Purr-fect

Cougar, an interesting Emperor.  This is not some stodgy stuck in place Emperor.  This one is flexible and moves throughout his kingdom.  So today I will not get hung up on some dogma and move freely throughout my day.  Life is better lived than delivered.










SpiritSong Tarot

Be-cause

I say this to myself sometimes, I am going to do...because.  Because I can.  Sometimes I think of some of those because moments and wish I could still do them. Body and mind changes and, limitations set in.  The other day a juvenile praying mantis visited my home.  It was walking across the deck rail and started its climb up the shepherd hook with a basket of petunias. At the top of crook it just hung there upside down.  I spent ten minutes(probably five) watching her hang there. Why? because she could was all that I could get a sense of.  Getting a different perspective maybe.  Sometimes we do things just because, no special meaning or intent, just because.


SpiritSong Tarot

Under the Boardwalk

Down by the sea.  It would be an adventure to collect seashells with this pelican.  I think she knows where all the best one are.  Reminds me to enjoy shared company.












SpiritSong Tarot

Twelve Days

Two Turtle Doves...I love birds, well most birds, not the cooing doves.  Their constant cooing and pooping in around areas of bird feeders make them a pain.  Opportunist feeders.  They thrive on corn, the cheapest feed at the station and so many homeowners who stock the feeders do so with mostly corn.
For today I will watch out for pest.
Kind of pessimistic, but everyone gets a day like that.
Ba Humbug.








Spiritsong Tarot

Concealment

Change, Camouflage, Concealment, Chromatophores, Carolyn.  C is the word for the day, I noticed the clocks in the lower left hand corner. Time pieces that resemble The Wheel. 
This card feels more like The High Priestess, looking into the eyes of this octopus is like slipping in to the deep fathoms where the priestess can take us.
I did not know that the lifespan of an octopus is about a year. The Wheel turns pretty quickly for them.  I wonder what I could get done in a year? One way to find out.  And the Wheel turns.




SpiritSong Tarot - Pauline Cassidy

Clever really

I love the artwork of this deck.  Soft muted colors, whimsical in nature. The cards don't read much like tarot, maybe more like a oracle. That might be the whole point.  I may have repetitive interpretations of cards that have the same theme.  This Knight of Feathers seemingly has nothing in common with our traditional Knight of Swords.  This knight seems to be on the other side of the looking glass.  Everything acts and looks different on the other-side, a different vantage point.
For today while out and about, I should consider a different observation from traditional appearances.



SPIRITSONG Tarot - Pauline Cassidy

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)

C'est la vie

Poseidon he ain't.  This is the owner/manager of the office I work at.  Pretty decent guy I guess.  Working closely with him the last year makes me want to put some distance between us.  Familiarity breeds contempt is a good description of my take on him now.  He seems like your typical watery man, but he has some under-currents in his nature that like a flash flood can undermine your foundations.  He gives you that look of 'disappointment' when you don't go with his flow, and that is just YUCK. 
I am biased against Kings, mostly from their abuse over the years and now I am of an age I just won't tolerate it; not that I ever did that much.



The Fountain Tarot

Rollercoaster

More cups?  Yesterday I had a few emotional moments, not sure where they came from.  When I got home I remembered I had drawn the Page of Cups and had my ah-ha moment.  Trying to stay afloat in these turbulent days.  These struggles I must see through and then on to the new. 

"Of magic doors there is this, you do not see them even as you are passing through."  - Unknown






The Fountain Tarot

Emotional Fray

This is not a natural pose for a Knight of Cups, for that matter any knight.  They are movement, searching, protecting, being out and about.  Sometimes though we can be harnessed to our emotions and become stuck.  Looking again this knight is not soaking wet from sitting in the waterfall, possibly he has not been there long.  Hopefully just long enough to be present with the feeling and situation and then continue his/her/my journey.
A reminder for me today to fully embrace a moment that I encounter. Be with it, feel it, experience it, and then move on.




Fountain Tarot 

Leave it till later

I am not getting anywhere with these two.  In the Devil card it almost looks like vapors forming the two people, so maybe what we speak can become who we are; makes sense.  Not sure about that Star rising up from the murky depths- Hope springs eternal.
Release after bondage?
Balance? Realignment? Dark and Light?
Lived and Rats(backward spelling)?
Something to think on today.


The Fountain Tarot

Wellspring

What lies beneath?  Our own Ace of Cups.
This Ace of Cups seems to have risen up from the deep well of the water. Although the surface of water is calm and placid, the water beneath moves with the ebb and flow of constant movement.
We can look here and there for the Holy Grail, to finally discover that it is within ourselves.







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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

Multifaceted

Pressure not only forms diamonds it forms and shapes us.
I gave notice at my part time inside real estate job yesterday.  The pressure I was under was transforming me to someone I did not recognize.  I was suffering from bouts of depression and little fits of rage.  Who needs that?  I finally listened to my own Queen of Swords' wisdom. 









The Fountain Tarot

Alignment

Balance and symmetry, lovely when things come together.
My other thought was all lined up, like ducks in a row.  Well, we all know how lining ducks can go, every which way.  Reminds me to remind myself, though things may look in order, blink and and my lovely symmetry has become chaos. 
Enjoy the moment.







The Fountain Tarot

Forfeiture

Giving up our Rights by not voicing our thoughts and opinions. 
It is a shame really that society has taught many not to draw attention themselves.  Manipulation and Mystification has kept many voiceless.  Times are changing. 

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear." -Franklin D Roosevelt






The Fountain Tarot

Gather Ye Rosebuds

A few months ago, my niece's boyfriend asked me if I remembered what I wanted to do when I was younger, I immediately answered, make money. Not much of a goal.  We can all make money, but do we all really live?  The constant work-a-day life has dimmed my 'light' and I need to toss aside those heavy wands and gather some rosebuds, while I may.



The Fountain Tarot

The Inessential Destroyed

The authors give up us 'The Inessential Destroyed' that Tower moment.  Devastation, possibly.  My first thought when viewing the card was 'stinkin thinkin' you go looking for trouble; you are going to find it.
Inessential Destroyed; sometimes you have to have Tower moments to move you...on. 

"If you don't give up and don't give in, you may just be okay" - lyrics, The Living Years, Mike and the Mechanics




The Fountain Tarot

Unbridled Joy

Counting Up!.  Yesterday Three of Wands and today the Four. 
Looks like these beach goers have come together to make magic. From their song and dance a new energy emerges and bursts forth. 
I find it interesting that the energy beams have a shadow on the sand and not the dancers.  Maybe they are mer-people out having a moon dance before returning to their watery world.  Sometimes a mystery cannot be solved and I am meant to just enjoy the beauty and magic of the moment. 
Ahh to live in that moment of unbridled joy.
"what a marvelous night for a moon dance."




The Fountain Tarot

Focused efftort

Focused effort is what the description given by the accompanied lwb.  I first looked at the this Three of Wands as someone determined to unbind themselves, the struggle to be freed of others constraints.  I guess that would take focused effort.  I actually did a reading last night with this deck and the focus point was this Three of Wands covered by The Nine of Coins.  Focused effort for individual security or accomplishment, makes sense. 

The Fountain Tarot is a new deck for me.  Looking through the cards I think I am going to like this deck.  A bit more modern and based on the Rider Waite-Smith Tarot which is my preferred deck. Lots of geometry and soft images.  There is an extra card added to the Deck, A Major named 'The Fountain'  (Be)- Oneness, Cosmic Clarity- Ether


The Fountain Tarot
Created by Jonathan Saiz, Written by Jason Gruhl, Designed by Andi Todaro  - Roost Books

Effortless

Go with the flow.  Whatever I encounter today, I am just going to go with the flow. 

"Like a river that don't where it's flowing, I took a wrong turn and I kept on going."  - Hungry Heart lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Ostara and Equals

Spring Equinox.  I wondered why The Spring Equinox, a long way off, or quite a bit behind me, has to say to me.  Yet wait, in the Southern Hemisphere it is late Winter and Spring's promise is in the air down there. The longer I look at Ostara I see balance and thinking she maybe the twin of Justice.  With the Spring Equinox there is balance, equal amounts of day and night time, so it might be something to consider.  What I do with that consideration I am not sure?
If something appears out of whack or just upside down to my way of thinking, could be just right to someone on the other side of the World.  Perspective of time place and happenstance.


Earth Magic Oracle Cards

Witness

Not much I find more enchanting is the night sky.  Well the beach and sea is right up there too.  I guess than my happy place would be on the beach listening to the waves and laying back and watching the night sky.  I found my happy thought!
The booklet mentions 'The Witness' that which is us watching ourselves and reminds us that we are made of star material. Maybe small and seemingly insignificant, I know that I am made of the same stuff hanging in the night sky, comforts me.



Earth Magic Oracle Cards

Stillness

Almost every time I consult with this deck, I seem to draw this card. Forty-eight cards, a couple times a year, not really high odds, still, interesting. This card stirs up a bit of anxiety. Everyone needs a little down time, sacred space to tune out the World and all the noise. This scene is oppressive and stifling, at least to me. The empty boat makes me think that one can leave, but leave and go where?  Maybe that is the crux of the anxiety.  Because wherever you go, there you are.  Most days I know who I am, I look at myself everyday in the mirror, but there are depths to me that even I don't want to spend time there.  I woke up this morning say "I love and approve of myself' the constant affirmation that Louise L Hay advised to continually chant and tell ourselves.  That and this card must be linked today.


Earth Magic Oracle Cards

Volatility

This exploding volcano is like a Tower, though I think a Tower moment is when something external affects our lives.  This is a  self-created 'tower' moment.  We have all had those moments when reason is lost and we 'just blow our tops' - well at least I do.  It has been many years for me to have such an event. The massive Tower event in 2012 that I experienced changed my landscape.  Since then the "Pele" within me has been dormant, which I prefer, but...there is pressure building in my core.
Volt is within volatility, maybe I will just have a volt bolt tower moment.




EARTH MAGIC Oracle Cards

Follow the Sun

Well Summer is moving along and by the count on the calendar we are about at the half way mark between the Summer Solstice and the Autumnal Equinox.  In my area we are going to see temps in the high nineties so we are still in the summer soup mix of heat and humidity. As the Wheel of Year keeps turning it is dropping a minute or so everyday of sunlight and it will pick up momentum and cast minutes off daily soon.  It is a good time to think about enjoying the Summer times while they last.  Were there particular things I wanted to do this Summer? now would be the time to get a move on and enjoy the days of sunlight even if it is hot and humid.  This too will past, and cold days ahead are sure to keep me more indoors.
Advice today, go play in the Sun.


EARTH MAGIC Oracle Cards

Rainbow

Rainbow: meteorological phenomenon that is caused by reflection, refraction, and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky.- Wikipedia
When I see a rainbow, like many, I make expressions of delight at such a wondrous sight. Take a photo, make a wish, count my blessings.  Just now reading the Wikipedia definition I realize that rainbows can be occurring within me.  I am mostly water, and reflection, refraction, and dispersion are just fancy terms for mirroring, change, and distribution, all that can also occur within me. So I can be a walking rainbow if I just let the light hit me just right.  I have been spending too much time indoors. Time to hang out in the daylight and start casting rainbows.

EARTH MAGIC Oracle Cards - Steven D Farmer

Muse

Smooth Sailing.  My affirmation for the day is "I release all the drama from my life, and now get energy from peace."  Can this be true?  I have been so tired of late, my energy levels have bottomed out.  Is it the daily drama that is doing this to me?  Good hypothesis as any.
On a good note, I brought my Muse home yesterday.  I saw her in a local garden center a few weeks backs and resisted.  I received a 35% off of everything coupon in mail a couple of days ago from the center.  I hoped that she was still 'hanging out' waiting for me and she was, and now I have her on my work-space table top.  She brings a happy smile to my face.


The Good Tarot - Colette Baron-Reid

Weight of Time

Born and bred to be a certain something or someone.  If cast in a role at birth do we really ever truly live?  Time weighs heavy on his shoulders, on my shoulders.
I was thinking about a choice I made a half of lifetime ago and it still weighs heavy. Most of the time I accept my life and choices but wonder sometimes at those certain points along the way what if... Of course I would be different and most likely not sitting here pondering the subject.  Who really knows. For today, given a choice, I will try to stretch my mind and follow the thread of each choice to see where it might lead before I make the decision.


The Good Tarot

Hypo - Caution

I could use a hypodermic shot of this fire energy.  Ace of Fire/Ace of Wands.  One for the money...go, go, go.
Now that fairy sitting on the brass casing of the lantern I am not  so sure about; talk about feeling the heat. 
I would not say this will be a wands day for me at all.  I am draggy with intermittent sleep patterns, making me a dull Carolyn for sure.  If I got too close to the fire, I would get burnt.
So caution is the word for me today.





The Good Tarot

More Water

The Sea is calling to me.  Like this King of Cups water nourishes and sustains me.  I was talking to someone yesterday that hoped when he retired in a few years that him and his wife could retire to Colorado; said the mountains called to him.  He is originally from Austin Texas, but the mountains is where he connected more. Wonder why that is so? The first time I laid eyes on the ocean, or more correctly the Gulf of Mexico on Florida's west coast, I felt home.  The only thing that calls just as much or maybe a bit more is the Atlantic coast of Ireland.  Why I wonder, if the sea is me, I chose to be born in Indiana?  Do I pack my bags now and begin my journey to the sea?  Each time I visit, it gets more challenging to return to Indiana.


The Good Tarot