08/01/2026
“The 12th day of Christmas has gone; festive celebrations are over, and I am back to serious work, as is Jessie Cat, who is out, checking on everything from birds to ants, being major-domo (head of household).
Over the last six months especially I have been aware of an increase in those developing senses used when communicating with animals. It is an extension of the senses natural to all, an indicator of the way humans are moving into the new. By ‘new’ I mean living WITH our Earth and those in/on it; an important move towards that harmonious existence all peace-loving people want.
Note I qualify who wants peace and harmony, because not all want to live as such, there are those who want competitiveness beyond balance, and those who appear to thrive on anarchy. The latter usually for commercial/monetary or selfish gain. This world is a melting-pot, where we balance our excesses with a view to understanding not just others, but ourselves.
You are beholden to find what makes your senses ‘bleem’ contentment, whilst envisioning possible happiness with respect for others’ needs. That path is the ‘Karmic Path’; your senses were tuned to it before coming here. Karma is not retribution it is balance … understanding the result of one’s choices at soul level, not incarnational level - accountability.
If you are in a job you hate, one that brings in the money but makes you feel trapped, then you are doing a con job on yourself. You are saying, “I will not get another job with this much renumeration.” Humans are great at self-propaganda. So, you stick at making money your prime focus.
I was working as a single in my late teens. I solved the fiscal problem and dislike of the jobs I landed in by changing them until I had one I liked, ending up with an employer who used to sing a verse of Gilbert & Sullivan operetta to me on Monday mornings as he came in the door. (He was in the chorus of the local D’Oyly Carte Opera theatre.) An accountant who loved people … we rubbed along very well despite both being extremely individualistic. I left his employment to travel to G.B., for a year with my British husband, came back and got another dead-end job. Six months later I was on my second job when C.W., having heard I was back from U.K. (Dunedin was small) rang me at work and said, “Do you want a job?” I said, “Yes,” immediately … handed in my notice, and worked with him for another year until he retired and I had my first child. I was sole charge in his accountancy office despite hating maths of any sort. I audited people, balanced profit and loss sheets, and kept the office clean. He smoked a pipe, and I am convinced he could have filled his pipe with what spilled and lurked under his cushion weekly. C.W. Harper was a gentleman of the first order whom I respected and loved.
Imagine a community of people who follow their dreams, who take the odd risk by leaving a toxic environment for something better. A community populated by those who can communicate with animals, follow their dreams, all whilst retaining an awareness of others’ needs. I am scanning the horizon!
January is the month of ‘beginnings’, of fresh thoughts, innovative ideas. It is your karmic needs that will lead you to your passion, because it is the path that feels right. Some of you will be organisers for others dreams, facilitators for health and wellbeing, some working at home producing whatever, or being the one who aligns with another, being the ‘girl/boy Friday’, helping another with their dreams thereby fulfilling yours by being the helper. My motto is ‘Be useful happily’. There, end of lecture … indicates my enthusiasm for 2026.
Jessie wanders in having surveyed the property, checking up on me. We are coming out of a difficult relationship period; she has received a few lectures on behaviour. Her response - disappear and/or increase eye scrunching – she hates lectures in ‘that’ voice, but behaviour has improved – I am still applying the ‘scratch and bite’ ointment.
Several phone consults with clients this week, all diverse in character, but all with an inner need to stretch themselves beyond 2025 expectations. Oddly, having an auric bug (attachment) is something all had in common; it effectively pushed them to make that phone call to get rid of it, and unwittingly introduced themselves to possibilities. One had a talent for crystal ‘lore’ and another a very talented artist.
Stepping beyond the known is difficult, because the “what if” appears in one’s brain creating fear of failure. I too have had to stretch beyond the expected; working in new fields, which lead to where I am now, happily working with people inviting/encouraging them to follow their dreams.”
Linda
Media: Melissa Scott-Miller - Self-Portrait with a Background of Summer, Back Gardens, 2018.