Tarot Readings for the Day

While I haven't attempted this for a while, I decided the time was right for attempt a tarot reading, to see if I could make sense of it!

I started with a single card...

Whilst on the face of it, this seems like a very negative card to come up in a reading, it doesn't necessarily have a literal meaning. This purely means an ending of some sort. For example, the end of a job, which can provide an opening for something new to take it's place. When looked at like this, it becomes a card for change, the end of an era and the beginning of a new one. This makes it a much more positive card.

A card reading of any kind is very subjective. Whist there are some standard card spreads, and meanings for each card, the way to read and make sense of them is very personal.

One example of this, is to look beyond the book meaning, and see something deeper in the picture itself. This will allow you to find different meanings in the same card, depending on the situation the time you read them, and on any specific question in your mind at the time. Another is connected with the spread used (the way the cards are laid out). With this first reading, I decided beforehand to read the first card that came up, and only look at one card.

Another simple yet standard spread is to lay out three cards side by side, and use them to represent past, present and future. For my second reading, I used this spread, although I wanted the cards all to represent where I am now, so that (hopefully) I can gain an understanding of where I am heading. Whereas individually all the cards will have a separate meaning, when combined these can provide a more detailed answer to a question.

My three card reading for today was as follows...

The hanged man represents trials and sacrifice, along with divination and prophecy. This means that while I may be dealing with many issues at the moment and not at my most upbeat, I am in the right frame of mind for this reading. This is something I need to do now. Temperance however, shows a more positive attitude from those around me. I can moan, complain and offload my worries and have the reassurance of a sympathetic ear! Finally, the strength card shows that I will be able to recover from these troubled times, and that I have the inner strength I need. I will be able to emerge a stronger and wiser person for it. Everything happens for a reason, and there are lessons to be learnt, so that I can progress.

All of the information gained from the two readings I can relate to at the moment. I have been juggling with various issues and stressful situations for some time, and need to see an end to these. I have already seen evidence of support from those close to me, and it is very reassuring to see positive changes coming my way!

Back to Reality!

Well it was back to the old routine yesterday, after a whole week's break from the office. It's amazing how quickly you get out of the habit! The early morning start I could certainly do without!

To begin with, I was late in to work. Not really my fault (Ithought). I only missed the bus because it was on time for a change!

When I arrived, I soon became buried under a mountain of paperwork. The other girls (bless them) had had a go at some of my stuff. However, they don't quite know what they're doing, so my first couple of hours was spent working out where they'd filed (and hidden) everything!

However, after a few hours of dedicated (although dull and seemingly endless) paperwork, I had things back under control.

Then I hit the next problem with my job. Once the backlog was cleared, there was no more to take it's place! It became a long, long afternoon!

This was only Monday. I've still got the rest of the week to go until the weekend. I need another holiday soon!

Meet my Moggies a.k.a. "The Boys"

(Left to right) Bob (the sleepy one) and Ziggy (the spooky one)!

Hi all

I thought I'd take the time today to introduce two of the most important members of the family - The Boys! You may think they look very similar, well there's a reason for that, they are in fact brothers from the same litter.

Firstly, here's Bob...

Bob has always come across as "big brother"! He's in charge. As a kitten he was in charge of the toys, and now that they're older, he's also in charge of the food! Bob is always the hungry one, so it's quite surprising that his brother gets a look in!



Bob is also the confident one. He has to know everything that's going on, and will stick his nose into everything!

And here's Ziggy...

Ziggy is generally far more timid than Bob, and is usually quite happy for him to take the lead. If there is a noise (such as a knock on the door), Ziggy runs and hides (just in case of danger)!

However, when all is quiet, and just the family are home, Ziggy creates his own noise! He has an incredibly loud meow, and will go on and on when he demands your attention! I call Ziggy "my furry alarm clock", as he will not let me lie in in the morning! In addition to his loud voice, the constant clawing of the bed will always force me to get up in the end!

These boys are now twelve years old, but they still act like kittens. Although they sleep more now than they used to, they still enjoy playing together. They chase each other all over the house (you really don't want to get in the way!) and play fight, virtually every day. They say that cats are quiet on their feet, but these two sound like a herd of elephants!

Anyway, tonight (Saturday) will be hectic - it's fish night, so the boys are getting excited! I'll try not to get trampled in the stampede!

The Ultimate Quest for Online Cash - Part 3

While still searching for the ultimate money spinner, I discovered Squidoo and blogging. These are fairly new ideas for me.

I started Squidoo a few months ago, and whilst being a lot of fun to do, hasn't yet earned me my fortune. To date I have $0.92 in my account, this is at least something, although I'm not quite sure where it came from! The idea of Squidoo is to write articles (in Squidoo they are called lenses) about any subject you can think of. You can add pictures and video clips to spice it up, and you get paid if someone clicks on adverts on your lens or buys any products you may be selling.

You can check out my "lensography" by clicking on the link below:

http://www.squidoo.com/cattyjen-lensography

There are also links on this to my other lenses.

I also discovered something called "linkpayer". If you are adding links on your lens, you can enter the link on this site and they convert it into a linkpayer link. Whenever someone clicks on this, you get paid by linkpayer (this may be where my $0.92 came from). I have been trying to find this site again recently, but now it doesn't seem to work!

Blogging, it seems is very similar to squidoo, although this is an ongoing project. It does require that the blogger updates the blog on a regular basis to be found by search engines. However, there appear to be many possibilities of making money this way, even though I haven't so far (I've only just started about a week ago). Like everything online, this seems to take time! Great fun though!

As said before, the main thing is to constantly update a blog. I found after a few days that I was struggling to think what to write about next, so I took a look at my lenses for inspiration. I realised that many of my lenses (18 in total so far) were connected with TV, film and celebrities. This gave me the idea for my second blog "Movie Mania", a collection of reviews and articles related to movies, TV programmes and actors/ actresses that I had an interest in. To be fair, the average reader may well not have heard of many (if any) of the films I've covered so far, but believe me, there are some great movies & TV shows I can highly recommend for the discerning movie buff! If you fancy taking a look, click on the link below:

http://moviemania-cattyjen.blogspot.com/

Hope you enjoy the new blog!

Divination - Goddess Card for the day (Tuesday 21st June '09)

As part of my quest to discover my psychic side, I decided to try divining with a pack of Goddess Cards. These can usually be very helpful in making sense of the world, and can be easier to read than Tarot Cards.

I picked out one card to help me today, in light of my financial issues, which was Maat. This card represents fairness. Underneath the picture was the saying "This situation will be handled in a fair and just manner". While I'm still working out how this will manifest itself, I started to look deeper into the picture. When reading cards it is important to do this, as this will give each card not only a deeper meaning, but your perception of the image will alter every time the card appears in a reading. This is partly to do with the question you are looking for an answer to, and also your state of mind at the time.

I noticed that to me the picture looked cluttered, which is how I'm seeing my life at the moment. So many issues to take in, and just about managing to get by! I need to look deeper now, and hopefully my card for tomorrow will make more sense of this one! I'll keep you posted...

The Ultimate Quest for Online Cash - Part 2

In my search for the perfect method to make money online, I have seen many articles relating to affiliate marketing. However, this can be tricky if you don't know what you're doing, and can also become expensive.

The idea is to sell someone else's product for them by signing up to become an affiliate. I've attempted this via "Clickbank" (a free to join site) along with the resources provided in a site called "Legitimate Online Jobs" (I had to pay to join this). When you become an affiliate, you are given your own link to the website promoting the product, and you type up adverts. Every time someone clicks on your link and buys the product, you get paid a commission. Sounds easy doesn't it? Unfortunately not!

The snag is that you are competing with so many others (mainly very experienced people) using the best keywords that are being searched for. Also the most effective way is to buy these keywords from Google (using Adsense or Adwords). With this, every time someone clicks on your advert, you are charged. This is OK if enough people actually buy via your advert, but if not, you still have to pay (this is how it can be costly). I have tried using free advertising, but this way it is hard for your advert to be seen, let alone be clicked on. The other issue is to find a product to sell that people actually want to buy!

I have so far failed to make any money using this method, as at the moment I can't really afford the expense of trying out adverts and keywords to get started in this business. I have read that many people fail at this, for the reasons I have just outlined.

There are many websites out there offering to make you money online by doing this. However, in my experience they don't really help you get started with any useful information, just the bare bones of the idea. Legitimate Online Jobs did just that. Also, whilst they did incorporate other money making ideas and links to other sites, the majority were only useful if you live in the US.

One final point, if you see sites offering money for data entry or typing work, these are usually exactly the same as this. There is no guarantee of being paid, as your payment is dependant on the adverts you submit.

It seems that making a second income online is never as easy as it appears!

The Ultimate Quest for Online Cash - Part 1

As mentioned in my previous post, I have been spending the last few months trying to figure out how to make money online. So far with limited sucess.

I thought I should share some of the methods I've tried so far, along with the pitfalls as I find them.

As I see it, there are several ways available. However, most of these online systems seem to require some form of payment upfront, and or monthly. There are also so many scams out there, and it is incredibly difficult to know which system to trust.

I've tried loking at reviews of anything that looks remotely interesting, with varied results. However, any scam that is good enough at looking plausible is also able to fool you with scam reviews! Who can you really trust online?

These are the methods I've looked into so far:

MLM (multi level marketing)
Affiliate marketing (via google adwords/ adsense for example)
Online gambling systems
Cash gifting
Data entry/ typing jobs
Article/ review writing

MLM ( Multi Level Marketing)

This was my first venture into the world of online money making. I discovered a site called The 3 Cash Machine. This site claimed to provide it's users with free cash pouring into their paypal accounts on demand. They sold this system to me in the understanding that it would not only work wonders for my bank balance, but would also be easy and completely free! To a complete newbie like myself, this seemed perfect, although not the case in reality.

This required me to sign up to about 2- traffic exchanges, to promote my new free website, and also to a company called GDI (Global Domains International) to host my website. This was only free for SEVEN DAYS! After this, I was required to pay them $10 per month (not such a free system now)! Also, the basis of the system to to encourage others to sign up under me. I would then be paid to sign them up to all the (useless) stuff I had already signed up for myself!

Although they made a point of making this seem easy, I was never warned about how hard it actually was to get my website seen, let alone recruit others! Also, GDI (based in the US) would not accept any form of cancellation than a phone call to their offices in the States! This would have cost me a fortune calling from the UK! Not surprisingly, this venture fell completely flat and I gave up after what seemed like hundreds of hours promoting this pointless site. I ended up using my own method to cancel GDI - I just didn't pay them. Eventually, aftere several emails from them (they know better than to waste their money calling overseas!) they cancelled my account for me! I didn't make a penny out of this system, and the traffic exchanges I signed up to simply sent constant junk emails. I would go to work, come home and find HUNDREDS in my inbox!

In conclusion, MLM is a waste of time (and potentially money)and there are so many similar ones out there. Take my advice, don't bother!

Keep a lookout for my next post on the subject of online money...

Thought for the day # 1

Have you ever heard about the agnostic, dyslexic, insomniac?

It's a sad story. He lies awake every night, wondering whether there really is a DOG!

(Think about it!)

Welcome one & all to my brand new blog!

Hi everyone, & welcome.

Just to let you know, this is my very first blog post ever, although I have written several articles (or lenses as they call them) on Squidoo.

I decided to write this so that I could share my thoughts with like-minded people who are curious about the madness of modern life, the mystery of death & everything natural & supernatural in between!

I'm a very average woman, living an average life, with my fiance & two cats (Bob & Ziggy - collectively known as "The Boys"). However I have experienced some weird occurances which make me question the world & my own place within it (more about that later).

My efforts to understand the supernatural world seem to be constantly interrupted by the harsh realities of the practical one. There is always (as they say) "too much month left at the end of the money", which has prompted me to look for an additional source of income online. I'm still trying to fight my way through the scams, to find something genuinely profitable. If & when this happens, I will post the details on this blog, so that more people can benefit from the knowledge. However I am hampered by the fact that I have an incredibly limited budget, & most of these online income sites require some payment upfront, &/or monthly. In the meantime, I would be very interested to hear from anyone who has been able to make some reasonable cash online.

In addition, I would love to hear from anyone who has had any strange psychic or supernatural experiences, basically anything you are unable to explain. I will tell you more about my experiences in a later post, although if you would like to know more, please check out my lens on the concept of psychic development on Squidoo (Click on the link below):

http://www.squidoo.com/Psychic-Development-2

Well, that's it for my first ever post. I look forward to your comments & any questions you may have. So far, I've only scratched the surface of the topics I'll be writing about & what makes me, well, me I suppose! Look out for post no. 2, coming soon!