OUT OF BREATH

This month Sherle is going to tell you what a little Spring in November Cleaning did for her. We urge you to try it.

 

Spring Cleaning

Last month my partner went out of town for a 10-day trip, and as soon as the car left the driveway, I was in Spring-Cleaning-mode. I love to make lists so I can decide what I most want to do first, and then have the pleasure of crossing off my accomplishments as I proudly view the newly restored and recycled area.

 

My first challenge was our overloaded bookshelves- an addiction we share. Books were standing, leaning, or wedged in horizontally over others. I organized them into categories - biographies, spiritual studies, sacred psychology, fiction, poetry, humor.

I've emptied coat closets, file cabinets, and kitchen drawers of all the miscellaneous flotsam that found its way there. I recycled coats with shoulder pads, ill-fitting hats, gloves that had seen better days...and tossed files no longer relevant, as well as recipes I'll never fix, outdated vitamins and cold medicines, and too many knotted-up twist-ties.

Then I gave away movies we've tired of, and filed all our DVDs and CDs that were taking up so much shelf space into nifty notebooks that held pages and pages of sleeves for the discs - MINUS their cumbersome boxes.

I reluctantly let go of piles of treasured magazines that I had to admit I would never return to...because of all the new ones I can't wait to open. (I did save one year's worth of my favorite magazine to tear out the best articles and most interesting pictures.)

A wondrous gift of all this work is not only more shelf space, but I've reclaimed an entire walk-in closet.

Next, I reorganized my wrapping paper and ribbons, saving only the most beautiful, and getting myself ready to wrap Christmas presents, something I truly enjoy and will not rush through. And the spacious walk-in closet is where the presents and the wrappings are waiting for my undivided attention when I've finished my tasks.

Before that, I've still to finish sewing my tap-dance costume so I can remove my new sewing machine - and all the sequins and tulle, pins and scissors, from the dining room table.

(You know, less time spent online and watching television - except of course, Dancing With The Stars - has given me the time to do all this.)

Last night on my way to a lovely dinner party that interrupted my cleaning frenzy, I thought about the seeming incongruity of doing Spring Cleaning in November. And I realized that it's because my birthday is only 3 weeks away and as a professional numerologist - I know I'm simply getting ready for MY new year, which in 2008 is my harvest year... a year of prosperity. One of the Laws of Prosperity is the Vacuum Law - releasing that which you no longer need or want. Without consciously thinking of all this at the time I was whipping up this maelstrom... it made me smile and say to myself "All right!" when I finally paused long enough to remember it.

This is one of the great boons of knowing your numerology chart... an awareness and preparation for the lessons and rewards of each Personal Year. Your numerology reading is based on the numbers of your birthday and the letters of your name. It is an ancient art and science which has been brought forth into modern times by the Greek mathematician Pythagoras, whose triangle you may remember from high-school geometry. Numerology gives you valuable insight into your soul's longings and gifts, and shows you the plan you have set forth to experience as your precious life's adventure.