HandTales News Winter 2008, Celebrating the Dark
"You cannot truly give until you learn to receive.
~Unknown Source
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~ California ~
Hand Analysis Intensive Weekend
March 7 - 9
Taught by Janet, contact me, Janet@handtales.com
LifePrints Retreat
March 28 - 20
Facilitated by 3 of my LifePrints Partners
Visit The Business of Metaphysics and the Healing Arts
brought to you by the Divining Divas
to sign up for our January 26-27 Weekend Workshop, our Success Begins with You Workshop and to join our monthly Discussion Groups.
HandTales, 2nd Thursdays
Julie's Coffee and Teas, Alameda
(February 14, all about Relationships)
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~ Vermont ~
April 10 - 22
Call me for an appointment. Visit me at the Vermont Womens Expo, April 12. (Remember, you can still benefit from a phone consultation.)
Coming in March, Spring Equinox Issue
The Metaphysics of Business
Sweet Darkness
When your eyes are tired
the world is tired also.
When your vision is gone
no part of the world can find you.
Time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes
to recognize its own.
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Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of our aloneness to learn
Anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
Is too small for you.
~ David Whyte,
from the House of Belonging, 1996
the world is tired also.
When your vision is gone
no part of the world can find you.
Time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes
to recognize its own.
~~~~~~~~
Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of our aloneness to learn
Anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
Is too small for you.
~ David Whyte,
from the House of Belonging, 1996
In Winter we experience the longest nights and shortest days. It is the most Yin time of the year. Yin is the receptive, feminine principle calling us to learn more about receiving, resting, imagining, going inward….
In hands I look at the fleshy Moon section of the palms to discover how the Yin aspects of your life are doing. This area is the one place the Thumb, the chief of doing and results, can’t get to. How do you think you are doing? Read on.
Ironic that at the darkest, most Yin time of the year, most of us are out crazed by Yang activity, especially around the holidays. Yang energy includes the doing, giving, checking off lists, budgeting for the new year, traveling, you name it. Wonder why many of us get sick this time of year? It is not just the change in temperature. So light a candle to celebrate the darkness. You get to choose some receiving time.
Many of my clients are driven by doing and giving. Sound familiar? Working with you to balance the doing with some more being can be the key in helping you recalibrate your life ~ as David Whyte says, to bring you alive. To Read Some Yin Tips
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Join me in celebrating the mystery of our lives
in sync with nature!
Join me in celebrating the mystery of our lives
in sync with nature!
I'd like to give a private session to someone who does not live close by, can they still do this?
Absolutely! I am set up to do taped phone consultations, so I can read for anyone in the world. Once he or she contacts me, I will send instructions on how to prepare and send a copy of his or her hands and fingerprints. It is very easy.
Recommended Resources
LifePrints: Deciphering Your Life Purpose from Your Fingerprints,
Richard Unger, Crossing Press, 2007
Visit Poetry of David Whyte
Janet Savage, MHA
510.865.8551
www.handtales.com
janet@handtales.com
Life Purpose sessions in person or by phone . Life Transitions series
Hand Reading Circles . Business Rewards programs
Business Development workshops . Hand Analysis classes
HandTales news is brought to you by Janet Savage, Master Hand Analyst.This is a quarterly publication inspired by the natural rhythms of the seasons. Look for each issue around the equinox and the solstice.
Certified in 1999 by the International Institute of Hand Analysis, Janet is now on the faculty. She has read thousands of hands in a variety of settings, for individuals from 4 to 80 years old and for groups who want to experience the magic of hands. With a Masters in Public Health, she brings 30 years of experience in the areas of health and career counseling, leadership development and teaching to her practice. She helps her clients through major life transitions and to feel more planted in who they are meant to be on this planet.
A gardener and nature lover, Janet believes that the natural world can be our teacher and can help us to re-discover our natural rhythms.
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