Walmart is quite the force of our economic system. They’re a massive company employing many thousands of people all over the United States. You gotta hand it to them, they did something right! But the Waltons have opted to be misers about their wealth, keeping it all instead of giving it back to the employees. The employees at one store are so poor that they held a canned food drive – for each other! In what world does that make sense?

If Walmart simply paid their employees a living wage, not a get rich wage but a living one, the US taxpayer would save more than $6 billion in welfare dolled out to the employees. I don’t know about you, but it sounds like the right decision to make.

By John Holland

Do you find forgiving yourself harder than forgiving others?

There may be times when you do something you’re not proud about. Yes, we all do it from time to time, some of us more often than others!

The feelings of shame and guilt will complicate your life causing stress and emotional discord. It weighs heavy on your soul. Societal conditioning encourages us to forgive everyone else for our actions, but if you don’t forgive yourself, you’ll end up holding the key to your own emotional captivity.

Many of us agonize over our past mistakes, living them over and over again in our minds, like a video player caught in a perpetual replay loop. It depletes your energy and prevents you from forgiving yourself. When you feel guilty, you attract punishment into your life, and in situations that are more serious, you even manifest it for yourself. It’s easy to reconcile the feelings, by saying: “I deserve this.”..

When you are loved by the Creator of the Universe – and I most assuredly do love every which one of you – how then can you be anything less than gracious to everyone you meet? The only way you can be less than gracious is that you forget to be gracious. You forget that I have assigned you as the Welcomer of All in the Universe I created. This isn’t an assignment to take lightly. A Welcomer welcomes. That’s it.

The welcoming does not depend upon superficial impressions. It is not dependent upon your mood. It does not depend upon how much you have to do. It depends upon nothing but your willingness to act on My behalf.

And, so, you are to welcome everyone with good grace and without petulance or grievousness or impatience or haste. Whether you spend one minute or forty-five minutes, you pass on a gracious welcome. What good is a Welcome to the Universe without graciousness? It is no welcome at all.

Impatience isn’t welcoming. Trying to change someone’s ways isn’t welcoming. You are not to welcome anyone by suggesting they enter another door. This isn’t about the one you welcome welcoming you. You are the Welcomer.

You do not have to say Yes to everything, yet you are to be gracious. That’s how it is. Whether you welcome one or a million to the world, you are gracious. You communicate welcome and not correction.

If you think this is difficult to do, then think again and learn to make it easy.

I ask you to uplift everyone before you. If you cannot uplift, then, at the least, you are not to put down anyone I set before you.

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Happy New Year! Sun in Saturn’s sign, Capricorn, is prompting us this month to set goals and ask what kind of discipline and structure can be implemented to encourage a prosperous year. With attention still on Saturn, after the recent ingress into Sagittarius, an opportunity for a great start to the new year is evidenced by Saturn’s aspect to Apollon (Transneptunian). Think disciplined success, structured gains, and multiplication of material goods and material wealth.

What might this week portend for you? Consider your Sun sign and rising sign/ascendant as well.

Aries

HJ: Your life is what it is today because of the cumulative decisions you have made up to this point.  Change your decisions and you can effectively change who you are and, in turn, your life.  There are many effective strategies for radical and rapid personal change, however, the simplest and potentially most effective of them all is to simply decide you are going to do something different and then life fully in alignment with that choice.  Your life will begin to shift rapidly, mark my words.

And with that being said, one of the most powerful decisions you can make is to start telling yourself a different story about who you are.  We all have an internal dialogue — a story that we tell ourselves — that is self-reinforcing and ends up creating our reality whether we are aware of it or not.  Change this story and it changes everything.  And that, my dears, is what todays article is all about.

- Truth

How to Change Your Life by Changing the Stories You Tell Yourself

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By Kathy Biehl

January signals right out of the gate that this month — and this year — are vastly different from what we’ve experienced lately. Buoyant and brimming with possibility, this phase encourages coming into being, for a change, instead of coming apart.

Optimism and drive descend with the last chime of midnight on the 1st and propel us into a weekend of enlightened, and ultimately grounded, shape-shifting. Along the way, we could go overboard on resolutions, visions for living on a grander scale, and the immediate schedule taking shape.

A new sense of self is emerging from the pressures of late December 2013 and April, September and October of 2014, without the emotional charge of those times. Intense influences are working us over once again, as the Sun links to cosmic change agents Uranus and Pluto, and the Cancer Full Moon of the 4th awakens the pull and emotions of last April and our journey since then.

From the beginning, from the moment you drew your first breath on your Earth-plane, you were whole. Life experiences changed and morphed you from that wholeness. You now have an opportunity to return to it. Grab it with both hands and pull it close to you. It is, after all, yours. ~ Creator