Group endeavor

 

Don't let despair over a difficult situation over take you.  You can persevere through this phase and clear the path to that which waits next.  

Late yesterday afternoon I felt like I was in the midst of a new cardiac event.  Actually I have had several moments like that. Anxiety. Fear for what the next episode might bring.  I think I may need to join a cardiac support group. Sometimes that just what we need, others that have faced the same trauma. 

The Tarot of Durer ~ Lo Scarabeo Pietro Alligo

Bad form

 

It's in bad form to gloat over the advantages one may have over others. 

Rider Waite-Smith Tarot

Preperation

 

Winter, blah. Today is the Winter Solstice. The shortest day of the year here in the Northern Hemisphere.  This fairy is prepared with his stockpile of snowballs, but not sharing doesn't win him any friends. We sometimes turn people 'off ' with our actions and attitudes. Their problem or ours?  What's the point in having all those snowballs when no one wants to play with us?

Bright Blessings and may Winter be kind to us.

The Fairy Tarot

Self Interest

 

Nothing wrong with self-interest. If we are not interested in ourselves, who would be? If we do not look out for what is best for us, who will?  Self Interest taken to self importance is a fine line.  Get them before they get you is and idiom we hear all the time. Look where it has gotten us.

The Fountain Tarot

Shiny, shiny, shiny

 

I have encountered many of these types of squirrely people in my days. Collectors of your happiness, usupers of joy.  They take not to feed or clothe themselves, but simply because you have it. Anything to make themselves feel better, including making you feel worse. I have spent many a hour, day, years trying to save others, just about lost myself.  I can honestly say, done. Carolyn's time.  No more tolerating sneak attacks. I will scamper away with my shiny things.

Scorpio Sea Tarot

Come Sail Away

 

"Reflections in the waves spark my memory, Some happy, some sad, I think of childhood friends and the dreams we had, We lived happily forever, so the story goes, But somehow we missed out on the pot of gold But we'll try best that we can to carry on. A gathering of angels appeared above my head, They sang to me this song of hope and this is what they said..."  STYX

This song keeps playing in my head every time I view these cards this morning.

Hurry up and wait

Since my energy pattern seems to be stagnant, this Knight of Wands is more about inaction. Delays have caused a restlessness, evident in the increase of my Restless Leg Syndrome at night. Hurry up and wait indeed.  My energy is confused and infrequent.  I want to move forward but indecision has me pawing at the ground.
To stay or go? As with all Knights the answer is go. I just need to get my saddle ready and get a move on.  Maybe a nap first.




The Linestrider's Tarot

Discord

My own chaotic thoughts have a tendency to be my own worse enemy.  In the last couple of weeks I have listened to my sister whine and complain almost constantly about her job. She has always done so but lately the it has escalated.  Yesterday I realized that I have become her dumping ground.  Having that having negative energy tossed at us can swamp and overwhelm our own systems; then we can become the conduit.
Misery loves company, but we have to defend and protect ourselves, not out of meanness or selfishness, but self-preservation.




The Gaian Tarot

It was only...

What a difference we can make if we laid down our tired, worn out excuses of the old defense, "it was only..."
It was only a joke
It was only a suggestion
It was only a tussle
It was only nine minutes
Objectionable behavior and aggression are tired excuses of "it was only"  We have to lay our swords down and start the work with ourselves first.

Disagreement

I am discovering that most disagreements these days are with myself.  In that discovery I have to acknowledge that a fair amount of disagreements throughout my life then, must have been with myself.  Decide is my 'Word of the Year' and I have figured out before I 'Decide' I need to figure out who I really am. If I decide based on old outdated programming and mis-information, the outcome will not be what is needed, expected, or hoped for. 
'let it go' is an over used euphemism, for easier said than done.

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.

Broad view

Fore-warned is fore-armed.  On the look out for a tricky situation today.











Celestial Tarot ~ Kay Steventon and Brian Clark

Eggshells

Be careful where you step.  I was thinking that about walking on eggshells when I saw this.  Always careful about where we place our next step, temper the next words out of our mouths.  That is no way to live.  Fearful of offending. 
I can't change who I am but I can change who I might be sharing the conversation with.  I have left a few acquaintances  "friends" behind this year because well, because we no long seemed right together.  I got tired of always trying to say the right thing, always forgiving of their slights.  It is okay to be on your own some of the time.




Fountain Tarot

Second look

There is more to us than what meets the eye. 
I wonder if that peacock is saddened by the loss of his feather, the one the merchant is wearing in his cap.  We do things because we need, want, or have to, but that doesn't necessarily mean we are happy about it.  After laying about sickly these last four days or so it is time to get up and do a few things.  If someone give me a hard way to go today, I will just go back to bed and succumb to my misery for a few more hours. 







The Green Witch Tarot - Anna Moura

The upper hand

I wonder where all the insecurities in Life come from.  I know my parents generation lived through the Great Depression and WWII and there parents before them the crossing from Europe and being a pioneer had to be a real struggle. We have so much.  So it is curious to me about the constant squabbles to have the upper hand. For a card of advice for me today is not to get involved in a skirmish.  Let someone else win or be right.  Who needs the aggravation. 
"You can be right or you can be kind; be kind." Wayne Dyer






The Gaian Tarot - Joanna Powell Colbert

Agree to Disagree

Five of Swords, again. I inserted back in deck  and asked, what and where?  Work. Well of course. Yesterday there was an instant at work, of conflict that I almost gave into a full bout of disagreement. I thought of the Five of Swords draw and just gave a little nip and left it. Today I think it will rise again and I have to decide whether the work I do is worth my peace of mind or the security I think the job offers. 
The thing is if I keep putting up with nonsense to get to the 65 finish line, will I even like or know  myself when I get there? 

The Gaian Tarot

Pair of Fives

Yesterday the Five of Cups, today theFive of  Swords.  Fives - ugh.  Total disconnect to over reaching.  That is the fives, a fulcrum point.  The thing is getting past the tipping point.  Somewhere between disconnect and over compensating is a happy medium.
Today if I start to get involved in some kind of disagreement, fight, or heated exchange, I am just walking-flying away.  Who needs more swords, more wins, more victories.  More swords at home just mean more things to dust off; more things to worry over. 
Pair of Fives, Go Fish.


The Gaian Tarot

Give it a rest

'I am willing to release the need to be right.'

The above was the affirmation on my calendar for today.  'I am willing to release the need to be right.'  That is a pretty big challenge for me.  I have spent a lot of time in my books over the years so I consider myself pretty well informed on lots of This n That. But I guess being right all the time isn't everything.  The depiction of this knight and all the swords he has collected or won off of others in battles and tournaments is a bit sorrowful and definitely lonely.  For today if I am confronted with another I will give the challenge a pass, and go along my merry way.  Who needs another sword anyway!

The Linestrider's Journey Tarot

Winners and winners

Feather in your cap!

I wonder who is the real winner here?  The Merchant that has come to purchase hand crafted athames or the Craftsman who has produced such beautiful pieces of work.  Some would say the Merchant who has the extra monies to indulge his fanciful lifestyle, but is he.  He collects and flaunts and brags, while the Artisan has spent his time crafting a piece of artwork which also can serve as a weapon or something to be used in other daily forms of work or lifestyle. Money and power are one thing, a good days work another.
Of course the Craftmans will turn around and spend his earnings on home, and hearth, and other materials to maintain his lifestyle, so maybe everyone is  a winner when the community works in harmony.


The Green Witch Tarot

Pony Up

Sometimes you win and sometimes you don't.

That's the nature of things.  Sometime you get the bear and sometimes the bear gets you.  With Pegasus as the central figure in this Five of Swords I would guess today I get the upper hand in some situation.  I am not currently in any dispute or standoff situation but that can change as fast as the second hand on the clock. 
Do the best you can, do what is right and truthful, and hope for the best. 








Celestial Tarot