Zeus' Palatial Blog

With the nice weather comes Hera’s famous BBQs. This coming Saturday apparently is our first one (I’m usually the last to find out - not that it makes any difference to me since I’m ready for them at a moment’s notice). A few of Herc’s school friends and their parents are coming over and bringing siblings that are Apollo’s friends — really handy how that all works out. It promises to be a good time to relax and socialize.

My neighbours are moving again. We tend to go through neighbours quite quickly as this will be the third set in three years. Not that we’re bad neighbours (my neighbour on the other side has assured me we’re the best neighbours he’s ever had in the 30 years they’ve owned their house) just that we cycle through them quickly. We live in a desirable area of affordable housing, so people are always moving in and out as the economy goes up and down. My current neighbours are moving because of job losses and economic issues. At any rate it should be interesting to see who we end up with next door. I know I could cheat and take a look, but that wrecks the fun of living life just because!

I’ve wrapped up the Dream Course in the Psi Palatium Circle. Originally I was going to run a four week course and changed it into an eight week ordeal. I’ve cobbled together a PDF that I am going to rehash and add to that will end up being over 60 pages in length. For something that was going to be 10 pages originally I think we’ve gone above and beyond but that was mostly because of the participants that wanted more and really did get involved with sending in dreams and interpreting them for themselves. I probably have enough dreams still not included to add another 30 pages to the course, but have to draw the line somewhere.

Taking over in the Circle will be Nesjamag and Svenove with Operation Psi Practice. Their enthusiasm and well planned layout should prove to be quite the program for everyone. Join it now (starts May 4th).

It’s the first week of Hera’s (my wife’s) new job and after reading through her new schedule I’m pretty much convinced that she’s trying to kill me. Not that her attempts have ebbed at all over the years, but we’re going to see just how spontaneously flexible my own schedule can be over the next few months. Of course I was well aware of all of this beforehand, and that was one of the driving factors behind owning my own company (flexible schedule). Most of my clients are understanding and sympathetic and know that in a pinch I’ll still be able to get everything they ask for finished - how is a mystery

Even with the increased loading provided by Hera’s new line of employment I’ve been managing to squeeze in quite a lot of psi. And to top it all off, because the Dream Course is still running I was able to skip last night and got a good sleep in with one very good dream. Apollo (my younger son) has been really pouring on the telepathy as of late in wanting to communicate ideas without having to voice them. This is quite the contrast from his brother who would much rather verbally communicate an idea before telepathy. Mind you Hercules (the older one) is far more empathic than his brother.

My “trip” for May is completely firmed up and I will be away for an eight day stretch over May TwoFour (ask a Canadian) as I will be a couple thousand kilometers from Olympus. I’ll fill in more details as the time for my absence approaches.

As Hera (my wife) is packing for her week away training for her new Ministry position I’m making sure I have my ducks in a row as far as my upcoming week is concerned. Usually I would be in charge of parenting only 3/4 of the time during any given week, but because of Hera being away I’ve had to make some slight changes in my schedules. I am looking forward to Hera’s new position which is much closer to home and will more evenly distribute parenting time, which will translate into less “uber” scheduling for me. Though I tend to have the boys more in any given week than Hera does we always ensure that she can take them to “special” things that I specifically avoid just so the boys and her have their own fun stuff to do together. To give you an idea I don’t take the boys out to eat. Hera on the other hand will get them fast food once a week for lunch as a treat. Finding the balance in family isn’t easy, but then again it isn’t easy with energy either. And as I’ve quoted before, “Nothing worth doing right is ever easy.”

The more I use this blog and reveal more about myself the more questions I’ve had flood into my e-mail. A recurring questions seems to wonder how I have time to accomplish my “psi appointments” if I’m always attempting to be available for family. The answer is quite simply usually. Since there is a group that looks after all of our “psi appointments” there are many that do not have children, or that are single. We schedule as best we can to make sure the non-children people are available for the hours when people like me would normally be having family time. The majority of my open schedule is during school hours, or after the boys are in bed. I can have someone stay at the house without issue once the boys are sleeping. Everyone remains happy since most single people would rather not be tied up for their nights and most family people would rather be available for their families during the day. Oh, that looks like balance too doesn’t it.

There must be some underlying message in today’s post regarding balance in life. I wonder if it’s important?

So back in February Hera purchased tickets for Hercules (my oldest son) and I to go to the Monster Jam and watch the monster trucks — interestingly enough she bought the tickets just after that rash of deaths and increasing my life insurance (I’m sure it’s just a coincidence). At any rate tomorrow night Herc and I will be off to the arena. To say that my son is thrilled is something of an understatement since I’m quite sure his enthusiasm could easily make those with a weak bladder wet themselves from second-hand excitement. I should probably make sure to have a nap so I can keep up with him …

The maple sap is running and they’re boiling syrup again. For the 175th year the family is making syrup. I’ve been brushing up on my tour talent as I always enjoy talking to people that can’t escape me, since they’re stuck on the hay wagon, for 20 minutes at a time. I will probably have to pop out to the sugar bush just to talk to the animals and make sure they know what’s going on. No need to have deer jump out and frighten the horses .. not to mention coyotes, or wolves and what have you. Sounds a little like Dr. Doolittle I know, but someone must have realized that humans aren’t the only ones that can be understood using psi.

Being 16 degrees (Celsius for those nice people south of the border) out today it was beautiful and most of the snow has melted. We only have small mounds in the shaded areas now. The boys and I had a chance to get outdoors and dug out the tractors, bikes, motorcycles and extra cool fun stuff that we could ride around on the driveway and lawns. We got a good solid couple hours of play time in before dinner though both boys were just a little down that I refused to put everything back together in the backyard until at least after I return in May. I’m sure they can survive without mazes, trampolines, fortresses, etc for another couple of months.

And as I think about how to finish up this post the alarm begins to sound so now I’m off …

It’s been a busy couple of weeks since I last posted — or days — it depends who’s timeline you’re following. I have been attempting to keep things going in this blog, but sometimes I just don’t feel like typing out what’s going on. To be brutally honest I forgo typing for sleep.

But I’m back and this past weekend saw Apollo’s birthday come and go. My youngest son received all sorts of things from the huge throng of people that seemed to flock to the house for cake and ice cream drizzled with maple syrup. Sometimes it’s difficult to think of the boys growing up so fast, but they have to at some point or I’ve really screwed up an intent somewhere!

This week sees me once again placed “on call” so I will be relatively non-existent in the community. I’m actually not overly looking forward to being outside as it is -25C at the moment and the wind is throwing it into the -30s. Of course we all do what we must and I’m sure I’ll only complain more about it the older that I get (isn’t that an old person’s right?).

Work continues to throw new curves at me and that always keeps things interesting …. which brings up a great point that I get asked a lot. If I can do psychic readings of people’s futures, and read guide posts, etc why is it that I can be surprised by things in my own life? It’s a fair question and actually has a two part answer. The first thing is that I am psychic and NOT all-knowing. There are a lot of things that I do not see, or hear about - I just happen to have a really great safety net of people to fill in the blanks for me. The second part of the answer is that knowing your own future is absolutely no fun what-so-ever, so I rarely look into my life (beyond the necessary evils of keeping myself alive). With the thousands upon thousands of psychic readings I’ve done through the community I can count on my hands the number of times that I myself have received a reading about my life (and then usually only as a means of letting a new reader practice).

I’m looking forward to getting the Dream Course underway in the Circle and should have things back in working order for Wednesday. It’ll cut a couple days out of people’s practice time, but since it’s the first round I don’t think it should matter much.

That’s all for now - stay strong!

I suppose you just get used to bedlam, disorder and craziness once you’re a parent, but if you stop to look back on a weekend you realize just how much you can cram into a 48 hour period (not to mention what you get away with once dilation and skipping are factored in). This weekend included the usual skating, cleaning, play-time, visiting and psi. It also happened to include one of Apollo’s friend’s birthdays and my father’s birthday. Actually, it’s an interesting thing with my father’s birthday. There just happens to be 30 years between my father and I and 30 years between Apollo and I - if you’re counting that makes 60 years between my father and Apollo. There really isn’t a significance to it, but it is interesting that the generational gap is relatively consistent in my family.

Mother Nature was kind enough to keep the temperatures mild this weekend, which lead to a lot of the snow melting away (and most likely flooding many basements though not mine). We were able to get in some homemade boat time on the newly created puddles of mass proportion, which was great outdoor time.

As for psi this weekend .. as things go it was relatively quiet. There weren’t any major waves for this area, insurgencies were at a minimal and I got some much needed down time. I did take some time out to practice some new TP techniques since new things are always fun to learn. Of course saying all that and looking at the records we’re scheduled for a shake-up around the 19th, so I suppose I should enjoy the time whilst I have it.

It’s Friday and the boys have a day off from school due to the teachers having a professional development day. Not that it matters really other than I actually got to sleep in rather than get up and take them to school. Seeing as I didn’t get to bed until 0400 again it was a nice change in routine. I had an unprecedented five hours of sleep it was grand. The boys are doing whatever they do while I’m working in my office (or pretending to work as I write this). Tonight Hercules (my oldest son) and Hera (my wife) are going out for a mother/son get together, or something of the like, and that leaves Apollo (my youngest son) and I home for a father/son night. We’re going to build an igloo and I’m finally going to “officially” best him in a game of Mario Kart.

On the other side of the spectrum I’ve decided that I need to make the west ways cross-country trip again and have put things into motion for that. I’m looking at the middle of May as the time slot and will be on the Island over the two-four. That should give me loads of time to see everyone that I need to, create new plans for the coming year, and take some time to do some work out in the virgin forests. I have a thing for wild spaces and love the gigantic trees all over the place. I’m going to see if on this trip I don’t have to hastily come up with some technique for bear and mountain lion encounters, but then again that’s half the fun. I’ll be doing this tour alone as the family can’t take the time to make it with me (not to mention the expense of such a trek), but that’s alright too as it allows me to condense things a lot for a shorter but very efficient foray over 4000km from home. You just have to love the vastness of the country!

As far as the Palatium is concerned I’ve been working on my new set of Dream Classes for the Circle. I’m looking to post them beginning in March. I just wanted a complete change from my usual teachings and thought dreams would be a great place to visit. People in the chat channel have been bringing up dreams and we’ve been interpreting them quite regularly lately which lead me to create a class to help out.