Statement from Mars

Greetings from Mars, god of war for the Romans and much more, before their time and since. I come today with a statement of purpose and advice on how to best use my power. I've been very active in helping people manage their affairs, originally with agriculture & livestock, then bigger projects like roads and aqueducts, military affairs, plus personal relationships, friends, family - taking care of business, getting things done and doing them well. I am a management consultant for your personal affairs.

I come to promote the value of tangible practical skill. There is a joy available to you, no matter what skills you choose to develop. It is the enjoyment of your own power, your own ability to achieve, to create, to succeed in your chosen area. Not enough people know that these joys are there for the taking. Or they don't think it's important enough to spend much time on. But this joy is a reward for good work and it draws us to do more of it.

This applies to all kinds of activity - work around the home, employment and business work, friendship, family, and love - if you pay attention to the satisfactions of success, it is a powerful motivator to keep going forward. This fulfillment is available equally in big projects and small everyday tasks. It is job satisfaction for your life.

You may receive messages from other guides that will inspire you to high lofty ideals, with beautiful poetic language that will stir you and lift you emotionally and spiritually. I don't do that. This is about the here and now, working with your feet on the ground and being effective in your chosen mission. There is no guidance anywhere that has a greater practical value.

Your relationships will improve because you will pay more attention to them, and will address the important issues at the right time via thoughtfulness. You'll make more money because you'll do better work and more of it. Your home will be more organized because you will like getting it under control, you'll enjoy the flexing of your skills throughout all your activities.

You will be required, though, to decide what you want. This may not be easy or quick, especially if you are just beginning to discover your true inner directions, but it is necessary before we can help you much. I and my fellow guides out here can provide some awesome cosmic power to you. We can draw resources from across the universe to co-create your dreams with you - but you must provide the dreams. Without that we have not much to offer except help in discovering those true inner directions.

If you don't have a clear statement of goals it should be your first job to define them. And this is a perfectly good thing to request from us: help in finding the best goals for yourself. We won't tell you what to want, but we can help greatly in uncovering these things within yourself. In almost all cases there are such goals within people and they are definite.

Discovering and refining these goals is an ever deepening process. Often a first goal is to work through barriers, things that keep us from moving forward, clearing the decks for action. And when that is accomplished a new set of goals arises, to be discovered, then expressed clearly, then adopted as a statement of mission. And when that is done we refine the mission again, and it is always appropriate to ask us for help in defining and refining your own personal goals. The more you do this, the better you will get at it.

And there are some hints to help get started on the path:

• List out the things you are drawn to most. The things you simply like are often related to your core original purposes. In fact this link is often the reason you like those things in the first place.
  
• Imagine what you would focus on in your next lifetime, what general themes you would organize your life around if you had the choice. And choice is the key word, because in many cases you actually do have that choice now.
  
• Watch for unity in what you adopt as your core desires. Many times people want things that do not match up well, some things conflict with others. Aversions may conflict with attractions, and the universe seems to look at the aversions first sometimes. You may wish for a new romantic relationship but you don't want to give up full freedom on how you spend your time. Guess what, they're not going to show up until you get that worked out. Ask yourself not only what you want to achieve, but also what you want to preserve and what you want to avoid. This can identify possible conflicting motivations. Unity of mission is a very powerful aid in getting things done.
  
• Strive also for clarity in your statement of goals. It's nice to be able to tell others about it clearly, but the main benefit is in making the statement. This requires you to be clear about it internally, within yourself. The statement of your goals is the byproduct of the clarity you develop within yourself. What do you want to achieve first, next, and eventually? If you can say that in about a minute, it's probably pretty clear.

There is something else to say, about the war thing. People want to soften my hard edges, they want me to play nice, they want to modify my energy and that doesn't work with me. Social politeness cannot take away my force. I take action, I get things done, I am out there. This can be extremely productive if you know how to use my energy in the right way, but my sword does have two edges. And knowing what you want is the key to walking this little tightrope.

Most people don't have to struggle personally with the grand issues of international warfare. Presidents do, and kings and soldiers and their families. But most people don't have that issue as a direct personal experience, they have something much harder: personal human violence. Either the possibility of receiving it, the probability of inflicting some or the practical certainty that at some time you're going to want to hurt somebody. Polite society has strong codes to control this, and they're needed because these urges are so common. And as you might imagine, I know a few things about this.

Anger builds up in people - and I am there to build it - when they don't get what they want. This can be very productive if it's directed well and destructive otherwise. For example: people can view others as being responsible for their own lack of success, such as, "If it weren't for him/her I could have done XYZ." Yet often the others are not the ones in the way. People hold themselves back far more often than others do. So if you have a pressure of energy, maybe anger, building up like this, focus it on the goal and not the person. This will help us build with it and be constructive. I would rather build something constructive and useful with you, but I will settle for making trouble because above all, I am going to take action.

And the key to directing my energy well is knowing your own goals well. It can take our mutual forces from destruction to creation. This is good advice no matter what kind of spirit guides you are working with but with me it matters a bit more, because I will take action, and quickly. It is really an advantage to act quickly and decisively, especially when the actions support clear goals.

My sister Athena is also a warrior and she is known for strategy, wisdom, and calculated response. I am known for the emotional power of quick, decisive action. Some have asked me to work with my sister to adopt a style that is closer to hers. This is akin to softening my rough edges. That hasn't happened in the last 2500 years and it's not likely now. If you like Athena's energy, her approach and her style, you can call on her and she will come, as we all do, because we really are eager to help. She is a fierce and effective warrior and nobody out here will be offended. But if you've decided to work with Mars you're going to get what I got - and this is it, baby.

Focus on defining the mission first, and we are happy to help with that, and then we'll do the second things second and get it done.

My sword has two edges but there is a third choice. You can deny that I exist and suppress my energy completely. The suppression had better be complete, though, or else my force will come out in undirected ways as we've discussed, and it might not be what you like. But if you can clamp it all down and really hold it there, then you only have to deal with your failure to get what you want. Maybe you can even deny that you wanted it in the first place. Alcohol and prozac can help deal with the effects of a decision like that. This actually happens rather frequently.

I have made three main points:

• There is true satisfaction in achievements great and small - and true satisfaction is rare.
• There is great personal power in having clarity and unity in your goals.
• My sword has two edges, and your clear goals will help you wield it well.

I offer these thoughts to all human earth beings for their highest and greatest good.