The Empowered Lifestyle

June.

Moon.

Swoon.

It's almost the first day of June, the month that practically invented romance.

So, of course, on Magically Delicious Friday:

ORANGES OF AMOUR

Ingredients
2 ounces soaked and strained gum arabic
1 cup orange flower water
1 ounce powdered sugar
2 egg whites
1 ounce granulated sugar (coloring with orange food coloring is optional)

While burning a pink candle and holding the visual of what you want your love life to look like, mix together softened gum arabic and orange flower water with just enough of the sugar to form what will look like an elastic paste. Set this aside.

Now, blend together the egg whites with the colored sugar and the remaining powdered sugar. Make small balls of the orange gum arabic mixture and then cover with the egg white mixture and let dry while sitting on wax paper. Serve as an addedum to a LOVE-ly dessert and make EVERYONE fall in love with you!

Now, orange you glad you stopped by? I just HAVE to stop hanging around with the kids all the time~

Next week......Crazy New Jersey Real Housewife Danielle's crazy stripper/cocaine whore/arrest addled past finally revealed. Does Bravo do background checks? As they say in that biz...stay tuned. And have a great weekend. And, of course, go and sign up for my newsletter so you don't miss ANY of the June Shui that you can only find there...www.ellenwhitehurst.com! I'll be at the end of season Jamboree for ONE of my son's lacrosse teams all weekend! Wish us, what else, LUCK!

It hurts my heart to see their marriage unraveling before an audience of over 10 million interlopers. We don't belong in their bedroom and when will they all learn. Jon and Kate plus FATE. Jessica and Nick's marriage crashed and burned when they decided that the limelight was more important than nurturing their newly-wedded relationship. The Hogans. What a horrible AND public wrestling match that situation has deteriorated into. It's only a matter of time before we see Kris and Bruce Jenner ending their marathon marriage in front of the confession cam as well. If they keep mugging for the 'must see' television addicts. Of which I am one, by the way. I'm not playing holier than thou but, well, as a mother and a pretty private person in so much as the things that REALLY and TRULY need to be kept private and personal, I do sort of think that money mattered more, IN ALL OF THOSE INSTANCES, than the family unit. Or decency.

Those poor Octomom kids. And the Jon and Kate kids? Where are they when she is off on her promotional book tour pimping her mommy skills? And who's wiping runny noses and washing errant magic marker off little legs when he's over the garage canoodling with what could conceivably be their pre-school teacher? Where was the Hulkster when his kid was careening out of control recklessly driving down a Florida highway not caring that in a few minutes he would render his best friend a vegetable all while trying to get the attention of his desperate for another 15 minutes parents?

And then they air ALL their dirty laundry out to the highest bidder. Kate speaks to Jon like he's a piece of crap. And Kris Jenner treats Bruce in that same dismissive manner. And Mrs. Hulk is now shacked up with her reckless driving punk son's 20 year old OTHER best friend. The one who can still open his eyes voluntarily and kiss his parents whenever he wants. I mean, my son's friends come in here and if they even so much as divert their pre-teen hormonal eyes over anywhere close to where my breasts are, I immediately launch into some maternal schtick or another that immediately reminds them what a wretch I really am. Mary Kay LeHavingSexWithTwelveYearOldMaleStudents could learn a good leasson there.

No one even bothers to speak nicely to each other anymore. And they're not bothering to do that on television for chrissakes.

And, then, there's the trickle down. It must be okay to speak to people like shit to each other if "celebrities" do that on television all the time and then get paid gajillions of dollars for it? Right?

WRONG.

It's not what you say. It's HOW you say it. Remember my father sternly saying that right up in your face right before he made you go to your room and write a two page essay explaining EXACTLY what that meant? Yeah, I thought so. What a pain he was huh?

A wonderful and dear friend emails that after 18 years, she was laid off last Monday. But it was her dear and wonderful friend who did the firing. With not a smidge of sorry in the entire script. Cold and callous and don't let the door hit ya on the way out.

What happened to being nice? What's happened to common courtesy and caring and respect for goodness sake?

Divakuruni tells us in THE MISTRESS OF THE SPICES that almonds, you know...the nut...can sweeten a person's disposition and temperment. Simply by eating them. Cayce told us that eating three a day would keep cancer away. Indefinitely. But back to the Spice Mistress. She also shares that cooking rice with a few leaves of saffron and serving that dish warm to someone who's hot under the collar will help them to quickly cool off. You know, before they say something they regret. OR you can mix saffron and almonds together and boil them in milk. The ancient Hindi believed that anyone who drink this mixture would then think only sweet thoughts and say only sweet words.

And THAT'S the reality television we should all demand.

Because the trickle down from that would be, well, so sweet. So very very sweet.

Jupiter conjunct Neptune today! The 5 Star day of May! Yay!

I had tons and tons of ideas about what I was going to post here today but then I got caught up on the phone with this spectacularly fabulous just about to be really famous psychic for hours and hours earlier and my whole morning was shifted into a different direction. I am only now coming up for proverbial air.

So no meanderings about whether the IRS is watching that one New Jersey housewife who's husband is in the "construction" business spend cash like she's got Geithner holed up with a printing press in her basement. And no snarky comments about Clay Aiken making snarky comments about Adam Lambert. Really Clay? Really? I can't even begin, so, I won't even try.

No,no, let's focus and get back to your future shall we? That same swell future that we're about to successfully climb on while activating really swell energies on this 5 Star Super Stellar (wink, wink to the newsletter subscribers) day!

Let's activate the direct spirit of Feng Shui mountain energy today!

Now, the mountain can be represented by a little mound of stones or even small boulders or a real heaping helping of earth even. If you live inside a space that doesn't allow for immediate outdoor access then simply uuse a crystal geode to simulate and symbolize the mountain. Now, place this geode somewhere in the Northeast of your home or put any one of the same aforementioned accoutrements in this same direction outside your space. This will immediately activate the 'direct spirit' of the Feng Shui mountain while seemingly all of a sudden and out of the blue bringing you amazing luck and SUPER STELLAR SUPPORT from all different places. You can, as well, hang a picture or painting of a real mountain range on any Northeast wall in your living space in order to bring these blessings and benefits to everyone who lives under this same roof, including and especially young sons of the family.

Taking this one single action step will bring you much added income and wonderful magical wealth luck.

And it that ain't some super steller stuff, well, I don't know what is.

As my friend Diana would say, 'Ain't no mountain high enough................'

Now, let's all finish that thought......

To keep wealth from gettin' to you babe!

I suppose because the weather's getting a bit warmer in this end of the hemisphere it would make sense why I would all of a sudden be getting a spate of emails regards how to get along with the not so easy to get along with neighbors. The ones who have the barking dog or the screaming kids or the pothead friends who come to visit at all hours of the night.

I've gotten ALOT of these sorts of mail lately. And, so, today, I'm going to give the quick and dirty lowdown on how Feng Shui says to address these sorts of life challenges. See, first I was going to write something about 'The Bachelorette' last night. But, honestly, why? I was also mulling writing something about kids and summer and rituals/routines etc since I've gotten a fair amount of mail asking about that issue too.

But, then, yesterday morning I woke up to find North Korea had set off another nuclear test. And, well, no matter how you cut it, that kind of action affects each and every one of us in some form or fashion. Just the toxic ripple effect alone will create some sort of weather phenom as Mother Earth attempts to cleanse herself of the assault. And you don't have to believe me here, we'll all just wait and see. But the fact that some of our global neighbors are blatantly defiling the planet while breaching agreements and being, well, REALLY BAD NEIGHBORS then brings me to how weird it is that I would have gotten this onslaught of emails over the weekend addressing this very same shite albeit on a smaller scale. The micro of the macro. You see, you just cannot escape the butterfly effect no matter how wildly you flap your wings.

So, with that idea in mind, the one that says every action that any of us takes (or in the case of the North Koreans, any actions that a group takes) has an influence and an impact on all the rest of us, let's look at some Shui ways to keep the peace:

For the reader who has the upstairs neighbors blaring music when they should be sleeping, affix a mirror on your ceiling with the reflective side facing up or flush against your ceiling. Remember to stay strong in your intention as you hang this mirror you want ONLY what's in everyone's highest good here. NO sense doing anything with a bad attitude as this will only serve to inflame the situation further.

For the reader who has the menacing dog and the apathetic neighbor. If possible place an open barrel half filled with fresh water between the two houses and change the water at least every three days so it doesn't get stagnant. This is the finest neighbor Shui there is. If that effort is not possible then go ahead and hand a SIX ROD METAL WINDCHIME between the two houses and then affix a CONVEX MIRROR or what's called a BAGUA MIRROR on the side of your house so that it reflects the other offending property.

Keeping a wooden bowl of fresh apples in the kitchen is also known as a perfect way to keep the peace both inside AND outside the house as well.

And now we get a bit more woo woo...as if the barrel of water wasn't enough eh?

EVERY SINGLE TIME your neighbor annoys, before you do ANYTHING, surround them with a pink light of love that comes from your heart. A beam of pink light emanating from your heart and surrounding their space. Do that first. Then call the cops.

This stuff works. I have client after client testimonial where the windchime or the mirror or even the barrel made the difference. Sometimes the neighbors mysteriously move. Or sometimes they just cut the crap. But, no matter what, this stuff works. Now, if I could just work up a healthy head to send Kim Jong Il a little pink light of my own....let's do it all together kids shall we? Maybe he'll mysteriously move???

Honestly, I just don't get the continuing fascination with Donny and Marie. Oh, I get it that they hearken back to another era, but, if it were only that we all wanted to be back in the 70's and 80's again then why wouldn't Star Trek and The Taking of Pelham 123 or even Footloose be the movies to watch in the coming weeks and months? Oh wait. Okay, that wasn't a good example.

Let's try this, if we really wanted to be back in those same eras then why wouldn't Melrose Place and Beverly Hills 90210 and, uh oh, never mind.

Well then where's HR Puff 'N' Stuff, shouldn't he be back en vogue? (Now, you want to hear something really spooky? I just "thought" of that Puff N Stuff line but didn't remember how to spell the name of that show, so, I went to google and the second entry under this name said.. and I swear this is true....Jimmy OSMOND and HR Puff 'N' Stuff...oh how weird is that? Maybe Joseph Smith wants me to lay off the Osmonds?)

Anyway my beef is that when they need any sort of filler on the evening gossip shows they do some story on Donny and/or Marie. Or they have Donny actually doing a story. Or Marie doing an interview. I'm really fascinated by the public fascination with these two. Seriously? She's a little bit country? Really? Besides the big hair, where is there one smidge of country there? And he's a little bit rock and roll? Enough said.

Now, don't get me wrong, I like them well enough. I can like them now. I wasn't allowed to when they were around in the 70s and 80s. Can you imagine if I actually ever admitted to my totally too cool for school friends that I watched their sappy variety show? I might as well admit that I watched Lawrence Welk with my grandmother sometimes too. HEY! I still find comfort when I stumble across some of those old re-runs as I remember Tweety (what we called our little bird of a grandmother) and I sitting around watching Lawrence Welk and talking about what I would be when I grew older. Funny though, Feng Shui expert never crossed the list? Wonder why?

Okay, so, while watching my nightly dose of Marie night after Entertainment To-night, I hear her shilling the same bs that she's been throwing around since she fainted on 'Dancing.' She fainted then because she was eating a gumball a day trying to fit into those skimpy costumes. She notoriously and forever has had an eating disorder that supposedly morphed into eating issues and problems. Hey, who doesn't have those last two probs? But the rest of us don't actually throw up whatever we eat that comes from the Kraft. She fainted on 'Dancing' from her choice to become skinny too quickly. Then blamed it on allergies? She got allergies at 50 years old all of a sudden on a soundstage? Hmmmmm. This confuses me.

Now, recently, she's passed out again backstage while preparing tofor her latest live performances. This time though, Donny came back and asked everyone else to leave the room before summoning the doc. This doc then prognosticated that she had suffered an, WHAT ELSE???, allergy attack from eating shellfish. FROM EATING SHELLFISH THAT SHE'S BEEN EATING ALL HER LIFE BUT APPARENTLY JUST THAT NIGHT DEVELOPED AN ALLERGY TO, and this next part is a direct quote from her while Mary Hart sat across from her barely containing her admiration that Marie could continue this sham with a Mormon "I swear I'm not lying" straight face...according to Marie she now has "a shellfish allergy that apparently had been accumulating in my system and just came out now."

Uh........hmmmmmmmm.

Why is she okay hitting every talk show in town to say how it's okay that her daughter is gay but she won't fess up to an eating disorde that clearly is escalating? Could it be that it would jeopardize her deal with NutriSystem? She's willing to risk her health and maybe even her life for a spokesperson contract?

And the whole country is fascinated with her?

Hmmmmmm.

So, Marie, if you're reading this just skip today's Magically Delicious recipe. You know, if you did actually eat food. But thanks much for the idea anyway:

THAI JUMBO SHRIMP
Serves 2

Ingredients
12 raw jumbo shrimp in their shells
2 cloves fresh garlic, crushed
1 tablespoon fresh grated ginger
1 small red chili, seeded and finely chopped
2 key limes
a stalk of fresh lemongrass finely chopped
2 tablespoons sunflower oil
1 bunch fresh cilantro, given a course chop
1 bunch fresh mint, given a course chop

Ingredients for the Dressing
Juice of two limes
2 tablespoons raw sugar
1 fresh red chili, seeded and chopped
1 garlic clove
1/3 cup coconut cream

Make the dressing by mixing all ingredients and letting sit.

Heat the oil in a saute pan. Peel the shrimp leaving their heads and tails intact. Put the garlic, ginger, chili, lime leaves and lemon grass into the heated oil and heat through. Add the shrimp and saute very quickly on each side, only turning the shrimp once. Scatter the chopped cilantro and the mint over the schrimp and remove all from oil with a slotted spoon. Pour the dressing over the shrimp which can be served on a bed of fresh lettuce or rice.

Both the shrimp and the cilantro in this recipe are believed to possess magical aphrodiasiac properties. However, aside from being a sexual stimulant, both of these ingredients are also believed to bring protection from every conceivable angle. In fact, a sprig of fresh cilantro is often placed in many kitchens especially in Central America to guard against negativity and outright evil. Try it yourself and stay safe this holiday weekend~!

HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY FROM MY HOUSE TO YOURS!