I think it’s pretty darn cute; it looks a bit like its mother (the old site, here) but way more functional and dynamic. It’s small still, but it’ll grow; my amazingly flexible website software (XSitePro) will allow me to update it easily and often, and as I learn how to use it, I’ll be able to do some more interesting things design-wise.

I’ve timed it to release right around the time of the Capricorn Full Moon (call it an induced labour), because I, astrologer that I am, really like the chart for this Full Moon. My li’l baby website might just grow up to be something really special with a chart like this.

Yeah yeah, I know. It’s just a website. But it’s mine, it’s been a long time coming and I’m as pleased as any new mom.

So with all due “Ta-Daah’s” and “Huzzahs”, and without further ado, here it is!

Cheers and blessings to you all, and to me too
Bee

yep… it’s that time again. Time for a new website, that is. As of tomorrow, I’ll be announcing my new metaphysical arts website. This blog can revert back to its original purpose as a creative writing, crazy poetry, here I am, here’s what I’m thinking and feeling now thing.

With Mars in Gemini, I require an outlet for that brash, brazen, ballsy voice. Gemini is duality; two public identities. I also hold space for my more deeply considered material, my quietly serious voice, which hasn’t felt quite at home here. When I began this blog it was called ‘Truth is a Crazy Poet,’ and that energy has never shifted. I do like it. It’s part of what I am.

In fact, I love it. Just try to make me stop!

But the truth is, it’s not what I really need to be presenting to folk as a reason to trust me with their hearts, which is what my particular line of work mandates.
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I’ve been a member of the Progressive Bloggers community over on Word of Mouth Blog (WoMb) for years, but since WoMb has gone defunct (or dormant), I’ve transferred my writerly focus over to this personal site.

Then yesterday, Scott Tribe asked if I wanted to add this site to the ProgBlog community, and I hesitated at first, because this tends to be a rather relentlessly personal and navel-gazing blog (well, mostly; I do write stuff like this, too). I do, however, think of myself as a progressive sort, doing my part by living my life according to my principles and writing about it here.

I’m a photographer / artist / singer-songwriter / card reader / astrologer / writer and this blog is the container into (out of?) which I spill everything; I can’t really categorize myself well. On the Political Compass, I am firmly lodged way down in the lower left hand quadrant (below where Gandhi is). I’m a leftie-libertarian, which I count as ‘progressive’ though of course, if you don’t fit in that quadrant, you’re likely to disagree.

What is progressiveness? I suspect that ultimately we’re all coming toward the same central truth from our own positions in the spectral sphere, and that therefore progress is going to look different according to our individual starting places.
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I just realized that this is the website I have on my business card. So prospective clients come here. They must be a bit confused, and I couldn’t blame them for wondering what in Gaia’s name this blah blah blog has to do with my business.

I’m working on that, folks, my apologies for any befuzzlement. Like a Phoenix from the ashes, this website will be reborn, surprisingly, when the time is right (ie, when I have the time and some freedom from the beautiful heat).

What I do is unique, and it’s about who I am as much as it is what I do. I am a passionate devotee of Gaia, Earth Mama, this blessed bountiful bowl of pleasure which gives us source and sustenance, herself product of the marriage of Spirit and Mat(t)er. It’s why I call this page ‘Spreading the Gaia Word.’ I speak the Word for Gaia, as best as I am able.

And this page is about more than that too. I will have more to say about it as soon as I can get a break from the daily business of my life to sit down and decide what it is.

What is it that I do? I read cards. I painted them. They’re cool. I pair them up with a very special deck of other cards. They go really wonderfully together.
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This is a test, this is only a test. What’s it gonna look like?

Please pardon the wank post; I’m trying to figure out a plugin that will let me post photos from my flickr account directly from the blog editor. And I think I’ve done it, finally, after much twiddling and hair-pulling. Don’t look at the time I posted this. It lies.

Oh, wait. It doesn’t even show the time posted. Nevermind.

The photo? Oh yeah. It’s the self-portrait from the 9th. Here in Chemainus the sidewalks have yellow painted footprints to show you where to go to see murals. And in this one spot, the footprint paths diverge,. What to do? Feels like my life right now. And there’s no way to predict which pathway will lead to what.

“These feet have lived in darkness, hear their cries for light and air
These feet are coming out to breathe, these feet are quite a pair
There’s a way to live each day in balance so complete
Yeah I’ve found my path to freedom lies in following my feet” – (from  ‘Pheet‘)

I posted the following to Word of Mouth Blog. I realized that the mere existence of this ongoing commitment (whether I was diligent or derelict) was a drain on my inner resources. It’s time to release and renew my focus on what’s real and necessary in my life.

Also, there is a brief tribute at the bottom to Billy Little, a renowned Hornby Island poet and what my Mom would call a ‘real character’ (she always meant it in the most complimentary way).

It’s a hard thing, but I’ve decided to let go of this forum. It’s coming up to two years since I left Hornby and it’s finally sunk in that I don’t live here anymore, though I continue to visit and love the place. I have family here; I can’t go too far. Still, my finger has left the pulse of the Hornby community. As a result of my own (and others’) lack of participation, this place been pretty quiet for a long time. Perhaps a new person can step into the breach, if there is still a need for this forum, and bring it back to life. (more…)

Ah, February. Where I live, it is the portentous time, month of promise, sunshine and early flowers, an opening hand reaching from a beautiful dream that we then wake from in March. February’s fragile promise breaks in that foul stormy pain in the ass month.

But it’s still February, dammit. Sweet dreams are made of these. Valentine’s Day, yes. Love is in the air, and here on the coast, little flowers are already protruding from the soil. I’m having the strange sense lately as my presence on the interweb grows that I am somehow growing too, growing virtual tentacles that literally extend out into the e-thers.

(Woo, woo, I know… hee hee. I like allowing my woo wooness free rein, because it scares the right sort of people.)

Wait! I’m in Crisis mode here. I started this blog to get my red lights flashing. Not ‘woo, woo’, but ‘SOS’. Heelllp!!

Sudden midstream topic switch. February’s dreams have been pre-empted by premature March fears as drear Pluto in Capricorn bites reality, prompting panicky cat-tail-lashings instead of happy puppy wags. Sorry bout that.

I wrote the following letter tonight:

Hola beautiful music/dance/drum deities, I’m reaching out a gentle virtual tentacle to see if the two of you have returned and might perhaps be ready to avail yourselves of an awesomely awesome astrological experience with me at some point soon (ideally before the dance journeys return)?

And also, if you would please pass the word about your circles that you know an awesomely awesome astrologer in desperate need of work and that now is the time if ever! Before she starves to death! Yes!

Hahaha… really I do need to generate some business so I’m asking my friends and clients alike to (only when opportune and appropriate, of course) Spread the Gaia Word.

I’m also offering a new service that you folks might also be interested in. There’s information on the website which I’ve just created: ‘Computer Help For Newbies’.

I would be totally high on gratitude if either or each of you could possibly pass the URL on to your networks (or to anybody you think might be interested in such a service).

Phew! Thank you! And thank you to the universe for the huge influx of business which I am about to receive, tee hee.

To say I’m looking forward to the return of the dance journeys is kind of like saying I’m looking forward to spring, or to being born. It’s been a long dark cold one and I’m ready to make the journey through the birth canal… oh yes.

Yikes! Life is crazy!

But I have faith. It’s opening up in amazing and downright portentous ways. I’ll see you all soon, I hope, and I hope you’re all having amazing and precious journeys wherever you are.

Blessings and blisses,
phee

There, so now you know. If you feel moved to, would you, could you, help me spread the word? You might think of it as literally spreading the Gaia word, because that is what I do in my work: the astrology / dreamwalk / singing / writing part, anyway; the computer help, not so much. Still, I’m good at it, and it can make me some bucks.

Maybe it’s time for the word to be spread: for Gaia’s word to go viral. Here I am, coming out of the soil, protruding, poking my lil face toward spring, opening to a new kind of light, a new spring of hope, opening my lil mouth and screaming for help.

“Help! Let me help you!”

and oh, ps: If there’s nothing I have that you want, but you like this blog or my photos or writings and find what I’m doing somehow cool and interesting, I happily and with gushy gratitude (or grateful silence, should you prefer) accept your kind donations through PayPal. And there’s now a button in the sidebar.

I’ll help by continuing to make this site (and my other related sites, linked in the sidebar) as varied and interesting as possible.

Cats are magical creatures. I’m just saying, because at the moment I have one wrapped around my lap (not precisely on it), purring madly and doing her best to rub her entire body against all of my exposed surfaces, including my fingers as they type. She’s succeeding, too. It’s annoying yet (this is the magical bit) endearing as hell.

She just shoved her entire face into my nostril. Thought you might enjoy that image.

Onward to my blog entry of the day, or rather, the past several days. If you want to see a picture of the cat, see my last blog entry. Otherwise, you’ll have to settle for this shot of me in front of the house. That’s my bedroom window up there.

There’s a thrift shop in this town; the last time I was there I found the find of the year so far! Maybe even last year too! Yes! It’s a gorgeous cut-work velvet scarf that is so lush and elegant it makes me happy just to think about. See, I’m not so very hard to make happy.

This cat is crossing the boundary from endearing into seriously annoying and is beginning to trigger desires (which I allow myself to feel, if not act on) to toss her out that same bedroom window, which at the moment is located directly behind me. Yaahh!!

There, she settled into my lap. Goood kitty. Now she’s peacefully combing my hair with her claws. Oh, yes. That’s nice.

In the next shot, I indulge my images of greatness, kind of like where you take a picture of Mount Rushmore with your head in one of the presidents’ positions. Here I am in the Chemainus mural! You know the one–it’s the famous one on all the billboards and promotional material. My head is occupying the central position.

One day, this town will be famous cuzza ME [insert maniacal laughter here].

Sorry. It’s the influence of this cat. She’s a fey, strange and dark creature with a large, assertive presence. I’m quite certain she deems herself to be the absolute ruler of the world, and I’m not convinced she’s wrong about that.

In fact, I’d wager she stopped annoying me purely out of regal graciousness and not because I intimidated her into it.

Last and definitely least, here’s today’s self-portrait: me hunched over the computer screen. The look on my face says it all. Yep, that’s how I feel. Whatever. It’s Sunday, and Sunday has always felt like a throw-away day.

However, the good news is, my new website is up and running! You can find it at newbiehelp.earthmatrix.net. I’ll be promo-ing it some more soon. It’s perfect timing, because Mercury has recently ended its retrograde period. It is not considered wise to launch new ventures that involve communications and technology while Mercury is retrograde.

Check it out, all. Tell your friends in the area. I’ll be putting some helpie-type content up there soon, too. I just now finished creating the masthead image. Kinda cool, no?

Actually, I’ll probably be still fiddling with it quite a bit. So maybe the announcement is premature. Bear with me…

[Yawn] I’m staying up way too late tonight, creating a new website called ‘Computer Help For Newbies.’ (Stay tuned, I’m bound to bore you with the details soon enough.)

I was inspired by having gotten up early this morning to meet with a computer help client and finding out that, get this, nobody else is doing this. And also by Cathy’s comment. I will post something on the forum as soon as my site is up and running–and I’m already pretty close. Turbo charged.

As for exactly what ‘this’ is, you’ll find out soon. But it seems to be an open market for me. So that’s exciting, rather.

The crux of all this at the moment is, it’s now 4 am and I got up at 8:30 this morning. What am I, nuts?

I’ll leave you enjoy the last couple of days’ self-portraits… this last one should be clicked on and viewed large (click on the ‘all sizes’ button above the photo in the flickr page). I’m pleased with the swirly tiny red lines. They should be seen.

Must… Sleep…
Now…

g’night all.

In keeping with the tradition of the first day of the New Year, I’ve resolved to return to my more or less suspended blogular activity here. When something grinds to a stop, it becomes subject to inertia, which as I recall from my high school science is the tendency of a body at rest to remain at rest and the tendency of a body in motion to remain in motion.

My current cunning plan is to use the momentum of the venerable tradition of New Year’s resolutions to get this body in motion (in more ways than one, I hope, but more about that later) and trust that inertia will be enough to keep it going. This I resolve: I intend to return to my former free flowing and prolifically poetical ramblings on this blog.

It seems that, somehow, putting this web address on my business cards caused me to take it way too seriously. I began to feel shy about revealing new strangeness here, but strangeness is me and I am returning to my roots. I do have a business website after all, it’s a perfectly good domain and website, found at http://earthmatrix.net, and the other side of my New Year’s resolution plan is to get that site updated and enlivened.

This particular site is meant to be an avenue for me to wear my various hats, not just the one in which I’m trying to generate clientele (musical, astrological or other) and being all wise and serious about it.

‘Me’ is the name of this domain. Here is where I traditionally hold forth on all kinds of subjects, emotional, philosophical, political and poetical (as a glance through the archives makes clear), and I am once again returning to my blogular roots and releasing concern for the commercial consequences of my verbal expressions.

I’m a writer, a poet, a philosopher of the strange, a photographer, an artist, in addition to what I do for money. I now reclaim this space as a venue through which my variosities may freely express. I also make up words.

I now declare for the separation of my business and personal identities; they don’t fit under a single umbrella, really. I get tight, tense and self-censor when I try to craft a persona that may or may not attract or repel a potential client. I project my own issues on the question of whether some stranger ‘out there’ will be off-put by some turn of phrase or overly self-revealing post. Self-revealing is what I’m about, and with apologies to those who prefer drier reading material, please do feel free to forego the pleasure of reading this blog. You know I love you anyway.

That’s all for today, folks, but I will be posting here. Every single day. That’s my resolution, for what it’s worth. Enjoy, those of you who have missed my ramblings here. And thanks for letting me know.