Z76A8R8BExQZdm3qX9pPfLW2T3WkoAxLZ0IeqFxQ80ug0n3kcnmwMCdYKeOixg5Jit9HvYFPScjU2ZL12hcVmQBDijYWA4jVIdqPeW3qMtelyUtdTNuZhc71Lw7UrRt7_XdYxfyaBlvL/s612/adverse-driving-conditions.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="408" data-original-width="612" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmZCO8NyNr1khE41jtpZa-9BB7JL77hL-q1CMYket9J7xWNMA1Z76A8R8BExQZdm3qX9pPfLW2T3WkoAxLZ0IeqFxQ80ug0n3kcnmwMCdYKeOixg5Jit9HvYFPScjU2ZL12hcVmQBDijYWA4jVIdqPeW3qMtelyUtdTNuZhc71Lw7UrRt7_XdYxfyaBlvL/s320/adverse-driving-conditions.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /> </b></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <br />I purposely timed my drive back from a day of running errands to avoid rush hour traffic. It was two pm and I was heading home on a rainy day. Traffic on the freeway was mild until the rain started to get heavier. I, along with most other drivers, appropriately slowed down to accommodate the road conditions. I was fine with that until I began to see that every two exits or so, traffic would almost completely stop. The first time this happened was because of a minor accident that made everyone feel a need to slow down and stare at the incident. The police had already moved the vehicles to the side, but apparently everyone still needed to move painstakingly slow so as to see what was going on. A few exits later, traffic slowed down to a snail’s pace again because a cop had pulled someone over and this was apparently equally fascinating to most of the other drivers. This went on in one format or another during my entire drive home. I found myself becoming progressively irritated by the whole situation.There was either constant braking or dangerous speeding. Drivers were either overly cautious, or not cautious enough. The whole situation was excruciating. I began to wonder: why were people so stupid?<br /><br />A trip that should have taken ten minutes had stretched out to thirty and I was only halfway home. I couldn’t even get around the endless messes along the way because the left lane was occupied by two huge semi’s. When did it become acceptable for huge trucks to drive in the left lane other than for passing purposes? At the peak of my frustration I noticed something completely different. There were two larger-than-life rainbows ahead of me in the sky. They looked like special effects from a fantasy movie. They seemed surreal and I found myself mesmerized by these two visions that occupied the entire northwest skies of Phoenix. They were stunning and I was entranced by a level of beauty rarely seen here. I realized that the delays and stupid people were actually doing me a favor. They gave me an opportunity to take a slow drive home and enjoy a powerfully transformative visual. There was an opportunity right in front of me. Initially my focus on “how stupid most of the other drivers were,” blocked me from seeing what other aspects of the drive were being offered.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2E2LtgOvJzE5X4tP2FmQvDonGfT_ZKuPL_V2Xi579_7NZd42Q66lK35mnddkZ_7j5uCm_mGb5usXqBscrAqQ41sgSv8oi_k3-n4J7WiCyhtHIKmH_d5JM1Xih8ZifjidymQ6S35O0rnSGrs3e9s8dYmUbNFvISgFW8Bk2X995EXYYId-loq1lh-_NBJb3/s4096/EU89v5MUcAA6Ox3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2262" data-original-width="4096" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2E2LtgOvJzE5X4tP2FmQvDonGfT_ZKuPL_V2Xi579_7NZd42Q66lK35mnddkZ_7j5uCm_mGb5usXqBscrAqQ41sgSv8oi_k3-n4J7WiCyhtHIKmH_d5JM1Xih8ZifjidymQ6S35O0rnSGrs3e9s8dYmUbNFvISgFW8Bk2X995EXYYId-loq1lh-_NBJb3/s320/EU89v5MUcAA6Ox3.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br />Seeing the rainbows had shifted my perspective. I had a sense of real peace and a new awareness of how we often allow excessive scrutiny and frustration with others to block us from seeing the overwhelming beauty that exists in this world and in every moment. I had gotten caught up on focusing on what was wrong and allowed my cynicism to darken my day. I enjoyed the rest of my drive home. I even considered calling some friends to suggest that they go outside and witness the amazing rainbows that currently graced our skies. I was almost home and driving down the side-street in front of my condominium complex when I noticed a lunatic behind me in my rear-view mirror. She was riding dangerously close to my car, clearly in a rush and annoyed at my decision to only do the actual speed limit in the pouring rain. Instantly my irritation returned and I decided to teach this “idiot” a lesson. I slowed down even more in the single lane road to show this impatient dummy that I was not going to be pushed around! How dare she mess up my peaceful drive home! Why were people so stupid? After I taunted her for a minute or two, I realized what I was doing. I could easily have chosen to simply let her pass, but decided that it was my job to “teach her a lesson.” I regained my sanity, stopped pumping my brakes and purposely slowing down, and resumed my normal speed. A few minutes later as I turned into my complex, she honked, flipped me “the bird,” and sped off on her angry way.<br /><br />Later, I thought about how easily I slipped between being peaceful and happy to becoming angry and confrontational again. A few days later I noticed that my rear left tire was flat. There was a huge screw in the tire and I wondered if the woman from the car had come back and angrily put that screw in my tire. It was possible, but intuitively I felt that this was not the case. I did not feel like she had come back to “teach me a lesson.” I was just unlucky and ran over a screw in the road. There are practical hazards that exist in our world. Occasionally shit just happens and we shouldn’t take it personally. Still, some part of me drew a screw to my tire that week and I knew it had to do with the energy of getting so irritated by my perception of “ so many stupid people screwing with me!” I spent way more time focusing on the negative instead of the beautiful rainbows. Now, I would be spending $250.00 on a pair of new tires. </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA0lz-D48RDcyKLtlESUkFdf6ycYqHEoGqEyKBOo-U7LsMAwk98B0uHdsQ39SpRY-gIIewZTECBHiuzgoCwk4CGRiahluSBXuHeFW7TqzujaevT5vZlkVixRe7Df7008QmowHq8sHNX5hEJxxKfcC9SL6X-jjAYweav-wH_UXdM_dD6KMnHE5FCA8RzTIL/s1024/Nail-in-tire.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA0lz-D48RDcyKLtlESUkFdf6ycYqHEoGqEyKBOo-U7LsMAwk98B0uHdsQ39SpRY-gIIewZTECBHiuzgoCwk4CGRiahluSBXuHeFW7TqzujaevT5vZlkVixRe7Df7008QmowHq8sHNX5hEJxxKfcC9SL6X-jjAYweav-wH_UXdM_dD6KMnHE5FCA8RzTIL/s320/Nail-in-tire.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br />Growing up in New York and getting a drivers license included defensive driving classes. The focus on assuming “you need to prepare and watch out for the worst in people” was part of avoiding accidents. This was considered wise, and we were “rewarded” for thinking this way. On the positive side, this has made me an excellent driver. I have avoided many problems on the road and to my knowledge never caused an accident. On the negative side this, “everyone is a potential idiot” has found its way into other areas of my life. It is easy to get annoyed with people and situations and to become judgmental about all of it. Focusing too heavily on “how things should be” and how everything should be done the “right way,” takes a lot of energy. Being discerning is a valuable skill, but being overly critical of others is carrying healthy discernment too far. The same can be said for being overly critical with ourselves. My day with the rainbows made me aware that we always have a choice to lighten our perspective and become less cynical. It takes some practice to do this and old habits can be hard to break, especially when we see them as part of our “cultural heritage.” The reward is I am feeling happier more often, and taking what other people do less personally. Releasing some of my judgements has allowed me to see more rainbows. This positive shift in my viewpoint is allowing me to discover beauty and harmony in all kinds of new places.<br />Jim Ventura 2-2010 </span><br /><br /><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Notes:</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b></b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitOCDBXkGnRQkbxNWrfKxWklRpgQprKyTvOBoqQs-cvvBEdMge4SmxJ0H5EoyCmtX2A0oXLCPJwXPMUp1FrSeRXzuGgVu1u5prPHhgW5u_Ak3jXgfmGZ4ZgZJFiJ0g417iUiIuMuc9VrqkPVzVKmTBScUiJL_RwPpfN14dOQLhgDv7OASIStXZBTuLEfnk/s374/image005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="374" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitOCDBXkGnRQkbxNWrfKxWklRpgQprKyTvOBoqQs-cvvBEdMge4SmxJ0H5EoyCmtX2A0oXLCPJwXPMUp1FrSeRXzuGgVu1u5prPHhgW5u_Ak3jXgfmGZ4ZgZJFiJ0g417iUiIuMuc9VrqkPVzVKmTBScUiJL_RwPpfN14dOQLhgDv7OASIStXZBTuLEfnk/w267-h283/image005.jpg" width="267" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /> </b></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><br />This was a piece I did way back in 2010 when I was about seven years into writing my Snake Oil column. I haven’t even looked at it in years and it was published thirteen years ago! While my writing has very much improved, I can teeter back and forth still with occasionally letting myself get overly irritated!. (This is why I push this on so many of my clients ‘PERSEVERANCE;’ is quite often the wise road in almost all things). I really thought that indeed this was a gem. Good writing is often words and images that take the reader on on a ride, often with ups and downs and inevitably makes you feel something. I think this story will resonate with a lot of people. And my new feature on youtube is now a live read of my current columns starting this month: story time at (J Ventura Snake Oil) you can find in the search on YouTube.com.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />The summer is here. Many people all over the US are happy and excited. We here in Phoenix sometimes feel that way about summer but it is usually connected with trips and some time during the summer months to get the hell out of this 115 degree inferno! I am taking one (or two) trips each month over the summer, so I have four planned so far. I am getting closer to becoming the Phoenix ideal: a Snow Bird (that means living here winter and much of fall, and gone for the most part all of the summer). Perseverance Jim, perseverance, so close...</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />In spite of my travels, it’s mostly just a few days away each time, I am continuing to work this summer. It is nice and cool with my new AC unit for both me and my in-office clients and of course with phone sessions you can choose to be as cool as you desire in your own home! If you’re currently on this mailing list, there is a $5 discount off all 45, 70, and 90 minute sessions, and in-office clients can take an additional $5 off my rates for cash or check payments. Email is always the best way to reach me and book for your next session this summer. I also still have my new client special promotion, more info later in the newsletter.<br />Cheers, Jim V</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />Part of my areas of metaphysical study and the work I do both for myself and with empowering my clients was many years of studying and applying some the works of author Dick Sutphen. He was noted for his unique, empowered, and self-actualized perspectives that often made some people in the New Age field of the 80s and 90s either love him or walk out on his seminars! He was “very tell it like it is” and also very spiritual at the same time. Here is a short piece about to consider about guilt: <br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Guilt </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyQVuxnX22laMutZR1IZPG_ts2cXgyZ_OYZgZoc5N5QjNwMPQI1TIooKs9ygbQzdoA0-XT4u_0HvB8nlYWCUa-IeZTmLHD6GjdjHKD8zxU6RgWZa-sjLBoEcEhHgcBWvig_nQ8gVhbYHMDiC4IV5pJYq7Q3SOLSMRO2naLlGZk8RtjT5J4nfpdk-L1xhUO/s275/images-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyQVuxnX22laMutZR1IZPG_ts2cXgyZ_OYZgZoc5N5QjNwMPQI1TIooKs9ygbQzdoA0-XT4u_0HvB8nlYWCUa-IeZTmLHD6GjdjHKD8zxU6RgWZa-sjLBoEcEhHgcBWvig_nQ8gVhbYHMDiC4IV5pJYq7Q3SOLSMRO2naLlGZk8RtjT5J4nfpdk-L1xhUO/s1600/images-2.jpg" width="275" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /><br /></b></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><br />“Guilt is the primary manipulation people use to entrap one another, especially within families and other close relationships. There are only two reasons for someone to want you to feel guilty: either to control you or to hurt you. Neither is worthy of your consideration. Think about some of the common lines used to trigger guilt: ‘How can you treat me like this?’ It was your fault that I was upset and didn’t get enough sleep!’; I’ve been waiting by the phone all week for you to call.’ But if you feel guilty, don’t blame them-blame yourself for allowing someone to manipulate you.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />There are three kinds of guilt: 1. Current Guilt, such as not spending enough time with the kids or not calling your parents as often as you think you should; 2. Long-standing Guilt, such as guilt over leaving your ex-mate, or guilt over refusing to allow your ailing father to move in; 3. Philosophical Guilt, such as not tithing to a church or giving to a worthwhile charity when you feel it is your responsibility.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />After you’ve felt guilty long enough to balance the emotion with your actions, you can feel okay with yourself. But the common pattern is to repeat the guilt-inducing actions all over again, in a never-ending spiral. If you’re going to do something about this most useless emotion, do it. If not, file it away, labeling it ‘experience,’ and get on with your life.”<br />Dick Sutphen The Oracle Within</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><i>“In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.” Brennan Manning</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Snake Oil Radio </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7ii2wEvza43Oj--EIsx236iNUZQXl2UYSBQHhUKs59kgkON17uALjfs-783gxlpFTZAujgQtWWDojy7AWUHQ1l_r6KKxxaEAq4_rGqOMsCKMdQS0RbwftZ7CrgFIe9pu9ScAc_FIecCmfo2zvNTZB9NQJjhNpDAm-mLfq2XVBX7yONbKiMl3TfLV08yC8/s194/image007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="167" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7ii2wEvza43Oj--EIsx236iNUZQXl2UYSBQHhUKs59kgkON17uALjfs-783gxlpFTZAujgQtWWDojy7AWUHQ1l_r6KKxxaEAq4_rGqOMsCKMdQS0RbwftZ7CrgFIe9pu9ScAc_FIecCmfo2zvNTZB9NQJjhNpDAm-mLfq2XVBX7yONbKiMl3TfLV08yC8/s1600/image007.jpg" width="167" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /><br /></b></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><br />Thursdays at 3:30 pm (there will be two live broadcast this period)<br />My next live broadcast of Snake Oil Radio will be Thursday, July 13th at 3:30 p.m. mountain (Phoenix) time. The July show will be on the 13th with a live column read and discussion. Each 45 minute show will expand on my current column’s subject matter. It will also offer an opportunity for you to chat with other listeners in the chat room with comments and your thoughts about the topic of discussion. If you miss the live show, you can catch any of my previously recorded shows on the website’s archive. You can also catch Snake Oil Radio on itunes and similar locations for podcasts.<br />To hear a live show, all you need to do is be at a computer and tuned into: <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura">http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura</a> or on your phone. You may also access it by going to the site and type “Snake Oil” into the search option. You can also go to the shows that are currently “On air” at that time and find me. The call in number is 646-200-3966 for questions and comments IF the show is offering that (please check, many of my column shows don’t).</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><i>“When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves.” Steve Maraboli<br /></i><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>New Client Special 2023 January 1st thru October 31st, 2023 Special: </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAd_j2_jz2_ai74XqZwxNod0sT-gvpJqw6JLh5qQW_Et12_UMJrZIs379jb5F-yh-YNEwUulvxo4S4aHxH04NVH3Tv4AKQu1ktj0AHqOEGMZijLscETOAwYxp443YX0KG0mmjzLPq7eWH_3ShrJ3AHCKnE7l4F1eM44wjVDciqcy5lOSfR2XISMFRfeIYC/s1280/2-Ways-Baskets-Improve-Your-Gift-Giving-Skills.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1280" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAd_j2_jz2_ai74XqZwxNod0sT-gvpJqw6JLh5qQW_Et12_UMJrZIs379jb5F-yh-YNEwUulvxo4S4aHxH04NVH3Tv4AKQu1ktj0AHqOEGMZijLscETOAwYxp443YX0KG0mmjzLPq7eWH_3ShrJ3AHCKnE7l4F1eM44wjVDciqcy5lOSfR2XISMFRfeIYC/s320/2-Ways-Baskets-Improve-Your-Gift-Giving-Skills.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /><br /></b></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><br />$10-15 off listed rates for your first 45 minute session, 70, or 90 minute session! Debit and credit card payments get $10 off for 45, 70, and 90 minute sessions. Local in-office clients can get an extra $5 off for cash or check payments for sessions. If you want to buy a new client a thoughtful gift of a session for a friend or family member you can also take advantage of these rates! </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><i>“Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.” Anonymous</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i> </i><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Regular Client Program</b></span> <br />My Regular Clients enjoy working with the many different types of oracles I work with for enlightenment. But a good portion of them work with me in the form of an enlightened counselor, and life coach. Discussing what you are going through or working on at each time is definitely healing but also allows added insight from my many years of navigational consultations and the wisdom of working with a very old soul! <br />One of the best programs I have been doing for 24 years now is my Regular Client Program. The program is designed to benefit my clients at multiple levels. Clients who enroll in the program come in every three months for personal sessions (monthly, or every other month sessions are also an option). This can also be done for out-of-area clients by phone. Session prices are discounted for Regular Clients. The focus of the program is on consistent work in developing your intuitive abilities, learning how to navigate more effectively through life by using the signs and signals that are all around us, and conquering fear-based programming permanently. We also get to work with all the many different oracles I currently work with! My Regular Client Program has resulted in some tremendous spiritual evolution for hundreds of people over the years. Some of my Regulars have gone on to do spiritual counseling, or similar types of work and some are healing and guiding others personally and professionally. The progress I have seen over the years among the majority of my Regular clients has been phenomenal. It is wonderful to see the spiritual, physical, and emotional progress I have assisted in motivating. So many of my Regular clients have dramatically changed the way they now view life and are enjoying a more enlightened point of view. You too can join this program as well, just ask. </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAggdGBfFDTHqCz_LXsArwHkH3VxrrVHo4G45JoVFtNS36iD26Zuxl9HtOLbH-iES8QI5rCtytYjtvP7kCB6Qt07L8wGA6YeFpLqalzN9ia5amq1k-1Yx0J722DTWB1tmDxTjAx_lGDNfyFDq4BVpdgSu8jFbZVzDdrkVMgfAu_h7zUShow-92-NJvNQFY/s225/images-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAggdGBfFDTHqCz_LXsArwHkH3VxrrVHo4G45JoVFtNS36iD26Zuxl9HtOLbH-iES8QI5rCtytYjtvP7kCB6Qt07L8wGA6YeFpLqalzN9ia5amq1k-1Yx0J722DTWB1tmDxTjAx_lGDNfyFDq4BVpdgSu8jFbZVzDdrkVMgfAu_h7zUShow-92-NJvNQFY/s1600/images-3.jpg" width="225" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />More about the Regular Client Program... This program was designed to create an easy, cost-effective way for my clients to progress in their spiritual development. <br />When we are consistent at attending to our body/mind/spirit, we naturally move through life with more harmony and greater joy. When our spiritual awareness is heightened and fine-tuned we are often happier which helps us to enjoy all aspects of our lives, including occasional personal challenges because we see them as inevitably beneficial. We can truly assist the people around us. Human beings learn by example. Your intimate partnerships, friendships, family, and children benefit when you are in a good space.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />The Regular Client Program makes it easier to prioritize keeping your spiritual, emotional and even physical “garden” free of weeds. In China, the professional soothsayer is a reverent and dignified calling. It does not attract the sort of suspicion it does in the western world. In fact, in most eastern cultures, seeing an oracle reader is a sign of wisdom, success, and prestige. If you have an interest in increasing these attributes and working with a highly-skilled navigational consultant, then the Regular Client Program may be right for you.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />My current rates for 2023-2024:<br />Full session (70 minutes) $120.00. Shorter session (45 minutes) $90.00. Extended session (90 minutes) $145.00. 15-20 minute short phone sessions $40<br />Regular Client Program discounted rates for 2023-2024:<br />Quarterly (every three months) Regulars:<br />Full 70 minute sessions $90.00 shorter 45 minute sessions $65.00 Extended 90 minute sessions $110.00. 15-20 minute short phone sessions $20.<br />Every other month Regulars: Full 70 sessions $85.00. Shorter 45 minute sessions $60.00. Extended 90 minute sessions $105.00. 15-20 minute short phone sessions $20.<br />Monthly Regulars: <br />Full 70 minute sessions $80.00. Shorter 45 minute sessions $55.00 Extended 90 minute sessions $100.00. 15-20 minute short phone sessions $15.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PREPAY 3 OR MORE SESSIONS YOU RECEIVE AN EVEN BIGGER DISCOUNT. <br />Prepaid three quarterly sessions: (3) - 45 minute sessions $180. (3) - 70 minute sessions $245. (3) - 90 minute sessions $290.<br />Prepaid three every other month sessions: (3) -45 minute sessions $170. (3) - 70 minute sessions $230. (3) - 90 minute sessions $270.<br />Prepaid three monthly sessions: (3) - 45 minute sessions $155. (3) - 70 minute sessions $215. (3) - 90 minute sessions $255.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />* Regular Clients get to choose whether they will come in for a full, 45, or extended session. You may vary the length of each session each time you come in for your appointments, and still keep your discounted rates. <br />* I will contact you a few weeks before your next appointment by email or phone for scheduling. If there is a need for a few weeks delay or to come in sooner or for an extra appointment, this is also an option.<br />* Sessions can be used for all of the different readings I offer, transformation sessions, reality change sessions, or personalized instruction on how to read oracles yourself.<br />* Regular Clients can purchase gift certificates for sessions to give to friends and family at their discounted rates. <br />* If at any point you decide to come in more often or less often, or even exit the program, simply let me know. I have worked with clients who have come monthly for two years, then switched to quarterly, etc...Clients who exit the program can still come in randomly for sessions, although they will be required to pay current non-regular client rates.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><i>“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?” Sydney Harris</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />Here’s my contact information to make an appointment for a session, or information on current classes: Email: <a href="mailto:Venturasag@yahoo.com">Venturasag@yahoo.com</a> (best method for contact).<br />Phone calls: (602) 957-3035 text only: (602) 349-0746 <br /><br />Information about the different sessions and types of readings and services, past Snake Oil columns, and how to order my books and audio CD’s can be found at my website: <a href="http://JimVentura.com">http://JimVentura.com</a>. <br /><br />“Friend” me on Facebook to get other extra offers and in between column extras! Signing up for my fan page will get you even more extras and first shot at reading specials. Simply click on “like” on the fan page and you will automatically get my weekly updates. <br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl<br /></a><br />I have a few other media channels other than my monthly radio shows and Face-Book:<br /><br />Subscribe to my YouTube Channel (approximately once a month 6-11 minute videos) at J Ventura Snake Oil. <br />Instagram at Venturawords (Astrology updates and other insight on reels) <br /> Tik Tok (animalspeaks) where I do short but powerful 3 minute videos about how to use animal totems!<br /><br />All personal sessions/readings for 2023-2024 are: Full (70 minutes) $120.00; Shorter session (45 minutes) $90.00; Extended session (90 minutes) $145.00 (Two people can split an extended session back to back for $150.00 total although no other discounts will apply). Mini phone session 20 minutes $40. Email me for information about my Regular Client Program for even bigger discounts on session prices with the added benefit of monthly or quarterly check-ins. Purchasing 3 prepaid sessions also brings sizable discounts. Some examples; 3 prepaid 45 minute monthly sessions is $155 total or about $52 a session. 3 prepaid quarterly 70 minute session are $245 or about $82 a session.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9d66fOgzqOcLcy05IdN7h8BJy0LeAAGwLNZI3xffGzoh3b008Gsnuk40rnxhfuukgVLgpaA-06oQZdDZH-AjbCRQ_OxIuF-y_j4lzWo16UGT1unKju6bm8wS-IyffXSSk0LzeYr3ycUHtFgg3vYVUeNXZc5N3tpI-0SneJDs-rj2_20GLifCQigBPhntI/s495/the-empress-tarot-card-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="495" data-original-width="288" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9d66fOgzqOcLcy05IdN7h8BJy0LeAAGwLNZI3xffGzoh3b008Gsnuk40rnxhfuukgVLgpaA-06oQZdDZH-AjbCRQ_OxIuF-y_j4lzWo16UGT1unKju6bm8wS-IyffXSSk0LzeYr3ycUHtFgg3vYVUeNXZc5N3tpI-0SneJDs-rj2_20GLifCQigBPhntI/s320/the-empress-tarot-card-1.jpg" width="186" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">The energy connected with this Archetypal tarot card is all about opening up to abundance and the joy of learning how to receive with comfort and ease!<br /></span><br /><p></p>Jim V/Snake Oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00746873887985304530noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024612299906599073.post-16812376310811465892023-05-03T13:02:00.001-07:002023-05-03T13:02:16.626-07:00May June 2023 Snake Oil/Sweet Devotion<p> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Snake Oil Sweet Devotion</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT1LOBHYIsMNzWY3k_MewOiCgKUqf6Zln6kUE9jVe_1FrFIIS-Q4Hk4ZyTp9Z14ueFNyeaozM5nDpSqx1Y3QVj3zVye5x3sfUOkbhrzLaoHg2_oRGFZFVEQagJ4LZZQO4gQ010z3hT3nWoIdM38fiWUPbd2jQbolzdl4eCr0-Gd4UR2ZKvqjQ28DuthQ/s275/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT1LOBHYIsMNzWY3k_MewOiCgKUqf6Zln6kUE9jVe_1FrFIIS-Q4Hk4ZyTp9Z14ueFNyeaozM5nDpSqx1Y3QVj3zVye5x3sfUOkbhrzLaoHg2_oRGFZFVEQagJ4LZZQO4gQ010z3hT3nWoIdM38fiWUPbd2jQbolzdl4eCr0-Gd4UR2ZKvqjQ28DuthQ/w305-h216/images.jpg" width="305" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /> </b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />I was chatting with a young man in his late twenties about a year ago while visiting Las Vegas. He was especially interesting to me because he was visiting from Australia. The Sagittarius parts of me loves to learn about different cultures and customs. He was part of a military group and he found it remarkable that a number of American’s in elevators and other parts of the Vegas strip said “Thank you for your service,” to both him and all of his fellow soldiers. His uniform was clearly not American military but they said it anyway. I asked the question I typically ask of people from other countries, “I know you can’t speak for all Australians of course, but generally how do Australians view Americans?” He told me a few negative things and mostly some positive things but what to him was most notable was that he thought so many American’s just won’t follow the rules. He smiled as he said, “It seems many of you are very rebellious about government, religion, or any organized group telling you what you have to say, be or do.” He added, “I took every suggested Covid shot, boosters, and we get tested every two weeks or so for it. The majority of us don’t question it. What is wild is how many American’s refused to do this, even leaving jobs over it. It is a clear example of how important having freedom is for you guys.”<br /><br />My mother was devoutly Catholic. She knew very little about the Bible, but she followed the rules and Catholic traditions loyally, and while we were kids my siblings and I had little choice but to do the same. There were elements of some of the rituals that I actually liked. Still, I began to question many of the rules and beliefs as early as age eleven. I went to Catholic school from first thru eight grade and while it was basically seen as one of the greatest callings next to raising Catholic children, becoming an actual priest or a nun was way, way up there. I noticed early on that many of the clergy seemed kind of miserable and painfully repressed. It was also notable that a good portion of the “you will be especially fulfilled if you marry and follow the righteous path of having children” didn’t seem all that ecstatic about that choice either, so I skipped both plans. The priest would read the gospel during Sunday mass (and we were not allowed to miss mass unless we were really sick or potentially near death in my family). He would then interpret the Gospel for us and explain it all in layman's terms. In my teen years I often disagreed with his interpretations, but for a million reasons I was not allowed to share my thoughts. This was a big part of what triggered me to study Metaphysics, Astrology, Numerology, and I also read a number of brilliant channeled books (and a few that were crap). I was in search for different points of views about spirituality, religion, and even God.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbyIfnz_hiboprXxCZxJPQDefh4aCYUNRxTtbaxJj_DvbWwjqBlrKUA3vM9c3KdC5MnpqQNezomk9vWxXAu-GIO62HXpf28iko6xs-0vxhTWXexOT4Mzofk93s_NNcxh-tILP0AnEcWVX8QhCI99VWECVBnMX0UbfIDOdiXn5JLHWdpk82Gg3NWndFgg/s800/tricky-young-women-gossip-street-city-34530591.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="528" data-original-width="800" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbyIfnz_hiboprXxCZxJPQDefh4aCYUNRxTtbaxJj_DvbWwjqBlrKUA3vM9c3KdC5MnpqQNezomk9vWxXAu-GIO62HXpf28iko6xs-0vxhTWXexOT4Mzofk93s_NNcxh-tILP0AnEcWVX8QhCI99VWECVBnMX0UbfIDOdiXn5JLHWdpk82Gg3NWndFgg/s320/tricky-young-women-gossip-street-city-34530591.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I think while America
is a very rebellious country there are unquestionably large pockets of
people who are devoted to the things that are important to them and are
loyal without question. Whether it is to ones religion, political
affiliation, family, partner, social circles, fraternity, clubs, etc...,
questioning the beliefs of who or what we are devoted to can feel like
being disloyal or even being a “rat” in some respects. Many of </span></span>us have been programmed from childhood that being a “tattle tale or a rat” is one of the lowest things you can be. There are so many areas in life where people resist questioning or turning someone in even when they confronted with suspicious or even reprehensible behavior. Certainly this is notable in law enforcement. While the large majority of cops are clean, often incredibly brave, and should be praised for doing such a difficult job, to pretend that there are no “bad apples” at all is blind. Most fields that involve using power have this built in temptation. I once saw a documentary where a devout Catholic woman was asked if she thought that any of the thousands of lawsuits against the church for priest molesting children were valid? Her answer was “Absolutely not, it is all made up!” Forced celibacy, restricting normal childhood explorations of opposite and same sex attraction, in decades past for young people to hopefully inhibit that sinful part (all nonsense of course) and other limiting conditions is easily a breeding ground for some of this to inevitably occur. Even if only a small percentage of the many accusations are true than it still is a reality at times in that world. To me, saying it doesn’t exist at all is in the same category of saying all priests do this; sheer nonsense.<br /><br />The blind loyalty for some people can clearly be seen in the world of politics and science. There are camps of belief about politicians that they can seemingly do no wrong. While I am still a registered Democrat, I lean far more toward being an independent at this stage in my life. The seriously poor handling of the Covid years by many “blue” cities would be one of many examples of areas that were not perspectives I could align with for many, many reasons. Some of the more bizarre woke-ness that at times borders on militant with a “my way or the highway perspective” (Sounds a bit like religious extremes in different packaging doesn’t it?) is hard to swallow. On the flip side the political rights and some of the red states bizarre obsession with transgendered people, drag queens and weird things like believing every citizen needs to be armed with assault rifles, like some huge wild west world, to solve mass shooting keeps me from switching camps. In the same way I view religious extremism, age, wisdom and temperance have helped me to see that both sides have some great ideas and at times do amazing things for people, and they can also be equally nuts! While scientific advancement is both astounding and beneficial in so many way, there can also be blindness with the “science is always right” perspective as well. “Western medicine as the only real way to heal” arrogance is one of many examples of this.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWN4YJ2QRUY0CORTFunpGeREeiJlXsUyoz9Qto9LKK4gxUBWOWgPdksvDDI54WRipngnOia0M4-wOOSsDov9icnu7Dz7SmKJTmOvlBSfj6PVi4lGIgdL56Y_3ONq-77tpJ3VvVlBQ3su_gKKeVR-ZHTZvKIej_LXYDjIwX46aGQ9_J2vN2A1V9TZxfew/s740/high-angle-broken-heart-with-safety-pin_23-2149435389.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="492" data-original-width="740" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWN4YJ2QRUY0CORTFunpGeREeiJlXsUyoz9Qto9LKK4gxUBWOWgPdksvDDI54WRipngnOia0M4-wOOSsDov9icnu7Dz7SmKJTmOvlBSfj6PVi4lGIgdL56Y_3ONq-77tpJ3VvVlBQ3su_gKKeVR-ZHTZvKIej_LXYDjIwX46aGQ9_J2vN2A1V9TZxfew/s320/high-angle-broken-heart-with-safety-pin_23-2149435389.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />While I have never really been blindly devoted to a group or an ideology I do know what it feels like to be devoted and even obsessively loyal. My twenties and even early thirties relationships had me blind in love at times when I was both actually partnered or even when I believed that I was in a committed relationship far more than my partner actually was. I had a few experiences of unrequited love or simply notably uneven configurations in my early years. I know the feeling of euphoria from being smitten in love and aspects of it are amazing. Yet, often when the light of reality inevitably pushed through I would wake up to a realization I was putting up with emotional abuse, contradiction of words versus actual actions, or simply seeing things that were not there because I wanted them to be. Neptunian ideals (planet that rules our aspirations) were hit with a hard punch from Saturn (planet that rules structure and limitation) bringing the harsh light of reality into view whether I liked it or not. Often much to the discomfort of some of my friends or family members who were wondering why I didn’t see the obvious red flags.<br /><br />There are actual solid reasons why a good portion of the population and most of us get caught up in blind submission. One of those reasons is there are seven life goals (larger directional focuses we each have during a lifetime that can be seen in Astrology charts and also with the Michael teachings*). One of those goals is called Submission. While the most common life goals are Acceptance and Growth, about 10-15 percent of the world population has a goal of Submission. Certain countries see the ideal of Submission as part of their cultural ideal, so in many places it can be appear to be higher numbers. Its positive pole is devotion, its negative pole is exploited. Positive aspects are caring, helpful, selfless, dedicated and loyal. Individuals with this goal will bring themselves to satisfaction through devotion. Examples would be bringing up a large family, unwavering dedication in marriage, or devotion to a particular career or pursuit or even a cause. Many people in military careers, nuns, priests, lifelong helpers in soup kitchen for the homeless, green peace, are some of many examples of people who often have a goal of Submission. <br /><br />The negative pole, or when one is blindly devoted or acting from fear, is subservience, helpless, dependent, martyred, and victimized. There are women and men who stick by an extremely abusive partner in relationships for years, decades, or even a lifetime, to the dismay of those around them. Breaking free of it would seem logical, but for many reasons they are unwilling to or believe they can actually let go of the abuse. Cults, and other extreme groups thrive on pulling in people with a goal of Submission who lean toward the negative poles. They may even start out quite happily devoted and have a true sense of purpose and even simply love being part of something, but often it ends up falling apart. Examples like Jim Jones, and the crazy events at Waco Texas show people who stood behind the prophet even when they would potentially die for the cause. We saw similar unquestioned followers of Charles Manson, Keith Raniere, and other charismatic but dangerous leaders.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd_3sigQlhZVAiJmw8bTk0wNWg6Zuy2UE6SA78_vJwjd2BVyrPyiPVuZWcIE5AxCVCNOvh5fKAt518RbLQ166077vIf84Frl1sECt1stzri6Gpg1WZ1iObjg59nLTTBVV_mwC5NAQOBwwbqvn3FuHCg8s63DuqRbeZCyrcMQiwhBYuxdqD8wI2AMWvIQ/s612/group-of-people-against-blurred-background.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="408" data-original-width="612" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd_3sigQlhZVAiJmw8bTk0wNWg6Zuy2UE6SA78_vJwjd2BVyrPyiPVuZWcIE5AxCVCNOvh5fKAt518RbLQ166077vIf84Frl1sECt1stzri6Gpg1WZ1iObjg59nLTTBVV_mwC5NAQOBwwbqvn3FuHCg8s63DuqRbeZCyrcMQiwhBYuxdqD8wI2AMWvIQ/s320/group-of-people-against-blurred-background.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br />Very few people aren’t touched by at least one experience in their lives where they were devoted to a mate, group, business partnership, or even a family or friend who turned out to not be what they said they were, delivered what they were promising, or were down right abusive. In terms of reincarnation experiences everyone will inevitably go through at least one lifetime of serving a corrupt master. These are what are called monadal agreements* or how we learn, grow and evolve in a series of lifetimes with fundamental experiences that are part of being a human being. At a soul level they are planned before birth, yet when we are actually in them and they go bad, it can be rough water. Karma is a system of balance so we will also explore being the corrupt master position ourselves at some point too!! These configurations can be in place for years, decades, or even an entire lifetime before on wakes up and “smells the coffee.” Such is the nature of karma.<br /><br />While I don’t have a goal of submission my neutral goal of flow allows me to slide to all six of the other goals from time to time. I can be seriously loyal to those I care about. Few people who know me would suggest otherwise. Fortunately my darker times of Submission and getting weirdly subservient were relatively brief ones. The experiences themselves in a true Saturnian (meaning uncomfortable at first yet inevitably beneficial way) heightened my now quite sharp ability to see through potential abusers, or those with questionable motives. In simple terms my bull shit detector is now very fine tuned! I can often quickly spot or avoid anyone who might attempt to abuse me. This confidence is so embedded in my aura and it helps to keep manipulators away to begin with. They know I am not going to fall prey to their nonsense. Another way of looking at this is by building a strong foundation of self esteem it has helped me to see and reject getting caught in the negative poles of Submission. This is something I prioritize teaching my clients, especially my Regular clients. Being devoted to those we love and the important things that matter to us can be both fulfilling and joyful. Without some of this as a priority, intimate relationships themselves cannot survive, some of this positive pole glue is absolutely needed. There is nothing in any way wrong with reciprocal sweet devotion. Understanding the difference of the positive and negative poles is the key to experiencing submission at the highest of levels.<br />Jim Ventura 4-2023</span><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Notes:</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdGoPb92qUwB3Eb9Z4mzDsa02S1vbkk37pkJLcozCZdi6ep70omhKsTFphBU9rN6n7cWG7oWPBN7GZ_leLqxgmxrdxMbBCM7y3hqj-UDXMWh0_ZDWqHYsXyg_CqlYNJYaK2izIyigeGMtNIa7HnlxRPFOaYlbvi-Q8ogRXoKMqAbdAG0xNpiDNH0usDQ/s374/image005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="374" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdGoPb92qUwB3Eb9Z4mzDsa02S1vbkk37pkJLcozCZdi6ep70omhKsTFphBU9rN6n7cWG7oWPBN7GZ_leLqxgmxrdxMbBCM7y3hqj-UDXMWh0_ZDWqHYsXyg_CqlYNJYaK2izIyigeGMtNIa7HnlxRPFOaYlbvi-Q8ogRXoKMqAbdAG0xNpiDNH0usDQ/s320/image005.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />*The Michael teachings are one of the many series of classes I offer that details understanding soul age, reincarnation, Over-leaves (the goal, mode, and attitude for each lifetime), chief negative feature, essence, essence twins, and other aspects of being human that when understood, will change your life in so many beneficial ways. Classes can be in-office or via phone sessions. There are currently 16 class options available. A full list can be found on my website or by emailing me for the current list. One or a series of classes can be taken monthly, quarterly or even every other week. Classes are currently $55 for one 90 minute class. They can be solo or you can share classes with one friend (slightly different rate for this). A three class block can be purchased for $150.00.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />* Examples of Monad Agreements (the Michael teachings go into this in much more detail) other than serving a corrupt master are teacher-student, rescuer-rescued, parent-child, attacker-victim, hopelessly loving-hopelessly loved, slanderer-slandered, slovenly-meticulous, innocent-sophisticate, jailer-jailed, etc...<br />There are currently 16 different class series I offer. A full list can be found on my website (JimVentura.com) or by emailing me for the list and availability options. One class for a specific series can be explored or you can go further in that series for monthly, quarterly, and even every other week classes. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Summer is around the corner. I know many of my fellow Phoenicians feel similar, but guessing other areas of the country are feeling this way as well: we had a very long winter, seemingly short spring and jumped right into summer!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7F6tCPrLMKpc-JU2tnZX9RtbuQ2JTieeiM9f_zDpStuWOyLQJ2xSE48L2INBv__hWXLuSqfRQztZzUUNQH5xS-X2iPTPDGkwdszT7mhjcqELcIZCvNzrJV60Jrv9ClbY24IcJffJo2-IubB_DcLwIOGHmAME2PIe7dXvz_fiA0D8Ekt1H10sNKWZRvw/s900/cool-chic-bit-quirky-above-all-a%CC%82%E2%82%AC-classy-then-you-one-foxy-lady-express-your-inner-fox-cool-colorful-drawing-138549518.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="788" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7F6tCPrLMKpc-JU2tnZX9RtbuQ2JTieeiM9f_zDpStuWOyLQJ2xSE48L2INBv__hWXLuSqfRQztZzUUNQH5xS-X2iPTPDGkwdszT7mhjcqELcIZCvNzrJV60Jrv9ClbY24IcJffJo2-IubB_DcLwIOGHmAME2PIe7dXvz_fiA0D8Ekt1H10sNKWZRvw/s320/cool-chic-bit-quirky-above-all-a%CC%82%E2%82%AC-classy-then-you-one-foxy-lady-express-your-inner-fox-cool-colorful-drawing-138549518.jpg" width="280" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Check out my new YouTube video New YouTube Video from (J Ventura Snake Oil)<br />Connecting to Your Inner Fox<br />FOX as Totem shows us the benefits of Cunning, diplomacy and Wildness!<br />You can catch it by looking for it on YouTube’s search engine or cut and paste to your browser the link below:<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9mq6PvYRy4<br /><br />I am making a few very slight change to my prices on June 1st of 2023. 45 minute sessions will remain at $90, 70 minute sessions will now be $120, and 90 minute sessions will remain at $140.00. The options for 2 people splitting a 90 minute session will now be $150 total or $75 each for two back to back 45 minute sessions. No other discounts will apply for the 90 minute split session. In-office clients who pay by cash or check for individual sessions can still take a $5 discount off 45, 70, and 90 minute sessions. If you are currently on my mailing list (receiving this column every two months) there is a $5 discount off 45, 70, and 90 minute session rates. Regular client rates will remain the same although 3 session prepays will increase just a total of $5.<br />Happy start to the summer, Cheers, Jim V</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><i>“There are two great days in a person’s life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.” William Barclay</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br />“Who you resist you will eventually become. All resistance is fear. If after repeated opportunities, you do not cease to resist a particular race, sexual orientation, those who believe differently, or who have character traits you despise, you will have to reincarnate as one of ‘them’ so you can learn acceptance.” Dick Sutphen<br /></i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Channeled corner. I read many, many books from different trance channelers in the 80s and 90s. Unfortunately many of them are now out of print, but I still have a huge collection and will share some of the best material I have collected over the years. <br /><br /><b>From Reflections Of an Elder Brother by Bartholomew</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB3aZhr5EXAlqM7K3ov5QmeDZcual2uRWNNP5NRRqyxFcRxUzRpZF3lvqhkroRvkN0Ow7jgLtlr8Y_WRtwkeP2LvapcN7JOERfWwUqZDr-QsqJZLmrwDarOxIuCNg_JTat_44_9STFNRd4ZykBV8mrCetDO_7O2CPG0KTaNatthkiYXjdsp-oi3DpgGw/s249/images-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="203" data-original-width="249" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB3aZhr5EXAlqM7K3ov5QmeDZcual2uRWNNP5NRRqyxFcRxUzRpZF3lvqhkroRvkN0Ow7jgLtlr8Y_WRtwkeP2LvapcN7JOERfWwUqZDr-QsqJZLmrwDarOxIuCNg_JTat_44_9STFNRd4ZykBV8mrCetDO_7O2CPG0KTaNatthkiYXjdsp-oi3DpgGw/s1600/images-2.jpg" width="249" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Looking In The Wrong Place<br />One of the things that kills your spontaneous joy in life is the constant judgmental critique you have running against yourself. You have no idea the number of moments you spend criticizing your looks, your diet, your friendships, your speech, your house, your car, your job, etc,... In order to really understand what I mean, I would like you to take a few moments to write down all of the judgments that, one, you have against yourself, and two, you think the world holds about you. Please be very specific and thorough in recording these.<br />Pause.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Alright, my friends, let me tell you what your list represents. It represents a great deal of energy drain and it represents a tremendous amount of defensive awareness. When you are still trying to please the world or to have the world find you pleasing, you are trapped in this downward spiraling energy vortex. You will constantly be trying to assess how well you are doing, constantly ruminating about how to appear in order to get what you want or to please others. In the end, my friends, the only things that brings the love you are looking for in this world, is the love in you. And that love is already there, in perfect safety and wholeness. You do not have to create the love-just allow yourself to experience it.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />You are trying to get love using the wrong technique. The point here is very simple. Everyone wants to feel loved, and every one of you wants to feel love. You believe it takes someone outside yourself who miraculously happens to ‘love’ you, to feel loved. So you spend your lives looking for this someone. But in the deepest part of you, you are not trying to find someone to love you, you are trying to feel love within yourself. And your list of judgements, however subtle, comes in to undercut all of your awareness of the love that is within you...”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” Oscar Wilde</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Snake Oil Radio</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3iE-LQwPE3GHEX4_mkKRUCOcU6tlbB7tctj0Lo7G2R2B25i8tb46UvjxrS_IDB_Kt3GRsKskNShZCgSUb8-sc3YCV9jWjy6EBvd-G_T6RDhPJpARpgNe-icRGLx8rXj5xrxn7wP1BGrjm5Vp0BxkbZI0-pbsaJiKmmB0ipj17BSVkBwt8ADsfYk_l1w/s194/image007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="167" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3iE-LQwPE3GHEX4_mkKRUCOcU6tlbB7tctj0Lo7G2R2B25i8tb46UvjxrS_IDB_Kt3GRsKskNShZCgSUb8-sc3YCV9jWjy6EBvd-G_T6RDhPJpARpgNe-icRGLx8rXj5xrxn7wP1BGrjm5Vp0BxkbZI0-pbsaJiKmmB0ipj17BSVkBwt8ADsfYk_l1w/s1600/image007.jpg" width="167" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><br />Thursdays at 3:30 pm (there will be two live broadcast this period)<br />My next live broadcast of Snake Oil Radio will be Thursday, May 25th at 3:30 p.m. mountain (Phoenix) time. The May show will be on the 13th with a live column read and discussion. Each 45 minute show will expand on my current column’s subject matter. It will also offer an opportunity for you to chat with other listeners in the chat room with comments and your thoughts about the topic of discussion. If you miss the live show, you can catch any of my previously recorded shows on the website’s archive. You can also catch Snake Oil Radio on Itunes and similar locations for podcasts.<br />To hear a live show, all you need to do is be at a computer and tuned into: <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura">http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura</a> or on your phone. You may also access it by going to the site and type “Snake Oil” into the search option. You can also go to the shows that are currently “On air” at that time and find me. The call in number is 646-200-3966 for questions and comments IF the show is offering that (please check, many of my column shows don’t).</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><i>“Your task is not to seek love, but to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” Rumi</i><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>New Client Special 2023 January 1st thru October 31st, 2023 Special:</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXR7bOaJjdIFVKMKK9OAo9v9ToiWgc2CjlUYJnk3zKuCIEM-LkpUp101A7hmG8_UPR_7mfmX_4eJq_riDX7ZnUrejX0EZVqiNcQCscXHnnrDtxHbbPsXPLEQzoAmmUXzDPNvgZsd7pPzVgJG9BfJCVjmLS_8Y0Pd6gafNDo8fDEGVAFDtkdogLtiMlPw/s1280/2-Ways-Baskets-Improve-Your-Gift-Giving-Skills.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1280" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXR7bOaJjdIFVKMKK9OAo9v9ToiWgc2CjlUYJnk3zKuCIEM-LkpUp101A7hmG8_UPR_7mfmX_4eJq_riDX7ZnUrejX0EZVqiNcQCscXHnnrDtxHbbPsXPLEQzoAmmUXzDPNvgZsd7pPzVgJG9BfJCVjmLS_8Y0Pd6gafNDo8fDEGVAFDtkdogLtiMlPw/s320/2-Ways-Baskets-Improve-Your-Gift-Giving-Skills.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />$10-15 off listed rates for your first 45 minute session, 70, or 90 minute session! Debit and credit card payments get $10 off for 45, 70, and 90 minute sessions. Local in-office clients can get an extra $5 off for cash or check payments for sessions. If you want to buy a new client a thoughtful gift of a session for a friend or family member you can also take advantage of these rates! </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><i>“The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don’t know it.” Marianne Williamson</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Here’s my contact information to make an appointment for a session, or information on current classes: Email: <a href="mailto:Venturasag@yahoo.com">Venturasag@yahoo.com</a> (best method for contact).<br />Phone calls: (602) 957-3035 text only: (602) 349-0746 <br /><br />Information about the different sessions and types of readings and services, past Snake Oil columns, and how to order my books and audio CD’s can be found at my website: <a href="Http://JimVentura.com">Http://JimVentura.com</a> <br /><br />“Friend” me on Facebook to get other extra offers and in between column extras! Signing up for my fan page will get you even more extras and first shot at reading specials. 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She was outside playing a game all by herself. I observed her silently from the top of my stairway without her seeing me, knowing I would interrupt her play if she caught me watching her and she would come running up to greet me. She darted from the big tree near the base of my stairway to a large rock as if she was playing a fun made up game of someone or something chasing her. She climbed up the tree, looking around and scooted back down and up again. She reminded me of myself when I was a little kid. I played very well with my friends but also enjoyed making up cool, imaginary games outside on the lawn or even inside the water playground of my swimming pool. I let her play for a bit longer and went inside to to follow an impulse to look up a movie online that I remembered from childhood called “They Shoot Horses Don’t They.” My research on this Sydney Poitier directed film was not what I thought it was about. It was about a crazy dance contest where the contestants pushed themselves beyond the normal limits. I wasn’t sure why I needed to know this, but I know that impulses always have a purpose and I usually follow them. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A month later my healthy cat nearly stopped eating and began to lose weight rapidly. I suspected it was the early stages of renal failure, a common thing for older cats. She also developed a “stinky butt” which I first assumed was an anal gland issue. I struggled with whether I should take her to the vet or not. Other than taking her in for all her shots more than fourteen years ago (she was already fixed when she showed up at my door when she was about a year and a half old) I had not used vet services. Other than a rough bout with feline flu two years ago she had never been sick. I thought I might lose her when she had the flu but gave her Colloidal Silver, a natural antibiotic and she thankfully recovered. I, for the most part, don’t use western medicine unless absolutely necessary and tend to do the same with my pets. My quandary was do I take my sick almost sixteen year old cat to a vet or not? It wasn’t that I did not think they might be able to help, but the process of putting a sick old cat in a cat carrier in the car was something she was not used to. I wondered if doing this would be more traumatic than allowing nature to take its course since she was nearing her natural old age in cat years. What was the right thing to do here?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX014Gdibi01muO886-ypF4Ig2FC3KRxX76u0zOypCJDrI_HtXoM3LTTXx3tmU_6tpYJU5hqZNiXwgE-e-wsL1mTsditdsX6OT2PKmG789RnzM4XTdClR3-pA5wq10IaZ-zkuEEqBTHZIzYn-wM_-V4QONT_HgtIS_453ZMl0nmnKp5_sBxnfgQcOdwA/s830/161214_they_shoot_banner1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="575" data-original-width="830" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX014Gdibi01muO886-ypF4Ig2FC3KRxX76u0zOypCJDrI_HtXoM3LTTXx3tmU_6tpYJU5hqZNiXwgE-e-wsL1mTsditdsX6OT2PKmG789RnzM4XTdClR3-pA5wq10IaZ-zkuEEqBTHZIzYn-wM_-V4QONT_HgtIS_453ZMl0nmnKp5_sBxnfgQcOdwA/s320/161214_they_shoot_banner1.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I began to see why the movie title of “They Shoot Horses Don’t They” had come to my mind a month before this. A part of me had sensed a big decision was coming my way and unfortunately it might be far more than the issue of simply taking her to the vet or not. I grew up in a family where we usually had two dogs and often a cat. I experienced the loss of pets during my childhood. We never had to decide about something so difficult. Our dogs and cats would get older, sick, and usually hide in the yard when they were close to passing. We had the trauma of finding them deceased of course but it was still a natural process. Since my cat was primarily an indoor cat, the circumstances now were different. I deliberated for a week or so and finally decided to have a mobile vet come to my home. He checked her out and said she was fairly healthy for her advanced age, she just needed soft food because she didn’t have many teeth left! I considered the pro’s and con’s of having her anal glands drained and decided on giving her pumpkin in her food to add fiber and to help her push this through naturally. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A month later in late January things got worse. The stinky butt issue was not resolving and her behavior patterns began to change rapidly. My always immaculately clean cat was pooping and vomiting every few days in my bathroom shower. Some days she would do it right on my bed too. I had a daily routine of washing added sheets on the couch, bed, and myself when she sat in my lap. I knew that the bed messes were her way of telling me something was really, really wrong. I wasn’t mad at her in any way, but it was really rough for about two weeks. Her nearly constant diarrhea made me realize medicine or not she would pass very soon. I didn’t need a doctor to tell me she was experiencing organ failure. I did my best to make the end good for her. She got lots of tuna mixed with wet cat food more often than usual. I figured I would let her die at home, but in early February she developed a terrible limp in her right leg. She could still scoot around with it and was eating, but maneuvering on the linoleum floor in the kitchen and bathroom had her sliding all over the place. From a spiritual perspective human or animal, when we have issues with our right side and legs often mean “nothing to move forward to.” My cat was all about being a jumper and climbing on things and she was losing control of this part of herself. I knew she was in pain and after a Rune pull of Hagalez (Disruption, elemental power, Hailstorm*) I knew clearly she was suffering and the “They Shoot horses” theme in my intuitive mind was now painfully crystal clear with her losing control of one of her legs. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhOrvPsapaav_kkxFac6XS6wLTkt82uVg9FiKTjysFx5Sq0NwfiNdZvIcZmMS0MAeiIEgnnDJwcdx91vWvJlcYWVGm-VP6a5YaPY-QpTBjypHwthOiEdsvPNQtopsTVqDl8c6OXxmH1Y4ljO9MiAeIfBC7CdHLq175LpdRrw9k0QqaI7unndLoWD-IwQ/s800/rune-haglaz-hagalaz-carved-wood-wooden-background-rune-haglaz-hagalaz-carved-wood-wooden-background-elder-138791687.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhOrvPsapaav_kkxFac6XS6wLTkt82uVg9FiKTjysFx5Sq0NwfiNdZvIcZmMS0MAeiIEgnnDJwcdx91vWvJlcYWVGm-VP6a5YaPY-QpTBjypHwthOiEdsvPNQtopsTVqDl8c6OXxmH1Y4ljO9MiAeIfBC7CdHLq175LpdRrw9k0QqaI7unndLoWD-IwQ/s320/rune-haglaz-hagalaz-carved-wood-wooden-background-rune-haglaz-hagalaz-carved-wood-wooden-background-elder-138791687.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I worried about whether I was just “throwing away” my sick cat for a few hours. This fear was short lived. This was not what I was doing. A few days later I called the vet to make the uncomfortable decision to take her in to be euthanized. It was not a good day. I struggled but knew it was the right thing to do. The next day a good friend helped me to take her to the vet. I spent all of the weekend with her and had very little work or other obligations perfectly orchestrated by the Universe to give me the extra time with my little sweet girl. The last day was a lot of crying and giving her a million kisses, petting her skinny body in my lap, and giving her some of the turkey breast she so loved. Her final treat and her last meal, especially because she hardly at at all anymore, before putting her in a cat carrier was tuna juice, something she was truly crazy about. The support of my friends was priceless. ChiChi cried in the cage as we drove to the clinic because she was scared. I also felt pangs of guilt during the process. The vet said it looked like hyperthyroidism and it might be treatable. I had a brief moment with the possibility of keeping her alive, and then the reality of how sick she was, the probability of medicine not likely working, her in diapers for her pooping issues, and the loss of her leg inevitably on its way made me be strong enough not to waver. Having to take her back to do this again in a few days or weeks would be neither good for her nor for me. I told them to proceed and give her the shot to take her back to the Otherworld. I was of course in the room petting her as she left this world. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I shed quite a few tears for the first few days and went through all the traditional stages of grief. One of those stages was anger at having to go through this and whether I did the “Right Thing.” I work at home and was around her a lot. This cat was a part of my life in a big way. I had her for about fourteen and a half years. She was my buddy, my kid and something; someone I loved dearly. Every morning my bacon and egg sandwich was shared with her getting a little bit of bacon. There were countless routines my dog-like loyal cat and I shared. I had many pets in my childhood that were a part of my family and loved them all. The cat I had before her was Monte, I had him for seven years and an ex originally had him for the first 8 years of his life. ChiChi was completely mine and the best pet I have ever had. The days after her death and putting away all of her things, finding her toys under the bed, triggered more sadness. A thousand pieces of a life reminding me of the loss. After about a week when the grieving began to subside a new awareness pushed through. I was lucky to have had her and gave her a great life. I felt privileged to have had this experience and time with her. I began to feel just a wonderful sense of warmth and great memories of so many fun times with my little girl. I would not taint this with grief and sadness anymore. It was time to shift my view to remembering the many, many good things and gratitude. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4dZvntRiU3cXwgy91xhUSq8oLRADn_03ukapWScEtvVT1SYAwaXd92TsH1Uq-f7Sipfqeb4tKA6GtS2Cb9Hmlt4-qZ-ZAqSYReg4S6ZRNihXbQif2PZ7IvCYHGT2Y_goOTzq1fyl2xDRk83fQQ_2em0J2nqzubbaBRp2W5BNb90bWU-Nzvu2j2YnpSQ/s474/hummingbird-1854225__340.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="340" data-original-width="474" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4dZvntRiU3cXwgy91xhUSq8oLRADn_03ukapWScEtvVT1SYAwaXd92TsH1Uq-f7Sipfqeb4tKA6GtS2Cb9Hmlt4-qZ-ZAqSYReg4S6ZRNihXbQif2PZ7IvCYHGT2Y_goOTzq1fyl2xDRk83fQQ_2em0J2nqzubbaBRp2W5BNb90bWU-Nzvu2j2YnpSQ/s320/hummingbird-1854225__340.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In a truly spiritual, even magical way when I left the vets office after putting her down I had to walk up the stairs knowing for the first time in many years she would not be there to happily greet me. My legs were heavy as I made that walk. When I got to the top of the stairs a hummingbird flew by my face just two feet away and paused for just a second. My cat was mesmerized by hummingbirds and dreamed of catching one all of her life. Hummingbirds are considered messengers from the realm of fairy. The message is joy, hope, lightness and magic. The totem represents loyalty, playfulness and persistence, all attributes that were aspects of my cat. This hummingbird was telling me something. I had done the right thing. Not the easy thing but the right thing. My little girl’s spirit was released from her pain and she was free again like a hummingbird. There are so many different ways to feel and experience love in our lives, and this was not only one of those ways but a really good one. Sadness and loss are aspects of this world and never easy. We know our pets have much shorter life spans than we do. This is a hard pill to swallow, yet the gift of them being in our lives for however long outweighs the sadness. They remind us that life is short and all about the value of loyalty and unconditional love.
Jim Ventura 3-2018</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>Notes</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggaFm-78qJ3IFHC9pR7WL0Br9rLKK62YFxH3BesNq4tlMG-I5XTCO-tS5nxAz10wMYQ1jFhDlnuV7zljvMU-GUmfoJs6tYRkcMureMP6RH2QoohwOVZ0QkFMrNN8yH2EFdumNAZ2MYxQ92t2J1201H3f3bC-iZwOet-44TnNfJpuUoavl69lOUZTh6Gw/s374/image005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="374" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggaFm-78qJ3IFHC9pR7WL0Br9rLKK62YFxH3BesNq4tlMG-I5XTCO-tS5nxAz10wMYQ1jFhDlnuV7zljvMU-GUmfoJs6tYRkcMureMP6RH2QoohwOVZ0QkFMrNN8yH2EFdumNAZ2MYxQ92t2J1201H3f3bC-iZwOet-44TnNfJpuUoavl69lOUZTh6Gw/s320/image005.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />Back in early 2018 was the last time I posted this column about having to face the death of my cat Chi Chi. Rarely does a week go by that I don’t have at least one moment where I remember how cute, funny and what a great companion she was for me. The sadness has passed and I am just left with great memories of her and all the pets I have had in my life. There is some real truth to the old saying that time does heal wounds. Thankfully love itself never dies and I have strong wonderful forever memories of my sweet girl.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />It is interesting to see something new that is actually becoming common place on Instagram. Reel clips about losing pets, the importance of their loyalty, and the many areas of impact hey have on peoples life are popping up quite a bit. Amidst a lot of nonsense posts, it is nice to see the world acknowledging the wonder and love of animals that so many of us share. I saw one video where a woman is facing her cat just as the cat is being put down at a vets office. Her face is inches away from her furry companion and she is crying and in pain. The cat in its last move before departing from this world makes a move to wipe the tears away from his moms eyes. It is likely the woman's husband or partner saw the beauty of this and intuitively decided to film this touching moment. It is far less less likely it was staged. The comment section was full of beautiful sentiments and it moved a lot of people including me. Of course, it also had a few ass hat’s commenting that “She shouldn’t have posted this private moment.” “It is probably staged.” and a few similar delightfully obnoxious cynical commentaries. Ah, you got to laugh at the way truly horrible people see things sometimes! </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />I have noticed far less clicks on my columns in the last two years. I am guessing this is due to people having fears about clicking on links. Anything sent by me of course is safe. It is wise to be prudent with not just randomly clicking on links. Still, after being sold the idea from main stream media of needing to be endlessly afraid of nearly everything and to be terrified about getting sick especially during the pandemic period, maybe it’s time to let some of that fear go. See if being overly fearful about anything is actually serving you or even actually protecting you? Another factor in the less column reads is simple, I think less and less people are reading at all anymore sadly. This is why I am doing more videos on social media sites like YouTube, Tik Tok, and Instagram. Rather than resisting I am going with the flow of modern times. I will still continue to do my column this way for now but probably only do three new columns each year. I will continue to follow the every other month format I am currently doing, but run old columns as well to cover six columns (once every two months), especially because I have over 150 of them from doing the column for almost twenty years now and it is a lot of work to do new ones!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />It has been a long winter to say the least. In Phoenix we started getting cold in mid October of 2022. Most months had temperatures below normal, for about eighty percent of the days each month! There was also a lot of rain and snow especially in the high country. I have lived here for over three decades and this may be the coldest, longest winter I’ve seen yet. If you live here or in a state with a similar long winter, there may be hints of depression that have been hard to shake. I know I felt it. Thankfully you can’t hold off spring forever and while it seems to be coming later than I would have preferred, it is coming. Spring can be a good time to get a personal session in-office or by phone for a look at what the season ahead holds for you in terms of challenges and opportunities!<br />Cheers, Jim V</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><i>“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” Winnie The Pooh</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>New Client Special 2023 January 1st thru May 1st, 2023 Special:</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWIaZZq7SIw71YZuBn4mRVDZ70B6dUa0QxjszwFrjADnP22G4BsXn7u4-aFzvU7uDsffSpTQkKLpngRLxlObdls1UDzHNGRv3tnp72RkD3vkOPnHP09wHryskTzrj4prnJI83LPgrRUtndoKa0cM46GDyGGiiZo5cRrdxbl97EdFLoRgQMx-_ZD6aLVQ/s1280/2-Ways-Baskets-Improve-Your-Gift-Giving-Skills.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1280" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWIaZZq7SIw71YZuBn4mRVDZ70B6dUa0QxjszwFrjADnP22G4BsXn7u4-aFzvU7uDsffSpTQkKLpngRLxlObdls1UDzHNGRv3tnp72RkD3vkOPnHP09wHryskTzrj4prnJI83LPgrRUtndoKa0cM46GDyGGiiZo5cRrdxbl97EdFLoRgQMx-_ZD6aLVQ/s320/2-Ways-Baskets-Improve-Your-Gift-Giving-Skills.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />$10-15 off listed rates for your first 45 minute session, 70, or 90 minute session! Debit and credit card payments get $10 off for 45, 70, and 90 minute sessions. Local in-office clients can get an extra $5 off for cash or check payments for sessions. If you want to buy a new client a thoughtful gift of a session for a friend or family member you can also take advantage of these rates! </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><i>“Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn’t breaking. It hurts because it’s getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.” Rita Mae Brown</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><br />Channeled corner. I read many, many books from different trance channelers in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. Unfortunately many of them are now out of print, but I still have a huge collection and will share some of the best material I have collected over the years.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />“On the one hand, quite simply and in way that you cannot presently understand, evil does not exist. However, you are obviously confronted with what seem to be quite evil effects. Now it has been said often that there is a god, so there must be a devil-or if there is good there must be evil. This is like saying that because an apple has a top, it must have a bottom-but without any understanding of the fact that both are a portion of the apple.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />We go back to our fundamentals: you create reality through your feelings, thoughts, and mental actions. Some of these are physically materialized, others are actualized in probably systems. You are presented with an endless series of choices, it seems, at any point, some more or less favorable than others.<br />You must understand that each mental act is a reality for which you are responsible. That is what you are in this particular system of reality for as long as you believe in a devil, for example, you will create one that is real enough for you, and for the others who continue to create him. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQPu3wmHm8KGDNQ03TE03udwP1zHknnmMXZUv9TYCiiRxxoyLzEL51e3vd9BEbV9HQlXsrbBr7Jcczz97yPjGb3fKk9ZNG1lll-T4cAgPDE_n3jqgUbO1lYc36iDZMZRXItDc6uO81UYHCDiE4ymweMKfCEUDOJE8_TtMhVyusJrdQpvyFnhthflo-sQ/s275/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="183" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQPu3wmHm8KGDNQ03TE03udwP1zHknnmMXZUv9TYCiiRxxoyLzEL51e3vd9BEbV9HQlXsrbBr7Jcczz97yPjGb3fKk9ZNG1lll-T4cAgPDE_n3jqgUbO1lYc36iDZMZRXItDc6uO81UYHCDiE4ymweMKfCEUDOJE8_TtMhVyusJrdQpvyFnhthflo-sQ/s1600/images.jpg" width="183" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Because of the energy he is given by others, he will have a certain consciousness of his own, but such a mock devil has no power or reality to those who do not believe in his existence, and who do not give him energy through their belief. He is, in other words, a superlative hallucination. As mentioned earlier, those who believe in a hell and assign themselves to it through their belief can indeed experience one, but certainly in nothing like eternal terms. No soul is forever ignorant.<br />Now those who have such beliefs actually lack a necessary deep trust in the nature of consciousness, of the soul, and All That Is. They concentrate upon not what they think of as the power of good, but fearfully upon what they think of as the power of evil.<br />The hallucination is created, therefore, out of fear and of restriction. The devil idea is merely the mass projection of certain fears-mass in that it is produced by many people, but also limited in that there have always been those who reject this principle...<br />Seth Speaks. Jane Roberts</span><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><i>“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot.” Eleanor Roosevelt</i><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Snake Oil Radio</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipJkJKMCwf4e_65UExbmlXhr98xkx_1V_PfBuWhKqiQ_IPggtTLi9SD4Whj1u9R4pbN5TaaFUF3VCW_5tIvobGNzlikswrQweBmny-K9-aU9WmVBFgZntOnPAqb5YM6PwHbBSwhrQvSFyJfa49BFwzGCI9A69R0egUWZRjqVQtIlFlHCj0vMrF8-_sBA/s194/image007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="167" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipJkJKMCwf4e_65UExbmlXhr98xkx_1V_PfBuWhKqiQ_IPggtTLi9SD4Whj1u9R4pbN5TaaFUF3VCW_5tIvobGNzlikswrQweBmny-K9-aU9WmVBFgZntOnPAqb5YM6PwHbBSwhrQvSFyJfa49BFwzGCI9A69R0egUWZRjqVQtIlFlHCj0vMrF8-_sBA/s1600/image007.jpg" width="167" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />Thursdays at 3:30 pm (there will be two live broadcast this period)<br />My next live broadcast of Snake Oil Radio will be Thursday, March 23rd at 3:30 p.m. mountain (Phoenix) time. April show will be on the 13th with a live column read and discussion. Each 45 minute show will expand on my current column’s subject matter. It will also offer an opportunity for you to chat with other listeners in the chat room with comments and your thoughts about the topic of discussion. If you miss the live show, you can catch any of my previously recorded shows on the website’s archive. You can also catch Snake Oil Radio on I-tunes and similar locations for podcasts.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />March 23rd show interview with Jen Dillon </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“For over twenty years, my passion for natural products including aromatic plants, herbs, and essential oils led me to many discoveries of their wonderful health and beauty benefits. I began formulating natural products in 2002.<br />I have committed my life to the research and benefits of using the purest plant derived ingredients, wholesomely tended and harvested by farmers and distillers, who share my love of nature. I’ve formulated Natural Beauty Products, Herbal Tea Remedies, Aromatherapy and Homeopathic Medicines. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <br /> Jen Dillon has an extensive background in natural product formulation and natural wellness. Jen has most recently developed "The Homeopathic Detox Protocol", that is helping many people with long term COVID symptoms and adverse MRNA vaccine reactions. This protocol is currently in a Case Study supported by Pharmacists and MD’s in Canada and the US.<br />You can learn more by visiting <a href="http://gogetfunding.com/casestudy/">gogetfunding.com/casestudy/</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <br />To hear a live show, all you need to do is be at a computer and tuned into: <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura">http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura</a> or on your phone. You may also access it by going to the site and type “Snake Oil” into the search option. You can also go to the shows that are currently “On air” at that time and find me. The call in number is 646-200-3966 for questions and comments if the show is offering that (please check, many of my column shows don’t).</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><i>To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” Audrey Hepburn</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br />“That is one good thing about this world...There are always sure to be more springs.” L.M. Montgomery</i><br /><br />Here’s my contact information to make an appointment for a session, or information on current classes: Email: Venturasag@yahoo.com (best method for contact).<br />Phone calls: (602) 957-3035 text only: (602) 349-0746 <br /><br />Information about the different sessions and types of readings and services, past Snake Oil columns, and how to order my books and audio CD’s can be found at my website: <a href="Http://JimVentura.com">Http://JimVentura.com</a> <br /><br />“Friend” me on Facebook to get other extra offers and in between column extras! Signing up for my fan page will get you even more extras and first shot at reading specials. Simply click on “like” on the fan page and you will automatically get my weekly updates. <br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl</a><br /><br />I have a few other media channels other than my monthly radio shows and FaceBook:<br /><br />Subscribe to my YouTube Channel (approximately once a month 6-11 minute videos) at J Ventura Snake Oil. <br />Instagram at Venturawords ( astrology updates on reels) <br /> Tik Tok (animalspeaks) where I do short but powerful 3 minute videos about animal totems!<br /><br />All personal sessions/readings for 2022-2023 are: Full (70 minutes) $115.00; Shorter session (45 minutes) $90.00; Extended session (90 minutes) $140.00 (two people can split an extended session back to back $70.00 each, although no other discounts will apply). Mini phone session 20 minutes $40. Email me for information about my Regular Client Program for even bigger discounts on session prices with the added benefit of monthly or quarterly check-ins. Purchasing 3 prepaid sessions also brings sizable discounts. Some examples; 3 prepaid 45 minute monthly sessions is $150 total or $50 a session. 3 prepaid quarterly 70 minute session are $240 or $80 a session.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYMp3y8r3LpsRTeXj-kkoQ5RkCVIk1qxsT_OhWo6bMRtp63QZ4aYxQUNN7JPnlD3wvfyhTD161ibv39OFgYQLqg06hsSrD6pf2tBXBYnpkuGe4MFa8w8eCfRvKb71FJVN9mHzbnD7IEYsvoeXj07lfMmtVerXxrWtSca4Veh9MXbRx2p2RfEs_yeSitA/s594/cad92427a78d7db3387c544ddff11bd7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="594" data-original-width="550" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYMp3y8r3LpsRTeXj-kkoQ5RkCVIk1qxsT_OhWo6bMRtp63QZ4aYxQUNN7JPnlD3wvfyhTD161ibv39OFgYQLqg06hsSrD6pf2tBXBYnpkuGe4MFa8w8eCfRvKb71FJVN9mHzbnD7IEYsvoeXj07lfMmtVerXxrWtSca4Veh9MXbRx2p2RfEs_yeSitA/s320/cad92427a78d7db3387c544ddff11bd7.jpg" width="296" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p>Jim V/Snake Oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00746873887985304530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024612299906599073.post-63976018784199763542023-01-15T12:48:00.004-08:002023-01-15T13:15:18.286-08:00<p> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">January February 2023 Snake Oil </span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Only the Beginning</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcbWrzs0ouyqAGvpmxHdCR3Xc2ZkA0E5MlSJN3UKHW-15c3Ba6VHAmH6ZmnG7CU-9sflQnK7Mm9DKoaNVH6AMRGY6LsWsoLLgRcuKsW6jmN6daBNpkPsXN7NZUunnsp_zKLJnvAamv9sTz6yfPNO_drms9T-CXniqVRO15ft-OUMY_fymMcJ0UhFK5IQ/s800/natural-arch-63186.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="674" data-original-width="800" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcbWrzs0ouyqAGvpmxHdCR3Xc2ZkA0E5MlSJN3UKHW-15c3Ba6VHAmH6ZmnG7CU-9sflQnK7Mm9DKoaNVH6AMRGY6LsWsoLLgRcuKsW6jmN6daBNpkPsXN7NZUunnsp_zKLJnvAamv9sTz6yfPNO_drms9T-CXniqVRO15ft-OUMY_fymMcJ0UhFK5IQ/s320/natural-arch-63186.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /><br /></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />While there are aspects of life that are not easy or even possible to change (there might be blocks in some cases by our Higher Self if it takes us off our before birth planned Dharma themes*), we have far more leeway to shift or even radically alter so many aspects of our individual experience. This is not simply an idealistic or airy-fairy philosophical statement that often gets tossed around in new age circles. The actual cells of our bodies actually die and reform all the time. Seven year cycles in particular are notably significant in that we recreate our physical bodies, and reshape the focus of what we prioritize as important, both how we see ourselves and are seen by others. There are astrological and numerology cycles as well that nudge us to change directions at different times. Being aware of these cycles can be of great benefit. Yet, in the most simplistic, yet still quite accurate way, we do at many points in our lives become different people and even tangibly live in a new world when we change our beliefs. Most of us do this without realizing we made the changes and lose sight of how this process actually works. It often begins with the spark of a new idea and then a decision to move in that direction. <br /><br />Sometimes the changes we go through are considerable and clearly easy to notice and at other times they can be seamless transitions. We move from childhood into adolescence and then to adulthood and eventually old age. Those changes alone are profound. We don’t need to know how to do this because our spiritual and biological processes handle these details for us. We may move from being single to married and sometimes back to single again. We move from good health to illness and back and forth at different times. We shift who we are and our priorities when we have children. We take on a new identity when we start a new job or career. Social circles often change who we are and the things we do that are reflected in our new group of friends. Moving to another state or even country is often a major shift in our persona. Changes from weight loss or gain can shift how we feel about ourselves and how others see us. Beliefs about how we feel about ourselves and whether we are seen as appealing and attractive often change both internally and externally. We may go from being sexually inexperienced to experienced. There may be periods of celibacy or a swing to being very active whether we are in a committed relationship or single and exploring. All of these and many other examples are substantial changes in who we may be at different stages of life.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibMJyz_wxPKlOrFHuuIaVPcuLyr2jC6BIhICKnRjvJbxc8MojpQZPTUMYCU-YojuAtjgo3oDEnVQB1usb5XGH_S2VlBWkvIuMKgk2GqsP4bQ-YbcgDtJRF6j_RHN9anheNk_eHcNaB8gR9B9s7cbuz0PKrWigQQWvpxxbjgZd30-E2peKsLMKA0y2gHQ/s800/another-reality-young-woman-pulling-page-to-change-scene-47530811.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="800" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibMJyz_wxPKlOrFHuuIaVPcuLyr2jC6BIhICKnRjvJbxc8MojpQZPTUMYCU-YojuAtjgo3oDEnVQB1usb5XGH_S2VlBWkvIuMKgk2GqsP4bQ-YbcgDtJRF6j_RHN9anheNk_eHcNaB8gR9B9s7cbuz0PKrWigQQWvpxxbjgZd30-E2peKsLMKA0y2gHQ/s320/another-reality-young-woman-pulling-page-to-change-scene-47530811.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />I was painfully shy when I was younger, especially in my early school years. This changed measurably when I was in my last year or two of high school. I became even more confident and even popular a few years later when I was in college. My shy persona transformed completely when I moved into my late twenties and especially in my early thirties. Restaurant work as a a waiter and bartender helped to fine tune my communication skills. This inevitably launched into doing radio and television as well as public speaking. Most forms of communication and expression (Libra Moon, Gemini second house, and number 3 hearts desire in my numerology charts) are easy for me now. The actual experiences themselves were unquestionably a big part of making those changes to who I was. Through trial and error and both experience and added knowledge I reshaped who I was and how others perceived me. Yet this, and so many other aspects of my life actually started with a decision.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu47Vhn0GI-pS6WCWXig0IGMpOabbq5UcxZABC6QC2P2zXLl8HKAT4U-6KB3y2ln5GbU-khYFz8rreeBp12naPXGRcBRNKRdII-B8O4b1WblTNTUoJF9rqfzjJmvb8oIjEwUomaxmXumvAFCCDeLzWP4_iVt318xyU4oPZyTxHL54q30srf2rMh_1EIg/s1600/IMG_0949.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu47Vhn0GI-pS6WCWXig0IGMpOabbq5UcxZABC6QC2P2zXLl8HKAT4U-6KB3y2ln5GbU-khYFz8rreeBp12naPXGRcBRNKRdII-B8O4b1WblTNTUoJF9rqfzjJmvb8oIjEwUomaxmXumvAFCCDeLzWP4_iVt318xyU4oPZyTxHL54q30srf2rMh_1EIg/w213-h320/IMG_0949.jpg" width="213" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">age 22 (probably stoned lol) <br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /> </span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />The more pronounced transformational aspects took place in my life when I passionately decided to become something or someone else, the added fire of really, really wanting it was notable fuel. As strange as it might sound we all have done this at different points. Often when we become aware of the new aspect or “self” we may even forget the old self. For me, I have always been aware of this process. Many people simply see it as luck or fate if the changes are good. Some may see it as something that happened to them without their control or influence at all. A major change I did very decisively in my early twenties was when I decided to become better looking. I both egocentrically and practically thought it would be more useful to be more physically attractive. I took sensible steps like working out, putting more energy into grooming, healthier eating, and gaining confidence. But the deeper truth is I knew I could reform the way I looked and ALLOWED myself to be more attractive. I had to look at why I didn’t feel worthy or able to do this before and then to willingly let go of many limited beliefs about myself. Pictures from my early twenties to the significant changes that surfaced in my early thirties leave no question that I pulled this off. I have done similar things at different points in my life. I decided to become a waiter, a teacher, a good singer, a talented writer, do television, get hotter sexual partners, heal illness, and to even age slower than your supposed to. In some respects it was easier for me because I have know that my beliefs formed my reality for just over two thirds of my life. I began to study metaphysics at age seventeen so I embraced this truth. Even at the times in my life when I seemed to be stuck in a limited place and even rallying against it in victimization, a part of me always knew I was creating this too. This was not always an easy thing to face. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <br /> </span><br /></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipw0wG_Tm42CWNJ9slpmDFbz2lLRKL2cbYLXBDxNPVlA1sRSYVV8h_SdppcO5ViYeE8SOPN-mOM0MOfACMLPWL3tuS5GwCnL_81AB8bt5mVQu0fYuYT5My4Zt_-Wli0CkRUHbuHArI6cjmQ1gQohCs7NReK62MWziKZzH3wTQbKifVqd6f7_7hEKtclA/s2048/IMG_0368.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="347" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipw0wG_Tm42CWNJ9slpmDFbz2lLRKL2cbYLXBDxNPVlA1sRSYVV8h_SdppcO5ViYeE8SOPN-mOM0MOfACMLPWL3tuS5GwCnL_81AB8bt5mVQu0fYuYT5My4Zt_-Wli0CkRUHbuHArI6cjmQ1gQohCs7NReK62MWziKZzH3wTQbKifVqd6f7_7hEKtclA/w232-h347/IMG_0368.jpg" width="232" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">age 33 not stoned :)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkUhCTdmTHl3nkK9XSwhbRtYxXMGw5gqtQjISOoPoKNF40_PNtdVDjkuz1Lzp_eP0xdNNhrIyoglUtoptYWc5Z5z1_npl9A-YrT-TQ6BdpcyCzwLpvxP6CMz4XgbK9AyTPvl3aKg5gQxkZiOT3qUO16c5tzSh1hfazujowPRzLb2k5_ro8xhAQSzlG-w/s1024/IMG_0950.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkUhCTdmTHl3nkK9XSwhbRtYxXMGw5gqtQjISOoPoKNF40_PNtdVDjkuz1Lzp_eP0xdNNhrIyoglUtoptYWc5Z5z1_npl9A-YrT-TQ6BdpcyCzwLpvxP6CMz4XgbK9AyTPvl3aKg5gQxkZiOT3qUO16c5tzSh1hfazujowPRzLb2k5_ro8xhAQSzlG-w/w240-h276/IMG_0950.jpg" width="240" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">When I was a child I loved to play games. Outside of my shy school life persona I had a lot of friends in the neighborhood where I grew up. Part of my popularity was my ability to be the “fun one” who came up with creative games to play with my friends. Sometimes when I saw a group of trees growing together that formed an arch I would see potential. Other neighbors had metal or stone gateways that formed an archway in the driveway or entrance to their homes, and this was equally cool. I would tell my friends that if we walked through the arch we would be in a completely different world, or even be different people. There were multiple variations of the game and when we stepped through we would pretend for hours that we were in these new worlds. I did this privately at my own childhood home too. Walking through the gate that separated my back yard to the walkway to the front yard was a portal when I wanted it to be. I would step through and focus on changing and shifting who I was in small ways or in very big ways. I somehow knew it might take weeks, months or even years for it to show up in the outer world, but I trusted it would inevitably show up! This was done in the spirit of play and it was fun, but I knew there was something deeper to it.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpsreSwH-pZ68MFnYJS5OX2Chd5iagecb2VoxN0NBnOtow1rIZGAgxD3Y4s6dpYTQZ68UdGmCv2Igk3xmMZCuAhtUk6Ad8ZIusb_6vcjlkZgSJu22VaZq35vz443Akdm-tha-ivIfJPna3BKgbzUG_WWUKWBnymD_3t0rbvpo6GGfrkCnRABtuO6IMaQ/s611/the-impact-of-limiting-beliefs.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="572" data-original-width="611" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpsreSwH-pZ68MFnYJS5OX2Chd5iagecb2VoxN0NBnOtow1rIZGAgxD3Y4s6dpYTQZ68UdGmCv2Igk3xmMZCuAhtUk6Ad8ZIusb_6vcjlkZgSJu22VaZq35vz443Akdm-tha-ivIfJPna3BKgbzUG_WWUKWBnymD_3t0rbvpo6GGfrkCnRABtuO6IMaQ/s320/the-impact-of-limiting-beliefs.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><br />I frequently encounter clients and people out in the world that hold tenaciously to a limited reality or belief about themselves and their world. “All men are pigs.” “I was born poor and that is just the way it is.” “I am not very talented.” “I am not lovable.” “ I am not attractive.” “I can’t lose weight.” “Life is really hard.” “I am never going to have any money.” The list of quite negative beliefs many of us carry is long and full of quite creative variations. In most cases we cling to these stuck beliefs out of fear of change or a lack of self worth. We may accept these limitations and never even consider the possibility of changing what we believe. Sometimes and for any number of reasons, it is safer in our minds to “hug our cactus.” Change can be scary and it is part of where the expression “the devil you know” comes from. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The truth is in the life of spirit we are always at the beginning. We can change so many aspects of our reality if we are willing to look at our limited beliefs and to recognize that is what they are; habitual convictions. And, if you created a belief and a reality you can also dis-create it and make something new. Believing that you don’t create your experience and things just happen to us is largely nonsense and also just a limiting belief as well. What will you decide to do in your new year ahead?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />*Dharma- direction karma are themes our Higher Self, before birth life plans or general themes chosen for exploration in a lifetime. Still within those plans or agreements are tremendous leeway for choice.<br />Jim Ventura 12-2022</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKTfWLjARdhoOzcaCS6rY1-YgZAkDIILVzj31T_6R98RfTmxMzZfpQnoCdi6v8k44xLftlVL5iFjozNH_oNq1newvH7veVAZQyRVzvvPh7G-xLItWI8gykMCC6_QVgk-ufx83Ofk2DGmAJqzd0u0aNVLAucDiQkJKcuXTVZCmrCp1VKxNk5qU1rtRr4g/s256/images.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="256" data-original-width="197" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKTfWLjARdhoOzcaCS6rY1-YgZAkDIILVzj31T_6R98RfTmxMzZfpQnoCdi6v8k44xLftlVL5iFjozNH_oNq1newvH7veVAZQyRVzvvPh7G-xLItWI8gykMCC6_QVgk-ufx83Ofk2DGmAJqzd0u0aNVLAucDiQkJKcuXTVZCmrCp1VKxNk5qU1rtRr4g/s1600/images.jpg" width="197" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u><b>Notes</b></u></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggOza1duNqK7JQao19bgKnO1vh8AUZfp9r8IKfx6TV2KYLroj8qrbicDV2NotY3ztYfFQf5uYWbRJ0y6srcMbdLMxledXRNuATbhUJg4v_88rAENvyzoZacNVwsPLvDwTSS2dYgyH_5YEEdbhsadUQrrVm9oA_sGIrkxnve0FugpT1baQ9z8XWt4GwPw/s374/image005.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="374" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggOza1duNqK7JQao19bgKnO1vh8AUZfp9r8IKfx6TV2KYLroj8qrbicDV2NotY3ztYfFQf5uYWbRJ0y6srcMbdLMxledXRNuATbhUJg4v_88rAENvyzoZacNVwsPLvDwTSS2dYgyH_5YEEdbhsadUQrrVm9oA_sGIrkxnve0FugpT1baQ9z8XWt4GwPw/w320-h199/image005.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />2023 has arrived and with it a new universal numerology vibration. While our personal numerology from our date of birth (easy to calculate) is typically more significant personally, the universal year can be useful to understand because it influences everyone. Last year was the universal year of “six” in 2022. 2023 brings us the vibration of the “seven.” This will be a year of refinement. Themes that are centered around looking deeper into issues, analysis, and the strengthening of knowledge and the intellect. There may be more an increase in spiritual awareness as well as scientific advances. They will either walk hand in hand or have points of contention. Study and mediation may be highlighted. “Seven” years are a good vibration for going back to school in the actual sense, virtually, or through self study. The need for reevaluation of current progress, purposeful pauses, and a willingness to reset goals if need be are likely themes. Many will refocus or begin to prioritize health and wellness. The Chinese new year, the year of the rabbit is also ahead. I’ll be posting some videos about this on my social media sites this month.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpdOcAByjrGG6KIpDjXHPGzFzyMlt0jm9fzdj52pgfppzR-Dn5wd8EmOt-5iDWIfSs1OJk5HPIKdiEuMeQI_i5GuyOXmTlEJmDPFfGLUOOaVDZMNHnQZwyOEASDdE9m646sjVaXCP0CswYUQO9zMHHEu5RBKbB-NGkTD6vXDcnJK55i8aEILQUtEKL8w/s225/images-1.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpdOcAByjrGG6KIpDjXHPGzFzyMlt0jm9fzdj52pgfppzR-Dn5wd8EmOt-5iDWIfSs1OJk5HPIKdiEuMeQI_i5GuyOXmTlEJmDPFfGLUOOaVDZMNHnQZwyOEASDdE9m646sjVaXCP0CswYUQO9zMHHEu5RBKbB-NGkTD6vXDcnJK55i8aEILQUtEKL8w/s1600/images-1.png" width="225" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />My personal year is a “one” and the beginning of a new “nine” year cycle. Typical of a “nine” year for me in 2022, I completed some long term goals and also let go of a number of people and aspects of myself I no longer desire bringing into the new cycle. This is partially what prompted me to write this months column. I’m making some changes to my work schedule as well as my focus with business priorities in other ways. Because I am planning a bit more time for writing books and publishing I will only be offering 4 day work week options for scheduling personal sessions and classes. This will still allow up to fifteen appointments each week but that is now also the cap. I will be doing less offerings of discount sessions and promotions this year as opposed to a rate increase. Clients who are still consistently in my Regular Client program (ask me for info about joining this program) will keep their discounted rates with no rate increase. I will not be raising my rates for non-regular clients either because I want to make myself available and not to price out many people struggling with inflation issues. But for Regular Clients who are often getting lax at keeping their schedules I will no longer offer the discounted Regular Client rates. Previous Regular Clients can absolutely still book sessions according to their needs (with a $10 discount off rates for once being a Regular Client). A few of my long term regulars who have been in the program for over a decade are grandfathered in. This letting go of the structure and consistency required for my Regular Client Program may actually be more appealing for those who have trouble sticking to a planned schedule. This could actually be a blessing and allow some of my previous regulars to follow their own unique scheduling rhythms. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />One of the things I began to study and work on in my last personal “seven” year was social media marketing, after a few years of study I have gained quite a bit of knowledge and skill. For people who frequently say “I don’t want to get into all that Instagram, Face-book, and Tik Tok stuff,” having your own business in a modern era for the most part demands learning how to navigate in that world. I am happy to say that I am “killing it” and my Tik Tok videos (on animal totems mostly) are getting between 60-1900 views for each video as of this writing. My Instagram Reels (Reels are a requirement for success now on that platform) get between 100-3000 views! I will likely offer classes on how to market on these sites as well as other ways to boost or become more successful in your own personal business for those who might be interested. This will be an added class option in addition to the 16 classes I already offer both in-office and by phone or Face-time. More info later in this newsletter or you can email for info about class offerings, prices, and booking options anytime. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />An update on my new book “My Cast of Character.” The book is three quarters finished and I am in the process of finding the right literary agent and publisher. I actually have quite a few notes already for a volume two. If by some slim chance I don’t find that right fit in a publisher I will self publish in late 2023 or 2024, so one way or another it’s on its way. A few fun titles of the new book: “Getting Squeezed by some Swingers.” “The guy with the wet towel handshake” “Don’t you dare ask for pancakes” and “Lets all sit in a circle and share our feelings.” I’m really enjoying writing this book!<br />Wishing everyone a great start to the New year ahead!<br />Cheers, Jim V</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>New Client Special 2023 January 1st thru May 1st, 2023 Special:</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVmwZkWXYk5AZCjK_X5cq4aB6kEZ98J7deMEa0Xp2tvJA3wDaqIV8-Itw0KVYjoE9YzY0hxwqTYGwpbiuAjhJoKoZ_AMCtJcXPJcSJerUE5lW4eF445Ly4PAUcp0FMPCSqKRRKxuojnhgoykrtlUT5wCCrsblTwp1wdP9lbOCmhPTQaACgwWBgyRW6uQ/s1280/2-Ways-Baskets-Improve-Your-Gift-Giving-Skills.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1280" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVmwZkWXYk5AZCjK_X5cq4aB6kEZ98J7deMEa0Xp2tvJA3wDaqIV8-Itw0KVYjoE9YzY0hxwqTYGwpbiuAjhJoKoZ_AMCtJcXPJcSJerUE5lW4eF445Ly4PAUcp0FMPCSqKRRKxuojnhgoykrtlUT5wCCrsblTwp1wdP9lbOCmhPTQaACgwWBgyRW6uQ/s320/2-Ways-Baskets-Improve-Your-Gift-Giving-Skills.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />$10-15 off listed rates for your first 45 minute session, 70, or 90 minute session! Debit and credit card payments get $10 off for 45, 70, and 90 minute sessions. Local in-office clients can get an extra $5 off for cash or check payments for sessions. If you want to buy a new client a thoughtful gift of a session for a friend or family member you can also take advantage of these rates! <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br />Channeled Corner. I have read many, many books from some of the best trance channeler's in the 70s-2000s. Unfortunately many of them are now out of print, but I still have a huge collection and will share some of the best material I have collected over the years:</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Learn to enjoy Change</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGupHbJjpnwzFoiH2wkmT6QcWMud6YHq4cs1lJdC5oiYaLo1ZClpZ0I9qshriBqEl-PkuYNrmDnqPlOTh7wQtEH0BmJbgwFuM5usdXKhnu9ohigs6tcQY4251DaY3ATz2iF3AYZpKbg8D9L_VY7HRMVD73TgxIXti3Jd0_9fQy2XBV9XFXjBGnrnAx5w/s526/273203010_1773328799725138_8479377832332320201_n.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="526" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGupHbJjpnwzFoiH2wkmT6QcWMud6YHq4cs1lJdC5oiYaLo1ZClpZ0I9qshriBqEl-PkuYNrmDnqPlOTh7wQtEH0BmJbgwFuM5usdXKhnu9ohigs6tcQY4251DaY3ATz2iF3AYZpKbg8D9L_VY7HRMVD73TgxIXti3Jd0_9fQy2XBV9XFXjBGnrnAx5w/s320/273203010_1773328799725138_8479377832332320201_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />“In your society, you are born in an atmosphere of fear surrounding the experience of birth. Many, if not all of you, unconsciously use fear as a motivator in your life. You wait until situations become fearful-indeed, even make them fearful-in order to motivate yourselves to change. Now, it is a kind of addiction, and I would recommend that you become conscious of it. Then, as you experience the drama and struggle you create for yourselves, be conscious that you are choosing your reality and that you can choose to change and move without creating suffering and consequent fear to get you to do it. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />We urge you then to be innocent about your desires for change and to remember that change on the planet, which is in constant motion, creating night and day, creating the seasons, is natural, so you need not wait until you have a great deal of fear motivating you to make change. You can consciously and innocently seek change, knowing that it does not need to create separation, hurt, and pain for others or for yourself when you do it consciously and innocently. Then you can let go of using fear as the motivator and instead use joy and aliveness as the motivator. Once you use fear to motivate you to action, feeling the fear in your body actually creates your feeling more alive, vitalized, and motivated to act. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />So, because these are so wired from your early experiences when your parents told you, ‘you must do this or else,’ and you experienced fear and anger and then acted upon it, you think you have to have those emotions to get into motion. No! It is just your thought, based upon your past experience, that creates those connections. And you can easily begin to choose to act for joy and know it is innocent for you to be joyful without having to be angry or fearful.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />Both men and women have come to believe that the physical has cycles of pleasure and pain. Often you use pain to get pleasure and then begin to fear pleasure because you think you will then have pain. How to get over that? Stop creating pain to get pleasure, and you will release the belief that once you have pleasure you must have pain. You will learn to surrender into greater and greater experiences of pleasure and life and joy on a regular basis. You cannot shift into a millennium of peace while holding the thought of the pleasure/pain cycle...”<br />Seth</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>REALITY CHANGE SESSIONS</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTevYSbn_Wxja3VEILHJGiQGpV53GhduSsqV3ydZDM35r_hMr-1HIXgAUwGb7zPGbBA_oYtXAYq8YgevJQbPC1RwoPruaaw4b3R4mxfwxYfUIy6clcQipuHj2vLd2shkm2yPcNQC211PGOgmwAIt5tFDvc6PZx2pekL6uguVuAxLXD18lvB2m0aIzp9w/s495/the-empress-tarot-card-1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="495" data-original-width="288" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTevYSbn_Wxja3VEILHJGiQGpV53GhduSsqV3ydZDM35r_hMr-1HIXgAUwGb7zPGbBA_oYtXAYq8YgevJQbPC1RwoPruaaw4b3R4mxfwxYfUIy6clcQipuHj2vLd2shkm2yPcNQC211PGOgmwAIt5tFDvc6PZx2pekL6uguVuAxLXD18lvB2m0aIzp9w/s320/the-empress-tarot-card-1.jpg" width="186" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />Understand how our personal realities are formed, and develop the skill to change yours! Almost every area of your life can be changed for the better. This session will show you how to uncover the limiting beliefs that have blocked your progress. Instructions will be given in new methods and tools to create the present and future you truly want.<br />You can literally recreate yourself<br />Change your beliefs - Change your reality</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Email for more info and to book your session Venturasag@yahoo.com <br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><br /> </span></span></p><p><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.” Diana Spencer</span></span></i></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Intuitive and Oracle reading classes 2023</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdt-h1R0z0iUHvjRTNgnJSxl0DExxAzYCL4PIHSBxbe6USZQzc0bQN1Y3qEfsAJNxVj3FIrnVPlDSRrVyQ7FlkGZWbh8noItirRCK4WO0fDidOu53b4nMgfbOoMG3KpZFZA_YUsI3_bNQd36Lb6q_2Gid1T7V86tDaHfApX8F9q5iVww9zhaOfTORh5w/s298/images-3.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="169" data-original-width="298" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdt-h1R0z0iUHvjRTNgnJSxl0DExxAzYCL4PIHSBxbe6USZQzc0bQN1Y3qEfsAJNxVj3FIrnVPlDSRrVyQ7FlkGZWbh8noItirRCK4WO0fDidOu53b4nMgfbOoMG3KpZFZA_YUsI3_bNQd36Lb6q_2Gid1T7V86tDaHfApX8F9q5iVww9zhaOfTORh5w/s1600/images-3.jpg" width="298" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />While I no longer host group classes in my home, some of my most popular classes are still available! Now classes can be in-office, by phone, or through Face-Time.<br />You can take one introductory class or continue with a monthly class for up to six months for any of the classes offered. Each instructional class is 90 minutes. You may schedule a one on one class in office or by phone for yourself, or have a friend or family member join you and split the costs.<br /><br />Single one person class: $55.00 or 3 classes prepaid $150.<br />2 people option: $70 for each class ($35.00 each) 3 classes prepaid $180 ($90.00 each).<br /><br />Email me for more information and my availability calendar to book your personal intuitive and oracle development classes. my email is Venturasag@yahoo.com<br /><br />Current options:<br /><br />1. TAROT CARD READING<br />Whether you have some experience with Tarot or have never explored this oracle before, Tarot classes will assist you in understanding the wisdom, insight and potential guidance contained in Tarot cards. The classes will focus on teaching you how to read the Tarot for yourself and eventually for others. The Tarot can be used for prediction, to accelerate spiritual growth, and increase your awareness or “navigational life skills.” If you don’t have a deck, assistance will also be provided on choosing the right deck for you. Whether you plan on using oracles for self guidance, or wish to expand into doing readings professionally, the classes will assist you on your road to mastering the Tarot.<br /><br />2. ASTROLOGY-101 <br />Astrology classes will teach you all of the basics to read any Astrology chart. You will learn to interpret your own chart, as well as those of others. You will gain insight into house placements, signs, symbols, angles, retrograde planets, cusps, transits, etc... We will explore how powerful the influence of astrology is in our lives. Working with your unique astrology chart (western astrology, Placidus house system) will help you with understanding yourself, your unique skills, challenges, and how to use this knowledge to navigate through your life with more empowerment. <br /><br />3. MICHAEL MATERIAL<br />* What is your soul age? The soul age of friends, family, and people all around you?<br />* How do past lifetimes influence us in the present?<br />* What does karma feel like, and how does it work?<br />* How does your chief negative feature impact your life, and can it be changed?<br />* What happens when your partner is an idealist and you are a realist?<br />* What is your life goal? Is it dominance, acceptance, flow, discrimination, growth, revaluation, or submission?<br />*What is your essence, your soul mate’s essence ? Artisan, priest, king, server, sage, warrior or scholar.?<br />* What is a soul mate, task companion, heart link?<br />* What is your centering and what do the higher centers feel like?<br />After this workshop you will understand all of these questions and many more, and more importantly have the answers.<br /><br /><br />What is the Michael teaching?<br />The main goal of the Michael teaching is agape or unconditional love. The teaching views life as a learning game in which fragments of the Tao - that essential part of each human being - set up lessons which continue over lifetimes. These lessons are learned via the personality which Essence chooses each lifetime. Michael teaches us what the components of the personality are so that we can learn to use and see these components in ourselves and in others. In that way we can learn to understand why human beings behave as they do. Michael is composed of 1,050 individual Essences who have lived on the physical plane and now teach from another plane. One of the most basic and important principles of the teaching is that it is not a religion or a belief system. Michael encourages their students to self validate all of the information they receive. The system was originally in print in many, many volumes of information. “My studies of this material have been extensive and now I offer what I have learned to my students” Jim Ventura (Old Scholar). The classes will help you to use and understand the material without the need to read all the out of print books. This series is highly recommended! <br /><br />4. PAST LIFE JOURNEYS<br />All aspects of past life exploration, from hypnosis, dreaming techniques, past life regressions will be discussed. By understanding the influence of karma and the past lives we have already lived, we will show how our past experiences affect us in our present life. The class focuses on setting up a past life journal, and explores the progression of our soul’s journeys. Astrology, Numerology, and many other tools will be utilized to aid you in becoming aware of your past lifetimes. The classes will increase understanding relationship patterns, release fear and phobia’s, letting go of allergies, and other blockades are some of the many possibilities connected with this type of study. “Desire to live again, because that will be your lot in any case.” Nietzsche<br /><br />5. Intuitive development<br />I have been studying many different aspects of metaphysics for 35 years now. I’m well versed on many different subjects in the field. You can tap into this data base of knowledge! I am like a living breathing huge set of encyclopedia’s! You can use a class or a series of classes to discuss developing your intuitive abilities in a number of different areas. Some examples: Lucid dreaming, out of body experiences, crystals, how often should you do readings, developing empathic abilities and boundary setting with others, talking to angels and spirit guides, meditation, the meaning of repeating number messages say to us, adjusting vibrations as you grow, channeling, chakra clearing, etc...When we commit to listening more to our inner self it is natural to change many different aspects of the way we live life in the process. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />A more detailed look at the available classes below can be requested by email or on my website at JimVentura.com<br />6. CREATING PROSPERITY<br /><br />7. Viking Rune Stones<br />8. Healing with color<br />9. Understanding Shamanism<br />10. Reinventing yourself<br />11. How to use Animal totems for empowerment. <br />12. Channeling and automatic writing.<br />13. Numerology<br />14. Remote viewing, astral projection, and working with your dream state.<br />15. Angels and Spirit Guides. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><i>“Did you know that you have so many fans in the unseen who love you so much, that you never dream alone, cry in vain, or sleep without guardians protecting you? No matter how things may appear.” Mike Dooley</i><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Snake Oil Radio</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b></b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8bAQ61vjV3DiRFS-diFnvtvaJDO4zLmB1dzm3wW0yReOLPb4W7BN3wiBVFlOJ-J2KfqEc0pcPqNshJwlxkHzWOXY-7Oq0VLCWin4BNrVR_AReZ1A5iX1EQNxKlm0mIomwVrrv7I5NR9BdKuVwPVFCNRJxRR2dP_Lw78VtabSTyuMe2rT1NLqRIbKLzg/s300/snake-oil-salesman.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8bAQ61vjV3DiRFS-diFnvtvaJDO4zLmB1dzm3wW0yReOLPb4W7BN3wiBVFlOJ-J2KfqEc0pcPqNshJwlxkHzWOXY-7Oq0VLCWin4BNrVR_AReZ1A5iX1EQNxKlm0mIomwVrrv7I5NR9BdKuVwPVFCNRJxRR2dP_Lw78VtabSTyuMe2rT1NLqRIbKLzg/w280-h253/snake-oil-salesman.jpg" width="280" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /> </b></span><br />Thursdays at 3:30 pm (there will be two live broadcast this period)<br />My next live broadcast of Snake Oil Radio will be Thursday, January 26th at 3:30 p.m. mountain (Phoenix) time. Usually one Thursday each month you can catch a new show. Each 45 minute show will expand on my current column’s subject matter. It will also offer an opportunity for you to chat with other listeners in the chat room with comments and your thoughts about the topic of discussion. If you miss the live show, you can catch any of my previously recorded shows on the web site’s archive. You can also catch Snake Oil Radio on I-tunes (download my pod-casts there).<br />To hear a live show, all you need to do is be at a computer and tuned into: <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura">http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura</a> or on your phone. You may also access it by going to the site and type “Snake Oil” into the search option. You can also go to the shows that are currently “On air” at that time and find me. The call in number is 646-200-3966 for questions and comments if the show is offering that (please check, many of my column shows don’t).</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />Here’s my contact information to make an appointment for a session, or information on current classes: Email: <a href="mailto:Venturasag@yahoo.com">Venturasag@yahoo.com</a> (best method for contact).<br />Phone calls: (602) 957-3035 text only: (602) 349-0746 <br /><br />Information about the different sessions and types of readings and services, past Snake Oil columns, and how to order my books and audio CD’s can be found at my website: <a href="Http://JimVentura.com">Http://JimVentura.com</a> <br /><br />“Friend” me on Facebook to get other extra offers and in between column extras! Signing up for my fan page will get you even more extras and first shot at reading specials. Simply click on “like” on the fan page and you will automatically get my weekly updates. <br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl</a><br /><br />I have a few other media channels other than my monthly radio shows and Face-Book:<br /><br />Subscribe to my YouTube Channel (approximately once a month 6-11 minute videos) at J Ventura Snake Oil. <br />Instagram at Venturawords (all kinds of metaphysical but mostly astrology updates) <br /> Tik Tok (animalspeaks) where I do short 3 minute videos about animal totems!<br /><br />All personal sessions/readings for 2022-2023 are: Full (70 minutes) $115.00; Shorter session (45 minutes) $90.00; Extended session (90 minutes) $140.00 (two people can split an extended session back to back $70.00 each, although no other discounts will apply). Mini phone session 20 minutes $40. Email me for information about my Regular Client Program for even bigger discounts on session prices with the added benefit of monthly or quarterly check-ins. Purchasing 3 pre-paid sessions also brings sizable discounts. Some examples; 3 prepaid 45 minute monthly sessions is $150 total or $50 a session. 3 pre-paid quarterly 70 minute session are $240 or $80 a session.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7PX92wYlJzmPiodW12ThwiT7KZkKcRixzbZeOWeXGRnf_bg7NYAAW3m0YLaQnILg6LPIRy8Wh5J3iZc6sRzDVHwYOZuPxYrW-km6UwmwAVFXtZOVf8o6oQAMLB6-XJ2tmXi1XtW2XUyZadc-Hcn-JLHzeX0-gG8TWmKM78hq7UUiGRr_40UbdDEG_-A/s703/323412584_5868765906535083_5751102918176376231_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="703" data-original-width="526" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7PX92wYlJzmPiodW12ThwiT7KZkKcRixzbZeOWeXGRnf_bg7NYAAW3m0YLaQnILg6LPIRy8Wh5J3iZc6sRzDVHwYOZuPxYrW-km6UwmwAVFXtZOVf8o6oQAMLB6-XJ2tmXi1XtW2XUyZadc-Hcn-JLHzeX0-gG8TWmKM78hq7UUiGRr_40UbdDEG_-A/s320/323412584_5868765906535083_5751102918176376231_n.jpg" width="239" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><p></p>Jim V/Snake Oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00746873887985304530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024612299906599073.post-24328907551728525972022-10-23T15:13:00.007-07:002022-10-26T16:18:09.083-07:00November December 2022 Snake Oil/Tinfoil Over the Baby Jesus and a Bonus Story From My New Book!<p> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Snake Oil Tinfoil Covering The Baby Jesus</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ-xBHdpIj6L9PWCKaxJ--QfWNHbblPkHXs855TsHIFZgiBh14N14TZ-a1JbMS1smfkj5GNrWwdBQ1OuAZUOX9xFdAY-U7gGSEGTDmaZ9s_kqtiJpIorWKXxmvqml7VPOmKAHZequQ4c_W7ZWY3tBukQtdnj0vhmkoJ-Pa01uHFh0inifi5lnJdCky_Q/s970/crib-christmas-christmas-eve-wallpaper-preview.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="807" data-original-width="970" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ-xBHdpIj6L9PWCKaxJ--QfWNHbblPkHXs855TsHIFZgiBh14N14TZ-a1JbMS1smfkj5GNrWwdBQ1OuAZUOX9xFdAY-U7gGSEGTDmaZ9s_kqtiJpIorWKXxmvqml7VPOmKAHZequQ4c_W7ZWY3tBukQtdnj0vhmkoJ-Pa01uHFh0inifi5lnJdCky_Q/s320/crib-christmas-christmas-eve-wallpaper-preview.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><br />I grew up in a large Catholic family where Christmas rituals were an important part of our holiday experience. Amidst the craziness of Santa Claus, Christmas shopping and stuffing our faces full of sugar through most of December, our family still celebrated “the true meaning of Christmas.” It was the time when Christ the savior was born. Like almost every child raised in a Christian home, we were taught the importance of remembering “the truth” about Christmas. Even from what we believed to be our enlightened perspective, we were still all about the indulgence that Christmas seemed to usher in, and as a child I loved every minute of it.<br /><br />During the holidays, atop the television set was placed a small figurine of the baby Jesus. The figurine was part of a nativity scene. In our family we placed a piece of tinfoil over the small statue. My mother explained this practice to us: “until Christmas Day comes, Jesus had not yet been born.” She would inevitably ask us each Christmas morning if we had pulled the tinfoil off of Jesus before we began opening our presents. We never remembered. The excitement and lure of greedily tearing open presents far outweighed any interest in mom's custom. Still, we dutifully faked reverence in front of Mom, pulling off the tinfoil only to instantly place all of our attention back to the presents.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieV-NK4Zo-jIA4d7_BOTmsyFQtTIzInn4vqMWCTWOjhSEsBHxykI_aa36wH1BbtC_swCQ4Lyg5bZJR9iZIXVmiga0I31bCud7v2Okm-8ymqpS02n0pQRsvOjjxtZD0leBhVNsltmZybtLfn7_d8OHyt_ELpIFRxxdHHZPBM73mYb199I9Ymjthq7jyRw/s344/240_F_18897240_EErjVKSGBvIqcZg4ioQWHwKxrHeTsAFw.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="344" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieV-NK4Zo-jIA4d7_BOTmsyFQtTIzInn4vqMWCTWOjhSEsBHxykI_aa36wH1BbtC_swCQ4Lyg5bZJR9iZIXVmiga0I31bCud7v2Okm-8ymqpS02n0pQRsvOjjxtZD0leBhVNsltmZybtLfn7_d8OHyt_ELpIFRxxdHHZPBM73mYb199I9Ymjthq7jyRw/s320/240_F_18897240_EErjVKSGBvIqcZg4ioQWHwKxrHeTsAFw.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Young children, understandably, aren't into philosophy, morality and religious rituals. As a child, most of the things I was taught about Christian teachings weren't really interesting and were often scary. Pictures of Christ nailed to a cross with bleeding hands and feet were horrifying. The picture common in Christian homes of Christ praying with a huge beating, burning heart in his chest terrified me. To please my mother, I pretended to be interested in the Bible. Our children's Bible was illustrated with pictures that mostly gave me nightmares. Stories and pictures of pestilence, lepers, children being sacrificed, people dying and a man who was hung to die on a cross did not make for comfortable bedtime stories.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA7rkGHsUIZWIM5yqkffTdPZcSvIbgiq23eNnw2M6WP3Z8_pFVE87bbik2wwcEfDkkAw3MPr7EdNod01akav1lnY0Z5-5rn-RMPhQDIBrRLmdG-IEWNwCIQZ-4HwtQcxvG0ep81luo2nfkqLPTixLBoFX8QlC9y4C-lwVCONSMHjTn70JuwIBHh7eJTg/s258/images.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="196" data-original-width="258" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA7rkGHsUIZWIM5yqkffTdPZcSvIbgiq23eNnw2M6WP3Z8_pFVE87bbik2wwcEfDkkAw3MPr7EdNod01akav1lnY0Z5-5rn-RMPhQDIBrRLmdG-IEWNwCIQZ-4HwtQcxvG0ep81luo2nfkqLPTixLBoFX8QlC9y4C-lwVCONSMHjTn70JuwIBHh7eJTg/s1600/images.jpg" width="258" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"> Understanding parables, Christ's message of love and other biblical stories can be excellent ways to connect to our spiritual sides. Children, though, simply are not ready for this type of thing. I can safely guarantee that any child of any religion that is happy about learning this stuff is faking it to please their parents or guardians. Young children are not able to grasp the significance of spiritual teachings, and that is exactly as it should be. Why not let children enjoy Santa Claus, the Easter bunny, and all the fun stuff until they are old enough to grasp the deeper meanings of religion and spirituality?<br /><br />Even as we approach our forties, around Christmas, my little sister and I still tease each other about whether we have pulled the tinfoil off of the baby Jesus. We playfully and sarcastically joke about this and some of the other bizarre rituals we were taught. Maybe we haven't really grown up yet, maybe we never will.<br /><br />Jim Ventura 10-2003</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Cast of Characters Warm powdered Milk and Sugary Cereals</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0pZove0OkUFs4Q4dJ2-rt6XnaZWU8GlUSSUGmg7t44jFYYTN2SsyVyRg-Ktvt2D07zBZn_VsCHvgC5ddQLSK6Xq202a41hXqgEdZEBk_tVjs_tahqagcCjGSDOdZtOJBkwgrps8vz-VLk5tVo55be6YvA4_hxTKLoCEbqFj-9JuaYj4aRPmYcfWdZ3w/s612/young-woman-stretching-the-dollar-bill-picture-id484228157.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="408" data-original-width="612" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0pZove0OkUFs4Q4dJ2-rt6XnaZWU8GlUSSUGmg7t44jFYYTN2SsyVyRg-Ktvt2D07zBZn_VsCHvgC5ddQLSK6Xq202a41hXqgEdZEBk_tVjs_tahqagcCjGSDOdZtOJBkwgrps8vz-VLk5tVo55be6YvA4_hxTKLoCEbqFj-9JuaYj4aRPmYcfWdZ3w/s320/young-woman-stretching-the-dollar-bill-picture-id484228157.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />My mother was truly a master at developing frugal and creative ways to stretch my father’s every two week paycheck. We were by no means poor. In a true classic sense we would have been seen as middle class. My stay at home mother raised seven of us in the classic what your “supposed to do Catholic way,” or what she believed was supposed to be... More or less, have a lot of children, stay married, go to church or Sundays and holidays, and follow all the ritual, like not eating meat on Fridays. We had what we needed but not a lot of extra’s. A close knit family in a house in a good neighborhood, stability, and we actually grew up and spent our entire childhoods in that home. There were some families who were a bit wealthier and had nicer houses in our neighborhood but ours was comfortable.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Mom came up with interesting ways to feed a family of nine on one paycheck. There were lots of side dishes for meals like rice, noodles, bread, and we did always have some sort of meat, but meat portions were very stretched. One chicken was often served at dinner and seen as normal to us. Thankfully my ability to maneuver mom to favor me a little more than most of my siblings ended up getting me one of the chicken breasts! A steak, on the rare occasion we had that, was cut into slivered portions with plenty of mashed potatoes and other fillers. We always had desert after dinner. Ice cream, pudding, jello, and pound cake were a few of the many variations to our endless need for sugar. We had plenty of soda, Hawaiian Punch and even Cool Aid. Mom was always on some sort of diet so she would have calorie free Crystal Light with her half a pound cake for desert. Crystal Light was was red, colorful and deceptively looked potentially tasty, but I experienced the horror of having a few sips of that fake sugar. To this days I can’t stand fake sugar in anything. What we hardly ever saw was real butter or milk. We had that glowing bright margarine nonsense. Her biggest stretch was using powdered milk. We ate sugary cereals most morning with the cold powdered milk she had mixed up the night before. it was pretty watery but we didn’t know any better so it was fine because we got sugar and that was the prize. In addition, the thrill of digging out the prize often in the cereal box was also magnificent.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><p><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiTANbFkx3IYR3WrkU24XbMttG62TB0CNG7r81gCl7rT1UKhDAbglcPBKoSUPLt4jZMeWDAewCMRG00Y0s5dLydkiNVaePJ7-dM5c7_r78L6yhJrOBqu6qt3sbYZP6ue3r1dHbamtC-J7XT-cid2QWsGm6frDwHBLuvUkXtIsPVN4gG9dwnfNvwQH9XA/s1600/IMG_0891.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiTANbFkx3IYR3WrkU24XbMttG62TB0CNG7r81gCl7rT1UKhDAbglcPBKoSUPLt4jZMeWDAewCMRG00Y0s5dLydkiNVaePJ7-dM5c7_r78L6yhJrOBqu6qt3sbYZP6ue3r1dHbamtC-J7XT-cid2QWsGm6frDwHBLuvUkXtIsPVN4gG9dwnfNvwQH9XA/w231-h320/IMG_0891.jpg" width="231" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(Mom n Dad at some amusement park) <br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />My parents were great about making sure we had a family vacation every summer. Other than one horrible mistake of Williamsburg Virginia and the horror of education about colonial times for a vacation plan, usually part of the trip would center around a theme park. Disney World, Six Flags, and Hershey Park were a few really fun places we visited and they were awesome! When my older siblings passed sixteen or so, they usually stayed home by choice or were busy with work. When I was really young we did have a few years where all nine of us were crammed into the station Wagon or later the Delta 88 and drove to Virginia, Florida, or even Ohio. We would stay in a motel six or similar budget type of place and share two rooms. Adding a cot or two, sleeping on the floor, or the couch, and a few to each bed. We sometimes were required to duck down in the back seat of the car in case staff saw us since there were often limits to how many to a room and that was oddly exciting too. We swam in the motel pools, were thrilled to get soda, chips, cookies or candy from a vending machine, used the ice machine, and just enjoyed the adventure and change in scenery.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <br /><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijygF_3Fp30YL5cLv4ozgmuDAqVIsH1BzYFf8-hG57wXNo18LbPvfoZclX0ZdY-3luKSQNX1gSsG3j57IlTcbB0jY0rcLBiCNcSQfkcCIGKCIzUM_06bQN5UMVE8VtreF7kUaFWvIMQWeWdNx7vtDffsTWhKdpnigtkgtp_OG4Xy-H6pg7Ox29g821Mg/s500/s-l500.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijygF_3Fp30YL5cLv4ozgmuDAqVIsH1BzYFf8-hG57wXNo18LbPvfoZclX0ZdY-3luKSQNX1gSsG3j57IlTcbB0jY0rcLBiCNcSQfkcCIGKCIzUM_06bQN5UMVE8VtreF7kUaFWvIMQWeWdNx7vtDffsTWhKdpnigtkgtp_OG4Xy-H6pg7Ox29g821Mg/s320/s-l500.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Lunch meals were usually a cooler of sandwiches, potato chips, pistachio nuts, pretzels and other assorted fillers. We always had dinner in a generally cheap restaurant, often the one attached to the motel, but that was great too. Breakfast meals were where mom truly cut corners. She and my dad would go out to eat in the motel restaurant and all the kids would stay in the motel rooms. Before our trip we would get to pick out 8 packs of mini cereals. We often called “dibs” on our favorite types of cereal in a democratic way. Usually Raisin Bran or similar lower sugar cereals that were supposed to be healthy were sadly left behind. What good was a healthy cereal? Mom would bring her powdered milk and a jar or pitcher. Rarely did the motel room have a refrigerator so usually she mixed up the magic concoction of hot water from the faucet first thing in the morning. We poured that warm crap over our mini cereal boxes with our plastic spoons. The boxes were designed with wax paper so they could open and be used as a bowl. Warm watery powdered milk that sometimes didn’t fully dissolve in spots was a challenge. But the sugary cereals connected with television commercials and thrill of crazy cartoon characters pushing them, and being away from home, made up for it and we loved the ritual. </span></p><p><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO9D51QKI2TAj9YqKDhRKDP7e-6B-Op2cXMZeOJCLdj4I22pibZrg3uEZFnpgJjudxE_Pk4YrLFmIk8L6ml7E2852C-EAN9tGw-ITx0wuyCI7aeaVFuTizAOcl8GRNoMFysVYXkF-j3yd1PH8aiZbphUiuze07bqe_nhPCQr33ZLk8AEjF5bqz_oAgMQ/s500/51-lKNWUxBL._AC_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="222" data-original-width="500" height="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO9D51QKI2TAj9YqKDhRKDP7e-6B-Op2cXMZeOJCLdj4I22pibZrg3uEZFnpgJjudxE_Pk4YrLFmIk8L6ml7E2852C-EAN9tGw-ITx0wuyCI7aeaVFuTizAOcl8GRNoMFysVYXkF-j3yd1PH8aiZbphUiuze07bqe_nhPCQr33ZLk8AEjF5bqz_oAgMQ/s320/51-lKNWUxBL._AC_.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />In spite of all of the stretching and questionable nutritional focus we had great trips. In order to obsessively buy souvenirs or extra garbage food along the way we saved money for our trips. Raking leaves, weeding gardens, shoveling snow in the winter and other odd jobs became a focus to have your own spending money for vacation. Looking back on this, it was a good thing on mom and dad’s part to teach us how to plan and save. Mom’s frugal ways were surprisingly motivating. Dad proudly took thousands of pictures, so we still have a ton of fun at some of our family reunions looking at photo’s of our adventures. Some of my friends actually got to fly places, had more elaborate trips, stayed in actual Hotels versus the Motel 8. They were even shockingly simply given money if they asked for it by their parents, something that we rarely ever experienced. Yet, the fun of playing car games like spotting license plates from other states, and “Mr Peabody goes to the store,” making jokes and funny character voices, grooving to seventies and eighties music, stopping or noticing Stuckey’s signs, going to different rest areas along the highway and getting further trilled at vending machines with different stuff in each place were seriously memorable. Sometimes we visited relatives but we always inevitably had a day or two at a popular theme park riding the rides and seeing some shows. My friends had more glamorous trips, but our funny stories, the banter between my siblings and I, and how dad allowed us to (well pretended to at least) choose where we would go each year as well as the odd closeness of being squeezed into a car every year made our trips seem truly fun. I could see that my friends often actually kind of envied us when we returned and shared our funny stories about our families crazy trips. <br />Jim M Ventura 7-2-2022<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Notes:</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUZYbIptsxk5P-6E_nP1cfv8G_cPad1JpA2PyKV2MH38vHl0MaUSKf14v4bUoHq5fmn6FJGKFYGLERvIWq3uXDrX2k3YPTLekSMT_CN11p4blyi2qODw5xKplOj9SP50Lvvu7unL5CfvggR1q5SP9uToU9L2yIZwcavjNy_s4zSgfpSSPzzcZs4EsCMg/s374/image005.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="374" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUZYbIptsxk5P-6E_nP1cfv8G_cPad1JpA2PyKV2MH38vHl0MaUSKf14v4bUoHq5fmn6FJGKFYGLERvIWq3uXDrX2k3YPTLekSMT_CN11p4blyi2qODw5xKplOj9SP50Lvvu7unL5CfvggR1q5SP9uToU9L2yIZwcavjNy_s4zSgfpSSPzzcZs4EsCMg/s320/image005.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />I am now a bit over halfway through writing my new book tentatively titled My Cast of Characters by Jim M Ventura. This is why I included one of the new stories in this newsletter. Holidays are meant to warm the heart and adding some laughter to the mix can really warm the heart so I published both my classic Christmas story “Tinfoil Over the Baby Jesus” and “Warm Powdered Milk and Sugary Cereals.” Happy Holidays!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> (One of my other stories from the new book can be seen on my YouTube channel with a live read there “She’s a Little Bit Dangerous.” cut and paste this link to your browser to view)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5bYsekz0-Y&t=36s</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Here we are again beginning the celebration season, with the big three ahead, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. It would be nice to say that this last year, as it comes to a close was more peaceful than the two previous ones that held a polarized election, and the heightened fear connected with a pandemic, but there was notably turbulence in other ways in 2022. Soaring inflation on just about everything. a housing and rental market that was extreme with ups and now downs, and turmoil connected with some Supreme Court decisions that pushed against what the majority would choose, are examples of just a few of the societal elements that created upheaval. A good re-reminder that Uranus is in Taurus. This is one of many clear influences of the world at large, as well as in our personal lives (Natal planets in Taurus, where Uranus is placed, and the houses in your personal chart with these elements are a few of the many good reasons to learn the language of astrology or to talk to a knowledgeable astrologer about how it is specifically influencing you, far easier btw. I happen to know a really good one actually, me! lol) are being impacted.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Uranus is the unconventional innovator of the astrology world. As the planet of sudden changes, shocks, and inventions, this rebellious cosmic character is known for disrupting the status quo and bringing surprises into our lives. Between May 2018 and April 2026, Uranus will transit through the sign of Taurus, so it’s influencing Taurean matters such as money, beauty, sustainability, values, and even our stewardship over the earth.<br />Uranus is one of distant outer planets, which are sometimes called “generational” planets, given their slow-moving orbits and broad influence on the collective. It takes 84 years for Uranus to complete a full cycle through the zodiac, and it spends about seven years in each sign. Known as the great awakener, Uranus’ progressive energy zaps things like a fire bolt, sending an electric shock of innovation, inspiration, and change pulsing through everything it touches. Its vibe is all about creativity, originality, and revolution, even if it is at times uncomfortable. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik26wBgDc0t6s2fJUr7Mnx_JATLFqopiltTAP2CI2Qtiz6egoFiTVXmHOWTc-UD93ExaxDt9kV8UjEfbDtv6lLoPvbuSXgCiZS6SAoJBLfvVkSAwSCZDt5Q9dV5DUWw7UzRYYLjlR__xgrPcSh0LM8Sj0tBx9un5GeRy1VJBOGZ-zzR3ObKXtecuj4aQ/s1280/2-Ways-Baskets-Improve-Your-Gift-Giving-Skills.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1280" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik26wBgDc0t6s2fJUr7Mnx_JATLFqopiltTAP2CI2Qtiz6egoFiTVXmHOWTc-UD93ExaxDt9kV8UjEfbDtv6lLoPvbuSXgCiZS6SAoJBLfvVkSAwSCZDt5Q9dV5DUWw7UzRYYLjlR__xgrPcSh0LM8Sj0tBx9un5GeRy1VJBOGZ-zzR3ObKXtecuj4aQ/s320/2-Ways-Baskets-Improve-Your-Gift-Giving-Skills.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />I am ending the year with two very special offers! There may still be a few openings in my class, (workshop) in Tempe AZ for locals for my workshop class Creating Prosperity. And if you can’t make the date, and the class is full (make sure to still ask), or you are out of area then you can contact me for info about setting up a phone (or face-Time, or Zoom) class(s) about Creating Prosperity and 17 other class options I currently offer. Just a side note suggestion for some people that may need to hear it; It’s safe to come out into the world again, meet people, benefit from the energy of a group and make some new friends!<br />My other opportunity is a $10-75 off up to three sessions offer: All returning clients can take advantage of my $10 off listed rates offer from November 10 to December 31st, 2022. Purchasing a second session for yourself after your session is at a $20 discount (you can use as a follow up anytime in 2023). A third session is $40 off listed rates! The sessions can be for yourself or given as gift certificates to any of your friends or family members to use. More information about both offers in this newsletter. Happy Holidays, Cheers, Jim V!<br /><br /><i>“You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants a magical solution to their problems, and everyone refuses to believe in magic.” Alice in Wonderland</i></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> </i><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>November and December Gift certificates Special: $10-$75 off all sessions!<br />This offer is for new New Clients and Returning Clients<br /></b></span><br />The holidays are approaching. Give a gift to someone you love that they will really appreciate: a reading/personal Navigational consultation with Jim Ventura. All sessions booked at this time AND all gift certificates purchased from November 10th, 2022 until December 31st, 2022 will be at a discounted rate for all of the clients who are currently on my mailing list (receiving Snake Oil or following me on Face-Book, Instagram, or LinkedIn) and new first time clients as well can take advantage of the special!</span></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5L7EgYRX28S6cJ0lfx7hPE8zbQ-X6u6n26JrQnHD0J7UiYPXOuUocXP9VPZd8-Ikzuj0u3_VpxechLmQzHRE1BOU9TUVg0ffz8gbfnZotg6NUDKDYdyuPmaSKS6P1FAgmlVFeC8Z8PRhmVb1Dl1fpsj9nuvadxIg3oygg-aLtOGh0ihcEsoQ4YNW9Xg/s800/special-offer-price-tag-sign-paper-against-rustic-red-painted-barn-wood-55863934.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5L7EgYRX28S6cJ0lfx7hPE8zbQ-X6u6n26JrQnHD0J7UiYPXOuUocXP9VPZd8-Ikzuj0u3_VpxechLmQzHRE1BOU9TUVg0ffz8gbfnZotg6NUDKDYdyuPmaSKS6P1FAgmlVFeC8Z8PRhmVb1Dl1fpsj9nuvadxIg3oygg-aLtOGh0ihcEsoQ4YNW9Xg/s320/special-offer-price-tag-sign-paper-against-rustic-red-painted-barn-wood-55863934.jpg" width="320" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Special discounted rate:<br />$10.00 off my current listed prices for any 45, 70, or 90 minute sessions. If you purchase up to 2 gift certificates (or decide to purchase a follow up session for yourself to use in the coming year after a session at this time) the second gift certificate is $20 off my listed prices. If you purchase a third it will be $40 off that one! A maximum of three session gift certificates may be purchased at this time. In-office cash or check payments can add an additional $5 off the total price.<br /><br />Price list for services are at the end of this newsletter and on my website. The gift certificates are good for one full year and can be used any time during the remainder of 2022 and all of 2023. I will either mail them to you or, if you prefer, mail them directly to the people who you want to receive them (snail mail or email). You may want to buy a gift certificate(s) either for friends, family or for yourself to be used anytime in 2023. Sessions can be in-office or by phone, Face-Time. or Zoom for out-of-area clients.<br /><br /><i>“Imagine what would happen if you treated everyone you meet like an angel. I mean really... treating every person who steps into your life as sent by Heaven! Everything you experience would change, and the entire world would change as well.”<br />James Twyman</i><br /><br /><i>“Many of the most deeply spiritual moments of my life haven’t happened just in my mind or in my soul. They happened while holding my son in the middle of the night, or watching the water break along the shore, or around my table, watching the people I love feel nourished in all sorts of ways.” Shauna Niequist</i><br /><br /><b>Channeled Corner. I have read many, many books from some of the best trance channeler's in the 70s-2000s. Unfortunately many of them are now out of print, but I still have a huge collection and will share some of the best material I have collected over the years:</b><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Michael teachings on Choice:</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQU2H2d0DoXK_vB-y4Foih9NF2kkuu74ygOPw-2BuCuFTyDh41yZsU2xA-iX-c7z7MLCd9xAgT1QuUIzY3VNSL8BAUuP0bWK6yLQ0bwjRFEX8ZbPYTCusr0eg-x3f_WFZpDX8QQthKDRW9jvAM7WtofPjpn1gmY9NpJKYkuSzpBFY_36cOf-8Y9u3i-A/s264/images-2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="191" data-original-width="264" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQU2H2d0DoXK_vB-y4Foih9NF2kkuu74ygOPw-2BuCuFTyDh41yZsU2xA-iX-c7z7MLCd9xAgT1QuUIzY3VNSL8BAUuP0bWK6yLQ0bwjRFEX8ZbPYTCusr0eg-x3f_WFZpDX8QQthKDRW9jvAM7WtofPjpn1gmY9NpJKYkuSzpBFY_36cOf-8Y9u3i-A/s1600/images-2.jpg" width="264" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />“...If there is a ‘purpose to life’ it is choice. You are here to choose. All of life is a series of choices, and even when choice is abdicated, it is choice. Where life choice is denied, there is karma, and karma will be balanced. The ribbon(*1) will be burned, for that is the nature of evolution. Choice will lead to karma and choice will lead to its burning. This is not a contradiction. Personality may choose to abdicate the burning of karma in a given incarnation, but essence will eventually choose the Over-leaves (*2) and circumstances that will permit the release that comes from burning karma, for that is part of evolution, and essence, by its very nature, seeks evolution. Choice is the manifestation of evolution for fragments on the physical plane.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />There is no part of life that is not, in fact, a choice. It is choice to get out of bed in the morning. To have coffee or any other beverage at breakfast-if you choose to eat breakfast. It is a choice to conduct your day in whatever means you choose, and what degree of importance the day has in your sense of your life. What entertainment, if any, you choose for evening; what meals, if any, are consumed; when and if you sleep, with what or whom-all these are choices, and all choices are valid. That you may or may not be pleased with the choices is another matter, and one that is linked with your recognition and validation of the nature of your true personality after the completion of the internal fourth monad.(*3) While we agree that the choices of life impose certain constraints on the personality and the life, we would also wish to point out that acceptance of those constraints is, for the most part, also the result of choice. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />That enculturated behavior limits the experience of the personality, both true and false personality, is to some extent valid. That convenience is as much an aspect as any in most daily choices is also valid. All experiences are part of evolution, even the experience of burning the toast or spilling the wine. Each of you becomes the sum total of all experiences, no matter how apparently minor or trivial, in this and all other lives. We do not say this to be daunting but to assure you that there are no ‘unimportant’ choices; we have said before and we will certainly reiterate many times again: Nothing is wasted. Nothing can be wasted. All of life is valid. No matter how it is spent. All experience contributes to the evolution of essence...”From Michael’s People by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />(*1) Ribbon: Michael's term for binding agreements created through karma (karma is created when we remove another individuals right to choose)<br />(*2) Over-leaves: Life goal, mode, attitude, centering, and chief feature we choose each lifetime.<br />(*3) 4th Monad: Achievement of a unit of life experience. Generally corresponding to around ages 35-45.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><i>“In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.” Brennan Manning<br /></i><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Upcoming class and workshop<br />CREATING PROSPERITY</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKr1-Mhr_eLvVNNfqry2lhGbvRInjx5edibJ2DOKGsIQvS0NufxsEHV9PohIQOflmEo_C9sCN7GfUVxlJ-vHob-KjDp7NU_ckesqYhLPbz3ifoE4rkEk9AOV1-TsrfDFCVb-DHLUcA8jjsOyEq7ewGf2o9jj11b6VrDdm9wLwskya7xlVTrh2c07e8xQ/s846/great-abundance-22764_90.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="846" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKr1-Mhr_eLvVNNfqry2lhGbvRInjx5edibJ2DOKGsIQvS0NufxsEHV9PohIQOflmEo_C9sCN7GfUVxlJ-vHob-KjDp7NU_ckesqYhLPbz3ifoE4rkEk9AOV1-TsrfDFCVb-DHLUcA8jjsOyEq7ewGf2o9jj11b6VrDdm9wLwskya7xlVTrh2c07e8xQ/s320/great-abundance-22764_90.jpg" width="227" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />“The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer.”<br /><br />“I am very unlucky.”<br /><br />“Whenever I get any money, I end up spending more of it or just lose it anyway.”<br /><br />“My astrology chart shows that I will never have any money anyway so why bother.”<br /><br />These and similar thoughts and beliefs, while may even contain some personal truth to them are examples and focuses that limit us from experiencing prosperity. As much as we may not like to admit it, we often love to be “right” about what we believe even if the results from those beliefs make us miserable in the process.<br /><br />Everyone has untapped talents, abilities, skills, and the potential to be more successful. There is no real limit to abundance or actual scarcity unless we believe so and choose to stay limited in our personal cage of beliefs.<br /><br />Our beliefs form our reality. When we become aware of them and are willing to change them our physical reality will inevitably follow.<br /><br /><br />“ Learning to open a doorway to living in abundance is possible. We can manifest prosperity in many different areas of life: career, finances, love life, personal happiness, etc...This class will focus on many different methods for generating personal success.... <br />Notes from the instructors attendance at the Millionaire Mindset seminar will be added keys to magnetizing a life of prosperity. Instructor Jim Ventura will discuss practical and metaphysical tools to show you how to create more wealth in your life...”<br /><br />Instructor: Jim Ventura Navigational consultant, astrologer, oracle reader, author, radio and television host, columnist. Jim has twenty-seven years experience as a spiritual counselor and works with many different types of oracles. You can see his monthly videos on YouTube (J Ventura Snake Oil). More information about services at JimVentura.com<br /><br />Email Venturasag@yahoo.com to reserve a space in this (limited to 13 participants) workshop. Sunday November 13th. 11:15 - 1:45 pm. $25.00. <br />Location: Sozo Healing House in Tempe AZ.<br /><br />Contact me to hold one of the remaining spaces.<br /><br />If you are not a local or can’t make the date of this class you can contact me for info about setting up a phone (or face-Time, or Zoom) class(s) about Creating Prosperity and 17 other class options I currently offer.<br /><br /><i>“Start viewing your problems as decisions that need to be made.” Dick Sutphen</i><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Snake Oil Radio</b></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLttsmzy_bTZitxuptaA-VLXPhmArWrhRg-etj5i3ybhh-yrvrfddN1gaRkbG8D-mvQmF7iErLEsqY6MKvsWUU1KoFto9ZNq3Xy6zZqfSCGR33ASOh0iYkePn-j7XyCYbYzwlgKJMYo_iiJ3NuSfLmKLw4j3wWkidZvlWByha_SaX1ex2tGTxVjp5BHQ/s194/image007.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="167" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLttsmzy_bTZitxuptaA-VLXPhmArWrhRg-etj5i3ybhh-yrvrfddN1gaRkbG8D-mvQmF7iErLEsqY6MKvsWUU1KoFto9ZNq3Xy6zZqfSCGR33ASOh0iYkePn-j7XyCYbYzwlgKJMYo_iiJ3NuSfLmKLw4j3wWkidZvlWByha_SaX1ex2tGTxVjp5BHQ/s1600/image007.jpg" width="167" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />Thursdays at 3:30 pm (there will be two live broadcast this period)<br />My next live broadcast of Snake Oil Radio will be Thursday, November 17th at 3:30 p.m. mountain (Phoenix) time. Usually one Thursday each month you can catch a new show. Each 45 minute show will expand on my current column’s subject matter. It will also offer an opportunity for you to chat with other listeners in the chat room with comments and your thoughts about the topic of discussion. If you miss the live show, you can catch any of my previously recorded shows on the web site’s archive. You can also catch Snake Oil Radio on I-tunes (download my pod-casts there).<br />To hear a live show, all you need to do is be at a computer and tuned into: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura or on your phone. You may also access it by going to the site and type “Snake Oil” into the search option. You can also go to the shows that are currently “On air” at that time and find me. The call in number is 646-200-3966 for questions and comments if the show is offering that (please check, many of my column shows don’t).<br />Here’s my contact information to make an appointment for a session, or information on current classes: Email: Venturasag@yahoo.com (best method for contact).<br />Phone calls: (602) 957-3035 text only: (602) 349-0746 <br /><br />Information about the different sessions and types of readings and services, past Snake Oil columns, and how to order my books and audio CD’s can be found at my website: <a href="Http://JimVentura.com">Http://JimVentura.com</a> <br /><br />“Friend” me on Facebook to get other extra offers and in between column extras! Signing up for my fan page will get you even more extras and first shot at reading specials. Simply click on “like” on the fan page and you will automatically get my weekly updates. <br />http<a href="s://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl">s://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl</a><br /><br />I have a few other media channels other than my monthly radio shows and Face-Book:<br /><br />Subscribe to my YouTube Channel (approximately once a month 6-11 minute videos) at J Ventura Snake Oil. <br />Instagram at Venturawords (mostly astrology updates) <br /> Tik Tok (animalspeaks) where I do short 3 minute videos about animal totems!<br /><br />All personal sessions/readings for 2022-2023 are: Full (70 minutes) $115.00; Shorter session (45 minutes) $90.00; Extended session (90 minutes) $140.00 (two people can split an extended session back to back $70.00 each, although no other discounts will apply). Mini phone session 20 minutes $40. Email me for information about my Regular Client Program for even bigger discounts on session prices with the added benefit of monthly or quarterly check-ins. Purchasing 3 prepaid sessions also brings sizable discounts. Some examples; 3 prepaid 45 minute monthly sessions is $150 total or $50 a session. 3 prepaid quarterly 70 minute session are $240 or $80 a session.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZslXQnrkU_njjl0IaOyrRTGJ7Ek7KduMYw3QibFxejWCqahi9sXw3npOQlNn-EIb7PFT47sdJYG6Po4Mb8gcBj2LWnpKFzjiBstYNR_nAsx8SUkfg2P0eNXzQHSbgQhR_XiFrnHCvHEu6BDE_3gzjEh7TfPISTsEj3mXLRbJb9uf31-1JgzARk0cFzQ/s600/311018693_662385981913799_3731989964275772541_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="508" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZslXQnrkU_njjl0IaOyrRTGJ7Ek7KduMYw3QibFxejWCqahi9sXw3npOQlNn-EIb7PFT47sdJYG6Po4Mb8gcBj2LWnpKFzjiBstYNR_nAsx8SUkfg2P0eNXzQHSbgQhR_XiFrnHCvHEu6BDE_3gzjEh7TfPISTsEj3mXLRbJb9uf31-1JgzARk0cFzQ/s320/311018693_662385981913799_3731989964275772541_n.jpg" width="271" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p></p>Jim V/Snake Oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00746873887985304530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024612299906599073.post-13331583450950911462022-08-27T13:38:00.002-07:002022-08-27T13:38:24.499-07:00September October 2022 Snake Oil/But It's Not Fair<p> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Snake Oil But it’s Not Fair?</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLCDG6KsxRQMyA2eGuVwez6P0m_R4w49_fM7BkT_g3uVv5D8ozRT4A1UIpGiNuHfvxnlrvNY6xrwnc0MYBVWdoyEC41b24iSbtOBwiE4Ah_JJ_0akQTMfFo08XhzZ0MPmgs_sal9N7m-qY0_5yA-VCT3hbXjbQ3jlacJoWF8sHg65k1GkEmEVSrlYSKw/s640/Its-Not-Fair.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="640" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLCDG6KsxRQMyA2eGuVwez6P0m_R4w49_fM7BkT_g3uVv5D8ozRT4A1UIpGiNuHfvxnlrvNY6xrwnc0MYBVWdoyEC41b24iSbtOBwiE4Ah_JJ_0akQTMfFo08XhzZ0MPmgs_sal9N7m-qY0_5yA-VCT3hbXjbQ3jlacJoWF8sHg65k1GkEmEVSrlYSKw/s320/Its-Not-Fair.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />For years I have chatted with a boxer at my gym who always greets me with enthusiasm and jokes about me being “His favorite person to talk to!” He is a great guy, friendly to everyone and volunteers boxing coaching for many of the teens at the gym. After a few years of locker room chats he uncomfortably admitted to having a volatile relationship with his father. He is of Mexican heritage and he has many siblings, all sisters. Being the only boy his father was hard on him, even cruel at times, often telling him things like he “Was weak, ugly, and would never amount to anything.” Clearly a delightful man. Needless to say at age forty he was struggling to forgive his father. Not surprisingly he got caught up in gang stuff, drugs, and alcohol at a young age. Thankfully he is clean and sober, married and in a much better place although he struggles with being bipolar. I have talked to him a few times about the benefits of forgiveness for his own health and well being. He does earnestly listen and seems to appreciate my advice and suggestions.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Recently he approached me while while I was doing cardio on an exercise bike. He was frustrated because he was looking for work and had gone to an employment agency two days in a row. His frustrated story was more or less: “I go to this place on the west side and it’s full of thugs and messes in there trying to get jobs. When I talked to the guy who finds jobs he tells me that he has one for me actually. But because I was there a few months ago, but didn’t return the next day like he asked, there was a condition for me to get the available job. I had to come back this morning to actually get the job. Jeez, I already apologized, who does this guy think he is? Why make me jump through hoops? If I really didn’t need a job so badly I would have punched him in the face right then and there. But I begrudgingly went so now at least I start a new job on Monday. I am still really pissed. I can’t believe that jerk. If there is one good thing my dad taught me is to never let anyone disrespect you, right?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Rather than give him the expected buddy approval empathy and validate his suffering by diving into the pool of “he had a right to be mad nonsense,” I took a different approach. I asked him, “would you like a better suggestion?” He looked a little nervous and said “Yes, of course I value your opinion.” I told him life is not fair at times, but one can use this to one’s advantage rather than focusing on your perception of being mistreated. Consider a different approach, show up for the job fifteen minutes early on Monday. Make it clear that you will volunteer to stay later if they need you whenever you are able to do so for the first few months. Figuratively kiss your bosses ass a little if need be. Be an excellent eager to learn employee. Think of these acts less as weakness or subservience and more as strategy. The employment dude had to test you to see if you were reliable. Your apology was a good first step but not enough. You need to take more action in a positive way and not keep focusing on feeling mistreated. In time at your new job you may even get a raise and better hours. Liking the job and advancing is not definite by any means but far more likely if you play it the way I am suggesting. Focusing with a victim posture; that you were disrespected is the problem. And why in the world are you listening to your dad’s “never accept disrespect advice” still? For the most part your dad’s advice and commentary usually sucks, right?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOvlHTLIWroht9m24gYTL_iDGskaPgzHT1Zi8fCnFVdC1dqFfIAAoRCWkIS0v1F_DupYjuWOO9R2bN5DdCIQ9cJJcQNaLQOaUNDeeMIXWxK31VyBxgjtFQulSGVqcjYiM052hvIHGMlfFvsuvlMoRHs30cQ3iZ5BjRBklAjTn06be0387KXRHQuXKnJg/s300/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOvlHTLIWroht9m24gYTL_iDGskaPgzHT1Zi8fCnFVdC1dqFfIAAoRCWkIS0v1F_DupYjuWOO9R2bN5DdCIQ9cJJcQNaLQOaUNDeeMIXWxK31VyBxgjtFQulSGVqcjYiM052hvIHGMlfFvsuvlMoRHs30cQ3iZ5BjRBklAjTn06be0387KXRHQuXKnJg/s1600/images.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />He was wide eyed, amazed and clearly heard me. I had told him that yes there are times we should absolutely not put up with any form of abuse and not let anyone disrespect us, but in order to make gains in the world of working jobs some wise submission can be a smart move. There is a pecking order in the world. Whether or not we like it or not it still exists. I had so many roommates and friends in my teens and twenties that quit new jobs because they felt disrespected. I had a roommate in my mid twenties that came home after quitting his one week job because it was slow and the boss told him to clean and organize the storage closet. He quit because in his words “I am a line cook at the restaurant, how dare he ask me to do that? I told him to shove this job and walked out, no one disrespects me!” It took him two weeks to find a new job. He ended up a month behind on rent that I foolishly covered, but he had his self respect! What an idiot! I would have seen the “organize the storage room suggestion” as an opportunity. A chance to show him I was a team player and was mutable in my talents. Needless to say, most of the jobs that I had while I was a waiter or bartender started off with me thinking about what I could do to look good to the boss or the owner and to be seen as valuable. I played this type of strategy early on at a number of jobs and after six months to a year of working at restaurants, my fellow employees would often say things like “How come Jim gets off on Sundays? He can walk around and eat if he wants to and nobody says anything to him. How come he always gets the best stations and the good customers?” I often had bosses that stuffed extra cash in my pockets from time to time to show appreciation and to keep me working there.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2oG0l9D8sxZXymstwn1qVYL0WAwEHDP0b01lyc_fskLFll7SPxH4ZSAMUp68ssN5M4MC-0Z7JRXctwn5gJCqxwjnbVFBAvzB4m3i3cJ2lrHOOODtzeaREaxXhm6cENiU88xY4qYLOyvp77TmeHh7jv5QcF_bL3Cb1l9OsvbSrxZcNXNAO5NMn-3AzuQ/s123/cTf9LPI_xjP0tLaygVu2ZdEE9uaKsSL--bl2DuhHvgYKsNnB-kSaKaji1GmNyjJrxg2XQQ=s123.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="85" data-original-width="123" height="85" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2oG0l9D8sxZXymstwn1qVYL0WAwEHDP0b01lyc_fskLFll7SPxH4ZSAMUp68ssN5M4MC-0Z7JRXctwn5gJCqxwjnbVFBAvzB4m3i3cJ2lrHOOODtzeaREaxXhm6cENiU88xY4qYLOyvp77TmeHh7jv5QcF_bL3Cb1l9OsvbSrxZcNXNAO5NMn-3AzuQ/s1600/cTf9LPI_xjP0tLaygVu2ZdEE9uaKsSL--bl2DuhHvgYKsNnB-kSaKaji1GmNyjJrxg2XQQ=s123.jpg" width="123" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />In astrology the sixth house (of twelve houses and areas of life) correspond to how we handle work, health and healing, fixing and repairing, being productive, the practical details of life, and unequal relationships. Unequal relationships are a reality whether we like them or not, simply put: not everything is equal. Most jobs have a pecking order. I saw examples of this clearly in the restaurant business. As an example; the boss or owner was over everyone. The mangers took the next position. The Chef would come next. Hostesses often followed from there. They were the face of the restaurant and wielded the power of seating and greeting. This is why I always strategically would be extra cordial to the hostesses. They had the power to give me ”better customers.” I didn’t see it as a power struggle even when at times it occasionally was. Often the next in line were bartenders, then came waiters. The kitchen staff followed, then busboys, followed by the cleaning crew. Like it or not restaurants and most other aspects of life are not set up like a commune. If you got along with everyone you tended to thrive, not by focusing on the reality of the imbalance, but by accepting it. I never wanted a management position but I was offered them frequently. I preferred the position of coming and going without a ton of added responsibility, a plus to being a waiter in most places. Being reliable, excellent at my job, attractive, affable, and one who did not create problems and even went out of my way to solve them was typically the way I played it. More often than not that approach really paid off.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA5ClXdOwLO_QSc7DkPUAuZ-iBZDys2jdrgeYelxol1378hNHZxVWLjDIgPm2zujOGUQhRQK3MSpiSp8lIE7J4g6T6E32oeVz4b4Vbn867QJwp3hJR-_EYWXQut78TCRY8rfXX37uzQVBQdnBehqlOdV2U3B9pygmgLdb-oEbSMgklicM6dtnxdMpDGg/s161/a_kBS4af8T7-ftMTNVmBD1KUVNor-YH9gY4fULtBc-mBJQV-TJ2E4Esqp19ubxqJqEc-=s161.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="85" data-original-width="161" height="85" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA5ClXdOwLO_QSc7DkPUAuZ-iBZDys2jdrgeYelxol1378hNHZxVWLjDIgPm2zujOGUQhRQK3MSpiSp8lIE7J4g6T6E32oeVz4b4Vbn867QJwp3hJR-_EYWXQut78TCRY8rfXX37uzQVBQdnBehqlOdV2U3B9pygmgLdb-oEbSMgklicM6dtnxdMpDGg/s1600/a_kBS4af8T7-ftMTNVmBD1KUVNor-YH9gY4fULtBc-mBJQV-TJ2E4Esqp19ubxqJqEc-=s161.jpg" width="161" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Life is full of unequal relationships. Often in retail service jobs you may have to put up with obnoxious customers and difficult bosses. In the medical world some head nurses and doctors can be difficult or controlling to the nurses and orderlies but within reason this is part of the game. Frequently better looking people get more opportunities, nepotism exists, and racial inequities abound. There are unfair challenges to overcome if you were born into poverty and advantages to being born into wealth. Life at times is in your favor and times it’s just not fair. There is the right of kings. Look at movies and stories about medieval placements in the positions of court, talk about unfair! There are wide ranges of how we choose to deal with any number of positions like family placements, benefits to being smarter, stronger, taller, likable, and even lucky. I chose fairly early on to get over this reality and accept some BS in life. It is simply a far wiser perspective to not resist WHAT IS or to learn from inequities. Sometimes one can maneuver oneself to an advantage because of it and even climb the ladder. No one should ever except extreme abuse by any means, and some jobs may just be too much imbalance to deal with. Still, a good portion of what we perceive as abuse or mistreatment may not actually be abuse. Sometimes we are fighting a war of projection or judgment that we can’t actually win. In many cases we are unconsciously drawing difficulties to us because it is a part of the human tendency to recreate unresolved conflicts that stem from our past and them play them out again.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />I saw my buddy a few days later at the gym. He was all set to start his new job on Monday, but there was a change in plans. He had put in an application on his own weeks before to a valley internet and cable company. They wanted to hire him for a starting training position at $25 an hour versus the $17 an hour job he was just hired for. He wisely and graciously told the other place that he would have to turn down the job because he got a better offer. I patted him on the back and congratulated him. He proudly told me “Dude I am going to get there 20 minutes early on Monday. I am not going to react if I get uncomfortably bossed around as the new guy by some of the people I work with. I will ask if they need me to stay late. I will be eager and excited about learning. And like you said Jim, I will probably be at $30 an hour within a year or so!” Now you’re getting it my friend.<br />Jim Ventura 8-2022 </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Notes</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgumbMA_9SPCkUuSGqZ0CmOBTNfhLORVuqfcnlzrAm_74uDbN7Y1JXqase4k9Czy8VXx785syFP_MTugv7bfYzmYCI1pq5eDuUlXask3HzDDLGF_MAFJg-0muIZ7M6LCzWtzWz-GNHenGUWAOEiwLZhoJ-1KwWSqizrHT063IP_ToxaNVN9m_9ocY_WVA/s374/image005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="374" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgumbMA_9SPCkUuSGqZ0CmOBTNfhLORVuqfcnlzrAm_74uDbN7Y1JXqase4k9Czy8VXx785syFP_MTugv7bfYzmYCI1pq5eDuUlXask3HzDDLGF_MAFJg-0muIZ7M6LCzWtzWz-GNHenGUWAOEiwLZhoJ-1KwWSqizrHT063IP_ToxaNVN9m_9ocY_WVA/w320-h211/image005.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />My favorite season of the year is here. I scattered a few great, positive quotes about the Fall throughout this newsletter. The beauty of Autumn and the vibe of winding down and letting go of some things is something I truly align with.<br />Halloween is on the horizon. I often get a number of party bookings in October. Most of those dried up during the Covid shutdown period and the limits sadly lingered for over two years. I actually did an event at the Phoenician (High end Scottsdale hotel) recently for a large convention group. A private party and event booking company now up and running again hired me (and seven other readers doing different things) to do mini Astrology sessions for about 7 minutes each for a four hour booking, two weekend nights in a row. I brought my I-pad air hooked up to the hotel’s wi-fi and pulled up a quick look at each guests solar astrology charts. The twenty and thirty something guests loved it. Parties like these are a great way to introduce people to astrology. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDfQNTmZHSH23fsYNyCeDdaLjsCrM20BEJUD5CkhU7zEnXg858H-UYDf1Q4ClMYGxKT5o3-tCCIyMY9sOk_dgqJFu0gEUv7ZH3CzvhUV-7ST9s8_3g4l8ecArOJbqxzlCSVW6RYLyQlkCZ8j7acYcm39fB_PkuUpHbCD_rAnyqucW05qMsnWJGBCKUGg/s800/best-free-fall-stock-photos.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDfQNTmZHSH23fsYNyCeDdaLjsCrM20BEJUD5CkhU7zEnXg858H-UYDf1Q4ClMYGxKT5o3-tCCIyMY9sOk_dgqJFu0gEUv7ZH3CzvhUV-7ST9s8_3g4l8ecArOJbqxzlCSVW6RYLyQlkCZ8j7acYcm39fB_PkuUpHbCD_rAnyqucW05qMsnWJGBCKUGg/s320/best-free-fall-stock-photos.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Information about booking me for one of these types of events or simply at your home is in this newsletter. There are limited spots for October of course, but you can host an event like this anytime of year. And best of all for out of area clients, I also can do virtual parties via Face-time, Zoom, or just by phone! <br />There have been two new YouTube videos posted in the last three months. One is about having an out of body experience and another is about the totem of seeing Raccoons and what that means. You can find them in the YouTube search engine under “J Ventura Snake Oil.” Like and subscribe if you want notifications when a new video posts, typically about one each month. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Myself included, and many of my Regular Clients have initiated or began new exciting projects as Jupiter moved in Aries a few months ago and expanded our urge to capitalize, and take action on the fire that make us unique. There have also been some delays that have been frustrating at times. Sometimes it is things in the world that are not personal, other times it may be some resistance inside of ourselves and limits to opening to abundance. One of the many things I prioritize when working with clients is learning how to be patient and to persevere. This can be a lifelong pursuit, but a truly winning and effective strategy. My Regular Client Program is valuable in so many ways. It is a commitment to keep working on your spiritual growth. Email me for information about joining this service. Happy start to Fall, Cheers, Jim V<br /><br /><i>“The trees are about to show us how lovely it is to let the dead things go.” Unknown<br /></i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>New Client Special 2022 January 1st thru November 10th, 2022 Special:</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b></b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEini2JRgRT40OMmKhyYW3acUIw4xR1Yz2YmKTapF2QKZ40AL49Eb3id04myaoDUctRgGwZ6VDzXrRkHdQvnWThX1FT9LlKg49RWd7ROSGbxi_CStRngG688k0C9SkmhKNmM5NWPCe0GHY_s4p0GVxH0EIq4RxxjV6fkRHOjHNlqwW-cU9okBp4qe7Og3Q/s1280/2-Ways-Baskets-Improve-Your-Gift-Giving-Skills.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1280" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEini2JRgRT40OMmKhyYW3acUIw4xR1Yz2YmKTapF2QKZ40AL49Eb3id04myaoDUctRgGwZ6VDzXrRkHdQvnWThX1FT9LlKg49RWd7ROSGbxi_CStRngG688k0C9SkmhKNmM5NWPCe0GHY_s4p0GVxH0EIq4RxxjV6fkRHOjHNlqwW-cU9okBp4qe7Og3Q/s320/2-Ways-Baskets-Improve-Your-Gift-Giving-Skills.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /> </b></span><br />$10-15 off listed rates for your first 45 minute session, 70, or 90 minute session! Debit and credit card payments get $10 off for 45, 70, and 90 minute sessions. Local in-office clients can get an extra $5 off for cash or check payments for sessions. If you want to buy a new client a thoughtful gift of a session for a friend or family member you can also take advantage of these rates! <br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><b>Channeled Corner.</b> I have read many, many books from some of the best trance channeler in the 70s-2000s. Unfortunately many of them are now out of print, but I still have a huge collection and will share some of the best material i have collected over the years:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><i>“...Parents of young children frequently cry in exasperation that their young ones won’t listen, won’t pay attention, won’t follow orders. This is interpreted as evidence of willful disobedience, to be ruthlessly weeded out. It just goes in one ear and out the other.<br />Indeed, quite literally, the young child listens not to the words but to the breath on which they are delivered. It knows only firsthand reality, not the symbolic retreat of language. It literally lacks the neurological structure to retain a blast of oratory bombast and change accordingly. Men particularly, often the furthest divorced from the natural order and therefore utterly without a clue as to the nature of the young child’s mind, are fond of imparting paternal ‘lectures’ as a means of harnessing the young feet into the lockstep of adulthood.</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br />The child learns not by words but by example. Again, it depends on its parents for its understanding of the nature of physical reality and the culture in which it was born. Nothing is hidden from the young child; they are the most telepathic creatures on earth. They know exactly what you are thinking, though you build a fortress of verbal mendacity around your intent. And the child imitates your INTENT, not the endless stream of verbiage you feed it.</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br />If the parent treats others with instinctive kindness and warmth, the child learns that others are to be trusted and cherished, unless they prove otherwise. If the parent deals with everyone honestly, the child learns honesty. If the parent demonstrates respect for the child and other small creatures, the child learns to value all expressions of divinity, whatever their size.</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br />We need not go on at length about this: you know quite well that the child learns by example, not lecture. We simply wish to emphasize again the importance of the parent in providing the framework through which the remainder of life will be expressed...” partial quote form Whatever Happened to Divine Grace by Jose Stevens</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br />“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.” Lauren Destefano</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Home and office Special Event Parties</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOmralswzfJ4sCQZQZkaK2aqhxgFacVQJIJcEUt3H2jz6_HShnw2x7lPnpOJfIqa8ZgjIINmGNwJVSQ9Lob8cyQxrGHmvEu0gTXv9XSEtQLAAMgjZPXJ34WCEVZxEdYOQzSLT5mgc3erA1lmcQUl1spvWnmm--toi4sEB2X4r58D1XROJpWTn3MlSc-g/s232/images.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="217" data-original-width="232" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOmralswzfJ4sCQZQZkaK2aqhxgFacVQJIJcEUt3H2jz6_HShnw2x7lPnpOJfIqa8ZgjIINmGNwJVSQ9Lob8cyQxrGHmvEu0gTXv9XSEtQLAAMgjZPXJ34WCEVZxEdYOQzSLT5mgc3erA1lmcQUl1spvWnmm--toi4sEB2X4r58D1XROJpWTn3MlSc-g/s1600/images.png" width="232" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />While parties can be booked anytime of year, Halloween is almost here. Weekend Halloween parties for the last two weeks of October tend to book up fairly quickly!<br />While I charge approximately $105 for hour private sessions my party rate is only $90 per hour. If you are interested in hiring me to do a party, let me know and I can check on availability options. There are a number of formats for setting up parties and here is some basic information. Please don’t hesitate to ask if you have any questions about booking parties. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />I am available to do private parties (Phoenix and surrounding cities) with “mini readings” for your guests. Parties can be booked with either 5-10-15 minute or even 30 minute session blocks. Many of the different oracles I work with can be chosen for your specific event.<br />The parties are a fun way to enable family and friends to become more comfortable with the benefits of oracle readings. I have done many of these parties in the past and they are truly memorable events for all of the guests.<br />Minimum and maximum numbers of readings/hours are required to book a party. Three hour booking is my minimum for having me come out to an event. I will cut the minimum booking to 2 and a half hours for events that are within a 15 mile range of my home. A $40.00 non-refundable deposit is required to hold a party date. There is another option (ask about this option if interested) but most people prefer to book me for the $90 an hour rate for your party or event so your guests don’t have to cover any costs. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />I also can do parties virtually for events or home parties in the USA and Canada. These event sessions can be by phone, Face-time or even Zoom (I can receive Zoom call but you would have to set one up). Virtual sessions can be between two-four hour bookings. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Two of the most popular combinations for either mini (5- 15 minute) readings or 30 minute sessions seems to be 1. A combination of Astrology and Numerology, with the added option of oracles like Tarot, Angel cards or Druid animal totems. 2. Another popular option is a glimpse into your guest’s Astrology charts. I bring my I-pad air with me and take a look at and explain some of the aspects of everyone at the events unique Astrological Solar chart!<br />During some of my past parties the host requested I use other oracles like Runes, Angel cards, or Lakota Indian cards, or Animal Totem cards instead of Tarot. The Tarot can be very detailed and sometimes guests may prefer something a little “lighter.” Check my website for more information about different oracles available. Email me or call to check for availability for booking your party or event. Venturasag@yahoo.com<br /><br /><i>“Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.” Hal Borland</i><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Snake Oil Radio</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG1AKMmVD1GTDIRjJYHZa35pNo5z1InoHJ8jNmVpDxrI8C8ngj8pxn8-DB70-l9fPpqXF30T5jBGtDFBpmvdB-3Zw7TMUPxcXu5ScubGgai2TcPcUjA4p7ukCwxpqt0-CPjOgw3UrMvkLVeiYJ5zIk_vjZLej1oZCJmlP3lL1ylYYo2NPJJE-8B418Pw/s194/image007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="167" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG1AKMmVD1GTDIRjJYHZa35pNo5z1InoHJ8jNmVpDxrI8C8ngj8pxn8-DB70-l9fPpqXF30T5jBGtDFBpmvdB-3Zw7TMUPxcXu5ScubGgai2TcPcUjA4p7ukCwxpqt0-CPjOgw3UrMvkLVeiYJ5zIk_vjZLej1oZCJmlP3lL1ylYYo2NPJJE-8B418Pw/s1600/image007.jpg" width="167" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />Thursdays at 3:30 pm (there will be two live broadcast this period)<br />My next live broadcast of Snake Oil Radio will be Thursday, September 15th at 3:30 p.m. mountain (Phoenix) time. Usually one Thursday each month you can catch a new show. Each 45 minute show will expand on my current column’s subject matter. It will also offer an opportunity for you to chat with other listeners in the chat room with comments and your thoughts about the topic of discussion. If you miss the live show, you can catch any of my previously recorded shows on the web site’s archive. You can also catch Snake Oil Radio on I-tunes (download my pod-casts there).<br />To hear a live show, all you need to do is be at a computer and tuned into: <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura">http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura</a> or on your phone. You may also access it by going to the site and type “Snake Oil” into the search option. You can also go to the shows that are currently “On air” at that time and find me. The call in number is 646-200-3966 for questions and comments if the show is offering that (please check, many of my column shows don’t).</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><i>“It’s the first day of autumn! A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and, best of all, leaping into leaves!” Winnie the Pooh</i><br /><br /><i>“Always the battle of the Spiritual Warrior is with the self. Funding a will through action, yet unattached to outcomes, remaining mindful that all you can really do is stay out of your own way and let the Will of Heaven flow through you-these are among the hallmarks of the Spiritual Warrior.” Tiewaz The Warrior Rune<br /></i><br />Here’s my contact information to make an appointment for a session, or information on current classes: Email: <a href="mailto:Venturasag@yahoo.com">Venturasag@yahoo.com</a> (best method for contact).<br />Phone calls: (602) 957-3035 text only: (602) 349-0746 <br /><br />Information about the different sessions and types of readings and services, past Snake Oil columns, and how to order my books and audio CD’s can be found at my website: <a href="Http://JimVentura.com">Http://JimVentura.com</a> <br /><br />“Friend” me on Facebook to get other extra offers and in between column extras! Signing up for my fan page will get you even more extras and first shot at reading specials. Simply click on “like” on the fan page and you will automatically get my weekly updates. <br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl</a><br /><br />I have a few other media channels other than my monthly radio shows and FaceBook:<br /><br />Subscribe to my YouTube Channel (approximately once a month 6-11 minute videos) at J Ventura Snake Oil. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Instagram at Venturawords (mostly astrology updates) </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> Tik Tok (Animalspeaks) where I do short 3 minute videos about animal totems!<br /><br />All personal sessions/readings for 2022-2023 are: Full (70 minutes) $115.00; Shorter session (45 minutes) $90.00; Extended session (90 minutes) $140.00 (two people can split an extended session back to back $70.00 each, although no other discounts will apply). Mini phone session 20 minutes $40. Email me for information about my Regular Client Program for even bigger discounts on session prices with the added benefit of monthly or quarterly check-ins. Purchasing 3 pre-paid sessions also brings sizable discounts. Some examples; 3 prepaid 45 minute monthly sessions is $150 total or $50 a session. 3 prepaid quarterly 70 minute session $240 or $80 a session.<br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtEZfq2t0hCtu9bsH7ZTyRioJeoJtG4r5FF15WYEtNoNPCbK2kU2C-Ty_kVKh3mrRmWoLmqjoCOdzhBDLyWsRx87ZCK9uDiD12EsV_g-AUHWqH75yuJyKmxMbahNK4ps0tqUUcB6Po6qL6MQBrufBIs5qq9vpObG8B1P5Dlog4DzlcUBEgH8WB4yKKog/s499/empty-alley-covered-by-foliage-in-autumn-park-vienna-austria-picture-id1265225847.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="499" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtEZfq2t0hCtu9bsH7ZTyRioJeoJtG4r5FF15WYEtNoNPCbK2kU2C-Ty_kVKh3mrRmWoLmqjoCOdzhBDLyWsRx87ZCK9uDiD12EsV_g-AUHWqH75yuJyKmxMbahNK4ps0tqUUcB6Po6qL6MQBrufBIs5qq9vpObG8B1P5Dlog4DzlcUBEgH8WB4yKKog/s320/empty-alley-covered-by-foliage-in-autumn-park-vienna-austria-picture-id1265225847.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>Jim V/Snake Oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00746873887985304530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024612299906599073.post-43033914777690374392022-07-02T22:22:00.000-07:002022-07-02T22:22:34.820-07:00July August 2022 Snake Oil/Revenge of the Birds<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Snake Oil/Revenge of the Birds</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAViZ1CXYoR1E69ICKnoj1HzewcL80e7H2kaDUTRbuTVDA8Xno_BUp2JYR8Vh9Qn91VprSJyS-T9VgwMJc8HOh88GPmuid42txaC_9aNovFeJEKJNLUlRK2lxUqZF6NT36i5jtgSxCRoMNeWNI3y-ZoFlHc4YF8TdgW5hoL0H_SSOK3yIBlM22bSlFfQ/s308/images-5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="163" data-original-width="308" height="163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAViZ1CXYoR1E69ICKnoj1HzewcL80e7H2kaDUTRbuTVDA8Xno_BUp2JYR8Vh9Qn91VprSJyS-T9VgwMJc8HOh88GPmuid42txaC_9aNovFeJEKJNLUlRK2lxUqZF6NT36i5jtgSxCRoMNeWNI3y-ZoFlHc4YF8TdgW5hoL0H_SSOK3yIBlM22bSlFfQ/s1600/images-5.jpg" width="308" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I remember seeing the Alfred Hitchcock classic the Birds when I was about twelve. The scene where an unnerving amount of birds are flocking around one of the main characters in the background was truly ominous. In this scene Tippi Hedren is actually attacked by birds and it’s terrifying. A master of suspense the director brings up the scary possibility of nature actually turning against us while it was a brilliant idea and in all practically highly unlikely it still made us think about what could happen if we abuse nature and take it for granted. What if animals/nature turned against us? </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">We had a cat when I was around that age in addition to our usual full house of three dogs. He was an inside cat, but he spent a lot of time outside by choice. Our cat and dogs absolutely never fought each other like cats and dogs were supposed to do. Rainbow was definitely a hunter. He would bring us dead birds or what remained of them, mice, and even a rabbit once. Each time we of course cringed. I always knew that it was part of the cat’s nature and he was proud of his skills as a hunter, but it was not pleasant. His major catch was birds though. It seemed in the nicer NY weather months he typically got one to three of them every few weeks or so. I used to joke that the birds in our area must have hated him. How many bird family members did he take out? </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVWYstyJFw5Cu4xiHA6aiX7mQW7m7DaIiuAa1GOkiT4-n-j2kvtT6py8OITTvAlEGO0NDFptH4afvIAcdelXbZfVEf2_e5NStsbOW9uCNka4wl6fOMsHJPBvImxC9AZ00OkA8g2o36cRDtur8A0aceopxtCxEbsjwJo59RQTC02SbQcQ8OR5Gg5i9LLA/s152/eD_gE_7bsvyiqJbc8gLG4RS5vTp_NEC9xZGlGK-2bKIzW9aZgAUYbxTsyPTKZvTQHowo=s152.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="85" data-original-width="152" height="85" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVWYstyJFw5Cu4xiHA6aiX7mQW7m7DaIiuAa1GOkiT4-n-j2kvtT6py8OITTvAlEGO0NDFptH4afvIAcdelXbZfVEf2_e5NStsbOW9uCNka4wl6fOMsHJPBvImxC9AZ00OkA8g2o36cRDtur8A0aceopxtCxEbsjwJo59RQTC02SbQcQ8OR5Gg5i9LLA/w166-h85/eD_gE_7bsvyiqJbc8gLG4RS5vTp_NEC9xZGlGK-2bKIzW9aZgAUYbxTsyPTKZvTQHowo=s152.jpg" width="166" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I once saw him at the side of our house when he wasn’t feeling well and trying to sleep as a bunch of birds screeched at him, Some actually flew close by seeming to taunt him. I didn’t feel bad for him though, he was often brutal to many of them. But the strangest thing I ever saw was watching Rainbow drinking out of our above-ground pool while balancing himself on its edge. I was up early Sunday morning trying to enjoy the day before my large family all woke up and my mother would inevitably heavily suggest we go with her to church or quiz us about what specific Catholic Mass we going to attend? Not going unfortunately wasn’t an option. Savoring some brief moments of peace and quiet that morning I looked out the backyard sliding glass doors and saw something wild. The birds in clear formation were taking turns flying close to Rainbow’s butt and even trying to seemingly push him into the pool. He was obstinate and kept his balance. One bird hit so close that Rainbow scrambled not to fall in. I imagined the birds high five-ing each other if they were able to do such thing. They were relentless in their formation strikes and even when he tried to jump down they made that difficult too. The coordination, strategy even the intention to harm him was unquestionable. This was the first time I began to see that sometimes nature does try to strike back and there were interesting aspects to animals not everyone noticed. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Rainbow’s life ended a few years later when he found his way into a part of one of the cars in our driveway on a cold NY winter day. He was apparently trying to get warm and feel asleep. My brother started his car not knowing the cat was in there and I will spare the uncomfortable graphics... Maybe it was his cat karma catching up with him? More likely it had nothing to do with that and it was just his time. Either way, he was a character from my childhood. He tuned me into seeing something I wouldn’t logically think would ever happen. And the amazing recognition that it seems sometimes animals do actually hold grudges! </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Part Two</b> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> I have always enjoyed watching the behavior of animals. I know how much they can teach us. I was programmed by school science classes to see nature as mostly a survival of the fittest structure. I never doubted that this was true in some respects, but I often saw signs of real cooperative behavior between animals as well. Animals at times clearly also took care of each other, worked together in formation for a greater good, and were even at times kind. So powerful is the strength of the mothering instinct in the animal kingdom that at times they even take over parenting responsibilities for children that are not their own. And there are countless examples of when the children were of a different species and they take care of them too! If this is not a powerful example of cooperation and caring among animal species then clearly some of my school science teachers had blatantly missed something. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrGtreXVX-s9ocGUJAqUSvAYclD8g7eFVS5BmdCrvdJ7fdMrOKRKXIp9SH3jvtzZ3VQw7OD-QWFPSO45s1UJlqZuJv2JIDrVW_4gVG8n09n84KyfvGlKhPCnc9SvIjawIiS9YVHedp9OrcDYoIwB5VZWbkYfnzLd1QJA99BNAJ8uMeSI0j6I7KZnLwqw/s600/32336856_1754799344558809_8121842105162137600_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrGtreXVX-s9ocGUJAqUSvAYclD8g7eFVS5BmdCrvdJ7fdMrOKRKXIp9SH3jvtzZ3VQw7OD-QWFPSO45s1UJlqZuJv2JIDrVW_4gVG8n09n84KyfvGlKhPCnc9SvIjawIiS9YVHedp9OrcDYoIwB5VZWbkYfnzLd1QJA99BNAJ8uMeSI0j6I7KZnLwqw/s320/32336856_1754799344558809_8121842105162137600_n.jpg" width="239" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Even we look at the most uncomfortable aspects of when animals kill and even eat each other, there are other layers to this reality than just seeming cruelty. Obviously the need for protein and other survival elements taken from one animal to another are one aspect of this as a physical necessity. Watching a cat for instance, slowly (often) killing a bird, rabbit, bug, lizard, or mouse is not something that I enjoy by any means. Yet, this is quite natural too. From a metaphysical perspective, the animals do know their roles. I think while the physical body of a poor nearly defeated bird may still fight somewhat until the end, their consciousness exits part of the way through the ordeal. The bodies natural automatic response will still attempt an escape (it was designed to), but it also does know and accept the inevitable. Like some cultures viewpoint (Many American Indian’s for example) they believe that the consciousness of the bird joins in the cat’s body in some respects and then sees the world through the cat’s eyes and even it’s body, like a joining of souls. To an observer it can seem inhuman and it is! But it’s our perception of what is good and bad, and our fear of death being the ultimate end that distorts the understanding of this natural process. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Nature has it’s own reasons, balances, and rhythms. Animals in nature don’t have the choice to go to a supermarket for food. Suggesting that they are bad for hunting is sheer nonsense. I am not a fan of hunting personally, yet I respect most hunters, especially when the acts fall within the path of not just killing for sport. Catching and killing an animal to feed one’s family or to thin a herd that is overpopulated and causing damage is at times a part of life, and at times quite necessary whether we approve of it or not. I am no fan of cruel animal farming or any other form of animal cruelty by any means. And the quest for profit above all often triggered by greed and overpopulation needs cries out for healthy reform. We can and should do better. Recognizing the life cycle of each being, its time to receive and its time to give, and its time to sacrifice need not mean turning a blind eye to unnecessary inhumanity. I personally choose to keep my meat eating footprint fairly small, but have not fully committed to a vegetarian or vegan diet. I have great respect for those who have though. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwG1fidTwQqqeFTPoLK9FE1Z-B35dqBTQMtodPQlHXoHd-FrrJ0w8hNwf6yZK0leTXjeaZkLyHbdNqmJfXpnfkVW_ClV-YMEtu6wi4ebpXVvZtL0PLspvg7Z_M7pSc01NIY_0GJpkKvNVNScb_U-gC1Z5Zt49UK_utIYa3Ca-35wD7NbeFQpHE-T6oVQ/s529/opened-book-picture-id541152594.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="326" data-original-width="529" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwG1fidTwQqqeFTPoLK9FE1Z-B35dqBTQMtodPQlHXoHd-FrrJ0w8hNwf6yZK0leTXjeaZkLyHbdNqmJfXpnfkVW_ClV-YMEtu6wi4ebpXVvZtL0PLspvg7Z_M7pSc01NIY_0GJpkKvNVNScb_U-gC1Z5Zt49UK_utIYa3Ca-35wD7NbeFQpHE-T6oVQ/s320/opened-book-picture-id541152594.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There are so many things animals give us and learning to read the “book of nature” by watching animals can give us insight into ourselves and the world around us. Watching the movement of flocks of birds, how cats can fight and then cuddle up later to stay warm, ants working together on a mission, a mother dog protecting her young, bees doing their job, etc... can help us see how organized, cooperative, and yes, even loving nature can be. And you don’t have to kill an animal to benefit from its energy and wisdom. This is what it means to take on an animal as totem. To use the skills and wisdom of different animals to navigate more effectively in our own lives. We can learn to recognize our place in the circle of life. Not above or below the animals, but as brothers and sisters to them and part of an equal family of living beings on this Earth. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Jim Ventura 6-2-2022 </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>Notes</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b></b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwDzbgBBVs5WRt_k3LtDClS5s4J7zgf7E5CkSZTzx_LPrqxFCCDtyaSHtxHbMCUqrluG3aIpsjhqqw0r56jqOSZZ5Te1fLhSEcT9w5hGfvR7Y_Ch8kPLedgPk4MYPaqhQ82zgjL6Gi-NUuwEGJmd8gAfDhQoO5jQEdXji1Mkx6eLkdvJaOf6WcBf0L4w/s374/image005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="374" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwDzbgBBVs5WRt_k3LtDClS5s4J7zgf7E5CkSZTzx_LPrqxFCCDtyaSHtxHbMCUqrluG3aIpsjhqqw0r56jqOSZZ5Te1fLhSEcT9w5hGfvR7Y_Ch8kPLedgPk4MYPaqhQ82zgjL6Gi-NUuwEGJmd8gAfDhQoO5jQEdXji1Mkx6eLkdvJaOf6WcBf0L4w/s320/image005.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /> </b></span><br />If you are wondering why this is in two parts, I am working on a new book, but it isn’t a metaphysical book so the first part of this may actually appear in that book. My interest, connection with animals is something I have always loved. And one part of this is understanding the many benefits of animals as totem. Totem is the characteristics, powers, insight, and wisdom of what each animals represents, may show us, or even share with us. I have been doing a Tik Tok channel with short 3 minute videos about animal totems at: @animalspeaks. I started with cats, dogs and now I am talking about bears! You can request as part of your next session or even a full session on looking at animal totems in your life-very, very beneficial!</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAu8F2PbJ9hNmV57lWCLfOrbBQPmwxP1Vr6b15s4iFuBVy8VnoRQIu68nrcKTuwkyuaSiI-ffDFK4R1-YXMfcsvXfQcdB07phCqZjjEmIr7aDBra73CibMnG_RYXtQ1PJR4ziOP7G9mQNZDJQy0UwFKaqRbFhuOvxmaDnzOm6Od9DI-UR_NaGJwt-uFA/s338/images-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="149" data-original-width="338" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAu8F2PbJ9hNmV57lWCLfOrbBQPmwxP1Vr6b15s4iFuBVy8VnoRQIu68nrcKTuwkyuaSiI-ffDFK4R1-YXMfcsvXfQcdB07phCqZjjEmIr7aDBra73CibMnG_RYXtQ1PJR4ziOP7G9mQNZDJQy0UwFKaqRbFhuOvxmaDnzOm6Od9DI-UR_NaGJwt-uFA/s320/images-3.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />The last Mercury retrograde, which took place most of May and early June pushed a lot of buttons of discomfort about how we communicate and express ourselves. The discomfort and even adversity had some notable benefits as well! What else could we expect from its Gemini placement? I really found myself getting irritated by an uptick of, and even a few close friends suggesting that “I shouldn’t be so crude, or curse, or to even GASP say anything negative at all ever. As if thinking or occasionally expressing a negative thought, or stepping into a little bit of “dark” briefly can have catastrophic consequences. Insert intense ominous music here... This often metaphysical belief is of course similar to some of the more extreme religious perspectives and is basically nonsense. It takes a lot of repeated words, actions, and beliefs to become an actual manifested thing in life. The universe is actually more geared to create the positive, but yes intense negative repeated statements often, and consistently over time may cause difficulties to manifest. Fearing this possibility is in many ways a bigger problem.<br />In actuality a little dark humor from time to time can be healthy and even healing! </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><i>“...The best thing you’ve ever done for me is to help me take life less seriously, it’s only life after all-Yeah...” from the song Closer I am to fine. The Indigo Girls</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiqEFVY5j6qiZFQSUlQ69Way9MxyZgNqepzJLAvC6X7oN9iCiscH7-k21DyC9o0xn32-t_NeOt9Gj0azn4WfaJGzqvZitvNFNavMIMcHCjMtm4sbejUtMJNexMPDJiBE4jibxmZk6TAljblyNWMB14lmAykxUvY8qkk3b-F-Sn7Vhdem97zy7jHjbtBw/s166/FTjfaRfJGWq2sZTq_z0N8ImoP_M0j0nljfGIxasJP_lQCR_Dv2fB05u_RPuaGrgiugYj2Q=s166.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="85" data-original-width="166" height="85" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiqEFVY5j6qiZFQSUlQ69Way9MxyZgNqepzJLAvC6X7oN9iCiscH7-k21DyC9o0xn32-t_NeOt9Gj0azn4WfaJGzqvZitvNFNavMIMcHCjMtm4sbejUtMJNexMPDJiBE4jibxmZk6TAljblyNWMB14lmAykxUvY8qkk3b-F-Sn7Vhdem97zy7jHjbtBw/s1600/FTjfaRfJGWq2sZTq_z0N8ImoP_M0j0nljfGIxasJP_lQCR_Dv2fB05u_RPuaGrgiugYj2Q=s166.jpg" width="166" /></a></i></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />Similar to many of the clients I worked with during this period the negative led me somewhere. It inspired me to starting a fun new project. I have always noticed that while my metaphysically themed posts on social media get a fair amount of thumbs ups and positive responses, my dark humor posts generally get two to three times as many! I used to find it frustrating that people preferred this sadly but I am now seeing this in a new light. When I was a kid, I originally wanted to be a caricature artist. I would draw my friends, family members, and even some celebrities as cartoon character and I was really good at it. I also have collected hundreds of funny stories about friends, coworkers, my family members, and a host of other characters I have had the privilege, and sometimes torture of meeting in my over 50 years. I have entertained a lot of people by sharing some of these stories and of course made a few upset when they started uncomfortably “Clutching Their Pearls” (yes, u probably guessed it, this is one of the title essay stories for the new book). </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />I am currently putting together a written collection version of some of these stories in a new book. Humor is a sale-able category to market. And God knows it is needed now more than ever in our current easily offended “You triggered me.” “Let’s erase history if it makes anybody uncomfortable,” culture. The recent focus of cleaning up some of our past histories cruel perspectives arrogantly thrown around definitely has value (some of it needs to go), but things like erasing 80s movies and shows, cartoons, and syrup bottle images is bizarre. Rather than erase all the things that appeared to be homophobic, racist, misogynistic, sexist, etc... there can be a value to seeing stupid things in our past as kitsch. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR0DKb3K_l1-SmxSSGcSGUWJxWT0xvu4i1vAKkBQl9wDZ8-if784sdFgzy5jSlzl8nrJB2viSuZ3DRrqPEJQGwy6duH6Eq_ikkucTBiUgUvT3GlRoj-YTGE7LEjqZxWBlzeBb4INMtX1M8B5-vXbC4nXLx5JKz-8fsG9xib7z1HKUUN2Ih63gvCjuVUw/s275/images-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR0DKb3K_l1-SmxSSGcSGUWJxWT0xvu4i1vAKkBQl9wDZ8-if784sdFgzy5jSlzl8nrJB2viSuZ3DRrqPEJQGwy6duH6Eq_ikkucTBiUgUvT3GlRoj-YTGE7LEjqZxWBlzeBb4INMtX1M8B5-vXbC4nXLx5JKz-8fsG9xib7z1HKUUN2Ih63gvCjuVUw/s1600/images-2.jpg" width="275" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />Kitsch: art, objects, or design considered to be in poor taste because of excessive garishness or sentimentality, but sometimes appreciated in an ironic or knowing way. <br />We can learn to laugh at some of the things of the past that now look kind of stupid. They serve as a reminder of our evolution! This new book has been really fun to work on so I have to thank my obnoxious hypersensitive critics for actually pushing me here! I will update the progress from time to time and may even print a few stories on occasion to change things up.</span><br /><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />Seeing many of my Regular clients lighting up with their own versions of new projects, finding what they were meant to do, and moving into prosperous territory in their own unique ways has been icing on an already delicious cake. I won’t stop my metaphysical work by any means. This is one of the gifts of being someone who had a lot of natal chart mutability (Virgo, Gemini, and Sagittarius). But my dual nature will allow me to capitalize on Jim the comedian. Oh, and some of the stories are also just quite sweet too!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />If you are a local in Arizona, I will be teaching a Tarot card class on July 17th at Sozo Healing House in Tempe. Space is limited (maximum of 11 students for this workshop) and it’s only $25 total for the two and a half hour class. Contact me ASAP if interested since it is already just over half full as this goes to publication. If you miss out for any reason or are not a local I teach this class and 14 others here in my home office or by phone, face-time, or Zoom. You can do any of the solo classes or set one up with a friend. Info on my website or email me directly at to set up a class(es) Venturasag@yahoo.com.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />A friend pointed out that on my web pages at JimVentura.com there is an obnoxious message saying “site is not secured.” For the record this means nothing at all, This is a reminder that if you type in personal information here it isn’t protected, but there isn’t any way to do that, its just info on a page, I don’t collect anything there. In other words it is my web host trying to get me to pay even more money, geez it never end lol<br />Wishing everyone a great mid point to the summer of 2022. Jim V<br /> <br /><i>“The enlightened fool is the one who sees the ego trips of society and can still find joy and laughter in its midst. The fool is often the enlightened one, the one with crazy wisdom, with laughter and jokes as their weapons, they cut through the mundane conformity and bring to light the latent child like bliss bubbling just beneath the surface of all seriousness. The fool possesses a wisdom that is out of the reach of the conformist. A playful attitude in touch with enormous amounts of creativity.” George Carlin</i><br /><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>New Client Special 2022 January 1st thru October 31st 2022 Special:</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkdNdNj5POVMDcIeQN-Hz81XSdJ_4yMGDnn0lj2QVX1AEaBMzwCNPGkC4zliHu0YuY8U3B9IIXOHGh5CGBkzeP19RHwWBykHLTL7FP-dceH95Ew3a_VvGKOoQNhP7drbuyjac_nFaACwVoD_pUNxbE0fJs4qL1IY6Az7wQ-w85MVxO2KgLBfYlSIhkfg/s1280/2-Ways-Baskets-Improve-Your-Gift-Giving-Skills.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1280" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkdNdNj5POVMDcIeQN-Hz81XSdJ_4yMGDnn0lj2QVX1AEaBMzwCNPGkC4zliHu0YuY8U3B9IIXOHGh5CGBkzeP19RHwWBykHLTL7FP-dceH95Ew3a_VvGKOoQNhP7drbuyjac_nFaACwVoD_pUNxbE0fJs4qL1IY6Az7wQ-w85MVxO2KgLBfYlSIhkfg/s320/2-Ways-Baskets-Improve-Your-Gift-Giving-Skills.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><br />$10-15 off listed rates for your first 45 minute session, 70, or 90 minute session! Debit and credit card payments get $10 off for 45, 70, and 90 minute sessions. Local in-office clients can get an extra $5 off for cash or check payments for sessions. If you want to buy a new client a thoughtful gift of a session for a friend or family member you can also take advantage of these rates! </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><i>“Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. as the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.” John Lubbock</i></span></span></p><p><i></i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>TAROT CARD READING CLASS</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ3YEkIw__JV0NpdD5Uu5p8YaXfSmPOYNSrhFAflm_maEzL7QzOw5pbInmsar96GeGOB7vH61__lFu9akN2QapZYOxIFTWY5YOGliQbEKjSHcbeWU5Ws0HgOTzNGtCxKzceHXjgEPGMQiXN0J-dRfo6z0PwigxVDDk0hjhpLK6Rjtp-ZOWMbng9L3LFg/s275/images-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ3YEkIw__JV0NpdD5Uu5p8YaXfSmPOYNSrhFAflm_maEzL7QzOw5pbInmsar96GeGOB7vH61__lFu9akN2QapZYOxIFTWY5YOGliQbEKjSHcbeWU5Ws0HgOTzNGtCxKzceHXjgEPGMQiXN0J-dRfo6z0PwigxVDDk0hjhpLK6Rjtp-ZOWMbng9L3LFg/s1600/images-1.jpg" width="275" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><br />Whether you have some experience with Tarot or have never explored this oracle before, This Tarot class will assist you in understanding the wisdom, insight and potential guidance contained in Tarot cards. This class will focus on teaching you how to read the Tarot for yourself and eventually for others. The Tarot can be used for prediction, to accelerate spiritual growth, and increase your awareness or “navigational life skills.” If you don’t have a deck, assistance will also be provided on choosing the right deck for you. Whether you plan on using oracles for self guidance, or wish to expand into doing readings professionally, this class will assist you on your road to mastering the Tarot.<br /><br />Instructor: Jim Ventura Navigational consultant, astrologer, oracle reader, author, radio and television host, and columnist. Jim has twenty-seven years experience as a spiritual counselor and works with many different types of oracles. You can see his monthly videos on YouTube (J Ventura Snake Oil) and his many appearances on the ABC syndicated show The List TV. More information about services at <a href="http://JimVentura.com">JimVentura.com</a><br />Email Venturasag@yahoo.com to reserve a space in this (limited to 11 students) workshop. Sunday July 17th. 11:15 - 2:45 pm. $25.00. Another advanced class will be following at the end of the summer. <br />Location: Sozo Healing House in Tempe Arizona.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />If you are not a local or can’t make this class. I teach private classes on Tarot and many other Oracle workshops in my home office or by phone, Zoom or Face-time for out of area students. Contact me for more info and a list of available classes.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><i>“We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems.” Prem Rawat</i></span></span></p><p><i></i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><i>“You can only attract what you subconsciously feel worthy of attaining. If you’re not getting what you want, it’s time to work on your self-esteem.” Dick Sutphen</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i> </i><br /><br /><b>Channeled Corner.</b> I have read many, many books from some of the best trance channelers in the 70s-2000s. Unfortunately many of them are now out of print, but I still have a huge collection and will share some of the best material I have collected over the years:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />You Must make Choices from Kunda</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKK7cVQebKt8hwnEX7demGDJVuP5JOWXzVY4Yxw2InTQhiDRALhnjiKewYzZ1T7JLAV_oydyPQRm0QtL1VDLcqjSjVLqnnQUxXtVJaPdXGbLytXKaTxHasSrPJpnCr_lVemKx9caQj4fd5RlAZTtBnzEs5QsQdET-S0p0CTBRTUD_FtJRYL1Ci3DzvMw/s509/options-concept-wooden-signpost-picture-id668039210.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="339" data-original-width="509" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKK7cVQebKt8hwnEX7demGDJVuP5JOWXzVY4Yxw2InTQhiDRALhnjiKewYzZ1T7JLAV_oydyPQRm0QtL1VDLcqjSjVLqnnQUxXtVJaPdXGbLytXKaTxHasSrPJpnCr_lVemKx9caQj4fd5RlAZTtBnzEs5QsQdET-S0p0CTBRTUD_FtJRYL1Ci3DzvMw/s320/options-concept-wooden-signpost-picture-id668039210.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />Like it or not, agreement shapes your reality. For all things happen by choice. You are not here by accident, nor are you the victim of fate. You are here, quite simply and empathically, because you want to be here. Because you are an integral extension of the cosmic soul, know that on some level you consciously chose to evolve spiritually within the physical environment as a part of your diving constitution. And before you reentered this realm, you made certain agreements which supported not only the continuance of your spiritual lessons here, but the advancement of other entities who are also evolving in clusters with you.<br />You helped to create the working blueprint which outlines your entire life program and also parallels your chosen destiny.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />Now, every life, every personality, every situation and ever experience is carefully chosen-right down to the details of your so-called death experience. This is true for all on the physical plane. With the exception of karmic intervention (the Divine hand which evens the scale of cosmic justice and also assures your spiritual best-good), the life that you live is the very life that you chose. There are simply no exceptions. And the living of it all brings the necessary experiences and lessons to bear, all of which contribute to the ultimate growth and understanding of every soul-fragment.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />The agreements which you made with your soul are the operating plans for the unfoldment of that blueprint. They shape the reality of your life environment. And a life in which every agreement is refused, avoided, or even broken will only serve to teach you what such avoidance brings. Regardless of whether the physical life was completed or not, that life will still remain valid to some degree, and whatever was learned will contribute to the evolution of the soul as it moves into the greater essence of its soul community.” Spirt Speaks Magazine</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><i>“According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don’t bother you anymore. You become lighthearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more syncronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous.” Deepak Chopra</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i></i><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Snake Oil Radio</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKZOMcLbTfGniVtkucZfSmAds2fI1bfEjy04q9H27DaRxtj27l6cv6LA_2-DtHLnWA1gFLJcD2QUjJ2jxh5bSQOwX_C5AoyP7tXWo3og6JFania3aEOfsFAK0ucnWLt6pFE1aTaR-GuRvBntf2mfajS_rFE0tsyCFSzD1YKHwZk_IR88RhQ68gn7rjnw/s194/image007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="167" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKZOMcLbTfGniVtkucZfSmAds2fI1bfEjy04q9H27DaRxtj27l6cv6LA_2-DtHLnWA1gFLJcD2QUjJ2jxh5bSQOwX_C5AoyP7tXWo3og6JFania3aEOfsFAK0ucnWLt6pFE1aTaR-GuRvBntf2mfajS_rFE0tsyCFSzD1YKHwZk_IR88RhQ68gn7rjnw/s1600/image007.jpg" width="167" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />Thursdays at 3:30 pm (there will be two live broadcast this period)<br />My next live broadcast of Snake Oil Radio will be Thursday, July 21st at 3:30 p.m. mountain (Phoenix) time. Usually one Thursday each month you can catch a new show. Each 45 minute show will expand on my current column’s subject matter. It will also offer an opportunity for you to chat with other listeners in the chat room with comments and your thoughts about the topic of discussion. If you miss the live show, you can catch any of my previously recorded shows on the web site’s archive. You can also catch Snake Oil Radio on I-tunes (download my pod-casts there).<br />To hear a live show, all you need to do is be at a computer and tuned into: <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura">http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura</a> You may also access it by going to the site and type “Snake Oil” into the search option. You can also go to the shows that are currently “On air” at that time and find me. The call in number is 646-200-3966 for questions and comments.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><i>“Happiness is having a large, caring, close-knit family in another city.” George Burns<br /><br /></i><br />Here’s my contact information to make an appointment for a session, or information on current classes: Email: Venturasag@yahoo.com (best method for contact).<br />Phone calls: (602) 957-3035 text only: (602) 349-0746 <br /><br />Information about the different sessions and types of readings and services, past Snake Oil columns, and how to order my books and audio CD’s can be found at my website: <a href="Http://JimVentura.com">Http://JimVentura.com</a> <br /><br />“Friend” me on Facebook to get other extra offers and in between column extras! Signing up for my fan page will get you even more extras and first shot at reading specials. 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Some examples; 3 pre-paid 45 minute monthly sessions is $150 total or $50 a session. 3 pre-paid quarterly 70 minute session $240 or $80 a session.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggSlIktrbnWFiqGe5sX6vA-O8DqIS-_-MG_OGzzJeU-967lpD22yzW-w_hwUvflyD_LsMGNtxfsM7foJ7jYKwOXQ-lrusyrfhB2JerU16ped7sjiDRbcES44C30ljteOCfmX4lTQxTNOp5l9Ns0uIXZ6by8PObuPnjjpDYcLQMfMoO6ebB-rBTq7fFcw/s484/290597656_10225706907290851_3562735431350219088_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="484" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggSlIktrbnWFiqGe5sX6vA-O8DqIS-_-MG_OGzzJeU-967lpD22yzW-w_hwUvflyD_LsMGNtxfsM7foJ7jYKwOXQ-lrusyrfhB2JerU16ped7sjiDRbcES44C30ljteOCfmX4lTQxTNOp5l9Ns0uIXZ6by8PObuPnjjpDYcLQMfMoO6ebB-rBTq7fFcw/s320/290597656_10225706907290851_3562735431350219088_n.jpg" width="317" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><p></p>Jim V/Snake Oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00746873887985304530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024612299906599073.post-9747869129557948222022-05-08T19:18:00.003-07:002022-05-12T13:45:37.228-07:00May June 2022 Snake Oil/BE Afraid Be Very, Very, Very Afraid<p><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Snake Oil BE AFRAID BE VERY, VERY, VERY AFRAID</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisxogOJ_LszSh0xBXuTKyuSNehLO8ICC7wzeLMSdOmvpnk3t0kWlM_EeZHnQF3j_bisIKVz8_ndvywoQAAO6IPA4jgTY7y1gjhWdwIFD-EPOgrTmnVUARHxpWfkjm02SB0YM4FmlfezXymDBR8BcR-jKnFfR0_SSXn2ww1nVcqrNGt6foJiocqVP8vOQ/s612/teenager-with-hands-on-face-picture-idpha106000047.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="612" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisxogOJ_LszSh0xBXuTKyuSNehLO8ICC7wzeLMSdOmvpnk3t0kWlM_EeZHnQF3j_bisIKVz8_ndvywoQAAO6IPA4jgTY7y1gjhWdwIFD-EPOgrTmnVUARHxpWfkjm02SB0YM4FmlfezXymDBR8BcR-jKnFfR0_SSXn2ww1nVcqrNGt6foJiocqVP8vOQ/s320/teenager-with-hands-on-face-picture-idpha106000047.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />As I began to pull out of the parking space I normally park in at my condominium home, a young man in a van next to me motioned me to roll down my window. “I noticed that you sometimes leave your car windows partially open. You may want to be more cautious about doing this. My car was broken into last week, and they took my stereo.” I nodded a thanks for the warning gesture as I drove away. I remembered that the guy who parked on the other side of me had his car broken into weeks before. I felt a wave of panic run through me as I imagined my car being stolen and broken into. What if my car were to experience the same fate? Finances were already tight. What would I do if my insurance rates increased? I remembered the time ten years ago when my car was stolen, and I suddenly felt as if it were happening all over again. I began to feel afraid.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />That day, my fear tape only lasted about fifteen minutes as I realized I had nothing to fear. The car that was stolen from me ten years ago was a Chevy Blazer and there are practical reasons why it is more common for car thieves to steal trucks. My car is a Chevy Cavalier with a factory model stereo. I bought this economical car because I wanted a comfortable, inexpensive car that would be less likely to attract the attention of a thief. Even if my car were to be stolen, I would deal with that when it actually occurred. I decided that I would not waste valuable time and energy worrying about something that might or might not ever happen.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />Two days before this incident, I received an email from a client who was in a state of panic. Someone had broken into her daughters apartment and rifled through her things. Although nothing seemed to be taken, she and her daughter were terrified that it could occur again. A psychic in the area told her that the perpetrator was the man across the street who had been watching her daughter. I felt this was an accurate assessment. They both felt powerless and could not stop worrying about the situation. What if the unthinkable occurred and he tried again and the daughter happened to be there?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />I often remind my clients that what we fear might happen is almost always far worse than any difficult experience we ever actually endure. We waste valuable life force, time, and energy stressing and worrying about possible future disasters. “How will I survive financially if I leave this loveless marriage?” “What if my family disowns me when they find out I am gay?” “What if I never find the right mate and end up alone?” “People are getting laid-off all around me; how will I survive if I lose my job?” “What will happen If I get sick?” The list of things to dread is endless. We all encounter difficulty from time to time. Occasional challenges are part of life in a physical body. Thankfully, most of our imagined worse-case-scenarios rarely come to pass. Real problems and difficulties are never really the issue. Being caught in the grip of fear is the real battle to resolve. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv2dM1U_zD3Ta3Dr40jUsds6aalkC68lzCRauwobA8m4lHhAJvMW5WcDr7xnD2BWxXDmihey_g2-GniLBcqEtEt9zBgh23Uc48z78Nuy34fPAALB79laf9d79TfRJz9v0dGbUDjBQXpNeWPMIrv29ZGTGBdjpEiNAZq_ZTCIsbUYU3GinUKbPuuBDxNw/s153/th-8.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="153" data-original-width="141" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv2dM1U_zD3Ta3Dr40jUsds6aalkC68lzCRauwobA8m4lHhAJvMW5WcDr7xnD2BWxXDmihey_g2-GniLBcqEtEt9zBgh23Uc48z78Nuy34fPAALB79laf9d79TfRJz9v0dGbUDjBQXpNeWPMIrv29ZGTGBdjpEiNAZq_ZTCIsbUYU3GinUKbPuuBDxNw/s1600/th-8.jpg" width="141" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />Fear takes many forms and guises. I remember years ago spotting a bumper sticker on a car that said: “FEAR GOD.” I was horrified by this suggestion. This old school mentality of a vengeful, wrathful God is alien to me. I see no connection between fear and God. Currently, we all are bombarded by fear at a national level. Politically, Right Wing conservative religious groups and the media have reminded us that:</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />“Our country is going to hell in a hand-basket because we have become morally bankrupt.”<br />“Gay marriages threaten to destroy the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman.”<br />“We need to stop the bloodthirsty heathens in the Middle East at all costs. We need to retaliate for what was done on 9-11.”<br />“We need to act as police of the world.”<br />“Spreading democracy at any cost will save the world and keep us safe.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />Individuals and groups of people who see things in very black and white terms often feel they have a right to take actions at any cost and the results are often disastrous.The idealist who sees things as “they should be’ can at times be pushed to extreme actions and feel they have aright to do it for the greater good.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8BIOicxNK28SU0jGbD0NfX0Ej9sRR4WjcvP2kfPz4LhWDHNswDhSUmajWEAtvPFS_nTAQKz__HRAeoB_fJY3nQAihoxz-045OML7-_MYAnrQNXCuhY3wJys4P2lk6cSJSf4Ibo13Yaqu4g5Za6f8D08HYbDbkQ60NIku78hBEu4cyibJCI94NHfSm2Q/s253/th-7.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="253" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8BIOicxNK28SU0jGbD0NfX0Ej9sRR4WjcvP2kfPz4LhWDHNswDhSUmajWEAtvPFS_nTAQKz__HRAeoB_fJY3nQAihoxz-045OML7-_MYAnrQNXCuhY3wJys4P2lk6cSJSf4Ibo13Yaqu4g5Za6f8D08HYbDbkQ60NIku78hBEu4cyibJCI94NHfSm2Q/s1600/th-7.jpg" width="253" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />Globally and personally we are constantly sold fear. We pay for insurance for our homes, cars, medical needs, loss of jobs, etc... Fear is so built into our culture that we don’t see how we deal with this by spending tremendous sums of money to protect ourselves from theoretical disasters. Fear is such a hot item that people are buying it in bulk. Will your next letter have anthrax in it? Put tape over your windows to survive a nuclear assault from terrorists. Cold and flu commercials remind us constantly that we will get ill. You must get a flu shot if you don’t want to get sick this year. Allergy season is here again, make sure you have your medicines well stocked. There are endless sources of fear programming all around us.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />In Lakota tradition, fear of the unseen is represented by a supernatural sprit called Iktomi (spider). He is the deceiver that weaves the threads of our fears and builds webs that snare the unsuspecting. There are several stories about how Iktomi changes into a human and tricks people, but the spider inevitably makes foolish mistakes and reveals his true character. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why many people are terrified of spiders. Watching a full grown man or woman run screaming because they found a spider in the bathroom is comical, yet at times we do exactly the same thing. When we allow fear to control our actions, we are trapped in an illusionary web of our own making.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilhqU3AfAAHwUfCqx-tgiyQeRXVR9IxlTGlgFBvlLX334BGPZs7CU6mIRawWrjwhpqbBkDY0Wa0376DpjZ6R5IPy-m10ugOE52bmn9Fr7Ua-bvw1JEh4JnS0ZZXOS6cLKVddAyky53hvwZQ40YwpmxXO9Xk0S_pxCCg7YVB5cdKS3yaQXTol_o3qhw9w/s612/-picture-id10003470.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="410" data-original-width="612" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilhqU3AfAAHwUfCqx-tgiyQeRXVR9IxlTGlgFBvlLX334BGPZs7CU6mIRawWrjwhpqbBkDY0Wa0376DpjZ6R5IPy-m10ugOE52bmn9Fr7Ua-bvw1JEh4JnS0ZZXOS6cLKVddAyky53hvwZQ40YwpmxXO9Xk0S_pxCCg7YVB5cdKS3yaQXTol_o3qhw9w/s320/-picture-id10003470.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />In the process of creating our lives, we re-energize what we fear most. Individually and en masse, we literally bring what we fear to ourselves. Until we can become neutral about what we are afraid of, fear will continue to control us. Each time even one person conquers fear and sees it for the lie it is, the world lights up a little bit more. There is nothing to be afraid of except for generating fear-based thoughts and actions. I reminded my client and her daughter to focus on not being afraid of what could happen. If she sees this man who may have broken into her apartment, she should look him squarely in the eye. She will see him crumble when she shows him that she is not afraid, and see him for the spider that he really is. She is a powerful young woman and she is safe. We all have the power to not be afraid. No one, or thing can take away our personal power unless we give them permission.<br />Jim Ventura 11-2004 <br /><br /><br /><i>“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” Mark Twain</i></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>Notes:</u></b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK6tbaQHImI-gq51ydJONNQ4THDssNFSFUXB8ETrszvocQFp3-zOLeqJRh4L7JufMCjGB2QYiVQKFlavbZMWl6TicHDCb1tavNzcrbVI3B7K4KBpnGDRPJhtxBRXAMW5nStg17xcgtyJyJMwHy6CNjpB61Ld3_P5pV3jJfG1NVrv7Y2oovdQHSCwAFLg/s374/image005.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="374" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK6tbaQHImI-gq51ydJONNQ4THDssNFSFUXB8ETrszvocQFp3-zOLeqJRh4L7JufMCjGB2QYiVQKFlavbZMWl6TicHDCb1tavNzcrbVI3B7K4KBpnGDRPJhtxBRXAMW5nStg17xcgtyJyJMwHy6CNjpB61Ld3_P5pV3jJfG1NVrv7Y2oovdQHSCwAFLg/s320/image005.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />I wrote this piece way back in late 2004 and it was first published in early 2005. Geez that’s now 17 years ago! I had a far more liberal perspective and philosophy back then, but have moved more toward the center. Not uncommon for people to see things with a bit more of a conservative perspective when they get older and I am no exception. I simply no longer align myself completely with either side. In some areas I lean more liberal and some more conservative. More importantly I honor everyone their right to their own perspectives, although extremist on either side do seem a bit nuts to me. And that is still okay too!</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />We were only a few years after 9-11 when I wrote this. The collective and individual fears were still quite strong in the U.S after such a horrible event. Yet, there were numerous times people, media, and government used this fear to motivate us by what we should believe or care about. Almost two decades later the circumstances may be somewhat different with perspectives about Covid and other current events, but the extreme fear is equal. I still, from time to time, uncomfortably observe the many times I witnessed extreme actions by friends on social media, news commentators, celebrities etc...of those demanding we “follow the science,“ get vaccinated and boosted or “You are a bad person spreading disease.” “You are morally bankrupt because your refusal to inject yourself repeatedly with pharmaceuticals.” You are not following the unquestionable science and don’t care about others.” Many “blue states” took this into territory that was quite fear based and extremely arrogant with looks of disdain for those not wearing a mask or obsessively wiping down everything they touched. At times it seemed a bit like a modern equivalent of scared villagers with pitch forks, and torches chasing the “bad ones,” and nonbelievers not being or doing things the “right way.” General scientific consensus (and there were all kinds of disagreements, many at time actually legitimate, that were ignored by media) became as “sacred” as and unquestionable as religious, and political beliefs often are. Many “red states” and people with extreme conservative perspectives went a bit nutty as well in another direction. “Chipping devices are being transmitted through the vaccine.” “They are secretly trying to kill us all and make us subservient.” Even cruel downright denial that Covid even existed at all with ugly attacks on nurses, doctors, hospital staff, and families that lost people. Attacking Flight Attendants, security guards, etc.. for making one wear a mask... Ugh, a sad time in our world history indeed, but this is what historically fear will do.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSOGH5bB0ErV2eooL6tXCMp17E9G9CX7BjQgSSxUOl_9TNC7w63ejr9rsFX2Z_hLXZ3kaQBkhy4SzKPSe3Zx3TT8SPZKQz4GnN-aKmwp7TYszb_WO1B_CvlQEZV5cYNhJEPEUUp2DGoKKDhAX-OP6zsQ_9jwejSzVgTVzLxChFTfAZBEOp-c4GQl_muw/s800/angry-villagers-20207644.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSOGH5bB0ErV2eooL6tXCMp17E9G9CX7BjQgSSxUOl_9TNC7w63ejr9rsFX2Z_hLXZ3kaQBkhy4SzKPSe3Zx3TT8SPZKQz4GnN-aKmwp7TYszb_WO1B_CvlQEZV5cYNhJEPEUUp2DGoKKDhAX-OP6zsQ_9jwejSzVgTVzLxChFTfAZBEOp-c4GQl_muw/s320/angry-villagers-20207644.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />Both sides played on misinformation and obsessive beliefs about right and wrong and demonized the other side. I personally took part in none of it. I even lost friends who found my neutrality somehow being a lack of caring in their eyes. I would remind my readers that both sides and everyone is doing the best they can and just wanted to end the pandemic according to their BELIEFS about how this must be carried out. While people sometimes took very questionable actions, the intent was still to accomplish good on both sides. Thankfully most of this nonsense is over and we can choose to look back in our rear view mirrors about how this was handled. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />If you live in AZ or a number of other states this spring was a windy one and abundant in pollen counts. I had a three week sinus infection and saw many people around me struggling too. I am writing a column (or it may be a YouTube video- a good reason to subscribe to both!) about how to heal sinus issues, and what they mean both physically, spiritually, and energetically; the multilayers of course to all illness.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />Even though I am dealing with inflation uncomfortably like most everyone else (Gas prices, food prices, car prices, etc...) I have decided not to raise my rates at this time. I know people need the help and insight I can offer so I choose to remain affordable. To balance this out though I will no longer give discounted regular client rates to previous regular clients that have stopped coming in or calling in for sessions on a regular basis. If you have been a regular client for years and you haven’t had a session in over five months than you would fall into this category. Regular clients who I have worked with for over two years who dropped out will get a $10 discount off listed rates still though. But if it has been over a year since your last session then that option will also be dropped. You will need to pay current rates. Snake Oil subscribers do still get a $5 discount off rates and in- office clients can choose the cash or check payment option for an additional $5 discount. <br />My Regular client discounted rates are notable and the benefits of regular check in’s tend to be extremely propitious to have access too. Quarterly, every other month, and monthly options are available to Regular clients. Contact me to sign up for this program or for more information.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />Summer is almost here. it was a long winter and turbulent spring, so hot as hell at times, welcome summer! Cheers, Jim V</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><i>“Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.” Langston Hughes</i><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>New Client Special 2022 January 1st thru July 31st 2022 Special:</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4ynD6G60W8SjQeGyYKRtRvgC1dZsZ1Sd-DvI0evYYi7QG7ohyvBIz07F9eS0wqrx4xfuqrRx_nqSYMmxU6l3fGHu7czoANzokjhWvdurQhW5MkgwXYzvnl5xJ466XOkMWk7rPgrSk09r5nW0RkYCdObt6CZ5bzk6b7Pcf1RDChonxaDQ9HYi4Hy29hw/s1280/2-Ways-Baskets-Improve-Your-Gift-Giving-Skills.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1280" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4ynD6G60W8SjQeGyYKRtRvgC1dZsZ1Sd-DvI0evYYi7QG7ohyvBIz07F9eS0wqrx4xfuqrRx_nqSYMmxU6l3fGHu7czoANzokjhWvdurQhW5MkgwXYzvnl5xJ466XOkMWk7rPgrSk09r5nW0RkYCdObt6CZ5bzk6b7Pcf1RDChonxaDQ9HYi4Hy29hw/s320/2-Ways-Baskets-Improve-Your-Gift-Giving-Skills.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />$10-15 off listed rates for your first 45 minute session, 70, or 90 minute session! Debit and credit card payments get $10 off for 45, 70, and 90 minute sessions. Local in-office clients can get an extra $5 off for cash or check payments for sessions. If you want to buy a new client a thoughtful gift of a session for a friend or family member you can also take advantage of these rates! </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><i>“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” Nelson Mandela</i><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Channeled Corner. </b></span>I have read many, many books from some of the best trance chaneler's in the 70s-2000s. Unfortunately many of them are now out of print, but I still have a huge collection and will share some of the best material I have collected over the years:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><i><b>Fear: </b>How can you recognize fear in your society? First, remember that you assumed human form in order to learn to manipulate physical reality through your conscious, reasoning mind. This reasoning mind is your unique gift among all the creatures of creation. When finely tuned and clear of distraction, it allows you to chart an undistorted course toward your best fulfillment. It can be blunted, however, when crippled by fears that saps it of its logic and reason. Fear being irrational, is the enemy of your conscious, rational, reasoning mind. It can only serve to thwart your attempts at living a life of Divine Grace.</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><br />Fear is no open enemy, swaggering about the streets loudly proclaiming its presence. For it knows all too well that one piercing glance from a reasoning mind can reduce it to ruble.<br />One key characteristic of fear is its ingenious ability to seek legitimacy by latching onto what appears to be rational ideas, thus cloaking its true, bare essence. By hiding itself behind a seemingly rational idea, fear is able to play itself out without ever being submitted to logical analysis.<br />As we shall see, fear is a chameleon, ever changing its colors to disguise itself like the demons in fairy tales, assuming human or animal form as the situation requires, the better to work their evil. Know, then, that you will rarely meet fear face to face. It is too clever to be caught in the open, where one rational mind could render it impotent.</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><br />How then, can you distinguish between a legitimate idea or philosophy and one based on fear? Fear provides two giveaway clues for the discerning mind to detect.<br />First, it will cause its host to latch onto what appears to be contradictory beliefs. A logical considered philosophy is one that can be reasonably applied to every situation and found to be constant. A philosophy based on fear; however, latches onto a host of different ideas, some of them opposing, in its desperate to camouflage its true reality. When you speak with someone whose beliefs seem to cancel each other out in a contradictory shambles, know that you are speaking not to reason but to fear.</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><br />The second clue fear provides is that if a philosophy based upon it is allowed full expression and played out, it will invariably bring about precisely the opposite result of that which it claims to promote. Why? Because, as we have seen, an impulse that is denied out of fear is energized by the denial, the grid of intent behind it empowered to a much greater degree than the superficially desired goal. Thus, with all the probable yous swirling about, when it comes time for an ‘event’ to slip into your time continuum, the probable you who experiences the ‘negative’ version of that event will find a stronger grid of intent awaiting it at the membrane than that which lives the ‘positive’ version of an event. Thus, inevitably, a policy based on fear will result in the precise opposite of what it claims to desire. Fear is a crafty adversary indeed, as you can see, but one that is unable to cloak itself forever behind a veil of seemingly rational ideas. Played out, it will always reveal itself...” </i><br />From Whatever Happened to Divine Grace by Ramon Stevens<br /><br /><i>“You always act emotionally. You do what you do because it’s what you want to do, and your rationales are nothing but excuses to justify your actions. Make it all right with yourself to act without the internal run-around.” Dick Sutphen</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i> </i><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>NEW YOUTUBE PREMIERE VIDEO:<br />Getting Hold of Our Fire</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd1ZiTXkkBha-hKo4PHa1KD85Gn0Fm6_SZv8ETpZ-vEm9kmStrWX2VbTkOaJvoCWjnLbBJgPODVfHPnOJ678QNYW3cFwFSuWXfYUMKgCs7DBbmZy4i-FJPnPLqG7cU3jfmTkc5hXE-4a_vdrK4bZR9b9hyyRXgCE1DwyvuV668dx22jIhPazqrWZEFHw/s384/th-5.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="384" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd1ZiTXkkBha-hKo4PHa1KD85Gn0Fm6_SZv8ETpZ-vEm9kmStrWX2VbTkOaJvoCWjnLbBJgPODVfHPnOJ678QNYW3cFwFSuWXfYUMKgCs7DBbmZy4i-FJPnPLqG7cU3jfmTkc5hXE-4a_vdrK4bZR9b9hyyRXgCE1DwyvuV668dx22jIhPazqrWZEFHw/s320/th-5.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />As we see another rough series of wild fires causing havoc this season. <br />We can acknowledge its impact on the physical landscape, but also choose to see other elements of where this seemingly out of control energy stems from. <br /><br />We all have all four elements that make up who we are; Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. What does it mean when our “Fire is out of balance.” Metaphysical teacher Jim Ventura discusses how to get back into a place of balance again.<br /><br /><br />New YouTube video at J Ventura Snake Oil: cut and paste in your browser or find it on YouTube search engine <br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL1WeyG2_68<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Snake Oil Radio</b></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwmTcSTgDtqHXSUUfGmZtOMGK0qnnsEnrAmAG9JUckQBktUl5O_MNfarZ1d47sTUjyLJAohXUhBiWLa9zHZK-heOh9kpCpx8gx0z1loZ10vowvpxvotAnV3xNHbpoIfVCRbRgcdZKl_8cC-3Z18FVo_z_4U-qiLSaPgcg-j5LyGL7TASeZ69mpl1foUQ/s300/snake-oil-salesman.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwmTcSTgDtqHXSUUfGmZtOMGK0qnnsEnrAmAG9JUckQBktUl5O_MNfarZ1d47sTUjyLJAohXUhBiWLa9zHZK-heOh9kpCpx8gx0z1loZ10vowvpxvotAnV3xNHbpoIfVCRbRgcdZKl_8cC-3Z18FVo_z_4U-qiLSaPgcg-j5LyGL7TASeZ69mpl1foUQ/s1600/snake-oil-salesman.jpg" width="300" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />Thursdays at 3:30 pm (there will be two live broadcast this period)<br />My next live broadcast of Snake Oil Radio will be Thursday, May 26th at 3:30 p.m. mountain (Phoenix) time. Usually one Thursdays each month you can catch a new show. Each 45 minute show will expand on my current column’s subject matter. It will also offer an opportunity for you to chat with other listeners in the chat room with comments and your thoughts about the topic of discussion. If you miss the live show, you can catch any of my previously recorded shows on the web site’s archive. You can also catch Snake Oil Radio on I-tunes (download my pod-casts there).<br />To hear a live show, all you need to do is be at a computer and tuned into: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura You may also access it by going to the site and type “Snake Oil” into the search option. You can also go to the shows that are currently “On air” at that time and find me. The call in number is 646-200-3966 for questions and comments.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><i>“I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” J.K.Rowling</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><br />“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.” Regina Brett</i><br /><br />Here’s my contact information to make an appointment for a session, or information on current classes: Email: Venturasag@yahoo.com (best method for contact).<br />Phone calls: (602) 957-3035 text only: (602) 349-0746 <br /><br />Information about the different sessions and types of readings and services, past Snake Oil columns, and how to order my books and audio CD’s can be found at my website: <a href="Http://JimVentura.com">Http://JimVentura.com</a> <br /><br />“Friend” me on Facebook to get other extra offers and in between column extras! Signing up for my fan page will get you even more extras and first shot at reading specials. Simply click on “like” on the fan page and you will automatically get my weekly updates. <br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl<br /></a><br />You also may want to check out my posts on Tumblr.com: <br /><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/blog/snake-oil-blog">https://www.tumblr.com/blog/snake-oil-blog<br /></a><br />Subscribe to my YouTube Channel (approximately once a month 6-11 minute videos) at<br /><b>YouTube.com J Ventura Snake Oil.</b> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">You can also find me on Instagram (mostly astrology updates) and Tik Tok (animalspeaks) where I do short videos about animal totems!<br /><br />All sessions/readings for 2020-2022 are: Full (70 minutes) $115.00; Shorter session (45 minutes) $90.00; Extended session (90 minutes) $135.00 (two people can split an extended session back to back with an added fee of $5 for $70.00 each, although no other discounts will apply). Mini phone session 20 minutes $40. Email me for information about my Regular Client Program for even bigger discounts on session prices with the added benefit of monthly or quarterly check-ins. Purchasing 3 pre-paid sessions also brings sizable discounts. Some examples; 3 pre-paid 45 minute monthly sessions is $150 total or $50 a session. 3 pre-paid quarterly 70 minute session $240 or $80 a session.<br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0RwkgJKuL4Z0QrI_0Tl8_nPFCS-94ENUvp6m1kvjbKdHH14vxeFU9skHQQZSeApnmOCASr5NUxCLlTWGoSuAfKleaF_boTsjBfOCR_6gjYp3GPvX27dIkm4NkbXS3U2C8ufLAmnm3fa5uxj8byn82kNIO1yCebR2QRJU0oiz9lxL1q5CxGkBgCygenA/s540/279318884_126630309980593_7379098173415656266_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="509" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0RwkgJKuL4Z0QrI_0Tl8_nPFCS-94ENUvp6m1kvjbKdHH14vxeFU9skHQQZSeApnmOCASr5NUxCLlTWGoSuAfKleaF_boTsjBfOCR_6gjYp3GPvX27dIkm4NkbXS3U2C8ufLAmnm3fa5uxj8byn82kNIO1yCebR2QRJU0oiz9lxL1q5CxGkBgCygenA/s320/279318884_126630309980593_7379098173415656266_n.jpg" width="302" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span><br /><p></p>Jim V/Snake Oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00746873887985304530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024612299906599073.post-89444296980872601582022-03-16T21:20:00.005-07:002022-03-22T16:38:04.149-07:00March April 2022 Snake Oil/Past Lifetimes and the Price of Gas?<p> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">March April 2022 Snake Oil/Past lifetimes and the price of gas?</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3W4zr6ZglyusfU30u-Wuff-igW6xXwCztuDcRFe2_Rlk9m3ZwwGa3Fp7zknMxualGs2j3tne6GKgYaByQjuFxXmLTrhs-ZuuY1b723ui5bVVV-GvkhW9AQr__45-Rq-YNzJ6TDhEPRBL37iT1a2aN2wRCzDMqfeoG_SYoNN4r0kXxAHhtwQidYRTmrA" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="532" data-original-width="799" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3W4zr6ZglyusfU30u-Wuff-igW6xXwCztuDcRFe2_Rlk9m3ZwwGa3Fp7zknMxualGs2j3tne6GKgYaByQjuFxXmLTrhs-ZuuY1b723ui5bVVV-GvkhW9AQr__45-Rq-YNzJ6TDhEPRBL37iT1a2aN2wRCzDMqfeoG_SYoNN4r0kXxAHhtwQidYRTmrA" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b></b></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">The concept of living other lifetimes and reincarnation can be intriguing and exciting. To many people it may make intuitive and even practical sense. Yet, it can also be a subject littered with misperceptions, confusion and to those who only value logic and tangible in the lab concrete proof, it can seem like malarkey. There are actually many authors, both scientific based as well as metaphysical who have studied and written extensively about this subject from multiple angles. In those circles it is largely unquestioned. A number of movies and television shows about the subject have actually done a respectable job, while of course there is a lot of hyped sensational nonsense mixed in too. I personally encountered a number of people in my early years of metaphysical groups and classes who had very definite opinions to share about the subject. A young woman at a psychic development class I took at age twenty claimed she lived during Pompeii during its fall. I thought this could have been possibly true. In another instance I once talked to another woman who claimed she was Cleopatra in a past life time. This seemed a LOT less likely. <br /><br />The concept of whether I have lived other lifetimes was never something I pondered. I always knew that this was the case. I remembered glimpses of other selves even as a child. My Catholic education had no outlet for discussing or understanding this awareness, and that may have contributed, in part, to an early rejection of some of the teaching of this religion. When I took baths, which I often did as a child and well into my teens, I would catch memories of being in a bath in other bodies and in different homes, times, and families. Particularly poignant was a memory of being in a female body. It did feel like she was royalty or from a wealthy family. I clearly told my friends when I was about 9 that I was glad to be a boy in this lifetime because it was actually a bit easier. There were many times when I would talk to another person and get glimpses of their face briefly changing to another self. I used to think of it as a bleed-through. All of the significant relationships I have experienced with partners or friends were with people I immediately or eventually recognized as someone I have known before. Much of this awareness took place long before I began to read or study reincarnation.<br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgeufeIFQCqkloWUw5A93YppAHls5MlbeGwn2WmDG4cgh905TpOzIRhJKzeNg4EG5rpNQJGAeIMMFrGbb427gVuttkC1QCOh-hsvQmG14i9_Ds0AatgltW8ZVOEAr2yHOhfbvXsj7S-H9FwgwBeBimRi_jjZrOaIwkfQk5AvVtBeWr9AU14RcPOVKq9OQ=s233" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="155" data-original-width="233" height="155" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgeufeIFQCqkloWUw5A93YppAHls5MlbeGwn2WmDG4cgh905TpOzIRhJKzeNg4EG5rpNQJGAeIMMFrGbb427gVuttkC1QCOh-hsvQmG14i9_Ds0AatgltW8ZVOEAr2yHOhfbvXsj7S-H9FwgwBeBimRi_jjZrOaIwkfQk5AvVtBeWr9AU14RcPOVKq9OQ" width="233" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />I really upped my studies though in my late teens and early twenties and have read many books about this subject, and once took a seminar in San Diego by a well known author. Contrary to a popular belief among many people and those uneducated about the subject, quite a few well researched cases have been studied and verified that would be very hard to dismiss. I even learned how to do past life regression when I was about 21. I did regressions for friends and had many notable stories of success. I eventually learned self-hypnosis and actually logged in a notebook about 40 recognizable lifetimes, and guessed there were many more. It seemed the further back in time, or in my baby soul and young soul lifetimes I wasn’t always a very upstanding citizen. Quite a number of people I immediately got into relationships with when I moved to Phoenix at 25 happened in the first few months when I arrived in the valley. I recognized many new friends immediately. I had dreams or snippet memories of past contacts with them both before and after I left New York. Another aspect of many, many reasons why I felt drawn to move here. <br /><br />There are so many different stories of personal past life contact that I could easily cover them in a series of books, but here are two that truly stood out:</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />When I was about 22 I did a self hypnosis regression to see what I would consider my “Happiest lifetime.” I saw myself-remembered myself-felt myself as a familiar clumsy man at about age forty. I lived with my mother and some pets that I talked to in a safe environment. I couldn’t recall when it was, or where it was but that seemed less relevant. I was a special needs individual, my focus was less on the intellect and more emotional and intuitive. My mother was not my mother in my current lifetime though. She was an early forties waitress that I worked with named Nicki. We quickly became unlikely friends in this lifetime in a way that may have seemed weird to many of the people around us. She beamed with pride when I was around her. She must have been proud of how smart and funny her son from another time and place now was. I would guess she was proud of me in that other lifetime too for different, yet equally valid reasons. She died in this lifetime a few years ago from complications related to Parkinson’s disease. I will always miss my friend-mom from another time and place and know I will see her again.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br />Another experience was something I caught glimpses of in dreams as a child. I even remembered actual details of it at different times. I did a regression at about the age of 23 and got more details. I was a Russian Jewish man in my late fifties just before the start of world war two. I fled the area I lived in for fear that things would soon go badly. I pleaded with friends and family to leave also but was mostly dismissed. I lived in England for about twenty years before my death alone in a room with a number of cats. In my current lifetime I was badly allergic to cats until about the age of 33. I think my body associated being alone and sickly when I was around cats, even though I always loved them too. I still feel a sense of responsibility to warn others if I sense difficulties ahead, although I have also learned to allow them their experience and not try to save or control. To this day I still haven’t been able to get through Shindler’s list and similar movies. For a long time I resented the English people and their culture and I seem to oddly know a bit about Russian life and the Jewish religion. I recently realized that the feral cats I now feed and pet that live in our condo complex came back to their dad from another time and place.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHwod_SJvr4hKtTk8ARW2e4Tn7-e_bePCjtsWo4SFJuMRvu-cnk-hE1pJtdDzjndvGlnDCX0GIFIvYFs5TpgPqRVeFfOkCbmVeIG22M2ywLQDCcMII1sUqRrIciLzjtpptgtjpeq3A4VwBRpakHv4OLQIgDAY9dKoy1M1ygBm-1ATPTbiP4YYpQXtoMw" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="700" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHwod_SJvr4hKtTk8ARW2e4Tn7-e_bePCjtsWo4SFJuMRvu-cnk-hE1pJtdDzjndvGlnDCX0GIFIvYFs5TpgPqRVeFfOkCbmVeIG22M2ywLQDCcMII1sUqRrIciLzjtpptgtjpeq3A4VwBRpakHv4OLQIgDAY9dKoy1M1ygBm-1ATPTbiP4YYpQXtoMw" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /><br />People often understandably ask me the question, what good it is for us to know about past lifetimes? In what way does that help in the practicalities of our current life? Yet, in an even more pronounced way like exploring your genealogy, heritage or ancestry in this lifetime, you see pieces or attributes in yourself that aid in piecing together who we are now. Talents, abilities, and even challenges offer insight into why we may currently have skills or struggle with these similar patterns. I bought a deck of past lifetime cards (that I still use when working with clients) and one of the first cards I pulled was the prehistoric Sorcerer. It suggested that I was an ancient soul who had great power. In my younger years in this lifetime I sometimes succumbed to hurting friends who I felt wronged me. Thankfully I got hold of this darker aspect of myself early on in life and decided successfully to focus my powers on good. I still sometimes deliciously think of so many creative ways to destroy anyone who angers me. But I remind myself and my inner prehistoric sorcerer that forgiveness and understanding are far better uses of power. Karmic balance is built into the universe. I need not take on the role of righter of all perceived wrongs. And this has an added benefit of not creating new karma to have to resolve (the old soul focus) and then have to find a way to burn those ribbons too. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh3H1iQg9n-lyA7Y95PCvK5fhnOlwfdoY3XA39fxaQHa_UDot_aELTUG2EfGriK3BjrkOMkytfKyde1jtUEydOL-k8Ylhj30ffl09-0XQr_xU1RGvGwCovh1WcaIiULguUod1LZ6kOTAE-gmCEC_Rz4mppx-NUD0CDQeEt_DHdebQhWExS1Q8b60-K0Eg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="719" data-original-width="900" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh3H1iQg9n-lyA7Y95PCvK5fhnOlwfdoY3XA39fxaQHa_UDot_aELTUG2EfGriK3BjrkOMkytfKyde1jtUEydOL-k8Ylhj30ffl09-0XQr_xU1RGvGwCovh1WcaIiULguUod1LZ6kOTAE-gmCEC_Rz4mppx-NUD0CDQeEt_DHdebQhWExS1Q8b60-K0Eg" width="300" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> <br /><br />We are given an ego for a reason. It is to help us navigate effectively in this life and this body and tangible world around us. Still, we can learn to put our ego aside from time to time to catch glimpses of other selves. Our practical sides, our ego will remind us that it is bunk to think we have other aspects or lifetimes to consider. It does its job well and reminds us of things like; what do knowing about past lifetimes have to do with dealing with the real world and the price of gas? What good is it? Often, even when the information comes through it will try to convince us that we are making it all up. Yet, if you choose to open this door it is useful. Not as an escape from the demands of this life, but to aid in understanding why we are made up the way we are. We will likely be disappointed when we realize we probably weren’t George Washington, Attila the Hun, or Joan of Arc. More likely we were a woman who was sold to be a concubine at a young age. A shaman people loved and feared in Africa, 600 years ago. A man who had a gambling problems and added karmic ribbons to burn when he sold off two of his daughters to cover gambling debts. A soldier who deserted his fellow comrades because he feared and struggled with not feeling right about killing. A jealous sister in ancient Greece who seduced her older sister’s husband. A madame for a bunch of younger prostitutes in the old west with a heart of gold... We gain insight when we are willing to tune into who we truly are and why we are drawn to certain people, events or situations. I believe we do this in between lifetimes, so it’s not a bad way to get a head start or to integrate a bit of this in our present. And best of all, we realize the part of us that fears death or worries about things like eternal punishment is simply inaccurate. We know that we carry on and develop as a soul in different stages. This is not only a valuable deeper truth, but a doorway into enjoying what this current life has to offer secure in the knowledge that we lived before and will live again.<br />3-2022 Jim Ventura </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><u><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Notes</b></span></u></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRWN741kBFSlXs1WleHktDZPSngVffQPjm-MeaRKjb0Ao65AKgAyswD-4QtyvXhWVVssxSIlH7_ePAvL9pTR_PZsYn2NZiYz0NR4M-v7FTduhFKGM1JXDaUhnZaNLmJpOzWh6Pu_vKWdQdcoRUJV2IOtFEKCF1vhOMo9s8j2jGo0oRS7FQKPb0hnisHg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="374" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRWN741kBFSlXs1WleHktDZPSngVffQPjm-MeaRKjb0Ao65AKgAyswD-4QtyvXhWVVssxSIlH7_ePAvL9pTR_PZsYn2NZiYz0NR4M-v7FTduhFKGM1JXDaUhnZaNLmJpOzWh6Pu_vKWdQdcoRUJV2IOtFEKCF1vhOMo9s8j2jGo0oRS7FQKPb0hnisHg" width="256" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br />It looks like we just lived through the adage “March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb.” Here in Phoenix we had some beautiful 75 degree days, followed a few days later by low 60s, windy days, and then a few days in the 80s. The nights have been cold (well our version of it anyway; 40s and low 50s). The temps could climb or drop 15 degrees in just a day or two. My friends around the country have reported similar experiences with radical temperature changes. I like to remind my readers that weather patterns to some extent mirror the collective of the people living in the area. Extremes of emotions, frustration, anger, fear, and confusion contribute to the formation and experience of weather patterns, both what we would perceive as good or bad ones. Turbulent weather often cleans the landscape too...</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5-VyWIOYghbFth5ROQWfoJb6dQ5rlfAWmPotX7j7uNPZ2qZSTG-OD_m0Vb5T5Ts6fxcjEkXqSv4Pp6834-Iw5ZL9JXs2n77p-L17_Twe_E-WjyH7quCYVMVr6hx5e2zZuPcTMmwq0WV2h5hkJ7OR1ND_ySHh5ABHZUMqWQTHCEYQIOOC9ysaVi7jdmw" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="186" data-original-width="407" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5-VyWIOYghbFth5ROQWfoJb6dQ5rlfAWmPotX7j7uNPZ2qZSTG-OD_m0Vb5T5Ts6fxcjEkXqSv4Pp6834-Iw5ZL9JXs2n77p-L17_Twe_E-WjyH7quCYVMVr6hx5e2zZuPcTMmwq0WV2h5hkJ7OR1ND_ySHh5ABHZUMqWQTHCEYQIOOC9ysaVi7jdmw" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br />Recent inflation in many areas coincided with the peak of the Covid experience this winter. January and February had some high numbers of people testing positive for Covid. Partly due to more people testing, but also because it was like a collective experience for most of us to just get it (whether one gets sick or not varied from person to person) over with! Lock downs, masks, lack of human contact etc... can only go on for so long without disastrous side effects. The losses of life were horrible too for many families and my heart goes out to everyone impacted by this difficult time in our history. I said that this would likely be the course before it was over almost two years ago with a Walking Dead TV show on AMC analogy when everyone realizes they all basically have “it.” My Old Soul perspective of course angered a few people around me. Jeez, what else is new lol. I reiterate an important point: “There are hazards on the physical plane.” The positive side of this collective experience of everyone getting it, is that the perspective of a herd immunity seems to have finally arrived and while I don’t think it is gone forever (guessing its stays around like another form of lousy flu), it seems the extremes are at least over. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />The perspective of how I view world events and personal ones will resonate with some people and others will find it uncomfortable. This is how things are and I have gotten far more comfortable with the occasional rejections I experience from others. I only speak or write about subjects I have researched and am knowledgable about. Ask me about air conditioning repair, or surgery and I go blank, but I am impressed by those who are knowledgable about that subject and that's why I listen to and pay them when needed! It works the same way with clients that I work with one on one; some love my perspective and insights and others would prefer a different perspective. There are excellent psychologists and psychiatrists for people to work with. There are of course, a number of people in those fields that are lousy too. There should be no shame in working with a counselor to talk things out or get another perspective or insight. We have been going through some heightened turbulent times in the last few years. Whatever course my friends, readers, clients choose I would support the idea of adding a bit of this to the hopefully other important ways we take care of ourselves like exercise, eating healthy (for the most part!), sleeping well, etc...<br />Many of my long term (or short term of just a few years) regular clients have been checking in with me regularly for years. I offer quarterly, monthly, and every other month options. While we may do astrology updates, Tarot card readings, Rune pulls, angel cards etc...Many of my regular clients just like to talk about what is happening in their lives (while I typically take notes) and then I catch areas of blocked energy, limiting beliefs, and potentially healthier viewpoints both physically and energetically to consider taking. I am especially good at helping to see the emotional, energetic limitations that may contribute to disease. This can be hugely beneficial whether one takes a western medicine approach to solving it or uses alternative medicine. Working at solving it at multiple angles is likely to prove more successful. While insurance won’t cover sessions with me, the Regular Client program is discounted for those who use the service and sessions can run as little as $50 a session with prepaid option. Request information about this program if interested.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />Jupiter is going to conjunct Neptune in Pisces in early April. the 12th to be exact but we will feel the effects far sooner. This is actually a positive mass transit that will influence everyone. Its placement in your chart can get even more specific. Request an astrological transit update if interested in your next session (in-office, phone and face-time are all options) and I will be doing a radio show in early April to explain it’s larger effects.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9wjU6n8RFW_IRSoCiQSV-BDOjs8LXH_l1CEKfJMj9mMookduy0N33I5tcQFud-6WIDIabipnkYi52hm4eRnjWKzajNeHTHR1_d-Omf0vHL4GF-fn643tBBlufE9xOz9PxL6SMwhL5TjNseEmdfJRLmq17h5fQGUZQN4CFS7_M4Fcb220D5nY_S7VKxw" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="148" data-original-width="474" height="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9wjU6n8RFW_IRSoCiQSV-BDOjs8LXH_l1CEKfJMj9mMookduy0N33I5tcQFud-6WIDIabipnkYi52hm4eRnjWKzajNeHTHR1_d-Omf0vHL4GF-fn643tBBlufE9xOz9PxL6SMwhL5TjNseEmdfJRLmq17h5fQGUZQN4CFS7_M4Fcb220D5nY_S7VKxw" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br />I posted a video last month on YouTube.com about understanding soul age and in early April I will post part two. A deeper look at Old souls. Subscribe to my channel to get updates once a month when I post a new (approximately 10 minute video): J Ventura Snake Oil <br />Wishing everyone a-happy start to the spring! Cheers, Jim V<br /><br /><i>“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” Anatole France</i></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br />“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” Agatha Christie</i><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>New Client Special 2022 January 1st thru July 31st 2022 Special:</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVSTKTjde908n-KvaOcRVI9b6xhtiCGErlpK9_tpwpnlL3ulPtT068bSomHTeDP1pS2koSL9eR3jGV1sPb3DoPkYUzqgGX_BVl21NLdLaOd9GcUlL2zYDaitwrcSixQsu7BpOGJwS9ZOo5NOqJHw6kFL0k68XK6oS4ZWuUXHrec8B9KhHNwVZXiIuu-Q=s1280" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1280" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVSTKTjde908n-KvaOcRVI9b6xhtiCGErlpK9_tpwpnlL3ulPtT068bSomHTeDP1pS2koSL9eR3jGV1sPb3DoPkYUzqgGX_BVl21NLdLaOd9GcUlL2zYDaitwrcSixQsu7BpOGJwS9ZOo5NOqJHw6kFL0k68XK6oS4ZWuUXHrec8B9KhHNwVZXiIuu-Q=s320" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />$10-15 off listed rates for your first 45 minute session, 70, or 90 minute session! Debit and credit card payments get $10 off for 45, 70, and 90 minute sessions. Local in-office clients can get an extra $5 off for cash or check payments for sessions. If you want to buy a new client a thoughtful gift of a session for a friend or family member you can also take advantage of these rates! </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><i>“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” Albert Einstein</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i> </i><br />Channeled corner. I read many, many books from different trance channelers in the 80s and 90s. Unfortunately many of them are now out of print, but I still have a huge collection and will share some of the best material I have collected over the years.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><b>Seth on creativity and play</b><br />“Most people, however, are so utterly serious that they suspect their own creativity. They expect that its products will be unreal or not valid in the physical world. Yet there is a great correlation between what you think of as creativity, altered states of consciousness, play, and ‘spiritual’ development.’</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh99PQZpx8_MILANi9ujwL2Cu3Fq-kpd9lXB2esOQn1NRdp5VRUYs68Qwcs3KSjBFb2EL2_3voiQ_ccty8Yb0GTzl-kVjlSjfWZYSGU-Y3yyfkvUVi2JRwj-tTKbewiF-5II00w5w8CEM5iLL-vWm2G4teuJpfzi36ihQL2LNJSv8UVZsWgREn0wELe4Q" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="157" data-original-width="236" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh99PQZpx8_MILANi9ujwL2Cu3Fq-kpd9lXB2esOQn1NRdp5VRUYs68Qwcs3KSjBFb2EL2_3voiQ_ccty8Yb0GTzl-kVjlSjfWZYSGU-Y3yyfkvUVi2JRwj-tTKbewiF-5II00w5w8CEM5iLL-vWm2G4teuJpfzi36ihQL2LNJSv8UVZsWgREn0wELe4Q" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br />When you create a poem or song or a painting you are in a state of play, of enjoyment, of freedom. You intend to make something different, to produce a new version of reality. You create out of love, for the sake of experience. At one time or another almost everyone has that kind of experience, but children have it often. They compose songs and music and paintings in their heads. They alter the focus of their consciousness frequently. They do not stop to ask whether or not the play is real or pertinent. Physically, play develops their body mechanisms. It also flexes the great capabilities of their minds. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />When you think: ‘Life is earnest,’ and decide to put away childish things, then often you lose sight of your own creativity and become so deadly serious that you cannot play, even mentally. Spiritual development becomes a goal that MUST be attained. The goal is to be achieved through hard work, and as long as you believe this you do not understand what the spirit is.<br />I keep returning to natural analogies-but plants do not work at developing their potential. They are not beautiful because they believe it is their responsibility to please your eye. They are beautiful because they love themselves and beauty. When you are so serious, you almost always distort the nature of your own spirit as far as your understanding of it is concerned. You cannot let your guard down long enough to discover what it is. You keep looking for new rules or regulations, or methods of discipline. You keep searching for a new ‘ascended master.’ or guru, to keep you in line and point out THE WAY...”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />The Unknown Reality Volume Two Jane Roberts Channeling Seth.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Highlight session:<br />PAST LIFE READING</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b></b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgLs1xh8NsP2aGsc2D2vZtIk0-MV3j2XlXg1HBCe76jhiGM4rkfctzEs4tT08BJL6e3qpFIASmLmnJRY2eM96vxeFP9O55pyBZPZSOe2xB0RLl-wyJLrbtmGV_rfn55jgBKGbxu8IJxL2gLZa4_cYqmkun_lrMAd1fEA8qZgUpZdqGb0h7EpuS5R9KWQ" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="720" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgLs1xh8NsP2aGsc2D2vZtIk0-MV3j2XlXg1HBCe76jhiGM4rkfctzEs4tT08BJL6e3qpFIASmLmnJRY2eM96vxeFP9O55pyBZPZSOe2xB0RLl-wyJLrbtmGV_rfn55jgBKGbxu8IJxL2gLZa4_cYqmkun_lrMAd1fEA8qZgUpZdqGb0h7EpuS5R9KWQ" width="240" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /> </b></span><br />This session focuses on uncovering some of your past lifetimes. My abilities combined with the Phoenix cards, will help you to reconnect with the lessons and themes of other lifetimes and other selves. By understanding our past we become more clear about who we are in the present. We can see threads of abilities and challenges that we are currently working with and where they may have other faces. the Phoenix cards will also point out areas of this world and era’s where you may resonate with! <br /><br />You probably wont be surprised by the outcome of your past life reading. Most of us have dim and ghostly ideas of who we were. “Return me to the faraway places and times I once knew." This reading can powerfully jar your own memories of your past lifetimes.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />Clients currently receiving my every other month newsletter receive $5 off listed rates for 45, 70, or 90 minute sessions (all formats that work with this session) and in-office clients who pay by check or cask receive and additional $5 discount. Phone or face-time, Zoom sessions are also available for out of area clients or locals who prefer a session from home. Email me at Venturasag@yahoo.com to book.<br /><br /><i>“Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path then by all means you should follow that.” Ellen Degeneres</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br />“Spring is the best life coach; It gives you all the energy you want, all the positive thoughts you wish and all the boldness you need!” Mehut Ildan</i><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Snake Oil Radio</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCtxo1Av7Yg7KpezuKKeMlKROTbcKsVZWlBZlg7pzHU0QjYn35N_re4ekhl7zjo9vM0tGRu2yIgrqAVLdNMu-YeuJ7PpW7lLzJ5LBvBCzDuX7E9LmAKpVwQRs0wnoqy77fjgoxOEdrKYa6wqD0IfHkSkl-aZa51CKqzlhnRmYwjy2jkDw1Z9PK-Sa4Hw=s300" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCtxo1Av7Yg7KpezuKKeMlKROTbcKsVZWlBZlg7pzHU0QjYn35N_re4ekhl7zjo9vM0tGRu2yIgrqAVLdNMu-YeuJ7PpW7lLzJ5LBvBCzDuX7E9LmAKpVwQRs0wnoqy77fjgoxOEdrKYa6wqD0IfHkSkl-aZa51CKqzlhnRmYwjy2jkDw1Z9PK-Sa4Hw=w255-h247" width="255" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />Thursdays at 3:30 pm (there will be two live broadcast this period)<br />My next live broadcast of Snake Oil Radio will be Thursday, March 31st at 3:30 p.m. mountain (Phoenix) time. I will follow an extra broadcast on April 7th to focus on the Jupiter Neptune conjunction. Usually one Thursdays each month you can catch a new show. Each 45 minute show will expand on my current column’s subject matter. It will also offer an opportunity for you to chat with other listeners in the chat room with comments and your thoughts about the topic of discussion. If you miss the live show, you can catch any of my previously recorded shows on the web site’s archive. You can also catch Snake Oil Radio on I-tunes (download my pod-casts there).</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />To hear a live show, all you need to do is be at a computer and tuned into: <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura">http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura</a> You may also access it by going to the site and type “Snake Oil” into the search option. You can also go to the shows that are currently “On air” at that time and find me. The call in number is 646-200-3966 for questions and comments.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />Here’s my contact information to make an appointment for a session, or information on current classes: Email: <a href="mailto:Venturasag@yahoo.com">Venturasag@yahoo.com</a> (best method for contact).<br />Phone calls: (602) 957-3035 text only: (602) 349-0746 <br /><br />Information about the different sessions and types of readings and services, past Snake Oil columns, and how to order my books and audio CD’s can be found at my website: <a href="Http://JimVentura.com">Http://JimVentura.com</a> <br /><br />“Friend” me on Facebook to get other extra offers and in between column extras! Signing up for my fan page will get you even more extras and first shot at reading specials. Simply click on “like” on the fan page and you will automatically get my weekly updates. <br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl</a><br /><br />You also may want to check out my posts on Tumblr.com: <br />https://www.tumblr.com/blog/snake-oil-blog<br /><br />Subscribe to my YouTube Channel (approximately once a month 6-11 minute videos) at<br />J Ventura.Snake Oil. You can also find me on Instagram (mostly astrology updates) and Tik Tok (animalspeaks) where I do short videos about animal totems!<br /><br />All sessions/readings for 2020-2022 are: Full (70 minutes) $115.00; Shorter session (45 minutes) $90.00; Extended session (90 minutes) $135.00 (two people can split an extended session back to back with an added fee of $5 for $70.00 each, although no other discounts will apply). Mini phone session 20 minutes $40. Email me for information about my Regular Client Program for even bigger discounts on session prices with the added benefit of monthly or quarterly check-ins. Purchasing 3 pre-paid sessions also brings sizable discounts. Some examples; 3 pre-paid 45 minute monthly sessions is $150 total or $50 a session. 3 pre-paid quarterly 70 minute session $240 or $80 a session.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLKHGxOFMncjVSWtN2fwLkAy_5JaXTChfV-hfIlxc_hbkK9G_Ty1MbuFlZKxiqiMpwQmaelNed1KIh8mXDXG3A1q-Rxgi3Hj-MYEt2SO-HhuACI9eXAbQz505dVGy2baslHDN3-t8QUQFQ-PPFPEQzPIz8_VcvXlmMnrQ0wttxA4dE2vzKvD5xDXQhTw=s526" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="526" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLKHGxOFMncjVSWtN2fwLkAy_5JaXTChfV-hfIlxc_hbkK9G_Ty1MbuFlZKxiqiMpwQmaelNed1KIh8mXDXG3A1q-Rxgi3Hj-MYEt2SO-HhuACI9eXAbQz505dVGy2baslHDN3-t8QUQFQ-PPFPEQzPIz8_VcvXlmMnrQ0wttxA4dE2vzKvD5xDXQhTw=s320" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><p></p>Jim V/Snake Oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00746873887985304530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024612299906599073.post-49440212982173942372022-01-16T12:49:00.000-08:002022-01-16T12:49:00.359-08:00January February 2022 Snake Oil/Karen Carpenter Wizard of Oz and Neptune<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgudMarqt5bE0b-cmtLBg97wrC0dlGvewQfHAv9TA_FWiYbNJY1bfvKEXAAQEl87OR0TTdyA2qVOJjXYnc5O59NTYdzv06pLGqw3-HTgBg-sXfXFdMchCU666C5cBoeWae3hK6eWn218siyShzoyytTcQh6WwD-8Spae2QBBFLdcFfoOEdktdEOjiwWMA=s612" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="490" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgudMarqt5bE0b-cmtLBg97wrC0dlGvewQfHAv9TA_FWiYbNJY1bfvKEXAAQEl87OR0TTdyA2qVOJjXYnc5O59NTYdzv06pLGqw3-HTgBg-sXfXFdMchCU666C5cBoeWae3hK6eWn218siyShzoyytTcQh6WwD-8Spae2QBBFLdcFfoOEdktdEOjiwWMA=s320" width="256" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br />Karen Carpenter Wizard of Oz and Neptune</b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> </span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">YouTube now has quite a few videos with young people playing Carpenters songs. Many of them are hearing them for the very first time. The look of disbelief from young rappers to professional voice coaches is priceless. Stunned, moved to tears, and just simply blown away by pure talent. Her voice was nothing short of extraordinary. In a similar way most everyone who has watched the movie The Wizard of Oz is instantly captivated. Typical reactions move back and forth between elation, awe, to sadness, fear then and back again. They are both great examples of powerful collaborations that touch upon something deeper in all of us. While we have practical needs we also long for magic and the extraordinary and how miraculously things can sometimes come together. Life can be enchanting at times, yet this aspect can also at times walk hand in hand with illusion and even tragedy. In astrology this aspect of humanity, a part that exists in all of us can be explained by the energy and movement of the planet Neptune. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgF1D7yyYzwHNgBOK_cEZHhF_sT33vC_2dygkuc79jGlZLjK7YGiEv8DVcwMbB1nTvo_yxxKYQaydsfssyOX2VEP8QUVWJtWopa42j8u5_rvkFTtVRMUGz5SAy_AX0P20jeo3wncjv9d-Em9S68U0C6V7vUt-qZHmLhfAhg1ijhu9h6M1YdtHEf0YXlsg=s612" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="344" data-original-width="612" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgF1D7yyYzwHNgBOK_cEZHhF_sT33vC_2dygkuc79jGlZLjK7YGiEv8DVcwMbB1nTvo_yxxKYQaydsfssyOX2VEP8QUVWJtWopa42j8u5_rvkFTtVRMUGz5SAy_AX0P20jeo3wncjv9d-Em9S68U0C6V7vUt-qZHmLhfAhg1ijhu9h6M1YdtHEf0YXlsg=s320" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Neptune represents our dream life and the subconscious. Named after the god of the sea it is the aspect that triggers mystical things that appear in this world; the bleed-through from the Otherworld. It represents inspiration, poetry, glamour, things that captivate us, and when life appears in technicolor. Think of the appeal of epic movies, special effects, and the allure of movie and television stars often created in “Tinsel Town.” Marilyn Monroe was a country girl who became a superstar and a legend. Sometimes the fantasy and larger than life tales are even more epic than the actual people or events. Often a strongly placed Neptune in an astrology chart will show a disposition toward spiritualism, artistry, musicians, and people who seem to have a little or a lot of personal charisma. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Neptune takes approximately 14 years to move through a sign. The sign it was in when you were born is part of your generations ideals. The house of life it was placed (and where Pisces is on the cusp of a house) is where it gets more personal and specific. In the second house for example, it can do with how you make money and how you create security for yourself. In the fourth house it can be the search for an ideal home or family, often triggered by a missing parent. In the 7th house it can be both a place of soulmate experiences, illusion and the search for the ideal mate. In the 11th house you are the kind empathic friend, who may at times see your friends through an overly idealistic lens. Any of the twelve houses where Neptune lives point to areas where you have experienced profound stories in your life that changed you. This area of life can also show where we may have at times wore rose-colored-glasses and the “Angels Weep.” We are inclined to reach for something greater than ourselves, and this is where we may lose our way and the ideal cannot match tangible reality. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgP5mchsLZJT5r0_-OHVoNjyyZ0GwmfSv-cjPIjOzGXgt2N-vqHMhbTbibwAZ34QzyDOoQ0gBb42dn-dNL6cxOBEjvrEk3uZzL0WOgRQMtv3EhsTE5id8me4TMQEz3ksk6b0TwfpglEUoPAgzFkJVWWIDqELr4BgNNHP9_vyEZbzglUAg5ErNZFvtHLDQ=s612" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="377" data-original-width="612" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgP5mchsLZJT5r0_-OHVoNjyyZ0GwmfSv-cjPIjOzGXgt2N-vqHMhbTbibwAZ34QzyDOoQ0gBb42dn-dNL6cxOBEjvrEk3uZzL0WOgRQMtv3EhsTE5id8me4TMQEz3ksk6b0TwfpglEUoPAgzFkJVWWIDqELr4BgNNHP9_vyEZbzglUAg5ErNZFvtHLDQ=s320" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> Neptune is connected to our compassion, kindness, selflessness, and sacrifice. It rules the sign of Pisces too. The compassionate, empathic part of us is beautiful, a bit angelic, and without it we would be dry and sterile if we only relied on our intellects. The search for our personal ideal and our kindness, devotion and lack of boundaries can at times lead to suffering. The negative aspects of Neptune are deception, confusion, fraud and scams. An afflicted Neptune (badly aspected in a chart) can lead to preferring fantasy over reality. In extreme cases the seeking of release can lead to drug or alcohol abuse, criminal tendencies, and other forms of escapism. We yearn to dissolve the pain and find ecstasy. When we can’t reach our ideals, or give to much of ourselves we can splinter and feel pain. A lack of healthy boundaries can trigger the negative aspects of Neptune and wreak havoc. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> I have Neptune in Scorpio in my 7th house of marriage and partnerships in my natal chart. I can truly say I have been in love (like head over heels, clouds parting, trumpets blaring connections) five times already in my life. And a few more that came awfully close. Some were good, even great and a few - especially in my younger years were a bit nightmarish. A criminal, and a few other lost souls in other ways painfully dotted my landscape. I played the victim and saviour archetype out a few times. My heightened empathy at a young age for other young men and women who were dealing with abusive parents or conditions made me want to help alleviate their pain. To be the big brother, the good one they seemed to need. Age and a healthy dose of Saturn (the responsible, sobering part of us that gets wiser over time after many tests) have helped me still keep the Neptune ideal while paying attention to what is actually real. People abused in their past can at times become the abusers themselves. Unrequited love can be common with Neptune in the fifth, seventh, or eight houses of personal relationships. A frustrating experience but weirdly useful too for performers and all kinds of creative people. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjko-S-6y5Itzj52l6KnctAvV0XwTnciCWJm_Ma2Zb8JibTq1-8XhNGCyyPFuSc_UQGr930FnH7DKKCpV7G2awkH5ggxV06--pT_TzzUyAcrEzAcO5m8LR7xASUTvP9g2LH7ibrP_RDo3WkL906Q1uufmac8PVWDRas7blec_f0cuz3wAA9vAMDXgOnMw=s612" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="402" data-original-width="612" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjko-S-6y5Itzj52l6KnctAvV0XwTnciCWJm_Ma2Zb8JibTq1-8XhNGCyyPFuSc_UQGr930FnH7DKKCpV7G2awkH5ggxV06--pT_TzzUyAcrEzAcO5m8LR7xASUTvP9g2LH7ibrP_RDo3WkL906Q1uufmac8PVWDRas7blec_f0cuz3wAA9vAMDXgOnMw=s320" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> In the Wizard of OZ a young Dorothy wants to escape her home and the pain of her life and after a tornado lifts her home she finds herself in a magical world. She makes amazing new friends, confronts monsters, good witches and bad ones over the rainbow. In all of its colorful, jaw dropping, epic, and fascinating scenes she longs to go home. The smoke and mirrors of the powerful Oz are exposed. Yet, eventually she realizes she could go home all along and that “there is no place like home.” Karen Carpenter (Sun in Pisces in the 10th house of career and status in the world) searches for an ideal love. Millions of people have used the song “We’ve only just begun” as a wedding song. I dare you not to tear up a little or a lot when you hear it! It represents the ideal of starting a life together with a significant other. Her songs were both uplifting and sad. A wide range of emotions in her voice and a large catalog of hits and popular songs are now etched in history. After years of incredible, moving music she sadly passes away from Anorexia. The love she looked for outside herself needed to be found within. The sadness of this loss shook the world and for many it is still difficult to grasp after many decades. Yet the legacy of what she left behind is awe inspiring and has never been duplicated. All of this is truly a picture of Neptune. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> What does Neptune ask of us? We are reminded to experience the colorfulness of life. To allow a bit of glamour, idealism, inspiration, and remarkable things be a part of our world sometimes. We can be inspired both by real tangible things and times when the Otherworld slips into our backyard. These aspects of life aren’t necessarily at cross purposes. There are times when things are truly magical and do we really want to miss out on a bit of enchantment? Neptune asks that we remember kindness and compassion. Everyone is wounded is some ways, and when we understand this, we can tap into the higher energy of Christ and the beauty of sacrifice. This path can lead us to feel a deeper, higher form of love. Neptune will help you inspire others in a world that longs for insight and healing. Along the way blind faith may leave you in real pain on occasion. When this occurs we need to shore up our faith again. A little pain and sadness can also be beautiful. We may have to look at where we got lost and relied too much on an ideal or fantasy; where we put on our rose-colored glasses. Did we connect to a deeper truth or was it what we wanted to see? Either way later when the story is told it will be a wondrous one, even with some moments of pain. It is one of the fantastic part of being human and this is why the Neptune part of us matters. And why the Wizard of Oz and The Carpenters songs and similar Neptunian things will endure for a very, very, long time.
Jim Ventura 1-2022 </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Notes</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjRuz4hCABxz8xLPked87-2QPzuMqF-X0s4c8QVJPuVLTHYGXY0umBozwZU2XojNqJn7VNpxoKOxK4up5jjPyTt4UiJ4WONe5XiL7u1IS2f592GrPCUuNSV3PN0RfTMLse--wwDjH9yeGe4ugV3vFEFq53N2hBc2QXssMZSPqn1U_1TZkm-ytu_Ar_gNw=s374" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="374" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjRuz4hCABxz8xLPked87-2QPzuMqF-X0s4c8QVJPuVLTHYGXY0umBozwZU2XojNqJn7VNpxoKOxK4up5jjPyTt4UiJ4WONe5XiL7u1IS2f592GrPCUuNSV3PN0RfTMLse--wwDjH9yeGe4ugV3vFEFq53N2hBc2QXssMZSPqn1U_1TZkm-ytu_Ar_gNw=s320" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />We made it to 2022! While our personal years actually begin on our birthday there is always some participation from all of us in the vibrations of the universal year too. 2021 was a 5 year (you can check out my short video on this subject on Instagram last month if you choose) key aspects are change, adaptation, physical sense highlighted, and movement. Agitation, uncomfortable change, arguments, and disruption can also be themes of the 5 year. 2022 is a 6 year which is more about home, family, service, grounding, giving, and responsibility. Negatives to the 6 year can be subservience, being overly sentimental, uncomfortable family themes, and trouble with receiving. Still overall the energy of the six is more grounded so I suggest a better year ahead in 2022 for many. Our personal numerology new year will be even more specific. This is why I often get a lot of requests in the new year for a session about the themes of the year overall (also a good session to do on or around your birthday!) with a look at your animal totem, tarot archetype, Rune stone, Lakota Indian message, and angel message. Just request a new year theme session when you email to book.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjidt6cYvrlIT_HYU5-0oZpVZ75T2OSSqdcsOl2kzn4-gYy98oQCIjz2Y-OlLFnwpMiBLGkBInm32ovw-LBj77aKv2DAUXoiPK3xL9kRVSJ_k4iHF64Sl1zRq9A1bSc3EFMizlVX2uISnnAzibPY5xzVD-NjoMTRepxWP0cjDhF0RaoREGp9YXH-AQAuQ=s214" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="155" data-original-width="214" height="155" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjidt6cYvrlIT_HYU5-0oZpVZ75T2OSSqdcsOl2kzn4-gYy98oQCIjz2Y-OlLFnwpMiBLGkBInm32ovw-LBj77aKv2DAUXoiPK3xL9kRVSJ_k4iHF64Sl1zRq9A1bSc3EFMizlVX2uISnnAzibPY5xzVD-NjoMTRepxWP0cjDhF0RaoREGp9YXH-AQAuQ" width="214" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br />Latest YouTube video about themes of 2022 at J Ventura Snake Oil</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br />We have an interesting conjunction of Jupiter and Neptune coming up in early April of 2022. This is in the sign of Pisces so this is a lot of water! But Jupiter tends to expand and enlighten and is usually a lucky influence so there will be positive influences from this in the world. This conjunction in your natal chart can show where this expansion will occur more specifically to you. I will talk about this aspect in more detail in March on either YouTube (subscribe at J Ventura Snake Oil) or my radio show at blogtalkradio.com.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br />Information about joining my Regular Client Program and taking advantage of my skills as a life coach and Navigational consultant (also Regulars pay notably discounted rates on sessions) would be a good way to start of the new year!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br />The death of so many significant people took place in 2021. On the last day of the year actor Betty White passed. Understandably many mourned the loss of this talented, lovable human being. She was just a few weeks away from turning 100! Rather than see this as sadness. I see it as a marker for a life well lived. She was strong, continued to work (Capricorn Sun sign), humble, and immensely talented. She passed in her sleep. Well done. Cheers to a life well lived and all the best as you head back into the Otherworld Betty!<br />Commit to making the new year ahead a good one and you will in your own life and create a path for others to follow if they choose. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><i>“In the life of spirit you are always at the beginning” Cheers, Happy New year Jim V<br /><br />“I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.” David Bowie</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><i><br />“The ‘success’ parts of life look good to others, but the best parts are actually in the simple, daily experiences. This is true whether you’re an actor or a teacher or a waitress. I know because I’ve been all three.” Lauren Graham</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><i> </i><br /><br /><b>Channeled corner.</b> I read many, many books from different trance channelers in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. Unfortunately many of them are now out of print, but I still have a huge collection and will share some of the best material I have collected over the years.<br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhkVTB2jGjRxZwVNo8xBIaX4MrsIPdgExiqCLGi0vGmovs6d6rTeOB-PfmdS9Is7w4CZ9AN6IdfgY-dWek-4_AE-_HiQ7G1h63yTYlMlrgRQhENAYZG0AiaspNnNWFwlrRQ1NJmAjZdKbhMFW-bfAnRtV-4SjxpvKupU8R4PgUf9_ZgaZFap7ZTPahwXg=s612" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="612" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhkVTB2jGjRxZwVNo8xBIaX4MrsIPdgExiqCLGi0vGmovs6d6rTeOB-PfmdS9Is7w4CZ9AN6IdfgY-dWek-4_AE-_HiQ7G1h63yTYlMlrgRQhENAYZG0AiaspNnNWFwlrRQ1NJmAjZdKbhMFW-bfAnRtV-4SjxpvKupU8R4PgUf9_ZgaZFap7ZTPahwXg=s320" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br />"Much of your mental experience daily is based upon the proposition that there is something wrong with each of you, for one reason or another. Again, it is difficult to say what I want to while still trying to avoid contradictions at your end—and yet it seldom occurs to you that you might just possibly be doing exactly what you were meant to do, or that you are in exactly the right place and time and circumstances."<br />Jane Roberts Channelling Seth</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Regular Client Program </b></span> <br />My Regular clients enjoy working with the many different types of oracles I work with for enlightenment. But a good portion of them work with me in the form of an enlightened counselor, and life coach. Discussing what you are going through or working on at each time is definitely healing but also allows added insight from my many years of navigational consultations and the wisdom of working with a very old soul! <br />One of the best programs I have been doing for 24 years now is my Regular client program. The program is designed to benefit my clients at multiple levels. Clients who enroll in the program come in every three months for personal sessions (monthly, or every other month sessions are also an option). This can also be done for out-of-area clients by phone. Session prices are discounted for Regular clients. The focus of the program is on consistent work in developing your intuitive abilities, learning how to navigate more effectively through life by using the signs and signals that are all around us, and conquering fear-based programming permanently. We also get to work with all the many different oracles I currently work with! My Regular client program has resulted in some tremendous spiritual evolution for hundreds of people over the years. Some of my Regulars have gone on to do spiritual counseling, or similar types of work and some are healing and guiding others personally and professionally. The progress I have seen over the years among the majority of my Regular clients has been phenomenal. It is wonderful to see the spiritual, physical, and emotional progress I have assisted in motivating. So many of my Regular clients have dramatically changed the way they now view life and are enjoying a more enlightened point of view. You too can join this program as well, just ask.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /><b>More about the Regular Client Program...</b> This program was designed to create an easy, cost effective way for my clients to progress in their spiritual development. <br />When we are consistent at attending to our body/mind/spirit, we naturally move through life with more harmony and greater joy. When our spiritual awareness is heightened and fine tuned we are often happier which helps us to enjoy all aspects of our lives, including occasional personal challenges because we see them as inevitably beneficial. We can truly assist the people around us. Human beings learn by example. Your intimate partnerships, friendships, family, and children benefit when you are in a good space.<br />The Regular Client Program makes it easier to prioritize keeping your spiritual, emotional and even physical “garden” free of weeds. In China, the professional soothsayer is a reverent and dignified calling. It does not attract the sort of suspicion it does in the western world. In fact, in most eastern cultures, seeing an oracle reader is a sign of wisdom, success, and prestige. If you have an interest in increasing these attributes and working with a highly skilled navigational consultant then the Regular Client Program may be right for you.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br />My current rates for 2020-2022:<br />Full session (70 minutes) $115.00. shorter session (45 minutes) $90.00. Extended session (90 minutes) $135.00. 15-20 minute short phone sessions $40<br />Regular client program discounted rates for 2020-2022:<br />Quarterly (every three months) Regulars:<br />Full 70 minute sessions $90.00 shorter 45 minute sessions $65.00 Extended 90 minute sessions $110.00. 15-20 minute short phone sessions $20.<br />Every other month Regulars: Full 70 sessions $85.00. Shorter 45 minute sessions $60.00. Extended 90 minute sessions $105.00. 15-20 minute short phone sessions $20.<br />Monthly Regulars: <br />Full 70 minute sessions $80.00. Shorter 45 minute sessions $55.00 Extended 90 minute sessions $100.00. 15-20 minute short phone sessions $15.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br />IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PREPAY 3 OR MORE SESSIONS YOU RECEIVE AN EVEN BIGGER DISCOUNT. <br />Prepaid three quarterly sessions: (3) - 45 minute sessions $175. (3) - 70 minute sessions $240. (3) - 90 minute sessions $285.<br />Prepaid three every other month sessions: (3) -45 minute sessions $165. (3) - 70 minute sessions $225. (3) - 90 minute sessions $265.<br />Prepaid three monthly sessions: (3) - 45 minute sessions $150. (3) - 70 minute sessions $210. (3) - 90 minute sessions $250.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br />* Regular clients get to choose whether they will come in for a full, 45, or extended session. You may vary the length of each session each time you come in for your appointments, and still keep your discounted rates. <br />* I will contact you a few weeks before your next appointment by email or phone for scheduling. If there is a need for a few weeks delay or to come in sooner or for an extra appointment this is also an option.<br />* Sessions can be used for all of the different readings I offer, transformation sessions, reality change sessions, or personalized instruction on how to read oracles yourself.<br />* Regular Clients can purchase gift certificates for sessions to give to friends and family at their discounted rates. <br />* If at any point you decide to come in more often or less often, or even exit the program, simply let me know. I have worked with clients who have come monthly for two years, then switched to quarterly, etc... Clients who exit the program can still come in randomly for sessions, although they will be required to pay current non-regular client rates.<br />“There are more people doing good stuff and moving us forward than there are people sowing division. I surround myself with people who have faith.” Maria Shriver<br /><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>New Client Special 2022 January 1st thru July 31st 2022 Special:</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjoVIHmWGG35Xl0aQYHAxHL-1nmns_Q8eptol_XIATTUPevrsRGjd8LQeyN_z58AiRkLLeBDnlo0R_LQxWzqpPWgBasSedGeAyFo87il73q1ElkuRbgPA1wbWcF9atU39iexE_pBVFL5TPsFbA3d5qsvI1IByScgBvN1jiC7h9idI_i3DOtp-8Jyn7sog=s300" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="186" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjoVIHmWGG35Xl0aQYHAxHL-1nmns_Q8eptol_XIATTUPevrsRGjd8LQeyN_z58AiRkLLeBDnlo0R_LQxWzqpPWgBasSedGeAyFo87il73q1ElkuRbgPA1wbWcF9atU39iexE_pBVFL5TPsFbA3d5qsvI1IByScgBvN1jiC7h9idI_i3DOtp-8Jyn7sog" width="186" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />$10-15 off listed rates for your first 45 minute session, 70, or 90 minute session! Debit and credit card payments get $10 off for 45, 70, and 90 minute sessions. Local in-office clients can get an extra $5 off for cash or check payments for sessions. If you want to buy a new client a thoughtful gift of a session for a friend or family member you can also take advantage of these rates! </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /><i>“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” Helen Keller</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><i><br /> </i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><i>“Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end.” Seneca</i><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Snake Oil Radio</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWrO54gr6d470bFxYN2UMvs9Wylokg-mORuObtGGMF-YnRqMG-_-sC1AxezJ4Rji_rXQts4GvVPdAWFvSECTQma5ubMFwAMxc6pO5Iv2AZyq1MLdBsCNjTuxk-L7mR1r93d9fWj4W9kuiKR8b4QODkQlBX5f5uVIENV2EQnaqLdNL07FgD0WhGexch4Q=s194" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="167" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWrO54gr6d470bFxYN2UMvs9Wylokg-mORuObtGGMF-YnRqMG-_-sC1AxezJ4Rji_rXQts4GvVPdAWFvSECTQma5ubMFwAMxc6pO5Iv2AZyq1MLdBsCNjTuxk-L7mR1r93d9fWj4W9kuiKR8b4QODkQlBX5f5uVIENV2EQnaqLdNL07FgD0WhGexch4Q" width="167" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />Thursdays at 3:30 pm (there will be two live broadcast this period)<br />My next live broadcast of Snake Oil Radio will be Thursday, January 27th at 3:30 p.m. mountain (Phoenix) time. Usually one or two Thursdays each month you can catch a new show. Each 45 minute show will expand on my current column’s subject matter. It will also offer an opportunity for you to chat with other listeners in the chat room with comments and your thoughts about the topic of discussion. If you miss the live show, you can catch any of my previously recorded shows on the web site’s archive. You can also catch Snake Oil Radio on I-tunes (download my pod-casts there).<br />To hear a live show, all you need to do is be at a computer and tuned into: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura You may also access it by going to the site and type “Snake Oil” into the search option. You can also go to the shows that are currently “On air” at that time and find me. The call in number is 646-200-3966 for questions and comments.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>More detail on one of the many sessions I currently offer:<br />Viking Rune Stones session</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJe99ptfthupIAiKn23R6y3Um-XxP0dZ9Ev6sO1zC_F7mipbc22CJpTjqB1zGTiaCKYrjUU9vhP4zSjYNjyBMzrNGQz-YCYeq0z65Gjp5y5jmi4dolVVGS1bhiU_Wqlp0GiH8NkgmG8xxuKI1g-TwzuiyhETtMj1P5FrlbWZ88bCW_50sDL5ZRd0om5A=s182" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="121" data-original-width="182" height="121" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJe99ptfthupIAiKn23R6y3Um-XxP0dZ9Ev6sO1zC_F7mipbc22CJpTjqB1zGTiaCKYrjUU9vhP4zSjYNjyBMzrNGQz-YCYeq0z65Gjp5y5jmi4dolVVGS1bhiU_Wqlp0GiH8NkgmG8xxuKI1g-TwzuiyhETtMj1P5FrlbWZ88bCW_50sDL5ZRd0om5A" width="182" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />The Viking Rune stones are a language, a pathway, and a navigational aid for the Spiritual Warrior: someone who understands that the battle of the Spiritual Warrior is always with the self.<br /><br />The Runes are an instrument for learning to listen to the will of our Higher Self. They are a means of listening to that part of ourselves that knows everything we need to know for our lives now. They are part of understanding that in the life of Spirit we are always at the beginning.<br />The Runes are markers for knowing what right action truly is.<br /><br />The Runes are an oracle that I repeatedly go back to, they are a wise reminder that “The starting point is the self. Its essence is water. Only clarity, willingness to change, is effective now. A correct relationship to yourself is primary, for from it flow all possible right relationships with others and with the divine...” Rune of Self-Mannaz<br /><br />“Prepare then, for opportunity disguised as loss...” Rune of strength Uruz<br /><br />“Seeking after wholeness is the Spiritual Warrior’s quest. And yet what you are striving to become in actuality, is what, by nature, you already are...” Rune of Wholeness Sowelu<br /><br />While a bit stylized of course because it was made for television..., there was some aspects of this discussion that I did early last year (in this case geared toward finding love for a Valentine’s Day episode) for the List TV show on ABC that are still quite good. <br /><br />https://www.thelisttv.com/the-list/find-true-love-with-the-ancient-tradition-of-casting-runes-2-11-21<a href="/?fbclid=IwAR3O03y_1O4mMS1B6Ml6VXDRVoTrI9CkT95NBcjKh7ztEogX8_4bDjoCilY">/?fbclid=IwAR3O03y_1O4mMS1B6Ml6VXDRVoTrI9CkT95NBcjKh7ztEogX8_4bDjoCilY</a><br /><br /> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Here’s my contact information to make an appointment for a session, or information on current classes: Email: Venturasag@yahoo.com (best method for contact).<br />Phone calls: (602) 957-3035 text only: (602) 349-0746 <br /><br />Information about the different sessions and types of readings and services, past Snake Oil columns, and how to order my books and audio CD’s can be found at my website: <a href="Http://JimVentura.com">Http://JimVentura.com</a> <br /><br />“Friend” me on Facebook to get other extra offers and in between column extras! Signing up for my fan page will get you even more extras and first shot at reading specials. Simply click on “like” on the fan page and you will automatically get my weekly updates. <br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl<br /></a><br />You also may want to check out my posts on Tumblr.com: <br /><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/blog/snake-oil-blog">https://www.tumblr.com/blog/snake-oil-blog<br /></a><br />Subscribe to my YouTube Channel (approximately once a month 6-10 minute videos) at<br />J Ventura.Snake Oil. You can also find me on Instagram..<br /><br />All sessions/readings for 2020-22 are: Full (70 minutes) $115.00; Shorter session (45 minutes) $90.00; Extended session (90 minutes) $135.00 (two people can split an extended session back to back with an added fee of $5 for $70.00 each, although no other discounts will apply). Mini phone session 20 minutes $40. Email me for information about my Regular Client Program for even bigger discounts on session prices with the added benefit of monthly or quarterly check-ins. Purchasing 3 pre-paid sessions also brings sizable discounts (example 3 pre-paid 45 minute sessions is $150 total or $50 a session...) <br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXG6mt4fgVTjQZfmXa_WyUGhxoxA_ilFGwnv7MXk-K3FMHtIdW44Xf4TZ9a4sL69iN_s5u-01g_f3gceg100OTv9-mz6hnditDd9CLnQVZrDTfneKJXyuGiyWIzALt6WtGBNKPiW8bRDGvrbOItJM-7MUN1ksWunAlrhMgVr20z_DROTglQNWSc-F_7w=s1600" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1280" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXG6mt4fgVTjQZfmXa_WyUGhxoxA_ilFGwnv7MXk-K3FMHtIdW44Xf4TZ9a4sL69iN_s5u-01g_f3gceg100OTv9-mz6hnditDd9CLnQVZrDTfneKJXyuGiyWIzALt6WtGBNKPiW8bRDGvrbOItJM-7MUN1ksWunAlrhMgVr20z_DROTglQNWSc-F_7w=s320" width="256" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /> </span><br /></span><p></p>Jim V/Snake Oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00746873887985304530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024612299906599073.post-54658911123148584722021-11-12T15:12:00.000-08:002021-11-12T15:12:16.265-08:00November December 2021 Snake Oil/You Want a Peace of Me?<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>You Want a Peace of Me?</b></span><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqniPlK85VWxqWL-MbUSYC_xYJIUQSrOJz6BRZXHqX3eUZr5yWcg4WqTw3AsJmGnHzQlZEmph_WQTXKjesknHazGO-8GV_523JWC3tx0jeug9qYAE38DMPomFavAMNhujDIrlg7uKedCYk/s166/th-8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqniPlK85VWxqWL-MbUSYC_xYJIUQSrOJz6BRZXHqX3eUZr5yWcg4WqTw3AsJmGnHzQlZEmph_WQTXKjesknHazGO-8GV_523JWC3tx0jeug9qYAE38DMPomFavAMNhujDIrlg7uKedCYk/s166/th-8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="161" data-original-width="166" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqniPlK85VWxqWL-MbUSYC_xYJIUQSrOJz6BRZXHqX3eUZr5yWcg4WqTw3AsJmGnHzQlZEmph_WQTXKjesknHazGO-8GV_523JWC3tx0jeug9qYAE38DMPomFavAMNhujDIrlg7uKedCYk/s0/th-8.jpg" width="166" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I only really caught the tail end of the peace decade. I was very young in the late sixties and early seventies when the peace, love, and understanding movement peaked. In spite of the turbulence from the Vietnam war, Nixon, and a host of other controversial things, there was something magical about some elements of the hippie movement and “free love.” I really didn’t fully understand or even felt much of a need to strive for peace. I had glimpses of seeing its value though. Snuggling up in a bed with two dogs as a child made me feel safe and peaceful. My friends on the block would sometimes get into fights (hell, sometimes I started them) but more often than not we would make up and come to a place of peace again. It felt noticeably better in the home when my siblings and my mother weren’t at odds with each other. Still, peace was a concept I didn’t fully understand or even recognize how truly valuable it could be.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />I often even made fun of the idea of peace. “Blessed” at an early age with a wicked sense of humor, I frequently made fun of things I thought were ridiculous. There were abundant pop songs that focused on this theme. Some of them were cool, some not so much. We went to Catholic mass every Sunday (even if you were sick mom absolutely made us go!). There was a point during mass where the priest would say: “Peace be with you.” You had to dutifully respond with, “And also with you.” He would then say, “Let us offer each other a sign of peace.” You would then have to shake hands with the people around you even if you didn’t know them. All I could think of was how awkward this was and also how many might have recently picked their noses and other similar thoughts typical for the mind of a 12 year old boy. I had real moments of shyness as well, so I hated this part of the service. Generally, when I felt uncomfortable I typically made jokes. Not having been to a mass for about 15 years now I wonder if this is still done at all. Especially since the dawn of Covid has sadly made large portions of the population afraid to touch each other in any way...</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKvI-uzWz6JBENw2nT6KHWB-PZl7-hxCwtGPX0zuCZy2uouaaoETniNqF4RX8rPW_f82MJuZu06CxO5osGmkmt1UOmhQoKDjc-KBtLF2V8Ts6g5B4ryf9UpqIE4xVuVrOPfuALS2KKAfYj/s526/ZGxd78-r29m8ws4p3SL7MKzRyNC4ufSYfexPC8hJzYi9xq4JQLwmJoUsMtCD8g6m687VnYHaSDP2lJIth8vee_btT7sAcdPtRT0yU_cSFm4PxaouEa9Xf501LME%253Dw1200-h630-p-k-no-nu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="526" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKvI-uzWz6JBENw2nT6KHWB-PZl7-hxCwtGPX0zuCZy2uouaaoETniNqF4RX8rPW_f82MJuZu06CxO5osGmkmt1UOmhQoKDjc-KBtLF2V8Ts6g5B4ryf9UpqIE4xVuVrOPfuALS2KKAfYj/s320/ZGxd78-r29m8ws4p3SL7MKzRyNC4ufSYfexPC8hJzYi9xq4JQLwmJoUsMtCD8g6m687VnYHaSDP2lJIth8vee_btT7sAcdPtRT0yU_cSFm4PxaouEa9Xf501LME%253Dw1200-h630-p-k-no-nu.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />There was the singing mass option too. Mom avoided them like the plague preferring a more somber traditional approach to mass. I would sometimes go to the 10 am mass on my own and still get church “credit.” There was a lot of guitar playing and soupy, cheesy songs mixed in. The nuns in school told us, as an added incentive that “If you sing you pray twice.” As much as I thought most of it was lame I weirdly still remember lots of those songs. I must have liked some of them secretly. One that always stood out was: </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“...Let peace begin with me. Let this be the moment now. With every step I take let this be my solemn vow. To take each moment and live each moment with peace eternally. Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me...”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />For a myriad of reasons many people struggled in 2020. For me that year actually wasn’t that difficult. Thirty something years of metaphysical studies, and the use of alternative medicine, gave me a peace many people sadly didn’t have. I never really fear getting sick with a random illness, because I knew that there are always multiple layers to this happening, and the Covid-lung pattern didn’t fit me. In addition I was “blessed” with some extra money in late 2019. This helped overcome a noticeable decrease in my business because of Covid restrictions. 2021 actually turned out to be a much harder year. Multiple uncomfortable dealings with banks while trying to refinance my home and a few other moves had me under intense uncomfortable financial scrutiny for weeks. And when all was said and done I never even got what I was after! An old debt from 2009 was purchased by a debt collector and after filing a judgement many years ago they went as far as doing a pull out of my checking account. There was added expensive repairs for my car, home air conditioner, dental bills and a few other “gifts” that plunged me back into credit card debt. And strangely worst of all was a number of clients, and friends apparently decided they didn’t like my perspectives during the pandemic. Maybe to them I was now a “bad guy.” The icing on the cake was the loss of a twenty year friendship with two people I saw as true brothers/family. They decided that for their own reasons that they needed to cut ties. A new budding potentially intimate relationship with all kinds of magical connections this spring ended abruptly before it really took off when I experienced the uncomfortable act of being “ghosted.” I could see they all had their own unique reasons for their choices, but these were hard ego hits for me to say the least.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRkAdz6jG52KKGlKAv8wUvXK1rL62nfs7wWCQxbGlFxT1D3lh0CA9N_rOzI-CDqg5nBKNGXqes3fOHp2cyYT2lxJXXp9yMVuJcn9-VfG2_dpXe15gDTmIKYgQJfBbPWqGZhnlAZpgfdScN/s116/th-10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="116" data-original-width="68" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRkAdz6jG52KKGlKAv8wUvXK1rL62nfs7wWCQxbGlFxT1D3lh0CA9N_rOzI-CDqg5nBKNGXqes3fOHp2cyYT2lxJXXp9yMVuJcn9-VfG2_dpXe15gDTmIKYgQJfBbPWqGZhnlAZpgfdScN/w128-h144/th-10.jpg" width="128" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The year was by no means all bad. Heightened friendships with past loyal friends grew and new friends entered. My home doubled in value. My health improved dramatically. The difficult tests helped me to confront old patterns and contributed to some real healing and a stronger sense of what I would allow or not allow in my life. I gathered enough banking knowledge to be able to keep the vultures at bay, maneuver more successfully and to potentially resolve my financial banking stuff in 2022. Now it is just a test of patience. The people that fell out of my life I could intellectually understand for the most part why they chose to exit. We were no longer in the same space, they were immersed in fear, victimization patterns and we had simply grown apart. In some ways it was even appropriate. My year of explosions and tests while painful also added to my knowledge and contributed to increased wisdom! These experiences helped me to be more empathic and the insights I gained assisted in my ability to share with clients who were also struggling with their own tests; many of them far worse than my own. A number of my younger clients, and a few older ones admitted more thoughts of potentially leaving this world with feelings of “why bother.” This understandable reaction to the havoc that heightened fear, tribalism, and the ugliness so sadly common at this time was acting as a trigger. They were quite aware that important aspects of their childhoods and lost experiences would never be retrieved and many were angry. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />The problem for me, as it is for most of us was in the emotional body. I felt abandoned, and judged. It was staggering to feel these levels of disloyalty. It was difficult not to find myself brewing about the cruelty I experienced. I had many moments of pondering angrily about “the gall of these friends!” “The nerve of those banks questioning my integrity.” How is it that it’s legal for debt collectors to buy old debts for pennies on the dollar that are long written off and to wreak such havoc?” “Why are repairs to my car and home so damn expensive?” There was clearly still a hint of self judgment, and taking aspects of life too personally inside of me that was unleashed in the outer world and it had wreaked destruction! Rune wisdom peaked through as always: “Prepare then for opportunities disguised as loss.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9cOc3n9pd0LIZ6KseHTunJE7qDrMEveFX8FfSY0-_vPoxecUa5-0zy2sTGHkc-s5nQHcdtDn1Gag8T85UmrMJ8jkywAX88sCziBYq2Qnk636kzDcu5UXxSReXkjsRL8NJBia4gCfLeq-w/s247/th-9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="155" data-original-width="247" height="155" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9cOc3n9pd0LIZ6KseHTunJE7qDrMEveFX8FfSY0-_vPoxecUa5-0zy2sTGHkc-s5nQHcdtDn1Gag8T85UmrMJ8jkywAX88sCziBYq2Qnk636kzDcu5UXxSReXkjsRL8NJBia4gCfLeq-w/s0/th-9.jpg" width="247" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />I like so may other people longed to be at peace again or maybe for truly the first time. I implored my Higher Self in meditation, prayer, and in my dream state to help me get there. Insight of course began to trigger paths toward resolution when I willed myself to find the answers. It wasn’t that I had to understand why all of my antagonists did what they did, although some answers did come through. It was becoming clear I had to practice being at peace in spite of those recent storms. One successful way I did this was to see what I was at times feeling “the anguish,” as if it were a specific image on a phone screen or tablet, and simply swipe left. Not to try to resolve it, just to say “not today.” I could decide not to worry about it. This was extremely helpful. Another part was reminding myself that the adversity would prove useful, even if I didn’t yet know why; it simply always proves true from past experiences. A harder but valuable act was to just wish the people and institutions that I felt anger about, “health and happiness” in spite of what they did. I could give it to my angels for transformation. In essence, dealing with the harder testing aspects of the wisdom of forgiveness. Not a silly, delusional plan to someday walk hand in hand into the sunset happily again with those I no longer trusted. I would, of course unlikely place myself in those positions again with anyone or anything who would question my value or ghost me. Just the wonderful release that comes from forgiveness. The dropping of the part of me that is irritated when I think about any of it. This not only feels amazing but also often opens new doors for future resolution in ways we may not yet be able to see. </span></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvB8XlKJPErnNAe_jHsLjb8XVNK1sTuJVV7vMU_Pe8V7T36Cxuka2s6kw6EOJBbfPeuVCbawcEeUPjRXzE1IOwGcMfNHqIG0E6wXj_Ppgn4RkvPrhNvHiVr8EayhpxKrbYL6JJuvueLH7y/s335/th-6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="335" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvB8XlKJPErnNAe_jHsLjb8XVNK1sTuJVV7vMU_Pe8V7T36Cxuka2s6kw6EOJBbfPeuVCbawcEeUPjRXzE1IOwGcMfNHqIG0E6wXj_Ppgn4RkvPrhNvHiVr8EayhpxKrbYL6JJuvueLH7y/s320/th-6.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><br /> </span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The interesting part was to get there I often had to fake it until I made it with feeling peaceful. Our beliefs do form our reality so to some extent this did began to work. Feeling at peace became addictive. I wanted more of it. Forgiving others is not always easy, or even forgiving ourselves. My desire to be around those who seemed to have hurt me, or even to need the help of banks at all began to shift. A new more empowered perspective was taking hold of me. In addition, all of my wise ass childhood jokes about religious songs, and making fun of those who were playing out exaggerated elements of peace, moved to a place of understanding. My chances of running back to church are mostly non-existent, but I was reminded that there is wisdom there too as well. I have evolved and gained a more mature, tolerant perspective about how everyone expresses their sense of spirituality. There is still some work ahead on all of this, but I am happily and notably more at peace. I was no longer searching for how to feel peace, because I let peace begin with me.<br />Jim Ventura 10-2021<br /> <br /><br /><i>“Ultimately, we have just one moral duty; to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world.” Etty Hillesum</i><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Notes:</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_-E52C-171KT4diYQM3siNkiV3Kn0nGwj9DkYwPSsNyh-DB0L7ud4gdadteRATjlk7JDIJpNtSTlIbuGHiWly-F_sHxjoAZ6nfwIkjzYXeDxhMz2yhYUhqkF7AD1qHWUkGD7872AwRjo1/s374/image005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="374" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_-E52C-171KT4diYQM3siNkiV3Kn0nGwj9DkYwPSsNyh-DB0L7ud4gdadteRATjlk7JDIJpNtSTlIbuGHiWly-F_sHxjoAZ6nfwIkjzYXeDxhMz2yhYUhqkF7AD1qHWUkGD7872AwRjo1/s320/image005.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />This year is coming to an end. The universal numerology year of 5 (2021) was definitely a year of change and a bit of notable turbulence often associated with the number 5 vibration. The year ahead; 2022 is a 6 more about home, family, service and a more domesticated feel...<br />To celebrate the finale of this year I am offering my New Client Special for both new and returning clients for $10-15 off listed rates now through December 31st. In addition my gift certificate special is an offer for up to a $75 discount for the purchase of three gift certificates. More information about that later in the newsletter. <br /><br />I recently did a new YouTube video. I try to do one a month but it seems to be more like an every six week format. This one is of interest for anyone seeing repeated number combinations on clocks, receipts, and in other places. I also talk about what the master numbers mean. Check out the video and feel free to subscribe or pass along to friends. Referrals for new clients and subscribers to my Radio show channel, column subscription or YouTube, or for one on one sessions are always welcome!<br />Cut and paste in your browsers or u can access by going to my channel at J Ventura Snake Oil </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaq6-uHYyt73TMl3R8JQnVs2xgX-kI5ud1HWq9qq64W_IB68e0C7flMaJreUKC1WTzBwW_4tJ47kCnTBDoMJu63Bzp0me1ixFWXrIYKur916T1jtaOL92I8Mi5tISZBOT0oIXkOnKdjeTA/s474/th-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="189" data-original-width="474" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaq6-uHYyt73TMl3R8JQnVs2xgX-kI5ud1HWq9qq64W_IB68e0C7flMaJreUKC1WTzBwW_4tJ47kCnTBDoMJu63Bzp0me1ixFWXrIYKur916T1jtaOL92I8Mi5tISZBOT0oIXkOnKdjeTA/s320/th-4.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTyatK4r4JU&t=179s<br /><br />I am happy to be doing mini reading parties again. Covid of course killed a lot of that and now it’s slowly returning as people begin to gather together. One benefit of the social distancing and anxiety so many experienced from an almost two year pandemic, was I also developed an option for mini reading parties for out of area clients by face-Time or simply by phone. I have added more info about this on my website so if interested look for it there or email for information on setting one up in the coming year!<br /><br />The holiday season is here again. We could also refer to it as sugar overdose season. I get okay with an added 5 pounds or so this time of year, then always plan (sometimes successfully) to drop it in the new year. But the Taurus rising part of me does enjoy a bit of indulgence here and there so also going with the flow. Wishing everyone a Happy holiday season and better New Year ahead! Cheers, Jim V<br /><br /><br /><i>“Our bodies have five senses; touch, taste, smell, sight, hearing. But not to be overlooked are the senses of the souls; intuition, peace, foresight, trust, empathy. The differences between people lie in their use of these senses; most people don’t know anything about the inner senses while a few people rely on them just as much as they rely on their physical senses, and in fact probably even more.” C. JoyBell </i><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>November and December Gift certificates Special: $10-$75 off all sessions!<br />This offer is for new New Clients and Returning Clients</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvaBGJyJHFGBU2U06D26LcIfqTosBNQf9oerj_g6awKa1kPhvxXwcjr2LtzorPCSmuHunXODPJQ2kDGb1tmI12-FFPOlp3cEvex3c-_NDu1mSGWBj9rAJIfwJrXeEdgO84q4JN31jO7-IF/s437/th-5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="437" height="117" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvaBGJyJHFGBU2U06D26LcIfqTosBNQf9oerj_g6awKa1kPhvxXwcjr2LtzorPCSmuHunXODPJQ2kDGb1tmI12-FFPOlp3cEvex3c-_NDu1mSGWBj9rAJIfwJrXeEdgO84q4JN31jO7-IF/s320/th-5.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><br />The holidays are approaching. Give a gift to someone you love that they will really appreciate: a reading/personal session with Jim Ventura. All sessions booked at this time and all gift certificates purchased from November 16th, 2021 until December 31st, 2021 will be at a discounted rate for all of the clients who are currently on my mailing list (receiving Snake Oil or following me on Face-Book, Instagram, or LinkedIn) and new first time clients as well can take advantage of the special!<br /><br /><b>Special discounted rate:</b><br /><b>$10.00</b> off my current listed prices for any 45, 70, or 90 minute sessions. If you purchase up to 2 gift certificates (or decide to purchase a follow up session for yourself to use in the coming year after a session at this time) the second gift certificate is <b>$20</b> off my listed prices. If you purchase a third it will be <b>$40</b> off that one! A maximum of three session gift certificates may be purchased at this time. Cash or check payments can add an additional $5 off the total price.<br /><br />Price list for services are at the end of this newsletter and on my website. The gift certificates are good for one full year and can be used any time during the remainder of 2021 and all of 2022. I will either mail them to you or, if you prefer, mail them directly to the people who you want to receive them (snail mail or email). You may want to buy a gift certificate(s) for friends, family or for yourself to be used anytime in 2022. Sessions can be in-office or by phone, or Face-Time for out-of-area clients.<br /><br /><br /><i>“The more you talk about it, rehash it, rethink it, cross analyze it, debate it, respond to it, get paranoid about it, compete with it, complain about it, immortalize it, cry over it, kick it, defame its motives it continues to rot in your brain. It is dead. It is over. It is gone. It is done. It is time to bury it because it is smelling up your life and no one wants to be near your rotted corpse of memories and decaying attitude. Be the funeral director of your life and bury that thing!” Shannon Alder</i></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i> </i><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Channeled corner.</b></span> I read many, many books from different trance channelers in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. Unfortunately many of them are now out of print, but I still have a huge collection and will share some of the best material I have collected over the years.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />This is a great explanation about how things like genetics, heritage, astrology, numerology, and other sciences are meant to show attributes and dispositions, yet still involve choice. Here is a brief explanation of how Higher Self choices intersect with the idea of free will:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><i>“...Each person, for example, is born with his or her uniquely individual set of characteristics and abilities. likes and dislikes. Those serve to organize individual action in a world where an infinite number of probable roads are open-and here again, private impulses are basically meant to guide each individual toward avenues of expression and probable activities suited best to organize action, and to set free will more effectively into motion. Otherwise, free will would be almost inoperable in practical terms: Individuals would be faced by so many choices that any decisions would be nearly impossible. Essentially, the individual would have no particular leaning toward any one action over any other...” Jane Roberts channeling Seth in the book: Dreams Evolution, and Value Fulfillment<br /><br /></i>“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.” Gandhi<br />“Grudges are for those who insist they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.” Criss Jami, Salome<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Snake Oil Radio</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiSX5-AdYUqIwkAnf8AMn74IUVM6Ae9EV-4XRZeJDAIqf5g9Hs5CzRYz_5phlbH-eygEe5t087-hGDDXP_K3qhEvdglg4zfSdpBTnNzIXIriDMN1IBj0TtQr6b5KxDsMINElTxSymjxFeX/s300/snake-oil-salesman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiSX5-AdYUqIwkAnf8AMn74IUVM6Ae9EV-4XRZeJDAIqf5g9Hs5CzRYz_5phlbH-eygEe5t087-hGDDXP_K3qhEvdglg4zfSdpBTnNzIXIriDMN1IBj0TtQr6b5KxDsMINElTxSymjxFeX/s0/snake-oil-salesman.jpg" width="300" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />Thursdays at 3:30 pm (there will be two live broadcast this period)<br />My next live broadcast of Snake Oil Radio will be Thursday, December 2nd at 3:30 p.m. mountain (Phoenix) time. Usually one or two Thursdays each month you can catch a new show. Each 45 minute show will expand on my current column’s subject matter. It will also offer an opportunity for you to chat with other listeners in the chat room with comments and your thoughts about the topic of discussion. If you miss the live show, you can catch any of my previously recorded shows on the web site’s archive. You can also catch Snake Oil Radio on I-tunes (download my pod-casts there).<br />To hear a live show, all you need to do is be at a computer and tuned into: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura You may also access it by going to the site and type “Snake Oil” into the search option. You can also go to the shows that are currently “On air” at that time and find me. The call in number is 646-200-3966 for questions and comments.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><i>“I have lived with several Zen masters--all of them cats.” Eckhart Tolle</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i>Here’s my contact information to make an appointment for a session, or information on current classes: Email: Venturasag@yahoo.com (best method for contact).</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i> </i>Phone calls to leave a message: (602) 957-3035 for text only: (602) 349-0746 <br /><br />Information about the different sessions and types of readings and services, past Snake Oil columns, and how to order my books and audio CD’s can be found at my website: <a href="Http://JimVentura.com">Http://JimVentura.com</a> <br /><br />“Friend” me on Facebook to get other extra offers and in between column extras! Signing up for my fan page will get you even more extras and first shot at reading specials. Simply click on “like” on the fan page and you will automatically get my weekly updates. <br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl</a><br /><br />You also may want to check out my posts on Tumblr.com: <br /><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/blog/snake-oil-blog">https://www.tumblr.com/blog/snake-oil-blog</a><br /><br />Subscribe to my YouTube Channel (approximately once a month 6-11 minute videos) at<br />J Ventura Snake Oil. You can also find me on Instagram..<br /><br />All sessions/readings for 2020-22 are: Full (70 minutes) $115.00; Shorter session (45 minutes) $90.00; Extended session (90 minutes) $135.00 (two people can split an extended session back to back with an added fee of $5 for $70.00 each, although no other discounts will apply). Mini phone session 20 minutes $40. Email me for information about my Regular Client Program for even bigger discounts on session prices with the added benefit of monthly or quarterly check-ins. Purchasing 3 pre-paid sessions also brings sizable discounts (example 3 pre-paid 45 minute sessions is $150 total or $50 a session...) <br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE-I-PbJzxxOiZbW_uiwUZ3ZWrQMAZq0_bTRhD2C-8JVuvR1g-74ZA3fQq0ONfz_XjRHMLzEGAswd1NwcMsa1Z0T9IdsfYzuYQ7303GyX08mIKIV9AFPW_ZmEjlgVTGDBOLrf7EBFAI4DB/s1600/2109724-Louise-Hay-Quote-I-am-totally-safe-in-the-Universe-I-am-at-peace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE-I-PbJzxxOiZbW_uiwUZ3ZWrQMAZq0_bTRhD2C-8JVuvR1g-74ZA3fQq0ONfz_XjRHMLzEGAswd1NwcMsa1Z0T9IdsfYzuYQ7303GyX08mIKIV9AFPW_ZmEjlgVTGDBOLrf7EBFAI4DB/s320/2109724-Louise-Hay-Quote-I-am-totally-safe-in-the-Universe-I-am-at-peace.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>Jim V/Snake Oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00746873887985304530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024612299906599073.post-2798860533534290712021-09-10T20:24:00.000-07:002021-09-10T20:24:39.755-07:00September October 2021 Snake Oil/Three Lucky Charms<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Snake Oil/Three Lucky Charms</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjivV3RzWwcwSVAh_evlfS1sNz0l2sKI2Rn-gC0f3I9r59jGQL18nYtplQ5g_-wBReRVubPy6Ahc59tzHmEMru4HRPyjnD_JxikVhlzDgjhg6aD1C1hPfI5cV9tQQ4zkHeQtqMHrZ_F1q0q/s300/Being-Lucky-300x166.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="166" data-original-width="300" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjivV3RzWwcwSVAh_evlfS1sNz0l2sKI2Rn-gC0f3I9r59jGQL18nYtplQ5g_-wBReRVubPy6Ahc59tzHmEMru4HRPyjnD_JxikVhlzDgjhg6aD1C1hPfI5cV9tQQ4zkHeQtqMHrZ_F1q0q/s0/Being-Lucky-300x166.png" width="300" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /> </b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b>
I was digging through my bedroom nightstand a few weeks ago when I came across a notebook I hadn’t written in for a while. A few years ago I would often write in a gratitude journal. To my surprise the last entry was back in 2013! The current climate in the world with its political extremes, heightened anger, weather catastrophes, and endless reminders of what disease will get us next..., reminded me that focusing more on gratitude again was a wise decision. There are always things for us to be grateful for, and a gratitude journal is one of many simple things we can do to shift our energy to a more positive space. The act of doing this shifts us internally, which inevitably leads to external shifts in quite tangible ways. Committing to the process itself will start making more things to be grateful for in life. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>1. Gratitude Journal Exercise:</b></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGooOqeYRYgE-lZglwLmHa3PpS5nS50kXtmfeEc6QI0hch2GlSNNO3XbS6WqRbNpWSza4HhuwH0OjUg5RBpe5BecA__P-DaynPul3rkJlb80Rf_ZKonne4eGGRwJ8S69JLnGZ-YpncERkx/s265/th-8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="177" data-original-width="265" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGooOqeYRYgE-lZglwLmHa3PpS5nS50kXtmfeEc6QI0hch2GlSNNO3XbS6WqRbNpWSza4HhuwH0OjUg5RBpe5BecA__P-DaynPul3rkJlb80Rf_ZKonne4eGGRwJ8S69JLnGZ-YpncERkx/s0/th-8.jpg" width="265" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> Buy a physical notebook, even a simple inexpensive one is the first step. Then commit to every night, or as often as you remember to write in it. This can also be done in the morning or at any other time that feels right to you. Just write 5 things that you are grateful for and date it.
Here is an example of one of mine from 8-14-2021:
-Fall is on the way.
-Air conditioning.
-Great health right now.
-Increase in income.
-Good friends.
There is no right or wrong in what you can list as something you appreciate. Just the act of focusing more on how many things you are grateful will act as a magnet to creating more things to value in your life. The shift in focus has far reaching effects over time. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>2 Chakra Scrub Exercise:</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1pA6DAOciAlbsdJXRLTElcW-pMBD1bkJ33DO0K_a57BbEBw5r-DmXZ0TqIPqsfNTq5DdIsXqL-IPf-rw_LL3Hfm5mhVfOPhjmXc1Xnwam9JN_FR-nQgxLkSN-2LVqB4yT7xxSfSoqnAkX/s1936/assets_public.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1936" data-original-width="1936" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1pA6DAOciAlbsdJXRLTElcW-pMBD1bkJ33DO0K_a57BbEBw5r-DmXZ0TqIPqsfNTq5DdIsXqL-IPf-rw_LL3Hfm5mhVfOPhjmXc1Xnwam9JN_FR-nQgxLkSN-2LVqB4yT7xxSfSoqnAkX/s320/assets_public.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /> </b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> From time to time when you shower, especially when you are stressed, over-tired or have a difficult day, or potentially starting one, this is a good practice. Use a bar of soap, or soap in a liquid form and take a few minutes to gently scrub each area of the body where your chakras are located. They are the seven energy centers we all have that line up internally. You can easily do online or research from books about these energy centers if you would like more knowledge about what they represent and where they are located on the body. Move the soap in clockwise or counter clockwise motions (whatever feels natural to you in each area). Visualize white or golden light streaming through your head (this is extra easy with the the natural flow of the water hitting you) and clear and reset each area. You may want to use the added visualization of the associated color for each area and chakra. Imagine any negative energy or blocks flowing down the drain and being washed away.
After you dry off, you can take an added step. Take a scented oil and touch and gently rub each chakra before getting dressed. A dab on the soles of your feet and in the palms of the hand can also be added. This process will in either subtle ways, or quite notably physical ways tend to make you feel a combination of peacefulness and may also re-energize you at the same time! </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>3. Refocus Exercise:</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqJ9c87CAiZixNQWedJgmq0l12wvOtwCeLdXVZtZ9wNThtYtKiWNg2NvIQ38pHsAp5_YeiWVsLju4X1A9vpspf1Ib7QyG8JX_uriMqy9I5YsCEFWUH78Kp-uIhTittkc67FflCMZCPURHw/s283/th-6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="159" data-original-width="283" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqJ9c87CAiZixNQWedJgmq0l12wvOtwCeLdXVZtZ9wNThtYtKiWNg2NvIQ38pHsAp5_YeiWVsLju4X1A9vpspf1Ib7QyG8JX_uriMqy9I5YsCEFWUH78Kp-uIhTittkc67FflCMZCPURHw/s0/th-6.jpg" width="283" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /> </b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> This is an excellent exercise to do when you find yourself worrying or fretting over any area of your life that is stressing you out or bringing up fear of “what if?”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> A. sit quietly and begin to focus on the present moment as much as possible. Become aware of your senses; what the room feels like, notice sensations in your body. What taste is in your mouth? Are you warm or cool? Even focus on the details of the room itself. Bring your awareness fully into the present. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">B. Refuse to worry. Tell yourself you can worry all you want later or tomorrow or on any occasion if you choose. But clearly resolve to not worry in the moment. If or when your thoughts do touch upon your problem or fear, imagine the best possible solution to this dilemma. Do not concern yourself with the details of how that can happen. Simply see in your minds eye this accomplished. If you’re not good at visual imagery, then just imagine what it would feel like if it was comfortably or even miraculously resolved. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Worry is a form of prayer. When we do too much of it we may even create a self-fulfilling prophesy. We may logically dread creating a negative, but we humans love to also be “right.” “See I told you it wouldn’t work out.” “I have the worst luck.” These and similar thoughts (beliefs) bring more of the same. Learn to trust that the Universe will respond in its own brilliant creative way to solve your dilemma.
Metaphysical practices are more than just ideals. With increased practice, these and similar exercises will re-align us internally. The world is already full of people who are swimming in fear about how many bad things are happening or could come their way. Make a conscious effort to not jump into the pool whenever possible. Not only does this refocusing exercise allow you to walk in the world with more confidence and peace, but your example may light up the possibility for other people around you to follow your lead. If you want a bit more luck in your life, you have to begin to believe you are lucky in spite of any evidence from your past experiences. Your point of power is in the present. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">8-2021 Jim Ventura </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <i>“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.” Roy Bennett</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> </i><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Notes</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC2iewyK0LexzneQG-XGjOwwi9oODWd1L3Dmgd7H84Jxd8GFr8OxcgAWv5bMQbeVaWevQlF8AyisOFCEP_Ki2ukrQ_xcrgV4UUP9zU6UuW7TBarGZf1p3xj9-t72NHBVWzb2n4zXSVrZn3/s374/image005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="374" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC2iewyK0LexzneQG-XGjOwwi9oODWd1L3Dmgd7H84Jxd8GFr8OxcgAWv5bMQbeVaWevQlF8AyisOFCEP_Ki2ukrQ_xcrgV4UUP9zU6UuW7TBarGZf1p3xj9-t72NHBVWzb2n4zXSVrZn3/s320/image005.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /> </b><br />I actually included seven Snake Charms like this in my published book Snake Oil Volume One. A copy can be ordered through Amazon.com or directly from me in-office (and personally signed), after a session. I always keep copies in my office.<br />I just finished my third YouTube video about living in a safe Universe. More information is available later in the newsletter. You can find and subscribe to my YouTube channel at J Ventura Snake Oil. I posted an amazing synchronistic story on Instagram last month about being protected. I post different short videos and other info about three times a month there for followers. (J Ventura Snake Oil) in search engine or cut and paste this link into your browser for part three: </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvQ8NAwnJ1Y&t=109s</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Autumn has arrived. As usual I get a bit happier when my favorite season arrives. I lived in NY for the fist 25 years of my life, and my last 30 years in Phoenix, I’ve always found this season magical. We are reminded about the wisdom of letting go of aspects of ourselves and our lives that no longer serve us. Autumn is a great time to look at getting a session exploring what we personally may want to “drop.” The act of clearing away the old opens doors for the new. In office as well as phone or FaceTime, and Zoom sessions can be booked by contacting me at Ventursag@yahoo.com. Current subscribers to my newsletter get $5 off listed rates and in-office cash and check payments can take an additional $5 discount.<br />Wishing everyone a relaxing, cool Autumn season ahead. Cheers, Jim V</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><i>“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” Jim Bishop<br /></i><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>New Client Special 2021:</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRf_b6OsFx2qWrBIA8HYVxs5dLUPaKs3xmJwnGlV0HesxDYD5a4XGxyhLljGlOtbZDYyKr-14AJZbfJOi3kuWu4htwZ9_epKzCJKDaChHI4XIOQWpFiK17J0qbw6gp6s92rCImnARm5VVv/s1280/2-Ways-Baskets-Improve-Your-Gift-Giving-Skills.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1280" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRf_b6OsFx2qWrBIA8HYVxs5dLUPaKs3xmJwnGlV0HesxDYD5a4XGxyhLljGlOtbZDYyKr-14AJZbfJOi3kuWu4htwZ9_epKzCJKDaChHI4XIOQWpFiK17J0qbw6gp6s92rCImnARm5VVv/s320/2-Ways-Baskets-Improve-Your-Gift-Giving-Skills.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /> </b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">January 1st through November 1st, 2021 Special: $10-15 off listed rates for your first 45 minute session, 70, or 90 minute session! Debit and credit card payments get $10 off for 45-90 minute sessions. Local in-office clients can get an extra $5 off for cash or check payments for sessions. If you want to buy a new client a thoughtful gift of a session for a friend or family member you can also take advantage of these rates! <br />My current rates (new clients can subtract the above discounts from these rates): 45 minute sessions $90. 70 minute sessions $115. 90 minute sessions $135.<br />I also have 20 minute mini phone sessions $40. New client discount and special does not apply.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><i>“There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.” Joe Wheeler</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br />“If your fancied god behaves and talk like a lunatic, could you be otherwise? Think. Let go of silly beliefs. Be wise.” Fakeer Ishavardes</i><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Living in a Safe Universe:</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVWjghnX3bmXnlqPc-vHaKE8ppcnLSjdDKXkopku02AFpvE50ExWstGjZN5U0UotsH70PzPawB13OWDRyNkv-CdN7ylqLwF6tEm2DSQSjCkvnxb410z5ndGNSeKJfMX5NjEEJMXEn0i2Np/s1600/2109724-Louise-Hay-Quote-I-am-totally-safe-in-the-Universe-I-am-at-peace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVWjghnX3bmXnlqPc-vHaKE8ppcnLSjdDKXkopku02AFpvE50ExWstGjZN5U0UotsH70PzPawB13OWDRyNkv-CdN7ylqLwF6tEm2DSQSjCkvnxb410z5ndGNSeKJfMX5NjEEJMXEn0i2Np/s320/2109724-Louise-Hay-Quote-I-am-totally-safe-in-the-Universe-I-am-at-peace.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /> </b><br />I recently posted the third and final chapter of this series. Each video is about 10 minutes long and offers a tremendously empowering shift in focus!</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />First Video for Safe Universe: A read of a poignant piece from Jane Roberts (channeling Seth) about ignoring the fear around us and choosing to personally live in a safe universe.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Second video: How to access you Angels, Spirit Guides, and inner wisdom to feel and experience a true sense of safety.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Third video: Learning to work with animal totems. The protection of animal spirits is an amazing way to walk in this world feeling protected and safe.<br />Subscribe to my You Tube channel at J Ventura Snake Oil. Monthly new videos are free and can be shared. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><i>“Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.” Unknown</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> </i><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Snake Oil Radio</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Um2Appoa-O0VbqdTNW0CBZjfwiKnhiDwQ2ibHN7t4INMcW20SJMOQ1cSWAuZzYW1kfG2xQOrjfH2Pw1nC7JKrfB-ofW7PloPp-SXz3L9RD2NK_ozeukY_TWiz7mqvLVv5Wh7b3pKqJbq/s194/image007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="167" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Um2Appoa-O0VbqdTNW0CBZjfwiKnhiDwQ2ibHN7t4INMcW20SJMOQ1cSWAuZzYW1kfG2xQOrjfH2Pw1nC7JKrfB-ofW7PloPp-SXz3L9RD2NK_ozeukY_TWiz7mqvLVv5Wh7b3pKqJbq/s0/image007.jpg" width="167" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b><br />Thursdays at 3:30 pm (there will be two live broadcast this period)<br />My next live broadcast of Snake Oil Radio will be Thursday, September 23rd at 3:30 p.m. mountain (Phoenix) time. Usually one or two Thursdays each month you can catch a new show. Each 45 minute show will expand on my current column’s subject matter. It will also offer an opportunity for you to chat with other listeners in the chat room with comments and your thoughts about the topic of discussion. If you miss the live show, you can catch any of my previously recorded shows on the web site’s archive. You can also catch Snake Oil Radio on I-tunes (download my pod-casts there).<br />To hear a live show, all you need to do is be at a computer and tuned into: <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura">http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura</a> You may also access it by going to the site and type “Snake Oil” into the search option. You can also go to the shows that are currently “On air” at that time and find me. The call in number is 646-200-3966 for questions and comments.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Here’s my contact information to make an appointment for a session, or information on current classes: Email: <a href="mailto:Venturasag@yahoo.com">Venturasag@yahoo.com</a> (best method for contact).<br />Phone calls: (602) 957-3035 text only: (602) 349-0746 <br /><br />Information about the different sessions and types of readings and services, past Snake Oil columns, and how to order my books and audio CD’s can be found at my website: <a href="Http://JimVentura.com">Http://JimVentura.com</a> <br /><br />“Friend” me on Facebook to get other extra offers and in between column extras! Signing up for my fan page will get you even more extras and first shot at reading specials. Simply click on “like” on the fan page and you will automatically get my weekly updates. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl<br /></a><br />You also may want to check out my posts on Tumblr.com: <br /><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/blog/snake-oil-blog">https://www.tumblr.com/blog/snake-oil-blog</a><br /><br />Subscribe to my YouTube Channel (approximately once a month 6-10 minute videos) at<br />J Ventura Snake Oil. You can also find me on Instagram..<br /><br />All sessions/readings for 2020-21 are: Full (70 minutes) $115.00; Shorter session (45 minutes) $90.00; Extended session (90 minutes) $135.00 (two people can split an extended session back to back with an added fee of $5 for $70.00 each, although no other discounts will apply). Mini phone session 20 minutes $40. Email me for information about my Regular Client Program for even bigger discounts on session prices with the added benefit of monthly or quarterly check-ins. Purchasing 3 pre-paid sessions also brings sizable discounts (example 3 pre-paid 45 minute sessions is $150 total or $50 a session...) </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF9X24D1d6or5_KQL-m0Pae51Hu-SEYiec7toYEUcuGxZpCvT_VagvDJFexAk2s18ScjMuijG10ISQj2OFE7GicBugUuNyyMW9WcDszj14obDipppC-EJARnjfDO5J26WYbzRfN6UTq7m_/s526/240433524_558222438934063_1524090379662382297_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="526" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF9X24D1d6or5_KQL-m0Pae51Hu-SEYiec7toYEUcuGxZpCvT_VagvDJFexAk2s18ScjMuijG10ISQj2OFE7GicBugUuNyyMW9WcDszj14obDipppC-EJARnjfDO5J26WYbzRfN6UTq7m_/s320/240433524_558222438934063_1524090379662382297_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>Jim V/Snake Oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00746873887985304530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024612299906599073.post-75940564507299291432021-07-08T18:00:00.008-07:002021-07-12T21:22:04.637-07:00July and August 2021 Snake Oil/It's Getting Cold Out There<p> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Snake Oil It’s Getting Cold Out There?</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW3NAw7tpEHE_2dEi0RJ3QkOZ_VulzxRZaxLFKrtNG7sS2MRlYkbMgIlKq9URju44b-NyYHDpe0IMUgj_ZbAo0bFh1adCBwRFk6xB7NlA593GsITkKrstItdpHANZyd42YxR8r1P7USuAu/s400/don%2527t%252Btouch%252Bme.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW3NAw7tpEHE_2dEi0RJ3QkOZ_VulzxRZaxLFKrtNG7sS2MRlYkbMgIlKq9URju44b-NyYHDpe0IMUgj_ZbAo0bFh1adCBwRFk6xB7NlA593GsITkKrstItdpHANZyd42YxR8r1P7USuAu/s320/don%2527t%252Btouch%252Bme.jpg" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /> </b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />I was heading into my gym’s locker room when an in-shape, solid young man in a protective mask was exiting at the same time. The dramatic reaction he performed with wide scared eyes as he nearly collided with me and pulled back was humorous. He got too close to me for about three seconds and the likely bombardment in the last year and a half from medical experts about the need for proper Covid protocol responses like social distancing was probably why he reacted so theatrically. Even though in the US we seem to be thankfully over the hurdle of the worst aspects of this pandemic, many articles, news reports about variants still abound, “There could be more bad to come ahead” and “Don’t relax by any means,” and similar messages are still bombarding us. A fair amount of people, places and businesses are still wearing masks and maintaining some of the extremes of social distancing. In his and other similar peoples defense nobody really knows how to act at this point. What is safe and what isn’t? What is the right behavior and what isn’t? The pandemic definitely heightened what was an already growing theme of keeping more and more of a distance from others that’s been building over the last decade or so. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Years ago if you were in any type of waiting room for your car to be repaired, a doctors visit, etc... you either read a magazine, sat quietly, or talked to the people around you. Now the common practice is to work on a computer or just stare intently at your phone. I see the same thing with groups of young people often sitting together or even walking in groups while barely talking to each other and looking at cell phones. While at bars and restaurants you would often strike up conversation with someone nearby. While this is not completely gone by any means it has notably atrophied. People seem to have lost their ability to flirt, strike up simple chit-chat, and in general seem to have diminished fluid social skills.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />While dating apps and social media sites have opened many doors for meeting people, they have also allowed a lot more liars, pretenders, scam artists, and general BS to flourish. Attraction to another person whether sexual or even for friendships involves more than seeing a picture or reading a profile. It’s a vibe you feel, body type attraction, observing the appeal of body movement, how someone smells, feels, and a host of other significant indicators that can only be experienced in person. In some ways this social media focus has also created uglier aspects or at least magnified it in human behavior. With face-book and Instagram options for commentaries, this has translated into a type of negative expression that at times borders on bullying. People are more empowered to say foul things to each other because the computer or phone provides a shield. Being a nasty wise guy always carried a risk in person; you could get a punch in the mouth! I see this personally with the drivel of inane know-it-alls who say things like “astrology has been debunked” “it’s all a scam,” and other “genius” comments that show up on my pages when I do marketing on Face-Book and similar sites. Ugliness and anger are not new, but they seem to have increased.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_gCU_2QQAwFokGXXLqiGZmyeFp3LLXR4QFxffspWZc8_fv-C7iL2F4j94TrN7XtOji_bwV7_AxtUnB2-YjZ6fbMTyfs9zQAenxIRpX4aim1yInrV7iv27NBmiKvSVdYW6xyH4jof8_iNu/s175/th-10.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="162" data-original-width="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_gCU_2QQAwFokGXXLqiGZmyeFp3LLXR4QFxffspWZc8_fv-C7iL2F4j94TrN7XtOji_bwV7_AxtUnB2-YjZ6fbMTyfs9zQAenxIRpX4aim1yInrV7iv27NBmiKvSVdYW6xyH4jof8_iNu/s0/th-10.jpg" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Of course and understandably the pandemic of 2020 and the early part of 2021 added more coldness and fear of others to the situation. Not surprisingly alcoholism has risen dramatically in the last few years. People are more afraid than ever and alcohol is the energetic and physical mask of liquid courage. I choose not to put much energy into conspiracy theories about the hows, whys, or what was behind this pandemic as a world event. Whatever its cause it was a real thing and it impacted our world. real sadness, loss of people and the devastating impact on families. It was a hard time in our collective history and by no means completely finished. We may always have this illness, but the numbers affected will likely continue to decline. What concerns me is the fall out. The messages we were told to keep safe are still not only part of our world, but embedded now in the human psyche. “Keep away from others, put on masks to protect yourself.” “Don’t go out into the world it’s’ too dangerous,” “You can get sick or your germs can make the vulnerable sick or even die, be afraid of either possibility!” While it was quite understandable for many of these ideas to have taken root during a pandemic, it is another thing to keep hanging onto these ideas for the remainder of our lifetimes. How long do we stay in fear about this? Another year or two, five more years, a decade or longer? I have discussed in past columns that the idea of random illness jumping out and grabbing you is of course ludicrous from a metaphysical perspective. There are multiple layers of how and why we experience any type of illness, including illness connected with a pandemic. I completely get why people are scared and cautious; we have been conditioned to believe in randomness of illness. And, I am an advocate for healthy, reasonable, and practical safety measures. Still, the fear of getting close to others, not already safely in our household or family we know remains sadly heightened. The most detrimental aspects of this are that this approach has harmed the youngest members of our society. Much of their social development has been marred by this rapid decline into being afraid to get close to, hug, shake hands, or chat in close proximity of another human being without a computer app, mask or another type of shield between. The loss of proms, school, trips, and a host of other rites of childhood passage and experiences were blown up and cannot be recovered for those who lost them. Young children being a part of a school play or in the audience, or the excitement of a crowded amusement park for summer vacation matter. The late teen early twenties experience of your first crowded dance club, maybe a concert and squeezing into a booth at a diner with 8 of your friends matter. I got to have these things and I want the same for everyone. These and similar experiences lost are-is a tragedy. The potential harm of another year or more of this ahead for young people would be costly.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS11K2TuEqWx0oRcL7LWiO9ssuuB31v9crpWucyKP14EqK5XDM1GO_t3c8n0TcKC9R6x12Y-58b_Gj_i1ncni9x6U4dXVF-b99dq3NH26bFQWIuDQfNnHQnCpEHIwI2mMi86z2MRnJ0vmS/s299/th-12.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="163" data-original-width="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS11K2TuEqWx0oRcL7LWiO9ssuuB31v9crpWucyKP14EqK5XDM1GO_t3c8n0TcKC9R6x12Y-58b_Gj_i1ncni9x6U4dXVF-b99dq3NH26bFQWIuDQfNnHQnCpEHIwI2mMi86z2MRnJ0vmS/s0/th-12.jpg" /></a></div><p><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Another likely contribution to the decline about whether there is safety in human contact may be some aspects that result form our move into the Aquarian Age. While the positive key factors like brother and sisterhood, heightened awareness of science and logical thought, celebration of eccentricity and more acceptance of what makes us unique in the human population are excellent aspects of this societal shift, Aquarius test is to remember “warmth.” Healthy detachment is a good thing but this can also lead to a time when we forget the value of touching other people, emotionally, spiritually and physically when agreed upon. The advances in technology from video conferencing, attending a workout class in a video mirror, having food delivered, being able to work at home are, and were lifesaving to many people. Still, this can lead even more to people moving further away from interacting with others in a human way. It adds to social anxiety, and in some respects the beneficial aspects of the technology pull us further apart from each other. While a small percentage of the population rightly loves the lack of contact (not everyone enjoys sociability) and enjoy being proverbial hermits, the majority of us have a need for interactions with other people one on one and in group settings. Restaurants, coffee shops, concerts, sporting events, theater, health clubs, ethnic festivals, parades, and so many other group activities are essentially parts of what makes this world enjoyable. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiClL5Jc3Sj6dSQmNytKVM3p9G2zp8A1Jd2i3_3W7kn0wmbZdryzK5NUlVDRrv0qjBNbXZtfyEpRovZfWqV4uEeFxAefy0iksMkt7_aQJS8y8iHSJTA4qWm9VIHlZRhxRG7LBv7J0AqM_Yy/s301/th-13.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="169" data-original-width="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiClL5Jc3Sj6dSQmNytKVM3p9G2zp8A1Jd2i3_3W7kn0wmbZdryzK5NUlVDRrv0qjBNbXZtfyEpRovZfWqV4uEeFxAefy0iksMkt7_aQJS8y8iHSJTA4qWm9VIHlZRhxRG7LBv7J0AqM_Yy/s0/th-13.jpg" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> </span><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />For all of its extremes of tragedy and loss for so many people connected to the time of Covid, in all aspects of life there is duality. So many people rose to the occasion and performed heroic acts to help others. Nurses, doctors, medical field employees of all sort, and many people in other industries stepped up in massive ways. Simple acts of thoughtfulness and kindness at a time when people were suffering were beautifully mixed with all the negatives. The willing sacrifices to help others that occurred during this test in our world didn’t nearly get the recognition it should have. Shutting down for a bit to theoretically stop the spread of a disease, to protect the more vulnerable in society, the benefits for the environment of less cars on the road, and looking at the importance of prioritizing having a healthy immune system were highlighted responses that had value. People reexamined the priorities of family togetherness, and whether the often over-prioritized value on the material aspects of life needed to be shifted. In some ways the entire world got together to fight this. There were so many societal inequities brought to light, which is a big part of why pandemics occur in the first place. Out of the rubble we are reminded that humankind can show its better, kinder side, and growth, enlightenment, and even a chance to rebuild can rise from the tests.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixgA3-OIRl4Y9DyR-hkc9yTtkaoZOLBBHrAyQQoljvZZft3tHHDGtuR5ZZX0hUyIDt-L4Kf1wx1rvMEVcA85rFktmj3GIdDKUMz-sGY6wV5BxZ8iCCAvUXAbGJfxw0PTYz713sWt583LbH/s234/th-15.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="154" data-original-width="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixgA3-OIRl4Y9DyR-hkc9yTtkaoZOLBBHrAyQQoljvZZft3tHHDGtuR5ZZX0hUyIDt-L4Kf1wx1rvMEVcA85rFktmj3GIdDKUMz-sGY6wV5BxZ8iCCAvUXAbGJfxw0PTYz713sWt583LbH/s0/th-15.jpg" /></a></div><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Unfortunately for many the leftover phobias will likely continue to project into the future. A reigniting of the “end of the world themes” in both religious, metaphysical, and scientific fatalistic circles is being seen all over. There is more fear, trepidation, and various beliefs that “the world is in it’s decline.” This can lead to even more people losing their “taste for life.” Those last three words are significant. One of the aspects of Covid for many was losing one’s sense of taste and smell. We have been trained by logical science and linear thought that a disease creates a condition and symptoms. Metaphysics teaches us that the physical condition is actually a result of limited beliefs, and unresolved emotional pain. In other words the fear or limit internally was already there, or was growing and the disease is our physical bodies way of showing this to us, potentially giving us a chance to face it, and better yet release it. At a simply more human level many people are still lingering with thoughts like these: “I won’t ever participate in any group event.” “I won’t go near the BAD ONES who aren’t vaccinated.” “I won’t go near the vaccinated because they are now contaminated.” “I will wrap myself and my children in bubble wrap forever to be safe.” “No chance I will go to a shopping mall, concert event, a gym, or other places swimming with germs and people.” “I will only go to places that are sanitized.” “I will continue to wear a mask to be safe even in my house and car.” “I will not put myself at any risk to possibly die!” Everyone has choices and we absolutely get to choose how we will respond to this time in a post pandemic period. Choosing to eternally hide in your home, waiting for the next pandemic and thinking you’re being wise is at best questionable. If your fear of human contact, touching others, and being in the world with all of its excitement that stems from the need for vulnerability and risk, all the inevitable mistakes that help us to grow when we connect to others, the accomplishments, joys, and sorrows experienced along the way are to forever be avoided because you might die: Sadly in some respects you already have.<br />Jim Ventura 6-2021</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Notes:</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0TrIvlBq-ISE18pRO8vyxB_7inZykDAcdjAwFirAgAW_mjjv-3lgU1lOudPr1vkQu8umjk9VZq9CXCmttWyIZx8ZNIgIS2uxL25H8XHyJBDqXNNRgZatvPUR_UfiVdG_n7SlGS6B-3LcD/s374/image005.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="374" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0TrIvlBq-ISE18pRO8vyxB_7inZykDAcdjAwFirAgAW_mjjv-3lgU1lOudPr1vkQu8umjk9VZq9CXCmttWyIZx8ZNIgIS2uxL25H8XHyJBDqXNNRgZatvPUR_UfiVdG_n7SlGS6B-3LcD/w312-h213/image005.jpg" width="312" /></a></b></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />While I never really went into much fear about getting sick from Covid, I had actual health issues I was dealing with that worked out successfully in 2019 and 2020, not theoretical “be afraid you might randomly get it, Jim!” I haven’t flown on a plane in over two years. This actually doesn’t have anything to do with traditional fears about flying. It is just easier for me to drive to my favorite vacation spots (Vegas, Sedona, California-although I have avoided CA for last few years) and more cost effective since I drive a Prius! Like many people exhausted from 18 months of covering up our faces, wiping down surfaces where germs hide, just the whole idea of hours of walking around in a mask, in an airport for an extended period flying with one on etc... makes the prospect very unappealing. I so feel for anyone working long days or even short ones wearing the mask, all day, ugh! I have even limited my local casino trip notably in the last year because of this. Security guards (just doing their jobs) tell you to cover up even if you just stop to sip a drink got old really fast. And even worse, local AZ casinos for the most part have banned smoking on the floor (for “our protection”) for over a year now, the joy of smoking a cigar some of the time while gambling is one of the things I truly enjoy. I got why they did this during the pandemic, but now it lingers for other reasons. To me the point of the casino is to gamble, drink, smoke, and be “bad” for a few hours. Local AZ casino’s feel lame and just a lot less fun. Vegas thankfully let go of the mask thing if vaccinated a few months ago and doesn’t limit smoking, so I am grateful for that!</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg49blisw2SIgSUa17Jn3rWz94VIBV3dsnXLcxbz81xnhC2E55EtwoHkeh-RVQLqE0jFL-IRM1NelZuatjFiOE-5KWcTYZpu4qrV0rK3SHouxc-dIq8IfZEniYnOMWnRZ1NBzU7Kw28BzqJ/s248/th-9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="165" data-original-width="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg49blisw2SIgSUa17Jn3rWz94VIBV3dsnXLcxbz81xnhC2E55EtwoHkeh-RVQLqE0jFL-IRM1NelZuatjFiOE-5KWcTYZpu4qrV0rK3SHouxc-dIq8IfZEniYnOMWnRZ1NBzU7Kw28BzqJ/s0/th-9.jpg" /></a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My gym also dropped the need to wear a mask mandate about two months ago. Some people still do, but for the most part nobody wears them anymore. I still see one guy who is still heavily masked up and he vigorously wipes down every piece of equipment before and after he uses anything with the wet wipes provided all over the gym floor. He probably has to add another 20 minutes to each workout for all the wiping. God bless him, he is a good guy and always says hello. I like him, but when I see him I recall a number of different weird movie clips in my mind. The classic image of some lunatic obsessing about getting out the spots and all the dirt...”Out. out damn spot!” Honestly this is how I have felt most of the time this has been going on, everyone has been a bit crazy, with perspectives that collided with political slants as well. Fear will do this. My thirty five years of metaphysical study, holistic medical knowledge and similar studies have given me a quite different viewpoint. I recognize that the vast majority of the population has no awareness of this consciously (although I think unconsciously we all know that we create our physical world through our beliefs both individually and collectively), so I went along with what you were supposed to do with minimal bucking so as not to not create waves, and to respect other people and their collective fear of what is correct behaviors for the “good ones.” My chosen road has been to talk to clients about this learned perspective when asked and to teach about living in a Safe Universe (check out my YouTube video on this subject) in my writing as opposed to being combative or caught up in the “how dare you trample on my rights” perspective . </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />I started doing marketing for my availability for party events here in Phoenix. Understandably I lost most of these parties when the pandemic began. This of course was really devastating for so many people in fields connected to party planning, working those events, and that is a lot of people! It was a big loss for me, but only about 15 percent of my business comes from this, so I did not get hit with the financial loss in the same extreme way many people did financially. I am offering this again and information about setting up a party at your home, or for an office event of any kind within a reasonable range to Phoenix central can be a really fun way to introduce your friends and family to things like Astrology, Numerology, and other oracles. The rate is $90 an hour for the parties with a minimum of 2 and a half hours and a maximum of 5. You can get more information about these potential events on my website or just email me directly for more info, or to discuss setting one up.</span><br /><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />I have extended my new client discount special until November 1st. Remember you can buy gift certificates for friends and family at this rate anytime. Previous clients who have had sessions with me and are currently on my mailing list can take a $5 discount for sessions and an additional $5 discount for cash or check payments for in-office sessions. <br />Wishing everyone a good summer! And if you live in Arizona you are already looking forward to the fall probably, it’s damn hot here...Cheers, Jim V</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <br />My latest YouTube video: Safe Universe </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Cut and paste or go directly to YouTube (J Ventura) </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilJha-QO6BI<br /><br /><i>“Don’t feel bad about feeling bad. Don’t be frightened of feeling afraid. Don’t be angry about getting angry. There is no need to give up when we are feeling depressed. Nor should we be dismayed at the grief which often accompanies that outgrowing of anything which needs outgrowing. We can be glad that our soul is speaking to us and pushing us onwards. We frequently need to persevere with a period of inner turmoil before the dust can settle and be swept out the door.” Donna Goddard</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br />“A healthy lifestyle includes exercise, nutrition, healthy sleep patterns and a healthy group of friends.” Sophie Trudeau</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> </i><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>New Client Special 2021:</b></span> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixNvxhhmhb_WM-5Zld_krIylY5rxmKXRFT8X8W9guURWL_86Co74x1F3KZXY9XdLZmy-kGYrUlXCc0uR5_DR6iqd3ZpUwR43K8LBhpAOvpsQqBPDvdjnD_lQONJRbBdczbF_AvfoZWMPUH/s1280/2-Ways-Baskets-Improve-Your-Gift-Giving-Skills.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixNvxhhmhb_WM-5Zld_krIylY5rxmKXRFT8X8W9guURWL_86Co74x1F3KZXY9XdLZmy-kGYrUlXCc0uR5_DR6iqd3ZpUwR43K8LBhpAOvpsQqBPDvdjnD_lQONJRbBdczbF_AvfoZWMPUH/s320/2-Ways-Baskets-Improve-Your-Gift-Giving-Skills.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;">January 1st through November 1 st., 2021 Special: $10-15 off listed rates for your first 45 minute session, 70, or 90 minute session! Debit and credit card payments get $10 off for 45-90 minute sessions. Local in-office clients can get an extra $5 off for cash or check payments for sessions. If you want to buy a new client a thoughtful gift of a session for a friend or family member you can also take advantage of these rates! <br />My current rates (new clients can subtract the above discounts from these rates): 45 minute sessions $90. 70 minute sessions $115. 90 minute sessions $135.<br />I also have 20 minute mini phone sessions $40. New client discount and special does not apply.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><i>“Healing the world begins with healing yourself.” Anthon St. Maarten</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br />“Knowing yourself is a lifelong adventure, enjoy it as much as you can.” Happy Goddessa</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> </i><br /><br /><b>Channeled corner. I read many, many books from different trance channelers in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. Unfortunately many of them are now out of print, but I still have a huge collection and will share some of the best material I have collected over the years.</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b><br />Seth on being healthy:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />“The overall sense of health, vitality and resiliency is a generalized condition of contentment-brought about, however, by multitudinous specific responses. Left alone, the body can defend itself against any disease, but it cannot defend itself appropriately against an exaggerated general fear of disease on the individual’s part. It must mirror your own feelings and assessments. Usually, now, your entire medical systems literally generate as much disease as is cured-for you are everywhere hounded by the symptoms of various diseases, and filled with the fear of the disease, overwhelmed by what seems to be the body’s propensity toward illness-and nowhere is the body’s vitality or natural defense system stressed.<br />Private disease, then, happens also in a social context. This contrast is the result of personal and mass beliefs that are intertwined at all cultural levels, and so to that extent serve private and public purposes.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />The illnesses generally attributed to all different ages are involved. Those of the elderly, again, fit in with your social and cultural beliefs, the structure of your family life. Old animals have their own dignity, and so should old men and women. Senility is a mental and physical epidemic-a needless one. You ‘catch’ it because when you are young you believe that old people cannot perform. There are no inoculations against beliefs, so when young people with such beliefs grow old they become ‘victims.’</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />The kinds of diseases change through historical periods. Some become fashionable, others go out of style. All epidemics, however, are mass statements both biologically and physically. They point to mass beliefs that have brought about certain physical conditions that are abhorrent at all levels. They often go hand-in-hand with war, and represent biological protests...”<br />From The Individual and Nature of Mass Events. Jane Roberts channeling Seth <br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Snake Oil Radio</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj5EeHRs4-pVPJfCWWaQWWighh8i-umkR_Cps3IXlmeCYyo7SNtSECwe0bMZTsUfuOVYeTv9zf11ej0YA413Gt2Hf90ZuI33X7x51cGq4xwZt0wGS5yZsQcoKFSvgU4COR2Of3VBzdrZUL/s194/image007.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj5EeHRs4-pVPJfCWWaQWWighh8i-umkR_Cps3IXlmeCYyo7SNtSECwe0bMZTsUfuOVYeTv9zf11ej0YA413Gt2Hf90ZuI33X7x51cGq4xwZt0wGS5yZsQcoKFSvgU4COR2Of3VBzdrZUL/s0/image007.jpg" /></a></b></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />Thursdays at 3:30 pm (there will be two live broadcast this period)<br />My next live broadcast of Snake Oil Radio will be Thursday, August 5th at 3:30 p.m. mountain (Phoenix) time. Usually one or two Thursdays each month you can catch a new show. Each 45 minute show will expand on my current column’s subject matter. It will also offer an opportunity for you to chat with other listeners in the chat room with comments and your thoughts about the topic of discussion. If you miss the live show, you can catch any of my previously recorded shows on the web site’s archive. You can also catch Snake Oil Radio on I-tunes (download my pod-casts there).<br />To hear a live show, all you need to do is be at a computer and tuned into: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura You may also access it by going to the site and type “Snake Oil” into the search option. You can also go to the shows that are currently “On air” at that time and find me. The call in number is 646-200-3966 for questions and comments.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><i>“In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration.” Edie Falco</i><br /><br />Here’s my contact information to make an appointment for a session, or information on current classes: Email: Venturasag@yahoo.com (best method for contact).<br />Phone calls: (602) 957-3035 text only: (602) 349-0746 <br /><br />Information about the different sessions and types of readings and services, past Snake Oil columns, and how to order my books and audio CD’s can be found at my website: Http://<a href="http://JimVentura.com">JimVentura.com</a> <br /><br />“Friend” me on Facebook to get other extra offers and in between column extras! Signing up for my fan page will get you even more extras and first shot at reading specials. Simply click on “like” on the fan page and you will automatically get my weekly updates. <br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl</a><br /><br />You also may want to check out my posts on Tumblr.com: <br /><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/blog/snake-oil-blog">https://www.tumblr.com/blog/snake-oil-blog</a><br /><br />Subscribe to my YouTube Channel (approximately once a month 6-10 minute videos) at<br />J Ventura.. You can also find me on Instagram.<br /><br />All sessions/readings for 2020-21 are: Full (70 minutes) $115.00; Shorter session (45 minutes) $90.00; Extended session (90 minutes) $135.00 (two people can split an extended session back to back with an added fee of $5 for $70.00 each, although no other discounts will apply). Mini phone session 20 minutes $40. Email me for information about my Regular Client Program for even bigger discounts on session prices with the added benefit of monthly or quarterly check-ins. Purchasing 3 pre-paid sessions also brings sizable discounts (example 3 pre-paid 45 minute sessions is $150 total or $50 a session...) <br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1wKnaxGyQnvbsVr6l6QpV4ZX-KXMpxZmg6nOa71xj7XCSGfyJN7mu0QmWtn-EgZZzzzz70Ykh1tf9SL6o3G1oNyUSQ0Qqv5UQ4oLXrXgdzdH8Bo6opgJM1X5QT9GU3530NFS2nTmPvPiu/s640/Resized_Resized_20210514_061753.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1wKnaxGyQnvbsVr6l6QpV4ZX-KXMpxZmg6nOa71xj7XCSGfyJN7mu0QmWtn-EgZZzzzz70Ykh1tf9SL6o3G1oNyUSQ0Qqv5UQ4oLXrXgdzdH8Bo6opgJM1X5QT9GU3530NFS2nTmPvPiu/s320/Resized_Resized_20210514_061753.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Trip to Cave Creek for a ride up up and a way in a big Balloon Fun!<br /> </span><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> </span><br /><br /><br /><p></p><br />Jim V/Snake Oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00746873887985304530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024612299906599073.post-81473215602269300872021-05-06T12:49:00.001-07:002021-05-06T12:49:38.218-07:00May and June 2021 Snake Oil/Western Medicine or a Holistic Approach? <p> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Snake Oil</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Western Medicine or a Holistic Approach?</span></b></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3JgzU2iqpzFqSpeIdHhEjl3s-14-xN0gam4l4j_qnYGIeERx7IWM5aL6pujE7LII83Tt0OVwerhR4ZYLWGocqAwjMRzjbqCm_oG0vbfUfHDsoE77VsCQlzXaO0zgkIjNP84B4o12i8Xtc/s700/alternative-medicine-in-australia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3JgzU2iqpzFqSpeIdHhEjl3s-14-xN0gam4l4j_qnYGIeERx7IWM5aL6pujE7LII83Tt0OVwerhR4ZYLWGocqAwjMRzjbqCm_oG0vbfUfHDsoE77VsCQlzXaO0zgkIjNP84B4o12i8Xtc/s320/alternative-medicine-in-australia.jpg" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /> </span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />While flipping the hundreds of channels available from cable television, I ran across an old episode of Little House on the Prairie. The show is based on a time period in the later part of the 1800’s. The two early teenage daughters, Mary and Laura plot a way to make extra money to buy their local Reverend a new Bible. They purchase mini vials of “remedies” for things like arthritis, headache, obesity, etc...Basically about twenty five of the most common ailments people could possibly be suffering from at that time and plan to up-sell them to people in the town. The cures turn out to be mostly alcohol based and standard snake oil formulas and the young entrepreneurs fail in their endeavor. The episode is chock full of moral and family lessons, a bit of sweetness, and a dab of both positive and negative religious themes. It was a well written episode that I never caught in my youth.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />What struck me most was how small the list of medicine cures were that were even available at the time, in comparison to today's world where hundreds if not thousands of potential ailments and treatments exist. There just seems to be way more ailments to suffer from at this time. So back then did the current large list of illnesses and afflictions not exist at all or were they not yet discovered? I am fairly sure cancer and other chronic diseases were in existence, but there just really seems to be so many forms of diseases now. Watching commercial television in a modern age makes it hard to avoid the bombardment of ads for pharmaceutical treatments for a seemingly endless list of things you could be struggling with and a wide variety of available pharmaceutical remedies. Ads for nail fungus, allergies, arthritis, urinary tract infection, COPD, bone spurs, skin conditions, restless leg syndrome, baldness, depression, bi-polar disorder, anxiety, constipation, diabetes, STD’s, etc...The list is huge to put it mildly. If Laura and Mary had to carry remedies today for all the things that needed to be cured they would surely have collapsed! <br />I clearly acknowledge the significant advances we have gained from western medicine, surgery options, dentistry and the option of pharmaceuticals. The advances and amazing achievements from work in these fields has changed life dramatically and helped millions of people. It likely has contributed to the average longer lifespans we see now. While profit and gain are part of the mix the genuine urge to heal, cure and assist people who are ill mostly stems from science and medical professionals focused desire to help.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpYzbfpbHwIx5EBDxOc3auS3nc29LwM4mX2yHCGG9CKburwCY6Vy-mnfcFsPpFJd4U-sniExQ2A5-2zcfOXogFYe_PRLJLuYAQAxgVy5U5WMeeiPNXHHagLPNddDdXYU4eybkQt8E36wv8/s1200/%2524_57.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpYzbfpbHwIx5EBDxOc3auS3nc29LwM4mX2yHCGG9CKburwCY6Vy-mnfcFsPpFJd4U-sniExQ2A5-2zcfOXogFYe_PRLJLuYAQAxgVy5U5WMeeiPNXHHagLPNddDdXYU4eybkQt8E36wv8/s320/%2524_57.JPG" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />I grew up watching my mother and father with their pill cases and their pragmatically laid out cubbies for each day’s pills to take. My father especially with his blood thinners, pills for gout, heart issues and a long list of other problems took quite a few different kinds of pills every day. He lived almost ten years longer than his other siblings who died in their late 60s. I believe the combination of western medicines benefits, care from his doctors and most importantly, his genuine love of life kept him going until his death at 77. This was despite his long list of ailments. Both my mom and dad had little time or interest in prioritizing taking care if themselves with preventive medicine, exercise and healthy life choices, and they definitely suffered because of this. My Mother sadly was in really bad health, mentally and physically during the last year and a half of her life.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <br />Watching all of this helped shape the path I decided to follow. It definitely contributed to my early explorations of alternative medicine and a more holistic approach to healing for myself. I refused to go down the same road (and also Venus and the Moon in my sixth house in my natal chart) so I began to look into acupuncture, herbal cures, dietary adjustments, decreasing inflammation, trigger point therapies, intermittent fasting, and most importantly the link between our beliefs about life, our bodies, our self-worth, and the underlying reasons as to why the body sometimes becomes ill. While there is potentially so much more I can still learn, I have acquired a good amount of knowledge over the last thirty five years that I happily share with my clients and readers. Understandably many people are skeptical of alternative medicines. We have all been bombarded since childhood with a stream of messages about not only the value of western medicine, but that it is the ONLY acceptable way. This leaves little room for anything outside of the mainstream to follow. We have been trained to look at anything else with suspicion, and that everything else is simply snake oil.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />When you strip away whatever method one uses for healing the body, whether through surgery, pharmaceuticals, radiation treatments, supplements, exercise, diet, acupuncture, herbs, etc... we can come to a deeper conclusion that contributes to whether or not we heal: Our beliefs form our reality. We organize, see and experience life from the lens of how we see it via our beliefs. It is not due to whatever methods for healing are working or not working. More often than not the majority of healing aids are effective in some respects. Yet, the core, base and spiritual, emotional blockades and limiting beliefs will need to fall away or the physical illness will resurface or simply show up in another form and take its place. This is where the genuine care, wisdom, and knowledge of an effective healer whether that be a western medicine doctor, surgeon, acupuncturist, herbalist, rieki master or any other healer becomes significant when helping us to shift what the block was that created the disease in the first place. While skill definitely matters, there are other important aspects involved in healing.Think of the magic power of the loving intentions of your grandmother (or other figure that genuinely loves or cares for us) taking the same ingredients as a fast food restaurant might use, cooking and preparing the food with skill, love and a genuine desire to nurture you. There is no question that you will receive the energy of nurturing from that food in a far more healthy way when it is made with love. The same holds true for doctors and healers.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwwG2ob8qicAaGrl0Z9a9-h46Z5mdCPLBu_AjGHMEkiF2phlVtiYgZ-SEdZGs2C1PRP32hbFr_4Y01gZ_pKoLBuf2MKRJ53k9lLfMae0toslBIzbx2AkPxLjCAVL1r785m3W0RbJLifo6a/s1300/grandma-cooking-happy-active-lunch-family-35933875.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1300" data-original-width="925" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwwG2ob8qicAaGrl0Z9a9-h46Z5mdCPLBu_AjGHMEkiF2phlVtiYgZ-SEdZGs2C1PRP32hbFr_4Y01gZ_pKoLBuf2MKRJ53k9lLfMae0toslBIzbx2AkPxLjCAVL1r785m3W0RbJLifo6a/s320/grandma-cooking-happy-active-lunch-family-35933875.jpg" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> <br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">For all of Western medicine’s amazing accomplishments, and there are many, a problem exists at the core of Western medicine. The focus of science while full of wonder and the excitement of discovery often has limited and negative beliefs about the body itself. Often the never questioned belief by science is that the body is an accidental creation and survival of the fittest is at its base. The body is often viewed as a vehicle floating through its meaningless days on a planet crawling with germs, viruses, bacteria, and other horrible things with their sole intention to contribute to striking you dead, and eliminating you from the gene pool. The body is generally seen as a vehicle disconnected from spirit and subject to an endless array of things that can go wrong and potentially end its existence. You either have “good or bad genetics.” Especially notable in the last few years we are bombarded with a heavy stream of messages that we need to sanitize everything. Any random sneeze, cough or the touch from another person or infected surface can get you sick and take you out. These and similar focuses and beliefs keep us in a constant fear of disease. Put simply the prevalent belief is: you are NOT SAFE. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO0TKiCdVMzq487f5a0ThLSfV0ouYx9ABp7zjcK0u_emde3XqH7EOmBsTYGjd_FdC-pQDpbZM7l1FaCdjrnR23WG8PzdhAWvB_XMR1bMUE8RIOQopEH8wwb_OnRCI7stEFBTqGRCgwDpc9/s1024/Practical-jumbo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="787" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO0TKiCdVMzq487f5a0ThLSfV0ouYx9ABp7zjcK0u_emde3XqH7EOmBsTYGjd_FdC-pQDpbZM7l1FaCdjrnR23WG8PzdhAWvB_XMR1bMUE8RIOQopEH8wwb_OnRCI7stEFBTqGRCgwDpc9/s320/Practical-jumbo.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />In spite of this unfortunate blueprint and the grossly limiting unquestioned beliefs about the body’s frailty and weakness, people in the world of western medicine thankfully still heal, inspire, and even contribute to curing so many people. This is a testament to its value. While science itself often focuses on the “weakness” of the body, fortunately many in the field have other positive more optimistic beliefs. Still, as amazing as the accomplishments are in today’s world of western medicine one has to wonder: what kind of life are we living when we have to take a host of vaccines, some now each year to ward off our demise? When we have to take daily or weekly pills to stop us from getting std’s, thin our blood, control allergies, lower our cholesterol, help with depression, anxiety, and we must take an assortment of supplements, products, pills, vitamins, and check-ups. If we don’t we will surely fall apart. Is this living? Some of the pharmaceutical medicines leave us with side effects, a few that may even be worse than the illness itself. Have we shut down our connection to the natural order and become so dependent on things outside of ourselves that we don’t trust our body’s innate ability to heal? I have never questioned the value of vaccines and benefits many have received from certain pharmaceutical remedies. I am not “anti-anything.” Still, one has to wonder would we all have died of whooping cough, small pox, polio or other horrible diseases if we were never saved by science? This “end of humanity perspective” begins to sound a bit fatalistic, weirdly has an air of almost religious arrogance, and to say the least is probably nonsense. </span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />What is the base behind a holistic approach to healing? The body is a reflection of our spirit. it is a miraculous organism designed with the capacity to comfortably carry us forward in life, and eventually wear out when we are ready to depart. It does know how to heal itself, and when we fall out of balance we will find ourselves drawn to healers, plants, herbs, foods, and other cures that can help us get back on track. Those healing agents were designed to also trigger the deeper work of healing the limiting beliefs, blocks, and unresolved aspects of our dis-ease permanently (a few examples of this are in this month’s channeled corner). After using them for a while we should eventually no longer need those helpers. There are always reasons for any illness both physical and spiritual ones. Your body isn’t trying to hurt or deceive you, illness is a physical reflection of internal issues we have avoided facing. When we approach healing by addressing all aspects that trigger a dis-ease our bodies will naturally return to a state of grace and balance again. The universe IS SAFE.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />Television and movies, have also contributed to making a joke of anything outside of the mainstream in healing. Many of us sadly don’t even consider any alternative approach and automatically place it in the category of “it’s all a scam” without ever trying any of it. I have used alternative methods for healing for over thirty years now. Cat allergies, sinus allergies, kidney stones, diverticulitus, bladder issues, stomach problems, all successfully resolved without sacrificing organs in the process. I have also used western medicine a few times along the way but far less frequently. Especially when it comes to trauma, emergencies or accidents, ambulances and hospitals are awesome and generally the best choice. Unfortunately we are trapped into our need for medical insurance and anything out of pocket is also often never considered an option financially for people. The system itself has contributed to blocking out other paths for healing.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_4P5GQHfWvfs440czsBF5bk95QMH_83U1NMFgxoxhPAJgZqWIw9MWMDr5_P63gXfruhQxjFdL2GwXSLp1wEtyQjHNwpMhyphenhyphenNWO14nMeFp4vDvgRvMReg7nJUqCFHNbmzmDKGzfIgaHuKIG/s261/th-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="162" data-original-width="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_4P5GQHfWvfs440czsBF5bk95QMH_83U1NMFgxoxhPAJgZqWIw9MWMDr5_P63gXfruhQxjFdL2GwXSLp1wEtyQjHNwpMhyphenhyphenNWO14nMeFp4vDvgRvMReg7nJUqCFHNbmzmDKGzfIgaHuKIG/s0/th-4.jpg" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />As difficult as the last few years have been for many of us, I think the negatives are leading us somewhere because they always do! I think a movement toward holistic medicine for many is beginning to usher in. More people will begin to let go of the idea that “western medicine is the only way.” This includes some practitioners in western medical fields expanding their knowledge and incorporating some of the old ways into their current healing arts. We will see an expansion and move in the next few decades of more choices to consider for addressing illness. In some cases a surgeon or doctor will be the best choice, and in others a dietician, personal trainer, acupuncturist, herbalist, sound healer, or another type of specialist will be a better choice. I would suggest for most people to absolutely continue to use western medicine. It is valuable and we have been immersed into believing its value since birth. An abrupt change would be overwhelming, even possibly damaging. Instead focus on the excitement of discovery and possibility of alternative ways to heal. Most people would be amazed by how many natural cures there are with food and dietary changes, herbs, trigger points, and a host of other modalities that are available for just about everything. Just google “natural cures for...” and “spiritual reasons behind your specific illness,” and open some new doors and perspectives in your life. At the very least begin to look at what the spiritual aspect of the illness is about. Or check out a holistic doctor, herbalist, acupuncturist, or other alternative healing specialists and get their advice as well before choosing whatever method is the right choice for you. Start with a few small or minor problems at first to see if a holistic approach works for you and enjoy expanding your options and ultimately your world.<br />Jim Ventura 4-2021<br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Notes:</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpCDYz4W0aXWmSEXghCWUTseNtOtjOwpk6dxv1f9JqKxqMb6FW2Lfu7_ofAWRItHyxyrPBmKhK6Q0WR9gPjVQn0Oe802AbehIoKQKzUxVNxAsnT_o0v4UqRgEaGdzSsJVSH4OqOaJxa4A5/s374/image005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="374" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpCDYz4W0aXWmSEXghCWUTseNtOtjOwpk6dxv1f9JqKxqMb6FW2Lfu7_ofAWRItHyxyrPBmKhK6Q0WR9gPjVQn0Oe802AbehIoKQKzUxVNxAsnT_o0v4UqRgEaGdzSsJVSH4OqOaJxa4A5/w200-h188/image005.jpg" width="200" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />After about a year of on and off issues with first getting through kidney stones (I used holistic methods to heal this) and still some off and on discomfort with inflammation it seems my kidneys have finally healed and have been cleared. I used acupuncture, trigger points. herbal remedies, and made changes to my diet. Healing was slow but I was also looking at the roots of the discomfort. Kidney issues usually have to do with issues of discomfort around being judged, and over reacting. A lot of awareness and release was being slowly resolved internally by looking at things from a different viewpoint. Then I came across Black Seed Oil. It is supposed to be healing in all kinds of different ways and is mentioned in ancient books, as a gift from god for healing. Many Pharaohs in Egypt were buried with it in their tombs and this was seen as a blessing and protection.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />I took the big leap and rather than pills for it that are available I took a teaspoon each day for about two weeks. It tastes really bad and you will burp it up with a little bit of an after tastes for a few hours, ugh. Yet, this combined with a few weeks of eating a lot of watermelon (also supposed to be good for clearing the kidneys) and a few rounds of intermittent fasting the last remnents of discomfort moved through. It seems the kidney issues are actually behind me now. The message of my inflammation and physical discomfort was to learn how not to be reacting, take things personally, or get inflamed about those who judged or I perceived as judging me. At every level I am really proud of how this worked out and my faith in sticking to solving it. I pretty much felt like a “bad ass” in pulling this off!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />As we thankfully for the most part move out of the difficult past fourteen months of so much closed and limited during the pandemic, opportunities are springing up for those willing to follow the path of societal trends and benefits that can emerge during a recovery period. Better times are ahead. I lost a bunch of party events in 2020 because of social activity and parties just disappearing. I did take a notable loss, but also had the blessing of a strong housing market that increased my home’s equity. The parties and events are beginning to happily come back again.<br />Check out the last few new YouTube videos I have posted on my channel (J Ventura) and follow me on Instagram for added occasional posts. In addition to one on one sessions explore my website for info about classes that are available. You may see a message on website that site is “not secured” largely nonsense, just another method for web hosts to charge extra each year lol. The summer is around the corner. Wishing everyone a great start to the summer season. Cheers, Jim V</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><i>“Some of my best memories are made in flip-flops,” Kellie Elmore</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />Channeled corner. I read many, many books from different trance channelers in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. Unfortunately many of them are now out of print, but I still have a huge collection and will share some of the best material I have collected over the years.<br />From Spirit Speaks magazine 1992 perfect Health, Perfect Self: Becoming Healthy<br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNwY0UfT3-8nS-CsRKgds2UtnNJLfXrKLQBFDibjA-wvSLTBtFq8sN3aodJCv4HmQjKDUBJaT-8RLIO_HEEPTAov32gnQ2uouOVyxnQj0kLwOmA0O2PXfd-EUUGtgnySGDsutk7cgj9agI/s517/56980.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="517" data-original-width="400" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNwY0UfT3-8nS-CsRKgds2UtnNJLfXrKLQBFDibjA-wvSLTBtFq8sN3aodJCv4HmQjKDUBJaT-8RLIO_HEEPTAov32gnQ2uouOVyxnQj0kLwOmA0O2PXfd-EUUGtgnySGDsutk7cgj9agI/w155-h200/56980.jpg" width="155" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><b>Respiratory illnesses</b><br />“Problems with breath and respiration indicate a certain fear or resistance to taking in life fully, and oftentimes a fear that life will hurt you, and so out of that fear there is this shutting down of the respiration.” Seth</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><b>Arthritis</b><br />“Arthritis is another disease of great anger. Although the anger is usually an anger at obligation or a feeling of involuntary servitude. It is often the best children in the family, the caretakers, who have arthritis. And, for that reason, arthritis most often occurs in hands and arms, and legs and knees. In hands and arms it is saying, ‘I just can’t nurture anymore,’ and in legs and knees it is saying, ‘I just can’t bend to your will anymore.” Robbyn and His Merry Bande</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><b>Diabetes</b><br />“People with diabetes are in denial of the sweetness of life. (What’s the thing they can’t have?) They are often critical of the efforts of others and certainly of themselves. Nothing is ever quite good enough, or so they think, which is a real pity, because we (on our side) think they are just fine.” Robbyn and His Merry Bande</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><b>Heart disease</b><br />“Heart and lung disease are good examples of people saying, ‘There is not enough energy, and I don’t want what is there.’ ‘I can’t get it.’ ‘I won’t get it,’ because, you know, the life-energy is out there, and it only takes deep breaths to get it. But when you impair either your lungs or your cardiovascular system, it doesn’t get to you. You say, ‘I don’t deserve’ Incredible numbers of diseases are either denied anger, denied rage, or unworthiness. Sad but true.” Aranya</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><b>Allergies</b><br />“Allergies are an inability to cope with the vibrational patterns around you. They make you itch. They suffocate you. They make you disoriented. They make you tired. They make you fat. They give you chills and fever and so on. Those of you with allergies are pretty determined folks. Somehow, you knew that something about this planet was bound to drive you nuts, but you came back anyway. The solution to this is to try to relax and get to the root of what it is that distressed you so in the first place. Many of you are unable to relax and be comfortable in the world, and your allergies are simply telling you where you’re uncomfortable.<br />Allergy, believe it or not, is one of the few diseases that has courage attached to it. You had the courage to come, but you’re still uncomfortable. You were the ones who were probably burned at the stake a few times; you probably had your eyes and heart gouged out; you may have been flayed alive once or twice. For you, we want to offer a reminder that if you are here, it is safe to be here, and you’re not going to be persecuted again in this lifetime-you’re more than accomplished at that from the past. The universe does support you. We suggest you make that your mantra.” Robbyn and His Merry Bande</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><i>“If summer had one defining scent, it’d definitely be the smell of barbecue.” Katie Lee</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i> </i><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>New Client Special 2021</b>: </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiZqEKr43_IXRLT4yAXrFMutkXUwPTqlH-m71u7gIVkbGnNt0keZDyP_a1ni4O2sKYUJ7UEiMnXQTwXBZVftOAH_-sOIzR6R3wA6cihGQdWNjwsuPZ2iUNy788bcd05Z4I39XGNnP4VcH_/s1280/2-Ways-Baskets-Improve-Your-Gift-Giving-Skills.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiZqEKr43_IXRLT4yAXrFMutkXUwPTqlH-m71u7gIVkbGnNt0keZDyP_a1ni4O2sKYUJ7UEiMnXQTwXBZVftOAH_-sOIzR6R3wA6cihGQdWNjwsuPZ2iUNy788bcd05Z4I39XGNnP4VcH_/s320/2-Ways-Baskets-Improve-Your-Gift-Giving-Skills.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">January 1st through June 30th, 2021 Special: $10-15 off listed rates for your first 45 minute session, 70, or 90 minute session! Debit and credit card payments get $10 off for 45-90 minute sessions. Local in-office clients can get an extra $5 off for cash or check payments for sessions. If you want to buy a new client a thoughtful gift of a session for a friend or family member you can also take advantage of these rates! <br />My current rates (new clients can subtract the above discounts from these rates): 45 minute sessions $90. 70 minute sessions $115. 90 minute sessions $135.<br />I also have 20 minute mini phone sessions $40. New client discount and special does not apply<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Snake Oil Radio</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmY_HFXlpmw1cTg8TafpM6a6YvuDSYmX7aizQ7YtlByKB5o_X0YT-pTZ-oojq80ma1_lfiBoKii9RvddlRJ5gjMfyXuXbVZtfmhyphenhyphenNkSwpsM4XTQ_J1vEZVCXP8kwto5aWt7CCQ9IMEoBxO/s194/image007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmY_HFXlpmw1cTg8TafpM6a6YvuDSYmX7aizQ7YtlByKB5o_X0YT-pTZ-oojq80ma1_lfiBoKii9RvddlRJ5gjMfyXuXbVZtfmhyphenhyphenNkSwpsM4XTQ_J1vEZVCXP8kwto5aWt7CCQ9IMEoBxO/s0/image007.jpg" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />Thursdays at 3:30 pm (there will be two live broadcast this period)<br />My next live broadcast of Snake Oil Radio will be Thursday, June 3rd at 3:30 p.m. mountain (Phoenix) time. Usually one or two Thursdays each month you can catch a new show. Each 45 minute show will expand on my current column’s subject matter. It will also offer an opportunity for you to chat with other listeners in the chat room with comments and your thoughts about the topic of discussion. If you miss the live show, you can catch any of my previously recorded shows on the web site’s archive. You can also catch Snake Oil Radio on I-tunes (download my pod-casts there).<br />To hear a live show, all you need to do is be at a computer and tuned into: <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura">http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura</a> You may also access it by going to the site and type “Snake Oil” into the search option. You can also go to the shows that are currently “On air” at that time and find me. The call in number is 646-200-3966 for questions and comments.<br /><br /><i>One of four agreements:<br />Don’t take Anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.” Don Miguel Ruitz </i><br /><br />Here’s my contact information to make an appointment for a session, or information on current classes: Email: <a href="mailto:Venturasag@yahoo.com">Venturasag@yahoo.com</a> (best method for contact).<br />Phone calls: (602) 957-3035 text only: (602) 349-0746 <br /><br />Information about the different sessions and types of readings and services, past Snake Oil columns, and how to order my books and audio CD’s can be found at my website: <a href="Http://JimVentura.com">Http://JimVentura.com</a> <br /><br />“Friend” me on Facebook to get other extra offers and in between column extras! Signing up for my fan page will get you even more extras and first shot at reading specials. Simply click on “like” on the fan page and you will automatically get my weekly updates. <br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl<br /></a><br />You also may want to check out my posts on Tumblr.com: <br /><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/blog/snake-oil-blog">https://www.tumblr.com/blog/snake-oil-blog<br /></a><br />Subscribe to my YouTube Channel (approximately once a month 6-10 minute videos) at<br />J Ventura.. You can also find me on Instagram.<br /><br />All sessions/readings for 2020-21 are: Full (70 minutes) $115.00; Shorter session (45 minutes) $90.00; Extended session (90 minutes) $135.00 (two people can split an extended session back to back with an added fee of $5 for $70.00 each, although no other discounts will apply). Mini phone session 20 minutes $40. Email me for information about my Regular Client Program for even bigger discounts on session prices with the added benefit of monthly or quarterly check-ins. Purchasing 3 pre-paid sessions also brings sizable discounts (example 3 pre-paid 45 minute sessions is $150 total or $50 a session...) </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><br /><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUazrtqsIlck-yDVTmVBdM3HEFKLpD9TXRtGycWlKa8xIq9TCdeTgegBhZg911pr3TweX3WaQN3bB0pO_tPc26_ftvf-7tmOgjNxGtbsKcBmTIjifdpZVpgW8EGxuYUf0765Q7r8m6ORXr/s250/th-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="167" data-original-width="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUazrtqsIlck-yDVTmVBdM3HEFKLpD9TXRtGycWlKa8xIq9TCdeTgegBhZg911pr3TweX3WaQN3bB0pO_tPc26_ftvf-7tmOgjNxGtbsKcBmTIjifdpZVpgW8EGxuYUf0765Q7r8m6ORXr/s0/th-2.jpg" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>Hummingbirds totem (original expanded post on FaceBook) Remind us to enjoy life and take a lighter approach.<br />Lift us out of negativity.<br /><br /><p></p>Jim V/Snake Oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00746873887985304530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024612299906599073.post-80275254994207214792021-03-11T14:19:00.000-08:002021-03-11T14:19:04.077-08:00March April 2021 Snake Oil/Drowning Cat<p> <span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Snake Oil Drowning Cat</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b></b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAHCYdx8XKLnfR1shZRUofU3Ugnen02ZtpQCKtoyJElsMJpm8GIyPPbL-FA-UhtLMLAc-RTUI6NhO8SNMZRdR4G-rNRcL-6PuJgZulkKZzqsxzhqoGoqHwEF0ipQRvXA-7EEbiS7YWycbz/s760/rain-cats-thunder-fear.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="760" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAHCYdx8XKLnfR1shZRUofU3Ugnen02ZtpQCKtoyJElsMJpm8GIyPPbL-FA-UhtLMLAc-RTUI6NhO8SNMZRdR4G-rNRcL-6PuJgZulkKZzqsxzhqoGoqHwEF0ipQRvXA-7EEbiS7YWycbz/s320/rain-cats-thunder-fear.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /> </b></span><br /><br />Last summer the monsoons opened flood gates of rain all across the valley. The same thing will likely happen this July. In the summer, heat builds up in Phoenix, eventually culminating in a series of powerful rainstorms. During a particularly intense storm one July night last year, I slept comfortably in my home while the rain poured down. Beside me, my two cats were inside and safe from the storm. It was after midnight, and I was tucked cozily into bed with my back patio doors wide open so I could fall asleep, listening to the sound of intense rain. In the distance, among shouts of thunder and flashes of lightning, I heard the sound of a crying cat. I got up and looked out my upstairs condominium balcony to see if I could spot the distressed animal. I wondered, should I go outside and try to save this poor little creature? If I could find the animal trapped by the rains, could I even get it to come to me? My cats would freak out if I brought another cat inside. I desperately wanted to help the poor little thing, but could do nothing. I felt powerless.<br /><br />As the cat continued to moan and the rains poured down, I paced back and forth, wondering what I should do. It had been a tough week and many of my clients were experiencing difficult times. Just like the powerful storms in nature, people seemed to go through cyclical personal storms and my clients were no exception. A slew of exhausted, overwhelmed friends and clients had left messages on my answering machine or by email. It seemed like everyone was feeling like a drowning cat. I did my best to comfort them during their sessions, yet I felt like I hadn't done enough. There was a cat drowning in a storm outside my own backyard and many people I knew were seemingly caught in personal rainstorms. I finally closed the doors and windows that night. I realized there was nothing I could do for the stranded cat. The rains would eventually let up and he would probably be okay. I mentally asked the angels to protect this lost and scared little creature. I had done the best I could with my panicked clients this week, and with this stranded cat so I finally fell asleep.<br /><br />I have notable empathy for anyone suffering or going through difficult times. I have been a drowning cat myself a few times. We are all in this human game together and in some respects when one suffers, we all suffer. Yet, there are other types of drowning cats. There are people who are like magnets to crisis. Sympathy can become a cage for the “fixers” who continue to help people who never change. Very few people haven't had a friend who stays in a miserable, abusive marriage. Who hasn’t spent years listening to someone bitching while never doing anything to change where they are? How many parents protect and support adult children who refuse to grow up and take responsibility for their own lives? I was ripped off for thousands of dollars sixteen years ago by a young man who came from an extremely abusive background. I sympathized with him and desperately wanted to help this poor man get his life together. After a year of financial assistance and being a rock for him to lean on, he destroyed me emotionally and financially. I learned then that sometimes people who have been victimized turn into victimizers themselves. I have watched countless friends, family members, and clients who have given until it hurts and then are left decimated by similar types of people. Kindness and healthy boundaries can be a difficult course to navigate. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">We often forget that karma balances everything and acts without judgement. There are times when if we intercede we may be blocking the growth and development of another human being. We shield them from dealing with the repercussions of their actions. Sometimes rescue is not only futile, but can be a veiled attempt to control someone else. It is not our job to play parent and protector for everyone in our circle. Helping others is an important part of our purpose here on earth. We are here to help each other. But we also need to protect ourselves. If we are financially, emotionally, physically, or mentally out of balance because of an attempt to get someone on “the right path,” we may have missed the mark. It is important to be able to discern when helping someone is not the answer. If we give money to a drug addict for a meal and he uses that money to get high, have we actually helped him at all?</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDkF2wbJI4CugAaDmH3_Wndl7V2nbLTKWhJE5ElWHcon2El4p4dL1R2TwBL_zK9y1L2EL8GYjNPNbrRh-8RSeZOh_0UPVKWcRLNing5hiocCXqggvJhQyJzmWjazN_YtV7nvMeeeEOxdFV/s300/th-2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDkF2wbJI4CugAaDmH3_Wndl7V2nbLTKWhJE5ElWHcon2El4p4dL1R2TwBL_zK9y1L2EL8GYjNPNbrRh-8RSeZOh_0UPVKWcRLNing5hiocCXqggvJhQyJzmWjazN_YtV7nvMeeeEOxdFV/s0/th-2.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><br />My studies of how karma works have helped me gain some detachment in respect to the injustices I often see that occur in the world. We are not always privy to the bigger picture. On the other hand, I often watch people who place themselves in tremendously difficult circumstances over and over again. Like gluttons for punishment, they reunite with abusive spouses, stay in jobs they hate, cling tenaciously to the poisons they ingest, and refuse to take the steps necessary for making the needed changes. I have had a few clients over the years who have tried to blame me for their problems. “You said I would be married by January of 2006. The cards said my house would sell by November, why were they wrong?” One hundred percent accuracy with prediction is impossible. Life is a series of choices that shift and alter all the time. We are not stuck with only one path to choose. People who believe they are victims often find themselves at wits end. They believe so firmly that there is no way out of their difficulties, or fear taking action. They do nothing to change the uncomfortable situations they find themselves in. They cling to limiting beliefs and no-win situations. Often, the cards point a way out, but these people do not follow the path suggested and then need someone or something to blame. Like drowning cats, they cry in the rainstorm and wait to be rescued, but often unconsciously believe they can’t be saved.</span></span></p><p><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPzMaDpJ7JZ0KofW7rZaWVYNvJc-7Pt-u0HE-zADkHcVBQQPDxpnMGsW7TOiFvZ6iywhGdNbc0SWzPGHr1jnB7iI-fW-W-4VJk_bUtf1WyFp4ZHPH_4v7zgSF2j5H-YEkA0Fb2UG-ALoRC/s300/th-4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="169" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPzMaDpJ7JZ0KofW7rZaWVYNvJc-7Pt-u0HE-zADkHcVBQQPDxpnMGsW7TOiFvZ6iywhGdNbc0SWzPGHr1jnB7iI-fW-W-4VJk_bUtf1WyFp4ZHPH_4v7zgSF2j5H-YEkA0Fb2UG-ALoRC/s0/th-4.jpg" /></a></span><br />I leaned over my balcony the next morning. The sun was out and there was little evidence of the evening rains left behind. There was no sign of the stranded cat. The bricks I had placed on my shoulders were gone. Something was clearer inside of me. I will always be a man who cares for others. I will still feel empathy for my friends and clients who continue to find themselves in difficult situations. Nothing will change that part of me, and that is exactly how I want it to be. I’m not capable of saving everyone, nor do I need to. I know I have a powerful ally on my side. God/All that is/Tao is our true parent. The source will never abandon any of his/her children. Even during difficult times, we are watched over by Spirit. Sometimes we need to go through difficulty to pay back a karmic debt. Often our dark passage is the very thing that transforms us! It can often take years before we see the value of enduring a hardship. Sometimes when we hit rock bottom, that process is the very thing that awakens us. I’m guessing that the drowning cat made it through the night. Cats are survivors and I’m betting this one survived. And even if he didn’t, he has returned home to the spirit world and is safe and happy again. <br /><br />Jim Ventura 11-2006<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Notes </b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNnuE-ba_ElmIQJLE2_G0PGMCw2Mi1UKedwU6HKmjChDQ3hM__dZUhdg_kiip8F6GI6Q2euZ1sy1zfUz4s_OKb3zKKKdt1KHdcCXOlAyZQJlJlgu6j6USp6qLHH7Wks98zpGo7w0iwLnIo/s374/image005.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNnuE-ba_ElmIQJLE2_G0PGMCw2Mi1UKedwU6HKmjChDQ3hM__dZUhdg_kiip8F6GI6Q2euZ1sy1zfUz4s_OKb3zKKKdt1KHdcCXOlAyZQJlJlgu6j6USp6qLHH7Wks98zpGo7w0iwLnIo/s320/image005.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />An uncomfortable recent experience prompted me to run this original column from way back in 2006 (it appears in my book Snake Oil Volume One). I was heading down a less travelled side street after a bank visit recently when I saw a cat sitting in the road. I pulled my car over to see if I could prompt him to get out of harms way in the road in case another car came by. I often keep dry cat food in the back of my car to feed ferals so I grabbed a handful. He was clearly a disheveled looking feral cat. He hissed when I got really close but still didn’t run away. It looked like his legs were damaged and it was likely that he had been hit by a passing car or hurt in another way. I looked into his sad, scared eyes and imagined the steps I could take to save him. Maybe I could get him to a vet and give this poor guy the possibility of a much deserved good life, or even take him in myself. He clearly had not had an ideal cat life.<br />After a minute or two of seeing things through a Neptune lens, I realized I had no way of moving him, no cat carrier or any other way to rescue him, so my idea was not a practical reality. So I began to search for the number of animal control to come and help. I realized there was an animal hospital just a few blocks away, so I quickly hopped back in my car to see if they could help. At the hospital I could not go inside. Covid fear protocol made you have to just wait outside for a staff member to come out. Irritation about all this Covid stuff peaked, and time was limited, the cat was exposed and could get hit again. I also had to get back home in 45 minutes for two back to back sessions. I was incredibly frustrated by all of the limitations blocking my desire to help. Finally a staff member came to assist with the number for animal control and offered her suggestions on what to do but they were unfortunately not hopeful ones. I spent another 15 minutes trying to get hold of a human being on the phone and got nowhere hearing one automated message after another.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />I finally got back in my car, closed my eyes and said a prayer to my angels and spirit guides to find a way to assist here. Maybe a neighbor in that area would see the cat and help out in a loving way. Or even to accept that if the animal was to pass back into spirit that it would happen quickly and painlessly if there was no other option. <br />I was saddened by all of this and felt like the world was at times a truly lousy place. The event while uncomfortable helped me see and resolve some internal issues I had been struggling with. as well as some of my clients issues about recognizing and acknowledging self-worth with their kindness and caring responses to many situations. It also strengthened my plan to create the financial backing to open an animal rescue here in Phoenix, something I have long wanted to do.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">As we move to the end of Pisces times and begin Aries season there are many correlations to this story fitting aspects for both of these signs. Understanding your Astrology natal chart and current and upcoming transits is an excellent way to navigate more effectively and fluidly in life. Information about setting up a personal session with me or giving a gift to a friend or family member can be found at JimVentura.com or by contacting me at Ventursag@yahoo.com.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">I also teach classes one-on-one in my home office or you can attend with one friend (either by zoom, phone, or in-office) on Astrology. More information about this and other classes later available in the newsletter.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">Check out my latest YouTube video and remember to subscribe and feel free to pass along to others or post on FaceBook if you choose. I also did a segment for the ListTV on Viking Rune stones on Valentines day!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj1yD0Qgl54&t=15s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj1yD0Qgl54&t=15s</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <br /><a href="https://www.thelisttv.com/the-list/find-true-love-with-the-ancient-tradition-of-casting-runes-2-11-21/">https://www.thelisttv.com/the-list/find-true-love-with-the-ancient-tradition-of-casting-runes-2-11-21/</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <br />Wishing everyone a happy start to the spring! Jim V</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <br /><i>“Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.” Lilly Pulitzer</i><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>New Client Special 2021:</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b></b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgirgE21rTys2kuWv1YFKPH3VjHoNjuDhbpAWAMo4zaBBVqpAzKmSi3Do8v33w5eqDpaP1DKVTt6SM-NmrKCqRSM_oP6sckCuWNwvvlMTruRf7I3NF_JFhVrQip0MkOKUQjfDOYGk2vb9sm/s1280/2-Ways-Baskets-Improve-Your-Gift-Giving-Skills.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgirgE21rTys2kuWv1YFKPH3VjHoNjuDhbpAWAMo4zaBBVqpAzKmSi3Do8v33w5eqDpaP1DKVTt6SM-NmrKCqRSM_oP6sckCuWNwvvlMTruRf7I3NF_JFhVrQip0MkOKUQjfDOYGk2vb9sm/s320/2-Ways-Baskets-Improve-Your-Gift-Giving-Skills.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /> </b></span></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"> January 1st through May 31st, 2021 Special: $10-15 off listed rates for your first 45 minute session, 70, or 90 minute session! Debit and credit card payments get $10 off for 45-90 minute sessions. Local in-office clients can get an extra $5 off for cash or check payments for sessions. If you want to buy a new client a thoughtful gift of a session for a friend or family member you can also take advantage of these rates! <br />My current rates (new clients can subtract the above discounts from these rates): 45 minute sessions $90. 70 minute sessions $115. 90 minute sessions $135.<br />I also have 20 minute mini phone sessions $40. New client discount and special does not apply. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><i>Isa The Rune stone of Standstill, Withdrawal, Ice.<br />“...And yet there is another face to Standstill. Just as winter is a time for going within, drawing Isa can announce a time of restoration and renewal at the deepest level. In your solitude, exercise caution and do not stubbornly persist in attempting to work your will. Remain mindful that the seed of the new is present in the shell of the old, the seed of unrealized potential, the seed of the good. Trust your own process, and watch for signs of spring.” Ralph Blum</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Channeled corner.</b></span> I read many, many books from different trance channelers in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. Unfortunately many of them are now out of print, but I still have a huge collection and will share some of the best material I have collected over the years.</span></span></p><p><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDcVnFW-Kj2HribjhTlbcH98L4po0IuKHJmvuNMGMw9vBfHgHaucHjV6XNwTCijyD54aKHvlRudJ5edjYkBYExOrOhMRK4iZH62nrdYLtKUWY1xCi_wG0_YxflOeAoV6fdLSzNf-SVUHTq/s550/No-Fear.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="330" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDcVnFW-Kj2HribjhTlbcH98L4po0IuKHJmvuNMGMw9vBfHgHaucHjV6XNwTCijyD54aKHvlRudJ5edjYkBYExOrOhMRK4iZH62nrdYLtKUWY1xCi_wG0_YxflOeAoV6fdLSzNf-SVUHTq/s320/No-Fear.jpg" width="320" /></a></span> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Fear<br />A projection into the future</b><br />“Fear is the opposite of love. Fear is based upon not knowing, upon preparing for the unknown, for what might happen, for that which is not actually present in the moment. Fear is based totally upon future projection, which comes from evaluating the past, not only of your own lives but of others, and drawing deductions about what might happen to you in the future. This is what your insurance companies do: they project at what age you are likely to get sick, be disabled, or die, how many of you are likely to do that, and in what way. Now, read enough statistics and you will necessarily start making yourself believe that this must be the way it is. And, in this way, society, group mind, and industry dictate the nature of your beliefs. Metaphysically, fear is the opposite of love, the opposite of love based upon the absence of knowledge, because you can love and be comfortable with that which you know. It is always the unknown that you fear the most.”<br />Seth Channelled by Jane Roberts<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Intuitive and Oracle reading classes 2021</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnydbIFWCzay0kIyS2NI75FGC6kbzKBhnhTA7TsHZ4KIkxyh5Hbx_VRrWNH7garYunAf-qZIt4BRWGZnZ4qSN_rV7_4awaiUXid0ZuPaRLvcn-Pd-BraZDEXSP-KsjEkWrRhCOLs2hRWe4/s232/th-6.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="174" data-original-width="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnydbIFWCzay0kIyS2NI75FGC6kbzKBhnhTA7TsHZ4KIkxyh5Hbx_VRrWNH7garYunAf-qZIt4BRWGZnZ4qSN_rV7_4awaiUXid0ZuPaRLvcn-Pd-BraZDEXSP-KsjEkWrRhCOLs2hRWe4/s0/th-6.jpg" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />While I no longer host group classes in my home, some of my most popular classes are still available! Now classes can be in-office, by phone, Zoom, or through FaceTime.<br />You can take one introductory class or continue with a monthly class for up to six months for any of the classes offered. Each instructional class is 90 minutes. You may schedule a one on one class in office or by phone for yourself, or have a friend or family member join you and split the costs.<br /><br />Single one person class: $55.00 or 3 classes pre-paid $150.<br />2 people $70 for each class ($35.00 each) 3 classes pre-paid $180 ($90.00 each).<br /><br />Email me for more information and my availability calendar to book your personal intuitive and oracle development classes. Venturasag@yahoo.com<br /><br />Current options:<br /><br />1. TAROT CARD READING<br />Whether you have some experience with Tarot or have never explored this oracle before, Tarot classes will assist you in understanding the wisdom, insight and potential guidance contained in Tarot cards. The classes will focus on teaching you how to read the Tarot for yourself and eventually for others. The Tarot can be used for prediction, to accelerate spiritual growth, and increase your awareness or “navigational life skills.” If you don’t have a deck, assistance will also be provided on choosing the right deck for you. Whether you plan on using oracles for self guidance, or wish to expand into doing readings professionally, the classes will assist you on your road to mastering the Tarot.<br /><br />2. ASTROLOGY-101 <br />Astrology classes will teach you all of the basics to read any Astrology chart. You will learn to interpret your own chart, as well as those of others. You will gain insight into house placements, signs, symbols, angles, retrograde planets, cusps, transits, etc... We will explore how powerful the influence of astrology is in our lives. Working with your unique astrology chart (western astrology, Placidus house system) will help you with understanding yourself, your unique skills, challenges, and how to use this knowledge to navigate through your life with more empowerment. <br /><br />3. MICHAEL MATERIAL</span></span><p></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg_XlrzVe57R4_e2CGXcoHyjN7_1oHnkksMHnPISTHOQ6K1AQJ1Yhl_VImU3_2toq8o88T76yx38kqTR4WaKtygOyVz4ZXKVpAskeOohd6V471CDv1TQRNifCqWMSfzTzYYNHQLcyeRmKn/s321/th-3.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="166" data-original-width="321" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg_XlrzVe57R4_e2CGXcoHyjN7_1oHnkksMHnPISTHOQ6K1AQJ1Yhl_VImU3_2toq8o88T76yx38kqTR4WaKtygOyVz4ZXKVpAskeOohd6V471CDv1TQRNifCqWMSfzTzYYNHQLcyeRmKn/s320/th-3.jpg" width="320" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span>* What is your soul age? The soul age of friends, family, and people all around you ?<br />* How do past lifetimes influence us in the present ?<br />* What does karma feel like, and how does it work ?<br />* How does your chief negative feature impact your life, and can it be changed?<br />* What happens when your partner is an idealist and you are a realist ?<br />* What is your life goal? Is it dominance, acceptance, flow, discrimination, growth, revaluation, or submission ?<br />*What is your essence, your soul mate’s essence ? Artisan, priest, king, server, sage, warrior or scholar. ?<br />* What is a soul mate, task companion, heart link ?<br />* What is your centering and what do the higher centers feel like?<br />After this workshop you will understand all of these questions and many more, and more importantly have the answers.<br />What is the Michael teaching?<br />The main goal of the Michael teaching is agape or unconditional love. The teaching views life as a learning game in which fragments of the Tao - that essential part of each human being - set up lessons which continue over lifetimes. These lessons are learned via the personality which Essence chooses each lifetime. Michael teaches us what the components of the personality are so that we can learn to use and see these components in ourselves and in others. In that way we can learn to understand why human beings behave as they do. Michael is composed of 1,050 individual Essences who have lived on the physical plane and now teach from another plane. One of the most basic and important principles of the teaching is that it is not a religion or a belief system. Michael encourages their students to self validate all of the information they receive. The system was originally in print in many, many volumes of information. “My studies of this material have been extensive and now I offer what I have learned to my students” Jim Ventura (Old Scholar). The classes will help you to use and understand the material without the need to read all the out of print books. This series is highly recommended!<br /><br />4. PAST LIFE JOURNEYS<br />All aspects of past life exploration, from hypnosis, dreaming techniques, past life regressions will be discussed. By understanding the influence of karma and the past lives we have already lived, we will show how our past experiences affect us in our present life. The class focuses on setting up a past life journal, and explores the progression of our soul’s journeys. Astrology, Numerology, and many other tools will be utilized to aid you in becoming aware of your past lifetimes. The classes will increase understanding relationship patterns, release fear and phobia’s, letting go of allergies, and other blockades are some of the many possibilities connected with this type of study. “Desire to live again, because that will be your lot in any case.” Nietzsche<br /><br />5. Intuitive Development<br />I have been studying many different aspects of metaphysics for 35 years now. This has made me well versed on many different subjects in the field. You can tap into this data base of knowledge! I am like a living breathing huge set of encyclopedia’s! You can use a class or a series of classes to discuss developing your intuitive abilities in a number of different areas. Some examples: Lucid dreaming, out of body experiences, crystals, how often should you do readings, developing empathic abilities and boundary setting with others, talking to angels and spirit guides, meditation, What do repeating number messages say to us, adjusting vibrations as you grow, channeling, chakra clearing, etc...When we commit to listening more to our inner self it is natural to change many different aspects of the way we live life in the process.<br /><br />6. CREATING PROSPERITY<br />Learning to open a doorway to living in abundance is possible. We can manifest prosperity in many different areas: career, finances, love life, personal happiness, etc...This class will focus on many different methods for generating personal wealth. Learning how to identify limiting beliefs and how to effectively change them. We will explore many different methods that connect to financial prosperity and this will act as a key for uncovering the blocks that currently keep you stuck. The universe will support your decision to change your reality. We are not stuck or destined to be limited, unless we choose to stay stuck and limited! Instructor Jim Ventura will discuss practical and metaphysical tools to show you how to create prosperity in your life.<br /><br /><br /><i>“If I knew I was going to die tomorrow, And spring came the day after tomorrow, I would die peacefully, because it came the day after tomorrow. If that’s its time, when else should it come? I like that everything is real and everything is right; And I like that it would be like this even if I didn’t like it. And so, If I die now, I die peacefully because everything is real and everything is right.” Alberto Caeiro</i><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Snake Oil Radio</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjISCZf0TrJa9777Hd4-e_ib2P4hP66wLstYznXjuY361CQphd9XW77zvTt2qx3TNBcQhi-svsBiJN95-dYNnyaQYVEOQhvFjBGgrwbXnVHWZWpEzVBRo7-xHzi1zy5HixY7iKYT7iA7SYv/s194/image007.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjISCZf0TrJa9777Hd4-e_ib2P4hP66wLstYznXjuY361CQphd9XW77zvTt2qx3TNBcQhi-svsBiJN95-dYNnyaQYVEOQhvFjBGgrwbXnVHWZWpEzVBRo7-xHzi1zy5HixY7iKYT7iA7SYv/s0/image007.jpg" /></a></b></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />Thursdays at 3:30 pm (there will be two live broadcast this period)<br />My next live broadcast of Snake Oil Radio will be Thursday, April 8th at 3:30 p.m. mountain (Phoenix) time. Usually one or two Thursdays each month you can catch a new show. Each 45 minute show will expand on my current column’s subject matter. It will also offer an opportunity for you to chat with other listeners in the chat room with comments and your thoughts about the topic of discussion. If you miss the live show, you can catch any of my previously recorded shows on the web site’s archive. You can also catch Snake Oil Radio on I-tunes (download my pod-casts there).<br />To hear a live show, all you need to do is be at a computer and tuned into: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura You may also access it by going to the site and type “Snake Oil” into the search option. You can also go to the shows that are currently “On air” at that time and find me. The call in number is 646-200-3966 for questions and comments.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><i>“When you smell a spring flower, it’s as if the soul of that flower settles inside you! And then you become that flower for a short time!” Mehmet Murat Ildan<br /></i><br />Here’s my contact information to make an appointment for a session, or information on current classes: Email: Venturasag@yahoo.com (best method for contact).<br />Phone calls: (602) 957-3035 text only: (602) 349-0746 <br /><br />Information about the different sessions and types of readings and services, past Snake Oil columns, and how to order my books and audio CD’s can be found at my website: <a href="Http://JimVentura.com">Http://JimVentura.com</a> <br /><br />“Friend” me on Facebook to get other extra offers and in between column extras! Signing up for my fan page will get you even more extras and first shot at reading specials. Simply click on “like” on the fan page and you will automatically get my weekly updates. <br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl</a><br /><br />You also may want to check out my posts on Tumblr.com: <br /><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/blog/snake-oil-blog">https://www.tumblr.com/blog/snake-oil-blog<br /></a><br />Subscribe to my YouTube Channel (approximately once a month 6-10 minute videos) at<br />J Ventura.<br /><br />All sessions/readings for 2020-21 are: Full (70 minutes) $115.00; Shorter session (45 minutes) $90.00; Extended session (90 minutes) $135.00 (two people can split an extended session back to back with an added fee of $5 for $70.00 each, although no other discounts will apply). Mini phone session 20 minutes $40. Email me for information about my Regular Client Program for even bigger discounts on session prices with the added benefit of monthly or quarterly check-ins. Purchasing 3 pre-paid sessions also brings sizable discounts (example 3 pre-paid 45 minute sessions is $150 total or $50 a session...) <br /><br /></span><br /><br /></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg29HvX0cR321iISQMA4ztocde38Kbs3Pdu_TPPuOfLm2Am2NRH2GY2IeLiK4JOHl6d3fNKPlu8AKmfSGX6PktM99rfuXt6itbkQtaoKRO5KZbHimSvBmPu-ejHWT7Zi_oAPlz2k2qqy6HQ/s131/th-9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="98" data-original-width="131" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg29HvX0cR321iISQMA4ztocde38Kbs3Pdu_TPPuOfLm2Am2NRH2GY2IeLiK4JOHl6d3fNKPlu8AKmfSGX6PktM99rfuXt6itbkQtaoKRO5KZbHimSvBmPu-ejHWT7Zi_oAPlz2k2qqy6HQ/w320-h276/th-9.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Jim V/Snake Oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00746873887985304530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024612299906599073.post-4022527058632397942021-01-18T14:31:00.001-08:002021-01-18T15:13:43.984-08:00January February 2021 Snake Oil/Should I Stay or Should I go? The Near Death Experience <div class="separator"><p style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></span></p></div><p> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Snake Oil </span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Should I Stay or Should I go Now? Near Death experiences.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFx32oByv-s_y1D-QmcrzjSATAxlaErb0AR3v0lY9NfyVkO5gPFBM4RRH6ViMiQq3m_BIWP-DMn5ocQ0tZNdPariLY9KMhO3GZO5cIjlkoELbERK9hHUjGVU0lHFaxmkl18cnDiKojy2iC/s1000/14bcbc_6a7cf2a569c6414f8dfcded0eaea50ad%257Emv2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="1000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFx32oByv-s_y1D-QmcrzjSATAxlaErb0AR3v0lY9NfyVkO5gPFBM4RRH6ViMiQq3m_BIWP-DMn5ocQ0tZNdPariLY9KMhO3GZO5cIjlkoELbERK9hHUjGVU0lHFaxmkl18cnDiKojy2iC/s320/14bcbc_6a7cf2a569c6414f8dfcded0eaea50ad%257Emv2.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /> </b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />Stories about people experiencing a near death experience are compelling, exciting, inspiring and reassuring. They can give many a sense of hope about a confirmation of life after death. The details are remarkably similar no matter what the conditions were that brought the situation about. There is often a bright light, or many colors. Many see family members who have already crossed over and often a feeling of being pulled down a long tunnel. Most experience a sense of great joy and a feeling of being loved. Some people report a sense of wanting to move towards the light while others feel they are not ready. The ones who are revived frequently have a strong sense of purpose and knowingness about why they are still alive. Almost everyone who goes through this never again questions life after death and the existence of the “Other side.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />While these profoundly transformative experiences are not extremely common among the general populace, many people have had times when they experience a “brush with death.” Avoiding an accident like a brick falling from a building that misses you by inches, not boarding a plane that ends up crashing, miraculously recovering from a horrible illness, are just some examples of times we could have exited this world if things had gone a different way. I almost drowned in the ocean when I was nineteen along with two other friends. We were partying and drinking heavily in a deserted area on a beach and swam too far out when we uncomfortably realized the strength of the tide would not allow us to get back to shore. Some inner voice thankfully told me to swim sideways after plunging under water to just touch the ocean floor for a minute to get my bearings again. While it was a struggle to make it back to shore, I made it. A friend of ours on the shoreline saw it happening and ran over half mile to the nearby beach to get a lifeguard who saved my friends. I was left with a great respect for the power of nature especially the ocean, and I truly sensed that I “dodged a bullet.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidRP-HEFB1QbW81tsx2VHD0V2ofwhPt26Esv59NMNSPR6rxeCXwXoIvem_pBHo6ox-3TMfcJG9j6NFksRheiSjKvgB7F8rdL3cEtiBnnvvGsZyfZ0KQ7Ct3hPMPn33mgbb_rXalF6VvEMK/s275/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidRP-HEFB1QbW81tsx2VHD0V2ofwhPt26Esv59NMNSPR6rxeCXwXoIvem_pBHo6ox-3TMfcJG9j6NFksRheiSjKvgB7F8rdL3cEtiBnnvvGsZyfZ0KQ7Ct3hPMPn33mgbb_rXalF6VvEMK/s0/images.jpg" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />In the more extreme cases of a near death experience often the shock helps us either reconnect or begin to have heightened senses, increased intuitive abilities, or even a deeper sense of connection to their spirit guides and ability to receive messages from the “Otherworld.” Most young children have a connection to the Otherworld naturally until it is trained out of them by polite society. They inevitably further root themselves to a more limited focus to this particular lifetime, their bodies, and the physical world. Young children frequently have memories of other lifetimes, see ghosts, sense spirits, talk to helpers and experience a much more fluid existence between this world and the Otherworld.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> <br />The majority of us will have had times when we wish we could leave this world or almost did. In extreme cases there can be suicidal thoughts. Even in a more mild way this is far more common than people generally share. Painful bouts with illness, sad losses in career, family or relationship losses, and other brutal life passages can make us understandably wonder why we want to stay here at all. I remember actually thinking about this a number of times when I was about seventeen or eighteen. The overwhelming feelings of not belonging, coming to terms with my sexual expression, wondering whether I was lovable, attractive, or would ever be truly accepted, driven by teenage self deprecation were real. My appendix around that age almost ruptured, so a part of me danced with it physically. After my surgery the doctor told my mother that had I not gotten to the hospital in time things could have gone very badly. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpjTpq5xNiFIjn_6LHWDmaYi14X_vYu-UlXTTgo8ylxfNBU7gNjHdr2awZ9ER12E8lYmRbpP7GqKI19MHtCo1Iwq5H-3_WrPD2SdMfhcHCPbNeVRznfi25m-eubgrAcs3pbdK6lbCwnqcU/s259/images-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="259" data-original-width="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpjTpq5xNiFIjn_6LHWDmaYi14X_vYu-UlXTTgo8ylxfNBU7gNjHdr2awZ9ER12E8lYmRbpP7GqKI19MHtCo1Iwq5H-3_WrPD2SdMfhcHCPbNeVRznfi25m-eubgrAcs3pbdK6lbCwnqcU/s0/images-1.jpg" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />2020 is now in the past. It was a rough year for many individually and much of the world as a whole. I spoke to a few people who admitted to thinking about exiting this world with a heightened sense of “why bother.” Not only were there tremendous loses connected with Covid-19, but there were high numbers of deaths connected with other illnesses, wildfires, hurricanes, and a host of other difficult influences. We live in a world where linear thought is considered the height of achievement; the official way we should see things. We devalue intuition and science primarily looks at statistics, and tangible, as well as logical reasons why people die. I would in no way argue the validity of a good portion of this perspective. It is one language of many available and a viewpoint behind the “why” of events. Yet, if we look deeper and see things through a spiritual lens, the metaphysical viewpoint behind the cause of events both individually and collectively we can see other aspects of why there were many departures. A build up over years, especially in the USA, the UK, and other countries most heavily hit with political extremes and wars of political thought, acceptable if not encouraged hatred of other people’s different points of view and created a toxic environment as much as physical toxins do. Destructive volatile weather, wealth disparities, racial intolerance surfacing, and smug righteousness about how one “should” be, and little tolerance of other points of view peaked in ugliness in notable ways over the last few years. Medical authorities bombarding us with “the worst is yet to come,” elderly in nursing homes denied their much needed family visits, or the touch of a grandchild and largely seen “as an expensive burden,” as well as millions of people losing businesses, jobs, livelihoods built for years with crushed dreams. Many people for the first time in their lives embracing the humiliation of waiting on food lines to survive and feed their families. Much of the news media endlessly suggesting that a virus can catch you at any time and you have no power but to hide in your homes and it is “right and noble to do so.” Other right leaning news sources suggesting repeatedly that the virus is really a hoax, adding more cruelty and insult to many people who have tangibly suffered or experienced loss. Is it somehow shocking that people will depart in larger quantities than usual? Many of the souls who left this world were simply good, kind, gentle, lovable people who were simply exhausted by all this added fear and made the transition back home to the Otherworld.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />Some news stations beautifully took time to highlight stories about people who passed from Covid, wildfires, and in service professions that selflessly sacrificed. While each case was unique, I could easily see a theme. A good portion were special needs people, individuals who had already barely overcome other illnesses, generous selfless people, nurses and other medical professionals, the elderly, minorities and other marginalized people. Good, kind people no matter how much they love their families, or even those with purpose in life still understandably grew tired of the struggle. While we might struggle consciously with a fear of death, we all know at deeper levels that we will go back to where we originally came from in death to a place of love, joy, and further evolution.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1r45vgC5A7TXOhCKw-MpT0cRLP9DceDxi_viCY8rD1EGijsTcmMnwGFckOvy7qH7SuxYYbtpEsAx7eC-HesplCPrKK-jxmNGAAgqy3TaaYLIRBzznfw0O3Ef7pyUgn9FCBqxURQltV3_5/s332/images-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="152" data-original-width="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1r45vgC5A7TXOhCKw-MpT0cRLP9DceDxi_viCY8rD1EGijsTcmMnwGFckOvy7qH7SuxYYbtpEsAx7eC-HesplCPrKK-jxmNGAAgqy3TaaYLIRBzznfw0O3Ef7pyUgn9FCBqxURQltV3_5/s320/images-2.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />We can honor these losses and we certainly should, but also remember that there is no real death, only transition back to the Otherworld. We can mourn but also value the time we had with anyone we have lost and how they touched our lives. We may wish we had more time or regret not having said more, loved more, been kinder, yet also honor that it was their time to go knowing we will also go when it is our time. Most importantly maybe we can learn something from the toxins of the last few years that are thankfully now in the past. We can choose to be kinder and more understanding to those we disagree with. We can be more loving now, and appreciate the differences and variety all around us. We can, in our own unique ways, make this world a better place. Maybe then, when enough of us have prioritized this we won’t need another year like 2020 to remind us of what really matters. Letting go of wasting valuable energy fearing death itself is good work when we see it correctly as a natural aspect of all the different phases of life. Enjoy the time you have as much as possible and maybe focus on the things and people you love and care about and a little less energy wasting time with what angers you.</span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt21Y3d1dBf1s6Fk67-rqFGISUWk9Eb-Sb5avMz53YuRa77r9UIHuHfwglre5AWpWc3Q774nxvbkfWRWP-v4lFsUobVeQ5Nzo7C0Yf7wSYtR2Oqcjs3ZxM78MK5xVIRDPKI4S6hRAXoS8Z/s121/6vMj7wCz8zzI9UkNKOSxUEqO26JrBqbD5HsbMUAw3NJjv1nO0WxyIo3ICcWuJWyoEbMEMeQ%253Ds121.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="85" data-original-width="121" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt21Y3d1dBf1s6Fk67-rqFGISUWk9Eb-Sb5avMz53YuRa77r9UIHuHfwglre5AWpWc3Q774nxvbkfWRWP-v4lFsUobVeQ5Nzo7C0Yf7wSYtR2Oqcjs3ZxM78MK5xVIRDPKI4S6hRAXoS8Z/s0/6vMj7wCz8zzI9UkNKOSxUEqO26JrBqbD5HsbMUAw3NJjv1nO0WxyIo3ICcWuJWyoEbMEMeQ%253Ds121.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />Fortunately I have noticed some of my more right leaning friends have broken through their extreme focuses of conspiracy theories and other fearful nonsense and done some notable positive things. Even one of the many heated, intense liberal friends recently did something remarkable. She thoughtfully mentioned on FaceBook a heartfelt story of a friend who is a nurse. Someone who was working in a hospital that is overwhelmed. She shared how they are working extremely long shifts, watching people suffer or die and feeling helpless. The nurses, doctors, and many other important staff members often don’t have time to go out to lunch or even take breaks for more than a few minutes. My friend’s idea was to ask if anyone wanted to donate a few dollars so she could pick up easy to eat pre-wrapped sandwiches, snacks, juices, and sign a card saying how appreciated all their hard work and sacrifices were. I gladly donated to this cause and asked her to slip an Angel card message I provided into the mix for someone to see. This beautiful act transcended all political perspectives and touched directly into our human goodness, her caring and ability to acknowledge our fellow brothers and sisters with empathy. A bit more of this type of focus in 2021 would be a welcome shift. This gives me hope. It is less about will the pandemic come to an end, because they always do. Just as important and quite interconnected, I hope that the pandemic of cruelty, self-righteousness, and lack of empathy will shift to a time of love, understanding and kindness being the priority and making the world become a place more people want to stay part of. Don’t keep waiting for the Age of Aquarius to begin, do your part to make it an Age of Aquarius now.<br />Jim Ventura 12-2020.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></span></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Notes</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b></b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHyrw_CZxYg_Mgi6cZAhL9df87Fj141EbSF56CbPY36mxMLTccUwKBnp4cCBjJMGavl3PyIPoKEgz1K30v_XNc0LBdvmX8vQQe9AfI63ZuzHzgzaVOcKTVVnQKMsoXiyA9uY51HxmD3myg/s374/image005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="374" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHyrw_CZxYg_Mgi6cZAhL9df87Fj141EbSF56CbPY36mxMLTccUwKBnp4cCBjJMGavl3PyIPoKEgz1K30v_XNc0LBdvmX8vQQe9AfI63ZuzHzgzaVOcKTVVnQKMsoXiyA9uY51HxmD3myg/w200-h188/image005.jpg" width="200" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /> </b></span><br />If you go back over the majority of my columns and some of my FaceBook posts in 2020, you will see a theme and this last column (on this subject anyway) is the culmination of all of my focus on using the pandemic and all the other challenges in the last few years to help shift my clients, friends, and readers to a more expansive point of view in your perception of life. I live with very little fear and navigate through life, not without the occasional challenges, but my tests are more easily resolved, always end up in my favor, and I thankfully have a lot less challenge and more times of ease and joy than ever before. This is my wish for everyone who I come into contact with if they CHOOSE to pursue a similar course. The culmination of the last few years of strong Capricorn energy is precisely using its positive pole or expression: “I Use,” as we move now into more of an Aquarius energy pattern astrologically.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOZl41rVIN1xfBeooOfJBoSEO8uH644h-P8qqNAT2oVUx8sxSz3onvlFmAkDDrGfZbGcksCrAlh6roUFwqLeU19JkQiAwmTGqBau-nnpg1SqeP1fB5dt-0RsIPzMfzF29hnXkCAPMAdgh5/s470/aquarius-zodiac-sign-black-white-vector-clip-art_csp49916112.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOZl41rVIN1xfBeooOfJBoSEO8uH644h-P8qqNAT2oVUx8sxSz3onvlFmAkDDrGfZbGcksCrAlh6roUFwqLeU19JkQiAwmTGqBau-nnpg1SqeP1fB5dt-0RsIPzMfzF29hnXkCAPMAdgh5/s320/aquarius-zodiac-sign-black-white-vector-clip-art_csp49916112.jpg" /></a></div><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />It is a new year so we shift into a universal 5 year (2021) of change, movement, and adaptability. The number 5 also corresponds to travel, indulgence (in a positive and negative sense), versatility, and the joy of the physical senses. After over a year of a pandemic so many will be looking forward to the joy of human contact, touch, going to a movie, sitting in a coffee house with others, etc... Missing something can make it all that much sweeter when we get it back. I don’t yet see an end to Covid, just thankfully a lessening of the number of deaths over the next few months, and western medicine will gain valuable knowledge of how to treat it! Yes, I am not anti western medicine at all. It has accomplished some wonderful and amazing things, and impacted life in many positive ways, especially when used in conjunction with natural remedies. I just will not pretend there are not areas where they create disharmony too, or where repetitious fearful programming does not have clear negative repercussions. <br />We also see the launching of the new Chinese New year officially February 12th, 2021. Aspects of the Ox to consider are gain and recognition through hard work, ability to not easily lose ones temper, strong sense of values, and being able to handle heavy loads of responsibility. You can look up Ox as “Totem” for more insight into aspects of the energy of the year ahead or how it influences your Chinese animal and sign.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />It is a brand new year and a good time to look at themes for the year ahead. My New clients (including anyone you choose to buy a gift certificate for) get $10-15 off my listed rates. Clients currently on my mailing list always get a $5-$10 discount of my listed rates. Clients in my Regular client program not only get between $15-$40 off listed rates but are able to purchase gift certificates for friends and family as well at the same discounted rates. For information about joining my Regular Client Program email me. I had a client recently bring in her 9 year old son for a session. I was hesitant to work with someone so young, but he was an amazing old soul and clearly go a lot out of the session time. Think about giving teenagers and young adults in your life the gift of an astrology, numerology or any session with me to help them start off life with a clearer picture of why thy are here, talents, and challenges, as well as giving them some extra tools to navigate more effectively so early on!<br />Wishing everyone the Best for the new year ahead. Cheers, Jim V</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><i>“May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.” Joey Adams<br />“You never go wrong when you take the high road-It’s less crowded up there.” Gayle King.</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i> </i><br /><br />Channeled corner. I read many, many books from different trance channelers in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. Unfortunately many of them are now out of print, but I still have a huge collection and will share some of the best material I have collected over the years.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Human vibration</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><br />Alexander explains how both our internal dialogs as well as expectancy from other is part of how we create and experience reality. He makes an excellent point about how this especially can effect children and is a good example and similar opportunities to consider to impact the world in a powerful way: </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />“...This principal carries over into every field of human endeavor. You know that children live up to expectations. If told they are lazy, dishonest, and stupid, they will act lazy, dishonest, and stupid. The expectations need never be openly announced; they can remain unspoken. The child, who suffers far less blockage between conscious and unconscious data than an adult, will understand precisely what the expectations are. Because the parent is viewed as big, strong, and omnipotent, the child seeks to please the parent in line with the expectations. Even at the expense of one’s own growth and fulfillment, the child will perform according to the negative expectations, so strong is the desire to please the parent. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />Examples are legion of troubled, delinquent, or scholastically failing children who spring to life and heights of achievement when one person, one lone adult, breaks through the cloud of negative expectations to say, ‘I care about you. I know you can do better.’ How the child clings to such precious words! For no one aspires to a reputation of delinquency or failure; all seek their very highest potential level of accomplishment. One adult breaking through the negative vortex of hundreds can inspire to feats surpassing even the child’s belief in his or her inner capacities. One voice declaring, ‘I care about you,’ one glimmering strand of love and compassion dangled before the child’s eyes like a million Christmas mornings, is latched onto-literally, magnetically linking with the child’s coordinate-and the days of delinquency and failure are forever abandoned...”<br />Conscious Life An Alexander book by Ramon Stevens</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>New Client Special 2021:</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe0eyTr_Rd-fCTOn_h6mtTASWy0oMMZRJmILVUnbX3F44LU-eyd0spa3ut3d9hxnxhlUJPWadbbVfj6f1Y6zLtP28Vgw8KmZ2WaX1SAYNQsVtVPtjRzwJNBE4RcZF57ZCOasYEfwBE_kR-/s1280/2-Ways-Baskets-Improve-Your-Gift-Giving-Skills.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe0eyTr_Rd-fCTOn_h6mtTASWy0oMMZRJmILVUnbX3F44LU-eyd0spa3ut3d9hxnxhlUJPWadbbVfj6f1Y6zLtP28Vgw8KmZ2WaX1SAYNQsVtVPtjRzwJNBE4RcZF57ZCOasYEfwBE_kR-/s320/2-Ways-Baskets-Improve-Your-Gift-Giving-Skills.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">January 1st through May 31st, 2021 Special: $10-15 off listed rates for your first 45 minute session, 70, or 90 minute session! Debit and credit card payments get $10 off for 45-90 minute sessions. Local in-office clients can get an extra $5 off for cash or check payments for sessions. If you want to buy a new client a thoughtful gift of a session for a friend or family member you can also take advantage of these rates! <br />My current rates (new clients can subtract the above discounts from these rate): 45 minute sessions $90. 70 minute sessions $115. 90 minute sessions $135.<br />I also have 20 minute mini phone sessions $40. New client discount and special does not apply. <br /><br /><i>“What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet.” Anne Frank</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><br />“We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.” Hillary DePiano</i><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Snake Oil Radio</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXhNJ6QqWbk_hdLqVd3CB9XJQZqGj-0Q6IL-Ml7tcl8nm-wt6JFUQCOc23n3VqABIeQLiTiMsSuqaDBOqkyodo4zJg7MBJ1yaX-U9oV3WaYuX1sgUBA_WfDVDaRC0urMQim-Z8OfqdDxBy/s194/image007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXhNJ6QqWbk_hdLqVd3CB9XJQZqGj-0Q6IL-Ml7tcl8nm-wt6JFUQCOc23n3VqABIeQLiTiMsSuqaDBOqkyodo4zJg7MBJ1yaX-U9oV3WaYuX1sgUBA_WfDVDaRC0urMQim-Z8OfqdDxBy/s0/image007.jpg" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br />Thursdays at 3:30 pm (there will be two live broadcast this period)<br />My next live broadcast of Snake Oil Radio will be Thursday, February 11th at 3:30 p.m. mountain (Phoenix) time. Usually one or two Thursdays each month you can catch a new show. Each 45 minute show will expand on my current column’s subject matter. It will also offer an opportunity for you to chat with other listeners in the chat room with comments and your thoughts about the topic of discussion. If you miss the live show, you can catch any of my previously recorded shows on the web site’s archive. You can also catch Snake Oil Radio on I-tunes (download my pod-casts there).<br />To hear a live show, all you need to do is be at a computer and tuned into: <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura">http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura</a> You may also access it by going to the site and type “Snake Oil” into the search option. You can also go to the shows that are currently “On air” at that time and find me. The call in number is 646-200-3966 for questions and comments.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><i>“If your brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” Paulo Coehlo</i><br /><br />Here’s my contact information to make an appointment for a session, or information on current classes: Email: <a href="mailto:Venturasag@yahoo.com">Venturasag@yahoo.com</a> (best method for contact).<br />Phone calls: (602) 957-3035 text only: (602) 349-0746 <br /><br />Information about the different sessions and types of readings and services, past Snake Oil columns, and how to order my books and audio CD’s can be found at my website: Http://JimVentura.com <br /><br />“Friend” me on Facebook to get other extra offers and in between column extras! Signing up for my fan page will get you even more extras and first shot at reading specials. 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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Family Takes a Hit</b></span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic0IXa2G7DKPrN0uAKxVBDbuwOKCHy8fT9EdP71wLpXWro6kb9KMsHfuj2qmzGXfJXZCLcgTlE2oqwg6udflxRXw-SuSYW0jpRu82RlCT2SfgWTQmrIQAeDjxbPF-5BR8Yyd9edS81LC_h/s1024/istockphoto-472277753-1024x1024.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="829" data-original-width="1024" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic0IXa2G7DKPrN0uAKxVBDbuwOKCHy8fT9EdP71wLpXWro6kb9KMsHfuj2qmzGXfJXZCLcgTlE2oqwg6udflxRXw-SuSYW0jpRu82RlCT2SfgWTQmrIQAeDjxbPF-5BR8Yyd9edS81LC_h/w434-h227/istockphoto-472277753-1024x1024.jpg" width="434" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /><b><br /></b></span><p></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The holiday season is here again. The traditions of Thanksgiving and Christmas, Hanukah, New years, etc... are important parts of American rituals and bring with them the potential of reconnecting with our families as well as turbulence. 2020 has been a contentious year for the most part with bitter camp alignments toward political affiliations, perspectives on the pandemic ranging from either following popular science religiously to out and out defiance about whether there is even a pandemic at all! Somehow, like nearly everything else this year, this too became a political football to kick around. Little tolerance and understanding of other peoples points of view abound, and cutting out friends or family in life or through social media have been growing notably over the last few years. The question then becomes how will all of this impact the holiday season as we close out the last few weeks of 2020 when heightened fear, practical limitations, and stubborn “my way or the highway” anger is added to the mix?</span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The notable, difficult, heavy impact of astrological influences this year of a heightened Capricorn configuration of Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto has impacted so many economically, physically, and emotionally in ways similar to the early 1930’s. Other astrological similarities to the AIDS crisis in the mid eighties with this pandemic and the fear of getting sick are also in play. Astrology reminds us that planets and signs have aspects (easy or difficult angles) and the sign in direct opposition to Capricorn is actually Cancer. Cancer and fourth house placements in our natal chart represent our family ties, home life, where we feel nurtured, and where we need to retreat inwardly for a sense of calm. We have the family we are born into. We all have a mother and father (at least at the start, but that can go in all kinds of different directions), possibly siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, and other extended or adopted family. Family extends far beyond these aspects for most of us to include things like, groups, friendships, pets, work families, marriage families, and other ways we connect to others and our need to be part of a family.</span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I was born the sixth of seven children in my large family. While both my mom and dad have passed back into the Otherworld, I have six siblings all over the US, and many friends I feel that are part of my family too. While there were some negatives to being only one small part of such a large family, there were far more positive aspects that I gained from this configuration. The holiday seasons with my large family were really good times. As our family grew with added marriage pairings, nieces and nephews, and friends who became part of our family we had some really amazing times. The most important part of being in a large family was we had no choice but to learn how to be temperate and to get along with many different types of people. Everyone understandably had different perspectives about life priorities, politics, philosophy and the benefits of healthy compromise were a necessity. In our extended family, not everyone was on the same page (and honestly how boring and unrealistic is that anyway?) and while we at times vehemently disagreed, we still prioritized the importance of family unity. We generally still inevitably “had each others back.” This has always remained a constant in my life and it is likely the reason I can be friends and even work with people I might disagree with in many areas by focusing on the fact that there is good in almost everyone.</span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Having worked in my unique form as a counselor for so many years has put me into the many variations of thousands of very different types of people. Some of the family experiences I have heard about in other people’s past were delightful to hear about. Yet, there are many clients and friends who have been through experiences with family that have ranged from difficult to horrific. An understanding of karma can help to mentally and spiritually navigate through some of this murky water. Still, the emotional wounds of family mistreatment can take decades to fully work to resolve. At the very least working with so many who have struggled has added to my acknowledgment of my childhood being not only easier than average but in many respects outright amazing by contrast!</span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJdjyMTsOo1VM4c3LhAjL_Rt5vodSR_XhKiqML8PYicICKyJRYFsGtMInn4TaH9tjUTnQUeAz-vF6Sl0lCwuu_zaQ4L9_ZSjMy2M3gCXlEURzI3bAlQRtEF2KKHTb6-FkBTV1x94VUzLkN/s205/th-4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="166" data-original-width="205" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJdjyMTsOo1VM4c3LhAjL_Rt5vodSR_XhKiqML8PYicICKyJRYFsGtMInn4TaH9tjUTnQUeAz-vF6Sl0lCwuu_zaQ4L9_ZSjMy2M3gCXlEURzI3bAlQRtEF2KKHTb6-FkBTV1x94VUzLkN/w205-h183/th-4.jpg" width="205" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I Like so many people at this time have found the many different forms of Covid’s impact have not been easy. I am currently single and live alone. The first two months or so of social distancing and staying at home were honestly a blessing providing me with a period of retreat, rest, looking inward, and re-evaluation. After a few months though I was weary of the isolation, while listening to media, and social media rants from people about “how selfish people (including me) were” for wanting to be out in the world again. Many of the most opinionated cushioned at home with their spouses, children, and were financially able to weather the storm. Like almost everyone though I experienced some real losses from the impact of Covid. Some financial aspects and other tests were trying but I think the emotional losses were what made me most uncomfortable. In contrast to those losing family members to illness, business losses, and other difficult tests mine might seem mild though.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">A few examples; I have been going to the same gym for nineteen years now. Closed for many months and now finally reopened in a limited way but it’s simply not the same. A good portion of my “gym family” have simply not returned and may never. I felt this loss deeply. My buddies were extended relationships developed over many years and they mattered to me. A good friend of mine for many years has dealt with extreme limitations with his once lucrative bar-restaurant business, dealt with personal illness, an elderly father in-law, and a number of other struggles. His wife and three children have been extended family for me. I saw them often over the last 15 years and even spent many holidays with them. The last time I saw them was nine months ago, when I was scrutinized heavily about who I was around and it was suggested that I was too reckless in my approach. His far left leaning and heavily immersed in politics spouse has been irritated by my more politically centrist viewpoints, and metaphysical perspectives and it was suggested to me on my face-book posts that “I needed to change the way I think.” I have been down this road many times in my life. She is not the first wife or husband of a close friend to be irritated by me! I understand that for her as a mother the need to protect her family and children are incredibly important. They are, like so many people, incredibly fearful of getting or transmitting the virus to others. I saw this clearly when I briefly hung out with my friend (and I have seen this with some clients and many people out in the world too) and could see the caution and trepidation around him. I could feel the fear radiating all around. He, and I am sure his wife, are genuinely scared of getting sick. My emotional body still understandably has some struggle with this sense of family rejection.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim2IkTEovmdhx1gmHzq3zG1Uo7XTwXS7p2auNkBe7lhY7ViDzDwMYGQEMDal4bGQMY6U3tTbchGjZrWmyxjYSIOkdrbJ_rdWfHe-TladXC2xSzz6R1E6FTgg7KC3k7aUbP9aJ8R8iooIg5/s474/th-6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="175" data-original-width="474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim2IkTEovmdhx1gmHzq3zG1Uo7XTwXS7p2auNkBe7lhY7ViDzDwMYGQEMDal4bGQMY6U3tTbchGjZrWmyxjYSIOkdrbJ_rdWfHe-TladXC2xSzz6R1E6FTgg7KC3k7aUbP9aJ8R8iooIg5/s320/th-6.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span><p></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">There have been good changes as well. A lot of issues in my immediate birth family were resolved or at least balanced after struggles that emerged over my moms passing last year. This insane election and political period gave my siblings and I a chance to discuss aspects of it together on text threads that actually bonded us. We all don’t always see eye to eye but we do respect our differences and like to discuss our viewpoints respectfully. A small metaphysical group I have been part of for the last three years have become another great family that I see about twice a month. We have even traveled together over the summer and have an amazing time whenever we meet up. They are now part of my family. I reconnected with a close friend I had a falling out with over four years ago. We both owned our mistakes and now our bond is strong again. I stayed well connected with some of my friends, especially those with more metaphysical viewpoints, and even have prioritized social distancing hangouts over the summer. We have been practical about it and reasonably safe, but they never hesitated to value the importance of staying connected as friends. I am grateful for all of my extended friends and family for not letting fear shut out important bonds and the value of being involved.</span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0bUP42Sim0CCmSnQP9zXFmgKPsf9rRIcXBnGZHdQO6qV5n_MRTqjlUYa76WTcaJdLDIhiqG8zNlkyt-gt4DtxkojMu3iliDPiqaYBo2kFIw7vqqdjVr7wlhZfks03fSe1OcojohOxLFAN/s112/th-9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="112" data-original-width="107" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0bUP42Sim0CCmSnQP9zXFmgKPsf9rRIcXBnGZHdQO6qV5n_MRTqjlUYa76WTcaJdLDIhiqG8zNlkyt-gt4DtxkojMu3iliDPiqaYBo2kFIw7vqqdjVr7wlhZfks03fSe1OcojohOxLFAN/w163-h150/th-9.jpg" width="163" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">So now the holidays with the added discomfort of strong warnings from public health officials suggest extreme caution. So many already isolated people’s fear of getting sick or getting others sick will inevitably become even more heightened with these messages. Many will forgo some traditions because of these fears. Others will go the other road and ignore any caution entirely. Either extreme approach will likely be a powder keg of hurt feeling, estrangement, and an added dose of financial hardship for many. Everyone of course will have an opinion about the right or wrong of it, and many will resent those whose perspectives are different. I grew up watching All In The Family. A brilliant television show that broke norms by discussing political, societal, and moral questions with brutal honestly rarely addressed on television. It was done with humor and the characters were strangely lovable just the same. The theatrics of the rigid conservative beliefs of Archie Bunker clashed painfully with his extremely liberal daughter and son-in-law. We seem equally cartoonishly polarized now as we were in the seventies when the show originally ran. A heightened underlying theme in the show was that disagreement even extreme ones were normal in families, yet family unity still mattered.</span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">We all have choices whether we politically argue with our family. We can continue to cling to the groups who only reflect our beliefs about right and wrong. And yes, in some cases some people may simply be too far away from our perspectives, or downright reprehensible that it’s just too toxic to be around it. But I would suggest that maybe we can still find some way to ‘break bread” with the majority of our family members. Maybe a focus on the joy of cooking and eating and minimizing political discussions or at least accepting others different perspectives even if we absolutely disagree would be wise. What my family often does is share funny stories about our childhoods, the good ones and the challenging times. We have firm political perspectives but we don’t spend much family time in that space. There are ways to be with our families even if in a limited way by video chats if one is afraid of catching a virus. The “fear of others” itself has torn families apart at this time. The benefits of physical touch, hugs, and smiles hidden by masks are truly a significant loss. Maybe we can find a way to work around that and at the very least we can truly appreciate it more than ever when we inevitably get it back. There is movement astrologically out of some of the heavier Capricorn energy into Aquarius in late December. This should begin a shift in society in positive ways as we see progress and a lessening of the extreme fear so prevalent at this time. We can do our part individually to usher in this change now. We can be more understanding of other points of view even if some of those viewpoints make us cringe! Maybe consider giving up yelling at each other to do things our way, as if that approach has ever worked anyway! We can choose to focus on what commonalities unite us as opposed to what separates us. We can create paths of temperance again or new ones that never existed.</span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMquzhyphenhyphenxgb0_mjy_8WC4kNoSWr1o8OACYZbCqKsvJoHXPomC9m2MGGPoj7Z9yj57c0Dva1OzjFcmFeQMR442IXOnr2rrK63U8X3PJ9y-QjkWlEtZ-y7wLTUicb94srdVlp8IvzdU1F9lt-/s286/th-10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="157" data-original-width="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMquzhyphenhyphenxgb0_mjy_8WC4kNoSWr1o8OACYZbCqKsvJoHXPomC9m2MGGPoj7Z9yj57c0Dva1OzjFcmFeQMR442IXOnr2rrK63U8X3PJ9y-QjkWlEtZ-y7wLTUicb94srdVlp8IvzdU1F9lt-/s0/th-10.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Two months ago I drove through an area I feel is a coordination point energetically while heading back from a fun Vegas that I have talked about before in previous columns. Driving through this area always seems to give me insight or simply realigns me. I began to think about all the different social and familial groups I have been a part of so far in this lifetime, and there have been a lot of them! Childhood memories of school friends as well as neighborhood friends, changing best friends, that were incredibly close for years and then ended for different unique reasons comfortably tucked away in my emotional body were remembered. My childhood even with its challenges was really fun and I was part of many family circles. The many different restaurants I worked at and the family members I formed in each of those places in my twenties and thirties and some are still even part of my life in some respects. Each restaurant was a different cast of characters and we found ways to get along and even enjoy each other’s company. They all became for a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>period of time, members of my family. I thought about relationship families connected to past love interests that I became part of that and inevitably changed when those ended, but all of them had impact. Time seemed to stretch with vivid memories and the emotional sense of connectedness along with a bit of healthy sentimentality poured in and included sadness, love, appreciation, and just the immensity of having had so much family and love in so many different ways. My life has been amazing so far and I have been seriously blessed with a strong initial family and so much additional extended family. I cried happy tears on that trip home. I knew that while there was a bit more in my life’s rear view mirror as opposed to what was ahead, there would be new familial connections and more fun ahead before I decide to depart from this world. The experience was simply profound and I knew or more likely remembered, this was what we all do before we die. Also part of what we review when we pass back into the Otherworld. It was familiar, I had done this in other times and places and my temperance and appreciation of differences in family in this lifetime has given me a bank of significant experiences precisely because I know how to value diversity over division.</span></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I have discussed my perspective on this pandemic and other influences with my Regular clients since it began. My goal is to give insight and help people feel safe even during all of the turbulence. I’ve done this through my last few columns as well as more extensively on FaceBook. Other than initially not being sure we would sadly reach the higher numbers of losses we currently have I stand behind everything I have discussed. In the last 8 months of this period of difficulty I have observed people proclaiming that the pandemic is made up and will “disappear” once the election is settled. We’ve all seen theatrical screaming and exaggerated performances about “how dare you take away my rights, and ask me to wear a mask.”I have mostly kept my mouth shut when subjected to endless conspiracy theories about “evil doers” planting chips, creating a virus to sell the vaccines, and plots to create a “new world order,” Democrats and many hollywood celebrities involved in pedophilia rings and satanism, etc... This nonsense minimizes the pain of real people who lost family members to this and other illnesses at this time. It degrades the sacrifices doctors, nurses and other medical professionals have made to do their best to help others, and the emotional impacts of real losses. The added fear of all this nutty shared crap is not helpful.</span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I have also observed the media and some scientists hyper scaring people with predictions about how this might not end for many years and how so much more is coming. I have watched face-book friends righteously cheer others for turning businesses owners in for being “too busy,” “lack of proper mask wearing” in their attempts to financially survive when so much is stacked against them. Segments on the news devoted to outrage about college students having parties and being college students. I have watched businesses and livelihoods crumble all around with more to come while people demand further shut downs, and excessive limitations to be safe. I have seen people actually turning others in at my gym for a slip of their mask, and watched people dramatically avoid other human beings in exaggerated ways. The smug “how dare you subject me to your germs” theatrics have been seriously over the top at times. The very real collapse of businesses, incomes and livelihoods of millions matter. I would ask those who take these types of extreme approaches; what is your end game? How long do we hide in our homes for, and what is the “correct” formula to be a good person? A working vaccine (which probably 30 percent of the population won’t take anyway) may not be around for months or years assuming there ever is one. </span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo9jqXyvXj0a2I_CgWxfK0ph5J3kfB9NgFBNmltPVB6cnY229ii2qoqpDyoHv-LXuJ8Ov0wYrwM4bVTKDgxE0l0QBlF79VVIEBsJKR9cUnWgW-nMDWHaSfQDtTSAK9sahYKNUz4MfKDZxP/s426/th-12.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="84" data-original-width="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo9jqXyvXj0a2I_CgWxfK0ph5J3kfB9NgFBNmltPVB6cnY229ii2qoqpDyoHv-LXuJ8Ov0wYrwM4bVTKDgxE0l0QBlF79VVIEBsJKR9cUnWgW-nMDWHaSfQDtTSAK9sahYKNUz4MfKDZxP/s320/th-12.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /> </span><p></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">All of these polarities are extreme hyper fear based and simply places I will not go to, but I do not make choices for people and everyone has their own path to follow even if I think those paths are bizarre at times and solve nothing. Everyone is doing the best they can during challenging times, although some may be hurting far more than helping. That is their karma to deal with.</span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">I have extensively studied alternative medicine, human behavior, illness and health, astrology, and how physical reality forms around us individually and collectively. It isn’t a cute hobby I play around with and something I would ever abandon when a pandemic or any other challenge in society comes along, no matter who suggests “I should change the way I think.” I still have much to learn and I am excited to continue to learn but 37 years of comprehensive study gives me some notable expertise (that actually works or I wouldn’t suggest it) that I happily share with my clients, readers, and on my radio and YouTube channel.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><p></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcboN7QwNSlBarz6F5a7LgB3wAC6LQW982ccEv3tySS4B6ZOSf9KBwMTkkIzF8BVLozOnrUWzJXvu_0Q0hDjR9cOVL46krw6c4IKCDfSp-k8q60IgkDs8EKPjrwVhQGms_lMNiBAu4vpqz/s170/th-13.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="154" data-original-width="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcboN7QwNSlBarz6F5a7LgB3wAC6LQW982ccEv3tySS4B6ZOSf9KBwMTkkIzF8BVLozOnrUWzJXvu_0Q0hDjR9cOVL46krw6c4IKCDfSp-k8q60IgkDs8EKPjrwVhQGms_lMNiBAu4vpqz/s0/th-13.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">While there are so many different individual reasons why people get ill, it is a reality for all of us at some time or another. My studies of alternative medicine and why I discuss them is to give other people choices, not to drive them away from western medicine. There are many areas where herbs, acupuncture, trigger points, changes in beliefs, flower essences, and other forms of healing can be far more effective and less damaging to the body. There are also areas where Western medicine is excellent and a good choice. I speak and write about subjects I have studied substantially and only share information when it has moved from exploration and theory to actual knowledge. Getting ill or sick is NOT a random act. There needs to be mental, emotional, spiritual,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>physical, environmental, dietary, and other forms of stress for any illness to occur. So the concept of being fearful about someone coughing on you and leaving you powerless to avoid illness is, from a metaphysical perspective and a practical one largely ludicrous. It is not to suggest healthy, practical caution at this time but to reinforce that we are not without power and living in exaggerated fear or its opposite of complete denial can be the very thing that brings those uncomfortable lessons to us.</span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lung issues (an area where covid frequently hits people) spiritually represent our ability to fully breathe in what life has to offer. Problems in our lungs connect to grief, depression, fear of taking in life (receiving) and often a sadness about not believing life is fully worth living.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I posted a YouTube video this summer about this subject. If these things are impacting your life than work on breathing in fully and letting go of a lack of self worth, and releasing your sadness. Building a strong immune system is also of great benefit in multiple areas now and in the future. There have been a few more videos posted since. check them out on my YouTube channel (You can subscribe to the channel and find all of my videos at: J Ventura).</span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The last two weeks of November and all of December of 2020 brings back my gift certificate offer as well as $10 off all sessions for anyone on my mailing list. More information about this later in the newsletter. Consider giving a gift certificate or several to someone who might really need it this year because I am guessing there are lots of people who could use the help!</span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Wishing everyone a Happy holidays season and a much better 2021 ahead! Cheers, Jim V</span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">“As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December’s bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same. Donald Westlake</span></i></span></p>
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<p class="p4"><span class="s2"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Holiday Special: November 15th-December 31st 2020 Special discounted rate on all sessions!</span></b></span></p><p class="p4"><span class="s2"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdQhYQS0bP7ZXHLAe9aGNfSdqjuv1C_9VjpbMeL6XuZ1lVKuRrQJK1wox5kUTXOwIIlSDlCzwLomXSK6SEDqUMefYZbSlVoEwSlJU13gBZNGYBlDPrn0slyd0dX-IauyC553LR8s4s7NBM/s181/Unknown-1.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="181" data-original-width="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdQhYQS0bP7ZXHLAe9aGNfSdqjuv1C_9VjpbMeL6XuZ1lVKuRrQJK1wox5kUTXOwIIlSDlCzwLomXSK6SEDqUMefYZbSlVoEwSlJU13gBZNGYBlDPrn0slyd0dX-IauyC553LR8s4s7NBM/s0/Unknown-1.jpeg" /></a></b></div><b><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><p></p><p class="p4"><span class="s2"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></span></p>
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<p class="p5"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">$10.00 off my current listed prices (new AND returning clients) for any 45, 70, or 90 minute sessions. If you purchase up to 2 gift certificates (or decide to purchase a follow up session for yourself to use in the coming year after a session at this time) the second gift certificate is $20 off my listed prices. If you purchase a third it will be $30 off that one! A maximum of three session gift certificates may be purchased at this time. Cash or check payments can add an additional $5 off the total price.</span></span></p>
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<p class="p5"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Price list for services are at the end of this newsletter and on my website. The gift certificates are good for one full year and can be used any time during the remainder of 2020 and all of 2021. I will either mail them to you or, if you prefer, mail them directly to the people who you want to receive them (snail mail or email). You may want to buy a gift certificate(s) for friends, family or for yourself to be used anytime in 2021. Sessions can be in-office or by phone or FaceTime for out-of-area clients.</span></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="s2"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Channeled corner.</span></b></span><span class="s1" style="font-size: large;"> I read many, many books from different trance channelers in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. Unfortunately many of them are now out of print, but I still have a huge collection and will share some of the best material I have collected over the years.</span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Seth speaking about visualization and the power of imagination to make shifts in our life now in real ways:</span></span></p>
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<p class="p5"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Seth: "The older person imagining youth will, during such an exercise, reactivate certain hormonal and chemical changes, BECOMING younger; and the woman who feels rejected does the same thing when imagining herself loved."</span></span></p>
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<p class="p5"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Seth: "To begin with your imaginings may seem foolish. If you are elderly, poor, and lonely, it may seem highly ludicrous to think of yourself as twenty, wealthy, and surrounded by friends and admirers. ...</span></span></p>
<p class="p5"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">You are to realize that this imaginative world DOES exist – but not in the world of facts that you know. TO SOME EXTENT, however, according to your freedom within it, such an exercise will automatically rejuvenate your body, mind, and spirit and begin to draw to you whatever equivalent is POSSIBLE for you within the world of facts that you know.</span></span></p>
<p class="p5"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Using age as an example now, it may seem to you that you ARE a given age, that within your subjective experience it must be paramount, that regardless of your age you are to some extent closed off from the experience of being any other age. In some simultaneous existences you are very young, however, and in others very old. Some of your physical cells are brand new, so to speak – the regeneration of fresh life is physically within you; in your terms this is true not only until your death but even after it, when your hair and nails can still grow. Identify then with the constantly new energy alive within you in this NOW of your being and realize that on all levels you are biologically and psychologically connected with that greater identity that is your own....</span></span></p>
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<p class="p5"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">In itself, such an exercise creatively alters probabilities, for you no longer live with the problem as an unchanging concrete reality. This is a psychological and psychic impetus, altering the messages that you habitually send to your body and to its cellular construction. You are then creatively manipulating in several layers of experience.</span></span></p>
<p class="p5"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Take for example the two instances just given: The older person imagining youth will, during such an exercise, reactivate certain hormonal and chemical changes, BECOMING younger; and the woman who feels rejected does the same thing when imagining herself loved.</span></span></p>
<p class="p5"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Such practice also activates within the self all of its unconscious but quite valid experiences, drawing out similar episodes on the part of other simultaneous lives. In one existence the old person IS young. The unloved woman IS indeed beloved. These unconscious realities become turned on through the use of the imagination. Each day is a window into each life."</span></span></p>
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<p class="p5"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Jane Roberts speaking for Seth The Nature of Personal Reality<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">“The price of being negative to another person is turbulence or disturbance within yourself.” Dick Sutphen</span></i></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">“It has been said there are three kinds of awakening. There is the waking up that occurs when an individual wakes up from a long night's sleep.</span></i></span></p>
<p class="p5"><span class="s1"><i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">There is the awakening that occurs when an individual makes his transition and discovers that there is no death. And then, there is the most important waking up, the waking up that occurs when an individual realizes that they have never been born and will never die, that they are an eternal, immortal being.” Michael Bernard Beckwith</span></i></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">My next live broadcast of Snake Oil Radio will be Thursday,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>December 3rd at 3:30 p.m. mountain (Phoenix) time. Usually one or two Thursdays each month you can catch a new show. Each 45 minute show will expand on my current column’s subject matter. It will also offer an opportunity for you to chat with other listeners in the chat room with comments and your thoughts about the topic of discussion. If you miss the live show, you can catch any of my previously recorded shows on the web site’s archive. You can also catch Snake Oil Radio on I-tunes (download my pod-casts there).</span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1">To hear a live show, all you need to do is be at a computer and tuned into: </span><span class="s3"><a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura">http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura</a></span><span class="s1"> You may also access it by going to the site and type “Snake Oil” into the search option. You can also go to the shows that are currently “</span><span class="s2">On air”</span><span class="s1"> at that time and find me. The call in number is 646-200-3966 for questions and comments.</span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Join me for a special live interview show On December 10th at 3:30 pm with:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="p7"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1">Crystal Heinemann is the Creatrix of The Psychic Soul. She's a psychic & energy healer, meditation, psychic & metaphysical development teacher. She started </span><span class="s3">The Psychic Soul</span><span class="s1"> because she understands that humanity is experiencing hard lessons and she wanted to provide a space for seekers to come together to learn, heal and grow in a like-minded community of openness, gratitude, love and uplifting inspiration! Together we are better!</span></span></p>
<p class="p8"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Crystal was blessed to grow up on the beaches of Ventura, California. She was born to young parents who were open to express themselves through spiritual movements. This offered Crystal a supported foundation to learn about a higher state of being. She has always been a seeker in both the physical and astral planes. Spending her adult life traveling the world following divine breadcrumbs. Crystal believes this has greatly enriched her compassionate path as a Way-shower. She currently shares her time between the beaches of Southern California and the majestic rivers of Oregon connecting with her purpose as a Joy Keeper.</span></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">“I can’t imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.” Artist Edgar Winter</span></i></span></p>
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<p class="p9"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1">Here’s my contact information to make an appointment for a session, or information on current classes: Email: </span><span class="s3"><a href="mailto:Venturasag@yahoo.com">Venturasag@yahoo.com</a></span><span class="s1"> (best method for contact).</span></span></p>
<p class="p9"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Phone calls: (602) 957-3035 text only: (602) 349-0746<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="p9"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1">Information about the different sessions and types of readings and services, past Snake Oil columns, and how to order my books and audio CD’s can be found at my website: </span><span class="s3"><a href="Http://JimVentura.com">Http://JimVentura.com</a></span><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="p9"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">“Friend” me on Facebook to get other extra offers and in between column extras! Signing up for my fan page will get you even more extras and first shot at reading specials. Simply click on “like” on the fan page and you will automatically get my weekly updates.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="p9"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1">You also may want to check out my posts on Tumblr.com: </span><span class="s3">https://www.tumblr.com/blog/snake-oil-blog</span></span></p>
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<p class="p9"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">All sessions/readings for 2020-21 are: Full (70 minutes) $115.00; Shorter session (45 minutes) $90.00; Extended session (90 minutes) $135.00 (two people can split an extended session back to back with an added fee of $5 for $70.00 each, although no other discounts will apply). Mini phone session 20 minutes $40. Email me for information about my Regular Client Program for even bigger discounts on session prices with the added benefit of monthly or quarterly check-ins. Purchasing 3 pre-paid sessions also brings sizable discounts (example 3 pre-paid 45 minute sessions is $150 total or $50 a session...)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="p2"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p>Jim V/Snake Oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00746873887985304530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024612299906599073.post-20105269614911305162020-09-11T22:31:00.002-07:002020-09-13T11:18:36.516-07:00September and October 2020 Snake Oil/Bigfoot, Aliens, and Evil Men pulling all the Levers<p> </p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><b>Snake Oil </b></span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><b>Bigfoot, Aliens, and the Evil Men Pulling All the Levers</b></span></span></p><p class="p1"><b><span class="s1"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg0MrgEPUgSGb1YM1rgnJnxOhRcmDge003DeQNkhU_LyCsHQ33L-IRZgCYUAMrvao-j4wUkYCWkyuF6H8IZGfP0ltOlH66IEj8HcDvgnIHvVExf9O4ByeTj4VBK13Ms9XafTD8LQEw_Jva/s845/pps-1-845x321.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="321" data-original-width="845" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg0MrgEPUgSGb1YM1rgnJnxOhRcmDge003DeQNkhU_LyCsHQ33L-IRZgCYUAMrvao-j4wUkYCWkyuF6H8IZGfP0ltOlH66IEj8HcDvgnIHvVExf9O4ByeTj4VBK13Ms9XafTD8LQEw_Jva/w400-h153/pps-1-845x321.jpg" width="400" /></b></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Magazines and newspapers like the National Enquirer, The Star, and similar publications beckoned us at the supermarket checkout to read about “Bat Boy,” Aliens, and the darker secrets and lives of celebrities before the internet largely took over this job. Most of us knew this stuff was largely nonsense but sometimes for the fun of it we bit on the hook and dived into the guilty pleasures. A smaller percentage of the population believed some or even everything in the pages of those magazines. Conspiracy theories, secret organizations, end of the world predictions, and the like have been part of our world from the very beginning of human communication, and expression and were magnified when we learned how to publish and print words. Is it all false? Could some of it even actually be true? Why are we drawn to conjecture about what is “really behind the scenes?”</span></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Astrology teaches us that strong influences of certain astrological signs especially Scorpio, and Sagittarius can have us naturally interested in questions about power and philosophy respectively. This can also be seen in relation to planets or other notable influences in the eighth or ninth house in a natal chart. The eighth house is the place where we look at shared resources, sex, transformation, and having or not having personal or collective power and influence. The ninth house corresponds to travel, philosophy, religion, deeper meanings of life, and higher education. In essence we all have (some far more than others) some desire to understand how life actually works, and why we are here. The probing, curious detective mind wants to get to the bottom of things. I have Mercury in Sagittarius in my eight house on the cusp of my ninth, so I was “wired” at birth to be a seeker.</span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiDw50K3ojQDw5J8hj-LoVuKKrdYv2i-HLwJ83UF6SQa3bKWXCmI7n7f2y8WJgTYHiJt6xndrwOkI7019TXIdlpn4SP4_EfmUKxI6ImZROGNHLk5kkIXVuF9PbrZnzKG7-ccMTYqyDYmx-/s800/shirt-1579132657-6094170b8d7e50d00ac246741b3b6797.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiDw50K3ojQDw5J8hj-LoVuKKrdYv2i-HLwJ83UF6SQa3bKWXCmI7n7f2y8WJgTYHiJt6xndrwOkI7019TXIdlpn4SP4_EfmUKxI6ImZROGNHLk5kkIXVuF9PbrZnzKG7-ccMTYqyDYmx-/s320/shirt-1579132657-6094170b8d7e50d00ac246741b3b6797.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span><p></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">When I was about thirteen my mind was heavily stimulated by a book called “Flying Saucers are Watching Us.” It was compelling, even awesome to me with many different exciting and scary stories about alien sightings, contact, and even abductions. This naturally led to books about the Lochness monster, Bigfoot, and similar theoretical sensational beings. By the age of fifteen I was reading books about witchcraft, spell casting, and other potential ways to gain power. I was already questioning so many tenants of religion (raised Catholic) and my naturally inquisitive and rebellious mind wanted answers. Comic books, television shows, and movies about similar phenomenon ran parallel and fed the magic of my search for the secrets of the universe. By the age of seventeen I needed far more advanced material and this led to books on channeling, astrology, numerology, and similar subjects. These far more progressive studies put the sensational starting point of UFO’s, Bigfoot, and Witchcraft comfortably in my rear view mirror.</span></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">What I did learn from these start-up sensational subjects was, while heavily exaggerated, was they did have some aspects of truth to why people were drawn to them. My studies of advanced teachings of brilliant channelers like Jane Roberts, and the Michael teachings did put those subjects into a far more clear perspective though and made me see those subjects differently. I wasn’t a huge fan of the show the X-files but I could see why it became such a phenomenal success in the nineties. Human beings often sense that there are deeper meanings and forces that govern our existence and the creation of events. We are also drawn to the theatrical, and at times make things larger than they actually are for the sheer excitement of discovery, even when often a large portion of those discoveries are nonsense.</span></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Beginning in the late nineties the internet has fed the machine that magazines life the Enquirer fed and it has grown profitable to pull people in with conspiracies groups like Q-Anon, Info Wars, and similar countermine news shows. Conspiracy theories about the flat earth, faked moon landings, 9-11 being an inside job, secret societies, the Illuminati as well as a host of other stories have been around for a while now and some for decades. Behind the draw to find sensational answers is the wisdom that many sense things aren’t always what they seem. Some of these outrageous speculations even have some hints of truth to them, still much of it is exaggerated and even out and out malarky.</span></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">The thread that exists behind all of this of course relates to our beliefs individually and en masse. Our beliefs not only color how we see reality but often actually form the reality of the world we see around us. The mass and individual belief that fuels the majority of these speculations is that “evil, wealthy men secretly control the world and we are all just pawns in their game with no real power.” This often never questioned belief that many of us hold is assumed to be a fact of realty. In ancient Rome, Greece and in societies all over the world they believed that the gods pulled the strings and we were at the whims of their desires; “the gods must be punishing us.” In many respects the modern equivalent belief that “THE MAN has all the power” is just another variation of the old gods powers. It isn’t that when crisis happens both in the world at large, and personally there isn’t a cause behind these things, there always is. But the more likely reality is less about secret characters pulling all the strings and levers and more about how ethically challenged people will take advantage of the chaos and fear generated and find a way to profit from it. This is often the case and actually part of many Young souls* exploration of using and acquiring power, and also creating karma to later resolve in the process. It is our belief that we don’t have personal power to create our reality that is the real limitation. When we are willing to own this fully the sensational beliefs about evil men, or angry gods begins to fall away and becomes unnecessary, or at least much less interesting. We can accept that there is of course life on other planets (just practical math), possibly other creatures we haven’t yet discovered that live at other layers of our world, and that magic in some forms does exists. But we can hopefully happily let go of the “Power of the MAN” and secret evil doers who pull the world strings. Letting go of this and reclaiming our own power is where our true dominion and evolution potentially can grow.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p>
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</span><p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">For those with strictly scientific minds, agnostics or atheists often understandably from their perspective suggest things like: “Isn’t a belief in Guardian Angels, protective crystals, Astrology, healing herbs, numerology, or even the value of animal totem work, actually real or even beneficial in any potential way? “Aren’t New Age folks just replacing magical friendly or unfriendly gods with new versions too?” Any serious study of subjects like astrology, meditation, oracles, and similar things will leave almost anyone who explores them convinced of their value and outright brilliance. Many of these studies have been around for centuries and for good reason. Most of these suppositions from the skeptical scientific minds come from those who have simply never looked at any of these arts in any real way. And, aside from many of these things bringing actual measurable benefits to those who use or practice them, whether the crystal or angels help or don’t help becomes less important. The idea or beliefs that these protective, benevolent, and healing influences may in some respects represent another belief system is valid. The difference is this focus on the basic goodness of life, seeing order and meaning, healing aspects of this world, and insight from the natural world around us, and guides us toward manifesting happiness and joy is a far better belief to carry. Even if you doubt the validity of these things and their actual impact, why not focus on these more positive beliefs that form our reality and the creation of potential good? Shifting your focus away from a random universe with no real basic meaning, no purpose in life (“Your birth is accidental, you live, and die, and thats all there is” logic) or conspiracy theories that reinforce our lack of power in this world is like all things, a choice. And, without question moving toward the more positive view of a world designed to help, heal, inspire and guide us is a very good choice. </span></p><p class="p1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">8-2020 Jim Ventura</span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">*There are 5 of 7 different soul ages manifest on the physical plane. Infant, Baby, young, Mature, and Old. These designations have nothing to do with chronological age, but refer to evolutionary progress and focus in all human lifetimes.</span></span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The Young soul focus is: “There’s you and there’s me-and I’m going to win.” “The world is my oyster.” “I can have it all.”</span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Notes:</span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1WBIyVtxaG5elFlFZODOXhuNAmAr1kHf3Q83_9xnf_Fy13rZXqGKivxfic-TeKKQn9TfSdaqn0Je7RS2y9R34iHMosEoWKUbpvQUeh7vloGpaSpoW7CUVXOh4d5NxxqZHzdwOJ5y8TJ5f/s374/image005.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="374" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1WBIyVtxaG5elFlFZODOXhuNAmAr1kHf3Q83_9xnf_Fy13rZXqGKivxfic-TeKKQn9TfSdaqn0Je7RS2y9R34iHMosEoWKUbpvQUeh7vloGpaSpoW7CUVXOh4d5NxxqZHzdwOJ5y8TJ5f/w200-h188/image005.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b><p></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">The world has been a nutty place this year for so many different reasons and just too long to list here. I expect the challenging pace will remain in place throughout the remainder of this year. Jupiter and Saturn move direct again in mid and late September respectively. Pluto will go direct again in mid October and this should soften at least some of the crazy. The astrological triggers from early 2020 will be mostly finished by February of 2021. We should see somewhat calmer waters and progress in comparison to the wild, uncomfortable (for many fearful) ride that was much of 2020.</span></span></p><p class="p1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span class="s2">Part two of last months extra: </span><span class="s1">Saturn, Pluto, and Jupiter in Capricorn. Astrology of the shared human condition</span><span class="s2">. is in this newsletter. You may want to re-read part one to get a clearer picture of what is involved here.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Many of my subscribers get an invitation during your astrological Birthday time for discounted sessions for yourself and the ability to purchase one for a friend. Generally I keep clients on that mailing list for the Birthday promotion for about 5-6 years. If no sessions are booked or the birthday promo isn’t used I generally remove those uninterested from getting these those mailings permanently. It is a lot of work to keep track of birthdays and send out the mailers so I purge a number of names each month from the list. If you are dropped from the Birthday promo I will still keep you on the every other month newsletter mailing list though unless you request being removed or your email bounces back for two columns in a row.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">I still have my new client promotional special in place for $10-15 off your first session until mid November. This also applies to purchasing a session as a gift for a friend who is a potentially new client. Everyone currently on my newsletter mailing always list gets the option of a $5-10 discount off session prices while still receiving my newsletter, unless using a promotional special. Much larger discounts are an option for those who purchase three session packages or for those currently in my Regular Client program. Contact me for more information about any of these options.</span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Arizona had its hottest summer on record, and thankfully is coming to an end now. We had around 50 days of 110 degrees or higher and broke the previous record! The weather of course reflects the energy so prevalent here, just as it does in all areas of the world. The cooler temperatures and magic of Fall (my favorite season) is here though and for this and many other things I am truly grateful. Wishing everyone a softer, peaceful season ahead. Cheers, Jim V</span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><i>“I am such an autumn person. Give me a quiet, cozy spot with a simple view of gorgeous tress with colorful leaves on a crisp September day, fuzzy socks, a warm drink, and a good book and I will be in all my glory,” McKenna Kaelin</i></span></span></p><p class="p2"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span class="s1"><b>Channeled corner.</b></span><span class="s2"> I read many, many books from different trance channelers in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. Unfortunately many of them are now out of print, but I still have a huge collection and will share some of the best material I have collected over the years.</span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Divine Grace in the Physical World</span></b></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkxbDjTmbdd4DX1d4RDKxCmibyRuKcx1zEu7Kq5ZcKiLskqh37sUg_BINvmMG294haS1PADzJ22EiELWSMJJp3YfZrsyek44UQk8RNgUEEs870w__mv8qhVbd4BSEhPb8swYFhko9FhW7b/s1600/1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkxbDjTmbdd4DX1d4RDKxCmibyRuKcx1zEu7Kq5ZcKiLskqh37sUg_BINvmMG294haS1PADzJ22EiELWSMJJp3YfZrsyek44UQk8RNgUEEs870w__mv8qhVbd4BSEhPb8swYFhko9FhW7b/s320/1.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></div><b><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b><p></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">“How does one recognize Divine Grace? How does one know its face? And how does one know when Divine Grace has been shunted aside, betrayed, in pursuit of some less worthy goal?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Again, Divine Grace is the source of your world, the great limitless fuel that powers your every moment, from the smallest atomic building block to your mass civilizations.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Always, always, it seeks to bring into actuality those events that will be of greatest benefit to those involved.</span></span></p><p class="p1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span class="s2">Divine Grace manifests most clearly on your plane as </span><span class="s1">respect</span><span class="s2">. What is respect? Respect is when you allow all others the right to ride their own Divine Grace as they see fit, understanding that you each live in a cocoon on your own creation, a highly private yet publicly shared existence in which each individual, pursuing his/her own greatest fulfillment, automatically and unconsciously contributes to the advancement of the species and planet as a whole.</span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Respect then is when you allow all others of your species, and all others of all species, their private place, time and path. Respect allows no place to coercion, force or violence against another. Respect is an intuitive acknowledgment of the uniqueness of each individual, each species, each form physical matter can take, a deep understanding of the greater cooperation that underlies your world, as each species and individual contributes its unique perspective, its private experience, to the shared venture on which you have embarked.</span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Respect is how Divine Grace manifests itself in your world. When you respect another, you recognize and acknowledge the Divine Grace within the other, understanding that it is not necessary for him or her to follow your footsteps in order to reach greatest fulfillment.</span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Notice we do not use the word “love.” It is not necessary that you run around flinging your arms about every person and four-legged manifestation of Divine Grace you stumble upon. There will be those whose paths differ so markedly from yours, whose inner awareness of Divine Grace has been so blunted by fear, that you are unable to connect. You need not love such individuals. You must, however, respect their right to pursue their path as they see fit, regardless of how obvious the deleterious outcome is to you.</span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">You need not love all you meet. Understand that they share the same source as you. All That Is poring itself into the physical world through the fluid medium of Divine Grace, you grant them respect.</span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">The rule of thumb to follow then, when considering a choice or decision, whether individually or en masse, is to ask: Does this course of action respect my integrity and that of all others who may be affected? Will this action be only of benefit to others, or do some stand to be harmed by it? Am I, or are we, acknowledging the Divine Grace manifest in every aspect of creation...”</span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Whatever Happened to Divine Grace? Ramon Stevens</span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2"><i><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">“Winter is an etching, Spring a watercolor, Summer an oil painting, Autumn a mosaic of them all,” Starley Horowitz</span></i></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2"><i><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><br /></span></i></span></p><p class="p3"><span class="s1"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">New Client Special 2020:</span></b></span></p><p class="p3"><span class="s1"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpJiVTBr-xdhMeuHTk1oyh6Mn9-KnKG2jr5Q4X5URPwxgfK5kaZdM8_zuEz5FJLI8f-NNFZtzdgNL8FX5gEpiCHWsrM5qrD9Pu_1pknUJKuhYo6qZQo2Hun9nCf5A8JPNWTl40TdgPf-LZ/s480/astro-houses.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpJiVTBr-xdhMeuHTk1oyh6Mn9-KnKG2jr5Q4X5URPwxgfK5kaZdM8_zuEz5FJLI8f-NNFZtzdgNL8FX5gEpiCHWsrM5qrD9Pu_1pknUJKuhYo6qZQo2Hun9nCf5A8JPNWTl40TdgPf-LZ/s320/astro-houses.jpg" /></a></b></div><b><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><p></p><p class="p3"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span class="s2">January 1st 2020 thru November 14th 2020 Special: </span><span class="s1">New Client introductory offer:</span><span class="s2"><br />
$10-15 off listed rates for your first 45 minute session, 70, or 90 minute session! Ask for the special when you email at </span><span class="s3"><a href="mailto:Venturasag@yahoo.com">Venturasag@yahoo.com</a></span><span class="s2"> to book. Debit and credit card payments get $10 off for 45-90 minute sessions. Local in-office clients can get an extra $5 off for cash or check payments for sessions. If you want to buy a new client a thoughtful gift of a session you can also take advantage of these rates!</span></span></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">My current rates (new clients can subtract the above discounts from these rates): 45 minute sessions $90. 70 minute sessions $115. 90 minute sessions $135. Sessions can be in-office or by phone.</span></span></p><p class="p2"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span class="s2"><i></i></span><br /></span></p><p class="p4"><span class="s1"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Saturn, Pluto, and Jupiter in Capricorn. 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Moving toward the positive pole of Capricorn “I use” is the key. I have been discussing this in more individual and personal ways with the clients I have been working with one on one over the last few months. Here is a general summation to consider for my Snake Oil subscribers.</span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">There is always an advantage that can be found in even the most difficult times. “It has been said that only at the moment of greatest darkness do we become aware of the light within and come to recognize the true creative powers of the self...” What lies ahead in the coming months is the potential for innovation and the wisdom of turning a disadvantage into an advantage.</span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">While the US remains polarized politically, hit with painful losses from the pandemic and some businesses have dried up and are lost (and too much of this has already happened and more unfortunately is on the way before this cycle ends) the prospects of more fear, difficulty and struggle may keep us from holding onto optimism. Yet, what appears to be negative can also strengthen us and make us not sweat things precisely because we have been previously tested. Think of acquired “street smarts” or “Since I have been through hell and back, I simply cannot be shaken anymore.” The other choice is to become phobic, despondent, defeatist, cynical, even more fearful, and following the waiting for the shoe to drop mindset. This is a road that can be taken and many will do so in the months ahead. Which choice and road we follow of course is up to us individually.</span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">The limitations and difficulties can also give us an opportunity to reexamine if we are on the right road in terms of career, status in the world, mission and messages, and what we would like to achieve if we are willing to work either on the path we are already pursuing or a to find a new path. We can potentially find more joy and fulfillment in our lives if this idea is embraced. Hard work when combined with purpose is not only empowering, but can lead to great things.</span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Confronting our worst fears, limiting beliefs and putting them to the side once and for all<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>can lead to us becoming more successful (In whatever we individually term that to be...). This is the more positive side and use of Saturn and Pluto.</span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">The Viking Rune stone of Disruption (Hagalez) speaks of things that uncomfortably test us like plans going awry, a source of supply dries up, a relationship fails, etc... but it also reminds us:</span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">“Change, freedom, invention and liberation are all attributes of this Rune. Drawing it indicates a pressing need within the psyche to break free from constricting identification with material reality and to experience the world of archetypal mind...”</span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">There is always potential for the storm to clear the old away and point us toward a brighter path ahead. Many people in the months and even year ahead will be troubled and have a hard time. Many if not most of us have already been going through some major tests, I have been through a few myself. Having empathy and understanding for those suffering in the present and future is important but we don’t help either when we jump into the quicksand. When we demonstrate how to turn limitation into success we inspire others to consider doing the very same things. If we continue to focus on the loss, unfairness, and suffering for too long we miss other doors that could be walked through. We can allow a new light to view doorways and opportunities that were either closed before or that we simply never saw were there at all!</span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Jim V</span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2"><i><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">“In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to spirit.” Wayne Dyer</span></i></span></p><p class="p2"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span class="s2"><i></i></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2"><i><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">“When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment at top speed.” Kurt Vonnegut</span></i></span></p><p class="p5"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span class="s2"><i></i></span><br /></span></p><p class="p4"><span class="s1"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Snake Oil Radio</span></b></span></p><p class="p4"><span class="s1"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="s1"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeU63kJVN8tWf-Sv7Jptvh9avaK8wdwos1151g0gRj_Gt4g5vHfT6XNGnUIbRUj5-txpfnN11MsMzgEY9NPETJiHKIWORtYPRsWKEzKWzsNTozFpjfh3UbrCFI-Qx7CtSQ-_58Pn1OXrYo/s194/image007.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeU63kJVN8tWf-Sv7Jptvh9avaK8wdwos1151g0gRj_Gt4g5vHfT6XNGnUIbRUj5-txpfnN11MsMzgEY9NPETJiHKIWORtYPRsWKEzKWzsNTozFpjfh3UbrCFI-Qx7CtSQ-_58Pn1OXrYo/s0/image007.jpg" /></a></b></span></div><span class="s1"><b><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></span><p></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Thursdays at 3:30 pm (there will be two live broadcast this period)</span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">My next live broadcast of Snake Oil Radio will be Thursday,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>October 1st. at 3:30 p.m. mountain time. Usually one or two Thursdays each month you can catch a new show. Each 45 minute show will expand on my current column’s subject matter. It will also offer an opportunity for you to chat with other listeners in the chat room with comments and your thoughts about the topic of discussion. If you miss the live show, you can catch any of my previously recorded shows on the web site’s archive. You can also catch Snake Oil Radio on I-tunes (download my pod-casts there).</span></span></p><p class="p1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span class="s2">To hear a live show, all you need to do is be at a computer and tuned into: </span><span class="s3">http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jim-Ventura</span><span class="s2"> You may also access it by going to the site and type “Snake Oil” into the search option. You can also go to the shows that are currently “</span><span class="s1">On air”</span><span class="s2"> at that time and find me. The call in number is 646-200-3966 for questions and comments.</span></span></p><p class="p1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span class="s2"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2"><i><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” William James</span></i></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2"><i><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><br /></span></i></span></p><p class="p6"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span class="s2">Here’s my contact information to make an appointment for a session, or information on current classes: Email: </span><span class="s3">Venturasag@yahoo.com</span><span class="s2"> (best method for contact).</span></span></p><p class="p6"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Phone calls: (602) 957-3035 text only: (602) 349-0746<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p7"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p6"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span class="s2">Information about the different sessions and types of readings and services, past Snake Oil columns, and how to order my books and audio CD’s can be found at my website: </span><span class="s3">Http://JimVentura.com</span><span class="s2"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p7"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p6"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">“Friend” me on Facebook to get other extra offers and in between column extras! Signing up for my fan page will get you even more extras and first shot at reading specials. Simply click on “like” on the fan page and you will automatically get my weekly updates.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p8"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Ventura/110567902293371?ref=hl</a></span></span></p><p class="p7"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p6"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span class="s2">You also may want to check out my posts on Tumblr.com: </span><span class="s3"><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/blog/snake-oil-blog">https://www.tumblr.com/blog/snake-oil-blog</a></span></span></p><p class="p7"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p6"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">All sessions/readings for 2020-21 are: Full (70 minutes) $115.00; Shorter session (45 minutes) $90.00; Extended session (90 minutes) $135.00 (two people can split an extended session back to back with an added fee of $5 for $70.00 each, although no other discounts will apply). Mini phone session 20 minutes $40. Email me for information about my Regular Client Program for even bigger discounts on session prices with the added benefit of monthly or quarterly check-ins. Purchasing 3 pre-paid sessions also brings sizable discounts (example 3 pre-paid 45 minute sessions is $150 total or $50 a session...)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p2"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz_ocC4nNjAAMj_bejhX67Utr02KwO1N-WQQX2h7ptT8VYudxpcBFxgCReSasmjbmkIicskXPjPzdvW7q7KkRMVpdREO4nakhbIbmbNgUGHoO4dT9HkLwZ9ewETAWoSKxySDPitVqCqirQ/s960/221821-Happiness-Come-From-Within.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="673" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz_ocC4nNjAAMj_bejhX67Utr02KwO1N-WQQX2h7ptT8VYudxpcBFxgCReSasmjbmkIicskXPjPzdvW7q7KkRMVpdREO4nakhbIbmbNgUGHoO4dT9HkLwZ9ewETAWoSKxySDPitVqCqirQ/s320/221821-Happiness-Come-From-Within.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="p3"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">
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<p class="p2"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p>Jim V/Snake Oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00746873887985304530noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024612299906599073.post-4067152697340395492020-07-11T20:36:00.000-07:002020-07-11T20:36:56.675-07:00July/August 2020 Snake Oil/How's It Gonna Bee?
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<br />Jim V/Snake Oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00746873887985304530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024612299906599073.post-60445184640808616922020-05-05T20:36:00.000-07:002020-05-05T20:36:22.748-07:00May and June 2020 Snake Oil/Ending the Wars
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">I was excited. I hadn’t been on a Vegas vacation in almost four months. I was packed up and ready to make the five hour drive early on a Sunday morning. This trip was a little different than my usual every two or three month sojourns. I was overpacked for this one without much of a choice in the matter. I had a cooler that I iced up with sliced veggies, fruits, yogurts, and probiotics. I had also packed an added bag with many different bottles of things like green food powder, apple cider vinegar, aloe vera juice, psyllium husk, epsom salt, an assortment of bottles of herbal pills, and healthy snacks. I had a list of acupuncture doctors in the area if needed, and my insurance card for a last resort potential need of my medical insurance (High deductible Affordable Care Act insurance). I felt overburdened by how much I needed to take with me for this trip. As a Sagittarius, we’re not exactly known for our overpacking tendencies. What was comical was once I made it to the hotel, parked in the garage, and then optimistically figured I could carry my water jug and three full bags of crap in one shot to my hotel room. It was heavy, cumbersome, and I needed to pause many times along the way. I alternated between laughing at my cartoonish trek and being pissed off about all of it. Was this actually<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>my current life as well as the possibly of all my future vacations?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">The reason I was so heavily stacked with supplies was because the last few months had me studying and using herbal cures, acupuncture, dietary adjustments, and pressure points for healing. I had for the most part healed my issue with diverticulitis with these methods with real success in early 2019. I had an occasional much milder flair up from time to time but I was about 85 percent free of this illness entirely. Unfortunately the fall had me dealing with uncomfortable kidney issues, and milder bladder issues. I had notable discomfort on some days, and epsom salt baths were a huge help in decreasing the inflammation. I had two rounds of kidney stones that were painful and scary and breaking the stones without relying on western medicine was another test. The second of the two uncomfortable stone experiences was when I was in Las Vegas the last time. During this trip I was in excruciating pain for almost four hours on the second morning of my trip before they broke. During all of it I was wondering what I should do. Should cut my trip in half and head back to Phoenix? Try to find an acupuncturist here in Vegas? Bite the bullet and go to an emergency room in Vegas and use the mediocre insurance I had with it’s expensive co-pays? This would add another burden of feeling like I was going back to a system (I did go to emergency care months before this though to get a blood test and they mentioned the weakness in kidneys so that was useful) I had successfully avoided for the most part for almost 35 years now? I finally fell asleep and woke an hour later to a feeling of something breaking in a good way inside. I then heard a familiar inner voice say “you will be fine.” I felt like a bad-ass for having endured and overcome it and the rest of the trip was great. I trotted all my supplies back with me two days later as I headed home after a really fun trip.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">There is a point that runs about ten miles where the I-40 meets 93 heading south that is a co-ordination point I discovered years ago (wrote about this in a column four years ago in more detail). Every time I drive through this area I find myself either mentally, physically, or spiritually lining up or getting insight and clarity. I decided to consciously ask my Higher Self as I passed through, what was still blocking me from complete healing in my digestion and elimination organs? I had made notable progress using the holistic methods although they worked slowly. The stone incident aside (even the fact that it pushed through in only four hours was pretty amazing in comparison to the last time it occurred) I was actually about seventy percent better overall in the process of healing these organs. I recognized fully that my beliefs formed my reality. I knew I was stuffing anger and fear in my digestive organs for many years of my life and the stones were a build up over time now finally releasing. The areas effected were all connected with second and third chakra’s; relationships and power respectively. Kidney issues usually have to do with reacting like a little kid, feeling criticized, and disappointment (from You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay). In tandem with tangible cures and healing methods I was moving through limited beliefs and perspectives all year about other people’s judgements of me and how I reacted to those judgments. The process was working and the organs were clearing and regenerating but every few days I would still feel discomfort so why hadn’t they fully healed? What was the missing piece in my belief systems that I wasn’t getting that was needed for full healing to occur? I pondered this as I headed south.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">There are actually numerous examples of my success and work in overcoming reacting angrily to judgments in the last few months. Here is one of them: I had a client whose name actually sounded like the word fear. She bought a session through a Yelp promotion. She was impatient about booking, and was difficult to read for. A combination of impatience, martyrdom, fearfulness and combativeness to everyone around her made the session drag. Her cards were clear and reflected this, so I purposely encouraged her with a few personal stories, and some client’s stories about how to overcome limitations. We talked about her family, current lack of friends and a partnership, difficult work situations and many other things. I felt intuitively that she was thinking about opening her own business, and the Tarot cards reflected this too. After many years as a nail tech she had acquired a good amount of knowledge. It looked like that would be possible but might take almost two years to do so and finding a partner or investor. I added an extra fifteen minutes of free session time to encourage her.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">When she got home she emailed me asking for her money back saying: “You didn’t talk enough about me and it wasn’t worth the $80 charge.” While events like this are rare thankfully I knew this was a play she likely used often in other areas as well using a service and then complaining to get the money back. A type of scam common for people immersed in extreme martyrdom. I surprisingly acted out of character. Didn’t get mad or offended at all and refunded her money without question. Why go into the “gall of her doing this” and damage my gall bladder too? I decided it didn’t matter and I would have the added blessing of never having to work with her again or add her to my mailing list. The next day two new clients booked sessions and a client from over a year ago contacted me to cover a session she had never paid for. She apologized about the delay and also pre-paid three more sessions. I took in far more than the “lost” $80 and with far less stress. There was the magic of allowing the Universe to solve the situation in it’s own perfect wisdom.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">My intention was clear on the drive through this power spot but I didn’t get a direct answer. I started to think about my Aries niece. I hadn’t seen her in a few years but recalled how she often saw the world as a battlefield. While not every Aries I have know have been like this, a good amount were (Mars ruling planet gives strength and courage but can also bring battle). Then I thought about my recently deceased Aries mother. I had forgiven mom months ago for the hurts created during my childhood (this is primarily what cured the diverticulitis) so there wasn’t any pain connected to memories of my mom anymore, mostly love, appreciation for the good things she did (there were actually a lot) and acceptance of her flaws. But Mom was often in a battle of some sort whether real or imagined. She was angry at my sisters and my brothers often. She despised many of the neighbors and some of their kids. Yes, she did have a few friends, but she was irritated with most of them at time too. She didn’t speak to my father’s relatives. She was angry with NY’s governor, Democrats, supermarkets, Non-Catholics, Catholics, some of my dad’s friends, and so many other things. I chuckled about how much energy she put into some kind of war, and grateful that I didn’t do much of this type of thing. Then it hit me as I got closer to Phoenix-the Light Bulb moment came; I was not in any way as bad as mom, but I definitely had some tendency to do this too!</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Years of meditation and spiritual work have helped me to allow criticisms from others and general negativity to simply flow through me most of the time, but a lingering part of me still battled a bit too much. I cursed and get irritated with “idiot drivers” on the road. I sometimes get annoyed when clients, friends and even family members and people who don’t get back to me for days, weeks, or even ever when I would send emails or texts. I watch television shows about political matters and get frustrated with people on the “wrong side” of an issue. I still sometimes get triggered when I get an obnoxious comment about one of my Youtube videos, FaceBook posts, or radio shows. Granted they are surprisingly rare, but it can still hurt when this happens to anyone, me included. I have been expanding my work in all kinds of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>media and television, I know I will need to get an even thicker skin as I inevitably reach more and more people in the coming years. While I battle far less than my mother and some of my family members do (we were all raised by a mom who acted a bit like a baby sometimes and understandably mirrored her) I still sometimes do this and years of it was basically stuffing this anger into my digestive organs, especially my kidneys. So much of our behaviors and beliefs become almost unconscious, we never question them. Especially from parents, and the areas we grew up in where we were told “how you are supposed to react.” I was still acting like I was in little wars, real or imagined and it was not only getting old, but hurting me physically. It was time to end a lot more of the energy I put into wars. I have no doubt that the remaining discomfort in in my body will clear up now. When we shift our beliefs, actions, and our diets to more positive ways of living, we no longer need to be as obsessed about carrying all the healing tools (they have already done their job!) around with us anymore. We can still use them, but they become less of a necessity. The body is in harmony again and can naturally flow the way it was designed too. I would now dump not only the baggage of physically carrying so much stuff around, but also finally internally letting go of unnecessary wars and battles. I feel lighter already.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">I have used Western Medicine a few times and have seen that it definitely has value. I had appendicitis when I was seventeen and thankfully had surgery. I had a calcium build up on the middle finger of my right hand and had surgery to remove it at age 18. When I was 37 I did something sexually reckless and had to use an antibiotic to heal it, thankfully it is also permanently gone (and lesson learned) and the antibiotic worked so well and quickly precisely because I never used them before. I had a blood test to confirm that there was a weakness in my kidneys primarily when I had diverticulitis last year. And thats all folks. I am glad I do have the back up of insurance for Western medicine insurance and the option. While it’s is rare if ever for me to use I think its a good idea to have just in case. I write and teach about the different aspects of using alternative medicine (with a heavy focus on changing limiting beliefs) because I want to suggest to my clients and readers to consider other ways to heal. Most of my readers will use Western Medicine and often with beneficial results. I suggest many people think more about looking at healing from other angles as well.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">The last few months have definitely been a bit of a twilight episode to say the least. My heart goes out to everyone who lost a friend or family member to this. I actually wrote a lot about this Covid-19 scare on Facebook. Enlightening some and likely pissing off others! Discussing the astrology behind this aspect, building strong immune systems and understanding that “there are hazards on the physical plane” were the brunt of my messages. I even did an extra radio show about it and the totem of Owl. A link for this is accessible below. I suggest following me on FaceBook on my business page or even a friend request. Be prepared I am not only entertaining as hell with my humor but not afraid to tackle a few subjects that may push a few buttons. I have been expanding my media work all over. I used the time in the quarantine (my business dropped about 40 percent, but one the lucky ones who can handle that temporary loss financially. I made practical changes after the economic issues in 2009) to learn more about marketing and expanding my YouTube channel. My videos are new about once a month there (only 4-7 minutes purposely) and discuss many different subjects not addressed in my Snake Oil columns. Look me up on YouTube.com and subscribe to my videos there if you’re interested.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">As we trudge through the rebuilding of our economy over the next few months and years (not an easy task to say the least) It’s easy to talk about the negatives and there were many. Yet there were also benefits with this Saturn/Pluto conjunction (it occurs about every 35 years or so and discussed in detail on my FaceBook page as well as in the radio show) to consider. Aside from the cleaning up of the environment, refocusing on priorities, a needed rest and retreat from crazy pace of life, facing fear head on, etc...the Conjunction of these planets (and Jupiter) offer a chance to reconsider your work, career, mission and message, and status in life. Are you meant to reconfirm the reason for the path you are currently on or change direction at this time in your life? The answers will be different for everyone. I have often been told by people that I am lucky that I had such an easy time (in comparison to many) in finding my life path at a young age. I was” lucky;” I found Astrology, Numerology, Animal totems, and other oracles when I was in my late teens and early twenties. Those things helped my get a clear path at so, so many levels. They can also help you!</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">THE UNIVERSE IS SAFE. It is not out to deceive you, to deprive you, to batter you about. The state of health, of your body working in smooth unison with your mind, is the most natural course of events. When you do become ill, it is a sign that you have not faced certain issues; you are therefore urged to stop and consider that state of your life and what might have brought on the illness. And the illness itself, it’s expression in your body, will always carry a host of clues as to the genuine source. The world is not out to trick you? Any disease or illness will always represent, in plainest terms, the issues you have not faced that brought it on...”</span></span></div>
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<br />Jim V/Snake Oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00746873887985304530noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024612299906599073.post-64487161848449939432020-03-03T19:23:00.000-08:002020-03-03T19:23:23.793-08:00March April 2020 Snake Oil/Inner Worth Mounts
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<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The Journey Rune reminds us that we can learn to become more aware of what “Right Action” is, and to be willing to not focus so much on movement, but to work on removing any internal resistance. We often get frustrated with the areas in our lives that seem to be stuck. “Why can’t I meet the right mate, and always pick losers?” “Why do I never seem to have enough money?’ “Why do people always take advantage of my kindness?” “Why can’t I lose weight?” These and similar questions are common types of dilemmas many people face. Yet, we often get so caught up in frustration, unhappiness, and what is missing that we miss an important key to resolving the issues. We typically rally against the people, things, society, and causes outside of us that seem to be the root of the problems. We fail to see that more often than not, the obstructions are actually inside. The outer problem is often a result of an internal lack of self-worth and fear based beliefs about life and ourselves.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">“...Gifted children do not fit psychology’s picture. Gifted children do not fit the portrait of children that is sold to parents. The fact is that for many reasons gifted children merely show the latent quickness, metal agility, and curiosity and learning capacity that is inherent in the species. they are not eccentric versions of humanity at all, but instead provide a hint of mankind’s true capacities.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Your brains are not empty, but well-oiled machines ready to whirl into activity at your births. They are provided with a propensity to learn-and the rudiments of knowledge as you understand it exists within the brain. In those terms, now, the brain thinks before birth. It does not simply react. Each individual has its own unique abilities. Some that involve relationships with others, you do not even have words for. Parents, however often half-disapprove of their children if they show unusual gifts. They are afraid their children will not get along with others. They are upset because the children do not fit the norm-but no child EVER fits ‘the norm.’</span></span></div>
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<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Many adults, sensing their own abilities in one field or another, deliberately play down those abilities because they are afraid of standing out from “the masses”-or they are afraid they will be attacked by their peers. They have been taught by religion and science alike that any kind of greatness is suspect. Yet each person alive contains an element of greatness; and more, a desire to fulfill those abilities.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I am not speaking of greatness in terms of fame, or in terms of usually understood artistic or intellectual abilities alone, but also of people whose lives have the capacity for great emotional content. I am speaking also of other natural abilities-that of dream communication, the conscious utilization of dreams and creatively in daily life. There are dimensions of human sentiment and psychological experience that remain latent simply because you focus your attention so closely within the idea of ‘the norm.’ Any unofficial experience must then remain bizarre, eccentric, outside of your main concerns, and ignored by your sciences.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Many children, for that matter, who are regarded by their teachers, are highly gifted. The same also applies to disruptive children, who are overactive, and put on drugs. Their rebellion is quite natural. Autistic children, in many cases, now, are those who have picked up the idea that the world is so unsafe that it is better not to communicate with it at all, as long as their demands or needs are being met. When the child is fed and clothed and cared for, then it continues its behavior, and the behavior itself does serve its needs.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">1. ARROGANCE +(positive) pride -(negative) vanity. Fear of being judged and compared.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">6. MARTYRDOM + selflessness -victimization. Fear of being victimized by circumstances or others.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">7. STUBBORNNESS + determination -obstinacy. Fear of change.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s2"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">These fear patterns or “dragons” are the primary cause of unhappiness, and block us from having fulfilling careers, relationships, prosperity... By discovering what our chief feature is, how it formed, and how it blocks us, we can take charge of ending its hold. As we look at our childhood and see where our fear and false personality started, we can then move onto practical, powerful methods for living our lives without the manipulation of fear/chief feature.</span></span></div>
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