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READING LIFE DEEPER October 2004 Zine Issue 29 by ROSE ROSETREE In this issue: Rose's Latest Media Interviews:
In the October issue of Flaunt Magazine, I playfully assess the presidential candidates as lovers. In this excerpt, I check out their faces…. How to read someone sexually? Character-linked sex data must be read from the neck up, quite independently of the more obviously appealing bits of physique. Although several parts of the face are sexually significant, a certain part of the face specializes in revealing innate sex appeal. You probably don’t even know where to find this treasure trove, let alone what to call this very special part of the face. How funny is that? Okay, it’s the philtrum or overlip, located between the nose and mouth. To see it most clearly, get the person you’re reading to give up the smallest possible smile (even better, none at all). Before you check out the philtrum’s twin ridges, keep in mind that this part of the face shows only innate sex appeal. Conveniently, eyes and auras show what a man chooses to do with his sex appeal, however big or small. For starters, then, let’s peek at the philtrums of presidential and vice-presidential candidates. Poor George W. Bush is utterly lacking in philtrum ridges. This suggests a lack of innate sex appeal. However, he does compensate with charm traits. Note the curved dimple on his left cheek. (To tell left from right in a photo pretend it’s a person who stands facing you; then flip over in your mind, as if shaking hands.) George’s powerline dimple is about charming people in his private life through humility. Bush is also pretty well hung with eye extenders, the wrinkles at eye corners that some call “crow’s feet.” They symbolize an affable reaching out to others for ideas. As for Dick Cheney, the Philtrum Fairy was only slightly more generous to him than to Bush. You’ll see a very slight indentation that widens on the way down. This suggests a kind of sex appeal that would sneak up on you like a stealth weapon, deepening as you became more involved in the relationship. But uh-oh! Read those lips. Crooked smiles are charming, but the potential challenge is dishonesty. Moreover, a smile with no depth, like Cheney’s, suggests a taker. As for John Kerry, if bars had Wet Philtrum Contests, like wet tee-shirt contests, he would win easily. His glistening philtrum, being both long and well defined, would stand out strongly against the Republican competition. The meaning is long-term sex appeal, from the start of a relationship to its close. The only disadvantage? Last time I checked, there was no Wet Philtrum Contest for presidential candidates. Our final philtrum candidate, John Edwards, scores as poorly as Bush, but he compensates with the heaviest facial hair of any of the four men. That five-o’clock shadow over his philtrum speaks volumes about virility. And note that it’s placed at the mustache area alone. If facial hair burst forth exclusively at Edwards’ jaws, it would suggest macho stubbornness; at his chin, it would signal testosterone - driven competitiveness. AURAS
AT THE ART MUSEUM: Friends, countrymen, even Romans—if you happen to be visiting the U.S.—I hope to see you this fall. That includes my first talk on aura reading at an art museum, plus big doings in Richmond, NYC, and D.C.’s Biggest Expo. In New York City, come join me at the American Folk Art Museum, at 45 W. 53rd Street, Wed., Nov. 10, for “Deeper Perception Through Folk Art,” an interactive talk at 1:30 p.m. Admission is just $10. (Personal face readings will be available after the talk, as well.) While in NY, I’ll also give two workshops, 7-9 p.m., at the renowned Quest Bookshop, located at 240 E. 53rd Street. Thursday, Nov. 11, will see a sampler-style workshop on Celestial Perception. Friday, we’ll do an in-depth exploration of Face Reading Secrets®. These will be my first workshops in my home town in years. I’ll also give individual sessions Friday through Sunday. For details about my upcoming trip to New York City, click here. In Richmond, Virginia, I can meet you at my first-ever book tour on Oct. 13-19. Consider yourself invited to the two free lecture-demonstrations, plus workshops on Face Reading, Aura Reading, Empath’s Empowerment and Spiritual Healing with Celestial Perception. In-person sessions will be available, also. For details, click here. My Richmond sponsor, Kathy Kokkinis, will answer all your questions, help you make appointments and register for classes. She’s a treat to talk to. So don’t be shy about calling her at 804-796-1445. In the Washington Area, we can look forward to seeing each other at the capital’s biggest body-mind expo, an annual treat sponsored by Pathways Magazine. That’s Sunday, Oct. 24, from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM. At 10:30, I'm scheduled to give a talk. Later, stop by my booth for brief-but-oomphy readings and autographed books. Click here for directions and details and a $5-off coupon for admission: Not near any of these locales? Not to worry. Phone sessions, books and the Internet remain the most convenient way to benefit from what I offer. Internationally, the sessions can be a real bargain, especially with a favorable exchange rate. We make your appointment by email, you pay the session fee by credit card, and then simply call at the appointed time. As my clients can tell you, sessions by phone are just as powerful as if you traveled all the way to the Virginia suburbs. Incidentally, rates for my sessions will go up (my first increase in a decade), from $100 to $125, starting January 1, 2005. So this fall is a great time to schedule a personal session for spiritual growth and emotional healing. SHOW ME THE CATS Friends in Seattle, Los Angeles and Tokyo, you made my recent teaching travels the most memorable of my career. Thank you! In Seattle, the reception was so warm that I was held over two extra days. Jean Johnson, who’d invited me initially, did a superlative sponsoring job. Many new clients found their way to me, thanks to Susan Phinney’s article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which gave way to radio interviews and two TV shows. Consequently, my sister got quite a surprise. My first night in town, I’d visited her and family. But why pester her afterwards by bringing up every teensy media detail? Fast forward a couple of days after our visit. Highly intuitive, Amy wakes up early and, uncharacteristically, flips on the news. Lo and behold, a 5:00 a.m. visitation by her big sister! This happened because my interview on
King TV was broadcast four times. The L.A. Tour was wonderful, with many new students and clients, plus some of my most experienced empaths and face readers. Sparkle-auraed Susan Baroni has been teaching my system of Face Reading Secrets® in Adult Ed. courses. For information, email her at SusanBaroni@aol.com. Living room lectures were held on topics old and new, thanks to the hospitality of Suzanne Bank, Marigrace Lonergan, Diane Bulgatz and Tish Nettleship—who gave us a post-workshop tour of her extraordinary historic estate. Gardens and all, it’s the most beautiful home I’ve ever seen. Wonderful though these West Coast trips were, I knew that going to Japan would bring experience of another magnitude. So I started journaling right at the end of the L.A. tour and continued throughout my first two weeks in Asia. Altogether there are several installments, not all have passed the edit stage. Eventually all will be posted on my website. Meanwhile, you know how I like to give you, my zine reader, the latest and best, so here’s a sample: Show Me the
Cats Finally, cats. I’m taking my daily walk through unfamiliar streets. Dogs are a common sight here in Tokyo: Miniature breeds, immaculately groomed and circumspectly leashed. Delicate creatures, they bark so seldom that, had they been greener and more stationary, I might have mistaken them for bonsai. My own strides are purposeful and, by Japanese standards, noisy. After a week of primly silent workouts, today I’m giving in to the guilty pleasure of muttering a conversation to myself out loud. In linguistic solitude, one can take only so many days of silence. Sure, I get to talk with my clients for some six hours a day. In the session room, each client and I sit across from each other, sipping tea as we talk. Yumi, my deft interpreter, sits on a third chair; her fluent translations in the background echo comfortingly. When a client releases emotions during a session, Yumi will croon along sympathetically, client and Yumi humming an up-and-down song of “Um! Hmmm! Ah!” Sometimes this opera of consolation ends in “Ah, so!” Sometimes I join them. English-speak is rare. There’s my daily phone call to husband and son, all the cable TV I can stomach, and the words that are part of my work. Verbally, I’m shipwrecked. It’s as weird as being confined to a tiny island floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It’s… I can’t get around it, Japan is a place where I must comfort myself by talking to myself out loud. And these words will be English. They have to be. I’ve mastered precious few words of Japanese. Eventually even my own voice ceases to entertain. I find myself yearning for other kinds of communication, like the way I welcome the cawing of crows every morning, when they awaken the city like Japanese roosters. Now I’m telling my mouth to hush up, asking my feet to take me on an adventure. Today I will go forth and explore a new neighborhood—an ambitious assignment for someone prone to getting lost under the best of navigational conditions, which these aren’t. Tokyo streets generally don’t bother with street signs. Address numbers aren’t sequential, having been assigned according to the building’s birthday. Yes, it’s a historian’s dream, a pedestrian’s nightmare. CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER Lacking the usual directional cues, my strategy is to choose a major street, walk down as far as I can in a straight line, take no more than one or two turns, and then retrace my steps. Sometimes I walk up and down the same street several times. It still looks different, with nothing familiar to securely wrap my mind around. As I bravely stride out in new directions, I ponder the difficulty of landmarks. How can you choose just one thing to single out? Each block seems like an unending assortment of strangeness.
Much of what I see defies labeling—tiny restaurants and shops looking out over narrow alleys. “Curiosity shops” Charles Dickens might have called them. Even from the outside, each one looks infinitely quirky, with merchandise utterly unlike America’s chain stores and oozing with more character than you’ll find in an entire season of “Friends” (which, sad to admit, I’ve started to watch avidly each morning from 7-8 a.m., clear evidence that Japan is driving me a little nuts). Who shares the streets with me this sunny afternoon in late summer? Only a few zillion strollers, umpteen bikes and motor scooters, plus a dog walker or two per block. I long for cats. Then I see one, my first Japanese cat. It’s prowling the front yard of a tiny house. This cat is a white-haired, imperious, blue-eyed beauty. It observes me with a reassuringly familiar indifference. Joy propels me over the next several blocks. CATS Flower shops are the most common businesses, as abundant in Tokyo as coffee houses were in Seattle when I taught there the previous month. I pass one unusually large florist’s shop, then stop to admire. To the left, there’s a mini-forest of houseplants, arranged with exquisite care and taste. To the right, behold colorful bouquets of sunshine-fresh flowers. Linking left and right is a counter, and off to the side of that counter lays one plain, round, slightly dilapidated wicker basket. Quietly curled up inside, an equally dilapidated black cat stretches, asleep. I exchange admiring glances with the store’s grandmotherly proprietor. And for just a moment, the strangeness of my situation melts away. For the first time since my arrival at Narita Airport, I feel at home. No wonder my walk takes on a different quality. I stop window shopping, stop focusing on whether merchandise behind storefronts is elegant, exotic or buyable. Instead, I seek out the human, the worn—life’s unadvertised specials. Sure enough, in the midst of this city, where name brands rule, I still can find plenty of shabby: Comfortingly cracked walls of buildings, the worn contours of paving stones. An elderly woman walks toward me, her immaculate blouse perfectly pressed but vintage, with its antique floral pattern. It’s as though she were wearing pressed flowers. It’s easy to love what is shiny and new, but today I find myself eager to celebrate human wear-and-tear. I look for evidence of my fellow-students in Earth School, struggling through lessons as I do every day. Ah, so! I can find old men in threadbare trousers, weather- beaten trees, elementary school windows that post the jubilantly imperfect art of children. Show dogs may rule the Tokyo streets, but give me the cats in hidden places. PUBLICATION DAY 10/11 -- INSIDE INFORMATION The book has sold 33,000 copies in Germany alone, in hard cover. It’s selling in India, too. But my favorite story about Aura Reading Through All Your Senses comes from the American edition. This summer, at an International New Age Trade Show in Denver, I met a bookstore manager from Michigan who has been selling this book for years. She said: “This is the real aura reading book, for people who want to get with it and have results -- not that hyped-up stuff about looking for the colors. This book is way ahead of its time. We’re proud to be able to sell it.” As you may know, this how-to has more than 100 techniques for making Celestial Perception practical in everyday life along with explanations on how to read auras for better relationships, holistic health, also ways to save money as a consumer. Monday, October 11, 2004 marks the Publication Day for the second edition. On the outside there’s a snazzy new cover. Inside, you’ll find a new foreword, an updated bibliography and other improvements. We kept the price the same, $14.95. Now for some inside information about the book. Guess how long I spent writing it…. Six years. That’s because I rewrote it, in its entirety, three times. Since 1986, I’d been teaching these techniques. Now I had to explain them in a way that would be the equivalent of a how-to manual, yet still be entertaining to read. Maybe it helped that my first published book was a cookbook. As with recipes, its the results that count in the long run. Techniques are hard to write well. Think about it. Steps must be presented systematically, yet without telling people in advance what they’re “supposed” to experience. Besides juggling this time element on a flat page, you must find a way to address all major problems that can arise. Finally, despite packing in the info, you’ve got to avoid intimidating (or boring) the reader. My solution? I came up with a smart-alecky “virtual classroom,” using a Q&A format. That way, the book could use the same kind of humor you’ll find in my adult ed classroom at Marshall High School, the public school in Virginia where I’m teaching aura reading right now. A second problem with the book was one I didn’t anticipate. When published in 1986, it was outrageously counter-culture within the New Age community. It still is. Why? Turns out, there’s a lot of money to be made in taking away people’s power. What happens if you persuade consumers that they can read auras well only if they develop a rare type of clairvoyance? Then you can easily sell them items like Kirlian photos, psychic readings and flashy books by celebrity clairvoyants. Once hooked, consumers will keep coming back, much like the folks who buy diet books. By contrast, Aura Reading Through All Your Senses empowers every reader, helping folks to identify and use their gifts. This approach helps every wannabe aura reader to succeed. Of course everyone has what it takes to read auras in depth and detail! Who wouldn’t be glad about this? Well, I found out. At the time my book was published, I used to teach regularly at the two biggest New Age bookstores in metro D.C. The owners of both stores enthusiastically sponsored my workshops on face reading. Yet these store owners were hooked on the myth about auras, with its lucrative financial consequences. So, after my book on auras came out, both places fired me. Oops! In 2004, people are still encouraged to believe the myth about auras. More than ever, it’s easy money for salespeople who should know better. One way you can help your friends is to encourage them to use their God-given gifts as aura readers, rather than thinking they can succeed only by trying to be what they’re not. Just last weekend, I learned that a student in one of my workshops had suffered because of that myth. Highly motivated to be an energy healer, “Joan” has been studying with Barbara Brennan, probably the best known of the dogmatic-style teachers. Despite Brennan’s wonderful successes as a healer and teacher, unfortunately, she attempts to make students perceive as she does. Joan felt bad about herself and didn’t appreciate her exquisite talents for clairaudience, clairsentience and emotional oneness. I wish you had seen Joan glow up as she went through my workshop. She learned to respect her own gifts, rather than fault herself for not being a clone of Barbara Brennan. As I celebrate the second edition of Aura Reading Through All Your Senses, I wish you a comparable experience. Regardless of what you’ve tried in the past, may you now learn to use the gifts God gave you. Aura Reading Through All Your Senses, second edition, can help. A
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