Manifesting abundance, clarity . . . .and there I am, back in the Fast Lane

I´m not sure how I managed it, but overnight I went from the slower, introspective pace of the pyramids to so busy I haven´t been able to find 10 minutes in the net cafe all week.  Today is my first `day off' . . . finally.

The last couple of days of my retreat, while still powerful and introspective, were coloured by my increasing worry about my post-retreat plans . . . specifically in terms of where to live and how to pay for it.  Life in Guatemala is extremely cheap, but it can be deceiving and easy to go through money quickly when doing the calculation all the time . . . oh, this is just $5 and that beautiful thing is only $10 . . . no problem . . .  Suddenly, I discovered I had very little savings left (although I now own some beautiful Guatemalan handi-crafts, I´ve had some phenomenal body-work and an amazing month at the pyramids).  But push suddenly was approaching shove, and I was aware that either money needed to start coming in, or I needed to look at heading home.

After spending far too much time worrying about something I could do NOTHING about while in silence . . . especially when I really wanted and needed to be focused elsewhere, I finally surrendered.  I decided that either a clear money source would present itself in the coming week, or I would look to make travel arrangements to return home.  That surrender happened Saturday.  Sunday I moved out of the pyramids and back into La Paz, where I had been staying prior to the pyramids, and Monday morning, I got offered a full-time waitressing job.   The universe can´t get much more clear than that . . .really.  Apparently getting a 'job' in San Marcos is almost unheard of.  There are lots of entrepreneurial ways to make money, and I intend to explore them . . . but in the mean time, the message is clear . . .I need to be here a while longer.  I also have a place to live, almost for free.  I will be house and cat-sitting for a friend who is going traveling.  The universe does provide, we need only to ask. 

So, having already signed up for a massage course for the week, and now having a full-time waitressing job in the evenings . . . I suddenly had myself a VERY busy week.  Tonight I finally have a night off, and I´m off to a Sangria party for a friend who´s heading back to Britain.