The Hermit

I believe this Hermit is looking back at the girl in the Ten of Wands yesterday.  Carrying all those issues and decisions to be made.  Late yesterday my niece called and announced that she got the job as a PT in the Greater Chicago area, and coincidentally she is a red head like the gal in the ten.  I am overjoyed that she is following her path and joining her fiance' up North, but, admit that it going to leave an empty place inside me. Yet another person, place and thing I am changing my relationship with in 2020.  This Hermit, card per the author, has been wounded and from that wounding new growth has sprung forth. 
Winter puts me in a Hermit stage and with the revelations about myself and career and my niece, now is a good time for reflection, leave what needs to be left in 2019 and contemplate what could be a good year in 2020, if I choose to follow my new path.

The Linestrider's Journey ~ Siolo Thompson

Give it up

It is funny how the cards can show us something that can be so relative.  The gal in this pose with legs bent and tucked behind her. Ouch.  My knees and legs are more bothersome lately. Something I have known for quite awhile, finally has me saying enough.  I viewed a home late yesterday afternoon in the pouring rain. They are long term customers, and know my situation.  A home they are going to rehab and they wanted my thoughts, opinion, and suggestions.  There were no handrails on the up or down staircases.  I can't do stairs much anymore and with no handrails, almost impossible. I managed the upper case but the lower one I couldn't do it.  I had to crawl up part of the staircase, my hands out in front on steps to balance me on my way up.  I think this is too much even for the most loyal client who was on hand to give me a hand.  Tens relate to completion, I am pretty much completely done showing homes. :( or maybe 🙂. 

Leave it behind

'I'm walking into 2020 with a clear heart and mind. If you owe me, don't worry about it. If you wronged me, it's all good, and lesson learned. If you are angry with me, you won - I've let it go. If we aren't speaking, it's cool - I truly wish you well. If you feel I've wronged you, I apologize - it wasn't intentional. I'm grateful for every experience that I received. Life is too short for pent-up anger, holding grudges and extra stress or pain!  Here's to 2020. Remember forgiving someone is for you so don't block your blessings. Make 2020 a year of positivity  and a season of forgiveness.'

I saw this placard on a post and saved it. 
I am ready to leave 2019 behind. I have wronged and been wronged and I do not want to drag it along with me into the new year.

Linestrider's Journey Tarot ` Siolo Thompson

Destinations

For most, myself included, we plan our journeys; think about the destination before heading off. Whether it is a vacation, a career choice, or even to the local grocery store.  There have been several times I have headed out, out there, and found myself kind of lost and adrift and then turned around and headed home because I had no concrete idea where I was heading. What I was looking for.  Guess better the devil you know than the one you don't. 
My word for 2020 is Decide and that is what I will do.  With or without a plan, I will be The Fool and seek what is next.



The Fairy Tarot

Go go go

Yesterday's one for the money, two for the show...
The Chariot is go go go.
Let's go take a spin around the block.  Blow away the cobwebs, clear the mind, and let's go, go, go. 

Ready, set, go

One for the money. Two for the show.
That's the impression this king is giving me. All dressed and pretty showing, if you ask me.  Not much can be accomplished in his get-up, except try to impress.
I don't impress easily any more.  Sunrises and sunsets and wonders of natures impress me, not many people.  Well there are those that impress me with the ineptness, hurtful actions, and plane mean spiritedness.  Their ickyness lingers with me for days. Got to work on that. I need to, get to, done and done when I have encounter with these types.




Fairy Tarot

What ifs

Those dang, nagging 'what ifs'
If we keep looking back wondering what if? we are bound to trip and fall.  Eyes ahead...











The Fairy Tarot

Hope springs eternal

Nature vs Nurture.  I think this child of magic is a combination of both.  I wonder how she will use her gifts as she matures?
Maybe I will liken her to the coming of the New Year and a New Decade.  Bright and full of promises.
She just may be the model baby for the Banner of the New Year!







The Fairy Tarot ~ Doreen Virtue & Radleigh Valentine

Winter to Spring

So the count begins.
Unseasonable warmer weather here so I am going to enjoy it for the next week; bask in the afternoon Sun.  I promise myself I will not be a shut-in this Winter.  There is a lot to appreciate during the Winter.  The night skies are clear and bright with lots of twinkling stars, you just have to brave the cold.  Crisp air with no pollen count.  The Trees get a well deserved rest from all their gloryiness of green.  A very good reason to drink hot-chocolate too!
Everyday this winter I will find at least one thing to be grateful for, and not bemoan the cold. 




Earthheart Wisdom Cards ~ Sue Lion

Solstice

The Wheel turns. 
The weather has turned unseasonably warm for the next week, not like Winter's usual offering.  That's okay, balances the cold weather we have already experienced. 
I celebrate the Solstice as it reminds me the Sun begins it shift with longer days.  A few seconds each day, and then a minute and then two, and Spring returns.  A visit to the park today is a tradition for me.  Maybe tie a prayer wish on a tree and visit for bit with my friends in Nature. 
Bright Blesssings.




Eartheart Wisdom Cards ~ Sue Lion

To my ears

Music to my ears.
Yesterday I heard the heralding of a flock of geese, way, way up above.  Kind of late in the season for their southerly flight, but then I am not a goose; so who knows.  I guess they do.  I have had the pleasure to hear them chatting and singing to each other several times in this last week or so, kind of similar to a sea shanty, the rhythm to make their journey go quicker.  The thing is I am deaf in one ear and I can hear their songs and always stop to listen for a bit.  No one else seems to or won't take the time.  To busy I guess; not me.  I will always have the time to listen to a beautiful song of Nature.
Today's song I believe will be a whisper on the Wind with the announcement of Winter's approach.

Wow!

A reminder to enjoy things.  We might ask what makes a Rainbow, and we would be told it is the sunlight shimmering through the moisture in the air, usually after or during a shower of rain.  That in itself is a wonder. If we just enjoy the dance of sunlight and water that would be better. 
From my experience, everybody loves a Rainbow.  Beautiful.  A promise of abundance.  A Blessing.  Sunlight and Water.  Make a Wish.
The day feels better already.

Candle in the dark?

When you wake deep in the night and decide to do a draw to find what might be the cause of your restlessness and worry.  Well this draw brought no comfort, in fact sleep was evasive the rest of the night.  My first thought was whoa, how much darkness! and then, the theme of bondage became the second variant that was noticeable.  Almost too dark to work my way through, but I must.


The Fountain Tarot

Watershed

I drew this card earlier this morning and heard, 'Watershed'
Well that's not right.  It is Waterfall.  I have come back to viewing it several times, and yep Watershed.  A Watershed moment.  That's the message.  Something that happens or will happen to divide from where I am or at to where I am going.  Like the Waterfall, ambling down the river or stream and breaks and falls over the cliff, the stream dividing into cascades.  Hopefully not an emotional overflow moment.  I had that a few weeks ago and yes it made a division. 
I guess I will see what the day holds.



Earth Magic

How I wish

Oh my, already looking forward to the return of warmth and longer days of sunlight and haven't even celebrated the Winter Solstice.  Cold and dreary days; with the coldest yet to come.  I am going to focus on the bright side and think that in less than one hundred days, Spring will knock at the door.  I can find better use of those days than whining and complaining.  Now just got figure out how. 

I am okay with it

Some days it is just too 'peopley' out there and it is better to hang out with yourself.  No one is an island unto themselves this true, but more often than not I am voting people off my island. 










Earth Magic Oracle Cards ~ Steven D Farmer

Delivery

I wonder what this boyo has to deliver or say to me.  Greetings and salutation, probably not.  I am not sure how many more messages are that important to me.  Everyone around me has seemingly centered into themselves, not even available for that hypothesized one minute.  Most conversations are monologues as the other' tunes into their own internal dialogue within a minute or so.  Watch for it, the drift in the eyes. 
So say what you have to say quickly before the rest drifts off in the breeze.





Rider Waite-Smith Tarot

And waiting

Waiting, and waiting, and waiting...
Time to get off the hillside and get down to the shore or docks and wave those ships in.
"Opportunity doesn't knock if it doesn't know where you are."









Rider Waite-Smith Tarot

Winds of change

There might be a change in the air, even so this Queen is steadfast in who she is and what she believes to be right and wrong.  Well mostly.  That bird flying out there somewhere is that niggling thought she had about her absolute convictions. 
Sometimes we need to just sit with ourselves and re-evaluate a position.  More than likely we will find that we were correct in our firmly held beliefs, but a check in with oneself is always a good thing; then that niggling thought can drift off in the breeze.






Rider Waite-Smith Tarot

The Upper Hand

Getting an upper hand on the beasties of doubt, fear, anger, anxiety.  All those emotions boil down to fear, but express themselves in a variety of ways.  I was watching a video the other day featuring Pete Egoscue who presented an interesting thought on anxiety.  Anxiety can be calmed by deep breathing, but he suppositioned that anxiety could be caused by shallow breathing.  If we would focus on breathing correctly, perhaps most of those issues would not present themselves.  Instead of counting to ten, best to take ten really deep breaths; and if I am knowingly going to encounter a difficult situation just do some deep breathing before entering the fray.




Rider Waite-Smith Tarot 

Review

Today I see the Dancer glancing back and it reminds me the year is coming to its end.  Three weeks or so we will change out our calendars as a new year and a new decade begin.  The decade thing is a point of perception; some see zero years as an end and others see it as the beginning.  I have always seen it as a beginning, considering the day I was born was day zero and the next was a celebration of completing a day.  So it is a time of review, not just about the year that is completing but end of a decade.  It is not a completion of a decade in my calendar life, but the World in general.  Where did we start in 2010, mostly coming out of the recession and rebuilding.  So what has been rebuilt?  In my life, community, the nation, the World?



The Rider Waite-Smith Tarot

Can or Can't

"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, either way you will be right." ~ Henry Ford
When we want and or need change, the decision is entirely our own.  You can make excuses or get results, but I don't think you can have both.  Do it or don't.









The Rider Waite Smith Tarot

Medicinal brew

I was reading an article yesterday about Bay Leaf hot tea; as a homeopathic tonic.  I think when I am out later today I will pick me up some bay leaves and give it a try.  Give it a week or two to see if the brew makes a difference as a preventive or to my ongoing inflammation issues.  If so I will share a cup or two with others.







Rider Waite-Smith Tarot

Resolute

While everything seems to be out of control and those things are going this way and that, the obvious choice is not to get caught up in the fray.  Hold firm, keep your place and let things settle down. 
I can't not count on my hands the times in my life I have jumped in the middle of a ruckus, and still have a tendency.  Less so now in my life, still there are moments.

The Flush

I love the soft sounds of a water fountain or the burble and gurgle of water tripping and playing across rocks in a stream. What a wonder to be out taking a walk along a creek to find a pond with this fountain in is center.  "Ahh, that was the sound that was calling me forward."  There are things that occur in our lives that seemingly just show up, similar to taking this walk along the creek, without us knowing we hear the call of something more. 
I think too much, mull over things, pull the strings loose and I begin to unravel. The Ace of Cups reminds me to listen for something other, and let it lead me to gently along my way.




The Rider Waite-Smith Tarot

Be Kind

Be Kind.  Good words of advice, even when wronged.  Words once spoken cannot be taken back.  I've spoken my share over the years and done a fair amount of apologizing.  Sometimes though I let the harsh words stand.  I have two nemeses that I work with, and it seems I am right back in the thick of confrontation with them both.  They were the reason I left the inside sales job before and guess I will again.
Oh well, I guess I have some fight left in me and will not allow myself to be bullied, no matter what age.
I got no kind words left to speak to them.

Blink

I am about done with this King.  Wise and tolerant, unless you cross him or don't go along with his plans.  We have locked horns before and it doesn't end well.  With an attitude of ignore it until he gets his subjects' acquiescence is getting old.  He thinks he's a cutie and to some maybe so; at least those that don't want to think for themselves. For me, while he stares off I just may head out the other way.





Rider Waite-Smith Tarot

Ain't feeling it

Nope, i do not have that get up and dance feeling.  I do have lots to be thankful and grateful for, but dancing, ehh.
Maybe something interesting will develop today.






Later, much later in the day I realize that this card should have shown up in a reversed position. Harmony, not this day.

Noise and distractions

A reminder not to get caught up in the noise and busyness of the holidays and the end of year shuffles.  There is magic and it is all around us all year long.











Rider Waite-Smith Tarot

B.A.R.

Strange to see the Three of Swords this morning, but appropriate.  I had a lovely call yesterday evening from friends in Florida inviting me to come spend a week in January.  They would pick me up at airport so I wouldn't have to drive or rent a car.  Always encouraging me to move South.  I woke up this morning thinking about reasons that have me sheltering in place, besides the tornado trauma.  Betrayal, Abandonment, Regrets, are the three swords that pierce my centerness.  Just possible I think I am not worthy of finding my place in the Sun.  Then again, thinking through the above, maybe those three swords are lancing my wounded heart so the doubts can drain away. 
There is more rain on the way, after thirty-six straight hours of rain or drizzle.  Enough to give the gloomy gusses to anyone.


Rider Waite-Smith Tarto