Yes You Can

 

I have been having a fairly long conversation with The Queen of Wands. She asked me if I thought that she was limited by having to sit on her throne most and all day?  "Limitations don't define us unless we let them," she tells me, as I have been doing with the diminished leg capabilities. I may be less agile but there are many things that I can still do, as she can.    Tomorrow is a New Moon, auspicious for new beginnings and even more so, as tomorrow is a Black Moon in a Solar Eclipse. Wowza. If there was ever a time to implement things on my 'To Do' list, now is that time. With the Fire of Wands giving me the incentive to set my intentions for what I want to accomplish, now is that time. Tomorrow is the last day of the Month with Sunday being the first day, in the first week of a new month. With the conjunction of so many propitious events concurring at the same time, This Queens advises "Yes You Can!" 

The Celestial Tarot

Emulate

 

My last post on Tuesday I mentioned the little things that irritate. Well I guess I let some of those little things balloon along with a few other things that day, enough so that my heart went to fluttering. Maybe a few times here and there since the cardiac event, but Tuesday evening was a prolong session, enough so that anxiety began to build and the next thing, I took myself to the hospital, where I stayed for a few days to have tests. When all the images that could be taken of my heart were completed my wonderful heart is doing fine, actually has strengthen since the 'event.' Good news indeed, but a lesson that I am still working on, releasing the resistance and tossing the fear and anxiety. The Queen of Wands is an excellent person to emulate. Cool and composed. Do what is best for me and honor that. Take care of me and my lovely heart and my companion,  Kitty.

Rider Waite-Smith Tarot

Go tell it on the mountain

 

There is excitement this morning at The Berry College Eagles Nest.  Today is the day that there will be babies in the nest. About 3 years or so ago, my friend Bev K told me about webcam viewing of this nest and I have been following since.  Today looks to be the day. The adult eagle pair is staying close and some possible peeps have been heard when the pair change places on the nest. Egg-citing!  Life renews itself and this is a lovely reminder that it does.

Artwork: A View of the Mountain Pass -Crawford Notch  & Morning in a Pine Forest -Ivan Ivanovich

MAJESTIC EARTH Tarot

The Year to Come

 

Happy New Year! 

It is up to me  to tend to.my life.  Hello 2022!

The Gaian Tarot - Joanna Powell Colbert

Starting point return

 

This Queen of Wands seems to be wrapped in a cloak of misery. Maybe life has become too challenging and she has decided to cast off those things and status as a queen. Sometimes the expectations of others becomes too much to bear. Can she leave such things behind and with her steadfast companion return to the journey of The Fool? 

The Tarot of Durer

Revisit

 

The Wise-Woman, The Queen of Wands has stopped for a follow-up visit to the other day's meeting. Her reminder is to listen to my own wise inner voice. Tune out the naysayers, even when the naysayer is myself. A Queen is a Queen, right!?  As with any other they have doubts and hesitation; still they act because they must. Trust the process.

The Gaian Tarot

Grab those bootstraps

 

I am hoping for a visit from this Queen of Wands today. A dose of her quick wit and getting straight to the point is needed.  Lately I feel a bit adrift and maybe her insight will help me gather my focus.  Still it is early days in my rest and recoup stage, but a bit of her insight may help me make plans.

Scorpio Sea Tarot

Can do

The go get 'em gal. 
Not sure if I am to emulate her today or look for her to stop by?
Going to give it awhile and come back and have that conversation with her or me depending on what is revealed today.
 

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

Past to Present to Future

I always wondered if Pamela Colman-Smith had specific reasons for the placement of Queens and Kings in The Rider Waite-Smith Tarot.  In the Wands the King is looking off to the right and the Queen, here is looking off to the left. In the Cups, the King appears to be looking off to the left and the Queen to the Right, The Swords, they both look straight out at us, and the Pentacles, the Queen and King are both looking down at the pentacle they are holding.
Here I think the Queen is reviewing where they have been so she can advise her King on the next move forward.
When I see this Queen of Wands, it always makes me think about driving across Kansas in August and all the fields of sunflowers that you pass through.  An absolute stunning sight.  In review, maybe I will put that on my list of something to do in the next few years.

Magic in movement

Later today or tomorrow I am going to settle down with all my books on tarot and read on the people cards.  There is something that they all want to tell me and I am not grasping.
This lovely Queen of Wands advises to get up and groove and move today.  I may not have much of groove but I can still move.  Thank goodness for that.

Unbidden

I think this gal has shown up to give me her opinion or "pearls of wisdom" and there is just something about her tilt of head that I ain't having it.  Most of the time I don't mind listening to suggestions from others, or listen to their pearls of wisdom.  This gal just doesn't come across as having any one but her own interest at heart.  So today I will be on the lookout for the possibility of someone trying to give me an ear full.  Blah, keep it.

Own it

I occasionally sit and wonder 'what if'  This Queen of Wands this morning reminds me of reflection.  She seems to be looking off to left lost in a remembrance. I have made some 'not so right' choices in my life. Is there any point trying to figure out, what if?  What if I did go right not left?  Things may or may not have changed, there are some things I would change, others, nope.  If I changed one thing everything after could and most likely change.  Own it.  I am who I am and I am because of some of those choices. 
I just realized I use changed a lot in the above paragraph, so any Queen of Wands worth her salt has the gumption to get up and embrace change.
age, hang, can, cage, nag...words within change.
I can hang the worry of age, forget the doubts that nag at me, break free of the cage...change.
I still have fifteen hours today to do something different to effect change.

Serendipity

Fortune favors the bold.
Want something, go get it. 
And if I don't give up and don't give in, I may just be okay.





The Fountain Tarot
Wisdom of the Oracle Cards(a bit askew, but luck sometimes is)

Pair of...

Yesterday Queen of Swords and today her sister, the Queen of Wands.  What a pair of great gals.  The Queen of Swords told me the truth and The Queen of Wands, suggests I live my truth.
I read a line somewhere and for some reason did not write down the author or book, something about magic. Guess I will search it out...
"And it was here that the truth was revealed to me. If having money, a boyfriend, and all sorts of stuff didn't have the power to make me happy, then it follows, that the absence of those things never had the power to to make me unhappy."

"Balls said the Queen, if I had them I'd be King." Jill Clayburg in Unmarried Women, movie


The Fountain Tarot
Jonathan Saiz, Jason Gruhl, Andi Todaro

Countenance

Just one look

This Queen looks off towards the future.  Her back aches from sitting on such an unyielding throne.  She is meant for action and this sitting around all day waiting for something to happen has got to stop.   We can drive by any graveyard and realize that life continues on even if we have moved on.  There is always someone to step in and grab the reins and fill our position.
Someone else wants to be in charge, fine by me.  There is always something more interesting out there, "see it - just ahead to the right."

Action speaks louder than words.





Rider Waite-Smith Tarot

Queen Me

Not me you won't

So glad to see this Queen of Wands.  Yesterday the Emperor started to get the best of me.  Last night I placed him back in deck and shuffled asking how I could deal with the bully (emperor) yesterday?  I went in search for the Emperor and the next card was the advice card, The Knight of Wands.  Immediately I felt that it recommended, "Carolyn get on your high-horse and go bonk the bully on the head with that big heavy wand he is carrying."  The Queen of Wands has now stepped in to take charge of the whole situation.  She empowers me not to put up with the heavy-handedness of the Emperor.






The Rider Waite-Smith Tarot

Ah-hah

Lets take it out for a test drive

Yesterday the Queen of Staves(wands) was deeply focused on her wand at hand, today she has taken it out into the world.  An ah-hah moment needs to be shared, even if it is with pen and paper for us to remember it down the line.  Like some dreams, so vivid and poignant that we are sure we will remember, then upon waking later in the morning those wisps of images are dissipated not to be remembered.








The Goddess Tarot

Awareness

The Eyes have it

It is curious to me that this queen, Queen of Wands, with all her energy and outgoing nature, does not look straight out at me.  I went through the deck and only the Page of Cups of the Court cards looks straight out at us.  There are just a few Majors with a direct gaze as well.   In sales I always look directly at  the people I am spending time with and it has become habit with most everyone in my day to day.   I guess she has become so fascinated with her wand in hand, that everything else fades to the background.   For advice today I am thinking - don't get to caught up in myself and forget what is going on around me.



The Goddess Tarot