Who's a healer?

I need to clear up something from yesterday. I am not technically a health professional, though I have spent many years studying and practicing various healing modalities and writing about them. So I can honestly say I am a healer -- a person who reaches out to others to make them feel better in any way I know how. Sometimes to make their bodies feel better, sometimes to make them feel better about themselves. When any of us do anything to make another person feel better -- physically, emotionally or psychically -- then we are a healer at that time.

Healers come from all walks of life. A number of years ago, before my son was married, he studied several healing modalities also. After he completed the master/teacher level of Reiki he decided it was time to purchase his own table. He made his living as a construction foreman, so he asked me if I would call around town to see who had a good deal and make an appointment for him to stop in after work to examine the table. He wanted a really good one. I agreed. The next afternoon he went. The woman who had stayed a few minutes late to accomodate him looked him up and down, from his dirty T-shirt and short pants to his work boots, and turned her nose up a bit..

"Your mother said you're a construction foreman. Don't you think it's a little strange for you to be wanting a professional Reiki table?"

"No. Last I heard, Jesus was a carpenter."

You never know where your next healer will come from. All it takes is an open heart and a true desire to help.

Over the years quite a few people have been astonished that I choose to combine astrology with healing for the betterment of people I work with. That's why I talked about Pythagoras yesterday. He believed that healing should be total -- body, mind and spirit. That's how I use astrology.

That's it for today. I've worked hard these past few weeks, trying to get a website up and running, then starting a writing journal about the book on astrology and healing that my students and friends are determined that I write. I'll note the website on here as soon as it works. Nobody has ever accused me of being a computer genius. In fact, my grandson said I was a dinosaur!