Zeus' Palatial Blog

Zeus, where have you been?
A question I’ve been asked more than once recently.

To be honest I’ve been around, but my “free time” has dried up as I have many things on the go as it were. GoldBear and I continue to work on a project that eats a great deal of time and resources, so that’s where I’ve been the last month, or so. There is light at the end of the tunnel, because Beta testing begins soon, which means that the fury of programming is finally coming to a close (until we add something else into the mix). Once the heavy load portion of our little project appears I’m taking a vacation.

That’s right I’m going on vacation - without computers. A little sand, surf, sailing, and relaxing to reward myself for a job well done (and yes my wife is going too). Which means I’ll return to the world of the Palatium in mid February.

As a further note I think I’m going to shake up the Community a little. It’s been 13 years and time for something new. You’ll have to wait until February to hear about those plans though.

At any rate Happy New Year to all and we’ll all talk soon.

We’ve flown into December and as my oldest son is fond of reminding me his birthday is coming up quickly. He let slip it was only 20 days until his birthday about 50 times this morning. Yes, he has a December birthday as he was born at 23:30 on December 22 in the middle of a snow storm. What does that mean to us? Well, seeing as both Hera and my families are rather large we happen into a month long barrage of Christmases and Birthdays. By the time December is over every year I’ve contracted for an addition to the house. Don’t get me wrong I am not complaining as I realize just how fortunate our families are to be able to come together and share with eachother. I’m simply afraid that my children will disappear in the monster amounts of stuff they have. Justification usually comes with the donation of outgrown toys and things to local charities and organizations, so I suppose all the outpouring of love gets paid forward anyways.

Hmmm - paying it forward - that’s a term I’ve been hearing more and more of lately. The best form of paying it forward that I’ve seen is taking the feelings from a kind act someone has done for you and giving that same feeling to another person by doing something for them. It actually works exactly like energy manipulation in psi since one thread of energy charges another, which charges another, which charges another, and so on. I’ve been really attempting to use some of my free time lately to “pay it forward”. The funny thing about it is that the more I do things for others the more I realize that it makes me feel just as good. And due to the cyclic nature of the Paradigm Shift it all comes back to me eventually to make my life better. For people just starting the shift please read my Paradigm Shift series, because it is extremely difficult to get the ball rolling. Once it starts though .. wow.

My 7th wedding anniversary is Monday. Apparently they happen every year (go figure). I haven’t yet decided what we’re doing, but I still have a couple days to come up with a plan. As luck would have it Hera and I were married on the same day that we started dating, so I didn’t have to remember a new date mostly! The funnier thing about my wedding is that Hera received a reading from Rhyannon about a decade ago (the only psychic reading Hera has ever received from someone other than me) that pegged our wedding date to a “T”. Psychic readings aren’t accurate (hahaha) sometimes they can be if you hit the right chord with a person. It was a lot of fun actually because the reading was almost 6 months before I actually asked Hera to marry me, so nothing was set at all. Rhyannon may deny her skills sometimes but I still have the log of that reading that so accurately portrays several different aspects of Hera and her life - accurate, tasteful, and fun (what more could you want in a psychic reading).

Is Rhyannon the only one that can do accurate psychic readings that lurks around the Psi Palatium? No, not at all. Rhyannon just happens to be the easiest one to pick on since I have a great log of Hera’s reading! Many people these days don’t know that when the chat channel first started we had 20 or 30 psychic readers that would give an hour or so of their time every week to read for members and guests. Over the years we’ve gotten away from readings though as other things in our lives came into play and psychics have gone on to other things.

But I’d like to reverse the trend.

My want to bring things back in focus to the origins of the chat channel is the major push behind my upcoming Psi Palatium Circle course regarding Psychic Readings. Everyone can learn how to do psychic readings, especially if they’re already sensitive. And to be able to give back to other members and guests actually helps in understanding the self. The understanding in turn allows the reader to progress faster. So the cycle is great on both sides.

How else are we hoping to help the community? We’re bringing back Skywind’s Teacher/Student database. Since we have such a huge membership that doesn’t ever come into the forums, or chat we’re going to allow people to register with the database and thus hook up with other members online, or IRL to learn and progress in psi. We may bring back part of the certification program in order to allow people the Teacher designation; however the database (registration and certification if necessary) will be free of charge as always.

The Psi Palatium is always free of charge (it’s been that way for almost 14 years!) and as long as the ads continue to help with the cost of the community Hera let’s me keep it Online! Not that I’m telling you to click the ads of course *wink wink* It’s an easy way to ensure we’re here well into the future!

I love lightning (go figure with the nickname) but seriously to sit and watch a lightning storm is so much fun. Not just because they’re tres cool, but also because of the energy that can be felt during them. Obvious safety precautions should always be taken when in the middle of a lightning storm to ensure safety. After a storm it usually leads to my becoming child-like in having fun creating sparks of light, which in turn leads to some good practice time. Everything boils down to psi in my life … see how it is.

Hera is on a week of afternoons - another change in schedule thanks to her job shift last month. This really means that I get more nightly community time after the boys are asleep. Well, more time for the community is the plan; however I do have meetings and gathering already scheduled to make up the time. Not that I can’t do meetings and gatherings when Hera is here … it’s just a lot easier when she isn’t screaming that something just bumped into her and we’d better take it with us. I’m still getting heck for leaving her alone in a haunted house while I was on the west coast.

Haunted house?! Yes, I love it. There are all sorts of concentrations in my house - friendly of course.

What’s on the plate? I’m having a definite lack of want to code, so I probably won’t be adding anything exciting and new to the website until mid-June anyways. I will tell you that I did start my Psychic Reading Course outlines and articles while I was out west. Should be an exciting or at least interesting time in the fall.

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 was a beautiful day today with temperatures reaching 26C. Tomorrow things are going back to 11C, but that’s what we’ve come to expect from a Menopausal Mother Nature. At any rate I took the opportunity to get everything out from storage and set the yard back up for the season. I had exactly two hours and twenty-seven minutes of open time to compress and get things finished - and I finished just on time (imagine that). The boys were excited to see “Play Central” all back in working order plus some and we spent most of the afternoon outside enjoying the first really nice day of the year.

I’ve had a couple of get togethers with people over the last several days regarding psi. There’s always something new to learn, or old to rehash …. and yes, as I get older and older stories to tell. It’s been a lot of fun and I always enjoy company so the more the merrier!

Hera and I just got back from a gathering out at the farm. Though Hera doesn’t usually attend gatherings this was with some of my family and friends that she knows, so there was an element to keep her involved and occupied. Unfortunately I have some appointments to flip in and out to, or I would have stayed longer.

Not much else to report at this point .. well, not much else that I’m able to report - we’ll put it that way.

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.

Well, it’s been an interesting week without Hera (my wife) around. As previously mentioned she’s off being retrained as she is shifting jobs to be closer to home. The boys and I have fended for ourselves with great success and friends and family have pitched in to cover the times that I am called away for short periods of time. It’s been interesting for me to look at how our house operates since it never occurred to me how many people visit and/or are at the house at any given time. Someone mentioned the fact to me this week and since it is normal for me I suppose I never paid it much mind. It isn’t uncommon for me to find ten to forty people in the house at any given time. I suppose everyone just keeps different lives and homes — mine is communication and gathering central LoL!

It’s been raining all day today and I was dealing with some grumpy weather-centric people early this morning. I love the rain and lightning storms. When I went to pick Hercules up from school I got all the parents involved in a game of jump the puddles while we waited for the kids to finish gym class. Sure it may mean some plans get ruined and yes you’re going to get wet, but you take the good with the bad and do the best you can anyways. I’m an eternal optimist and it upsets my overly pessimistic friends. The point is that every one of us picked our children up and went away laughing, smiling, and relieved of stress. So … that makes me crazy … sort of … but there is ulterior motive to my madness (there always is). Think of the big picture in this - with the child that has a parent that hits them when the parent is angry .. for whatever reason. Being able to remove that parent’s anger and stress through an unnoticed cleansing game gives that child a day without pain and fear. Sure, I might be thought of as crazy sometimes but that’s okay if my ultimate goal is realized. No one gets hurt and no one knows the difference — that’s a job well done.

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?

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.