Painting Me

Today we are pulled by the south star to activate our elegance.  Free will guides us again… interesting.  Overcome images of self by finding power in the skies and a friend in playful illusion.  It is the Electric Yellow Star.

Yesterday I accomplished so much.  So grateful.  Today will be just as beautiful.  Have you seen the changes to the website?  Still not quite done.  But getting more inspired as I dive into the deepest waters I could possibly imagine and paint my world.

Victoria Crystal
living SimpleSexy
www.victoriacrystal.com

Pools of reflection

Today, the Magnetic Red Skywalker is guided by itself to explore space and find wakefulness.  To me that signifies pushing beyond limits… the barriers in our life only we have constructed. 
Waking up to the reality of space.  That there is more out there.  More to be seen.  More to be experienced. 

Imagine if we could fly.  That would solve the whole gas mess and traffic jams rather quickly.  Perhaps instead of wishing for new cars, we should will ourselves new abilities.

What a person can conceive, they can achieve. 

I have believed that technology is increasing exponentially so that humanity can transcend to a new reality.  Unfortunately, people are too focused on stuff.  My self included.  As I completely restructure my business for… well, essentially the world, my self reflection has become nanoseconds instead of long moments listening to the wind through the trees and staring deep into the reflection of water.

I am doing exactly what I want to educate people away from.  Sure, I could say what I am doing is for the greater good.  But in this moment is it my greatest good?  Am I being at my best so that I can offer my best?

The easiest answer would be to ask if there is any stress in my body.  Is my forehead tight? Do my shoulders or back ache?  Certainly not greatly, but enough to give me pause and know that I am pushing against instead of flowing with the tides of the universe.  

Today will be my quiet day of reflection and organization.  I can see where my intuition was leading last night as I made a list of things to do and organize was today's goal.  So now I can reflect… sounds perfect.

Ciao loves,
Victoria Crystal
…living SimpleSexy

Message in a Bottle

Yesterday I had a social media meltdown where I blogged all over my Facebook.  It was sweet that some people thought I was actually sad.  It just goes to show how sensitive I can seem.

It is difficult for a woman who has practiced introversion the better part of her life to suddenly “need” an audience of millions.  The truth is I don’t know how.  But the message I have learned and “need” to share is too profound to hide from.

I can’t explain it.  I’ve been trying so hard to package it in smaller and smaller sound bites that will resonate… make people pay attention.  It is a way of being that allows for the individual to flourish while simultaneously offering their best to others.

It is about finding your inner strength and making decisions from a place of power.  It is  about understanding why all of those books on your shelves in the quest for the better you… haven’t worked.  And I have designed it in such a way that if one simply puts in the time… less than 15 minutes for reading and the rest of the week for reflection…. their lives will change for the better.  It is impossible not to.

It is not about suddenly waking up on a yacht finding yourself surrounded by dozens of simpering sycophants. It is not a get rich scheme and it will not work overnight.   It takes time to understand who you really are…

It is highly likely I will fall down a few times publicly, like yesterday… seeming needy instead of playful.  It is hard to type out “hey guys, I’m trying to be an extravert here!” God they are going to lock me up… aren’t they.

I am being and have been tested in so many ways. And now it is time to put my money where my mouth is. (Ah… la canción, Sentimientos. Que dulce. I just got a message from my girlfriend… still in México.)

And so the battle with myself begins. An introvert learns to become an extrovert. Can a leopard change her spots? Watch me.

Let come what may.  I am following this through.  I decided a long time ago this was my mission and now I am finally focused and ready.  Huu rah!

And now to the Mayan Mysteries:  Today is the Cosmic Yellow Human.  Perfect!  A day of free will.  You know… one of the things I love most about the Mayan Signatures is that there are never any bad forecasts.  It is simply the energy of the earth pulling in a direction and left for you to make of it what you will…

Today we are guided by the warrior to achieve intelligence through questioning our fears… (this keeps getting spooky how much this resonates).  Endure in order to influence, transcending wisdom…

Is anyone else paying attention to this?  I need to go hug myself.

Victoria Crystal
It’s my coming out party.
…living SimpeSexy. 

Your Intuition brought you here…. why?

Ahhhh…

I found myself counting backwards from 100 last night to put myself to sleep, but when that ended quickly, I thought I’d try the backwards alphabet.  After six times of doing that, I decided to just lay there.  That was at 3 am and after four Valerian.

The ideas just keep coming, and I love it… but I can’t seem to shut them off.  If this were reality TV, you’d soon expect to see me in a melt down, running half crazed down the street waving a loaf of bread in my hand.   But I won’t.  At least I’d open a bottle of wine first.

Oh cool.  Now I am going to make more sense.

Time for the Mayan forecast:Today is the Red Rhythmic Serpent.  (You will soon begin to notice a pattern.)  Guided by itself, it is the day for intuition and being present in the moment.  The Serpent is life force, survival and instinct.  Within the tone of organization and balance we can find equality.

With that cats and kittens, I’m off to work.
Victoria Crystal
…living SimpleSexy  

End of a Series

Today is the White Crystal Mirror, a day for reflection that is to be guided by our hearts to free ourselves from hubris and judgment of others.  It is a day of clarity in recognition that we are all born and create an existence through our choices. 

And it is the day for end our series on Change, which could not be more appropriate.
When I began this series, I instinctively felt there was a message that needed to shared, but I had no idea how much it would change my own life.  Fear has melted away.

Patience and promise have replaced it.

As always, I am excited to hear how it has affected you.  What insights you have received.. has it brought acceptance and greater peace?

I am not the greatest self promoter (I’m working on that), so please feel free to pass on my information to others.  I know they will thank you for it.

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The next series is on Intuition… and I could not be more excited.  Great things are coming.
Victoria Crystal

… living SimpleSexy

Follow your inutition…

to the ends of the Eartch…

Mr. Magnificent and I laughed about that for a while last night.  Oh how it still tickles my funny bone. 

After reading the back of the first business cards I so proudly handed out, I had a young man walk up to me and ask, “…So, what is this word?”  I looked, mildly surprised that he would have a problem reading the simple phrase.  “It says … follow your in..u..tition.  Oh my.. well..”  Of course I spent the rest of the day handing them out with a smile, hoping no one else would notice.

And then there is the matter of connecting with the Eartch’s energies.  Ah yes.  Something I could have simply fixed a long time ago on my website, but I think I like torturing myself with that little mistake so I remember to keep it real and abscond from perfection…

That is I THOUGHT that’s why I kept it there, but Mr. Magnificent so eruditely pointed out that the Earth’s core is indeed crystal and by adding the “c” to Earth I was correcting a long standing mistake.  Galileo had only been half right.  The Eartch is not only round, there is indeed a ”c”!

Second, I was informed, that inutition was the tuition I was to be paid for teaching people how to truly follow their intuition.  I had simply been letting them know up front what they needed to provide.

I feel spoiled having such a wonderful friend in my corner.  But now I have a problem.  I'm still perfect...  Oh well.  Must find trouble.

So, to that end:  Today is the Red Resonant Skywalker, a day for exploring the unknown to find inspiration and gain knowledge…  I like it. 

I am going to follow my intuition and see what this day holds.  Don’t forget to bring your inutition if you want to follow me on the full ride…

Victoria Crystal
...living SimpleSexy

Dreamy

I have been having a lot of strange dreams follow me through my day.  Dragons in Hawaii and a strange boy with yellow and blue eyes.  There were gingerbread houses around the pool and lots of beautiful art laid out on the tables inside.

There is a web of gauze around me and I am not sure if it is the safety of a cocoon or the web of a spider.  All I know is that something…  something…

Today is the Yellow Rhythmic Human; a day for organization of free will to gather the harvest.  That feels eerily profound.

Again the Absent Minded Professor theme seems apropos.  I have a lot of good traits, but organization is not one of them.  And yet, I know that the success of each day depends upon, in part, this organization.  A few day ago, I had recognized this and already began to put tasks into Outlook and created a semblance of routine for my mornings.

And since change is in the air, I have decided to include the Mayan Signature each day as a reminder of my ultimate goal: to get my calendar out to the website.  I have never known greater success in my life than when I began to connect with the earth’s energies and my own intuition.  Today my intuition guides me to do just this… as I listen to Native American flute :~)

I know Pandora was created just for me :~)

Victoria Crystal
... living SimpleSexy

Qigong bubbles

It was a fantastic weekend.  I managed to mix a client-based weekend with a little bit of fun.

The highlights were simple moments, dinner over-looking the bay with a bottle of red wine and fantastic service, (thank you Andy for the extra mahi mahi!) and a quiet walk along the water. 

I practiced Qigong this morning, partly why I am beginning my blog later than usual.  I feel amazing!  It is as though any heaviness that was within me has transformed to floating bubbles with the luminous glow of a rainbow.

I find so many things to bring a ready smile.  Why do we create difficulty with fear?  Alas, that is a question to end all others.

One point I have always tried to impart to my clients is to accept life as a process.  It is okay if you want something now and that desire moves you to action, but you will not serve yourself by becoming disappointed in the process.  It empowers.  It teaches.  It is the way to create continuity for your desire. 

Sometimes it is good to remind myself of the same things.
Fall down.  Get back up.  Try try again. 

Time for a late breakfast.  Care to join me?
Victoria Crystal
...living SimpleSexy

Not dead... yet

I find it interesting that although we are all part of this human experience, we find mistakes humiliating.  

My daughter has had this tag line as her email signature for years now:  “I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work.”          - Thomas Alva Edison   I love her for this.  And while I accept this as truth, I still find ways to be hard on myself.  

There is that fire burning for everything to come together quickly and perfectly as evidence to my own perfection.  When will I give that up?  I certainly hold no one else to that standard.  As I sit here, I can smile and say “soon”. 

Mistakes mean living, learning, curiosity for something new…

Finding out that Steve Jobs died and then listening to the speech he made six years ago at Stanford, a lot of thoughts run through my mind.  I wonder how many students there that day actually took his advice or even understood what he was actually saying? 

We cannot walk in someone else’s shoes.  We can only consider as if.

I have thought of dying a lot.  Not morbidly.  I have no desire to die. I have no desire to cheat death either… but I do have an honest desire to live to 473 years on this earth.  People laugh at me when I say that, but genetically speaking, there is no reason why I shouldn’t.   

If I die sooner, I’ve allowed myself to be talked into something.  If I die sooner, you can know that I have no real regrets.  I have been following my curiosity and my intuition… and with that, my heart.

I have certainly found more than 10,000 ways that did not work, but the ones that do have more than made up.  My children are my crowning jewels… with the millions of mistakes I have made raising them and the zillions of mistakes they will hopefully make in their life… nothing to me could be more perfect... and perhaps with that I have just found my perfection.

I have been on a mission to find a better way.  Thank you for the company...

Victoria Crystal
...living SimpleSexy

Wet fur

I love going out and about.  And without going into detail yet, following my intuition may prove itself yet again.   It poured rain yesterday and I got soaked trying to find a spot to sit, relax, and (of utmost import) find a place to plug in my laptop. 

In the end I went low tech anyway and chicken scratched my next concept into my binder at a local pub.  Hi Christian!  Hi Lori!

So much work to do I found my eyes popping open at 5 am and refusing to close.  I truly love my work and passion moves me.

Today I finally ordered business cards.  They are absolutely adorable and I thank Mr. Magnificent for his reinforcing belief in my flair.  They are not the style of cards one would likely suspect me to gravitate toward, but hey… I am nothing short of unpredictable.

A little Lily Allen to get me moving and now I am off!

Victoria Crystal

…living the SimpleSexy life

Today’s issue of the SimpleSexy gazette is out.  Yay!

It is part two in the series on Change and I have to admit I am proud of it.  It discusses Change Propensity and helps to discover a little more about how you respond to change.  I did all the hard work, now you get to play and reinvent yourself.

Have fun!

Not a Chance

Business first:  Having made an executive decision, the SimpleSexy gazette will henceforth come out on Tuesday, that is until such a time as I change my mind again ;~) There are actually several good reasons for this, not the least of which is that Monday’s tend to be disorderly for many. I’ll honor this current energy and go with the flow.

And now...   What an incredible weekend.  Not sought but accepted, not expected but appreciated.  

It was determined, quite to my surprise over coffee Friday morning, that I would accompany Mr. Magnificent in attending a class on the Yuen Method of Chinese Energetics.  I had expected the class to have somewhat of a vampiric aspect on my energy.  Often when working deep within one’s psyche, there are emotional euphorias that are closely followed by despondency (as discussed in the series on Change: Part One).  Add the palpable influence of others and my ability to be an emotional barometer…

Well… I proved to myself yet again that the simplicity of understanding and acceptance are keys to changing one’s everything.  Watch out.  Here I come.   

At the end of class we experienced an emotional shift what we imprinted for recollection.  The experience was nothing short of profound and there are already discussions about attending the next session. 

Hi Jill, Bonnie, Christina, and Mr. Magnificent’s soul sister Nancy!  Perhaps we will see you all next time!  Wait… I’m in ‘Bama…  perhaps we’ll see ya’ll next time!

Gosh, there were so many wonderful things that happened this weekend, not the least of which was meeting this a precious girl named Alexis.  We were eating dinner in this great little Italian restaurant and she and her daddy were seated a table away.  She reminded me so much of my daughter and was just as sweet.  She walked over with her blue crayon in hand and honored me with a drawing on my notebook.  Circle and spirals I will treasure forever. 

And then, shifting through time and space in the large city of Atlanta, on the very next day we found ourselves once again seated next to each other in a restaurant a few miles away.  There are no coincidences.  This time Alexis took hold of my pen to share more of her gift.  Thank you little Princess!

Smiling, I am now off to work…

Victoria Crystal
…living the SimpleSexy life…

Fanfare

I had a profound dream, begging me to do what must be done, essentially, or suffer the consequences. And while I moved through this dream, a vibrating noise followed; as I sat at a table in a restaurant discussing philosophy; as I walked through a friend’s winery; as I strolled amidst trees or stood on a bridge.  Thup, thup, thup, thup, thup.  What is this noise?  Why does it go where I do?  Thup, thup, thup, thup, thup.  I could feel its vibration externally.  It did not come from within.

My subconscious was being baited.  Pay attention.

I wish I had.  It would have been a perfect moment for a lucid dream made more perfect by the theme.  Do what must be done… or suffer.  Oh to have accessed the subconscious insight.

To varying degrees we all have these crossroad moments, but only the open wise or the lucky are keenly aware.   

As I listen to the trumpets cry in La Niña de Mis Ojos, I am reminded of my father.  As far as the eye can see there is nothing but smooth sailing out to the horizon, yet I sense a disturbance.  How why or from what direction I cannot say.

Thup, thup, thup, thup, thup… went the overhead fan.  Pay attention.

Victoria Crystal

...living the SimpleSexy life...

String'spiration...

This morning I awake with an excitement that I do not understand but readily accept.  I feel genuinely “pushed” to create, to work on the website and make the changes I have been desirous to make.  I feel the magic.

Rain.  Rain.

I feel this brilliant orb within growing wanting seeking holding sharing bigger…  I am listening to Carlos Montoya on Pandora.  I have an acoustic guitar station I have labeled La Isla.  It has been an inspiration to me often, this morning is no exception as Jesse Cook now performs just for me…

Well… I am going to take this great energy to the website.  I pray it translates!

Victoria Crystal
...living the SimpleSexy life...

Delicate Dance

Have you ever noticed the delicate dance of change that goes one step forward, two steps back, or sometimes three steps forward and two steps back…

This is the change we are actively watching anyway.  Our lives are continuously changing.  I, in my own way, have become a master of change in that it has been a decision of mine to reinvent myself on a semi-regular basis.  Often it is in small ways like actively making adjustments to my posture, trying out karaoke, listening to a new type of music, gardening, playing a strategy game, trying new foods… or big ones like living in Mexico, traveling new places alone, or starting a business. 

Whatever the change, I have engaged in the delicate dance… one two three one two three…

My posture will slouch, I hit a flat note, there are a few songs I don’t like, weeds overtake my vegetables, I lose, something makes my stomach ache…

Yesterday the Internet gods decided I would not get my newsletter, the SimpleSexy™ gazette out in my time.  C’est la vie.  Regardless, it is a good one.  I smile at that.  I look at these moments not as setbacks, but as opportunities to pause and reevaluate.  Is there something better?  A different way?

If you haven’t signed up and would like a copy of this week’s SimpleSexy™ gazette, send me an email and I will send you the link.  I believe you will like it.

Cheers!

Victoria Crystal

living the SimpleSexy life

Tech no no's

I can create an excel spreadsheet to sing and dance its way onto your screen, but I cannot figure out how to work this social media scene.  My business page posts onto Facebook are forwarded to Twitter and my Tweets get posted to my home page.  But not the reverse.  And I cannot access my business page from my phone and from the computer FB keeps having me “use as Profile” to send messages etc.  Wicked annoying.  Can you tell I am losing my mind?  I gave my technical team the rest of the month off, but I think I should fire them for leaving me in such disarray :~)

I got so excited for the follow from Tdub that I tried to send him(?) a message.  Long story short, I wound up following myself instead.  Then I thought: why wasn’t I following myself in the first place?  All of this needs to be connected somehow..?!?  Another reason to fire my technical team for not thinking of this. 

Ah, visions of grandeur. 

Considering I was in Colorado last week… I suppose I should give myself a wee break.

The sounds of the birds in the trees outside the window tell me to take a walk.  Sweet twittering birds...  oh here I go again.

Have a wonderful weekend of laughter and kisses!

Victoria Crystal

…living the Simple Sexy life…

Cuppa cuppa

The muses sleep this morning.  I have been staring at the computer willing my head to accept all of the work that now lay before me.  I need to… and then… there is of course… but that hasn’t been working so I need to call…

But first I must settle in.  Unpack.  Organize. And buy some decent coffee.  Mr. Magnificent, with all of his wonderful kindnesses to foster my happiness, doesn’t drink the stuff so I was left with what I believe to be last year’s canister of Maxwell house.  Stale and oily.  I can still taste it on my tongue.  For someone who cannot think beyond her next word in the morning, coffee has become a fundamental component to the coherent accumulation and distillation of thought.

Regardless, I am enlivened by so many things!  A message from a new friend that literally warmed my heart, the happy reception upon my arrival last night, the subsequent dinner, a wonderful sleep and the endless possibilities of today …  and most spectacularly, the excited call I received from my son this morning.

He continually amazes me as this most profound soul.  He has taught me many things, not the least of which is the idea of Lucid dreaming, something I had not know before he shared it with me a few years ago.  Since, he and I have had many incredible conversations around the subject and how dreams extend into our waking life… and our waking life into our dreams. 

I’ve asked him to begin blogging tonight as well.  He has agreed to write down the experience he shared with me.  It is so profound I offer only a hint: Dealing with inner demons.  I dare say that he accomplished something few adults will… but at sixteen, he is an adult to me.

Shower and coffee… then so many many things to do.

Cheers to my reader!

Victoria Crystal
living the SimpleSexy life… minus a really good mug o’Joe  ;~)

Awakenings

You know that feeling of walking up in a new place and for  one heart stopping second you have no idea where you are…?  Well I don’t get that anymore.  It was this fact that was more arresting to me than waking in a new hotel.  I realize I’d be an excellent transatlantic consultant.  


Doing a quick estimation, from vacationing travel, etc in Playa del Carmen, Palenque, Oklahoma, Denver, California, and New York I can safely say I have woken in no fewer that fifteen different beds this past year alone…  


Now… I know what you are thinking.  This is not that kind of blog… yet.  ;~0


180 miles on my drive in yesterday I came up with what I believe will be my best branding.  Where is my team of ‘yes men’ when I need them?  Oh well.  Forging ahead on my own.  It will take me a least one week to begin rolling it out; continuing my travels, settling in, then getting down to the business of design… (which I suck at).  But you can be the judge, my one reader.  Let me know how you think I did. 


But for now I am at point one: continuing my travels.  So fare thee well.  Until tomorrow.


Kisses and hugs,

Victoria Crystal

...living the SimpleSexy life

PS... I just received an email from Mr. Magnificent (the friends with whom I will be staying)...  Such words of kindness!  I am so excited for this next adventure!

Which Tatoo should I get?

The moon this morning is majestic and radiant.  A primal call from the wild.

As I prepare for departure on my long journey to Memphis I plan the drive with a mental theme.  All night I woke with ideas swimming through my head as I had placed this thought on my altar… succinctly embody all these distilled truths into one phrase… otherwise known as Branding.

It has come to my awareness that, as usual, I am all over the place.  I have so many ideas and so many of them toppling over each other; so many philosophical concepts to distill, each as important as the next.  Each one a building block to simplicity.

I know in the end the answer will be a Simple Sexy one.  Hahaha!  But Simple Sexy truth is a distillation of complexity necessitated from today’s setting: an environmental, technological, philosophical hodgepodge pushing and pulling upon itself without a centering theme. 

It has taken years to extract these philosophies from the weighted societal continuum.  Now I must focus on the entirety and brand myself in two days… and then LIKE IT!

The good news is, I have sent out my first newsletter!  Nothing feels better than accomplishment. Horray!  And thank you for subscribing.  Please feel free to send feedback.
Okay, I am off!  Long drive ahead.
Kisses and hugs,

VC

Sweet Sorrow

There is a time for hello and a time for goodbye.  Each can be emotional, even if the emotions are different.  As a person who travels far and often, I’ve had my fair share. 

From Colorado to Alabama I go, in my modest way, to repay an old friend.  I lose my BP but gain a peace in my heart.  I will miss the daily gift of Will’s sense of humor and the roar of his crazy laughter when he feels especially witty.  Take good care of yourself Will and don’t forget to take Sam out for morning walks!  And tell everyone at Jersey Street I send them my love…

I understand I will be heading to Alabama during hurricane season.  Normally I would not even bat an eyelash, but Mother Nature has certainly been making herself heard.  From earthquakes and tsunamis, to massive F4 and F5 tornados, record heat, fires, droughts, and flooding all over the world… I know that hurricanes are another trick up her sleeve.

Will this be the end of Victoria Crystal?  Tune in tomorrow to find out… hahaha!

It truly bears the striking need for us to attune our energies with earth’s magnetic field.  I believe in this more and more and feel the Mayan’s earth sense is important for us to follow.  Knowing this brings more pressure to offer the Mayan Calendar I have developed.  But I know I will get it out soon.  Traveling these next few days will bring about a certain delay, but my passion is not quenched in the slightest.  Perhaps I am even more on fire, so to speak ;~) 

Well my pretties!  So much to do, I must be off.  Kisses and hugs.

VC