Lo all Her children.  Some of the
information is specific to the activities and
concerns of my Women's Full Moon magic circle.
  There is much, however, that could benefit  all
readers interested in this subject.  I have many
files on different topics and hope to bring you
more as they are entered in the computer.  For
questions and comments, I can be reached on
C-Serve at Arianna, 72773,3251
I am also on Delphi as Susan003.  Blessed Be.


Making Choices
From Full Moon

October, 1993

     I am She who you have called.  I am happy to
 be with you, my daughters.  Tonight on this lovely
occasion, so close to Halloween,  I'd like to talk to
you about this time of endings.  Endings of the
season, of the harvest, and the many ending in
many of your lives-- especially Arianna's,  but you
all could benefit from this message.

      Sometimes  when gathering up the bounties of
life, it is like going down the supermarket aisle
with one of those little baskets on your arm.
  You've only stopped for a few things,  and before
you know it, your basket is full, and you start
juggling all the oranges, cans, bottles of juice-
under you arm and in your other hand.   You
wonder how you're going to carry it all.  Life is like
that, my daughters.  sometimes you just have to
look at what you put into your basket, and say to
yourself,  must I really have this in this shopping
trip?   What do I really need in my basket?,
because I can't juggle all the way to the checkout
counter.  I may drop something, break it.  Make a
mess trying to juggle it.  Or,  I could start over with
a shopping cart, which would have given me more
room.  Or, I could take up juggling and become
more skilled at carrying too many objects.  So
what do I do with all of this bounty that I've
gathered up, in my basket?  This is where the
hard part comes, because this is the judgment.
You then must say, what do I need the most?
What will make me the happiest?  When I get in
my car, what will I say --Phew, I'm really glad  I
remembered to buy that!  So you have to set a few
things down, and leave them on the shelf for
another trip.  Just take the things that will
complete your day as much as possible.
  Sometimes, you are a little sad about letting go
what you thought you wanted so much in aisle
one, now is supplanted by something in aisle five,
and the thing from aisle one must go.  It was good,
and you still desire it, and many others will snatch
it up.  But you have to leave it out of your basket,
and say--another time.

     Sometimes, days are like this.  You have to
cherry-pick what the most important thing is to do
that day........... Among millions of marvelous
opportunities of the day.  Sometimes, lifetimes are
like this.  Career paths, life's goals are like this.
 You can't be Mother Theresa, and a matriarch of
a large brood of offspring in the same lifetime.  So,
choices have to be made.  Some things that are
good have to be set aside, so that you can keep in
your basket what is the truest and best.  And
hopefully, that which would give you the most
progression in this lifetime.  Maybe next lifetime,
or the next shopping trip, you can go back and
buy those other things as well.

      How do you know what to keep?  You know
what to keep by what gives you the most pleasure.
What makes you feel the most happy and excited,
and what would give you the most pain if you had
to part with it.  Arianna said to her sister recently
on the telephone, when she was talking about
creating belly dances and shows, she said - Isn't
life grand?, Isn't it fun?  Remember those things,
whatever they are, that make you feel this way.
 That put a spring in your walk.  Keep them, my
daughters.  Hold on to them tenaciously.  I am a
Goddess of pleasure because I say that all acts of
pleasure are my rituals.  That which your spirit is
destined to do, that would lead to it's most
excellent development in this life, will bring much
pleasure to you.  So keep hold of those things.

      But while I say  I am a Goddess of pleasure,
this does not mean that I want those who seek My
path to be saying "if it feels good, do it!"  Because,
my daughters, so much in this life feels good.
 Unfortunately,  you can't do everything that feels
good, all the time.   Things such as meditation,
eating, alcoholic beverages, some drugs,
sexuality, are all good, are all pleasurable.
However,  allow your will to ride that wave of
pleasure.  Don't allow that wave of pleasure to
override your will.

      Arianna spoke tonight of a couple who are
having allot of pain right now due to alcoholism.
Many have found pleasure in my beverage from
wine, and alcohol.  It is an example of how you
must not wallow, or get swallowed up in a
pleasure.  Use your will to ride the crest of the
wave.  Like the skilled surfer,  who rides that
lovely white capped peak of pleasurable energy,
 he also knows when to call it a day.  Pack in that
surfboard, and go on home.  So too, with all acts
of pleasure that I bid you to enjoy.  Enjoy them all,
in moderation, in love and in balance.

     You are my queens.  Your status is regal.  You
experience your sexuality, your spirituality, your
physical, your mind, your wisdom.  You are my
queens.  I'm counting on you to be regal. ..When
they look at you as priestesses, let them say to
themselves: " She walks in beauty, like the night.
 On endless horizons.  She's the breath of spring
to the earth.  She's the hope of civilization.   What
a piece of work is she, how noble in reason.  How
infinite in faculties.  In form and movement, how
expressed and admirable."

      Be it all, my daughters.  Have fun with it.
Make your choices.  And, unless you go to
juggling school,  take a look at your baskets.  See
if some moving is in order.  This is a good time for
you to do it.  By all means, call on Kali to transform
the space into useful, viable energy.  Be creative.
Have fun.  I will be with you in spirit, the day after
tomorrow*, and always.  I love you.  Good night.

*The day after tomorrow referred to the All souls
night ritual lead by Arianna at the
local CUUPS group.


Song danced to that evening was I AM FREE, by
the Who.
Magic was done for ending false beliefs
by snapping off paper handcuffs.
On the handcuffs were written private needs to be
ended for each participant.:


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