Upcoming Events

Saturday 10a.m. to 4:30p.m. - GARFIELD INN Port Austin, MI
Admission $5 and readings $10. Free lectures in the "parlor" with our ghost expert Amy Perkins
After the fair, there will be a ghost tour. Come out for a day of readings, gem and crystal hunting and have a spooky spectacular time!

Sunday 11a.m. to 5p.m.
Flint School of Therapeutic Massage Grand Opening in the new location!
Psychic Fun Fair and Holistic Health Day. Free food, raffles and much more!

$1,000 Giveaway - Scholarship for Massage School! If you've ever wanted to get licensed in the art of massage, now's your chance to win a scholarship!
Come out to the new location at Hill Rd and 23

Here's the special deal--$10 admission and 1 reading for $10 or 3 readings, admission and a copy of Maria's book ..all for $35.
There will be massages, reflexology and much more during the fair. $10 for a 15 minute massage!

The new address is: 5402 Hill 23 Dr., Flint, Mi 48507. 810-342-2300.
The directions from Grand Blanc are: Take 23 North to the Hill Road exit (90). Turn left onto W. Hill Road and Turn right onto Hill 23 Drive (by Meijers). About 4- 5 buildings or so down on the left. It is kitty corner from the Tennis Club.

Free Lecture Schedule

12 noon Maria Shaw - Find your lucky days, the best days to go on a date, plan a romantic evening, shop, gamble and so much more! Maria gives you the astro-inside secrets to make the most out of your days and night!

1pm Diana Morgan, president of FSTM - The many benefits of massage; physically, mental, spiritual and emotional.

2pm Kristina Balish - "New" spa procedures. Learn the latest in healthy living

2:30pm Emily Mellendorf - Healing Essential Oils; the power of natural oils and what they can do for you

3pm Maria Shaw- Working w/ crystals to attract prosperity, happiness, health and love.

4pm Dr. Mike Walsh will do a presentation on chiropractic

If you cannot make it to the fairs and have one question you need answered, you can use my service off my website mariashaw.com and hit the 1 question icon on the home page. I will answer your question within 72 hours of receiving it.

Moon Calendar Is Here!

The 2007 Moon Calendar is selling quickly! If you would like to plan your year ahead for luck, career, money and other important dates, pick one up now!

It includes some new, special features; lucky money days, a crystal guide and favorable days for each sign for love, money, and challenging days. As always, the calendar includes moon placements, Mercury retrogrades, eclipses and it is loaded with wonderful astro info you can use. You can order your copy from my website:
http://mariashaw.com/store/calendar-2007/

Nice Letters We Get

Some of these are from the "1 Question" program we have on the website.

Hi Maria -
You're awesome…………
Just as I suspected Maria and as usual you nailed everything to a tee. You are correct about her needing to wrap up an old relationship, as the 2 year divorce is final as of a few weeks ago, and he has 1 year to pay her off.Also, what are your thoughts on sharing this information with her……….is it advisable, will it help shore up her thoughts on this relationship, or should I keep it to myself????
Thanks again for your help and support Maria.
B. from Michigan

Dear B.
Knowledge is power. So use it wisely. I would not share this information with her until you get to know her better or she will think you are checking up on her

Dear Maria
I was listening to you on WIOG the other. I really enjoy listening to your show (Affairs of the Heart) and hope it continues for a long time.
Polly

Dear Polly - Thank you! Anyone, anywhere can listen now if they have the Internet. We stream the show live Sunday nights at 7p.m.est on wiog.com or you can listen in mid-Michigan at 102.5FM

Dear Maria;
You predicted I would have a baby girl. YOU ARE RIGHT! I am due in January.Can you tell me what my baby girl will look like? Q. from The Carolinas

AskMariaShaw@aol.com wrote:
"Cute as a button is the phrase I got from spirit....a cute little nose, medium-dark skin, beautiful eyes, like tootsie rolls but gentle and like an old soul,,,, pretty head of hair...she looks like an angel, very gentle sweet features".

Maria…..that is exactly how I saw her in my dream a few months, thanks for confirming ) have a wonderful weekend !!!! Q.

Appearing in People Magazine, and more!

Look for an interview in People Magazine this week or next. I did an interview with a writer about Anna Nicole Smith and her attorney getting married.

Detroit Free Press - This week I was interviewed for a story on motivational speakers
Washington DC Radio show with the "Greaseman" on air personality - Monday 10a.m. est
WJIM 97.5 with Dave and Lisa D 8:30a.m. Wednesday, Lansing MI
WIOG 102.5FM - Saginaw 8a.m. Thursday, Saginaw MI

To keep in the "spirit" of our Halloween fairs and festivities, our article this week is from my publisher at Llewellyn. He writes about haunted houses!

A Theory About Hauntings
Date: 2005-01-01 By: Carl Llewellyn Weschcke

I have a theory that "hauntings" happens most often in houses that "turn inward." By that I mean that the architecture of the house is such that one lives within the walls and rarely pays attention to what goes on outside. And that's the way most houses were built for a long part of human history - as fortresses and shelters against the outside. It's perhaps only in the twentieth century that we started building "glass houses" centered about a view of the outside. We rarely looked out of the windows of the Summit Avenue mansion except from one large room on the north side that I used as my office. Often the heavy drapes we had were closed to keep winter draughts to a minimum or to help cool the house in the summer. And even though it was located on a corner lot, what was there to see except a neighbor's house with the same thick walls and inward turn?

Many houses with documented hauntings, such a reported in "Grave's End" by Elaine Mercado, have this characteristic. In that book, there was even a hidden room in the basement with no windows which was the center of malevolency.

Not all phenomena in these inward houses are malevolent. I experienced only two instances that I felt to be malevolent in the Summit Avenue mansion, but I'll save them to another time.

Instead I want to talk about a wonderful house I lived in before moving to the mansion. It was really a large urban cottage, and had been built by my grand parents when they first moved to St. Paul in 1907. He was an active businessman, a humanitarian, and an occultist. At one time he was a national vice president of the Theosophical Society in America. And long before civil rights entered the consciousness of white mid-western Americans, he founded a group called "The Brotherhood of Races."

The home was a refuge. Thick walls, leaded glass windows, dense shrubbery kept the sounds and sights of the city at bay. It was a house with its own sounds, and a feeling of awareness in every part of the house. It was dark and comforting like a warm blanket.

I have stories to tell about my grandfather, but for now I will only say that as a young boy I was fascinated with his library – books on auras, the astral body, reincarnation, "The Secret Doctrine," Egypt, etc.

Every afternoon he came home from the office and meditated for two hours. As young grandchildren, we were told he was napping. Later I would learn that he used this time for active work in other planes.

Sometime after both grandparents passed away, I moved into the house. It was a wonderful warm and comfortable home. The dining room had a painted mural showing my grandfather fishing while grandmother rowed the boat. The beamed living room ceiling had light fixtures of their own design – showing Indian swastikas in stained glass. During World War II they covered these esoteric symbols to avoid being thought to be Nazi sympathizers! One of the bedrooms that I converted to a home office was heavily paneled in mahogany.

Sometimes I would hear my name called out. One time I was reading, and suddenly looked up to see a large carved statute I had placed on the fireplace mantle move straight out about five feet before settling to the floor. It was like something or someone was saying "pay attention!" Small things would often disappear from one place to turn up later at another. And I dreamt a lot! And after I moved from there I would often return in my dreams.

The single car garage was detached from the house, and had a small side room where my grandfather would go once per week to smoke a cigar and study his agate and mineral collection. That, too, was a magical place, turned away from the outside world. Surrounding it were lilac bushes, and I felt the presence of fairies there.

One of the characteristics of these "inward facing" houses is that they have a life of their own. The Goodrich Avenue home of my grandparents not only had its own sounds, but seemed to have its own breath. And there was a distinct difference in feeling from the basement to the first level and then to the attic. Each had a unique "presence" that affected the people. The Summit Avenue mansion had this as well whereas other homes that are more outward facing lack this.

It is within this environment that I believe paranormal phenomena more easily happens. It's like the house provides an insulated space that contains and stores psychic energies from dissipation. I think of it as a kind of battery that takes energies from the people within and stores them for later release. In the case of hauntings, such as the sad case of the girl who hanged herself, I suggest that the extreme emotions and pain she felt as she took her way out continued on, "recorded" in the wood of the walls and stairs. At times those energies would affect the awareness of people in that vicinity.

Was her soul earthbound? I don't believe so. It's just a recording – not of sound or light, but of feeling. At the same time, it was the "left behind" energy and consciousness of a living person. Perhaps it does exert a kind of drag on the soul which has a new life on the other side. If we can release that energy, the soul too experiences release. I believe that reacting to the phenomena without fear, and with acceptance and even humor, does release the energy naturally over time.

But as long as the energy is stored, those feelings can be experienced and may induce the perception of sight and sound – just as can a recording. Can the phenomena become objective instead of only subjective? It seems so. There are many observations of psychic phenomena by objective electronic equipment, and – of course – by more than one person.

At one time, three newspaper people asked to spend the night on the third floor in the hopes of a big story. It was OK with me. After some talk, I left them to their vigil and went to bed. In the morning, they were gone. Later one of them called and said that the night was mostly quiet, but when they heard some noises in the hallway by the stair case they investigated, saw nothing, but photographed the space. Then each said they felt sadness and sorrow, and they left, about 3 AM. The developed photograph showed squiggly lines of light where they had seen nothing.

Of course, they made that part of a big front-page story on Minnesota ghosts. For months I was deluged by sightseers wanting to tour the haunted mansion. Some wanted to hold séances; others wanted to do rituals and cleansings to release the earthbound soul. Teens would park by the side of the house at night and attempt to scare each other.

Why are we fascinated with ghost stories, and why do we think of them as mostly scary?

I think that is a question for all of us. If you care to give your own opinions, I'll try to summarize them another time.

Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd.
Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd. grants permission to use this article as originally posted at:
The Llewellyn Journal -- www.llewellynjournal.com
P.O. Box 64383
St. Paul, MN 55164-0383

If you would like to visit a Haunted House or even haunted sites this coming Saturday, please join us at the Garfield Inn. Our resident ghost experts Amy Perkins-Donahue and Carol Ball will do a free presentation. Kat Henderson will also provide a free talk about the history of the Inn. Ghost Tour tickets are only $10. The tour will begin soon after the fair closes at 4:30p.m

Have a blessed week, Maria