Enlightening

Today has been a very enlightening day for me. It started out at roughly 9:00am this morning at my first “meeting”. When I arrived at the meeting, which took place on Venice beach, I was in awe of how many people were there. I instantly became very skeptical of the whole “meeting” thing. However, after around 30 minutes in I started to think otherwise. I think my whole view of the “problem” has been skewed. I think a lot of people’s views of the “problem” are skewed. Any way, this meeting isn’t the point of my writing so I am going to move on.

Instead of having Chris pick me up I decided that I would walk the beach home. My first stop was at a metal smith who was selling some amazing metal and leather bracelets, which I decided to buy. Any way, I talked to him for about 20 minutes about life and living in Venice. This wasn’t the enlighten part but it was cool to listen to his stories and how he made his jewelry.

Now comes the enlightening part. I have always been a little skeptical of astrology and the like. Yet, I have always been interested by it as well. After about a 5-minute walk away from the metal smith I man under an umbrella called out to me. Hey dude with the thing pointing out of his face, come here. So, always being curious of this astrology stuff I said screw it lets chat. I sat down next to him and the first two questions he asked were, what’s your name and you birth day. I answered then thought to myself, ugh here we go. But it ended up turning out quite the opposite. He started talking about who I am, things that I do and like. And for the most part he hit every single thing on the button. He basically described everything about my positive points, my negative points and how I roll. By the way, I know now that my power, energy and drive comes from the 4 elements. The most powerful of which is wind. Which is strangely true. Part of the reason I love hiking so much is because when I get to the top I can be totally alone with the wind. I let it consume me. It is the greatest feeling and every time I feel like I can do anything. The second element is water. We only touched on this briefly but he said that this one is both your best friend and enemy.

Any way next came the cards. I drew my first three. I can only remember two though. One was control and the other was success. After tying all of them together the summation was the following. I don’t like to be told no. If I want you to do something you should say yes. I also like to be in control. Next was that I am currently successful but there is still something to do. Something I haven’t finished or something that I am distended to do. I am not sure about it but it sounds cool. And finally was that I am a sage. I am like him but I am not complete yet. So, stop trying to be one now and just wait for people to come to you on their own.

The next set of cards was picked out with the thoughts of relationships in my mind. Once I gave them back but before he looked at them he said we should talk about relationships. At that point I think I was tripping out. Any way, the first card was slow down and the second was something with fruit on it. He said stay away from drinking. Stay away from women who like to drink a lot. From now on drinking is not good for you. Strange he said that huh? Next he said move slower. Move slower in everything, life work and relationships. He said I am doing too much in the line of work and not enough in other areas, balance your self out. Also do not worry about women. The one for me is not near yet. She will most likely be a country girl. Not smoking hot but attractive. Something you will enjoy looking at for the rest of your life. She will be mellow and laid back. Not a partier. Most likely she will be blonde and kind of a hippie. You will know when you see here. She will most likely be very similar to your mom in respect to how she treats you and cares for you. I responded with “sweet”.

Now it was time to wrap up. It was time for his final words of advice. He said, first off I want to tell you not to fear dieing. It’s not something you will need to worry about. But, watch out for small spaces and the ocean. Which is strange cause I don’t particularly enjoy either of those. Next he told me that I need to travel. Try Asia. That area will suite you. Which is cool, because I have always wanted to go there. He then asked if I have ever wanted to sail. I said, yes actually, I have wanted to sign up to learn for about a year now. He told me to do it. You can solve all of your issues with it. You can be in control our your crew and ship. You can travel to Asia. Head straight for Japan. And then very quickly he said detach. Detach from everything and do it often. You’re a cancer and with that you grab on to things, ideas, concepts and projects and don’t let go until you have finished. He said your best bet is meditation and yoga. Then we were done. I thanked him and told him I will return.

The whole rest of my 2-hour walk home I thought about all of this. And am still thinking about it. It’s been a very interesting day and I am happy to have experienced it.