story time with Richard

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Saturday Morning at the LP Workshop

• What Is LP? It is not x,y,z.

• Practical and specific

• Brings clarity to life choices

• Ongoing, journey not destination

• Objective, life-scale, personal (therefore it is measurable)

• Defines what is important

• LP seeks meaning

• Non-circumstantial (therefore it is available today)

• Daily practice of attention and intention

 

Quantum Hand Analysis

• Ice Skates / Wave, Particle Duality

• Collapse of the wave function

 

Skills Chapter

• Database (Including historic background)

• Pattern Recognition

• Combining

• Threading / Triangulating, an entirely new concept in hand analysis

• Personality Understanding of Soul Psychology (overview)

• Communications, an emphasis of HA 101

 

Fingerprints Chapter

*The importance of story: don’t be like Beethoven’s brother

 

Axiom One (*)

• Kate and Axiom One

• Bob from Boise

• Jacques Cousteau

• Ordinary People

• Robert Redford

• Colonel Mustard

• The Cosmic Bar and Grill

• Gilda, the Prisoner of Love

• Andrina and Long Division

 

Axiom Two (*)

• Monopoly Board

• Why does Telemachus wash his hands?

• Character is cumulative

• Spiders and the Goddess of Love

• Dora

• Cecilia

 

Axiom Three (*)

• Three Peas in a Pod

• The snakes

 

The Four Schools (*)

• The Mariachi Band

• Sisyphus meets Miss America

• Lone Tree on the Plain, Peter Pan from Petaluma

• The Butterfly: Tom, Camille, Jasper

• Prufrock

• The Don Juan of Marin County

• The Mad Scientist

• Dust, death, and stale cat food

• Splash painted bungalow

• Getting a tan

 

The Ten Locations (*) 

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Right Thumb Story File

• Nadia         

• Ken 

• Ms. Steamroller

• Creon

• Eisenstein & Hart, McKinley Road, Az. Man, Kevin

• La Fuente

• Wayne’s World

• Mary Ann and Stuart

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Significance

• Worldly Success is relative; are you in the right career?

• Successful people overcome obstacles.

• True Success should not lead to The Big Gaping Hole.

• Sometimes, Worldly Success finds you.

• There are lots of ways to be Worldly Successful.

• Manifestation excellence includes detail excellence.

• Constant negative self-talk is red-flag problematic.

• Failure can be a doorway into Worldly Success.

 

Left Thumb Story File

• Emerald Forest      

• Mathis

• Bea

• Susan

• Miles

• Emily

• Marsha

• Going Home

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Significance

• (M)Patriarchs are in touch with all family members.

• Family LP can include community, tribe, team, etc.

• (M)Patriarchs put the needs of the family first.

• All LPs are about consciousness, not circumstance.

• Families can be just a bit quirky sometimes. (Always?)

• Be sure not to give away all of you to join the family.

• Family, like all LPs, is a process not a destination.

• Be careful your love does not smother your loved ones.

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Right Jupiter Story File

• Congratulatory Phone Call 

• Bruce

• Himalaya

• The Two Brothers

• Marion

• Dodge City

• The Adams Family

• Four Mr. Not Enoughs

• JFK and RFK

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Significance

• Fear of success can be just as strong as fear of failure.

• True power implies the honorable exercise thereof.

• Many Leaders do not see themselves as such.

• Power = Zeus’ authority + Hades / Poseidon introspection

• Vulnerability can be a sign of strength.

• Conversely, holstering your guns may invite violation.

• Men and Women of Power have emotional independence.

• Soul Psychology Self-Doubt has many faces.

• Self-Doubt, properly managed, can be an incredible asset.

 

Left Jupiter Story File

• Amelia Earhart

• Soap Opera

• “NO” and “ME” 

• Guardian Angel Training School

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Significance

• Living Your Passions does not mean you are free from the consequences of living your passions.

• Expressing strong feelings is not always an appropriate form of Living Your Passions.

• Left Jupiter is all about proper boundaries.

• Living Your Passions can be obvious or subtle. Either way, you need to be true to your Heart Line type.

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Right Saturn Story File

• Schindler    

• Shannon Smith, RN

• Jones Jewelry Store

• Glove Compartment Exercise

• Sylvia

• Jimmy, Joan, Paul, Paula

• Frieda

• Buddha from Bloomingdales

• Bob and Beau

• Zach and Zelda

• Dee Dee

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Significance

• Dualistic LPs require both oars in the water.

• Commitment, commitment, commitment

• LP and LL are about consciousness, not actions taken.

• Saturn says we should clean up our messes, all of them.

• Is your life being lived based upon appropriate criteria?

• Irresponsibility has its price, on you and everyone else.

• Prosperity includes the willingness to receive.

• Money, by itself, is neither spiritual nor un-spiritual.

• Responsibility w/o accountability is not responsibility.

• Time and money are favorite Right Saturn Issues.

• Masters of Responsibility admit their wrongdoing.

 

Left Saturn Story File

• The Chauffeur

• Martin Luther King

• Booker T. Washington

• Crumb Work

• Juliet, Hawthorne, Claire

• Cinderella and Ms. Argentina

• Dwight Plays Liar’s Poker

• Can We Talk Turkey?

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Significance

• Wise Elders often blossom later in life.

• A majestic LP requires a majestic life.

• Another American giant

• Doing service out of guilt inevitably leads to servitude.

• Defining emotional integrity

• Defining emotional self-esteem

• Saturn can skewer a person’s self-evaluation.

• Hot Potato is the very definition of LL avoidance.

 

Right Apollo Story File

• The Dallas Quarterback

• Ralph Kramden

• Janice

• The Thousand Dollar Tip

• Quitting the Bolshoi

• Just Me and the Chairs

• Marlowe, Oklahoma

• The Disapproval Rag

• Charles

• The Playboy Bunny

• Leticia

 

Significance

• Show your true colors; let the chips fall where they may.

• Vanity, one form of anti-tomato behavior, is universal.

• Hot Potato is common in Apollo-Land.

• Putting on airs can be expensive.

• Artists face daunting challenges being true to their craft.

• Every Apollo person’s path is strewn with tomatoes.

• Reputation (a positive Apollo bank account) is priceless.

• Don’t let disapproval (tomatoes) run your life.

• Tomato fear has many disguises…

• And costumes.

• Even perfection itself cannot protect one from tomatoes.

 

Left Apollo Story File

• A Line in the Sand

• The Jazz Singer

• Fourteenth Street

• The Plague Convention

• The Johnson Trail

• Caroline

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Significance

• Left Apollo integrity is similar to Left Saturn integrity.

• Be careful of letting other people get their hooks into you.

• What does it mean to sell out? Selling out is one way to try to get rid of tomato fears—an expensive way at that.

• Disapproval fear can secretly run a person’s life. 

• Disapproval is part of every Pioneer’s life path.

• Dropping your “act” can happen in an instant (or not).

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Right Mercury Story File

• Winston

• Verena and the Jester

• Marvin Needs to Solicit

• Grant Thinks He’s a Thief

• Cow Eyes

• Regina

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Significance

• Message delivery can take many forms.

• Difficult communications environments require expertise.

• Self-Promotion is a Right Mercury Issue.

• Honesty has its costs.

• Not Speaking Up can take many forms.

• If you spoke up, what would you say?

 

Left Mercury Story File

• Justin’s Give / Get Ratio

• Patricia is a Real Magician

• Harold the Herald

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Significance

• Intimate communications are the most common training grounds for Left Mercury Surrender Skills. Lessons here can be obvious or super-subtle.

• True Communications can have surprising benefits.

• True Communications often requires opening one’s heart.

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Shapes Chapter (*)

• Earth Stories: Artisan furniture, Marlboro Man, the Lone Ranger

• Air Stories: Business systems

• Fire Stories: Rollerblade star, Jimi Hendrix

• Water Stories: Save the dog, Merrill Lynch event

• Jupiter Stories: Zeus mythology, the two brothers, Zeus’ furniture

• Saturn Stories: Saturn symbols, go to the desert island

• Apollo Stories: Apollo mythology

• Mercury Stories: Mercury mythology, Red wine on the dinner jacket

• Mars Stories: Mars mythology

• Venus Stories: The four tasks of Psyche

• Moon Stories: Moon mythology, crystal ball in the basement 

• Philosopher Stories: The bridge builder, Prom year

• Conic Stories: Princess and the Pea, the Ming vase

• Pointy Stories: Anti-culturism

• Elementary Stories: Atlas, the fireman

• Nice Garden Syndrome: Anastasia

• Finger Sets: Jessie Owens

• Finger Zones: Oppenheimer

• Hand Color, The Martian

 

Lines Chapter (*)

• The wheat field

• Heart Lines: Gina, Clint, Dona, Michael

• Head Lines: Mr. K.

 

Line Families

• Gifts: Beethoven, Marcy and Malcolm (Saturn Star), Darth Vader’s helmet (Star of Mars),

• Persephone, Octopus Brain

• HSJs: Sympathy Date (D Fork), Clark Kent Line, Soccer practice (The Ladder), Moving day (Dangling XXX’s), Papa Smith’s lecture (Burden of Expectation),  

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