Here I AM

Vision Quest

This card brings to mind those fundamental questions we ask ourselves throughout our days on Planet Earth. 
Where were born, where is your home, where are you going, what are you doing?  Think about these once in awhile and watch your answers change.
I wrote about these same questions earlier this year, and I am back to them with this card.  Time to say goodbye to September, pull the page on my wall calendar, and contemplate what do I need to see, do, and finish, and maybe start, to finish my year.
I recently gathered a number of self help books and I am taking them to the Library.  I no  longer want or need to climb the Mountain of Spirituality.  I am Carolyn and it is time to just be me.

Native Spirit Oracle Cards - Denise Linn

Perfect moment

I saw something similar to this vision some years back crossing The Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina.  Their peaks do not reach as high as Rocky Mountains, still when the cloud cover hangs on the ridges of the mountains and Sun begins it's daily ascent...

When I turned this card over I heard and began singing the song, On A Clear Day sung by Barbra Streisand.  It was also the title to a cute little movie about reincarnation and Barbra Streisand stars and sings that same tune.
What a fabulous way to start my day with a little singing. 










Native Spirit Oracle Cards - Denise Linn

Sight for sore eyes

What a vision a white buffalo must be.

I am unclear what message if any that comes from this card.  Perhaps today I shall have to stand my ground.  Maybe somewhere along the line something will give me pause and I will need to pay particular attention to what grasps my attention.  Maybe, a spiritual or sacred moment; I had one the other evening, a sunset that almost took my breath away.  Maybe, Maybe, Maybe
I also thought of buffalo nickles, for whatever reason.  In 1912 they coined the design and started production for release in 1913.  Easy enough, what I discovered while reading about coinage at that time, was an ongoing concern for counterfeiting nickels and other coins.  Can you image, counterfeiting nickles.  The world has truly changed.


Native Spirit Oracle Cards - Denise Linn

Embellish

"Live larger than Life. Be the storyteller and the hero of your own life." - booklet

I was immediately drawn to this card when I drew it from the deck, so much so that I stepped right into the scene.  I could smell the wood smoke and the hear the hiss and spit of the fire. Entranced, the only disruption to the intense quiet on the beach was the sound of the wood sap that caught flame. I wondered who set the rocks and lit the fire? Would they soon return to set a hare or fish to flame or maybe come to share a story.
Embellish: to make beautiful with ornamentation.

When I was a child we would get together and tell ghost stories around a small fire.  Miss that.


Native Spirit Oracle Cards - Denise Linn

Identifiers

Medicine bags are often small pouches worn beneath clothing with items private, personal, and perhaps spiritual in nature.

At first I thought this might be a bag the Fool would carry about, but the booklet indicates that medicine bags were worn out of sight.  I carry a purse and don't know that I would call it a medicine bag, though there are a couple of stones, coins, and ibruprofen rolling  around at the bottom.  So I wonder what secret and personal items do I keep about me to help me identify myself?








Native Spirit Oracle Cards - Denise Linn

Up up and away

Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky (verse from Twinkle Twinkle)

This eagle flying about, reminds me that sometimes it is best to stay above the fray.  In the long or short march of our days, and the distance is from a personal perspective, how much of what we do really matters?  Not much I suppose, still a bunch of little bits adds up to a lot.  Maybe that is where the phrase adding your "two cents worth" originated.  Two pennies is not much, but if thousands, threw their two in the pot, there would be a lot of pennies.
Sometimes I guess we have to decide, stay out of it or cast our lot in with the rest.





Native Spirit Oracle Cards - Denise Linn

Birds of a feather

Up and out the door.

On my way North to visit my two sisters in Indianapolis today.  My sister that lives nearby and I are making a bi-yearly jaunt to visit.  They are a lot of work, still they are my sisters and we share a commonality. 
Happy Saturday.

Release

This is a different perspective on the card of Death.  Gives me pause for consideration.

In a book I recently read, a man described his NDE - near death experience.  He had a massive heart attack and falling to the ground he laid there and actually had the experience of dying. Everything went calm and smooth and he thought to himself "this is what dying is" and in that moment realized he was not afraid of dying, that he really had been afraid of life, that living is the real challenge.  The part of him that was still in his body mustered himself and brought himself back from the brink. This story really resonated with me;  I too was at that place of separation when the EMT's started their revival work on me years ago.  And the telling of his tale makes me wonder when I comment and say I am not afraid of dying, what  I am saying is that I am fearful in living.  Something to think about.



FAIRY Tarot - Doreen Virtue & Radleigh Valentine

Give it a splash

It is hot this week.  In the 90's most everyday until late next week.  This card reminds me when I was a young girl we didn't go to the neighborhood pool for a swim to cool off.  We lived in a more rural setting and so our answer as kids was go have a splash in a creek.  Back behind our home was several fields with a creek running through them, the only caveat was there were cows out and about and the farmer didn't want us upsetting the herd and neither did the bull among his gals.  We had to dash in and have a splash and get back out.  There was always the hose in the backyard, but running through the fields and jumping in the creek was more fun and carefree. 
For today maybe I can find a way to capture a moment of my carefree youth?



FAIRY Tarot -Doreen Virtue & Radleigh Valentine

Much ado

Hope springs eternal.

Let's see what the day brings.














FAIRY Tarot - Doreen Virtue & Radleigh Valentine

Silver tongue

This Knight of Wands has a clever way with words, otherwise how could he convince a rabbit to saddle him and take him for a jaunt?

Today it is supposed to be all rain.  Good day to stay in and maybe do some sales calls and see if I can connect with a few clients for now and the future.  I was never really 'clever' with words.  I am all the straight out approach.  If I can help I will, if not, I am on my way. "Saddle up bunny."










FAIRY Tarot-Doreen Virtue & Radleigh Valentine

Now What

Who upset the apple cart?

There were a number of instances over the weekend that I incurred short bursts of chaos.  Those are the times to fall back on the tried and true, structure. 













FAIRY Tarot -Doreen VIrtue  Radleigh Valentine

The Shadow

"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men, the Shadow knows."
evil--live, vile, veil, lie

Can we or do we, ever knows what another really thinks?  What lurks within.  Can we know what life has dealt another?  Maybe this fairy captured and stacked all the snowballs because he grew up with next nothing and his fear of lack causes him to be a bully, when in reality he just needs someone to see beyond his/her shadow self.
Today I will give myself and others the benefit of a doubt.








FAIRY Tarot - Doreen Virtue & Radleigh Valentine

The Path

How many times in life have I taken the path of least resistance?  The 'go along to get along' mentality. Probably more than I care to admit.

Some of those choices didn't really make much of a difference, didn't shape the me of me.  One though, did.  I knew it was wrong and in reflection I keep asking myself the why of it.  Thirty years now gone by and still I see the result it had in the lies of my life, and how those lies have affected even the here and now. 
I guess it was part of this life's experience.  I wonder a lot even to this day, if I had not followed that path and just said "no thank you" and moved along.
Actually there was another one...guess I better get my calculator out and start a count.





FAIRY Tarot -Doreen Virtue & Radleigh Valentine

Summer to Fall

Seasons change and so do I. 

My daily affirmation calendar "Today I just show up and flow through the day."  Appropriate for this Queen of Cups.

I have noticed in the last few days splashes of orange and yellows appearing among the trees.  Yesterday morning I heard a gaggle of geese honking above as they begin their autumnal gathering.  It is all part of the flow of change, and it is time for me to think of my own preparations for the changing of seasons.






FAIRY Tarot- Doreen Virtue & Radleigh Valentine

Jingle Jangle

That is the phrase I heard when I looked at this card. So I went out to the www and wanted to see where the expression originated.

I always associated the phrase with the jingle of coins in my pocket, you know when you are standing in line with nothing much to do but wait (this was before the cell phone) and you just jingled the coins in your pants pocket.
Upon discovery Jingle Jangle was a tune performed by the Archies back in the 1960's.  There is also a song named Jingle, Jangle, Jingle performed by lots of old country western singers that refers to the sound their spurs make while horse back riding, also I think back in the 60's.  I think the Archie's song came first so I don't know if there was ever a suit for infringement.  Anyway, I going to take a nod from the card and go out and jingle jangle some of my coins today and come back home with less than I started with.


FAIRY Tarot - Doreen Virtue & Radleigh Valentine

Care-ful management

This lovely fairy is arranging  dandelion blooms in the garden. 

I used to admire those well maintained and landscaped yards.  Green green everywhere. Not a blade of grass out of place and not a dandelion in sight. I was never one to spend my coins on professional weed control; the management of my flower beds with my hands was enough.  Those lovely lawns are killing off bees and so many more of Earths lovely creatures. 
All those chemicals seep into the ground, run off in to the storm sewers after rain fall into our creeks, rivers, and oceans.  All those chemicals - just keep the lovely dandelion from blooming.  Now when I drive the neighborhoods when I see a yard full of dandelions I give a nod of thanks to those homeowners. 
Acid Rain?  Definitely from our own making.

FAIRY Tarot -Doreen Virtue & Radleigh Valentine

Practice makes perfect

Practice makes perfect.  How many times over the years have I heard that one.  Some wisdom in those words and sometimes I think all that practice on one skill set might choke the magic right of our me.

The wonder of being a Magician's apprentice, to learn what they will learn.  I think this young fellow had enough of working on his skill sets and decided to take what he has learned and headed out and see where it will take him, much like the Fool, out and about.   
This young elfin holds the Infinity Symbol in his hand.  I learned a bit of magic healing a few years back from a healer.  Imagine the lemiscate stitching and repairing tissue from a wound. I work with this healing mystique still today.

I must remember that I hold a bit of magic in me as well.




 FAIRY Tarot -Doreen Virtue & Radleigh Valentine

Its possible

Well, the sensible people of the world will say

Fol-de-rol and fiddle dee dee and fiddley faddley foddle
all the wishes in the world are poppy cock and twoddle

The sensible people will also say

Fol-de-rol and fiddle dee dee and fiddley faddley foddle
all the dreamers in world are dizzy in the noodle.
-Fairy Godmother - Cinderella

Things are happening everyday!





FAIRY Tarot -Doreen Virtue & Radleigh Valentine

Until I listen

This guy again?

It seems just about anytime I spend time with this deck, this fellow makes an appearance. I don't understand what he has to say to me.  Of course I am not prone to listen to old men's advice.  Funny that, because now I am in the same age group, so the guy is not really not an old man just a contemporary.
Maybe I should just sit down with him once and for all and hear him out.






FAIRY Tarot -Doreen Virtue & Radleigh Valentine

Wing It

Get Up, Get Going...

Fear can keep oneself stuck.  I have been stuck at the crossroads of indecision numerous times in my life, and then something comes along a gives me a shake and I get up and get going on my way.  A gentle shake is much preferred to a major crisis. 
I have been watching too much of the Weather Channel, time to get outside in the Sun-shine.






eartheart wisdom oracle cards - Sue Lion

View point

I noticed my snip of the card is a little askew.  HOPE can be that way sometimes. 











Magic & Myth - Sue Lion

Lots of prayers

Heaven's Heart

I think we are all going to need some prayers.  With Hurricane Harvey and now Irma speeding towards Florida and the Southern States, and all the wildfires burning in the Western part of the United States, it may be winter before we can all take a deep breath.  I still have a feeling that the US will experience a huge earthquake, maybe the quaking is all the devastation we are in the midst of.
My Sister and her husband are visiting friends in Florida and last night I told her to find some gasoline, fuel up and head out.  They are just south of Tampa Bay currently.  Now part of their vacation is helping friends pack up so they can all head out and come north tomorrow.
Hang on it, it is really going to get bumpy from here on out. Let's pray the orange man and the short man in asia don't add to the mayhem.


eartheart wisdom oracle cards -Sue Lion

Hello God

Another tree of change and seasons.  Sue Lion features trees in many of her cards.

                       TREE
I think that I shall never see
a poem lovely as a tree
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
against the sweet earth's flowing breast
A tree that looks at God all day
and lifts her leafy arms to pray
A tree that may in summer wear
a nest of robins in her hair
Upon her bosom snow has lain
who intimately lives with rain
Poems are made by fools like me
but only God can make a tree.
- Joyce Kilmer
 This poem reminds me to go spend time with a tree.  Give it a big hug and in that moment I connect with the Infinite, The Divine

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Transition

Labor Day, a Federal Holiday. Also considered the unofficial end of Summer.  Many people enjoy the long holiday week, with today, Monday, a paid day off.  Not me.

 eartheart wisdom oracle cards - Sue Lion

Seek

"And the earth bursts forth with mercurial beauty as the energy of change infuses us with joy. Seek. Sing. Love. Linger. Breathe. Bathe in her sparkling scent." 

A lovely reminder to get out and enjoy these last days of Summer.  The days are beginning to shorten and the air whispers of change. Seems too soon to exchange my pots of summer blooms for those filled with Mums.  Apple cider and pumpkin patches. I noticed lots of butterflies in the trees and know that most here have begun there flights to warmer places.  Still time enough to enjoy the late days summer.


"...Don't wait! It is time to play in Earth's garden and see her for who she is - today.  Don't hesitate! Go linger, breathe, and be one with the present moment."  Sue Lion

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Farewell

One of my favorite teachers passed the other day.  Louise L Hay left the planet on Wednesday August 30th.

 I have been re-reading some of her books that I have. these last few days.  I became familiar with her beliefs and advocacy  back in 2005 when I was going through some very dark times and happened across her book 'You Can Heal Your Life'  Working with some of her teachings and saying affirmations helped me from a dark place.  And I will say when I suffered lots of trauma from the  tornado I again turned to affirmations to help my healing.  So here is to Louise L Hay, I hold her up to the Light and sing a song of gratitude to her.




eartheart wisdom oracle cards - Sue Lion

King of the hill

My cards are pairing up this week.  Two nines, two kings, and now the second of two horses?

Actually maybe two unicorns.  I think the Ace of Air the other day was Pegasus with a horn.  This is a bit of a magical horse so my take away is to get to the top of the hill sometimes requires a wee bit of magic, or a lot.  My stay at the top of hill might not be long, cause there is always someone else who gets a turn on the top, so I celebrate my moment.
Happy First Day of September. 








The GOOD Tarot - Colette Baron-Reid