Grindstone

Rest after a good day's work

It's okay to have a bit of smug satisfaction after a good day.  Acknowledge it and then go have a bit of R&R.
Put the swords down and take a break












The Chinese Tarot - Jui Guoliang

Directional signs

The Long and Winding Road

How many times do I find myself on or in the same place?  I have walked the same path so many times that the path has been worn smooth.  Is that the journey of the Hermit?  To do a thing until the lesson is completely learned?
Are we taught the same our parents were taught and then teach others the same lessons?  Is the lesson of the Hermit to do what we know or to get off the path and learn something new.








The Chinese Tarot

Wish-Full

"Dreams can true, they can happen to you if you're young at heart."

Heart felt choices.  Yesterday I drew the Nine of Cups, a place were we are okay with ourselves, satisfied, nay I say satisfied with ourselves.  In the Seven of Cups is where the Nine of Cups originates. We can speak a thing, see a thing, think a thing, but when we feel it deep in our heart and have a strong emotion attached to it, that is where intention becomes real.  Sometimes we have to re-route our direction if we get off path, like in the Eight of Cups, still a wrong choice is still a choice and helps us on our way to fulfillment, joy, satisfaction.  Wish-full is where it begins.






The Chinese Tarot - Jui Guoliang

Try another

Satisfaction guaranteed.

Reminds me of all the blind taste test that have been advertised over the years. Pepsi over Coke?  Spring Water or Purified Water?  Name Brand over Generic?  To Each Their Own. 
Maybe all these cups are opportunities for me to keep trying until I get it right or get what's right for me.
Is Satisfaction guaranteed?









Chinese Tarot - Jui Guoliang

one, two, Three

Here's to it!

May this be a Three of Cups kind of day.   Joyful and easy peasy. 














The Chinese Tarot

The Year of Less

"how I stopped shopping, gave away my belongings, and discovered life is worth more than anything you can buy in a store. " - Cait Flanders - quote and name of book as post title

The UNIVERSE, The World card.  When it all is said and done; has it all been said and done?  Most tarot teachers reason that the Universe is a place or a thing  done to it's completion and then we start again as The Fool.  Maybe, but I don't want to do the same thing over and over.
I recently have decided not to buy one more self-help book.  It has all been said and then re-said and stated. Then this morning in a Hay House email there is an offering to buy the ebook "The Year of Less" for a $1.99, so okay one more book.  After reading dozens of books on healing, new age, self discovery, this n that and an article of two on quantum physics, I cannot see any major difference in the Me of Me.  I am going to put these books down and look out the the window or sit on a park bench more and study the nature of things and me from my own point of view.  Which is probably the lesson of the Universe card.


The CHINESE Tarot Deck - Jui Guoliang

In the moment

Can paradise be defined?

To be apart of this field of lavender would be a paradise to me.  The soft lovely scent, the whoosh of wings as the heron flies by, and the whisper of the soft rhythms of the sea as it meets the shore.  Could there ever be a better way to spend a Saturday or any other day?  There are also rainy days like today, when being tucked indoors where it is warm and dry, snuggled in with a good book and the surrounding stillness is only disturbed by the pitter patter of the rain on roof and window.  I cannot forget the joy of beachside as I soak in the penetrating warmth of the Sun and search the water for my mermaid cousins. The common theme to these snippets of paradise is me and my chosen way to experience the moment. To take the time to be present and aware is the lesson of the Nine of Pentacles.

Gaian Tarot - Joanna Powell Colbert