Surreal

This was a fabulous photo shared on FB.  I loved it.
It also thought it was a magical Eight of Wands. 
I need a little magic today.  My washing machine stopped with a full tub of water.  Heck.  Off to find a new set.  Happy Saturday.

Here's the thing

Truth Be Told.  Another wise owl fluttering in with the wind and finding a perch.  I think she is holding an open window. Not for her to fly into since she is holding open for me.  Perhaps the window of enchantment, like Wendy's open window allowing Peter Pan to fly through.  I wonder if I found my happy thought where would it take me?








Wisdom of the Oracle - Colette Baron-Reid

Deep Knowing

Pretty powerful stuff, wisdom pared with intuition.
This is the moment to take my power back!
I have been visited with this card several times over the last couple of weeks; really something to keep in mind.  Deep Knowing.
"Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come."






The Wisdom of the Oracle

Can there be?

Milk and Honey

Milk and honey, a phrase used in the Book of Exodus during Moses' vision of the burning bush.

Can such a place really exist or will we wander forty years in search of something that can only exist within.



Wisdom of the Oracle - Colette Baron-Reid

Exchanging Gifts

What can I give and honor myself? 
Giving is the gift itself if heartfelt.
Not all giving comes from the heart.
Have I denied myself in the pursuit of gifting others?







The Wisdom of the Oracle - Colette Baron-Reid

Illusions

All that glitters is not gold

Years ago I read a book. ILLUSIONS by Richard Bach.  I believe I read it several times, and when I took my time to view this card, that is what popped in my mind, Illusions.   The book was based on two people.  Men.  A teacher and a student and their journey flying around corn fields one summer. It has lots of interesting quotes and thought provoking summarizion that everything is an illusion.
I have 1291 days until I turn 65. Is that a long time, maybe?  Not really that many when I count the days so far, 22440.  Is time an illusion?  I really think I feel all those 22440 days in my bones, and remember a good part of them in mind.  An Illusion?

“Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.” 
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah



Wisdom of the Oracle Cards - Colette Baron-Reid

Poignant

Something to think about

Adrift

Floating along on the current.

Nothing particular to say.  Just drifting along.

Deep Knowing

When a time has come.

When you know you just know.
Tuned in
Tapped in
Within
All-in








Wisdom of the Oracle - Colette Baron-Reid

Disassociate

Can there be a middle ground if you have detached from the situation?

Temperance.  I don't really understand Temperance; the depictions are too abstract for me.  I like a little more direct. To temper, to blend, to find a middle ground.  What?  I look at cards on either side of a card to help decipher or understand what message the card may bring to me.  I have to go back to the Major Arcana to help me understand Temperance.  With the Hanged Man and Death one side of Temperance and The Devil and The Tower on the other side, that's enough to give me pause with Temperance. I guess Temperance is the middle ground between all the turmoil of those cards or situations.  Still, can one be detached amongst that turbulence?



The Linestrider's Journey

Did you see that?

Hope springs eternal

Bald eagles have been spotted in our area.  The Hoosier National Forest is about an hour from here and I believe a nest or two has recently been recorded.  New territories are being explored and settled nearby.  The Ohio River would be a natural draw for these majestic birds that fish and hunt in open waterways.  See we can learn!  Near extinction people believed the dire warnings and responded. 
Given a bit of information today I will lean to the notion that it is the truth and not a bit of 'fake news'



The Linestrider's Journey Tarot - Siolo Thompson

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

Best laid plans

Something is just wrong here.

Best laid plans of mice and men (and rabbits) often go awry.  The rabbit hutch has been built too small.  I can make all kind of plans and often they don't work out; like this rabbit hutch.  Someone built a structure thinking baby bunnies and got the giant sized version.  Sometimes we draft or make plans and they take a long while to get started and longer to finish and once completed the person or project is so different from the original point of projection, the design no longer works. Who I am today is different than when I started this year and by year's end, even a bit more changed. 
Before I make long term plans of a sort, best to consider if I truly think if they will work me 1-5 years down the road?



The Linestrider's Journey Tarot

Crux

Remember when

I often see the Six of Cups as nostalgia, which is what a lot of the Tarotist apply to this card.  Following the Five of Cup's indecision of what to give up, the Six brings me to a place down the road, across that bridge, where I can remember and not hurt any more over the choice that I made.  In the six we can share the joy and sorrow and still be okay with it and ourselves.  

There is always more, but for the moment I am picking up those couple of cups and crossing the bridge.

The Linestrider's Journey Tarot

Give it a rest

'I am willing to release the need to be right.'

The above was the affirmation on my calendar for today.  'I am willing to release the need to be right.'  That is a pretty big challenge for me.  I have spent a lot of time in my books over the years so I consider myself pretty well informed on lots of This n That. But I guess being right all the time isn't everything.  The depiction of this knight and all the swords he has collected or won off of others in battles and tournaments is a bit sorrowful and definitely lonely.  For today if I am confronted with another I will give the challenge a pass, and go along my merry way.  Who needs another sword anyway!

The Linestrider's Journey Tarot

Tinnitus

Ready to step down, walk away.

I have been working the better part of 45 years and if you include paper delivery and corn detasseling, it is more like 50.  I am tired of standing my ground and hanging in there.  That fox and goose making threatening and loud noises are the ones in my head saying "never give in."  I would like to have a quiet two weeks where my phone was not ringing or people demanding my time and attention...But then when that does happen as it had  during the economic down-turn, ten years ago, I was desperate that anyone would 'honk' at me, call me please...Never satisfied, never happy.  At least while I listen to noises of doubt and fear in my head.



The Linestrider's Journey - Tarot

OMG

Makes me want to go back to bed and pull the covers over my head.

I pulled the King of Wands, and thought omg, who is going to show up today and try to boss me around?  So I placed him back in the deck reshuffled and searched him out and the companion card travelling with him - The King of Pentacles.  Two kings tag teaming me today!  Why even bother?  I don't like to be bossed or told what to do, so I might as well call it a day before I even start. Well I really can't do that with an appointment in an hour, so I will do my best when confronted. 
Both of these kings even have a really stern countenance, yikes!

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

EGO

Traditional card - The Devil

Ego, we all need one, just one that is not out of control. The one fairy, has scrolls of Fear and Blame and the other the tablet of Guilt.  Those are the driving forces of Ego out of whack.  I tell myself I pretty much keep my wild ego-self in check and then I find myself berating a dumb driver who cuts me off, tell myself constantly that I know more than others I work with, and question the sanity of many.  Guess "The Devil made me do it!"   No it's me.  As long as I point my finger at others the less time there is less time for me to look in the mirror and point my finger at me.





The Fairy Tarot - Doreen Virtue & Radleigh Valentine

Bogged down

The To Do List

What do I have to do? What do I want to do? What do I choose to do.  What do I enjoy doing?
Interesting those first three are future tensed and the fourth is in the present "ing" enjoy doing.  Sometimes we can figure out what 'to do' by just jotting it down.
Typical Ten of Wands have us weighted down by the things we carry.  What do I have to do -work. What do I want to do-spend more time out doors. What do I choose to do-work and spend some time outdoors in sales. What would I enjoy doing, I think a gardener; nothing happier than being out with the plants.
Now if I could find a year round greenhouse and garden center that I could work in and I could pay the bills, sweet.



The Fairy Tarot

Giddy Up

Let's get a move on!

I wonder how giddy-up got started.  I am pretty sure horses and I know bunnies do not know what giddy-up means.  The horse responds to the spurs or heels of the rider digging into their flanks.  Bunnies I am sure, can only be ridden by fairies who probably do the same to them.
Makes me think of the saying, 'my get up and go, got up and went.'
Time for me to take action on my day and giddy-up and go!



The Fairy Tarot

Passing down

The old stories, does anyone really ever share them any more?

Emperor or Father Time?  Keeper of the legends and stories.  The Emperor establishes the rules we live with, this Fairy at one time may have been an emperor, but now he is the dispossesser of information if anyone cares to listen.
How did we get here?
Where did we come from?
Who came before us?
Where are we going?
What should I do?
What is the meaning of Life?
I like this wizened fairy, instead of scepter of power or the scythe of Father Time, he has a key.  Information is the key. 
Today I will stop and listen to someone's story; for there maybe something to learn or better yet validate another.


The Fairy Tarot

Courage vs Confidence

New Ventures

Courage and Confidence are often considered the same.  I believe that Courage is the building block of Confidence so, maybe they have the same structure.  Like a child, somewhat the same as a parent, but different.  Beginning something new usually requires courage or desperation, but I will stick with courage.  I noticed the baby in the pea pod is wearing a magician's hat and is holding a magic wand.  It will take the child's courage to begin his life and take his first bold steps.  Courage to fall down and get back up and....a bit of magic always helps.





Fairy Tarot - Doreen Virtue & Radleigh Valentine

Unseen Forces

There is a reason for most everything

This card explains why it is so hard to get rid of dandelions.  The Fairies are constantly harvesting them and spreading seeds.  What some see as weeds, the fairies know them as bouquets for bumblebees. 
Let the dandelions be what they will be and take care of the 7 other things that are on my list of 'To Do'
The booklet mentions this as a card of multi-tasking, successful multitasking.  It all gets done eventually. 








Fairy Tarot Cards - Doreen Virtue

Rationality

Valued Judgement

Detached wisdom.  Can that really be?  I suppose when I am in the thick of 'it' I can lose perspective on the situation.  As I have gotten older, a lot of that 'stuff' doesn't make much of difference or really impacts me.  I wonder sometimes when we over-think things if that could make things even messier. Is that a word, messier? more of a mess then.  Maybe the answer is to just stop overthinking everything so much.  Maybe that is the wisdom of this King of Winter (Swords) he has made it his life's purpose to be in the know, and what has he done, retreated to give his mind a rest. 




Fairy Tarot Cards - Doreen Virtue

Sandcastles

Play - What's that?

I probably need to take the day off; wishful thinking.  Got paper work to do and mail to take care of.  I spent a full week at office normally only 15hours or so; taking care of others work so I can spend Saturday taking care of mine.  I also just received a nasty little text from a customer that wanted me to waste my time with trying to sell her home for way more than it is worth and yesterday told her I would not.  I wished her well and she hung up and me then texted a bit ago.  I am thinking I dodged a huge amount of nastiness, leaving more time to play.  Yay!
Though I cannot get to the beach to play I can still build sandcastles in the air--wasn't there a song titled that?   Well off to surf the web and see.



Magic & Myth - Sue Lion

Dance, dance, dance

Mother Earth embraces your toes as you dance in your dreams.

"Dreams can come true they can happen to you, if you're song at heart.
You can go to extremes with impossible schemes,
You can laugh when your dreams fall apart at the seams..."
-sung by Frank Sinatra

I always feel better and my energy soars when I dance.  Most of my dancing would be done in my dreams since the legs don't work so much any more, still I can do a little two steppin from time to time; the twist, no way.  Maybe today is a good day for some
boogie-woogie.



Eartheart Wisdom - Sue Lion