Om for the money

I’ve never heard OM for the money, but that’s so cool!!! Set your intentions, visualize it as if you already have it. Feel the joy and then give thanks and release it! Powerful stuff, eh?

I really have transformed this goal. I created this with a specific thing in mind, and now I’ve put that purpose completely in the past, and it’s gone to the bigger picture.

But there is an action with this goal. I do have to sit my ass down on a regular basis, do a meditative practice, and include an om for the money as part of it.

And then I have to act to make things happen for me.

I must also be thankful that the intention alone has brought me blessings. The year end, for 2006, has brought in many donations and financial support for the rescue, and also some financial blessings for me personally. December has been one month in which I did not have to scrimp and save and worry, but feel abundant. For which I am very, very thankful.

You’ve sent me a student to stay in the guest room for December – and she seems really nice!

Because money, focus, peace of mind, are so essential to me right now, and I need a part time job too, I want to find a way to ask my angels for very specific things and amounts of money, and plan on it for my future work e.g. these are my base needs, and this is what else I need to be happy.

Italics are for things that I cannot even afford, but hope to fit it in here and there, receive as gifts, or store up until I have that fabulous lucrative gig. Angels, please work hard on those, because I know I have to cover the others.

Monthly and annual expenses:
Electricity: $130/month
Cell phone: $50/month
Home phone: $60/month
Gasoline: $120/month
Groceries: $250/month
Retirement savings: only $50/month right now
Property taxes savings program: $61.50 weekly on Wed. —> over 6 months = $1575
Nov.: $303.50 Dec.: $242 Jan.: $303.50 Feb.: $242 Mar.: $242
Car registration/insurance: $255 November
Home Insurance: $900 January
Driver’s license: $86 Feb 2007
Tax installment #1: $1300 March;
Collision insurance and CAA: $400 April
Tax installment #2: $1300 June
Home security: $150 July
School tax: $600 July

Me:
Personal items, including clothes on starvation budget: $100/month (clothes alone should be $100/month!)
Hair: $50 every 3 months (more like four, right now)
Health (basic): $50/month
Contact lens I need to replace: $110
Winter boots: $80 – 120
Winter jacket: $40 (second hand) – 140 new
Leisure/entertainment: $80/month
Roller Derby: $35/month
_Bikram Yoga: $140/10 sessions ($56 – 70 per month)
Tattoo removal – I would like to do one in 2006 if I got the money: $430_
Maximum of two to complete: $860Vacation? Can I ever afford to vacation again?Jewellery: I want to design a special ring. I have the stones and the 14K white gold ring, but it needs to be designed and worked and set. $400 was one quote.

Electronics I do need:
Flickr account would be nice – $30/year I hear
A good printer, preferably colour – $100 – 200A USB case for a drive, so I can put my drive in and back my stuff up: $30A digital camera/camcorder: I may have a donated camera coming my way soon through Travis for the rescueIf my Mac were to die, I’d need a new one pronto at $2500 (can’t live without!)

Music I need:
A saw and a bow – $50?
A USB keyboard or some equipment to patch into my Mac and learn how – no idea $$A slide guitar – $200+Amplifier – $100+Voice lessons – become instrument lessons once I get the technique: $40/week

Pets:
Dog food I’ve had the good fortune of getting for free this year, but not next. $55 every six weeks.
$150 Daisy’s vet visit every other year (2007)
My rats and mice and bunnies: $60/month over sporadic timelines, I have 12 rats that will be over two as of January, and palliative care begins
Rodent Rescue: self-funding, but impacts my pocketbook first at
$100/month (and can go much higher)
I want a steam cleaner for the cages and housework: $30

House:Decorations: I have about $200 of wish-list items from IKEA or similar store
Maintenance: $3000 roof next year, $1500-2000 necessary landscape work in the backyard (drainage)
Interior maintenance/refurbishings: probably $100 worth right now
Annual carpet cleaning: $200 in December

Denmark/Sweden/Norway next year:
$800 return flight
$3500 in bank account for visa requirements
A job is needed to afford living there
But I rent out my whole house here to pay off everything else
Ship pets to friends, perhaps find a place to stay in DK where I can have my dog or another pet I can bring from here.

Grand after-tax total: $29000 needed.

Note that mortgage is not included in this budget. Why? Because my roommates pay the mortgage. If I were to lose a roommate without a replacement, I have to kick in $525 plus their share of cable and internet. Conversely, if I can get a third roommate for the short term, that will pay for the next large house expense before taxes: the insurance. Angels, I could use a temporary roommate right now!

For he has taught me many, many things by being the way he was. Perhaps (perhaps!) enough lessons to account for the money and the time put to such poor use.

That he was that way with me is not for nothing, nor is he that way only with me. He is who he is.

I have learned what cause and effect he was in my life. Correction: I was.

And I was the one who manifested all money. So I can manifest money again. And this time, and for always, I bless myself first.

My Om extends beyond this comparatively small monetary injustice. It wants to address this part of the past, but it concerns itself with the future. My Om for money is abundant, moral, and compassionate.

My ex and I had a roommate for one month who broke up with her boyfriend, quit her two jobs, ran up the phone bill, and skipped out on us without paying the rent, leaving the apartment wide open on November 3 (cold cold cold!) and took a video of mine. We tried to contact her several times, but she never returned our calls, so we wrote her parents a letter respectfully asking them to make good on the money she owed us ($550 all told). It was a really tough time for us; we started fighting, we had no money, it really sucked. And every time we saw her in public after that (3 times total) it was awkward and angry.

I decided to give her the opportunity to make this right; I wrote a very short letter saying that that time was really tough for us and it was unpleasant seeing her around after that because of the situation she caused. However, things change and personal circumstances too, and she was probably in a better place now than then, and I need the money, so I’m asking her to pay it back. Cleaning the slate does one good, I’ve found, and because so few people do it, it must have karmic benefits. (She had gone to school on a full scholarship, incidentally.)

I’m sending it to her parents’ address, as they are still listed and haven’t moved. I hope she takes this opportunity to do the right thing.

There’s some money that I will soon need that someone else has and they don’t think, or don’t care, that it’s mine.

I will need it a lot sooner than I will get it.

I want to get it with the least resistance possible.

Please help me om for the money (and try not to think of an Elvis song)!