Magic Bliss

I have some sort of “Blogger’s Block” going on. I have not been able to think of any good material for my blog. Well actually I have some but I don’t know if it’s “blog-worthy”. So I have decided to write about the economy and the ways it is affecting me and my emotions. I wish and hope only for grand things to happen to everyone who has been affected by the slipping economic downturn.

I am not even talking about money, but the way this thing is emotionally, and mentally affecting our culture. All the ways it’s putting fear at the fore front of many peoples minds.  I am lucky enough to be surrounded by wonderful, positive, and bright people in my life, people that, no matter what, still keep on, keepin’ on. They(and I) are creative, have a sense of cummunity, and are a group of do-gooders, who love to smile! These positive vibrations, and friends,  are the things that are keeping me going. I am involved with the money woes in many ways. I have NO money! Really, I am not exagerating! I am afraid, I am a bit lost, BUT, what other folks in this same situation are not doing that I am, is HOPING, FEELING, KNOWING and TRUSTING that things will be ok!

I am blessed with a roof over my head. I am blessed with food in my belly. I am blessed with a warm bed at night. I have friends. I could go on and on. I am trying to paint the picture that once there is a sense of community established, things begin to look and feel brighter. CommUNITY, for me has meant more dinners with friends. Big, potluck style, bring what you can kind of meals! Sharing trips to the grocery store,having fun AND being productive! Movie nights with friends, popcorn is cheap! Volunteering to do something amazing for the environment with your friends turns into a fun escape and an adventure!

Even learning to be by yourself, reading, writing, working on a skill or craft that you want to perfect, are all good ways to save your money, but still be positive and productive.

I was feeling so alone and “without”, until I spoke with my friend about how she had to interpret for a Spanish speaking man who sleeps under a bridge every night and goes to(tries to) find a day labor job every day. After this conversation I felt lucky, I mean really lucky!

I know the friends I have would do whatever they could to prevent me from sleeping under a bridge. I wish everyone in the world was able to have a community of friends like I have! I am living in a magical house with magical people who are amazing in so many ways. They know I am trying to make it here and they know I am a hard worker who will get what I need. But, just for the record, and in case they read this, I would be completely screwed and not as blessed with out their help. So,  Thank You!!!!

I have begun to understand the ‘art’ of frugality. I have always been able to live this way anyway, but until now it WASN’T a necessity. I am cooking a lot more, like I said, and am seeking free, fun and productive ways for me to still have fun, but create more ways of learning as well. My hula hooping has become better and I am pushing myself into more tricks and different ways of “hoop manipulation”. I have also begun to ‘play’ with a single LED staff. Literally playing with it, is all I have accomplished, it’s hard!

I was so full of doubt, for a few days and my mood turned dark. I didn’t like it, it’s not me. I had to turn it around, I started looking for weird, creative, FUN ways to make money, my ideas are literally bulging out of my head. But again to make money you have to SPEND money and that is my problem, I am back to where I started…

The money woes that we are feeling here in the Pacific Northwest are not un-like other places, just here there are SO many creative folks that I am not the only one trying to creatively make money! I have a lot of competition and this is what makes it tough. I need to learn how to “sell” myself, how to promote and how to SHINE! I am going to be able to make an impact in this life, but when? How?

I love that of all the things I could be worried about, these are the things I am ACTUALLY worried about: “How to take over the world, by Melissa Magic”. See whatI mean? I am FULL of great ideas, there was/is a book right there!

Abundance means different things to different people. I am still making my “Abundance Manifestation Cards” and am learning what they truly mean to ME! I am feeling abundance, even without money, because I am choosing NOT to be without love, friends, positivity and blessings. These things come in many forms and I am forcing myself to see them wherever I look. I have friends who are extremely lucky and are well taken care of, and I am finding myself, instead of feeling jealous of what they have, am feeling grateful that they are in my world, that they are apart of my amazing network of souls that I am learning to model my “new” life after.

I am learning to “take it all in” seeing with more than my eyes, feeling with more than my heart and allowing my energy to mingle with the Goddess energy that I have been calling upon everyday fo inspiration and love. I need guidance and I have opened up the flow for this to occur. If you happen to be an Angel or “guide” of some sort and you are reading this….

Learning to keep my chin up all the while I keep dancing in the storm….

love much~

Melissa Magic

I am appalled at the vast amount of Music Festivals that are now going on in this country. If you go to any search engine and type in “2009 music festivals” you will get such amazing results.
Just 7 years ago, besides Bonnaroo, there was only a small amount of Summer Music Festivals going on. Now, it’s barely Spring, and already 5 BIG Summer Festivals have their line-up announced and tickets for sale.
I love this. I essentially LIVE for live music! Any kind of live performance really. And going to Festivals allows for me to get my fill of live performance, be it music, dance, spoken word, etc… I am just happy that others are as interested in this as well.
Going to a small or large Music Festival brings you closer to humanity. You are forced to interact with your peers, and often with people you thought you would have nothing in common with. It usually turns out, there are a million things to talk about.
Today I will just post some great Festivals that I know about, I know there are many I am missing….

~ SXSW
~ Sasquatch Music Festival
~ Bonnaroo
~ 10,000 Lakes Festival(10klf)
~ Wakarusa (amazing venue!)
~ Burning man ( I can’t even BEGIN to describe this event…)
~ Bear Creek Festival
~ Electric Daisy Carnival (Ravers paradise!)
~ Harmony
~ Power to the Peaceful
~ Earthdance
~ Gathering of the Vibes
~ Loki Music Festival
~ Targhee Bluegrass Festival
~ Project Earth
~ Emer-Gen_Cee
~ Love Parade (San Francisco)
~ Jazz Fest
~ Ultra Music Festival
~ Langerado Music Festival
~ High Sierra
~ Fairie Worlds
~ Oregon Country Fair
~ Rothbury Music and Arts Festival (AMAZING!!)
~ Coachella
~ Lollapalooza 2009 (Janes Addiction anyone?)
~ Rites of Spring(cOllege kids…)
~ Detroit Electronic Music Festival(great place to dance and hear awesome beats)

ok,ok…I know I am missing some good ones…. but there are so many!!
Check out this website for info and a great list of festivals: upvenue.com

tribe.net has many great sources for showing off everyone’s knowledge of the country’s varied music scenes.
Like I said there are so many and I want to write about them all, but I think I should GO to ALL of them first…
Well I have been to many listed above and others not listed, I would love to be able to go to all of these, especially the ones overseas! Just like people come all the way from the other side of the world to see and BE at Burning Man, I want to do the same. I have been keeping a sort of “journal” on all the World’s Music Festivals and Parties, man do I ever need to win the lottery or, better yet, find someone to “sponsor” me to go to all these amazing events and write about them and also to represent the U.S. in these places that Americans may not be seen at as much. We all love music, I love a good party, anywhere…So now that everyone knows my dream job, I feel happier to know that since it’s out there for you and the Universe to see, I may get what I want…

Music is life,
live it, feel it, and BE it!

Melissa Magic

Sweet… I woke up to Sunshine and it is still at my door! We, here in the Northwest are deprived of this essential vitamin and so today I have already soaked up enough sunshine for a few people! BUT, I am heading off to work, and am bringing my hoop along, just so I can have a few minutes of hooping bliss downtown, in the concrete jungle! It brings me so much peace and happiness and Goddesses know I need that before I go into my place of employment…
Off to hoop it up and get out of my head for a few minutes. Love this amazing sunshine, it truly makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside!!

Peace to you all on this sunny, warm and soulfullydelicious day!
~Namaste~

Melissa Magic

I don’t even know how I got so lucky to have so many wonderful women in my life.
I will start from the beginning..
For so many years I didn’t have very many(maybe 2) girlfriends.It was extremely hard for me to make friends and KEEP friendships up with women. It is SO different now, and I thank the Angel’s, the Fairy’s and all the Goddesses that have helped me jump into this new realm of POWerful, amazing and smart women!
I have made it a point to create and keep alive new friendships with more women, about a year ago. Ever since then there have been a few ladies that I knew, just knew I was supposed to be spending more time with, you KNOW who you are! Some of these very fine, sweet friends are going to be at the Beach/Circus gathering! Can’t wait for this weekend, but I am being patient, the best things come to those who wait!
Delicious! This is one word that comes to mind when thinking about spending quality time with the ladies. Especially THESE ladies… Talented, for one, thoughtful, SMART, joyous, loving, kind, happy, caring, FUN, beautiful, sexy, sweet, serendipitious, lovely, bubbly, and Buddahfull!!!! All these words, but oh so many more come to mind.
I will be able to just BE, to breathe, to dance, to love, to shine, and create. No one there to judge, to push too hard, or to argue, just women there to watch, learn from and love and play with.
Our inner beauties are crying to get out to play, it is Spring ya know! Even if it is cooler outside right now than I think it SHOULD be. But who am I to say HOW the weather should be.. I mean I am just an Earth Fairy, maybe I DO have a little pull on how the weather will turn out(…hint, hint!)
I think this will be a positive and energetic force in my life, not only for this very weekend but for my daily life as well. I want to say thank you to all the spiritual beauties that thought of inviting me for the trip to the coast. I need it, we all do and I know we will all learn a little something about one another AND ourselves.
Let’s just hope that there are cameras there to capture the moments when all of us are in out highest glory;when we are spinning in delight in the middle of our magical circles, our fire, our sacred shapes that we will spin, our drum beats that we will be thumping, and our laughter and smiles.
I want to try to create this magical world we will be in, when we are back to our “normal”, daily lives. I am not going to let my life become mundane,I have promised myself this for a long, long time. So I will be putting a lot of energy, vibes and thought out to each of you fine ladies to make sure that you are feeling amazing everyday. We all deserve LOVE, deep, free, BLINDING love from the bottom of our souls and I want to be the one that helps us all achieve and receive this superb gift!

Happiness and light from one sistah to another…

Always SHINE your light, bright and LOUD!!!!
Blissfully yours~
Melissa Magic

Listening to thumping music and being around amazing people always seem to make me hoop better. Maybe I get in a zone and quit concentrating and the hoop just becomes apart of me and I just dance. YES… that is it, I KNOW that’s what happens!
I went out dancing last night and had such a blast! The theme for the party was “The Pisces Ball”. I knew it was going to be good; good DJ’s, good people and great people-watching of course. But what I didn’t expect was the room that we all had in the corner to be able to hoop our a**es off! I felt so inspired at one point and just hooped like no one was watching. It was truly what my soul was craving and what my body needed too.
I got to play with a small “PSI” hoop, a very bright but small LED hula hoop that makes everything you do with the hoop extra-cool! I want one….ahhhh,someday!
I was watching some other really amazing hoopers and became inspired so quickly. I am not a professional hoop dancer like these ladies, but I love to hoop and play and DANCE in my hoop. I dance with my hoop, not really “hoop-dance” like they do. I like my style, it’s different and I enjoy what I do. I enjoy how I feel while I am playing in my magic circle, and I feel like no one can see me. I love that about the hoop, I FEEL connected to it and I am apart of the circle, it’s quite amazing.
Being able to play with any hoop while at a large DJ party or event is always a treat. Unless the event is outside you rarely have the space to play, I was so thankful to have had that opportunity to practice just BEing in my hoop and not thinking about anything at all. That’s my problem I guess, I analyze my moves. Now that I am thinking about it, it’s stupid that I do it. I mean I don’t analyze how I dance when I am out at a club or just rocking out at the house, so why do it when I hoop? WHO CARE’S? I shouldn’t because I know people that watch me always seem to enjoy my hooping skills and that is enough for me! I love watching other amazing hooper’s, I get inspired and I feel the need to pick up whatever hoop is around and start spinnin!
I am really lucky to be able to go out and be in a crowd of such artistic and talented young individuals. Here in the Northwest we are truly blessed with art in any and all forms and I would probably die without all this inspiration going on around me! Thinking back at all the places I have lived, this is a great spot for art, music and GREAT partys!!
Amazing DJ’s are always spinning records (or pushing buttons on their computer…) at various clubs and every time I go out I get more and more inspired. I get better at hooping in public. I am just realizing lately that my style of hula hooping is all my own and I am embracing it, FINALLY!! I don’t know why I tried for so long to be like the others. I picked up hooping in the first place for the reason that I still do it today; I wanted to dance the same way I always have, but just add a hoop to my dance moves. Nothing big and fancy, no technical moves, just a smooth spiral going on around me as I flow across the dance floor. Now that I have achieved that, I now know I just need to work on one thing… I need to work on forgetting about all the other stuff that is outside my hoop. I am in my hoop all alone and I am the one thing that matters most, always, while I am dancing and in life, in general. It’s such a great metaphor for how I am trying to live my life. Play, love, dance and be worry-free, no cares(with in reason), and be more confident.
I love figuring this stuff out! I am really hyped for all the great music coming up here in the month or so. I am just hoping when I go to these partys that I will again have room to hoop there as well….
I am addicted to it for sure. It’s a big part of my daily life. Feeling blue? I go hoop. Mad or just plain in a funk? I hoop, “angry hoopin” to TOOL is something that I have learned to do to turn my anger right back around, and it works! I guess it’s more like hooping agressively, not really hooping angry… Anyway I feel great during and after a good hoop session, I am so glad I became a Hula Hooper in the first place!
I love that I have been able to teach a few friends some easy beginner moves. I was able to show them, and now they can do what tricks they saw me do, Awesome! Like I have said I am no professional performer but I love to hoop and play most of all and I think that is even more important.
I am getting quite excited for Spring time to actually arrive. I am feeling quite cooped up, all this indoor hooping, it’s nice but hooping outside in the grass under a blue sky with a warm breeze, well not much can compare to that! Add to that scenario a festival or even “jam band” atmosphere and you have the makings for Heaven on Earth(for me anyway!!)
Can’t wait for the sun! Send some our way folks!!

~Happy Hooping and Magic Circles of love~

Melissa Magic

Not feeling very motivated lately for some reason… I am really into writing and posting blogs and writing poems, NORMALLY, but lately, not so much. I think it’s a change in the seasons and the fact that Spring is supposedly here…yeah, right!!
I am getting really tired of the gray days,turning into darker shades of gray nights, with clouds and much rain. I do realize I live in the Northwest, but I am taking it hard this year. I can handle COLD weather, with a bit of sunshine thrown in. When we had all the snow around Christmas this year I was IN love with the light, the sun and the brightness that the snow brought us! I have started the habit of saying thank you to a certain few people and things in my life every night before I go to bed as well as right when I rise to greet the day. On this list is a broad “thank you” to my life in general. It’s to the fact that I have a roof over my head, because of a super, amazing girl(yes, AAA), and the fact that I have a job in theses WEIRD times we are all apart of.I do these things to create a sense of abunDANCE, faith, humanity and gratitude to me as a human Goddess BEing. It truly helps. BUT, saying this outloud as I am writing it too, I can still see the lack of true ambition and inspiration like I had, oh say about a month ago.
Things change and you gotta ride the waves, I know this. I am just waiting for the wave to stop being so massive, and maybe slow down a bit…Let me breathe, let me BE….
I have some great poems coming out of me lately, but they are not my usual Melissa Magic, positive self, that I know, miss and LOVE!! They are coming from a “darker”, deeper place that I obviously need to visit, I guess these are signs and feelings and I should pay closer attention to them and learn from them too.
All of the universe is in some ways “feeling things” lately. Changes that some never saw coming or even can understand now are happening. Everyone that I know is in the middle of good and bad gigantic changes in their daily lives. Money is on everyone’s mind, stability and the “future” are also things I am hearing a lot about lately.
I do think during a full moon things in your conscious mind tend to be more “in front” of you anyway. Things we need to tend to are presented to us quickly and in ways that sometimes make no sense to us at the time. But later, we look back and realize why things happened as they did. I am trying to keep this mind set in place during this mind expanding, soul-stirring time. When will later come though? And will I do the right thing now? I guess trusting in oneself comes at times like this. I trust my gut more and more lately and really glad that I do!
So this evening I have said many, many thank you’s to the Moon. She knows I am here, listening and ready, for what I really don’t know yet…. I think the more we(I) trust in ourselves, and our universe, the more things will happen as they need to. I know this is true, but right now, I guess I need more proof! I can’t expect that though, why am I more special than the next person who needs help and asks the universe for guidance? We are all in this together and knowing that truly makes me realize that everything(in my world and beyond) is going to be ok.
Aloud I am saying “THANK YOU” to the Earth’s amazing energy’s and power’s, I am directing my needs and my prayers to the soul of this Earth. I am also asking for Superior guidance and sincere love to steer me, and for me to guide others along as well. All of us need steering and love, a push here and there, and sometimes LOUD whisper’s in one’s ear to get us moving in the right direction.
Full moon and your amazing energy, please guide me, heal me and allow me to heal others now and always, I am open ,here and able to walk this path. I am ready. I want to BEgin. Again.
Sincere, and generous love to everyone out there in my world or not, on this splendid full energetic March Moon! Happy Spring(almost)….
I felt the inspiratin AFTER I got all the bad JuJu out of me, I love how that works!

Namaste~
Melissa Magic

This is a post about the bike I want to magically come into my life for Burningman this year! I didn’t have a bike last year and I was fine… BUT I think I could really come to enjoy jumping on MY own bike and cruising off into the sunset, or sunrise… you NEVER know what time it is there!
So I want a cute little bike, I will paint it, so the color doesn’t matter one bit. I am envisioning a little girl’s bike, ya know a small bike, perfect for me because I am quite short. I want a banana seat, those long, comfy ones, ready for a smooth ride! I am seeing it already having streamers coming off of the handle bars, I think I will get lucky and be able to find one with these still intact. I would also like there to be a little basket already on the front or rear of the bike. I know I could get help installing one but having one on it already would be SUPER helpful.
I am going to paint it something bright and cheery, and put little turtles and sparkly stuff all over my Playa bike!
What places should I start looking around at for this special piece of heaven? I am in the Northwest and I know I can get lucky, but where should I start?
I can see this magical form of transportation in my mind, so I know I will get just what I need.
I can also see me cruising around with my little turtle bike, visiting new and old friends and being in the amazingly vast desert. I can almost FEEL this right now… Wow I have to wait awhile for this to happen, huh? Geez August hurry up already!

Losing yourself in one’s surroundings seems difficult, but believe me, it’s not! So, since I have had this “problem” before, I have tried to only surround myself with WONDERful, like-minded,energetically sound BEings, and it HAS worked, up until now…. I mean it isn’t the fault of any of the beautiful people I choose to spend my time with, it’s actually MY fault for trying to be of help to any and all BEing that I meet. It’s in my nature, I am a natural helper, a healer and a lover. I can see and feel energy in me, and in other’s as well. So I decided to open my heart even bigger a little while ago and said out loud to the universe and all the lovlie’s in the world, “Melissa is here to help, I am allowing my gifts to be here and present, for all to see.” So I started getting calls from friends, loved ones and people I haven’t seen or heard from in a while. They all needed to talk, to see more clearly and to get some good advice and many, many hugs! Which I give out freely, and with warm,warm love right in the middle of those hugs. All of this is great and amazing, except along the way,I got lost in all the issues and problems and pains that everyone left behind. Their energy got left IN me!
This is totally my fault. I didn’t specify to all the Godesses and Gods exactly what I had in mind. So I got what I asked for; but since I didn’t think any farther ahead, I got left with a lot of pain myself.
Being someone with a Magic touch and Magic heart is the greatest gift I could ever ask for, but now I know what I need to do to get all the pain out of me when the people I “treat” and I give my gifts to are gone.
I always knew this road was going to be bumpy, winding, and often times confusing, but how could I have asked for anything better?

I need to start learning more and more about crystals again; break out the old books, and start readin’. I have the knowledge and the touch and I FEEL way too much, so now I need to know where to put “it” when I am done doing all these healings and advice giving’s. Crystals are a good way to release things and also to hold energy for you too. I have a deck of fairy cards that you read sort of like Tarot. But I feel more a likeness to them than the Tarot. I do say I am a Fairy so that MAY be why! Speaking of tools that can be used in the healing arts and touch therapy, I also have a set of Runes and would like to get better at those as well! They seem to be POWerful, I know I need all the power I can get right now…
I want to make it clear that no one is at fault here, NO ONE!
I am recognizing (too late) that I can’t be so open and quick with these gifts, without a plan FIRST! Now that there is a plan and the know-how, I feel more confident and more aware of the possibilities that can and will come at me to thorougly use my gifts and my words of love and light.
This is a lot of jargon I think, but I understand what I am saying and what I needed to get out, either on here or on paper. So why not on my blissfull, love and light blog? That’s what this is for, right?
Sorry to those who know me,I may have been lost for a few days, but now I am found! Sorry if I felt “far away” and looked tired, I am still tired but I am “here” now. It’s great to be back and more awake this time around.

love, light and spiraling, sWeeT bLiSS…

Melissa Magic