Think on it

 

Reminding ourselves of the distress we experienced in the Ten of Swords will help with the decision and the path ahead. Thoughtful choices allow us to make better informed decisions.

Rider Waite-Smith Tarot

Go ahead Carolyn

 

Facing the future can't be all that scary, if we remember there are lots of wonderous possibilities along the way.

The Enchanted Forest Tarot

'Days like this...'

 

This Page reminds me that I made it through the struggle of the nine and ten, and with a new perspective. Tough times usually do not last but they sure seem like it when you are going through hardship. I feel I am rounding a bend of days of struggle. Maybe it is the promise of Spring. What ever...I am sure there will more "days like this" but for the moment I am out of it, hopefully.

"Mama said there'd be days like this, there be days like this my Mama said" ~ The Shirells

The Fountain Tarot

Front Guard

 

With this Page holding the ace of swords in a front guard position it might suggest being a bit cautious today, mind my thoughts and not get carried away by them.  But...my very first thought on viewing the card is to have a bit of fun with my sword(think happy thoughts).  A young boy presented with a sword would automatically assume an un-guard position and look for some sword play time. So for today, I am just not going to take myself so seriously. Get over myself and have a bit of fun. Play time anyone?

The Fountain Tarot

Introspection

 

There are days that we may not want to be where we are at, but quite possibly be exactly where we need to be. Give the moment careful consideration and find the inspiration to solve the the dilemma. Things have a way of working out.

Celestial Tarot

Airy-pairy

 

A sword of transparency. 

Sword - Words. This anagram clues us in on a sword of transparency. Words can cut us deep with their hurtfulness. We can't see them but we sure can feel the wound that can be inflicted. Sometimes we really have to choose our words/sword carefully. Think before speaking would be the advice I am receiving today. Good advice for any day.

The Fountain Tarot

Remembered

 

My brother Mike would have celebrated a birthday today. Gone to soon or did he leave the Planet when he was ready? He loved being outdoors, gardener by trade and hunter for both food and hobby.  I think the Great Outdoors helped fill up spaces in him.  My brother, A Page I think of, often.

Back on your feet

 

Wounded, whether self-inflicted or by the actions of others, we hurt.  The Page of Swords is back on her feet after getting back up from the turmoil suffered in the Ten of Swords.  Sometimes we just have to go through the violence, the disturbance, the emotional upheavel to learn what needs to be learned and to see more clearly from a new vantage point.  Often it is said it is 20 - 20 vision in the rear-a-view mirror.  From a global viewpoint I wonder if 2020 will launch us on a different path, personally and worldwide?

Rider Waite-Smith Tarot

Observation point

 

Perhaps the Page is me from the wounded, almost defeated place represented in the Ten of Swords. Now risen from my turmoil and capable of seeing things more clearly.  Do we really need to put ourselves through the test of the Swords to get to this place? To look back and see all the discord and anguish to arrive in the revelation of our own truths? 

Could the truth be that we are not so much going through difficult times but are making our time difficult?

Words/Sword

The Rider Waite-Smith 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.

At the ready

At the ready.  This Page of Swords today speaks to me about what's to come.  Look and see what you can see.  Preparedness.  All this hoopla going on these days makes me twitchy and my bigger concern is what is this song and dance distracting us from?  I am beginning to feel that something bigger and more challenging is forth coming than this flu.  Those ten birds swirling ahead remind of of a couple of things.  The Ten of Sword which in itself is not a good omen, and also the note of overkill.  Secondly, all those those stories you read of some major event where the birds and animals panic and flee. 
It is a wait and see.

Carolyn's folly

Well it happened and I was forewarned.  I had to step away because of nature's calling. I stepped off the path, and some-way got turned around and now not sure how to return to the path that I was on?  Life is like that, going along and we have to answer a call and then when we try to pick up where we left off, the path before us is not.  No sense in getting flummoxed about it, I am in this beautiful forest and lots of daylight.  Now is a perfect place to pause and enjoy the moment. 
Today is a good day to remind myself that even though I am not where I thought I would be or even hoped to be, I still am.  So grateful for today.  Who needs an agenda when the forest is so lovely.  Enjoy what the day brings.


The Enchanted Forest

There are those

Not everyone dislikes the cold and Winter's endowments.  Ha.  I think I can remember my childlike wonder of winter's offering of snow, and days off of school.  Snowmen, snowballs,  sliding along our ways.  I guess it is mostly a mindset.  This Prince of Winter or Page of Swords, thinks of solutions to offset the winter blues and the frosty nip of freezing temps.  If I ever do decide to move South, I won't experience these winter days of the Midwest any longer.  So I am going to do my best to enjoy the upcoming season.
Whew Wee!

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.

Among us

Angels among us? You betcha.  This last week I have been working with a couple that I helped buy a home a couple of years ago. A week ago the house next door to them blew up, literally; from a natural gas explosion. Their home has been condemned and they have to start over.  They have mentioned several times that they knew angels were watching over them and I knew this too when I experienced my trauma seven years ago.  Today as I remember family and friends, I will also keep my guardian angel and others that support me on this and the etheral plain in my good thoughts





The Good Tarot

Seen not heard

I wonder some days of what I or many of us might be years down the road if we were or had been allowed to speak our truths.  So many children speak honestly and then told to hush, that voices become muted.  Of course some of the reasons they are hushed are their truths, which are their parents opinions and 'truths' who most of those got their's from parents.  So we build our lives on old, aged information.  What a mess the human race is.

Here is my truth today. Alabama's legislature has banned virtually all abortions.  Yes or no on the matter is not the point. The point is taking power away from women.  We are barely one step ahead of the taliban and isis on their view of women.



The Fountain Tarot

Wisdom

Learn something new everyday.  The Page of Swords probably has these wise words imprinted on a placard that he views everyday.  Good words to remember and also to have fun at it if you can. 










Spiritsong Tarot

Information Please

Messages Received

I began my week with this page -'Messengers and Messages' and my advice to me was not to ignore any messages. I can think of three received. The first, I decided to sign up with a health coach for a few months to help me help me.  Second was my wonderful niece at the tender age of 26 is suffering symptoms similar to MS; she has a visit scheduled with a neurologist in a few weeks, and third I was watching a Cheryl Richardson video replay and one thing for consideration was to start experiencing Life instead of trying to conquer it - how many Summers, Falls, Winters, and Springs do I have left? Unknown. So time to be really present and enjoy because they are not limitless.
All three have impacted me.  The first, I was done with self help gurus and books, but Kris Carr's message has struck a note.  Who would expect a vibrant, young, healthy 26 old  to have issues, especially someone close to me?  It can't happen, Right? And I have never cared for Cheryl Richardson, but watched her anyway.
A new Summer is upon me and I am going to immerse myself.

The Linestrider's Journey Tarot - Siolo Thompson

Read the fine print

Messengers and Messages

The card's advice, do not ignore any messages that may arrive. 

Yesterday I watched two movies at home on my lazy day Saturday.  I don't really know why I watched either movie as they were - point and click choices.  Both movies were really sad commentaries on a woman's life and her final act of desperation, committing suicide. One set in 1912 and the other 2017.  I occasionally watch a movie here and there, but two with same the conclusion?  An unhappy coincidence or something more.  I wondered were the women victims of circumstances, carried on to a desperate conclusion or a commentary to pay attention to the things we do that may have an unhappy impact on the life of another?  Something I am sure my mind now having received will continually hypothesize over the next few days and maybe beyond.


The Linestrider's Journey Tarot

Curiouser and Curiouser

I once heard someone say that in the Rider Waite-Smith Tarot that everything in the card has a meaning.  Most of the time I glance at a card and get a quick hint of something, some meaning pertinent to me or my day ahead, or maybe just something to ponder in the minutes in-between the other stuff going on.  In the Page of Swords I never have quite figured out those ten birds on the wing above the Page. 
For some reason I keep wanting to call this the Nine of Swords, so maybe it is those things that keep me awake some nights that clamour for my attention in those in-between moments with everything else.  Maybe I just added 'one more thing' to the nine swords of worry, sorrow, discontent.


Rider Waite-Smith Tarot