hmmmm...I don't know this "money" of whom you speak...I have heard of his seductive tales...promising joys that can only come from within...the ensuing madness. Still, holding fast to my soul, I plan to partake of his offerings this year. Then I'll be better equipped to answer.

yeOW! It was COLD! Not that I didn't live in Minnesota; but, to be in 20 degree F temps with a windchill in the teens for over 8 hours? I was in the pre-dawn group that converged on the National Mall at 4:30 am. So, this ended up being intense at the level of a spiritual pilgrimage; but, it was worth it to witness history.

The National Mall of the United States... 4,100 city cops, 4,000 imported cops, 10,000 National Guardsmen, almost 2 million, free-wheeling citizens, hundreds of cases of hypothermia, several panic attacks and a number of lost people:  no arrests, no deaths, no violence.

It's the Year of the Ox: hard work & discipline!

Celebration at the American Art Museum in Washington, DC

Drummers

feeding lettuce to the ceremonial lion

It makes no "sound."

It feels like a whisper pressed or brushing against the one called "me" from the inside. 

Well, except that time it was pushing down on my head from the outside. But that's because I was naive and about  to say some spiritually-associated thing to someone that I shouldn't have. I never got a clearer -NO- in my life than that silent one! It startled me and I actually physically cringed where I stood, making myself small under its psychic weight. It was also a gesture of humility and compliance. Of course, maybe it wasn't my intuition; maybe it was something else.

Even though I didn't understand what the harm would have been, the next day, I was glad I didn't share the spiritual info. That person brought someone to meet me that was damaging to her and I could see how the info could be used to weaken her further. Weird!! Who knew?