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The Aries Lunation - 2005

The Aries New Moon
and Solar Eclipse

Actually, at this late date, I have very little to say about the New Moon. Here we are approaching the Full Moon and I'm just getting this issue of Zylights put together. One thing I can say about the eclipse is ... WOW. Being an Aries I had looked at the New Moon/Solar Eclipse chart and thought, "Well, this isn't hitting any of my planets or house cusps, or even making any aspects worth noticing, so I suppose the eclipse won't be a big deal to me." And boy, was I wrong!

It turned my life upside down. Of course, that's not such a bad thing when nothing much was making sense before. Sometimes life looks better standing on the ceiling. Like looking at a chess board from a different angle, one sees moves one did not see before. Many new possibilities have opened up for me, and I am very grateful. I'll speak more about that in the articles below.

I would really appreciate your feedback this time. Please click on the comments link at the bottom of this edition. You can post anonymously if you want to make your comments quickly without signing up as a blogger. I'd really love to hear your thoughts on the new ideas. So, without further ado, here they are....


New Beginnings

Aries is the sign of new beginnings. The first day of Spring always happens when the Sun crosses into Aries. The world is renewed. Much that was sleeping in Nature, wakes up. Though the Sun has now moved into Taurus, we are still in the first half of the Aries Lunation (at the time of this publication). So it isn't too late to nurture the buds to come out on the trees and branches of your life, making your own new beginnings for the year.

Members of Zyberspace have recently seen something new appearing in the Oracles and Path Predictions they receive daily. It is a section called If you are born today, and represents a maturing and blossoming of what I have been aiming for with Zyberspace since the beginning. Sometimes the work we are doing, particularly in spiritual matters, isn't totally clear to us in the beginning stages. So we work at it with our hearts open, our imaginations strong, and are amazed at how things grow and change for the better. The past year of working in Zyberspace has been just such an experience.

It is also interesting when people question what you are doing. Sometimes the questions have come from those I dearly love and trust. Usually this leads me to deep introspection, and sometimes to changing my way of thinking or an approach to methods of teaching, writing, and speaking. But sometimes, even as a surprise to me, my inner response is to know that what I'm doing is right, even if I have not expressed it clearly so that others understand. Here is a little background....

A question that has been asked from the beginning by many is this: "How can you make one Oracle every day, and describe the astrology of that day from a general perspective and think that it will apply to everyone?" Dear ones, that is a very good question, and has given me quite a lot of pause to think. But each time, what I have found in deep meditation is that I'm on the right track. Keep going, the Oracle said to me. One day you'll get it. Then others will get it too.

Touchstones in Zyberspace was one of my first responses to this question. My thinking was that members might need a way to personalize their journey. The idea was that members could create Touchstones, consisting of goals they are working towards, or issues they are working with, and then check any of 132 keywords they feel are associated with that Touchstone. The Lunation Guide (the program that runs Zyberspace) tells each member when one of their Touchstones is "activated" by lunar conjunction.

My impression is that members have not used Touchstones much, if at all. (Members, please correct me if I'm wrong! Leave a comment!) In fact, in future versions of Zyberspace, I think the Touchstone system will likely disappear. Why? Because there is something extremely important about the single Oracle and daily Path Predictions that look at the astrological forces of the day from a general perspective. And it does apply personally and directly to anyone interested in accelerating their journey toward enlightenment by providing a very effective method of transcending one's personal karma.

It is possible to get stuck in your own natal chart, to become quite attached to your Sun sign, Moon sign, and your Ascendent, identifying with the aspects in your chart that point out with amazing accuracy (for those of you who have really studied it) the workings of your personality and the destiny of this life you are living. And I do believe it is important to understand your karma, of which your natal chart is such a true and illuminating map. However, I wonder how valuable it is in today's fast-paced world to get stuck with one life in one lifetime!

Ponder this last thought for a bit. It's a startling idea. It wasn't until I started doing psychic readings on a larger scale for folks that I realized how much people are so cemented to notions such as we have "one life to live," one soul, one destiny, one past, one present, one future. Obviously such ideas evolved from looking at spirituality from a purely physical viewpoint that produces a convincing argument for linear time. But what makes us think spirit can be understood by applying physical observations and extrapolations to it?

Quantum metaphysics is opening up startling possibilities that will have a great effect on anyone who takes its considerations seriously. That's a huge subject that I can't go into here in this small space, but will have to save for one of the books I have planned to write this year. For now, what I can tell you is that something crystallized for me when Christine Breeze, founder of the University of Metaphysical Sciences where I am studying for my doctorate of divinity, said to me: "I live my life with the idea that each day is a new lifetime. I am born when I take my first waking breath. I don't have to stress over what I will accomplish, or long term goals that I won't realize today, because that will be taken care of in future lifetimes. At night, as I lay down to sleep, I surrender my life so that I can be truly reborn tomorrow." Thank you, Christine! Within days after she said this to me, the If you are born today section appeared in the daily writings I send out to Zyberspace members.

Why would anyone want to be reborn every day? Read on....


The Phoenix Philosophy

Did you know that in almost every culture of the world there appears in that culture's mythology a powerful, long-lived, sometimes immortal bird that renews itself whenever it has grown too old live its life to the fullest? One will never see a phoenix that cannot fly, limping along the ground looking up into the sky with memories, longing, and regrets. The sky was made for flying, and every phoenix knows this.

An "old" phoenix will fly up into a date palm tree and make a nest that it lines with resin. When the Sun rises, the resin bursts into flames and the old body of the phoenix is consumed. By evening, when the ashes cool, a new phoenix stirs, then flies up into the heavens again, master of the sky, young, powerful, and free.

For many years I have been talking about this wonderful bird, but more than talk, I have been living the life of the phoenix myself. Many of you may have heard me speak of this in Astronet, or in private conversations we have had. What brought me to the phoenix philosophy was a very great and terrible loss in my life. Most all of you have experienced the wondrous feeling of, "Oh, I was born to love this," whatever this is: a person we fall in love with, parenthood, a life calling, art, music, etc. This is a moment of recognition of something that seems to explain everything with a burst of intuition. We know who we are in such a moment, and perhaps even understand what God might have meant us to understand, as if the entire universe was created just to stage that private moment of illumination.

But time moves on. Life cycles. What happens when you outlive something you cannot live without? You have an appointment with death inside your innermost heart, the death of the part of you that was born to love what is no longer present in your life. Only a phoenix understands that this is not devastation. The total eclipse of the heart is a signal that it is time to climb up into that date palm and make the nest that will open the door to the next life where your spirit will soar again!

I have often taught that this is the secret that transmutes depression. Those of you that have worked with me through one of these times in your own life know the power and peace of the rebirth of your phoenix self.

But there is more. By accepting a new incarnation every day, it is possible to stay in tune with Present Time in a way that is deeper and more clear than ever before. This brings awareness of the eternal in the Now. Every day Light comes into the world in the form of new souls taking bodies, babies being born. They have a mission here, a purpose determined by an agreement between them and God, Goddess, Spirit, a contract signed and binding by karmic law that may be reviewed by any competent astrologer who reads their natal charts. And yet, they are not their karma any more than we are!

We have assumed the grand design of things is that we live one lifetime in one body with one chart. There is a lot of evidence that this system was meant to be and that it works, as any student of astrology can verify. But for how long was it meant to be? Forever? I don't think so, and I'll tell you why. The system works as long as linear time is the time picture to which your soul subscribes. But the evolvement of the human race is such that now we have come into contact with a new picture that throws into question all the old laws, including - some will not like hearing me say this - the law of karma itself. Or perhaps I should say the law of karma as we have traditionally understood it. I call this new picture of non-linear time (or perhaps multi-linear time) quantum metaphysics. But that is definitely the subject of volumes that can't be covered in a short article here.

We stand at an exciting juncture of new metaphysical discoveries that could very well change not only the way we live our physical lives, but how we practice metaphysics itself, and the ways in which we come to understand ourselves as spiritual beings. Zyberspace offers you a chance every day to reincarnate into a new life that can be as real as the parameters of your personal experiment will allow. If you are born today, will you lose who you are by becoming something else? No. Spiritual advancement is never about loss, unless it is the loss of something obsolete, a dying skin you are ready to shed anyway. Accepting a new incarnation daily is more like an initiation into a new, more full awareness that creates a whole new field of spiritual operation.

The ancients said that we would reincarnate seemingly endless times, into each sign of the zodiac, until all of life's lessons were learned from every spectrum of the wheel. Stick with me for a year, and I'll show you how to reincarnate into each sign 30 times - 365 lifetimes of unfoldment in a year! Some will be more profound than others, but imagine what might happen if I were willing to surrender my Ariesness for something else, something more, each day. Will I still be an Aries? Sure, for as long as I retain this body. But I will also begin to realize on a much deeper level, the energies that beam into the world each day by sharing the ride with the new souls that are incarnating. My attention will switch often throughout the day from materiality to Light as I ponder my new existence. And who can predict what I will be tomorrow if every day I live the life of the phoenix, a seed of possibility planted long ago in every culture of the world?

"If you are born today," today's message goes, "you will be a Taurus with a Virgo Moon (if born in the morning) or a Libra Moon (if born in the afternoon), on a Taurus Path.... And suddenly the daily messages in Zyberspace take on a completely different dimension. They are not horoscopes attempting to give out timely information relevant to your sunsign. They are an invitation to initiation with a map of what you are likely to encounter in your experiment with a one-day lifetime that might open up quantum possibilities you had not dreamed of until now.


What is in a Name?

Zyberspace is changing. We will soon bring you a new look-and-feel in response to many comments people have made, such as, "Zy, I love your site, but it puts me to sleep! That blue color is lovely, but it lulls me into dreamland and I can hardly stay awake while reading the articles!" Okay, that definitely isn't what we meant to do, so we'll do something else.

I am also working on The Phoenix Miracle, which will become available as a free eBook download to anyone who visits Zyberspace. The book will contain a more lengthy explanation of some of the ideas expressed in the articles here today, and also will serve as a manual for those who wish to experiment with the idea of accepting daily initiations and incarnations on a path that extends beyond linearity, opening true quantum possibility.

Even the name "Zyberspace" is open to question. It was a nice, cute name for anyone who knew my name was Zy and that this was my place to express ideas in cyberspace. But the ideas coming through now are much greater than one man's philosophy and viewpoint. Can you think of other names for a website that evoke the ideas expressed in this newsletter better than a cute name like "Zyberspace?"

Let me know what you think. Catch me now as I initiate the redesign of what Zyberspace will become on the web. Show me what is in your hearts. Leave comments on this blog!

Our dialogue will continue....

Love and Blessings,
Zy

Special Full Moon Edition - Pisces Lunation 2005

A Little Background

When I was studying hypnotherapy, the very first time my instructor induced trance, I was taken on a journey to find a guide. The guide that appeared to me told me her name was Shanticlera. She gave me a gift.

In the many years since then, her name has changed several times. Or perhaps the reality of what she becomes in my life often asks to be renamed. Sometimes she is a Goddess with a name that is so private and personal that I cannot speak it aloud or write it here. Sometimes she is a guide, sometimes more like a sister, but always she is a friend. Though the names have changed, the gift has remained, safely kept in a place in my body, illuminated by my heart.

The gift was a crystal sphere that I gazed into for a long time before I could see what was there. It is a startling moment to see something when you have been gazing at what you thought was nothingness for so long. Just inside the crystal sphere was another sphere, dark and subtle. It was the very faint glow of a New Moon - often called the dark moon. And at the very moment I saw it, Shanticlera whispered in my ear, "When the Moon is gone and the sky is dark, think of me. I am the richness in your soul."

You will see the symbolism of a different kind of "dark moon" in the dream.

Another piece of information you need to make sense of the dream I'm about t tell you, is - who is Paul?

Paul is a very real being in my inner world. He represents the energy of my Sun in Aries in my birth chart. It is an energy I have not always been comfortable with, one that I have sometimes repressed or turned away from, yet one that I have always needed to follow my path and accomplish what I need to accomplish in this life. The Sun is the energy, resonance, and vibration of the heart. Who can do soul's work if alienated from the heart?

Several weeks ago I was in despair. I asked for two things:

1. A sign.
2. For Paul to return to me, because I had lost my heart and I realized how much I needed him (it) to go on.

I needed the sign because I had worked for a year and a half, putting everything I am into Zyberspace, believing that this was my path and what spirit wanted me to do. Imagine my surprise, when, just as Zyberspace was "ready," my life took a financial plunge into uncertainty or perhaps worse: the terrible certainty of financial ruin.

Was this some sort of final test? Could I remain persistent, believing in my dreams no matter what threatened from the tightening, clutching vise-grip of reality? For months, I did. Family, friends, and loved ones counseled me that following God's will and being realistic were not mutually exclusive. "Take a job," they said, "and do Zyberspace on the side until it can support you full time." It was perfectly, rational advice. It made perfect sense. But every time I looked at the possibility of becoming a programmer again, I felt the dizziness of standing on the edge of a black hole that would pull in my very soul and crush it to nothing.

Yet fear can be a powerful motivator. When the reality hit me that I could lose my home and that I might not be able to pay any bills or even eat in a couple months, I decided maybe I didn't know myself or my destiny as well as I thought I did. Maybe everyone else was right and I was "wrong." Maybe I should get a job.

Giving myself pep talks, I polished up my resume. I created a crisp and informative portfolio of websites I had designed, and put myself forward as a ColdFusion programmer looking for employment. I was stunned - and a little shell-shocked - by how swiftly the recruiters came after me and how fast contract opportunities poured in. More confirmation. Everyone else was right. I plunged into terrible self-doubt. I was supposed to be this wonderful, psychic reader, and I couldn't even see my own path clearly?

Clearly God wanted a programmer, not the spiritual Zy I thought I had become. When an offer came in requesting an immediate interview for a position that paid a staggering amount of money, I relented. I completely surrendered. I bought some new clothes and drove to the interview.

That a week ago. Last Friday. It looked like I had a very good chance of returning to corporate America after 18 years of self-employment, and that this was the path fate was giving me. Lucrative. Safe. Secure.

But things did not turn out that way. At all.


An Allergic Reaction

Saturday, after the interview, I began to itch. I'm not talking about anything mystical, vague, or mental. I'm talking major, physical itching - the kind that makes you really believe that if you scratched yourself bloody, you'd feel much, much better.

There were no other symptoms. No rash. Just the sensation of a thousand fire ants having lunch on my mid-section, stomach, chest, neck, shoulders, and back. Benedril couldn't touch it. My doctor, puzzled by the lack of a rash, was kind enough to agree that the itching wasn't any more comfortable for the lack of supporting symptoms. He prescribed a strong antihistimine. But even after taking it, I could not sit still for more than a couple minutes. I could not sleep. My concentration was completely shot.

It was Wednesday before the rash appeared, as if my body was dutifully "catching up" by providing the symptoms to support my already raging dis-ease. I was in agony. I called the doctor again and he wanted to see me, but had no openings until Thursday (yesterday). I told him the rash looked almost exactly like German measles, but felt like poison sumac. He doubled my dose of the antihistimine but that night, despite the fact that I had hardly slept at all in four days, I could not sleep again. The pills would make me drowsy enough to fade into something fitfully resembling sleep. But I would awaken from it to the resumed agony of the fire ant march.

A very dear friend of mine did some healing energy work on me Wednesday night, and it may have turned the tide. I felt unexplainably better. Was I healing now?

By the time I went to the doctor on Thursday, the rash was hot and inflamed. The doctor took one look at it and said, "That is a drug reaction." Then he frowned, thinking hard. He knew as well as I did that we have not changed my medications for over six months. Why the sudden reaction now?

We went over my medications, targeting the one most likely to be the cause. We came up with a "weekend plan" that I would stop that medication if I didn't continue to get better. But that left the other huge question. Why was I getting better, since we had not changed anything that might have caused it? (My doctor is a very forward-thinking, open-minded human being. But I wasn't quite ready to tell him that my body had most likely performed a "reset" from the long distance Healing Touch and Reiki from my friend.)

By last evening, I was feeling much better. Exhausted, I fell into a sleep like death, and slept ten whole hours. During that sleep, I had my Full Moon dream. And Paul - bless him! - not only returned to me, but he brought the asked-for "sign" with him and held me while I viewed it.

The Dream

I am walking with Paul, out under a midnight sky, on a very dark night. The sky is star-filled and beautiful. I do not see the Moon. I am talking to Paul about God and Goddess, and the vast, almost unbridgable gulf that lies between promises of perfection, enlightenment, and grace that so many various scriptures inspire - and the grinding, cold, harsh reality of human existence. I realize I am feeling hopeless. I can hear it in the tone of my voice.

Suddenly there is a hush, an abrupt flush of wind that is more like an indrawn breath than an exhale. Then: stillness and silence. Paul steps on a twig behind me then moves up close. I look back at him to see his eyes turned toward the sky.

"My God," he says. "Look at that."

In the sky, towering impossibly above and in front of us, is a beautiful flower. My mind tries to make sense of what it is seeing. "How high is it? A hundred feet?"

"Two or three hundred. Maybe more," Paul says.

Then why do I see it so clearly?, I wonder. But I realize I don't SEE it clearly at all. I just know it's there. And in that knowing, details emerge. The flower has at least six petals. Red, though I can't see the color - only shades of gray exist in my eyes' night vision. But I know it is red. It has six or more stamens, stretched out like fingers, vibrating with wild anticipation.

Paul moves closer, puts his arms around me. "It's a sign," he says.

I can hardly breathe. The night has taken on a mystical quality of Presence that is as palpable as water, as subtle as fog, as clear as crystal, as alive as Nature herself, and as dark and cold as the deepest ocean current.

That's when I notice the Moon, Full and totally eclipsed, forming a perfect orb around the stretching anthers of the flower. My mind is still reeling. What are the chances, I think, of winding up here in this exact spot, to see that flower, an unknown distance away, framed by that perfect eclipse - just SO ?!

Paul's arms tighten around me. I know he can hear my thoughts and that he is telling my mind to be still. To accept. To wait and to watch.

Simultaneously, the anthers at the tips of the stamens ignite into shocking flares of intense red light. They wave and vibrate, dancing like rockets on a launch pad after the engines roar, but before the huge machines begin their inexorable upward climb. There is no sound, but the air is electrostatic, awake. My mind, though it is asking fewer questions, still observes with disbelief the tiny stem that reaches hundreds of feet up into the night sky. The sheer physics of it are impossible. Several hundred feet? Such a thin and delicate stem? And what if I had taken one step further, or one less, would I have seen the flower at all? It is only the perfect frame of the eclipsed Moon that permits me the vision I have.

Now I can't breathe at all. My chest closes upon itself, squeezed by emotion. A thing that cannot be, IS. And the entire universe pauses, waiting for one small event to unfold. Nothing is more important in the mind of God or the heart of Goddess than this one small thing.

I am crying. Tears flood down my cheeks. The flower vibrates as if raising an invisible cone of power, impossible to measure, impossible to deny. The pulsating anthers all release their flaming spores simultaneously. The spores become comets in the night sky, each with a destination perfectly known and defined, though unknown to me. Some will touch the surface of the planet on which I am standing, and some will navigate unknown, nameless distances of space and time, to land on planets elsewhere, each in its own time. Each perfectly assured, as the entire universe will see to it that it is so.

Thank goodness Paul is holding me. I have no strength left to stand. Yet I am breathing again - huge, long breaths as big as forever, waves in ever-expanding wavelength, touching all, as still in infinity as in the instant before motion began. And in all of this, I find perfection and marvel at it.

My tears have washed me clean.

The flower is me.


So What Really Happened?

I thank the powers that made me that my body is so responsive to spirit that I am able to manifest a fully physical, allergic reaction to not following my soul's path. Six months from now, as reality presses on, will I still feel the same?

Stay tuned! I'll let you know.


Afterthoughts

I've been strong all day, rested, at peace. The rash is receding. The itching is still there, but bearable, and I forgot to take my antihistimine twice. I took it an hour or so later each time, but you get the picture. The point is ...

I'm back!

In January, I began a new journal, dedicated to making my dreams come true. I opened it earlier tonight and saw that I had not written in it for 33 days. Though I somehow continued to channel the daily Oracles and Path Predictions, my soul was slowly abandoning its dreams and its ability to manifest them. Doubt can pry open even the most secure of doors, and once it does, that's all the opening Fear needs to take a spiritually sound life and turn it into chaos.

If there is one thing I could leave you with as we embark upon the Road of Understanding in this Pisces Lunation Cycle, it is this:

If spirit gives you a dream,

believe in it

no matter how practical or necessary

it may seem to you

to abandon it.

Never let it go.
Not ever.

Hold on to it.
Let it become your lifeline,
your sustenance,
the air that you breathe.

The reason you were born,
the reason you live,
the exact and perfect reason
you are
YOU

And, by the way - a month from now, the next Full Moon occurs on a lunar eclipse! I wonder where I'll be on my journey then? Where we'll all be ... together.

Love and Blessings,
Zy

The Pisces Lunation - 2005

The Pisces New Moon

Pisces is a time of transcending the ego, letting go, surrendering to a higher power, and aligning with cosmic flow. Whatever begins with a New Moon swells until the Full. And here’s what’s present…

Relationships, beauty, and the power of attraction are all very strong. Personal energies can be tapped with some effort and used well, provided that you are conscious of what you are doing. There is great stress on those same personal energies, so if you don’t use them, they will likely use you in ways you’d rather not see. The higher mind is somewhat befuddled and possibly out to lunch a bit, while in a push-pull struggle with forces wishing to expand and needing to contract. Karma that has felt a bit twisted and very heavy lately is somewhat in better shape, yet there will still be some heavy feeling days this month. Deep, hidden psychological materials are surfacing, necessitating a letting go of obsolete patterns and behaviors, and packing a wallop if we miss the things we should surrender and let go of. Powerful pressure for change and transformation acts along with visionary ideals, calling for resolution of difficult karmic issues. The mind is free, yet difficult threads of ambivalence weave around the spaces where thought exists. Decisions may be difficult.

What is needed is exactly what Pisces is best at: intuitive connection that allows the doors of subconscious process and psychic impressions to open into the world. Our paths this month must be negotiated by strong intuition, and trust in the power of spirit.

Changing Other People:
Is it a good idea?

Twice in recent weeks, I’ve had the kind of close encounter with good friends that has given me pause for some serious introspection. Both times I felt mistreated, misunderstood. Since I’m a Sagittarius Path with an Aries Sun, what immediately rises up inside of me is the idea that I should provide these people with some important information. I mean, they love me, right? If they really understood, they would not have said those things, or done what they did. Perhaps it comes from my Aries innocence that in 52 years still stumbles, wide-eyed, into the realization: what do you mean I’m not the center of the universe? But we all have Aries in our charts somewhere, so what I’m learning might have some value to others.

The interesting thing I’ve realized is that I truly had no idea that I wanted to change people. I was just sharing – giving them data, right? My friends are good people. They will certainly do the right thing when they know! But … oh my. They don’t always do the “right” thing, do they? No matter how well I communicate my position. And if I persist, if I put my strong, sometimes passionate energies into making my point, they do such terribly unexpected and unexplainable things, like resist. Or worse. Sometimes they get mad at me. Unimaginable, I know. Yet it happens.

I have long subscribed to the notion that everyone is doing the very best he or she can at every moment in time. It’s a position that makes forgiveness easier, and forgiveness makes all relationships flow more smoothly, with kindness. And yet, sometimes other people are wrong, right? The real question might not be, “Is it a good thing to try to change other people?” but rather, “What is the best way to go about asking for change?”

We will, all of us, consciously or unconsciously, always manipulate for what we want. This can manifest on a low, egotistical level, producing what looks very much like selfishness. It can also appear subtly from a high, spiritual level, when you know something isn’t right, and want to make it better. But if you proceed with negotiations on a human level – with words – you will notice that you quite often don’t get what you expect, no matter how good your communication skills may be.

In the movie Shadowlands, someone asked C.S. Lewis (played by Anthony Hopkins), if he really believed prayer ever changed the mind of God? He answered, “I do not pray because it changes God. I pray because it changes me.”

Lately, when I haven’t gotten what I’ve wanted, or what I expected, I have refrained from the obvious sort of communication that is probably – if I’m honest – nothing more than manipulation trying to wear a respectable face. I return to a deeper level of meditation that may be like the sort of prayer C.S. Lewis was revealing. But the “me” I become is a very large and vast part of the universe. If you meditate, you probably know what I’m referring to. It is the “me” that is left when the mind is still and the peace of spirit extends in all directions. There is a silence that makes a profound Sound in that infinite space. This is where I take what just happened between myself and a friend. (It works just as well with enemies if you think you have them.) Into that space, I introduce the event as I saw it. My larger self responds with what it knows. I breathe myself into the universe. The universe breathes itself into me. And – something changes.

The extent of what has changed isn’t important. Neither are the details. I may or may not see evidence of changes in other people. I most likely will see evidence of change in myself, if only in the wondrous fact that I am at peace.

However, here is what I’ve been noticing about this remarkable thing. The people around me have been changing! I suggest you try this mystical method of communication in the cycle of the Pisces Lunation. When the “small self” is troubled, give it a hug. Then let your larger self take it to the universe, to the place where all of us are One. There, the universe itself decides what changes and what must be.

A quantum principle states: When the nature of the observer changes, all that is observed is different.

A Peek Inside Zylife:
What I'm up to these days....

• I've started doing readings at Keen.
• I wrote my first Flash page. If you'd like to see it, click here.
• I'm working on an eBook titled The Phoenix Miracle. This will be free to all who subscribe to this mailing list.
• It seems my 6 year hermitage is coming to an end. I can't hide in my peaceful monastic life anymore. This has caused me some stress, but change often does. Look out world! I'm on my way back into public view.
• I'm studying for my Bachelor of Metaphysics at the University of Metaphysical Sciences, an online university in Arcata, California. Here is more information on the school.
• Doing my best to convince the universe that the era of the "starving artist" and pious "vows of poverty" are quite over!

Welcome to Zylights!

I had been thinking for quite some time about publishing a newsletter for Zyberspace. Then today, I got a notice from one of the newsletters I subscribe to telling its readers that the newsletter was being replaced by ... of all things! ... a blog! I went to her blog* to check things out and decided this was what I wanted too! A place where I can publish my articles and get your comments back!

So here it is ... Zylights the official neweletter for Zyberspace.
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