Pick me up

June seemed to be a month that drifted by; mostly I think because I was not feeling well for three weeks of it.  Hopefully this heralds a change in tempo for me.  A quicker pace.  Now not too quick, something that might brings the heart beat up just a bit. A little fun in the sun, some dance time, good news. There is a Solar Eclipse in the World on July 2, day of the New Moon.  Looking for a quick peek from the Universe for some news. 
Go Sunday, Fun-day!





The Sacred Circle Tarot ~ Anna Franklin
Illustrated by Paul Mason

Continuity

These two cards seem to flow together.  Off the path is this wonderful pasture of wildflowers.  Life is like that, going along doing what we are doing and then right in front of us Life offers us these wonderful gifts.  An unexpected treat. I have experienced these moments, awe inspiring, leaving me almost breathless.  Reminding me to be in the moment, not some other place in thought.

 Right here Right now.


Celtic Lenormand

Swat, flick, brush away

Pretty clear message here.  Don't let those pesky little what 'ifs' cloud my thinking.  No stinkin' thinkin' today or the rest of them if I can help it.  What 'ifs' have shaped a huge portion of my life.  Well can't change what was.  So I lost some of this or that or allowed the bits to be carried away. In reflection I have gained and experienced and shared lots as well.
Today is bright and shiny and that is good enough for now.

Celtic Lenormand

For the birds

"for the birds" was one of my Mother's favorite exclamations.  Nonsense. 
Birds are birds.  Some are the stay at home type and others are on the move.
The question I keep debating with myself. "Do I stay or do I go?"

The Bonnie Banks

O'Loch Lomand
O ye'll tak' the high road and I'll tak' the low road, And I'll be in Scotland a'fore ye.

We all take different paths. 





Celtic Lenormand

Revelation

Well this seems pretty straight forward.  The answer or key to my questions and situation is on its way. 
Do we wait for the Universe to take care of things?  Wait on answers to our prayers?
Or go out and take care of things? Seek and find?


"Opportunity can't knock if it doesn't know where to find you."

Heed

Children often dream of adventures. Listening to the stories of parents and guardians they are ready to discover their own. Yesterday's cards of security and permanence chafes on the younger, who need to seek and find their own way.  And look a messenger has arrived with just the information needed to begin to seek that which calls.


Celtic Lenormand

Fastened

Can we stay too long in one place?







Celtic Lenormand
Chloe McCracken
Will Worthington

Call to action

I have been completely lazy this morning; sleeping in and listening to the rain and thunder as the storms move through.  Now I have been called to action.  "Get up, get going" is what I hear.
"sun is up time's at hand, there's a stir across the land"\
Life's Highway

Let's go discover what the day holds.





The Druid Animal Oracle

I Choose

I saw a number of references to dragons yesterday. Coincidence? I think not.  A blog post, commercial, and ad, and an email on dragons.  It is only appropriate to ask a Fire Dragon to appear and bring in Summer today.  The Summer Solstice is later this morning, just before the noon hour. 
Did that dragon start the fire or just drawn to her element? I think the latter. They are so rare that dragons have gone into hiding and would not draw attention to themselves.
For today in honor of the longest day of the year, I will acknowledge anything and everything unusual and unique.  Take a moment and appreciate.



The Druid Animal Oracle - Bill Worthington ~ illustration

Did you hear that

Do you hear what I hear? Most likely not. We hear what WE hear. Or choose to hear. Or want to hear. Or hear from our point of view. I am sure I do not hear what others do, mostly because I am deaf in my right ear. Wonder if hearing only from the left side changed the way I heard and interpreted the world and everyone in it?

WTH

How the heck did I find myself out here?  Make a plan, work a plan. 

Appreciation

Working for it and appreciating it when you get, got, have it. 

Places everyone

We all have a skill set, maybe several; the quest is finding what suits us and going with that; whether a laborer, craftsman, or the marketing director. Too much of life is spent trying to make another happy or living up to another's expectation. Even now I am battling it.  My path in sales changed and now I work inside as a paper pusher.  The manager wants me to make "cold" calls and lead generation and once upon a time I was pretty good at, didn't like it, but it was part of the job.  Every week I say I am going to really commit and every week I fall short.  We change, I changed. So who is the disappointed one? Me, I am still trying to be something I no longer am.

Recipe

Temperance never makes much sense to me.  Must be something to it, but don't feel like working it out.  For today I think I will try a new recipe.  Little of this and a little of that.  I am going to notch it up a bit, something spicy and maybe that will help with my congestion issues.









Marco Polo Tarot ~ Lo Scarabeo

Disenchanted

Heard it all before. Not listening.  This Two of Swords has a feel of Justice, but he will not make the High Court.  His mind wanders and he is not really present, listening to the presentation in court. 
Today I need to pay attention or at least not waste my time with someone who would rather be somewhere else rather than spending time with me. 

Spiritual leaders

Do we need them, spiritual leaders?  Someone to follow, to whisper prayers of hope and for redemption?  Reasoning that life is not really ours to shape and control?  We are all on our own paths and though seemingly different, headed in the same direction. 

"What it leads to what will be, and all will be well if we do what is right. Never fear the future. Whatever happens, the future is the only way back."
"The only way back to what?"
"Back to the where we belong forever. The future is the one path out of time into eternity."   Puzzle and Riddle (pg 63)
BREATHLESS - Dean Koontz

Rethink that

Arrogance.  The driver of this Chariot is actually taking a whip to magical tigers.  Look they fly!  I would seriously rethink whipping magical tigers, or abusing magic in any form.  Magic can reshape itself and who knows what can happen then.  I will remember that today when something magical comes flying my way; take a moment and just appreciate it.  Not try to capture, or shape, or direct it.  Accept it for it being in my life.







Marco Polo Tarot ` Lo Scarabeo, Torino

Yin

Receptivity.  I don't feel very receptive.  My respiratory ailment has me only focused on me; oh woe is me.  I haven't walked barefoot for several days, not able to focus on positive healing thoughts, and the deep racking coughs have been a real imposition. Today I do feel better, but I am still not very receptive to any get up and go.  I need that well-spring that is overflowing from the cup.  Misery may love company but I am tired of my own.

Play me a melody

There are always things that seemed left undone.  Unfinished business.  There have been a few loose ends I have tied up, still more to do.   I realize more and more each day the things that I am not, but have pretended, educated, or forced to be.
I am the Unfinished Symphony.

"Son can you play me a memory I'm not really sure how it goes But it's sad and it's sweet And I knew it complete When I wore a younger man's clothes." Sing us a song you're the piano man Sing us a song tonight Well we're all in the mood for a melody"
Piano Man, Billy Joel

Cosmic prank

Sometimes I believe the Universal Divine is having a laugh at my/our expense.  Asking for advice, I get Breathe.  Really!   The exact thing I am having a problem with.  I have a nasty cold, bronchitis, or upper respiratory infection and the one thing I am having problems with is breathing.  I am not sleeping, not getting any work done, and Kitty has gone into hiding.
Still Breathe is the best advice I can receive.  Deep long breaths, or as deep as my lungs will allow to keep from developing pneumonia is the order for the day.





Wisdom of the Oracle - Colette Baron-Reid

Too clever

Foolish to believe we can get away 'with no good.' Somehow the deed(s) always catch up with us.  Someone always knows, even if that someone is yourself.  No way did this hunter gather those rabbits himself.  Too clean, not a spot of dirt on him, even his hands don't appear sullied by clearing the traps.  He managed to finagle those rabbits from someone, and you know what, the wifey knows too.  Look at those crossed arms, defensive in her stance.
Sometimes we can be too smart for our own good.






The Sacred Circle Tarot ~ Ann Moura

Paint the town green

Another lovely Page.  I am in need of some of the youthful energy of the Pages. Someone who was not in consideration of others brought a nasty little cold bug into the work environment.  I have been staying just ahead of the full onslaught of misery. Walking barefoot every morning might just be helping; all that healing Earth energy.  For today there is not much work at office so I am going to stay close to home.  Maybe this Page has the right idea, get the paints out and spend some of my day in creative action.
There is beaver just yonder to keep me company.  Most days there have been some companions in each of the daily draws.  I am going to go back through the deck and see just how many friends Ann Moura gave us to keep us company. 



The Green Witch Tarot ~ Ann Moura

Action

Plans without action are less productive than daydreaming. 
Yesterday's comments never made it as a post.  Didn't hit publish, so the thought was left without action.  Today's Page of Swords reminds me to get to it.  Want something? start doing. 
Kind of feels a bit like a Page of Wands, but really thinking about the action first, is a good idea.

Up there!

Just a little farther.  See the light, yes you can!  Wow the load of stuff that we carry with us through life, burdens and sorrows.  Lost or forgotten friends and opportunities.  They weigh us down and yet onward we must go. Go where? On..........Life goes on.  Why we continue to carry things like a pack mule, unknown.  Are we taught not to cry, complain when others don't have the opportunities we have, and to never ever give up?
You know what I am learning on my climb, that I can  start to lay down bits of this and that.  Not all burdens are visible and most don't serve me now or maybe ever.  Psssht.
I let another person go in my life yesterday, she wasn't really even a fair weather friend, but enough was enough.  I already went through the disappointments and when asked said no, no more. Good for me, pack is lighter


The Green Witch Tarot

Bounty of nature

'Even a blind pig can get lucky and find a truffle.'  I wonder if that hedgehog is aware of all the apples around her?  So onward I go stumbling to and fro. Bound my doubts and insecurities, or just reluctant to let go of the things known, to move into the unknown. If I keep moving forward I get lucky enough to stumble on a correct path. 
I am into my second week of walking ten minutes every morning in my bare feet to reconnect with the Earth and get my electrons balanced, a super charge. Any difference, nope.  It can't hurt so onward I go. 



The Green Witch Tarot

Observation

Sometimes it is best to stand still and let events pass by and remain in awareness.  Wisdom can be found in being a witness.













The Green Witch ~ Ann Moura

June

Coincidence that the month and the name of this fairy are the same on this first day of June. I like coincidences, makes me sit up and take notice. Coincidences we are told, is the Universe giving us a hint or a suggestion to pay attention.  So June is supposed to be a really good month and I am looking forward to it.  Crazy that the year is almost half over and I have not shook the Winter's weariness.  Some music and sunshine are the subscriptions for today.  The Four of Wands is all about getting outside and enjoying the day and ourselves.  Sounds lovely to me.




The Good Tarot - Colette Baron-Reid