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I have been teaching classes in Astrology, Tarot, and Palmistry for over 30 years and here you will find some of my wisdom and ideas which have come to me through my teachers and/or my Celtic intuitive understanding that was born in my blood.   I have often felt totally differently rather than adopting traditional meanings of Tarot cards or lines in the hand, and had my own understanding of such things.

As a teenager, I developed an interest in astrology in my search for self-identity.   As an adopted child, I felt something was missing.   This spurred my interest in anything which might lead to who I was.   Astrology seemed like a definite fit.   Taking my first real class in astrology was around 1971 in Corpus Christi, TX, at Del Mar College when astrologer Nance McCullough taught her first class in astrology in their night-time adult education format.   I soaked it up like a sponge.

In 1974, I moved to Houston where I started to search out more classes to take and eventually found the Chapel of Prayer and Rev. Eleanor Button.  About the same time, I discovered a book at a mall bookstore, You Were Born Again to Be Together by Dick Sutphen on past lives and reincarnation.  This coincided with Dick Sutphen presenting a Past Life weekend workshop at the Royal Coach Inn in Houston.   Little did I know, this weekend workshop would change my life in so many ways.   It was only the beginning.

A few months after the Sutphen workshop, I went to Scottsdale, Arizona, for a week long seminar with some of the most well-known people in the metaphysical field.   Primarily, there was Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, and Brad and Francie Steiger, Grant Gudmundson, and others.   while the lectures during the day were informative, it was really the late nights poolside where there was more diverse exchanges of ideas and thoughts.   This is where we all connected.

I was changed at this point in how I viewed life and I felt my life took a new direction.

Upon returning to Houston, I got involved in meditation classes with Rev. Eleanor Button at the Chapel of Prayer.   This led to classes in astrology and other subjects, but primarily, I got involved with a friend from the class who wanted us to participate n the Texas Renaissance Festival in Plantersville, TX.  This involved Renaissance costumes and a crash course of self-instruction in palmistry.    The first morning of walking into the festival to set up our station, some of the musicians asked how long we had been doing this, and I asked "what time is is?"   Time was not on my side of knowing what all the lines of the hand meant so I relied on the only thing I could -- intuition.   I would hold the person's hands and tell them what I felt, what came to me in spirit.   I was as surprised as they were when the information was received with acceptance.

Over the course of the following 16 years, I continued to work the Texas Renaissance Festival, but without my beginning partner.   I also started studying palmistry, astrology and Tarot.  I finally found the Esoteric Philosophy Center in Houston and was able to take classes in palmistry and debate it with Richard Unger.   In reading for people, I struggled with imparting what I learned in books, from Richard, and my own gut feelings won out.

In 1991, I was invited to Salt Lake City, Utah, to teach a class in palmistry, and also to be a guest on a tv show and radio station.

Time marched on and I continued to develop my teaching in these subjects.   I taught for a number of years through Houston's Leisure Learning Unlimited, as well as through various metaphysical associations.   I lectured at many local groups, and my interests developed in certain areas, mostly psychological astrology, and primarily, astrology in relation to adoption issues as well as relationships.

Life then took me to Los Angeles, Califronia, in 1991 where I took a job in public relations and photography catering to celebrities.  

Developing Psychic Gifts

Questions & Answers by Marva Boehm Mason

How do I develop my intuitive gifts?   How do I know if I have an intuitive gift?

We are all psychic.   There is a psychic essence in each of us.   We just need to pay attention to it.   One of the first things I recommend is to learn how to be still and quiet the mind.   If you are conscious of trying to still your mind, you are still thinking of something.    Find a place in your home where you can totally relax, where you won’t be interrupted by people, phones, noise, or any other distraction.    Be conscious of the stillness around you and slowly start to still your mind and body by relaxing your body.   Start to visualize the essence of crystal white light to protect you in this state and quietly protect yourself from any negative energies or from anything that is not of the highest good.   This will get easier each time you put yourself in this state.  Personally, I give myself trigger words that will immediately put me into a deeper state of relaxation, such as “sleep now”, or “deeper now”.   Whatever you are comfortable with will work for you.   

Once is a totally relaxed state, and knowing that there will be no distractions, allow yourself to be aware of whatever you may want information about.  Invite your guides, your angels, to be there with you and to allow you to become aware of information, insight that may be helpful to you at this time.    Ask your guides and angels who they are.   You want to develop a relationship with them.   They are there to guide, assist and protect you.   

In a conscious state, whenever I want confirmation on decisions I am making, I ask for my guides and angels to give me a sign that I am doing/not doing the right thing.   Then, be aware of your surroundings for those every so slight confirmations.   It may be a white feather falling from the sky, or something more personal that you can connect with the decision at hand.   

They key to becoming more aware of your psychic gifts is to learn to be still so that you are able to be aware of communication coming from the other side, and from your guides and angels.   When your mind is noisy, its hard to hear or to be aware of what the messages are.   With time and practice, you will learn to still your mind, even in a crowded noisy room, so you can perceive pertinent information.   You will learn to develop an acute sensation of touch, smell, and hearing.

Spirits Among Us & Our Contracts in Life

Spirits Among Us & Our Contracts in Life  by Marva Boehm Mason

Whether we have lost people close to us in our lives or not, there are spirits among us.    They guide us along our way, by either clearing the way or putting obstacles in our path to get our attention when we are going in the wrong direction.   But how does free will play a part in this?    Before each of us is born, we “contract” to learn certain lessons, for lack of better terminology.    There is some sort of divine purpose or planning that as our soul is about to come into the earthly plane, there is a contract put in place that we need certain soul groups or energies in order for us to experience what we have come here to experience.    We constantly have spirits from the other side who aid in our paths and help to bridge us with those who are part of our path.   

Is there any wonder why we are born into the families we are born into?   Why do we have the jobs we have?   Why do we travel where we travel?   Why are we attracted to certain things/vices in this life?   Why do we bond with certain individuals and totally cringe with others?   Its all part of that master plan.   

On a deeper level, how do we explain murderers and other horrible crimes against each other?   Are they random acts of violence?   Are they “completion” from karma from another lifetime carried over?  

Some babies are born only to live a matter of hours, days, weeks or months rather than into old age.   Is it that what their soul contracted for only took that amount of time to complete, so that soul could check that experience off their list and move on to another existence and other learning/teaching.  

How do we know what we have contracted for in this lifetime?   Examine your life and look for the repetitive themes in relationships with others as well as with yourself?   Where is the most pain?   What is most difficult?   What type of people or situations do you continually attract into your life?   This is where you begin to discover your own contract.

As an adopted child, I began to wonder early in my life about my “biological” family.   Astrology was my first vehicle that allowed me to see that it really didn’t matter who my biological family was because it was really about MY experience of whomever was MY family.    This especially became very clear to me AFTER I found my biological family and was able to compare them to the family I was raised in.   Everything in life is really about our experience of it and what we do with it.   We can’t blame others for what happens to us because we have a hand in it too and can determine the paths we take to fulfill our pre-birth contract on the path to consciousness and karma.

Houston Chronicle - 2006

Mercury Retrograde July 2005

Questions & Answers by Marva Boehm Mason

What is Mercury Retrograde all about?

We have just emerged from the second Mercury Retrograde period of 2005, spanning from July 24 through August 17, and from 20 Leo back to stationary direct 8 Leo, and will be in Mercury Retrograde “shadow” period until August 30.    This happens about three times per year.   

You have heard a lot of myths and suggestions for these retrograde periods during year, but I would like to expand on them.   Its typically suggested that, during Mercury Retrograde,  you don’t sign legal papers, pour the slab on a new home, buy a car, start any new projects, or begin anything in your life that is “NEW”.    This is all good, but you cannot stop your life and stand still under Mercury is moving in direct motion again.  We all have lives to live and have to stay in motion.   We can’t crawl under the covers and stay there until August 30 when the coast is clear again.   So, let’s see how we can continue living, breathing, during this time.   

Mercury Retrograde is a wonderful time to look at all the things you have done, assess what has worked and what has not worked.   This is the time for marriage difficulties to surface, or difficulties in any type of relations – business, parent/child, personal.    Whatever is not working…..   the difficulties will rise to the surface so that when Mercury goes direct, after August 17, you then have the opportunity to fix what has not worked by whatever means is appropriate.

The retrograde period is good in business settings to go back through old client files, contact clients you haven’t heard from in a long time, find out why you haven’t heard from them, and have the opportunity to remedy whatever went wrong in the past.    Let the client know that you are using new ways or are interested in implementing new techniques to solve their problems.   Regain your client!   

We can’t all avoid buying a new car during a Mercury Retrograde period.   How to get around this dilemma?   Have your salesperson check the lot for cars which were not manufactured during the retrograde period.   There is a date on the new car which shows when it rolled off the manufacturer’s line and that’s the date you want to check for.  

As the current issue of Your Own Universe hits the streets, we will just be coming out of the shadow period.   This is the time when you will be having realizations from the previous retrograde period and looking for ways to resolve whatever surfaced for you during that time and that you are seeing clearly that you need to find remedies to old situations which are no longer workable for you.   

The retrogrades are wonderful to give us time to rehash, reassess, and truly examine our feelings, thoughts, emotions, and practical issues in our lives to see where we are out of sync.