Brain teaser

Optical Illusion.  Can we really be sure?

At first glance all I could see was the fish.  Wondering about the image embedded in the fish, I found the Knight of Cups.  Makes me think of the debate last year when we were all asked "what color is the dress?"  Or the optical illusion that floats around on FB asking what do you see - "the frog or the horse?" 
Lately my feelings have been all over the place and that is what this Knight calls into question.  What is going on?  Where will my feelings take me if left gallivanting across the countryside; which is more like the knight being in a reversed position. 
Focused or Frenzied emotions?  Maybe the Knight has rode in to help me figure them out and do a catch and release of the turbulence.







The LINESTRIDER'S Journey - Siolo Thompson

With a little help

"A little help from my friends
What would you think if I sang out of tune,
Would you stand up and walk out on me.
Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song,
And I'll try not to sing out of key.

I get by with a little help from my friends,
I get high with a little help from my friends,
Going to try with a little help from my friends." 

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 The Beatles, from their album 

Sgt.Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

After getting confused and trying to figure out who and where I am  personified in yesterday's Page of Swords,  in swoop some friends to help empower me with their support and encouragement.

The LINESTRIDER'S Journey - Siolo Thompson

Sidetracked

 What was I doing and where was I going?

The accompanying book describes this as a card that often foretells the arrival of a message or messenger.   I wonder what message?  It looks like something got lost on the way.  It happens all the time when having a conversation with someone; you stop and wonder "where did that come from?" when something odd pops up in the middle of the chat.
It also makes me think of dream time.  Last night was one of those nights that the weirdest bits of dreams and bits of this and that played out on the subconscious chalk board.  I often wonder if it is when the subconscious decides to sort through all the hodge podge information and file it away. Bits of memories, commercials, movies and tv shows, sign posts, conversations that have no useful purpose for the conscious mind and so it is lumped together for a file dump.  All those pieces of memories floating around and then stored away.  Chaos. 



The LINESTRIDER'S Journey Tarot - Siolo Thompson

Don't group us together

Blah. I find myself in the doldrums.

Yesterday evening I was having a phone conversation with someone I work with.  His Mother passed and left the planet six weeks ago.  He went and saw a friend earlier in the week who basically told him he is depressed.  Go figure..that was easy to come up with.  Not clinically, still enough issues for concern.  I too have slipped into that murky place in the last week.  I am sleeping way too much, experiencing episodes of anxiety (not new to me in the last 5years), sluggish...blah.
The cold weather and shorten days of sun light add to my dilemma.  I am coming up on the anniversary of my trauma event which has triggered these episodes before.  I have struggled through and now wonder if talking to a therapist might help to work through some of my issues.  Maybe join a group others with PSTD and then maybe not.

Kuan Yin

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Deception

Appearances can be deceiving.  The lwb states that this Page is or could be a trusted envoy, friend, a stranger with good news or intentions.  I ain't buying it.  What are supposed to be cypresses wrapped in fog, looks like a cloud of gray doom and gloom.   This old Page appears to me to have a smirky look on his face as he walks away from the black cloud; I think he is not all what he appears to be.  And those creepy crawly things appear to be spiders that have more than eight legs, so whatever is in the black fog altered them. Maybe the black fog altered the Page as well.
Today I have several appointments otherwise I would stay home cause something wicked this way comes. 








The CHINESE Tarot - Jui Guloiang

717

Today I drew the Seven of Cups again.  So pondering on that 7,  I shuffled and drew an accompanying card, The Star.  7 17.  I always make a wish when I draw the Star Card. 

Someone over the weekend said they saw a group of migrating Whooping Cranes.  A bit early I think, still the winter has been mild.  So forget the poor groundhog tomorrow and look up to see what you might see.





The CHINESE Tarot