Salgal in flight in San Diego

Wow! Summer in San Diego has been wonderful. It is perfect that I have been reminded it is not the place outside but inside us that determines how we feel about where we are on Earth. This time has reminded me that home is definitely here for me too as it is in my heart, work, and friendships so fun. People still ask me all the time “Where do you live?” I have to say, “Where I am!” It will always be true that San Francisco has most of my heart but since it is so big, there is plenty to share where ever I am.

Since leaving Chicago and Illinois, the land of my ancestors and another home, I have come ‘home’ to California. The Wandering Mystic is now back in full motion. Clients from the 90’s are finding me out of the blue. New people to serve are showing up weekly. I am having a full experience of all of my gifts that include my real estate practice. Service is what my life is about and this industry is, more than ever, needing healing!

I came to San Diego to sell my beautiful listing on the ocean at Sunset Cliffs. It is now 8 weeks later, and this week, I submitted not one but 2 offers and counter offers. If neither of them are accepted, make sure you pass the word on this great property 4909 Orchard Avenue #105 San Diego CA 92107 Another of my Dad’s sayings is, “The deal is not done until the money is in the till.” Real Estate is a great place for the spiritual practice of surrender. I just let go and let God after doing the best I can.

The market here in San Diego still continues to be full of the truth of the pain of our economy. There is vast wealth, and there are many people who have lost or are still losing their homes. Is it just me that thinks it is just not right that we allow our corporations and financial institutions decide the value of home? I am ready to organize a revolution. Shall we march on Washington as Gandhi did in peaceful resistance to the insanity that profits should continue to be valued more than people? If we continue to do nothing, we are part of the problem. What I can do today is continue to ask people to vote, be aware, and put the energy into faith instead of fear.

In the meantime, before we march, perhaps it is time to check-in, tune up, and self actualize. I am teaching about intuition, spirituality and forgiveness again. I know we do not have to put up with the stress we do. When we are able to set healthy boundaries, and healthy expectations of ourselves and others, then we thrive instead of survive. I am living proof.

Come join the fun at my Workshop and Equinox Celebration in Laguna Beach September 23rd & 24th. I am facilitating a Friday night and all day Saturday time for us to come together in the discovery of what we already have. The flyer is posted on a page here on my blog so check out the details. Anna and Eddie are great to host this event. If you would like to have a group at your house where ever you are in the World, the possibilities are endless. Let’s just make it happen. Remember whether it is a personal healing session or group event, no one is ever turned away due to money. It is just never a good reason not to take care of our inner life!

The Summer of 2011 San Diego Chapter will end soon. During October I am back in the Bay Area. House-sitting opportunities still seem to find their way to me (Bless you for sharing your shelter with this Wanderer!). The first weekend in October I will be at the ROTA Fair in Monterey. How fun that I have been participating with Julie King since 1990 in her vision of bringing together those of like mind to share our gifts.

Also I need you to know my dear, dear friend Elizabeth Heartstar Keller is walking for Peace and I ask you to support her in this sacred journey. She is walking with James Twyman the path of Francis of Assi and will participate in a World Day of Prayer with leaders from religions of the World. Peacewalk has all the information that you need to participate. It is important to me that there are those who can show up when I cannot be present in body but I can be in spirit. Elizabeth will be carrying my prayers in a crystal that she will wear and then send to me. You know it will end up in a Belly Chain that I will wear proudly! I believe that every time we choose peace, we make the world a better place for us all.

Please keep me informed of your unfolding stories. I love hearing from you! Friend me on Facebook and you will see a more constant picture, literally, of my daily life. I am on LinkedIn and Twitter @sallyaderton too so I try my best to keep my words flowing for good out in to the World-wide Web of us.

As always, know that you are loved and appreciated by me. It is you that makes my unfolding story interesting. I do not know what the plan is after October but I have no doubt, something will happen. It is inevitable and all I have to do is show up.

Blessings on your Journey Home!

Sally

PS As Scoop Nisker says, “If you do not like the news, go out and make some of your own!”

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Coming to the Light

It is now May and the Spring is finally awakening full from the winter slumber here in the heartland. I am still staying with family and celebrating this chapter where I am able to spend time with loved ones. Though I am missing (seriously) California, I am blessed as I know ‘this too shall pass’ both for the good and the challenging.

The favorite things for me personally these days are hanging out with my nieces, nephews, Siblings and Outlaws, and my parents. As I now have reached the half century mark, I am even more grateful for the family O’Mine. (As a reminder, I am still single, available and taking referrals just in case you have forgotten

The favorite things that have been happening with my healing practice are:

1. my writing, creativity, and poetry ~ I am posting a lot of spontaneous poems and photos on Facebook. If we are not friends, then find me and connect! http://www.facebook.com/#!/sally.aderton <http://www.facebook.com/#%21/sally.aderton>  I am also writing longer musings about life, love, and consciousness here on my blog. Also, I connect to only people I know on LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com There are some wonderful testimonials there for all of my professional services. It is a good place for prospective clients to get an idea of how my work is received by clients.
2. Skype sessions at salgalove ~ how cool it is to actually be able to see the people I am helping so far away! I have done phone sessions since 1986 so this takes the ability to be present with each other to a new level.
3. Informal spontaneous Circles are starting to happen again ~ this week on Wednesday, May 4th at 7 pm in downtown Chicago I will be facilitating a group who are interested in learning more about past-lives. Whether you believe in them or not, it will be a great opportunity to learn and experience the healing power of memory and forgiveness. Friday, May 20th at 7 pm in DeKalb I will be answering questions, leading a meditation and giving spiritual direction.
4. I have been guided to open my sliding scale to as low as my first session rates at $50 per hour. All you need to do is ask and it shall be given. Money is never the reason that we do not take care of ourselves from the inside out.
   

So I still have my hand in the California real estate game. My beautiful 2/2 condo listing at 4909 Orchard Avenue #105, San Diego, CA 92107 sitting right on the cliff at Sunset beach with amazing ocean views is still on the market. The price has come down to $595,000 and it is a great property for anyone wanting a move in ready property right on the edge of the Pacific. You can see it anytime online at http://www.amsires.com/staff/sally or just ask me for the direct MLS link where there are more photos.

My current short term goal is to get to one of the last tapings of the Oprah show. I am grateful for ever for Oprah to change the image of the New Age, metaphysics, and modern spirituality. She has made my life easier. Since I am here in Chicago, I am on her site every day looking for new ways to get tickets. Like anything, if you keep trying there is a better chance you will get what you want. If you get tickets, please consider taking me. You will be my BFF.

So, that is the news from the Sally Swirl. Please let me know what you are doing too and as Scoop Nisker used to say at the end of his news broadcast on KFOG radio in San Francisco, “If you go not like the news, go out and make some of your own!”

Always, Sally

All of my life I have always been someone who liked to go to church. As a child my family and I would always talk about the sermons at Sunday dinner.  We laugh when the new National Geographic would come out. Predictably, if we had read it we knew that Reverend Scorgie our cool, hip, young minister, would reference some story in there. Dad used to tell us, “You are not required to listen to the sermon. It is good for all of us to sit for at least one hour a week and be quiet with our own thoughts.” I just love my Dad!

When I returned to the Bay Area from San Diego in the Spring I did not feel like attending Glide where I have been a member for years. I did not feel like going to any of the Unity or Church of Religious Science or any churches with people. My heart needed to worship with nature and my friends the redwoods were my new ministers. I needed to sit quiet with my own thoughts as Dad had taught me long ago to value. And, as all things do, my needs changed.

Reverend E

After Labor Day my desire to ‘go back to school’ had me again out early on Sundays to meet, greet, and celebrate Spirit in community with others. On Sunday September 26^th I woke up early and wanted to go to The East Bay Church of Religious Science to hear what Rev E had to say. Reverend Eloise Oliver always has good things to say and I was ready to listen.

She started her sermon with riffing on MLM’s or better known as Multi-Level Marketing opportunities. Rev E got distracted from what she actually was going to preach about. I love that ability to go with the flow. Multi-level Marketing is a way that people are able to receive passive residual income by creating a network of members that sign up under them to sell a product or service. Rev E compared our relationship to God and our spiritual path the same way. She was out right hysterical and so very funny, and very right on!

Rev E said that when someone joins an MLM, they invest in the business by signing a contract and writing a check to order the product. They are sold on the idea that this path to riches is easy. It can be theirs if they join the MLM and enroll others around them to do the same. Then after a time, they see no money walk in the door so they begin to complain. And, they feel justified in complaining because they bought the promise of the rewards. At the same time, the product sits on the office floor, or in the garage. And they have done nothing to get others to join them on this path to happiness and wealth.

Our relationship to consciousness and faith is often the same says Rev E. We believe, we sign up, then, we ourselves do nothing. We do not work it, and therefore, reap what we sow. Some how people believe that just belief in the promise it is enough. Reverend E gave me a whole new appreciation of this business model. It is another living waking dream symbol of the reward comes only from the action not from the intention. Intention is necessary but we are physical beings living in a material world. We must work for the richness of faith not just hope for the rewards.

During the service Rev E asked if any of the Church of Religious Science Affirmations spoke to us, and if one did, to stand up and proclaim it to everyone in the room. I was moved to stand up and affirm, “My past has no power over me!” After the celebration was over, when walking out of the church, I saw Rev E and spoke to her. I thanked her for the opportunity to be witnessed by so many and how this affirmation due to my brain surgery was so potent. The fact I have the recovery on my face is because I had to WORK IT! It was not just given to me because I hoped and prayed it would happen. I had to do something…well, a lot of somethings.

Reverend Eloise asked me to come back and share my story. She wanted me to give a testimonial to this faith in action concept. She wanted me to remind those gathered in faith that they are responsible for their lives to make them better. Faith gives us a way and a direction but it does not walk the walk for us. I of course agreed and returned then 2 weeks later on October 10th (10-10-10 )to share my story. I went to the early worship service. I was nervous because I had not spoken in front of a large gathering since I gave the commencement address from my Graduate program at Naropa West the University of Creation Spirituality in 2001. Knowing that the first service is a smaller gathering of souls, it felt safer to me.

At the beginning of her sermon she asked me up to join her. It was thrilling to stand in front of an audience of approximately +150 people and be at Reverend E’s side. The EBCRS is a very alive and alove community. They come back again and again because Reverend E just tells life like it is. She is the voice of truth and delivers it with humor and humility. I told the story of my brain tumor removal also taking the function to the right side of my face. I told about how the doctors told me it would never function again. I could feel the energy in the room get more quiet but also more rich.

We worked the podium well together and the words of my story touched her community to a standing ovation.  I was reminded again that this is what my life is built for. I was reminded that this is why courage is necessary. We are all given, I do not believe God tests us, but challenges us to champion the ‘growth opportunities’ that come in our path. Then by being fearlessly honest, by sharing our stories and the wisdom we have gained, we can help someone else when they need it most. We cannot heal them but we can share how we conquered the challenges in our own journey.

Sally's Dancing Heart Logo for Intuitive Arts & Sciences

Reverend E was so impressed with what I shared, she asked me to stay then for the second service. Though I did not share the same examples of how I chose to heal my face, the results were the same. I got a second standing ovation from this larger audience but this time I was not so afraid.  I took a breath and let in the love. I felt present, witnessed, honored and acknowledged for just being me. It was wonderful and filled me with such joy.

Thank you East Bay Church of Religious Science for hearing my testimonial of faith and seeing the truth on my face. We all have the same power to heal ourselves and our world. It is the love we begin our lives with, that carries us along our path, and that we return to when we die. Thank you Reverend E. You are a shining light reflecting the love in all of us and reminding us we have had it all along.

Blessings Be! Sally

Note: If you would like a copy of any of Reverend E’s wonderful teaching of faith, click here!