“I’m like a kid in a candy store” Stuart tells me. Whilst I’m wondering how this translates into a message that encourages young people on how to handle their money, it’s not long before Stuart’s infectious enthusiasm for teen independence brings a whole new level of clarity to our discussion.

He tells me about his uncanny ability to see the potential in every young person or situation. And you can see why. His years of experience with the National Scout Association have been a fabulous opportunity for connecting with young people and discovering how to help them realise their potential. In particular, Stuart’s ability to get teens thinking about money management means that they have the solid foundation in life to enable them to chase their dreams and not the dollar.

Stuart has built a wealth of life experience building up a toolkit of interpersonal and communication skills, and particularly refining his personal formula of how to manage money in a modern world. He recommends that positive wealth habits are encouraged early, and he’s just the one for the job. His natural curiosity and zest for life (like being a kid in a candy store) gives him the edge to share his message effectively to where it is most needed.

Stuart doesn’t just support young people in New Zealand. Having launched a CD set on helping parents to help their children, a portion of each sale provides school supplies for an underprivileged child in Peru. His ability to make a difference on a global level is thanks to Buy1Give1; a simple system that matches inspired businesses with worthy causes – making sure that every cent goes directly to where it is needed.

So what one thing should parents be doing to support their children to become independent? Stuart asks us to ponder the question: “What are you doing that they could be doing for themselves?”

Find our more about Stuart at http://moneymindsetmob.com/

The Moon in Sagittarius generally favours the following activities: Adventurous activities that involve “winging it”, travelling, higher education, starting publishing projects, advertising and marketing, sports and physical activities. It’s a great time to party and go out and enjoy yourself.

Tuesday 8:01am - Thursday 8:52pm The Moon in Capricorn
With Moon in Capricorn we become aware of the need for structure and planning ahead. We are motivated by a desire for success. Achievement and accomplishment are of paramount importance. We don’t want to waste time, energy, or resources. This is a very productive time when we look at our life seriously and realistically.

The Moon in Capricorn generally favours the following activities: Setting long-term goals that yield slow but steady results, practical endeavours, career issues, making a business plan, practical investments, working, organising, putting structure into your life.

Thursday 8:54pm - Sunday 9.31am The Moon in Aquarius
Attraction to all that is new and unusual, and an instinctive need for improvement, characterise the Moon in Aquarius. Reactions are more intellectual than emotional, and interactions are more impersonal than personal, under this influence. This is a great time for social gatherings, dealing with group ideals and goals for the future, brainstorming, new ideas, and progressive changes. We are open to new methods of doing things and we have our eye on the future.

The Moon in Aquarius generally favours the following activities: Unusual or radical pursuits, going out with friends, mixing with an entirely new set of people, group projects, trying out something new. Most of all it is a great time to “do your own thing” and focus on your individuality.

Sunday from 9:33am The Moon in Pisces
We don’t want to face reality while the Moon is in dreamy, impressionable Pisces. It can be a wistful, sensitive, intuitive, and compassionate time. We are especially imaginative, and our intuition reigns under this influence. Boundaries and walls come down, as Pisces energy merges and blends. It’s a time when details are overlooked and feelings defy description.

The Moon in Pisces generally favours the following activities: Creative and artistic endeavours, mystical or spiritual pursuits, meditation, inner soul development, music and drama, going on a retreat, activities involving water.

You’ve got your Wheel of Life and have written in the centre circle, you six life priorities/areas of life that are important to you.

Step 1: Consider your vision of Success

Take each life area and reflect on what ultimate success and happiness would mean to you. What would this area of your life looked like if you couldn’t be any more fulfilled or satisfied? Close your eyes and visualise ultimate success. Consider what you would be doing, seeing, feeling, sensing, saying..

Write your vision of success in a notepad or your favourite journal, then write down an actual event that would occur if you had realised your vision. For example, in your family and relationships section, you might have visualised having a happy and harmonius time with your family. An actual event might be to take an hour’s walk with your daughter, sharing thoughts and time together without arguing. If it was health – perhaps enough energy to not be exhausted when you take a dance class. If it was wealth perhaps you’d be able to pay all of your bills on time, and have enough left over to cover your basic needs.

Summarise this vision in the Final Goal section of the Wheel of Life by writing a few words or thoughts. If you can name specific details like timescales or numbers to measure success this would be great, if not, it doesn’t matter - it’s the visualisation and target for success that is important.

Do this for each of your life areas.

Step 2: Consider your level of Satisfaction with your Life

Now you are going to rate how satisfied you are with each of your life areas. This is your level of satisfaction (not your level of achievement) with where you are in that area right now. This is a measurement of your feeling of satisfaction. Let us say your overall wealth vision was to be completely debt-free and you knew how much money it would take to be so. You might be a long way off with reaching your final vision, but you may be completely satisfied with what you are currently doing to get you there and give yourself a score that showed you were totally satisfied.

It’s ok to not be very satisfied – when this exercise is first done; you may feel overwhelmed with how dissatisfied you are. This is ok. The good news is that we are going to work on improving this.

Use the following scale to rate your satisfaction:

0 = worse it could be/totally unsatisfied
10 = best it could be/totally satisfied

Write each satisfaction number anywhere inside each slice so you can easily see the rating. Don’t spend a great deal of time doing this. Work quickly going with your first feeling or thought.

Draw a line across each slice depending on your level of satisfaction for that area. So for example, if you have rated something 0, you will draw a small line just going over the very tip of the slice, if you have rated it five, you will draw a line halfway across the slice – I imagine it as having a piece of pie and deciding how much I am going to cut off from the tip, a small piece or a larger piece. Do this for each of the slices, and you will have something that looks like a spiders web.

So now, you have your Wheel of Life, divided into segments, one for each area of your life that is important to you and each slice has been labeled with these areas. You have your ultimate vision for success and you have also rated each area on a scale of 0 to 10.

Step 3 : Choose an area of your life to work on

Now from your six life segments, choose one area of your life you’d most like to see some improvement, or would like to work on that isn’t a 10.

Your plan for achieving your vision of success is to take one small step at a time. You only know what is in the ‘here and now’ so we not going to try to plan the future out. One small step towards your vision, whilst maintaining your vision, is all you need to do. Small steps in the right direction will be much more effective that many steps in the wrong direction!

Step 4: Consider your Options

On a piece of paper, write down all the things that would take you one step closer to your vision. If you decided that you would like to have one vegetarian meal a week you might think of all the ways to go about doing this - eat out, buy sushi, cook for yourself, ask someone to help you etc etc.

Decide on what you want to do from your list of options, and what you will do within the next 24-48 hours. In the First Journey Goal section, write down your action(s). This is very important. It requires you to demonstrate to yourself that you can and will take action to work towards your vision. For example, phone a friend or book an appointment, go to the library and find some books on the subject you are interested in. Consider all of the things you could do, and select the one that you want to do, and will do.

Take a look at what might prevent you from achieving your action. Do you need to schedule some free time? Do you need support or advice from someone else? You’ll need to manage these barriers and perhaps set yourself some additional management actions that will ensure you complete your intended action. You can write these actions in the Barriers section of the Wheel of Life and take action to manage them!

Decide on when you are going to take action and commit yourself to doing it. Self-discipline and demonstrating to yourself that you can take control is very important. Don’t set yourself actions that are too large or unrealistic for you to achieve. Small steps.

Step 5: Take Action!

Do whatever it is you planned to do!

Step 6: Review your Vision

Over time you might find you vision of success changes. Often we find we do things and then find ourselves on a different route! This is a journey. You have the freedom to seek out your ultimate vision and to change it. It’s your life. Refine your vision and your vision will become stronger and clearer with each small step you take. As your vision becomes stronger, so will you, and your ability to get there. You can do it!

So you’ve now got a rough idea of what it is you desire in your life. Before we move onto creating some actions, let us take a look at your strengths. You will have many. Your strengths will be so natural to you that you may not be consciously aware of them. You do have them. We all do.

Think about one thing you have done that you feel a sense of achievement. This is something you have done well, or a challenge that you have overcome – physical, emotional, spiritual doesn’t matter.

What did you do?

For example:

• You helped someone in need
• Escaped a dangerous situation
• Created a loving and harmonious home under financial constraints
• Hosted an excellent party or event

What personal strengths did you use in this situation? Based on the items above, your strength might have been:

• The ability to listen, communicate and show empathy
• The ability to take action at the right time, courage, ability to overcome fear, independence
• You are resourceful, responsible, caring, reliable, positive role-model
• You are great planner and organizer, fun and social, a natural host and entertainer

You have far more strengths that you realize. Strengths come easily to you, that’s why it can be difficult to identify them. Strengths are things that other people would say about you, they are things that make you different, things that make you the person that people would say – oh, we need to get so and so to do that.

Write down your top five strengths and consider how you have used them. If you prefer, write down the top five strengths you are working on developing, or would like to have more of.

Why do we need to focus on our strengths? When we focus on what we are good at, and what brings us joy, the rest disappears. If we do not invest in our weaknesses, they do not have energy. If we do not give our weaknesses energy, they will not be attracted into our experience.

Goal Setting for Success

Copy or print out the PDF document  Wheel of Life

Your Wheel of Life

Step 1: Idenify your Life Segments

Using the Priority/centre section of the Wheel, write down six areas that make up your life today, that are important to you. Think of your life as a pie, and each slice, represents an area of your life. So for example, some of the things that you might include are: 

• Meaningful Work/Career
• Time for Self
• Service & Contribution
• Health
• Wealth
• Love & Romance
• Family & Friends
• Personal Development (Mental, Spiritual, Emotional, Physical)
• Enjoyment and Excitement
• Travel & Freedom

Step 2: Refining your Vision (optional)

So you’ve got your long list of Be, Do, Have’s from the Create your Vision exercise. Now you are going to consider each one on the list and ask yourself whether it positively contributes to any of your six chosen life segments. This is an optional exercise, but it can help you to think a little more about your immediate priorities. If the items on your list do positively contribute to your life segments, then give it a tally mark.

So let us look at an example:

Let’s suppose that Frank considered the following Life Segments are important to him:

• Family
• Career
• Wealth
• Time for Self
• Travel & Enjoyment
• Health

Frank’s Be, Do, Have List (part thereof..)

1. Have a Harley motorcycle
2. Play Golf every week
3. Be an excellent father to my children
4. Write a book on Leadership in the workplace
5. Be debt-free
6. …….and so on

So starting with number 1 on the list. Have a Harley Motorcycle. He gives a tally mark against this item for each area of his life this positively contributes to. He decides: Family (No), Career (No), Wealth (No), Time for Self (Yes), Travel & Enjoyment (Yes), Health (Yes). He gives this item 111 tally marks.

Item 2. Golf every week. Frank decides that he has little time for his self and if he could give one thing to himself each week it would contribute to all areas of his life. He puts six tally marks against this item.

He looks at item 3 which is about being an excellent father to his children. He decides: Family (Yes), Career (Yes), Wealth (NoYes), Time for Self (No), Travel & Enjoyment (Yes), Health (Yes). Frank decides that his career would improve if he made sure he was home for dinner every evening and learnt to delegate responsibility. He originally thought that being a good father might drain his bank account, then he thought that if they spent more time as a family then he might not feel the need to spend so much money on them out of guilt! Whether you agree or disagree with Franks choices, this is a subjective exercise - it’s just a way to get you thinking!

So go through your Be, Do, Have list and compare it against your life priorities. Once you have done this, you might want to rank your list starting with those with the most tally points. This excerise helps you to focus on what is really important to you and what you want to make happen!

You may have an intelligence that takes the driving seat - some of us prefer rationale and logic, some of us primarily use a feeling-based intelligence. I have met people who have no vision for the future, yet are perfectly content and at ease with the present moment. I have also met people who are passionate about creating change, and have a clear vision of the world in which they want to live. Whatever is most natural for you, and brings you great joy is right. Don’t let anyone tell you to be who you are not. Who you are, is just fine.

To explore your other intelligences can bring you much awareness and balance into your life. Goal setting is a structured way to create change. It can help to know where you are going, or where you desire to go - otherwise you’ll end up somewhere else and say “how did I get here?” When you create a vision, your mind instructs your subconscious to ‘go fetch’.

Create your Vision

Creating your vision is about examining what’s in your heart. Creating your vision can involve the question “who am I and what am I here for?” This can involve a journey that extends beyond the realm of the mind. Creating your vision can involve examining the purpose of your life. But there is a simple exercise you can do right now that will get you started..

Your Be, Do, Have List

Ask yourself:

• Who would I like to Be? 
• What would I like to do?
• What would I like to have?

List every single thing you want to be in your life, everything you would like to do, and have in your life. No rules. Be honest – if you are after that Porsche then put it down, we are not filtering or prioritizing or judging at this stage but consider yourself a whole person, consider your wants, desires, your feelings and thoughts.

Consider what you want from your relationships. Let’s say that you want to be a good parent, or friend. How you want to spend your time. Let’s say you want to visit the Great Wall of China. What experiences you want to have. Let’s say you want to experience the thrill of a bungee jump. How do you want to feel?

Don’t exclude something that you want because you can’t work out the how. These are all personal thoughts and they are not what you think you ‘should’ do, these are things that you ‘want’. It is so important for you to draw this distinction.

So - write what comes into your mind. These are dreams. Look backwards and imagine you were reflecting on your life. What is it that you will want to have achieved or be remembered for? Aim for at least 30 items on your list.

You might want to consider the following life categories:

• Meaningful Work
• Time for Self
• Service & Contribution
• Health
• Wealth
• Love & Romance
• Family & Friends
• Personal Development (Mental, Spiritual, Emotional, Physical)

Now that you’ve given yourself permission to open up possibilities, you will find that ideas will come to you over the course of the next few days. Keep your Be, Do, Have list with you and keep writing. It doesn’t matter if this list changes tomorrow, just go with what you know today. Aim for at least 100 things on your list!

Consider your Vision

Once you’re satisfied that your list, sit quietly and review it. Is there a vision emanating from your list? For example, my list included details of writing, sharing, travelling, learning, and expressing. Over time, as I focused on what I wanted from my life, I realized that I wanted to be a student, teacher, healer and philosopher. I wanted to learn about connecting with the Divinity in life, to live a life of passion and free expression and to share it with others.

It doesn’t matter why I have this vision, and it matters not why you have yours. You need not justify yourself. The ‘how’ doesn’t matter. So when you’re working on your vision, you don’t need to be concerned about how you will realize your vision. Your job is to set one.

Write: It seems that I have a vision to…

Your vision can change. It doesn’t have to feel complete or accurate. Just do the best you can in this moment.

I’ll soon be adding my thoughts and experiences on getting your business cards, newsletters and online advertising up and running so watch this space and leave a comment on what it is that would be helpful for you to know..

Take our website, Life Academy Online - yes I have an IT background but my website development experience is self-taught. It just requires time, patience, persistence and the ability to work through some logical steps. Ignoring the vast amount of time required to design the site just as we wanted, the actual money handed-over was $20 upfront and then about $10 per month hosting. There have been fees for images used but this is an optional extra.

I feel a little hesitant sharing with you what I know, only because I don’t want you to get ‘in a pickle’ and then I’m not around to help you out. However, it’s worth giving it a go and if you come unstuck then you haven’t lost a huge amount of money, perhaps a little bit of time and you just might need to book some chillout-time to get over the frustration. I’m also going to share with you my formula using the products and services that I know and work for me. This is not the only way, it may not be the best way, but it’s my way. If you are happy to work independently, happy to ’suss’ things out for yourself and feel at ease at the thought of learning as you go along then you might just do it! 

1. Get yourself a Website address (optional - please read)

So - the first thing is your domain name. This is the website address you will use for your website. Choosing the best name can be a lengthy discussion in itself but bear in mind what you want people to search on, and are then matched to your address. You’ll need to decide whether your website address is the name of your company or a description of the services you offer. For example: I could set up a website called yourpurposeconsulting.co.nz which is the name of my company or I could call it spiritedbusiness.co.nz which describes what I do. What are people most likely to search on? It all depends on how you will market yourself and how you want to be considered. I once set up a website with theemergingpath.com - I liked the name of it but who thought to search on that when looking for coaching services? With The Life Academy of New Zealand we knew we wanted our website address to represent our company name in some way and people do search on ‘life academy’ now that the word is out.

One very useful tool to help you decide is Google’s Keyword Selector Tool. You can type in a word or phrase and you will be told how many people have searched on that term and what the competition is. The more people that search on a term, the greater you’ll find the amount of website results being returned. https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal 

Another thing to do is to google the words you are thinking of using in your address and see what else is being returned. It’s an interesting exercise as these are the websites you’ll be planning on joining if you use these search terms. The bottom line is go for what makes you feel good, what sounds good and you’ll be proud of shouting about! I also do a numerology check on the phrase to see if it vibrates the intent that is behind our business. I’ll hopefully get some notes on how to do that, up soon, and link from here.

Another thing is deciding whether you go for a .com or .co.nz extension. This will depend on whether your business is primarily international or New Zealand based. So once you’ve got some ideas you’ll need to see if it is available and purchase it. Google ‘register domain’ and you’ll be given plenty of choice. I’ve used freeparking.co.nz for NZ addresses and domain.com for international ones. I’m a creature of habit. Once something works for me, I don’t change if I’m happy with the service I’m getting. I purchase the straight address with no hosting add-ons or extras and pay about $20.

Alternatively, your hosting provider can obtain your new website address for you at the same time as setting up your hosting. This will remove steps 3 & 4. I tend to keep things separate so I retain full control - there’s probably not a great deal of extra benefit but I since I purchase more than one domain name and only have one hosting account this is why I do it separately.

2. Get yourself some Hosting.

So you’ve got a website address! The next thing you need is a home for your website. This is called hosting. Hosting is basically the equivalent of having your website stored on someone else’s computer that can be seen on the Internet and is secure. Now - there will be loads of options on this. Hosts generally provide a range of services including unlimited email addresses based on your new website address, automated website builders and all sorts of things to help you manage your own site. Website design companies usually provide hosting as part of the design package deal and may provide you with direct access to your site for modification or may not. Since we are doing the D-I-Y thing you’ll need to set-up your own.

I use Dot5Hosting www.dot5hosting.com in the US. I’m all for using New Zealand based services where I can but I know my way around dot5hosting and at about $5.00 USD a month hosting fee it works for me. Please note that I have no incentive to recommend any service to you. Sometimes the support offered by dot5hosting is excellent, sometimes it’s not. On the whole, I’m a happy customer.

Whatever hosting company you use, you will need to make sure they provide support for installing/using ‘Wordpress’ as part of the package. We’ll talk about Wordpress later but basically this is the website platform you will be using for free. Google ‘website hosting’ and take a look to see what’s on offer.

3. Point your website address to your hosting account

If you bought your website address separately to your hosting, you’ve got a website address and somewhere to ‘house’ your website. You’ll need to let your website domain provider who has the authority for your domain name. This is called updating the Domain Name Servers (DNS). Log-in to your domain account you purchased your address through e.g. freeparking and go to the part of the account where you manage your domain. Find the area for updating the ‘Domain Name Servers’. Your hosting account will tell you what the domain name servers (DNS) need to be changed to - if you can’t find out, ask the support team for your hosting account. For dot5hosting you change DNS 1 to : ns1.dot5hosting.com and DNS 2 to : ns2.dot5hosting.com This basically gives the authority to dot5hosting for your domain name.

4. Add your Domain name to your Hosting account

In your hosting account, you’ll need to add your domain name. Depending on which hosting provider you use, you may be asked your domain name when setting up or they might offer to  In dot5hosting this is ‘Add Registered Domain to Account’. You’ll just need to type your website address in. In Domain Pointing Manager your website domain address should be pointing to your Home Directory. Your Home Directory is the home/public_html folder. In file manager you’ll see a filing structure - your wordpress will be installed to the public_html folder.

5. Choose a Wordpress Template

This step could be done later and it might also be a good idea to do this before step number 1 so you can decide whether you like Wordpress. Wordpress is an open source (freely available) blogging platform. Blog is short for Web Log - meaning a number of journal entries (posts) that are regularly updated on the internet - a bit like an online journal. Blogs usually include:

• A main content area with articles listed chronologically, newest on top. Often, the articles are organised into categories
• An archive of older articles
• A way for people to leave comments about the articles
• A list of links to other related sites, sometimes called a “blogroll”.

Wordpress is a blogging platform that enables you to create more permanent pages of information such as details about your services, your contact information etc and a series of blogs (posts) where you can regularly update your website with interesting and relevant information. There will be inbuilt functionality that will enable your visitors to interact with you by leaving comments to your posts.

Visit www.wordpress.org and read up about having a wordpress website. Go to Extend > Themes Directory and choose a template that you would like for your website. Once you have selected a site, download it to your computer by pressing on download.

Wordpress is free because it is open source. This means that people have developed the wordpress technology and made it available for public distribution. You have no exclusive rights over the template you use (as others can choose it also) and have no authority if you find an error. However most developers are so keen to keep improving their work that they are always improving and fixing faults. Having said that, Wordpress sites are tested and approved before going live and I have never had a problem.

5. Install the Wordpress platform

Hopefully you have got a hosting account that enables automatic install of wordpress. In dot5hosting you’ll find it under Scripting & Add-ons > Install Central > Blogs > Wordpress. If not then you’ll need to read up on how to manually install Wordpress on the wordpress.org site - Good Luck - that’s unknown territory for me!

You’ll be asked to give your Blog a name, create a username and password that you will use to log-in to your wordpress website and choose the domain name that the wordpress will install to - you’ll only have one option which is your website address. Leave the installation sub directory field blank and tick the box ‘yes install to this directory’. By leaving this field blank wordpress will install at the highest level of your home directory (public_html). Select ‘create a database automatically’.

Note: If you completed anything in this installation directory field you would be entering the name of a subfolder i.e. public_html/nameofsubfolder. I tend to install to a subfolder because I have more than one website in my home directory (public_html).

Follow the onscreen instructions and wordpress will install. You’ll be told that your wordpress installation was successful and the name of the URL. If you go to this URL you will see the default wordpress theme installed. Note that at this stage, the www. is missing from the URL.

If you go back to vdeck > Scripting & Add-ons > Wordpress you’ll be given the URL address of the admin screen to start making changes to your site. It will be your URL (minus the www.) with /wp-login.php at the end.

For info: take a look in your file structure in the public_html folder and you’ll see the wordpress install files there.

6. Add the www. 

Two important things to share. Login with your username and password (the ones you gave when you installed wordpress) and go to Settings. In the Blog address (URL) field add the www. to the name of the URL.Update. This means that you can now type the full URL including the www. and get to your website.

7. Very important - Prevent Spam

The next thing you should do it Activate the Akismet plugin which protects your website from Spam. Since your website enables comments, there are many people out there automatically spreading rubbish and linking to inappropropriate websites. If you don’t activate your Spam filter you’ll wake up with 20 comments you won’t want to display and might get banned by google. Protect yourself.

Go to Plugins and follow the instructions for activating Akismet. This basically requires you to create a free account at wordpress.com and obtain a key (passcode) from your account details. You enter this key when you activate Akismet.

8. Upload your chosen theme

You can use the file upload on file manager to upload your theme folder inside the wp-content/themes. You’ll need to unzip the downloaded theme folder or at least open it and copy the contents to a new location. If you upload the whole zip folder you’ll find it won’t open. It’s best to download some free FTP (file transfer protocol) software which allows you to quickly transfer files from your computer into your hosting account. Google ‘free FTP software’. Once you’ve got some software then in your hosting account you’ll need to create an FTP account or use one already created. This provides you with a username and password to enter into your FTP software to create the secure connection to your hosting account. It’s worth taking the time to do this so you can quickly transfer images and other files across in future.

7. Control User Registrations

Another basic thing I do is go to Settings > General and make sure the following box is not ticked ‘anyone can register’. If this is ticked, people can create their own accounts and publish blogs on your site. I retain control of this and for the Academy, we invite people to blog and we create accounts for invited guests.

8. Display your new theme

Log-in to your wordpress account, go to find the Themes section - if you’ve uploaded the complete theme folder inside ‘themes’ then you’ll see it there and all you have to do is click on it.

9. Have a Browse

Take a look around your wordpress admin and get to know what is there to play with. Full suppport documentation is available on www.wordpress.org

Final Words

Without my explanation, if you get yourself a good hosting account that uses Wordpress www.wordpress.org then the documentation and support will help you get there by yourself! I hope I have shown that it is do-able. Once you’ve done it once, you’ll be able to do it again and help all of your friends!

The question was:

How will The Life Academy of New Zealand expand overseas? The Academy is considered the collective people and collective intent to bring passion, purpose and potential into being.

Here are the results:

1. All will be in Divine Timing. When the full identity is complete, wisdom will be directed to where it is needed to go.

2. There will not be a lack of Ideas or Inspiration. Wisdom will be imparted. Remain grounded, money will be made available and needs will be met.

3. Creative Energy working together for the good of all. There will be travel to the South Island. A vision of Mount Cook was received.

4. Forgiveness, meaning letting go, is a message needed to be heard. Help people to release things that enable them to move on with their lives. Don’t limit the options. Whatever is needed can be achieved. Build strong foundations and show others how to build a similar model.

5. Healing will occur when you help people find their own truth. Develop the online community.

6. Focus on being present in other communities and ‘walk the talk’. Maintain the spark and enthusiasm for making a difference. Don’t get stale. There will be a lot of work to get the formula right over the next two years. Don’t allow negative people to ‘jump’ on you.

7. Spiritual growth will occur through strong alliances and partnerships. Protect your assets and be clear on what you are offering. This will save much wasted time and energy.

8. Ask for support from causes that desire to make a difference. Find people who want the same as you and work with them in partnership.

9. Surrender and release to something that cannot be anticipated. Release need and expectation. The Academy Good Will Project can make pockets of difference.

10 - 12 Ensure purity of intent, be honest and simple. Remove the need to protect and hold close and focus on self-disclosure.

11. Enjoy, share and be happy.

Taking care of business is a major theme where your emotional orientation is concerned now. You crave order and practicality, and you want to get things accomplished. You aim to have everything in its place and anything that gets in the way of this gets on your nerves. Health and work goals take on greater importance for you now.

The Moon in Virgo generally favors the following activities: Mental pursuits, work activities, service to others, animals, analysis, editing, reading, writing, and any detailed work.  It’s a great time to catch up with the housework and the filing. Routine jobs tend to go more smoothly and are more satisfying.

Tuesday 3:18am - Thursday 10:43am The Moon in Libra

Your relationships are the key to your emotional fulfillment at this time. Harmony and beauty are deeply satisfying - and the lack of them can be emotionally unsettling. Close personal ties to other people are a focal point for your feelings and you want to create peace and harmony with everyone.

The Moon in Libra generally favours the following activities: Relationship and partnership issues, activities involving teamwork and cooperation, activities related to beauty and elegance, social pursuits such as going out to a movie, having a party, meeting up with your friends.

Thursday 10:45am - Saturday 8:23pm The Moon in Scorpio

Moon in Scorpio is all about intensity.  Whether it’s passion, elation, sorrow, or desire, emotions are felt more deeply than ever. We are motivated by the desire to get to the bottom of things, and we instinctively read between the lines. Superficiality won’t work for us now. The Moon in Scorpio urges us to uncover our own power, and it’s an excellent time to rid ourselves of old fears and limiting habits. It can be an intimate and passionate time.

The Moon in Scorpio generally favours the following activities: Anything connected with your finances, especially joint finances, taxes, accounting and banking. Having a soul connection will be of importance whether it be you’re your partner or someone you meet. It’s a great time to do in-depth research and to clear out anything that is past its sell-by date.

Saturday 8:25pm - Sunday The Moon in Sagittarius

The Moon is at her most optimistic and upbeat in Sagittarius. We are motivated by a need to seek the truth, and we are ready to pursue a new vision. We are not interested in details but want to focus on the bigger picture. Spontaneity and having fun are the key. We don’t want to plan ahead, and prefer to “go with the flow.”

The Moon in Sagittarius generally favours the following activities: Adventurous activities that involve “winging it”, travelling, higher education, starting publishing projects, advertising and marketing, sports and physical activities. It’s a great time to party and go out and enjoy yourself.

Our basic instinct is to communicate, think, and learn under the influence of Moon in Gemini. We are motivated by a desire for variety and by an instinctive curiosity. The Moon in Gemini is light-hearted, breezy, and curious, but it can also be restless and unreliable.

The Moon in Gemini generally favours the following activities: Mental and communicative actions, often doing more than one activity at once. Reading, learning, letters and emails, errands, writing, teaching and making short trips are highlighted under the Gemini Moon. It’s also a great time to get out and about and socialise with lots of different people.

Tuesday 6:59pm - Thursday 7:43pm Moon in Cancer

Emotional security, a sense of belonging and nurturing are uppermost in our consciousness: these issues are felt instinctively at this time. You want roots; you crave a sense of intimate connection that will last, you want to feel secure and loved. You may also want to go into a cocoon and enjoy some quiet solitude.

The Moon in Cancer generally favours the following activities: Domestic activities, those that involve awareness of your personal needs. Family get-togethers, meeting up with close friends, eating at home, looking after someone that maybe you have neglected for a while, relaxing by the water or in nature.

Thursday 7:45pm - Saturday 10:16pm Moon in Leo

A need to be the centre of attention takes hold in your life now - a craving to give and to be appreciated by others. This can be an expansive, creative, and even romantic phase. It’s when you want to take charge of your life and organise everything and everyone.

The Moon in Leo generally favours the following activities: Creative activities, activities involving children, generous undertakings, acting, theatre, finding out “who you are” and what makes you tick. It can also indicate a new romance or love-affair.

Saturday 10:19pm - Sunday Moon in Virgo

Taking care of business is a major theme where your emotional orientation is concerned now. You crave order and practicality, and you want to get things accomplished. You aim to have everything in its place and anything that gets in the way of this gets on your nerves. Health and work goals take on greater importance for you now.

The Moon in Virgo generally favors the following activities: Mental pursuits, work activities, service to others, animals, analysis, editing, reading, writing, and any detailed work. It’s a great time to catch up with the housework and the filing. Routine jobs tend to go more smoothly and are more satisfying.

According to Wikipedia, Divination (from Latin divinare “to be inspired by a god”, related to divine, diva and deus) is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of a standardized process or ritual. Divination is not telling the future that is based in fact. Divination can provide possibilities based on a person’s current path and decisions which can be changed at any time. This is called Free Will. Be wary of anyone’s claims that they can “see” the future, although they may be able to “see” the future possibilities.

Below is a list of commonly used Divination methods, although there are many more:

• Tarot
• Cards (Playing Cards, Angel Cards, Animal Guides)
• Numerology
• Runes
• I Ching
• Pendulum
• Connecting with Angels and Guides
• Scrying
• Crystals and the Crystal Ball
• Dominoes
• Astrology
• Palm Reading
• Tea Leaves
• Automatic Writing/Drawing
• Dream Interpretation

Man, throughout history, has found any tool to aid the connection to his own innate wisdom. The wisdom is not within the tool, but within ourselves.

We’d like to share the wisdom received on Wednesday 20th May. The question posed to the group of Diviners was:

How can New Zealand bring enlightenment to other Countries around the World?

Here is a summary of what was received:

New Zealand in Partnership

Working in unison and in tandem. There may be struggles at first. Remember that we are all one system, connecting with our commonalities as a human race. We are all children of God.
There would be much benefit in each of us connecting in brotherhood with another person in another country as Companions of Light. The wisdom received could be considered like an ‘exchange project’, connecting, exchanging and building bridges across Countries. A similar idea is groups connecting with like-minded groups in other countries. For example, a similar group/organisation to The Life Academy of New Zealand, exchanging experiences and building bridges across the water.

There is much to gain in bringing back lost ‘friends’ such as Fiji.

New Zealand with Positive Intent

Don’t try to make things happen. Set your intent to bring Light to the world and let the journey unfold. The Universe will help and support you through your Intent alone.

See Love everywhere and allow it to grow. You have the opportunity to transform your World through your positive radiance and vibration, so just remember just to Be and Be in the Now. Your ability to be in the Now will have a knock-on effect elsewhere.

Relax, breathe and stay fresh. Lose old habits that no longer serve your purpose. Maintain positive thoughts and affirm positive things. Pray Big – think Big. Treat New Zealand like a Wishing Well.

New Zealand as an Example of a Green Country

Do not waste Earth’s resources. Set good examples of how we can be self-sufficient, clean and green. Aim to be pollutant free and live with simple measures. Help others in being clean, green and nuclear-free.

Observe the Stars, the Moon – draw wisdom from Maori tradition, carvings and symbolism.

New Zealand as an example of ‘Good’ Business

Good Business Structures can make meaningful contributions to the world. This requires businesses to have high intent and to see themselves in service to others. True wealth is aligning Heaven with the Earth.

Demonstrating Leadership in Business through busyness and creating – not following. New Zealand can take the lead with its strong spiritual vibrations. We can build strong foundations with other countries through good negotiation and finding ways to be more creative.

Find new ways of exchanging resources, using outside sources where beneficial and replicating strategies that work. Spread good news. New Zealand can flow like a natural current – like a current of the sea. A new currency can be introduced by paying for goods and services.

The number 8 serves as the symbol of balance and perfection. Building bridges and building bonds across the waters. Being the number of perfection, this can be manifested if this is your intent.

Don’t borrow resources for they are not unlimited. Create resources, increase flow. Combine work from the home.

New Zealand as a Family

Restore the natural balance of family. When family runs in order, so does society. Nothing else flows if the family is in disorder. Work on restoring this balance and set this example for others.

Do let us know your thoughts about how New Zealand can bring enlightenment to the world. Leave us a comment. Thanks!