Today is the one day visitors to Acoma can climb up the footholds dug into the mesa side like people did for thousands of years before, bringing them to the top, and on September 2nd, to San Estevan’s Feast Day. Acoma feels like a tiny big city in the sky on that day, with pueblo dances, a big arts and crafts fair, especially good tamales, an incredible 360 degree view, and a spectacular adobe church. (It used to be a lot more interesting before they painted the parrots and rainbows out of it. At one time there was in indoor courtyard with a mini-corn field in the middle of it, where a golden eagle was kept in a very large cage.) Acoma will always be magical and out of time, up in the middle of the air like it is, and now there are a lot more places and activities around it for visitors.

The dances go on all day…it’s about 2 and a half hours from Santa Fe. Information and maps at the Acoma Pueblo Website, http://sccc.acomaskycity.org/

The only message I thought I received from my long-dead Dad many years ago was: “Buy Toyota”. (He was right, but I didn’t pay attention.) Recently, I think he told me to “Buy Apple”.
Today’s headlines reveal that Apple Inc is on the move in many new directions, and not only does it remind me that I ignore my Dad’s advice, dead or alive, it reminds me of a conversation I had decades ago, in Los Angeles in the early ‘80’s.
It took place high up in an office building at Apple headquarters. One of the executives had me come in to do a psychic reading, and we sat at his desk overlooking the city. What came out seemed so hyperbolic I have never believed until now it might be correct. I thought I probably succumbed to the pressure to make the man feel good, as I remember stressing how successful the company would be. (At the time things were not good.). It came out that Apple was headed to be a huge player on the world stage, one of the select companies that played a giant role internationally and would be right there as the world changed, having a lot to do with everything.
The extraordinarily visionary vibe of Steve Jobs came through in the reading (I don’t remember who I read for, but I remember telling him how exciting it was to connect with the energy of the company and Job’s visionary ways because it gave me glimpses of the future. made me feel incredibly intelligent and expanded my consciousness. ) When I heard in 1997 that Jobs was coming back to Apple to be the interim president, I bought the stock. (Then I forgot what a genius he was, and sold way too soon.) Maybe Apple is going to morph, like an entity that figures out how to master organizing on a much bigger level, into something much more fantastic. People are capable of amazing things.

Today’s internet reports on Glenn Beck’s rally, one showing a guy in a tee-shirt that read: “America, love it or go back to Kenya!”, reminded me my unique outdoor dining experience in Santa Fe recently. On the patio of a gracious East side eatery, a table of very expensively-dressed couples from Texas (judging from their accents…no offense, Texas!) were having an early summer dinner. They were talking about a mutual acquaintance and how this person had “gone over to the dark side”. Further eavesdropping clarified that this was code for becoming an Obama supporter.

At least one well-known psychic (Elizabeth Baron in her newsletter this month) is predicting that there will be race riots in this country before the end of the year. Tens of thousands of people showed up at the Glenn Beck rally today, August 28th, at the Lincoln Memorial, the likely energetic fuel for such psychic visions.

Curious to see what showed up in divination, I asked for a picture of blacks and whites together in the future, and a reflection on the power of prejudiced people in the U.S.A. Which way does it look like things are going, towards race riots, or a new time of creating together?

The tarot suggests we’re headed for a time when the focus is on using all resources (blacks and whites working together), dreaming big, presenting a united front–that sounds like greater harmony and integration. That doesn’t sound like the underpinning reality leading to race riots.

Re an assessment of the power of the prejudiced people, they show up as a  strong and potentially creative expression of emotion, something that in and of itself doesn’t do anything but vent. But the idea that their emotional energy of frustration and anger is being used to fuel something like a new political party, is in the cards. The first step is to cause chaos, and keep reminding people that their world is chaotic and untrustworthy.
These same tarot cards, the Queen of Cups, the Lovers, and the Tower, also say that the rally is fueling Sarah Palin. That rally is a lot about Sarah Palin and her bid (or not to bid), for the White House.
In this Mercury retrograde cycle, people are very creative about how they further their hidden, long-term agendas.

Virgo 2010

Your birthday card: Mercury, your ruling planet, is retrograde on your birthday, and your psychic pictograph reflects its message: This year, you can make great progress when you use your energy to help yourself, especially with long-standing issues. Better coping skills, greater adaptability, and more genuine connection with others are the result.

Spiritual guidance: You may wish for a more perfect year, but you will not want for informative experiences! Some jolting, some jarring, some funny..all necessary for you to become the more light-hearted, wise, and flexible person you develop into through this year’s educational events. You meet your fears, your fate, and what really makes you feel whole and happy. “Understanding” is one of this year’s big gifts.

Your tarot for 2010: This year offers ways to get into a safer, more stable, and powerful position in life. You will be willing to change location or do what’s necessary to flow with opportunity. You will try things you haven’t considered; new methods and ways of reaching out are favorable. Partnerships can instigate change also, and it’s best to go with the trend, not be idiosyncratic, not cling to anything from the past, but move towards the best bet. You “modernize” this year.

Elissa Heyman, Psychic Counseling and Spiritual Healing, www.elissaheyman.com, 505-982-3294

A man visiting Santa Fe from back East came to see me, and  impressed me with his self-healing technique.  He told me he was a sufferer of “cluster headaches” since he was thirteen. They’re also known as “suicide headaches” because people have killed themselves to get out of the pain. Women say the pain is worse than childbirth. They happen in a cluster for weeks or months, and then stop.

This is what he does that is very successful for him, and he’s tried every kind of doctor and medicine. ( I asked him if he had five headaches, how often did this method work, and he said: “Every time.”.)

The headaches often wake him up out of a sleep. His eyes open with a start because all of a sudden the pain is there, and immediately, he gets down out of the bed and on the floor and does push-ups until he can’t do any more. This puts a lot of adrenalin in his system. Then he puts an icepack against the headache, holding it in the palm of his hand, especially the lower part. When he can’t stand holding the ice any longer, he takes it off the headache but holds the ice in the palm of his hand a minute longer.

He thinks the endorphins and adrenaline this produces stops the headache.

The crucial part is to start doing push-ups the moment the pain starts. If you wait past about 4 minutes it doesn’t work. He also stressed the importance of icing the lower part of the palm.
I hope this helps someone!

Re Mercury retrograde do’s and don’ts, don’t be caught in a traffic jam in China–9 days long and sixty miles wide, punctuated by Mercury turning retrograde on the 20th. China, as a grand work in process, says about this time: expect delays or to become aware of slow-downs or longer processes than expected.

Everywhere, from travel snafus on your vacation to going to your high school reunion the wrong week (as one of my Texas clients did, ending up in Florida in August), the tendency for this cycle to produce all manner of delays is strong. It produces great synergies and creative bursts from individuals, and fuels many partnerships, but whatever gets created has a lot of details to work out. Unfortunately, on the macro scale, the signs are showing the possibility of war.

The full moon often reveals polarity: the night of the full moon, the streets are full of people, the music is blaring out of the clubs–yet the next night, the town is deserted. This full moon ushers in a positive trend: luck can turn, breakthroughs can break through, situations can come to a head and sometimes end, but for the best.

Let the healing begin!