Manifestation, Divine Timing and Right Work

I am writing this post to give people hope and information on things working out, divine timing, service and seeing that what God has in mind for you is better than what you have in mind for yourself.

Five years ago, it was my dream to be a floral designer. After having been published as a writer for The Washington Post Express and Harper's Bazaar Australia, I was working full-time as a floral assistant in L.A. Business became slow in the fall of 2008, and I had much less work.

It all worked out for the best, because summer of 2009, I got a writing job in the Hamptons and it was possibly the best summer of my life. I loved living in a small town and going to the small local organic store and being relaxed. I remember looking at the flower shop there and thinking what a great job that would be. But I didn't work with flowers at all for at least a year. I had my Hamptons summer writing job and then I started teaching meditation classes which I also enjoyed.

Summer of 2010, I landed in San Francisco. I did start doing very part-time freelance work for a couple floral designers but it was only for the summer when they needed help with weddings. 

I was still teaching meditation and eventually got a job working for a family with 4 girls which also brought me many blessings.

Around November 2011, I finally got a steady floral job in San Francisco. It was sporadic at first, but turned into a regular 4-hour shift on Sundays. I loved the aesthetic of the shop, I loved the customers and my boss and co-workers were kind. Because I was more aware of fairies (who guard over flowers) and energy, I tried to be very conscious of what I was doing. If someone was buying a plant for sympathy reasons or for a new baby, I would send extra blessings into the flowers. Even if I was doing a less glamorous task like washing vases, I would try to do it with the intention of giving the flowers clean water to drink. 

The other thing that I would do to serve the fairies and nature was to pick up litter at parks in my spare time.

Spring 2012, I picked up a couple days at another flower shop in San Francisco. Of course I loved the flowers and nice customers as well, but there was a bit more manual labor with buckets and I had a boss with anxiety. After a couple months, I was let go because of scheduling conflicts and I literally didn't care even though I liked the job. I didn't care because I would not have to deal with my boss's anxiety anymore and I had enough faith that something better would happen. Later that week, I got a summer job helping with weddings and accounts, something that was much more fun and would help me learn more about design. I wouldn't have been able to do both jobs. I may not even have quit my old job for the new one out of loyalty and because the old one was more steady.

Finally, in Spring 2013, I applied for a full-time floral designer job at an organic floral farm in the country. As soon as I applied, I texted my sister I was "falling all over myself with excitement" about the job opening. Not only was it a floral designer position (a step up for me), it was on a farm in the country and it was organic. I was asked to interview and I was offered the job at the interview! I accepted 4 hours later. I was scared because it was a huge lifestyle change and it had been awhile -- years -- since I had worked with flowers full-time.

Over the years, I had applied to many jobs in the city not as good as this one and I would not even get job interviews or job offers. If I had gotten one of those jobs, I probably never would have been looking for this job or left the city which I didn't really like that much.

It was such a lesson on having the perfect thing manifest. It couldn't have happened earlier because this job at this farm with these amazing people wasn't open earlier. I didn't get other flower jobs because they weren't as good as this one which the fairies were reserving for me. 

I am sure this can be applied to other things in life, such as marriage partners.

I was honestly not thinking about my dream to be a floral designer which I had pretty much given up on. I was not thinking about moving to the countryside at all. So I don't think you have to have an exact vision of how you want your life to be. I was just searching for a flower-related job online. But I was serving at a flower shop 4 hours a week, picking up litter, meditating and teaching meditation (which is another service). A friend of mine had visited an organic floral farm and posted photos on Facebook so I did text her just a couple months before I got the job that I wanted to work on a floral farm. (That's definitely the first time I'd ever imagined or said that!) And the background on my iPhone has been a rose for awhile so I was carrying that energy around with me and my first week at work, I worked with so many roses. I also knew I was ready for a change around summer. 

The other important thing that I did was I did what my Buddhist monk told me to do. Even though what I think I care about is marriage and how to make that happen, he made me talk about how I would be earning money and how much money I should be earning which is not my interest. I told him I wanted to get on the table and receive energy healing instead of talking about jobs and money, and he said this was energy healing. He gave me a homework assignment which was to write all the jobs I would like to have - in pencil - and to put it on my altar at home. It's very important that it be in pencil. I don't know why; I assume so you can change it. Floral designer was on there, as was meditation teacher and spiritual author. On another sheet of paper, I also had to write how much money I wanted to earn per month followed by a plus sign as it could be greater than that amount.

And my new job is literally better than I could have imagined. I also love my small town, which reminds me of the Hamptons so much. It's like my teacher Doreen Virtue says: God's plan for you is often better than what you have planned for yourself. I was able to allow God's (or the fairies') plan to unfold by not worrying too much, serving and taking action steps (at least I did a job search online).

Now that I have this job, this is literally the first time in 5 years I have not been job searching or job creating (meditation classes) because this is perfect for me. And I can teach meditation classes once I've settled in.

The other thing that I found interesting is that I've been reading my horoscope for years and this particular month when I got the job the message almost every day was about big career change. It made me think it wasn't even astrologically possible for me for me to co-create this kind of job the last few years.

My friends at https://www.facebook.com/theStarlightHaven recently posted this:

Channeled message by Ariel, from Archangel Zadkiel:


"When we have dreams that have been untracked in our lives, it easy to believe we'll never reach it. But don't lose hope! For if you pursue the path to that dream, even if you get sidetracked, you're still getting closer to reaching the goal."

Here's a great talk with Jaden Sterling and Charles Virtue on manifesting. I listened to it a week after I started my job and it really made sense to me:  

link to radio show click here

  

Getting Ready for Change Even Though You Don't Know What It Is

I've been living in a house near Ocean Beach in San Francisco. I had hardwood floors and my own bathroom. I was lucky to have such a peaceful space where I could hear the ocean from my room.  I blessed the space and did angel meditations in it and had flowers around. I stayed for 11 months.

While I was grateful for the space, I also knew it wasn't what I ultimately wanted. My hope was that I would be moving into a home with my husband. Another thing on my mind was that I was starting to think about leaving San Francisco but I had no real plan. I was thinking about Hawaii or maybe L.A. and was searching for jobs in those locations.

I wrote something taken from a Wayne Dyer book in silver marker and posted it where I could see it. Something like "I intend to be living in my new home in 4 months" (which actually would have been December 2012). The date came and went, but I had set the intention (and actually moved May 2013).

The other advice I got was from a Diana Cooper book. She compared two women who wanted to move. One didn't really think it would happen so she didn't prepare for it and it never happened. The other woman decided she was moving and packed all her things before having a new home. She miraculously got a beautiful and affordable one, presumably because she showed the Universe she was ready to go by packing up.

I didn't pack all my things but a few months ago, I did start donating clothes. It was an effort to be more streamlined, but also I wanted to be ready when something, like a husband or a moving opportunity, came up. I guess I knew I was leaving soon-ish, I just didn't know when or for what.

Jesus Dream

I had these dreams on different nights after doing kundalini in L.A. at Nine Treasures Yoga. 

A dental hygienist removed something out of the lower left section of my mouth. She told me if it had been left in it could cause gum disease and cancer. Another hygienist disagreed with what she did, as the removal could also cause problems. I looked at what had been removed and said, "That''s disgusting. I'm glad it's out."

I climbed a hill and then I was in a life-size version of Christ's nativity scene. Everything was wooden but was moving/breathing and there was Christmas music playing. I then went into the next room and there was a sick teenage Jesus in bed. I read a book in the room that said in brown script writing it's important to teach children because their natural direction is true north (toward God, truth, what's important). 

I had a dream I went to Mecca. It was very beautiful. There were stone walls with bells in them. There were so many white-haired old people there and I was impressed that they made the journey at their age.

Changing Your Past

I've read that to change your present or your future, you can change your past.

I suppose I'm time traveling in my sleep not infrequently as I've seen possible futures.

But Christmas Eve I went to the past. I woke up from a dream of an ex and when I fell back asleep, I went to the past to change it to make this relationship less painful. (I don't recall what I did to change it, I just know that I did this.)

What I do remember is being in 2 times/places at once when I had to go from the past back into the present. It felt like the hardest thing I had ever done. I feel like I started to hear sounds from the present and I was kind of vibrating. The energy was pulling me back to the present. When I returned, one of my spiritual friends was there to greet me. I told her I was so out of it from what I had just experienced.

Best Spiritual Books for Children

Here is my list of best spiritual books for children:

Little Soul and the Sun by Neale Donald Walsch
Tiger, Tiger Is It True? by Byron Katie
The Empty Pot by Demi
Cassandra's Angel by Gina Otto
The Spirited Alphabet by Morgan Simone Daleo

Adults would also enjoy these books!

Unicorn Saviors

Last night I had a dream that a good person threw a boy who didn't know how to swim into the ocean. The boy had long blond hair. I think the person who threw him in expected him to learn how to swim and that was the lesson. Instead, when the boy was out in deep water, he was saved by a unicorn. And then more unicorns came! So that was the real lesson!

Daily Miracles or 2 Miracles in 2 Days

On Friday, I got a Chinese foot massage which I do fairly often. But this time something completely crazy happened. It happened at one particular moment while the guy was working on my left leg or foot. A negative energy came out of my head. I felt very disoriented for 5 minutes, I was in my body but it was like my consciousness was all around, I felt motion sick. I think the cells were reorienting themselves after the negative energy had left. It was a top 10 spiritual experience.

If anyone wants to see this guy, his name is Gary and he works at the Relax Feet on Taraval in San Francisco. The other thing that I did differently was that I chose the Chinese Potion option (as opposed to Lemon, Jasmine, etc.).

On Friday night, the night after Thanksgiving - I am not including this as a miracle but maybe I should - in a dream state I witnessed 2 Aboriginals sitting on either side of a supersize live turkey. I think they were healing it or honoring it. I have dreamt of supersize animals several times.

Here is the second miracle. 2 years ago, my angel teacher Doreen said look for sparkles today and you will know Archangel Michael is with you. That day, I went into Benetton and saw a T-shirt with a cool angel print on it and the T-shirt had sparkles so of course I bought it. About 6 months ago, I had a dream that I threw away the T-shirt and I regretted it. About 2 weeks ago, I stained the T-shirt very badly in multiple places with blood-red beet juice. I used stain remover and ran it through the laundry but the stains were still really bad. There were multiple red stains. I put the dry, stained T-shirt in my bathroom trash can. Today, Saturday, I was cleaning my room and I looked at the T-shirt. There are NO STAINS. None. Not a trace. It is funny what angels will do to let you know they are there. They can do these little things which can make you have faith they are working on the bigger things!