Celebrating the goddess within
30 Aug 2010 Leave a Comment
in Uncategorized Tags: Avril Price, birthday, Columbia Road Flower Markets, cupcake, goddess, Lantana Cafe, protection, Psychic, Wicca
I’m 33 years young. As of yesterday. And I’ve got to say it’s feels pretty darn good to be 33 today. A far cry from my 30th birthday and the immediate following years where I could have been found likely debaucherously hungover and relatively dissatisfied with my current situation the day following the celebrations. I like to celebrate my birthday - I always have – and in previous years it’s been a positive festival running for almost a week and with multiple functions where I would surround myself with hordes of people. I suspect this is partly because I just like people and I have a lot of peeps in my life but also I think partly this was so as to avoid actually confronting the fact that I wasn’t entirely happy with my life circumstances. Any discomfort I felt was put down to the amount of bubbles I had consumed the prior evenings.
This year was a little more intimate. The day started with Bel greeting me with a warm hug, friendly smile and card and gifts bejewelled in glittery cupcake wrapping paper 
After some Skype calls home we trekked to Fitzrovia to have a fry up brunch with two good friends (Ness who I travelled with through Europe and who is just one of the world’s special women and Scotty Bedotty who is a good friend from Melbourne who happened to be going through town for work) at Lantana Cafe (www.lantanacafe.co.uk). Proper Melbourne style breakfasts with the best coffee I’ve had, well, since leaving Melbourne actually.
Breakfast took around 2 hours and then we meandered over to Columbia Road flower markets for a look-see and then back into Covent Garden (Seven Dials) for a look at Mysteries and a catch-up with Nic – an old school mate who I haven’t seen for a few years but hasn’t changed a bit and is as sweet as ever. I enjoyed a nice gin and tonic and a glass of red wine but largely my birthday was a sober affair – in fact my life is pretty much sober now. That may come as a shock to some of you reading this but it’s just one of the many life changes I’ve introduced since leaving Melbourne almost a year ago and I feel much better for it. I still enjoy my wine but far less frequently and far less volume
The other birthday present I bought myself was to have a reading with Avril Price (www.avrilprice.com). I haven’t had a reading for over 10 years and, in fact, I’ve only had 1 or 2 previously but something just compelled me to go and see this woman. She is quite well-renowned in the UK and does work at the College of Psychic Studies which is not far from where we live.
The reading was for an hour (typical session) and I have recorded it so I can refer back to it and remember everything she said and I won’t go into war and peace about the ins and outs of the session (happy to do that over a nice glass of sauv blanc sometime and Trine we MUST skype next weekend to debrief) but it was a very positive reading with lots of abundance and success in my future and all working for myself (yippee).
The other interesting information that she gave me was about some abilities I may have in the psychic world and aligning that world with the natural world – along the lines of healing with plants and Wicca. I know there will be many of you who may read this who don’t believe in any of the other worldy stuff and that’s totally fine. All I will ask is that you respect my beliefs and acknowledge that there are multiple opinions and belief systems in this world and it’s our differences that make this an interesting planet to traverse.
So I’m exploring some of this psychic development stuff and I now wear a protective pendant around my neck that was a present from Bel so I don’t absorb other people’s bad ju-ju basically and so my tube rides to and from work for the next few weeks won’t totally wipe me out. I’ve been researching up on Wicca as well and it’s actually a fascinating religion – very feminine oriented, nature loving and the goddesses are revered and worshipped. What’s not to love about that I ask you?
I think what I have gleaned from the past week is that I do have a lot of strength and courage inside of me and it’s my inner goddess that I have to worship and trust as I embark on this new path and rebirth. I have a lot of hard work ahead of me but it will be rewarding and empowering when I see it all come to fruition.
I have 9 working days until self-employment begins and then I have a month before heading home to Australia during which time I plan to finalise some business plans, costings and marketing plans for one of the key business ideas I want to launch in Jan/Feb (Lady Cakes Parties), do some more writing and do some short courses (options I’m considering are psychic development, healing with crystals, French pastry, chocolate making and artisan bread making).
Thanks for all the birthday wishes as well – it’s been a great year for me this past year and I feel like I’m only just beginning to get warmed up.
The Goddess GG (aka Witchypoo)
