Posts Tagged ‘kitchen’

Severe Testing – Final Chapter

Friday, November 6th, 2009

I must rephrase the last statement in this blog. I actually chose, because of Alan not being comfortable with the situation, not to stew on it. He did not stop me, I allowed myself to be stopped by my Self. For me, Maitreya had spent years telling me that, if I did not complain quietly and clearly, how would people know there was a problem? How could things be changed? Alan said things would not be changed, but at least if I wrote or spoke and addressed myself, I would release the energy of frustration which tended to explode inside of me if I did not release it. Far better to speak my truth or write it than have that happen.

In MY truth, I believe things can be changed. I have to learn to go with my own feelings, not be frightened or concerned about others truth. I knew as always that Maitreya was correct. He has never been wrong, and so I have made a decision: no more Leo Moon explosions. It is a waste of energy and also very exhausting to go through.

The day after I wrote the letter, suddenly everything fell into place in the kitchen. Everything seemed to come together, and I was able to see the kitchen in its full glory. As I write, the final touches are being put into place by those who know what they are doing. By the evening of writing this blog I should have a kitchen sink and water to wash the dishes. I am sure that in the future I will find myself renovating a kitchen again, and I am sure I will be severely tested again. However, I have the solution now and will no longer allow the Leo Moon to react the way it did. I have to now try and teach this to others. As for Alan, well, he said to me the other day that perhaps he should complain, and I feel he is starting to soften on that subject. One thing I can say, it is far less stressful writing a letter/email – or speaking quietly and clearly one’s truth – than bottling the energy up inside and not releasing it. So much better!

Severe Testing – Continued

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

I chose a reputable kitchen firm to do the kitchen. We attended one of their information evenings which I thought was wonderful because we got to see how a remodeled kitchen was done. We were assigned a designer who designed a wonderful kitchen for us, met the engineer who assured us all would be OK and explained the whole process. We arranged to go overseas while the majority of the work was done. However it did not work out that way.

We have a separate, self-contained apartment attached to our house and, as the kitchen in there was also quite old and did not have full kitchen facilities, we decided to have that done also. I am sure you can see a pattern occurring here. The two kitchens were gutted at the same time, so when we came back from our overseas trip and the kitchen was not finished, you can imagine whose Leo Moon roared very loud! Also we did not have another kitchen as both of them were out of use.

Before our overseas trip we had eaten out for a few days at restaurants, and on our return we were still doing it. The kitchen installer told us before we left for overseas the kitchen would be finished a few days after our return. However this was not the case. There was a lot of miscommunication and delays, none of them our fault. Then there were problems with the new dishwasher and kitchen sink. Four more days went by, and finally my Leo Moon went over the top and exploded. However, this time I complained, whereas before for years I had just kept it all inside. I sent a letter to the kitchen company and listed the problems I was experiencing. I was not nasty, just listed the issues. Writing that letter seemed to release something inside of me.

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Severe Testing – Continued

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

In 2000 we bought another house, and once again the kitchen was changed, this time to accommodate a dishwasher and new countertops. I was able to enjoy that kitchen for a while, but we also had a new kitchenette installed downstairs in the house and, of course, we had many problems installing that one. As usual my Leo Moon showed its true energy and roared as loud as it could at the problems we encountered. After that there was a period of quiet. Everything was peaceful, and for a few years I was able to enjoy the two kitchens, my own and the one downstairs which enabled friends to stay and be self contained.

My husband and I had also purchased a house which we turned into a business. The house itself was in bad need of repair work. This was not the kitchen, of course, but the whole house. After much hard work and help from two friends it was finished, and we opened for business. I was told by my friends in Spirit not to be involved in the work at the business so I was spared my Leo Moon dramatics.

Again for a few years everything was fine and then I left my marriage and moved to the USA. Once again I had to cope with rented apartments until we purchased our own home, and although the kitchen was remodeled, the rest of the house was changed which involved a lot of work and of course my Leo Moon came out at times and roared. I did have moments of quiet though. I was learning! No sooner was that house finished (remodeling wise), we chose to move to a larger home. This home was beautiful. The only problem was that the kitchen was very old. It looked old, and I told myself one day I would have it remodeled. A few months ago, that became a reality!

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Severe Testing – Continued

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

The house sold immediately, and once again I moved into rented accommodation. Shortly after that, my first marriage broke up and I traveled for a while before moving to New Zealand. My next house I owned was old and run down. It desperately needed a new kitchen. As I was earning a good income then, I was able to pay for a kitchen remodel which my then-husband chose to oversee. We had been together then for 7 years living in rented accommodation. I went overseas to do the UN talk and he came with me but chose to return home to oversee the new kitchen while I went on to visit friends for 10 weeks. When I returned home, my then-husband told me he no longer loved me and no longer wanted to be with me.

My new kitchen seemed to bring with it disaster in some way or another. Either I did not have a kitchen, had to live with a rented one, or if I did change it, had problems. I had not yet realized there were lessons attached to the phenomenon. The lessons were patience and not reacting to problems which were encountered.

My moon in Leo really had a problem with the dramas created by the kitchen situation. In the house where I did not have a kitchen, I had complained nearly every week about the situation of having to live with no proper kitchen. Then in the rented houses, none of the kitchens suited me. They were either too small, too old – you name it – I did not like them. When the kitchen in the home in New Zealand was finished, it had basically cost me my marriage. We did stay together for another 5 years, but it was never the same, and shortly after the kitchen was finished, we moved back to Australia.

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Severe Testing

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

It never ceases to amaze me how many times we are tested to see if we have learned not to give energy to anything. I was recently severely tested when I had a new kitchen installed. Although I have nothing in my astrology to indicate kitchen problems, I always seem to have them. I wish I could blame it on Alan, but I cannot because my kitchen problems began long before he came into my life.

The first home I ever owned had a very small kitchen; the next house had a huge one. Then I lost that house in the recession and for a while had to have rented houses with kitchens. My next owned house had no kitchen; we bought it that way hoping we could install it. The people we bought it from were fisherman and had made a big kitchen outside their home in a separate building for their fish, and of course, used that as their personal kitchen. In the kitchen there was just a sink and a small counter. We bought what we termed a hutch, a small cupboard with a space to prepare food. It had cupboards and a glass top where we could put crockery. I had a convection microwave, an electric hot plate, and a slow cooker which was also a deep fryer.

From the day we moved in, the dream of the proper kitchen being installed was put on hold. We had very little money. With two school children and only one wage coming in, there was barely enough to live on, so the kitchen dream stayed that – a dream – for five years. I managed to function, kitchen wise, with the small appliances and microwave for five full years. Then, when we decided to move, my ex-husband and I finally had the kitchen installed. We had to borrow money to do it, but finally I had my dream kitchen, except I only got to enjoy it for a few weeks before the house was sold.

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