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Working on Right Livelihood and Money Issues
Find the work you can do with enthusiasm and then do it with enthusiasm. We live in a money matrix where so much of life is affected by buying and selling and the ebbing and flowing of money. Most people on the planet wish to have more money and less money stress. Don’t let money stress define your existence. There are ways to use money without money dominating your life.
Less is sometimes more. Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without. Avoid unnecessary busyness, complexity and acquisition.
Avoid meaningless work if possible. Jobs take up too much of your time and life energy to have no intrinsic value besides a means to get you a paycheck. Sometimes you may have to accept such a devil’s bargain to survive, but if at all possible find meaningful livelihood. Meaning can, however, be found in humble occupations where you are doing something of benefit to the community, are meeting people, or are doing purely physical work that leaves your mind free or allows you to listen to audio books,etc. Avoid unworthy work that you won’t remember well on your deathbed. If this card seems relevant, you may want to use this oracle to do a right livelihood/ money reading (one of the five card spread options at the main oracle menu).
We live in a money matrix where so much of life is affected by buying and selling and the ebbing and flowing of money. Most people on the planet wish to have more money and feel money stress. Don’t let money stress define your existence. There are ways to use money without money dominating your life. Our money attitudes and habits are often as irrational, self-sabotaging, and established almost as early as food attitudes and habits. Working on money issues is often a catalyst for general maturation. As with eating or sex, money is a complex process of energetic transactions. Often our patterns with one type of energetic transaction will parallel our patterns with others. For example, someone who throws caution to the wind with money may also be imprudent with their diet and/or sex. This card relates to poverty consciousness which is not necessarily exclusive to money, but may also relate to other areas where you feel impoverished. You may feel deprived of the relationships you need, physical intimacy, time, creative opportunities, etc. The deprivation feelings are not necessarily illusory, for most of us there are real deprivations in significant areas of life. There is a very blurry boundary, [...]
Resources do matter, but they have always fluctuated, and that fluctuation occurs with need as well as want resources. A good strategy is to learn how to thrive, or at least work with, the resources currently available. That’s the two-sentence version, which may or may not be a sufficient resource. For those willing to read more, here’s the rest: Life rarely gives you everything you want. For all we know, this squirrel may be fantasizing about walnuts and silently cursing the universe for giving it leftover Halloween pumpkins instead. But as far as I could tell, when I photographed this squirrel on a residential street in Denver, the squirrel seems to be thriving on what it’s got. An outside point of view is that it seems to be plump and healthy with a good chance of getting through winter. But additional resources can sometimes be just the thing; resources do matter. The squirrel would probably be much better off in a more animal-social-service-intensive universe where, for example, a squirrel catering service dropped off a raw nut buffet a couple of times a week. One imagines that the squirrel, however, is not holding its breath for the buffet. My anthropomorphic impression [...]
Find the work you can do with enthusiasm and then do it with enthusiasm. One of the characteristics of a fallen time is the compulsion (inner and/or outer) to spend your time in counter-enthusiastic pursuits. Great work is never accomplished reluctantly. We all must deal with some counter-enthusiastic tasks and situations, but the core of your life must contain purpose, meaning and enthusiasm. Find that core and the world becomes more alive, the inner horsepower intensifies and you are able to work with enthusiasm.
We live in a money matrix where so much of life is affected by buying and selling and the ebbing and flowing of money. Most people on the planet wish to have more money and less money stress. Don’t let money stress define your existence. There are ways to use money without money dominating your life. Our money attitudes and habits are often as irrational, self-sabotaging, and established almost as early as food attitudes and habits. Working on money issues is often a catalyst for general maturation. As with eating or sex, money is a complex process of energetic transactions. Often our patterns with one type of energetic transaction will parallel our patterns with others. For example, someone who throws caution to the wind with money may also be imprudent with their diet and/or sex. Consider this a propitious time to make a searching and courageous inventory of your relationship to money and make changes where necessary.
Many people don’t feel entirely comfortable with the present era. Some long for a simpler, greener realm or otherwise feel out place in the Babylon Matrix. In A Splinter in your Mind I wrote, “We also have a part of our intuition that registers a general wrongness about this world. Hamlet says, “This time is out of joint,” and, “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” Some of the most memorable spoken lines of our era are from the first Matrix movie, “There is a splinter in your mind you can’t get out.” and “It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.” The Matrix and Tolkien’s mythology share a belief with the ancient Gnostics that the realm we have incarnated in is largely a diabolical deception or intrinsically corrupted plane. Tolkien wrote in his notes, “But nothing, as has been said, utterly avoids the Shadow upon Arda (earth) or is wholly unmarred, so as to proceed unhindered upon its right courses.” In a letter Tolkien wrote, “But certainly there was an Eden on this very unhappy earth. We all long for it, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole [...]
Many people don’t feel entirely comfortable with the present era. Some long for a simpler, greener realm or otherwise feel out place in the Babylon Matrix. In A Splinter in your Mind I wrote, “We also have a part of our intuition that registers a general wrongness about this world. Hamlet says, “This time is out of joint,” and, “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” Some of the most memorable spoken lines of our era are from the first Matrix movie, “There is a splinter in your mind you can’t get out.” and “It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.” The Matrix and Tolkien’s mythology share a belief with the ancient Gnostics that the realm we have incarnated in is largely a diabolical deception or intrinsically corrupted plane. Tolkien wrote in his notes, “But nothing, as has been said, utterly avoids the Shadow upon Arda (earth) or is wholly unmarred, so as to proceed unhindered upon its right courses.” In a letter Tolkien wrote, “But certainly there was an Eden on this very unhappy earth. We all long for it, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole [...]
