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The year of your birth does not just indicate your age! According to the Chinese system of Astrology, the year of birth indicates a certain phase or aspect of a sixty-year cycle of time. Three systems are used for counting and classifying the years: The ten Heavenly Stems, the twelve Earthly Branches and the twelve Animals.

The exact origins of the twelve animal system remain unknown. However, legend has it that, once upon a time, the Jade King was bored, having nothing to do in Heaven. He did not see what was happening on Earth, as he had servants satiating his every wish and desire. He decided that he wanted to see the animals that inhabited the earth so he sent word to his advisors to bring him twelve animals (which he considered to be a good sampling.) The advisor first sent an invitation to the Rat, telling him to also bring the cat. The Rat's jealousy prevented the cat from actually receiving the invitation.

Further invitations were sent on to the Ox, the Tiger, the Rabbit, the Dragon, the Snake, the Horse, the Ram, the Monkey, the Rooster and the Dog, asking for their presence at the palace the following day. When they lined up in front of the king, he found that they numbered only eleven, instead of twelve as he had requested. The king sent his servant down to Earth to retrieve a twelfth animal. The servant ran into a man carrying a Pig, and he hastily grabbed it and delivered it to the king.

The animals stood in front of the king in no particular order. The Rat, being smaller than the rest, hopped on the Ox's back and proceeded to play the flute. The king was very impressed by this display. He gave the Rat first place. Second place was given to the Ox for its good sportsmanship, and third was given to the Tiger, who appeared so courageous. The Rabbit was given fourth place, the Dragon fifth, the Snake sixth, the Horse seventh, the Ram eighth, the Monkey ninth, the Rooster tenth and the Dog eleventh. By default, and due to the king's just nature, twelfth place went to the Pig. After the ceremony concluded, the cat (who missed the invitation) begged the king to reconsider. He was told it was too late.

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Developing Your Intuition

Exercises to Develop Your Intuition
By Irene Martina

Intuition is the space between your thoughts, when the mind lets go and surrenders to the present moment. There are 7 steps that you can use to strengthen and exercise your intuition.

1. Your intellect! Thoughts are the starting point as everything begins with thought. Pay attention and listen to what you are saying and thinking.

2. Imagination. Imagination plays a key role in nearly everything we do. It is the ability to picture things in our head, things that are not visible around us. Visual symbols and shapes are vital to stimulating inner growth. Imagination is the gateway to awareness.

3. Trusting your gut. Have you noticed that our culture does not value intuition? They value logic and reasoning and so we loose our connection to intuition and a very young age. We have been conditioned to look outside for the answers. Do you realize that you give away your power to people you think have all the answers. For example, doctors and healers may have all the information you need and it may be right but we should be open to taking it in and ask if this feels right for us. Nobody knows what's true for you as well as you know in your soul.

4. Awareness - This simply means living your life consciously. When we do this and give full attention to each and every moment in our life, we begin to glow in our own light and truth.

5. Meditation- This is when the body can reduce stress and concentration becomes easier and more effective. Your ability to learn expands and you enhance your creative powers. You also achieve an overall feeling of well being. Remember to really hear your inner voice you have to learn to be silent.

6. Dreams- They are your greatest source of self help. They can express and teach creativity, reinforce learning, work on problems, and open the door to deeper spirituality. Dreams are therapeutic and healing.

7. Practice- Practice-Practice... Think of intuition as a muscle that must be used to gain strength. So let's do some exercises!

Exercise 1

Take a look at what you are wearing right now. Do you know what your clothes may be telling you? As I mentioned in article two, your clothes, especially the colors will always tell you something about the energy that you may need at this time in your life.

• Are you listless and tired?

• Are your clothes and colors reflecting that?

• What color do you think you could put on to change your energy to something different?

• What is your intuition telling you about how you look and feel right now? Are you willing to listen to it?

• Is there someone close by? If so, look at what they are wearing and ask your intuitive self to give you some feedback on what you see.

Part 2. Think of a question that you want an answer to. For ex: Will it rain in your city before the next snowfall? Pretend that the color of the blouse/shirt you are wearing is the answer to the question OR any other object you want to use.

• Describe the color, any memories you may have associated with it, what the color means to you in this moment and how your perception of the color has changed during this exercise.

• Simply allow yourself to notice images, symbols and other impressions. Do you feel the color would mean a yes or a no to you right now?

Pretending and being able to make things up are very important skills to work on in gaining control of your intuition. Intuition is really just information gathering. Don't try to figure everything out.

Exercise 2

Do you ever notice animals or birds when driving or sitting outside? Did you ever stop and ask yourself why they suddenly came into your line of vision & what they could mean?

Here are some common meanings that you may want to consider next time an animal comes into your line of vision or space. What is the first word that comes into your mind when you read the words below? Do they fit with the ones I have given or did your word feel better to you?

Dogs- friendship, loyalty, unconditional love

Cats- independence, freedom, march to your own drums

Rabbits- timid, shy, fertility, abundance, growth

Crows- Spiritual laws, intelligence

Horses- Power, freedom, inner strength

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Are you starting to realize that when we use our intuition we are really operating without a safety net? There is no logic, common sense to this. Know that what you sense, feel, perceive and dream has some meaning. There is always a reason we notice what we do and that we don't notice everything else.

The same object viewed by two people can mean two very different things. Just allow your meanings of the symbols to come to you, and this may take time. It also takes an open mind, even if at first you have to pretend that the symbols are significant. Allow things to be meaningful and they become meaningful.

Exercise 3

Start an intuition notebook and write your experiences in a book. Write on how some daily or other impressions you had may have answered your question.

• Practice on things like; who is on the other line when the phone rings?

• Which elevator will arrive first?

• Will the next traffic light be green, red or yellow?

• Focus on a call you would like to receive from someone and you will suddenly hear from them!

• If the doorbell rings and you're not expecting anyone, who do you think it is?

You'll be amazed at how accurate your "guesses " can be.

As little children we had no trouble pretending. Pretending often precedes faith and before we know it, we no longer need to pretend.

If we insist on our experience of the world making sense, we will deprive ourselves of valuable intuitive data. You must be willing to make mistakes. When you follow your intuition you will gain a feeling of power and energy and more importantly a wonderful spiritual connectedness to all things in your life.

By Irene Martina

March 4, 2008

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On Psychic Ability

Psychic Ability: Clairvoyant is Having Clear Visibility in a Complex World

Author: Tolga Savas

Clairvoyant is a psychic ability to sense something or someone without the normal human senses or without any outside input. There are many psychics clairvoyants online who offer clairvoyant readings alongside their other abilities. This term (clairvoyance) covers all the methods which a psychic senses about things that has happened in the past or will happen in the future. The word clairvoyance originates from French language with Clair meaning (clear) and voyance meaning (visibility). This form of psychic ability is very common for a psychic to possess; it covers everything from hunches to telepathy.

Within our past history those who claimed themselves to be spiritual mystics, soothsayers, fortune tellers, clairvoyants, and psychics use this form of clairvoyance to see clearly the heart of the matter in question. This form of psychic ability is ancient and has answered people in high authority as well as masses through out ages. Bible itself documents many clairvoyant prophecies.

This state of seeing things with clear vision from spiritual dimensions can be attained through either meditation or at will for psychics, experienced and highly attuned psychics can obtain states of clairvoyance without going in to states of trances (such as meditation). There are also different variations of clairvoyance, such as cledonomancy (through interpreting statements, random remarks or events) knowing what will be said in the first few minutes of conversation also from it predicting the future by content of spoken remarks.

Those spiritually minded people who know the accuracy of psychic readings do understand different abilities psychics possess as for clairvoyance in scientific community is perceived as fake and they believe it has no basis in reality. Also some people believe clairvoyance to be a sense just like any other five humanly senses. I guess everybody is entitled to their beliefs. Yet the metaphysical world will suggest that their legitimacy and their accuracy are proven time and time again on clairvoyance.

There are many online psychic services which offer all things metaphysical, clairvoyant readings, psychic readings, divination readings using divination tools such as tarot cards, coffee cup readings rune stones and kumalak readings, astrology are just a few tools which can assist psychic to further their readings. Also online divination practitioners who specialize in divination readings can also be very insightful and helpful to those who are interested in insights from spiritual realms.

With internet technologies advancing almost everyday, it is now very easy to find information on psychic clairvoyance also you can find a clairvoyant to give you live online clairvoyant readings. There are many ways a psychic can do a reading, be it using their clairvoyance ability or channeling, and you may find the results astounding. Have you ever had an experienced clairvoyant do a reading for you?

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Types of Psychic Abilities - Precognition
By Miles Tyler

There are many different ways in which your psychic potential can express itself. All of the various types of psychic abilities are the same energy manifesting in different ways. Psychic perception is extremely versatile and thus goes by a number of labels. Ultimately though they are all the same ability given different names under different circumstances. This includes one of the more seemingly elusive psychic abilities known as precognition.

Precognition is the ability to be aware of or envision future events before they actually occur. I like to call it "pre-membering". Like many forms of psychic perception, precognition can occur when we are conscious or while we are asleep. Also like many other types of psychic abilities, precognition occurs most often while you are asleep.

This is possible because there is less interference from our conscious mind when we are sleeping. This means that the creative/intuitive right-brain is free to process non-rational thoughts without the critical/analytical left brain filtering out the things it can't make sense of. That is why we are more open to psychic experiences such as precognition when we are sleeping than we are when we are wide awake.

There are many hypothetical explanations as to why precognition is even possible. I have formulated a few myself. One is that linear time is an illusion created by the limitations of our five physical senses and that we actually possess the ability to consciously access the sum total of our being in multiple dimensions including time.

Another is that the universe is completely cyclical in nature and that each cycle is only slightly different than the rest. And each time a previous cycle is completed there are trace memories left behind in the wake of its existence. In other words this has all happened before and at times we can remember it.

My final and favorite theory is that the universe and everything in it, including us, is an interconnected web of energy that is held together throughout time and space and we potentially have complete access to the sum total of it: past, present, and future.

My own experiences with precognition have lead me to believe that, regardless of the reason, there is a transmission of energy taking place on the quantum level. That at various times you can experience a type of 4th dimensional telepathy between your present self and your future self. It is as if a bridge or loop of conscious energy forms and is exchanged between one's own mind in two different points in space-time. Sort of like a coronal loop that forms on the surface of the sun.

I have found that it can actually help to visualize this last scenario when attempting to consciously experience precognition. It also helps to visualize a target such as the headline on tomorrow's newspaper. When attempting to perform any type of psychic perception it always helps to concentrate on a specific goal or target. A focused mind is more powerful because less energy is wasted when our thoughts are focused.

Personally, I have been experiencing precognition since I was in my teens. It began after my father passed on and at first it was uncontrolled and completely spontaneous occurring while I was dreaming. Early episodes of precognition where about mundane events that happened at first within minutes of awakening and then later they were spaced further and further into the future. Now they vary from near future events to decades away.

Now I no longer have to be asleep to experience precognition. When I have the time and proper amount of solitude, I can accurately view future targets and information as long as I am in a relaxed meditative state. When I am preforming any of the many types of psychic abilities, the less I consciously know about the target the better. This is an important thing to remember. It seems that the more information you consciously know about what you are trying to perceive, the less accurate your reading due to interference from the logical rational part of the mind.

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