I frequently get questions about Money. It makes sense as Money tends to have so much cultural weight that we can tie ourselves up in knots thinking about it.

Brief physics refresher—kinetic energy is the energy of motion. A thrown baseball has kinetic energy. Potential energy is the stored energy of prior work. The giant boulder Sisyphus pushed up the hill had potential energy just before it rolled back down.

Therefore, by definition, money is potential energy because it is the stored energy of prior work. Okay, not exactly in physics terms, but go with me here.

I find it helpful, when someone first poses a question about money, to ask them to define the qualifiers they inevitably add: enough, a comfortable amount, enough for me and some to be generous with, as much excess as possible (usually said with a laugh because this idea makes us uncomfortable).

It is also usually a question for the future, which has its own unique quirks.

But Money is a physical thing that represents Energy—and the representation is so ingrained that Money becomes Energy.

A bonus for a job well done may give you an actual jolt of happiness. You may feel indifference, or joy, or frustration when you get your regular salary. Paying taxes may make you feel sick to your stomach, or proud that you are paying your share. Money (Energy) has attached value due to where we are sending it, or from where we receive it, and our perceived value of that situation. Hmmmm.

Energy is an exchange—it is neither created nor destroyed. You put Energy into something, Energy returns to you in the form of money, or love, or joy, or however the Universe finds to return that Energy.

It's not a 1:1 relationship, and certainly not a perfect exchange, but we expect a reaction from an action. If you are willing to accept love, joy, and Source Energy as your return, accept Money as well, and begin to think of it in this way.

During Readings, I often look at money questions with a Relationship Rose—a Psychic/Mediumship/Akashic Records symbolic representation with Roses that shows me you and your relationship to something. It can be a person, a job, or even money. I have been surprised, amused, and horrified by what I see when I look at how you are in relationship to your money.

My favorite one so far has been where the client is like a teenage girl with a crush. Interested, attracted, desperate, giggly, avoiding. To me, that's been the best representation of how many of us feel about money—like the first infatuations in life—clumsy, awkward, feeling undeserving and not worthy. We can't quite understand this strange being, but we like it and want to be with it more. But we are scared of it too—what if something goes wrong?

Because we exist, we are loved beyond measure—not for what we do or who we are. This love is Energy—available to us if we just accept it.

I invite you to think about how you view Money. Then take some time to think about how you view love, or joy, or Source Energy. All of these should be received easily (but we make it difficult).

The challenge, the goal, is to receive Energy in return for the Energy you are—as an Exchange—and in whatever form you desire.

Peace,

Jo