Meet and Greet

No Social Distancing here.  Life is different in the Enchanted Forest and life will be different for us in our (dis)enchanted lives if we do not figure out what works for our well-being and then the well-being of society at whole.  A walk through the quiet of the forest allows me to hear me.  I tune myself out with the chatter of everyday life.  Since leaving the tv off more and more and not involved in  the work-a-day world at the time being, I am listening a bit more to the me of me.   What path will I walk in the Forest of Enchantment?





The Enchanted Forest Tarot

Counselor

The Oldest One reminds me of the Ents in The Lord of the Rings.  He just maybe Finglas, a wizend old Ent that retreated even from Fangorn.  When things are going wrong in the World we may look for guidance; be sure we seek the correct counsel. 
Before drawing the card I read a post about going out and standing in the wind and listen.  Thinking about that, in the wind may be the whispering of The Ents and if we listen closely, we may hear what is needed to be heard.





Forest of Enchantment Tarot

Door number?

Along the path is a crossroads and one must choose which door to open and proceed.  The author's booklet tells us once a choice made  the other doors disappear and the next stage of your journey is determined by the choice you made.  Well that might keep one in a state of no-decision, but in reflection that is how I feel most times when I choose.  No turning back. Can that be right? Yes and no.  We can always make a new choice, open a new door, but after choosing one, we have changed a bit after stepping over a threshold.
I am intrigued by the magic sigils on the doors and the doors them-self.  One has no hinges to open another has hings on opposing doors.  The center choice, both doors open.  I might be here all day thinking and deciding.  I must remember this a magical tree and all choices may disappear and then where will I be? 
This card feels more like a Seven of Cups than a Seven of Pentacles.  So maybe a choice should be made from how I feel about the door itself.  If I could just read those sigils.

Cautious study

Just because something might be to good to be true, doesn't mean it isn't.  It is always best to approach magical things with caution.  This Page of Pentacles is always about learning new things. 
Seems she has stepped off the path in the forest and lost her way and found something unexpected.  There is so much to discover and finding a gingerbread house deep in the forest is intriguing.  Wonder what it tastes like?  Wait! the animals in the forest do not snack on it; that alone calls for caution.  Today will be a good day to be a bit more careful and remember there other things along the paths within the forest.



Forest of Enchantment Tarot

Significator

One of the visions of me whilst peering into the looking glass, would be similar to this Queen of Pentacles.  Definitely a Earth Mother.  There is the other, a Mermaid; the two seem at odds with each other.  When I look closer I see that they are both in commune with their surroundings.  Each of those visions of me are complete in her place in the natural world.
When I come out on the other side of this virus, where do I want to settle?  My days drift from one to the other. I rather live like this  Queen, who wakes each day in anticipation of what awaits outside her door. 



Forest of Enchantment Tarot
Luna Weatherstone
Meraylah Allwood

The Star

The Star, always one of my favorite cards. 
I love to go out at night and bathe in starlight.  Don't seem to do enough of it, especially on chilly and cold nights.  The Star offers the promise of better days ahead, or the light at the end of the tunnel.   I will look for enlightening clues for me today.  A suggestion, a hint, an inkling,  Looking for my true north.







The Fairy Tarot
Doreen Virtue & Radleigh Valentine

Lost in translation

PRISM -a polyhedron with two polygonal faces lying in parallel planes and with the other faces parallelograms.
Kind of takes a way from the magic of light traveling through the prism. The Rainbow we get to see.  We get to choose how we want to perceive the prism, a polyhedron, a promise, or lucky chance coming our way.  Traditional card, Seven of Cups is about the choice we make.  Yep, we make.  Too many wait for someone to decide for them and of course that is a choice as well.  After every storm there is a rainbow, just depends on the bend of light through the moisture in the air and where you are looking.  I am looking for my pot of gold at the end of the Rainbow, always have.

Stay home

Thankfully I have a home.  Easy, simple living.  I scaled way back years ago out of need and necessity.  I am grateful that I have a place to lay my head and provisions within.  The traditional Five of Pentacles has those out, looking for an in (inn).  I am ever so grateful for the comfort of home, especially so during these days and also it is a cold rain out there now. 
Would I like more, well yes, some days; I am human after all.  Then I realize I have more than enough and I am happy.
I will offer assistance when I can and always grateful it was offered when I needed.

Wisdom Keepers

Look, another aged, white bearded man come to calling.  Yesterday's Father Time and today his brother, Old Man Winter.  Both Titans of ancient Wisdom Keepers. 
The more things change, the more they stay the same. 
History repeats itself, again and again until we learn the lessons.  These two wisdom keepers are not your typical, these days, old men, who mostly cannot be trusted or relied upon.
They have both self-quarantined and spend their long days in the woodlands, the natural places of the world.  "listen to the quiet places within" they tell us.
Traditional card, King of Swords. Trusted information gleaned from years of living his best truths.



The Fairy Tarot

Anticipation

And the word was written.
Looks like all the fairy folks and other woodland creatures are waiting for Father Time to make a decision.
Spring has arrived at the forest edge and winter must step back.  What message is being left for us as the season turns?  Do we go on as we have or do we give ourselves a chance at Renewal?
Traditional card Judgement - Rise up and begin anew.

Diversion

More than meets the eye.
I unplugged for the better part of the weekend.
Turned off the tv.  Very limited internet perusal.
Didn't really listen to music or the radio.  Quiet was what I was going for. 
Turning in and not turning off, my mind has settled a bit.  I had not been resting well and I believe it was the constant onslaught of information.  Good or bad it has been too much.  This lovely Queen of Earth remains on her throne because she is aware.  Not by all she sees and not by all she hears, but by being in touch with herself.



The Fairy Tarot

Spinner

She who spins, Clotho.  One of the Moirai, the Three Sisters of Fate.  She who spins. 
Looking at the fairy spinning gold makes me wonder during these days of contemplation, what am I spinning? 
Compassion, fear, anger, tolerance, intolerance, hope, Light?
I/we cannot return to the previous way, we are changed. 
It must be remembered that everything that has been spun must be collected and wound up and becomes our cloth of life. 
Who do I want to be?
And so, The Wheel spins.





Fairy Tarot Cards
Doreen Virtue & Radleigh Valentine

Trust

These cards are all soft and magical. So should life be.  There seems to be a thread running through my draws this week, and so I will trust that something good and magical is on it's way to me.

Illusion

Let go.  Any sense of control is an illusion.  The best that we can do is figure out how to react or not react to the world around us.  Look for the lesson and try to learn. 
Last evening after watching PBS about elephants I felt sad that I had not done something more, contributed more to elephants and other ongoing issues in the world.  The movie "A Wonderful Life" flashed through my mind's eye and gave me pause.  Even though I have not moved mountains, stopped the slaughter of elephants, or saved the rain-forests, I have contributed.  On a smaller scale and I still have some days left to contribute.  The lesson, you are not done and till the last breath leaves your body. Write a letter, make a call, say a prayer.


Magical Messages of the Fairies

Expectations

I have always been a fixer. Mostly with my family.  If they needed assistance, I was their go to gal.  Not much anymore.  I can't save people, though I have tried. The younger generations don't want my advice or suggestions.  It is a habit that I need to let go of.  Be freed of.  You see, if I am busy fixing others I don't have to fix myself.  If I become so selfish as to see to my needs first, no one will love me anymore.  These are the debts of my childhood.  Time to say done and done. 
Letting all that go, I will have to come down to the crux of the issue, Abandonment. A core issue I have dealt with not only in this life but previous incarnations as well.

Shifting preparation

New Career combined with yesterday's Business Venture, I do believe that I am being encouraged to move along to....
Well not sure yet, but I am going to look for the signs and offers that are heading my way.  I am pretty much done with the what was and even the what is, I am looking forward to the lovely days ahead.  "A Cool Change" 








Magical Messages from the Fairies

Business Venture

Is now a good time to consider doing something different admist the economic turmoil?  I have a number of years left to work, not many; the years can be counted on one hand.  I do not think I can tough it out to just get through those years.  Working for coins, for what?  The last month is a lesson in impermanence.  Time to look for a new venture, something a bit more fulfilling and interesting than collecting coins.






Magical Messages from the Fairies
Doreen Virtue

Re-Start

Ostara, typically a Celtic celebration of one of the high holy days.  The Vernal Equinox, Spring's return.  The promise of the Sun's return, warm, growth, longer days of sunlight. 
Easter is also a high holy day, a day of celebration of the promise of return. 
I don't know if we can ever "return" to what was nor should we.  It wasn't working.  For today I will celebrate the promise of good days ahead.






Matlock the Hare Cards
Jacqui and Phil Lovesey

Embedded

There are all kinds of training we go through, beginning from the moment we arrive here on Planet Earth. 
This dog was trained with electric fencing and even after it is removed she will still stay within her yard because she has been convinced by the electric shocks she received when she tried to cross the boundary.
Some of the training and caveats we have learned are for our own good, but there are those that must be removed or we move beyond. 
What no longer serves as we pass through our days is really up to us to decide.




Celestial Tarot
Kay Steventon and Brian Clark

Game changer

Five options have been drawn from the chalice.  The choices are similar and yet different.  Sorting through those differences is worth the consideration.  Something changes today, maybe not a big change, I might even struggle a bit with the choice. 

I have these little notes to myself and every once in awhile I will pull one and review the message.  Today's draw:
"Decide what kind of life you actually want. Then say 'no' to everything that isn't that.

Issue at hand

The mind is a noisy thing.  I have noticed over the last few weeks that mine is finally starting to quiet a bit.  Sure, I am still plugged in but that has been limited by not flitting about town, here and there.  With no dodging between cars, lights, billboards.  Not as many emails, phone calls, and texts.  And not as much as this and that to attend to.  I am listening more to my internal voice.  Paying attention a bit more to my issues at hand.  Things needed to be done or not.  Adjustments in my mindset and with that, planning a way forward.  What really needs to be done, what opportunities lie ahead as I clear my way? 




Celestial Tarot

Say and Do

"Do as I say and not as I do"
I chafe when told what to do.  I didn't like it as a child and definitely not now.  A lot of my life I have colored within the lines and did what I was told to do because that is what you did.  I don't like it.  Some of it is for my own good; when the rhetoric is hypocritical I just can't.
I don't like kings and their bossiness.  Never have. Never will.
Ask me, don't tell me.






Celestial Tarot

Clearing skies

I have been seeing posts of wonderment of the absence of planes in the air.  I live nearby to the national UPS hub and there are always planes in the sky, but even those numbers are down.  Not many domestic air flights either.  The air that we are breathing has got to be better.  Last night I went out to catch a glimpse of the almost full moon, since it will be rain tonight and didn't hear much of any air traffic.  There are blessings during these challenging days.

Extended visit

The Queen of Wands has extended her visit with me.  Lead by example.  All that Fire energy encouraging me to get going.  The old ways are falling away.  Time now to change my daily routines and begin anew.
Forget waiting for Life to get back to normal.  That really wasn't working anyway.  Challenging days yes, but whether I choose misery or acceptance of what is and look forward to what can be, makes all the difference.

Social distancing

With all the reports and stories swirling everywhere, the only choice is to Shelter in Place.  Wait it out.  Take a wait and see approach. 











Celestial Tarot
Kay Steventon and Brian Clark

Refusal

This portrayal of the Two of Swords harkens to Trumps casual dismissal of Dr. Fauci's advise.  Refusal to listen is like hiding our heads in the sand; it does not make the situation go away.  Just because we can't see it  doesn't mean it does not exist.  What can a few weeks of quarantine harm do?  Either way we go to a  future that is uncertain and times will be difficult, but with good health we will do much better on the roads that lie ahead.




Marco Polo Tarot
Lo Scarabeo
Artwork by Severino Baraldi

Moon shadow

Not sure what this Moon appearance brings me today? Maybe don't get carried away with your emotional reaction to something?
I looked at the lwb and one of several explanations gives us:  The Moon is also a confusing undefined situation which drags on for a long time.  Well that nails it doesn't it.








Marco Polo Tarot

Decide

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions....
Decide is my Word of the Year for 2020.  I am coming to an end of a journey and will decide on the next course or adventure.  I have been drifting along on this course because it was the course laid out for many of us. Work, live, pay, earn until you get to the magic number of 65.  Thing is they moved 65 around and up to 67.5 now.  Soon there will be no Medicare pot of gold upon completion and then what?  Well choices are always available.  I have thought about what is in each cup and I have it down to two.  Do I eenie, meenie, minie. mo? No too big of a decision so with these days of  'shelter in place' I will decide.



Marco Polo Tarot

What a shame

It is a shame that there is always that one or two people that want to tear down others or what others have accomplished.  Their fear and cowardice propels them to do to others what they wouldn't want done to themselves.