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Fascinated by those three birds that have etheral crowns.
The booklet suggests that a third party helps me see the truth of a situation. 
Sometimes what wounds me was not what was intended by another.  So for today I will give myself and others a bit of graciousness.







The Good Tarot - Colette Baron-Reid

Certainty

Certainty, one of the six human needs:
Certainty
Uncertainty
Significance
Growth
Love
Contribution.

Certainty has driven my life, and when I find myself in a complacent, comfortable, certain place, that's when I get bored and non-productive.  That's when I mix things up.  That's where I am at now.  Certainty, you think seven years ago that I would have learned the lesson, that for certain you can't be for certain.


The Good Tarot

Coat of a different color

Idk about all those candles, especially worn on a head full of hair?  Distracting from the energy of a knight of wands. 
Today I see a new nurse practitioner, maybe she will have red hair and some new ideas of treatment on the condition of my legs.  I have not been on a knight's adventure or expedition in a while, so hopefully something to lesson the nerve damage issues.  I am not about doctors, those masked white coat demigods; so I have shied away from the profession.  Recommended by a friend, hopefully she will be more enlightened. 




The Good Tarot

Chanty

"My Bonnie lies over the ocean.
 My Bonnie lies over the sea.
 My Bonnie lies over the ocean.
 Oh Bring back my Bonnie to me"

A sea chanty to help me at my work. Oh bring back, oh bring back, oh bring back my bonnie to me.
Maybe humming it all day will bring some fun back in my work-a-days.

Follow the rules

Follow the rules? Whose rules? Not those made up from some weird composite of man and lion.  No way a lion's paw would or could fit into that iron glove and then wrap around a sword. 
A Lion King would not be caught in a an 'Emperors garb' Beware those rules made up by others to fit their sense of 'truth or righteousness'
Emperors make me uneasy and this one makes me queasy and uneasy.  Something really not right going on here.  Best to keep a lookout today for something that is just not right.





The Good Tarot

A bend in the road

Does everything look better in the light of day?  Maybe, maybe not.  This gal looks like she has turned from the light.  Was this a conscious choice or just a misstep? Sometimes we can get lost and not even know it.  Taking one step off the path and then another until we look around and realize that we have gone astray.  Forward is the only way from wherever we are.

"A bend in the road is not the end of the road, if you remember to take the turn."  Joan Lunden

At odds

I spent the bulk of my life being a giver.  I figured out early on with all my siblings, might as well give it before they took it.  Either way it has been a life long issue.  Things that have been offered have been viewed with skepticism.  Most gifts I have learned have come with a hook; get something and you can bet they want something back. Is it better to give than receive?Guess it depends on the the situation.
I have a new mantra that I am going to work with.
"Everything is always working out for me"




The Good Tarot - Colette Baron-Reid

Dis

Dissatisfied. Disinterest. Disillusioned. Disdain. Disparage. Discord. Disappoint. Dis.
Take the proffered Cup and shake loose the "dis"
Get rid of d'I's and change the I to E = Decide and get going.










Rider Waite-Smith Tarot

Limitations

Yesterday's draw of the Eight of Swords and today Hierophant seem similar to me.  Both bound by dogma and disciplines. What we are taught, become expectations that we are chained too. 
Yesterday I had lunch with two gals that also volunteer at hospital.  One for fifteen years and the other twenty, compared to my eight months. After being seated, one of them made the comment how busy every place was at lunch.  I mentioned that during the recession ten years back that the restaurants where not nearly as busy.  They both commented almost together, "what recession?".  They were never impacted. A very different life I have lead from theirs.
I will take the raised hand in blessing as a good sign today.

Paradox

Recognition of ignorance?
I feel stuck lately.  I know it is of my own doing, but the undoing I cannot figure out.  You think it would be an easy fix having been there other times throughout my life, but no, that is not so.  Who I am today is not the same gal I was at those other points in life, so the fix will be different.  I am saddled with more 'what ifs' (those swords) than before, then again, maybe not.  Maybe the 'what ifs' have just shuffled their order, seemingly different.  Do I work through them one at a time, or just shuck the whole lot? Can I recognize those swords for what they really are? Those dire warnings I have heard since birth. Watch out! You can't! You shouldn't! Shame! What were you thinking? Not for you? Can't be done! Better safe than sorry!
No wonder I can't recognize why I am stuck.


Rider Waite-Smith Tarot

Giving and Receiving

Giving and receiving; both are winners. 

Relationship

The one I need to really work at and more often than not leave till last, is me.  Mostly others have come first and then if there is time, I pay attention to me.  I think I am done with all that.  Me first.  Forget the selfless hype.
I noticed this last week how that many of the cards have featured the color Yellow.  Summer.  Energy. Fire. Light.








Rider Waite-Smith Tarot

Consideration

New consideration.  Reviewing options and seeking what might be best, for me.  The time is at hand.  Well it always was, but a gentle reminder.  All I have is this one moment, take it and enjoy.  Immerse. The rest will take care of the rest. 











Rider Waite-Smith Tarot

Luminaries

Last night I sat under a glorious Full Moon and today the draw of The Sun.  Bask in the Light of The Universe.  My favorite website is a beachcam of my favorite area on the Gulf Coast of Florida.  This morning all rain.  So the Sun doesn't shine constantly down there, which I knew, but a reminder is always a good thing.  I can enjoy my day of Sunshine right here right now. 
Seize the day of sunshine. Simple joy basking in the Light.

Random turning

What will the day bring?  The random turning of The Wheel keeps us in suspense.  Today, This or That?  Want the same thing day in day out; don't leave the house.  Do we throw our hands up and snort in derision because we are victims of chance? Or, throw our hands up in a victory dance? (well look at that, rhyme time - chance/dance)
Given the opportunity today, I will step-out of my comfort zone and give The Wheel a spin. Something new and fun may be the result.







Rider Waite-Smith Tarot

Here and Now

Queen, Knight, Page, Descending order of Pentacles the last three days.  This Page is completely in the moment with her pentacle.  Not here or there, past or future, or drifting along. Fully present, advice for me.  I have been trying to spend my time in the future, which just creates dissatisfaction.
What to do? What to do? What to do for Carolyn Sue?
I am stuck in the abyss of apathy and if not careful will create something that might not be pleasant, just to stir me up.
Be careful for what you wish for, you might just get it.






Rider Waite Smith Tarot

To be or not to be

I wonder about this Knight of Pentacles.  All dressed up and nowhere to go.  No way the knight could put all that armor on themself and no way could anyone haul themselves up on that horse without assistance.  What does he have to prove? I don't think he does.  His posturing is a directive from the powers that be, Queen/King.  Sometimes we just have to do a thing because that is what has to be done.  Can a situation be changed? Maybe but not for a knight I fear.  A knight was trained and expected to do what was commanded.  I am not sure he/she can be anything else.  The question is can I?

Serendipitous

Good luck symbols.  The Queen holds hers. When something lovely comes along enjoy the moment and follow the Queen's example by not holding too tight.  Things come and go throughout our lives.  Live in the moment.
 I have been stuck looking at future.  Best place for me is right here, right now.

In numbers

Different deck, different day and I drew Strength today. Back to back draws from different decks same card,  some kind of message. What?  So I pulled The Wisdom of Oracle out to see if I could get assistance with the reason.  Happy Happy.  Sometimes I guess one really needs to have strength to throw off the yoke of worry and concern.  My happiness is all about what I am now about. Forget the traps of others unhappiness and get up and dance!
The hummingbirds at the feeder are really making a show of themselves last few days.  Yesterday the news reported that the day was 13 hours and 50 minutes long, compared with June 21, the solstice, that was 14 hours and 50 minutes long. Winter approaches.

Rider Waite Smith Tarot
Wisdom of the Oracle.

Strength

In an effort to eliminate more drama in my life and on the job, I had to put my foot down and well maybe in my mouth.  I have tried to walk the thin line between friend and peer at work.  The Strength has come in finally saying enough is enough. When confronted I gave a great big 'elephant trumpeting blast' and let another know, no more.  I am sure I will encounter some repercussions.
My priority is well being through self awareness.






SPIRITSONG Tarot ~ Paulina Cassidy

Going nowhere fast

I seem to be in a holding pattern.  How I got stuck where I am at I am working on.  Like the Knight of Pentacles, I am rooted to the spot. The placement chafes as knights are all for action and adventure.  The Knight of Pentacles has studied her/his actions for so long, as to become immobilized.
Inertia has become my way.  This morning just along the wispy edge of awake and asleep I had this epiphany.  Then to draw this card my choice is clear.  Forget the study, learning, and preparedness drills, and just engage.  No more lessons.  Just live, love, and have lots of fun.  If I am not having fun, release and move along.  I don't need another lesson plan.



SPIRITSONG Tarot

I rather not

The High Priestess is privy to all sorts of secrets and guarded, private information.  So many have told her more than she wanted to hear.  It's a heavy thing, the  knowing of secrets.  I like this depiction of her as a Lynx.  Cats are curious beings, detached in their observation.  I wonder when Kitty gives me a blank look when I tell her things is  because she just doesn't want to hear.  I think she and most cats are much more aware than people give them credit.  Maybe that is why cats sleep so much, worn out from the heavy secrets they know.
We all have some aspects of The High Priestess, some deep level of understanding.  Most chose to ignore those niggling nudges, blissful in our supposed ignorance.



SPIRITSONG Tarot

Observation

Sometimes we get a message that just stands us on our head.  I have had them throughout my life days, some good, some not so good.  Most herald a change of sorts.  The trick is to remain in stillness and recognize them. Some of them we only acknowledge when we take a glance backward. I seem to waiting for....what not sure, hopefully I will recognize it when I see it.  I might need to remember to turn myself around and look at it from an opposite view, this way and then that.






SPIRITSONG Tarot

Plodder

A job well done so often, life becomes a trudge.  Plodding along.  Movement barely discernable, if there is movement at all. Onward we go, because we must.  Good work is good work, but when there is no satisfaction we become an automaton. Well what fun is in that?
Yesterday I had to attend a training session at hospital for volunteers and I sat next to a woman, Mary, 93, who has been volunteering for just 15 years. She only started when she finally quit working and felt she still needed to be out there. Now she thinks of staying home, the fear of falling in the upcoming winter weather requires her to rethink her volunteering. She taught at the local schools until she was 70 and then became a tour guide with Toby Tours for six years.  How interesting she was to listen too. Maybe she had some plodding years, but she walked right out of them and enjoyed herself for the most part.

SPIRITSONG Tarot

Queens

"The world has changed. I see it the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air."  Galadriel ~ The Lord of the Rings

Right now on Middle Earth we are at a pivotal point. Do we move on or regress.  I have always felt that we will learn and move on, but there are shadows that cannot not be ignored.  For most of my life I have associated more with the Queen of Pentacles; now I seem to be morphing into a Queen of Cups.  The despair of the world weighs heavy.

"Much that once was is lost. For none now live who remember it." Galadriel, the last stanza of the quote above.

Peace and Compassion are indeed needed.


SPIRITSONG Tarot

Chose

This page kind of looks like the flying monkeys in Oz.  With no wings she was the unique one. Lots of us have differences, some more apparent than others.  This page has become a collector of trinkets, oddities, and bits of this n that. Maybe they bring her comfort when the other are out on the wing.
Look for the unusual today and celebrate it.


So many lives lost and changed with the hate mongering that surrounds us.  It is the differences in us that make us wondrous.
Are we a losing battle?




SPIRITSONG Tarot ~ Paulina Cassidy

Re-direct

Mercury went direct the other day.  Actually Mercury doesn't go backward or stand still when the Astrologers tell us a planet is stationary.  Perception.  It is more like when the car next to you in your peripheral vision moves just a bit and you think, 'oops my foot slipped off the brakes.'  The Earth in her elliptical loop gets a bit farther and then closer to Mercury who has been spinning just the same.
Are these leaves falling off the wands or lifting from the plant and attaching to the wands? Guess it is what we decide and our perception at the moment we view the card.  Choices made.  Loss or Gain?   Either way Life moves and lovely Planet Earth carries us forward.



The Linestrider's Journey Tarot - Siolo Thompson

Crazy eights

In many of the Eight of Pentacles the pentacles are on display.  'Have a look see.'  Displayed for others viewing. Trying to impress or impressed with our own work?  Here the pentacles are gathered for just her and kitty to enjoy.  Maybe she is counting her blessings and happy with herself just the way things are, no need inviting others commentaries. Good advice wouldn't you say. 
Big mouths, big cars, big trucks, big egos.  So much fear.  No wonder she wants to stay home with kitty.






The Linestrider's Journey Tarot

Observer

We all see the world through our own personal lens. Choices are based on  what we think, know, and feel.  Is it possible to distance ourselves from those feelings and see what really is going on?  That's the clutch, isn't it.  How can we distance ourselves when the view we see is our own unique perspective. 
You never win when you make another wrong.
I chose.







Linestrider's Journey Tarot