The Hermit

I believe this Hermit is looking back at the girl in the Ten of Wands yesterday.  Carrying all those issues and decisions to be made.  Late yesterday my niece called and announced that she got the job as a PT in the Greater Chicago area, and coincidentally she is a red head like the gal in the ten.  I am overjoyed that she is following her path and joining her fiance' up North, but, admit that it going to leave an empty place inside me. Yet another person, place and thing I am changing my relationship with in 2020.  This Hermit, card per the author, has been wounded and from that wounding new growth has sprung forth. 
Winter puts me in a Hermit stage and with the revelations about myself and career and my niece, now is a good time for reflection, leave what needs to be left in 2019 and contemplate what could be a good year in 2020, if I choose to follow my new path.

The Linestrider's Journey ~ Siolo Thompson

Give it up

It is funny how the cards can show us something that can be so relative.  The gal in this pose with legs bent and tucked behind her. Ouch.  My knees and legs are more bothersome lately. Something I have known for quite awhile, finally has me saying enough.  I viewed a home late yesterday afternoon in the pouring rain. They are long term customers, and know my situation.  A home they are going to rehab and they wanted my thoughts, opinion, and suggestions.  There were no handrails on the up or down staircases.  I can't do stairs much anymore and with no handrails, almost impossible. I managed the upper case but the lower one I couldn't do it.  I had to crawl up part of the staircase, my hands out in front on steps to balance me on my way up.  I think this is too much even for the most loyal client who was on hand to give me a hand.  Tens relate to completion, I am pretty much completely done showing homes. :( or maybe 🙂. 

Leave it behind

'I'm walking into 2020 with a clear heart and mind. If you owe me, don't worry about it. If you wronged me, it's all good, and lesson learned. If you are angry with me, you won - I've let it go. If we aren't speaking, it's cool - I truly wish you well. If you feel I've wronged you, I apologize - it wasn't intentional. I'm grateful for every experience that I received. Life is too short for pent-up anger, holding grudges and extra stress or pain!  Here's to 2020. Remember forgiving someone is for you so don't block your blessings. Make 2020 a year of positivity  and a season of forgiveness.'

I saw this placard on a post and saved it. 
I am ready to leave 2019 behind. I have wronged and been wronged and I do not want to drag it along with me into the new year.

Linestrider's Journey Tarot ` Siolo Thompson

Destinations

For most, myself included, we plan our journeys; think about the destination before heading off. Whether it is a vacation, a career choice, or even to the local grocery store.  There have been several times I have headed out, out there, and found myself kind of lost and adrift and then turned around and headed home because I had no concrete idea where I was heading. What I was looking for.  Guess better the devil you know than the one you don't. 
My word for 2020 is Decide and that is what I will do.  With or without a plan, I will be The Fool and seek what is next.



The Fairy Tarot

Go go go

Yesterday's one for the money, two for the show...
The Chariot is go go go.
Let's go take a spin around the block.  Blow away the cobwebs, clear the mind, and let's go, go, go. 

Ready, set, go

One for the money. Two for the show.
That's the impression this king is giving me. All dressed and pretty showing, if you ask me.  Not much can be accomplished in his get-up, except try to impress.
I don't impress easily any more.  Sunrises and sunsets and wonders of natures impress me, not many people.  Well there are those that impress me with the ineptness, hurtful actions, and plane mean spiritedness.  Their ickyness lingers with me for days. Got to work on that. I need to, get to, done and done when I have encounter with these types.




Fairy Tarot

What ifs

Those dang, nagging 'what ifs'
If we keep looking back wondering what if? we are bound to trip and fall.  Eyes ahead...











The Fairy Tarot

Hope springs eternal

Nature vs Nurture.  I think this child of magic is a combination of both.  I wonder how she will use her gifts as she matures?
Maybe I will liken her to the coming of the New Year and a New Decade.  Bright and full of promises.
She just may be the model baby for the Banner of the New Year!







The Fairy Tarot ~ Doreen Virtue & Radleigh Valentine

Winter to Spring

So the count begins.
Unseasonable warmer weather here so I am going to enjoy it for the next week; bask in the afternoon Sun.  I promise myself I will not be a shut-in this Winter.  There is a lot to appreciate during the Winter.  The night skies are clear and bright with lots of twinkling stars, you just have to brave the cold.  Crisp air with no pollen count.  The Trees get a well deserved rest from all their gloryiness of green.  A very good reason to drink hot-chocolate too!
Everyday this winter I will find at least one thing to be grateful for, and not bemoan the cold. 




Earthheart Wisdom Cards ~ Sue Lion

Solstice

The Wheel turns. 
The weather has turned unseasonably warm for the next week, not like Winter's usual offering.  That's okay, balances the cold weather we have already experienced. 
I celebrate the Solstice as it reminds me the Sun begins it shift with longer days.  A few seconds each day, and then a minute and then two, and Spring returns.  A visit to the park today is a tradition for me.  Maybe tie a prayer wish on a tree and visit for bit with my friends in Nature. 
Bright Blesssings.




Eartheart Wisdom Cards ~ Sue Lion

To my ears

Music to my ears.
Yesterday I heard the heralding of a flock of geese, way, way up above.  Kind of late in the season for their southerly flight, but then I am not a goose; so who knows.  I guess they do.  I have had the pleasure to hear them chatting and singing to each other several times in this last week or so, kind of similar to a sea shanty, the rhythm to make their journey go quicker.  The thing is I am deaf in one ear and I can hear their songs and always stop to listen for a bit.  No one else seems to or won't take the time.  To busy I guess; not me.  I will always have the time to listen to a beautiful song of Nature.
Today's song I believe will be a whisper on the Wind with the announcement of Winter's approach.

Wow!

A reminder to enjoy things.  We might ask what makes a Rainbow, and we would be told it is the sunlight shimmering through the moisture in the air, usually after or during a shower of rain.  That in itself is a wonder. If we just enjoy the dance of sunlight and water that would be better. 
From my experience, everybody loves a Rainbow.  Beautiful.  A promise of abundance.  A Blessing.  Sunlight and Water.  Make a Wish.
The day feels better already.

Candle in the dark?

When you wake deep in the night and decide to do a draw to find what might be the cause of your restlessness and worry.  Well this draw brought no comfort, in fact sleep was evasive the rest of the night.  My first thought was whoa, how much darkness! and then, the theme of bondage became the second variant that was noticeable.  Almost too dark to work my way through, but I must.


The Fountain Tarot

Watershed

I drew this card earlier this morning and heard, 'Watershed'
Well that's not right.  It is Waterfall.  I have come back to viewing it several times, and yep Watershed.  A Watershed moment.  That's the message.  Something that happens or will happen to divide from where I am or at to where I am going.  Like the Waterfall, ambling down the river or stream and breaks and falls over the cliff, the stream dividing into cascades.  Hopefully not an emotional overflow moment.  I had that a few weeks ago and yes it made a division. 
I guess I will see what the day holds.



Earth Magic

How I wish

Oh my, already looking forward to the return of warmth and longer days of sunlight and haven't even celebrated the Winter Solstice.  Cold and dreary days; with the coldest yet to come.  I am going to focus on the bright side and think that in less than one hundred days, Spring will knock at the door.  I can find better use of those days than whining and complaining.  Now just got figure out how. 

I am okay with it

Some days it is just too 'peopley' out there and it is better to hang out with yourself.  No one is an island unto themselves this true, but more often than not I am voting people off my island. 










Earth Magic Oracle Cards ~ Steven D Farmer

Delivery

I wonder what this boyo has to deliver or say to me.  Greetings and salutation, probably not.  I am not sure how many more messages are that important to me.  Everyone around me has seemingly centered into themselves, not even available for that hypothesized one minute.  Most conversations are monologues as the other' tunes into their own internal dialogue within a minute or so.  Watch for it, the drift in the eyes. 
So say what you have to say quickly before the rest drifts off in the breeze.





Rider Waite-Smith Tarot

And waiting

Waiting, and waiting, and waiting...
Time to get off the hillside and get down to the shore or docks and wave those ships in.
"Opportunity doesn't knock if it doesn't know where you are."









Rider Waite-Smith Tarot

Winds of change

There might be a change in the air, even so this Queen is steadfast in who she is and what she believes to be right and wrong.  Well mostly.  That bird flying out there somewhere is that niggling thought she had about her absolute convictions. 
Sometimes we need to just sit with ourselves and re-evaluate a position.  More than likely we will find that we were correct in our firmly held beliefs, but a check in with oneself is always a good thing; then that niggling thought can drift off in the breeze.






Rider Waite-Smith Tarot

The Upper Hand

Getting an upper hand on the beasties of doubt, fear, anger, anxiety.  All those emotions boil down to fear, but express themselves in a variety of ways.  I was watching a video the other day featuring Pete Egoscue who presented an interesting thought on anxiety.  Anxiety can be calmed by deep breathing, but he suppositioned that anxiety could be caused by shallow breathing.  If we would focus on breathing correctly, perhaps most of those issues would not present themselves.  Instead of counting to ten, best to take ten really deep breaths; and if I am knowingly going to encounter a difficult situation just do some deep breathing before entering the fray.




Rider Waite-Smith Tarot 

Review

Today I see the Dancer glancing back and it reminds me the year is coming to its end.  Three weeks or so we will change out our calendars as a new year and a new decade begin.  The decade thing is a point of perception; some see zero years as an end and others see it as the beginning.  I have always seen it as a beginning, considering the day I was born was day zero and the next was a celebration of completing a day.  So it is a time of review, not just about the year that is completing but end of a decade.  It is not a completion of a decade in my calendar life, but the World in general.  Where did we start in 2010, mostly coming out of the recession and rebuilding.  So what has been rebuilt?  In my life, community, the nation, the World?



The Rider Waite-Smith Tarot

Can or Can't

"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, either way you will be right." ~ Henry Ford
When we want and or need change, the decision is entirely our own.  You can make excuses or get results, but I don't think you can have both.  Do it or don't.









The Rider Waite Smith Tarot

Medicinal brew

I was reading an article yesterday about Bay Leaf hot tea; as a homeopathic tonic.  I think when I am out later today I will pick me up some bay leaves and give it a try.  Give it a week or two to see if the brew makes a difference as a preventive or to my ongoing inflammation issues.  If so I will share a cup or two with others.







Rider Waite-Smith Tarot

Resolute

While everything seems to be out of control and those things are going this way and that, the obvious choice is not to get caught up in the fray.  Hold firm, keep your place and let things settle down. 
I can't not count on my hands the times in my life I have jumped in the middle of a ruckus, and still have a tendency.  Less so now in my life, still there are moments.

The Flush

I love the soft sounds of a water fountain or the burble and gurgle of water tripping and playing across rocks in a stream. What a wonder to be out taking a walk along a creek to find a pond with this fountain in is center.  "Ahh, that was the sound that was calling me forward."  There are things that occur in our lives that seemingly just show up, similar to taking this walk along the creek, without us knowing we hear the call of something more. 
I think too much, mull over things, pull the strings loose and I begin to unravel. The Ace of Cups reminds me to listen for something other, and let it lead me to gently along my way.




The Rider Waite-Smith Tarot

Be Kind

Be Kind.  Good words of advice, even when wronged.  Words once spoken cannot be taken back.  I've spoken my share over the years and done a fair amount of apologizing.  Sometimes though I let the harsh words stand.  I have two nemeses that I work with, and it seems I am right back in the thick of confrontation with them both.  They were the reason I left the inside sales job before and guess I will again.
Oh well, I guess I have some fight left in me and will not allow myself to be bullied, no matter what age.
I got no kind words left to speak to them.

Blink

I am about done with this King.  Wise and tolerant, unless you cross him or don't go along with his plans.  We have locked horns before and it doesn't end well.  With an attitude of ignore it until he gets his subjects' acquiescence is getting old.  He thinks he's a cutie and to some maybe so; at least those that don't want to think for themselves. For me, while he stares off I just may head out the other way.





Rider Waite-Smith Tarot

Ain't feeling it

Nope, i do not have that get up and dance feeling.  I do have lots to be thankful and grateful for, but dancing, ehh.
Maybe something interesting will develop today.






Later, much later in the day I realize that this card should have shown up in a reversed position. Harmony, not this day.

Noise and distractions

A reminder not to get caught up in the noise and busyness of the holidays and the end of year shuffles.  There is magic and it is all around us all year long.











Rider Waite-Smith Tarot

B.A.R.

Strange to see the Three of Swords this morning, but appropriate.  I had a lovely call yesterday evening from friends in Florida inviting me to come spend a week in January.  They would pick me up at airport so I wouldn't have to drive or rent a car.  Always encouraging me to move South.  I woke up this morning thinking about reasons that have me sheltering in place, besides the tornado trauma.  Betrayal, Abandonment, Regrets, are the three swords that pierce my centerness.  Just possible I think I am not worthy of finding my place in the Sun.  Then again, thinking through the above, maybe those three swords are lancing my wounded heart so the doubts can drain away. 
There is more rain on the way, after thirty-six straight hours of rain or drizzle.  Enough to give the gloomy gusses to anyone.


Rider Waite-Smith Tarto

Take away

What do I take away after the conflict in the five?
The challenge in the five changed me.  Decide how to proceed forward.










The Celestial Tarot - Kay Steventon and Brian Clark

Don't go looking

I don't have to go looking for trouble, it usually finds me.  Then again lots of good fortune comes my way as well.  There is balance in that.  As the Wheel turns it could land me just about anywhere, there is adventure in that.  Today if confronted with discord I will stand my ground and keep my place and not get caught up in the fray.  Thankfully I have learned when to"'hold 'em and learn when to fold 'em and sometimes just walk away"  Kenny Rodgers - The Gambler

And one more

Thinking about that one wand separated from the other three.  Thinking of three, reminds me of the Three of Wands. Waiting for what started in the Ace to come to fruition, and so the fourth wand appears.  Yet it not completed.  Like a ship coming into port someone(s) have to unload the ship, sort and ship and then make good on what was started in the Ace.  What begins now must stand the test of time for the celebration in the Ten of Wands to. 
This day of Thankfulness and Gratitude reminds me of all the wonder in my world.  Sure there are hardships but there is so much more and still more to come.  Now that is worth celebrating.
Happy Thanksgiving

Out there

You could wonder why Sagittarius and the Ace of Pentacles are being paired together.  The Ace of Pentacles is grounded Earth, something new with a strong foundation.  Sag is all about 'out there'.; Fire released.  Of course a new endeavor would require something to get it going, so I get that. Then I looked again, and this card could be me.  I was born in the sign of Capricorn, Cardinal Earth the first month of the year and my rising sign is Sagittarius.  My two natures have always been in conflict, and let me tell you, it has made life a challenge. 
I am going to go with Sagitta side and consider this draw a note from the Universe that some new idea is going to take root today.
Now that is something to look forward to and be thankful for.  My arrow of good fortune shot....out there!

Moon Dance

The Moon draw on the day of the New Moon. Auspicious or cautionary?   I noticed on the inverted mermaid a heart at the crown of her head; not sure if it is meaningful, then again it would be since the artist specifically placed on the card.  Heartfelt Moon Dance.  A good time to check in with our hearts and listen to her rhythms and make your wishes under the  New Moon.
"It's a marvelous night for a moon dance" ~ Van Morrison





The Celestial Tarot

Adrenal overload

Fives. Today the Five of Wands, yesterday the Five of Swords. 
Defensive posture.
Fight or Flight.
Run or Hide.
I have been reading several books on energy healing and it is apparent my anxiety issues, mostly contributable to trauma event and aging is playing havoc on my whole system.  Affirmations helped lots when I was healing and it seems like a trip to the store to purchase note pads is in order.  Thankfully I have read the works of some guides that can help me along.




Celestial Tarot

Broad view

Fore-warned is fore-armed.  On the look out for a tricky situation today.











Celestial Tarot ~ Kay Steventon and Brian Clark

Resources

I asked myself this week why so many people cards?  And I asked the cards this morning and received the Six of Pentacles.  From the lack and/or hardship of the Five comes resources to help me get to the Ten.  The resources that help us along the way are not always what we wanted or expected but definitely assist us on the journey.  These  bunnies have shown up to keep her warm and comforted as she rests.  It will be enough to bolster her and let her continue. All the people in the forest this week have let me know I am not alone, when needed another will show up and help just when needed. Advice, a cup of tea, warmth by a fire, water to quench my thirst, a place to lay my head and rest if needed.  Support and companionship is exactly what is needed along the journey in the Forest



The Enchanted Forest

Magic in movement

Later today or tomorrow I am going to settle down with all my books on tarot and read on the people cards.  There is something that they all want to tell me and I am not grasping.
This lovely Queen of Wands advises to get up and groove and move today.  I may not have much of groove but I can still move.  Thank goodness for that.

People who need people

I have never drawn back to back to back and then more people cards.  Here and there they stop by but this week I have had a lot of company.  This Queen of Cups made a visit from her watery depths.  Do you they have a lot to say, so that I need to listen, or do I have something to say so they are waiting for me to pass-by so they can listen? 






The Enchanted Forest

Where ever you go

Home.  Wherever you go there you are.  Happiness with where you are.  I have an affinity with the Queen of Pentacles and she offered me some of her time to talk about her life and practice in the forest.  She does not just live in the forest, she is part of the forest and lives in communion with nature.
Blessed Be.

Too much show

There are a lot more people wandering in the forest than I expected.  Three days of people cards and now a second King draw.  I am not sure this King of Wands should be out in the forest.  Mastery of the Fire Element, yes we know, but should you be flashing it in the forest?  I like to be entertained as well as the next, but really, I came to the forest to get away from the hype. 
This is my month of Gratitude, not that I keep it contained to one month of the year, so I am grateful to have met this King along the way.  Maybe his fire is keeping me from taking the path that I was thinking of, blocking my way there with his showmanship.  So I will move along.  Let him do what he does and be grateful that I can do what I do.  I always have choices, and that is a good thing.


The Enchanted Forest

Carolyn's folly

Well it happened and I was forewarned.  I had to step away because of nature's calling. I stepped off the path, and some-way got turned around and now not sure how to return to the path that I was on?  Life is like that, going along and we have to answer a call and then when we try to pick up where we left off, the path before us is not.  No sense in getting flummoxed about it, I am in this beautiful forest and lots of daylight.  Now is a perfect place to pause and enjoy the moment. 
Today is a good day to remind myself that even though I am not where I thought I would be or even hoped to be, I still am.  So grateful for today.  Who needs an agenda when the forest is so lovely.  Enjoy what the day brings.


The Enchanted Forest

Sit a spell

Look who has greeted me as I enter the Enchanted Forest.  The King of Boons(Pentacles).  Usually the Kings make me uncomfortable, too much old history with them, but this kindly sage makes me want to sit a spell and listen to what he might have to say.  He just wants me to know that there are many wonderful things to see and discover in my forest exploration and yes some dangers as well.  Be careful he advises, on which paths I step off.  Mostly though the forest is lovely he says, and that I am sure to meet others and visit lots of forest dwellers who may or may not help along the way.  A crystal he offers "for a good luck talisman" a token to keep from my time in the forest.
Today promises to be a good day and I think I will keep a crystal in my pocket and remember this King's advice, 'today is what I make of it.'

The Enchanted Forest ~ Lunaea Weatherstone

Exchanging Gifts

This card draw speaks for itself, the simplest explanation is often the correct one.  My life has been so enriched by bringing Kitty home, almost a year now.  She is a gift from the Universe.  She came to live with me last year at Thanksgiving, and the thing is I think she has done more for my life than I have for hers.  Wonderful, indeed a blessing. So grateful for the gift of her.





Wisdom of the Oracle - Colette Baron-Reid

Happy Thought

I wonder where my happy thought would take me if I could or would go?

The Key please

Another key card today!
Can anyone other than ourselves be a key or the key to our happiness?  Don't think so.  They can help, guide, be a shoulder, but we alone, find our happiness.
I found a key in an webinar the other day.  Now whether I use the key to unlock my healing abilities within myself is my choice.  Suffer or commit myself to my journey?





Wisdom of the Oracle cards

Not sure

Not sure I have any connection to this card this morning.  Owls and Hearts and two keys.  The two keys are a bit interesting.  I went back through the fifty-two cards of this deck and about a third have some variation of the banner on the top of card, and none of them have keys hanging on those banners except this one.  Interesting that the artist put them there and then made no comment in the accompanied guide book. 
I am grateful that I have still have a inquisitive nature and can wonder about such things. 
Seven years ago today I had my spinal fusion. I am grateful that I am here today and all the days in-between.  My life altered immensely and challenges, there are lots of them.  I can't turn my head like those owls, but hey, there are lots of other things I can still do. So that is fabulous.

Adaptation

Becoming or Unbecoming?  Is the equine becoming a zebra or unbecoming?  Since I am unfamiliar with the giraffe or tiger pattern, I want to help replace those bits of zebra that have fallen away.  Is that a choice I should consider?  Possibly the zebra is adapting so it looks like a one of its predators, pretty ingenious survival technique. My interference would not be welcomed if that was the case.
Message to me today, allow what is, is, and be grateful for new and intriguing possibilities.  The reward might just be in the waiting.

Why?

Some days I am full of them. Big ones, small ones, little nagging ones. Questions.  Why ask why?  The need to know I guess.  The drive in most of us, to know more.  I don't pick up as many books anymore to find answers, mostly to entertain.  This morning I was looking over charts of the human anatomy, trying to figure out what is the place in my lower left back that is causing me extreme discomfort, it might be a itty bitty kidney stone, caused by my release of an outburst of anger the other day.  "pissed off" is a good term.  Guess it is lots of water for the next couple of days and positive affirmations to release my still seething anger. Another lesson, not necessarily in the books; realizing no one is worth self inflicted misery.


The Wisdom of the Oracle