Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. ~ Victor Frankl
Is My Dog Nice?
You ask that with a straight and unknowing face while the fury of your dog is full-on orbiting in a gnashing bark-fest at the end of their leash? Is my dog nice? Yes! And, she’s 125-pounds of nice. Though, your dog’s an asshole! Why do people ask that? Oh, I see. People don’t see themselves when they brush their teeth in the morning. That must be it. People don’t see themselves. Hmmm. Well, maybe the Ego is NOT such a bad thing after all. Dismissing it is just another shame-born gesture? Ok, then. No matter. The Ego is a short-timer anyway. It’s my understanding that it comes on so strong, because it can only last 2 minutes at a time. So, having problems with it? Just do deep breathing for 3 minutes, and then don’t be surprised when you open back in and look around and go, “So, what was so pressing? What was the problem, again?”
Please Inspect Your Expectations
Your dog may be telling you more than you know. You…. may be telling yourself more than you know. Strike that. Aren’t you?!!
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Note: This blog will now have more of a Bukowski bent. Unrepentant. Zero shame. Zero explanation. Not comfortable with that and yourself and owning your stuff? Cool. No judgment, though, I suggest you leave. I will not respond to further private messages or comments that play the explaining or demeaning cards either way. Please make your comments in public, so that you have to take responsibility for how they come across in the context of the rest of us here who care about shit n stuff, and sometimes even some stuffstance. Clear?!
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And, you lurkers who like x like 25 in under 12 seconds? Please go the fuck away, too. You are skewing my stats, and sending me an inordinate amount of bullshitic emails. I’d rather sincere engagement. 2 weeks from now, I will track through and remove you all. I will respect you more if you remove yourself. Tick tick tick… . . . . . . . . .
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A tree can not grow to heaven unless its roots grow to hell. ~ C.G. Jung
When you make Besties with Beasties, do you remember their names… or, are they one time stands?
How are they allies that contribute to and amplify your ability to take action? Do they integrate or ally with you? Depends, huh?
Thanks for Visiting!
Shadow Mastery (c) 2020 Jordan Hoggard
Stay The Course (c) 2020 Jordan Hoggard
Diamonds from Misfortunes (c) 2020 Jordan Hoggard
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Tip coffee. Download your fill.
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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. ~ Victor Frankl
A tree can not grow to heaven unless its roots grow to hell. ~ C.G. Jung
When you make Besties with Beasties, do you remember their names… or, are they one time stands?
How are they allies that contribute to and amplify your ability to take action? Do they integrate or ally with you? Depends, huh?
Thanks for Visiting!
Shadow Mastery (c) 2020 Jordan Hoggard
Stay The Course (c) 2020 Jordan Hoggard
Diamonds from Misfortunes (c) 2020 Jordan Hoggard
Enjoy the Coffee Currency Shop
No Kindle required as all the eBooks are currently easily downloadable PDFs.
Tip coffee. Download your fill.
This is coffee, not tea, so no strings or mesh ball to refill. Just click the BuyMeACoffee link
More than just the title which kinda implies being an Inner Spectator, not my cup of tea, I am digging that more than just to deal with external forces, Victor Frankl’s words also apply to the title of this blog with Loui Jover’s artwork used as the Feature image, internally.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. ~ Victor Frankl
Can you engage your thoughts as your own Inner Customs Agent, just conduct the flow of un huh NOPEs off to back from whence they came? Or, just over to the seive of the recycle filter for compost? Heck, can you put the clutch in on your thoughts. Just watch the tach(ometer) spin up. If your thoughts get into the redline, (anxiety), not to worry. Just call out inside, “NOPE. HOLD IT. FREEZE RIGHT THERE ANSD PUT YOUR HANDS UP.” Am I suggesting to police your thoughts? Yes, I very much am Suggesting that. If not you, who Then? Take responsibility in there 1st, and less trip-ups happen out here, fewer interference patterns tumble out to interrupt the things you enjoy. Like a big fart at the opera, just mentioning for a friend.
Police your thoughts… NAH! Be their pre-school and graduate school and sandbox teachers. No shame or guilt, just listening. That way you can mess up in your own way, not just in ways that slow you down from dancing with your path. That way you can mess up in your own way instead up messing up yourself even more in other peoples’ ways.
The Grapevine
Word tends to get around in your head, and then you find you aren‘t Really alone, ever, and also that you are not the only one working to get the others to behave. Then, heck, weather washes through. And, trees with strong roots laugh and smile through storms, just say ‘Thank You” for the free power wash after.
Clutch the ripe and raw geode thoughts and begin to enact them in action. Or, put the clutch in on them to leave external inaction in their internal orbits and let them play the aged-like-fine-wine game. Who let the dogs out?! Be mindful of your inner casks, though. Not much develops on its own inside until you have set it in motion out here, too. Then, things can live and evolve in the back of your head so to speak.
A tree can not grow to heaven unless its roots grow to hell. ~ C.G. Jung
As Above, So Below, How Do Your Roots Grow?
How does that contribute to and amplify your ability to take action?
Thanks for Visiting!
Shadow Mastery (c) 2020 Jordan Hoggard
Stay The Course (c) 2020 Jordan Hoggard
Diamonds from Misfortunes (c) 2020 Jordan Hoggard
Enjoy the Coffee Currency Shop
Tip in Coffee. Download your eBook fill
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First, I do the coffee. Then, I do the things. ~ unknown
Happy NOW Year!
Now Year you say? Yes. Into the gas and out with the clutch and get a move on! There are things to orchestrate and strategize and read and play with now. Commitments to establish and bring to life as you enact them. What’s currently in your Idea Sandbox? towards the front burner?
Well, on December 21st on the Solstice and the Jupiter~Saturn conjunction I pulled a book project from the dusty and sleepy cells of my unfinished library of work and nudged it awake. I gave it a couple of weeks to wake up in low orbit near the front burner of my work. Today, I begin to land it, and share it. And today, I begin to turn up the front burner heat and bring it into being. I will be intermittently sharing excerpts as I reify, create, make, and land them into life to graduate from my Man-Womb Place of Creation as I build the community between the covers of this book in progress. Currently, my working title is Telling Tarot ~ Card Stories from Beyond. Part fairy tales, part anecdotal history, meaning I made them up and feel they fit the resonance of each card’s tenor, and part… well, like YoYo Ma said, Some things cannot be measured. We’ll see how much unmeasurable and moving feeling emanates from this work as I bring it into being to graduate from my sandbox into the world’s. Today, I share a draft excerpt from one card to strike an initial chord, set an initial tone, and begin to ring this work into being. Enjoy!
Stay The Course (c) 2020 Jordan Hoggard
Shadow Mastery (c) 2020 Jordan Hoggard
Unconscious Angler (c) 2021 Jordan Hoggard
Shakin’Your Inner Booty scribes a new world, new life, place-making, enthusiasm
~ The Placemaker ~
The Ace of Wands & the Sacred Rite of Site
To site a sacred structure or other important building project, the High Priest/Priestess, The Placemaker, would literally engage in a walking meditation rite to initiate the general space where the Architecture was to be built. Minutes. Hours. Days might pass as they conscientiously went Into The Black, went INconsciously in dereistic thought rather than UNconsciously, and began to connect to the genius loci of the place, the god or spirit alive in the heart of a place. The time, the planets, the seasons naturally dialed into the day to reflect in both Light & Shadow… they tuned themselves to align to the whole of the hours, to the minute, the second. They tuned in not in chronological time, the Chronos’ Land of the watch. They tuned into Moira’s Land, the inner rhythms, the natural, inner nature of the Universe and the Self and the Archetypes. They would tune in to Moira’s Land as The All rippled the sacred fingerprint of the place throughout their inner rhythms. Consciously and unconsciously they became the inner ocean and land in the intricate and depthful intercourse we feel as the coastline.
Standing with a foot on both sides is better with a pen or a brush. They stood with a foot on both sides in a float-straddle of the coastline’s back and forth ebb and flow with the omphallos in hand raised above the ground. The omphallos would not touch the earth again until the Place of Power of the heart of the site was magnetically connected and tuned in and tuned to and resonated with in the harmonic of oneness with the place in the world.
in another way The Rite of Site of The Placemaker would continue until such time when the High Priest/Priestess would arrive at a reverberating and synchronized resonance within as they had come to stand right at the unseen Yoniverse heart of the matter of the place. This was an exercise in Actualized Archetypal Cosmology.
They would turn slowly, tune in further. They would turn until their inner resonance synced up with the vibrational energy of the site, connection enacted, and they became one, inter-penetrating force of energy at which point a sacred chord of harmony was struck within The Placemaker. Right there, in the sacred heart of the place, they half-shuffle-stepped to the side to reveal the center to the sky in a consummate acknowledgment of the discovery of the Divine there at that spot, A Place of Power. They would square their shoulders, face out from the center through what was to be the sacred structure’s front entry, and firmly plant the sacred staff of the Omphallos bullseye in the Yoniverse of the place. It is HERE! Done.
Sacred place seeded, secured to come to life, the Scribes would literally mark the front to back and side to side axes based on the stance of the Placemaker. The Heart Direction going straight out perpendicular from the chest was the Key. And then, they would proceed to circumscribe a series of ellipses outward, each centered on that genius loci spot, the Sacred Architectural G-Spot on which the structure would birth from as it was built. This presents Architecture as a Psycho-Spiritual act visible as an open gestation gesture throughout the importance of placement to inform its future construction.
The quaternity in the IV of The Emperor gets us here to this established place of ourselves being The Placemaker of Self. We then fully make the move from the 3 to the 4, with the 4 being the simplest expression of how your personal boundaries are set up and establish themselves through action. Identity is placed and secured and enters into its continual evolution in the Major Arcana IV. This is the Place of Your Creation Placed. At the arrival of The Emperor the evolutionary seed of how one synchronizes one’s Psyche within and with the external world around is planted firmly.
How one’s natural vibration strikes chords to resonate and then tune to harmonize begins to establish the Architecture of one’s identity where boundaries begin to come into being as the shape of the person, you, whether evolved or not. I make no judgment in that regard. We each are of course where we each are now. Death is the mother of memory, of our yesterdays now gone as they transform into the fertilizer for dreams and tomorrows.
Boundaries and identity track along in a mini-binary star relationship as their tennis match plays back and forth from here. One to the other, the pulse of the heartbeat of personal, self-development begins to emanate noticeably here from your energies.
Meditation Exercise: Allow the Ace of Wands to be your ally to tune your own energetic harmonics as an Energetic Placemaker of Self. With the Ace of Wands in one hand and XVII The Star in the other, ask yourself out loud, When I am tuned to resonate with myself AS my celestial groove, what does that sound like?
~ The End ~
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Pay in whatever amount of coffee you choose, and then download your fill of my eBook PDFs. No Kindle required.* Heck, pay one coffee or several or 5, and also maybe even periodically tip your server in coffee when you get some goody out of them. Like, Hey, I was using your work and this great thing happened! Thank You. Here’s a coffee!
1 coffee? 9? Whatever amount you choose. I extend my appreciation in advance. You can never have enough coffee. No strings because it’s coffee not tea. Maybe that’s why coffee cups have sayings on them. Is that teabag remorse?
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Need giveaways as a Thank You for 40 people coming to your webinar and are on a tight budget? I have you covered. Pay or tip me in coffee, download and give them each an eBook. 4. 40. 400. Scale it to you. Also, let me know if you want to team up to customize any of the eBooks to become value-added marketing collateral for your webinars, lectures, promos, presentations, conferences. Contact me by commenting here. I’ll get in touch to arrange to add your links and logo for a creative and collaborative marketing handout. Or, we’ll discuss what you have in mind. Good for you. Good for me. Good for community. What else is there? Oh right. Coffee. Can’t forget that.
Use My eBooks As Marketing Giveaways In Your Collateral
Give my eBooks as an affordable marketing giveaway. Have 40 people on an upcoming ZOOM call? Excellent. Pay me some coffee. Download what you need and set up how and when you distribute to your people. Send my eBooks to your group as a Thank You for coming to your presentation. DONE. It’s good for both of us. You have a creative giveaways that complement your offering without competing. I have coffee, so I make more. Call it AFM — Allied Fields Marketing. Provide value-added giveaways to enhance your offering’s value!
Sure, there’s a big honor system here. What’s the harm in that? Sure, someone can pay me one coffee, $3, and then hand out my work as a marketing gimme promo to many many potential clients over and over. I don’t see the problem. I know the drill. You start a business. You have a budget. You don’t even have P & L yet, maybe don’t even know what that is — Profit & Loss. But, there you are. You’ve started a business, STILL have to make a profit, and you learn as you go. You have a limited budget. Regardless, you STILL need a robust and full presentation package to promote and present your services at the quality level of their value. Nevermind that you are heading into your 1st webinar on your own and haven’t had a sale yet. Is that you? Well, take one more step. Make your offering more robust. Get yourself some giveaways with substance for the price of coffee. Pay some coffee and download these eBooks to complement and enhance your presentation.
Pens Are Passé in the Pandemic
Have a new business and need promo material while you get started? Cool. Pens are passé in the pandemic. Skip the passé. Give your clients and potential clients my PDF eBooks around the holidays as a Thank You for being your client, for attending your presentation. In person? ZOOM? I imagine you have electronic registration. Even if the meeting or webinar or conference is in person, you can use these eBook PDFs as a Thank You. Or, share over your webinar. Your call.
You get great eBooks + marketing collateral.I get coffee. I can support that.
We Both Win!
Happy Sag Season & into 2021 We Go!
~ Jordan, Inner Gold Emanations
* Note: Tarot in the Land of Mystereum at Amazon and The Library of Esoterica at Taschen are purchased there, are not included in this. Astro Art Charts, Tarot Readings, Coursework also not included. Those prices remain what they are In the Shop ImaginAction.
First, I do the coffee. Then, I do the things. ~ unknown
Happy NOW Year!
Now Year you say? Yes. Into the gas and out with the clutch and get a move on! There are things to orchestrate and strategize and read and play with now. And, what’s currently in your Idea Sandbox towards the front burner that you can take one action today towards it being a reality? And, then one more action tomorrow or every other day? If you do, what will it look like next week? Next month? How long until you complete it and move up another? I call my way the BITCh Method ~ Butt In The Chair. Same bat time, same bat channel on the days I schedule creative sessions with myself. Can you dial it in? Can you put something personal on your schedule and commit to it start to finish? Hey! Begin somewhere. Anywhere! Start to finish. You can use this technique to groove in and install a creative on/off switch for each and every project you undertake. See if this provides you a tool to use to more fluidly flow into the fluency of your own creative voice as you reify your ideas and enact them to completion. Give it a go and see, and let me know what shakes out for you.
And, Until Then, Enjoy the Coffee Currency Shop
I will be resuming my regular blogging this Wednesday with an excerpt from a new book I am working on. I’m holding back the title for the time being. Though, on Wednesday I will give you a taste with The Placemaker of the Ace of Wands.
Shakin’Your Inner Booty and dancing scribes a new world, new life, and place-making with enthusiasm
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Yes, pay in coffee For the downloadable eBook PDFs I offer. No Kindle required.* Heck, pay one coffee or several or 5, and also maybe even periodically tip your server in coffee when you get some goody out of them. Like, Hey, I was using your work and this great thing happened! Thank You. Here’s a coffee!
1 coffee. 3 coffees. 5 coffees. Whatever amount. I extend my appreciation in advance. You can never have enough coffee in the cupboard.
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Once you have, download any or as many PDF eBooks below as you want. Need eStocking Stuffers or ZOOM Party Gifts or marketing collateral giveaways? Done. Pay me some coffee. Set up your ZOOM meeting or webinar or conference to share these.
Here’s an idea. Attach a PDF eBook as a Thank You.
Do you need giveaways for that conference?
Need giveaways as a Thank You for 40 people coming to your webinar and are on a tight budget? I have you covered. Pay or tip me in coffee, download and give them each an eBook. 4. 40. 400. Scale it to you. Also, let me know if you want to team up to customize any of the eBooks to become value-added marketing collateral for your webinars, lectures, promos, presentations, conferences. Contact me by commenting here. I’ll get in touch to arrange to add your links and logo for a creative and collaborative marketing handout. Or, we’ll discuss what you have in mind. Good for you. Good for me. Good for community. What else is there? Oh right. Coffee. Can’t forget that.
Use My eBooks As Marketing Giveaways In Your Collateral
Give my eBooks as an affordable marketing giveaway. Have 40 people on an upcoming ZOOM call? Excellent. Pay me some coffee. Download what you need and set up how and when you distribute to your people. Send my eBooks to your group as a Thank You for coming to your presentation. DONE. It’s good for both of us. You have a creative giveaways that complement your offering without competing. I have coffee, so I make more. Call it AFM — Allied Fields Marketing. Provide value-added giveaways to enhance your offering’s value!
Sure, there’s a big honor system here. What’s the harm in that? Sure, someone can pay me one coffee, $3, and then hand out my work as a marketing gimme promo to many many potential clients over and over. I don’t see the problem. I know the drill. You start a business. You have a budget. You don’t even have P & L yet, maybe don’t even know what that is — Profit & Loss. But, there you are. You’ve started a business, STILL have to make a profit, and you learn as you go. You have a limited budget. Regardless, you STILL need a robust and full presentation package to promote and present your services at the quality level of their value. Nevermind that you are heading into your 1st webinar on your own and haven’t had a sale yet. Is that you? Well, take one more step. Make your offering more robust. Get yourself some giveaways with substance for the price of coffee. Pay some coffee and download these eBooks to complement and enhance your presentation.
Pens Are Passé in the Pandemic
Have a new business and need promo material while you get started? Cool. Pens are passé in the pandemic. Skip the passé. Give your clients and potential clients my PDF eBooks around the holidays as a Thank You for being your client, for attending your presentation. In person? ZOOM? I imagine you have electronic registration. Even if the meeting or webinar or conference is in person, you can use these eBook PDFs as a Thank You. Or, share over your webinar. Your call.
You get great eBooks + marketing collateral.I get coffee. I can support that.
We Both Win!
Happy Sag Season & into 2021 We Go!
~ Jordan, Inner Gold Emanations
* Note: Tarot in the Land of Mystereum at Amazon and The Library of Esoterica at Taschen are purchased there, are not included in this. Astro Art Charts, Tarot Readings, Coursework also not included. Those prices remain what they are In the Shop ImaginAction.
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