Yes You Can

 

I have been having a fairly long conversation with The Queen of Wands. She asked me if I thought that she was limited by having to sit on her throne most and all day?  "Limitations don't define us unless we let them," she tells me, as I have been doing with the diminished leg capabilities. I may be less agile but there are many things that I can still do, as she can.    Tomorrow is a New Moon, auspicious for new beginnings and even more so, as tomorrow is a Black Moon in a Solar Eclipse. Wowza. If there was ever a time to implement things on my 'To Do' list, now is that time. With the Fire of Wands giving me the incentive to set my intentions for what I want to accomplish, now is that time. Tomorrow is the last day of the Month with Sunday being the first day, in the first week of a new month. With the conjunction of so many propitious events concurring at the same time, This Queens advises "Yes You Can!" 

The Celestial Tarot

Thoughtful planning

 

Full speed ahead; wait what about make a plan, work plan? Yesterday morning, hopefully, was the last frost of the season. The area has had several cold nights after some lovely sunny days. It is the tug of war between Spring and Winter and Spring finally wins out. Spring won't have long to celebrate as Summers here in the Ohio valley are very humid and hot. With the retreating frost line I can get started on my flower pots. I received a packet of Zinnia seeds yesterday from a lovely,  thoughtful friend which gives me the added incentive to get in gear.  Going to get out there and get things started for my enjoyment. Spring and Summer, the most wonderful time of the Year!

Celestial Tarot

Poof gone

 

Well heck. The gods of misfortune are having their way with me. I was just about finished with a lovely, thoughtful post about change and poof, gone. Same occurrence yesterday with Strength, with my post disappearing twice, poof gone, so I just left the daily post with the card and no words. Maybe both posts were just a bunch of blither and poof they were gone. Who knows? I could try to rewrite the post for today, but it would not be the same as I had written, maybe close, but different. That's the thing about change; Change changes things. Ask ourselves if we could change one thing and if that change occurred we would not be the same person or at the exact same place to ask that question "if you could change one thing?" Makes my head spin. The Wheel of Fortune - step right up, go ahead take a spin.

Celestial Tarot

Strength

 

The 'Moment'

 

This King of Wands looks like he is in a Chariot with his ram steed at rest after the journey. I drew the Chariot yesterday so maybe that is influencing my vision of chariot versus throne. If they were drawn together I would think a new start would reach a satisfactory conclusion. I didn't start anything new yesterday so I cannot reach that conclusion with the King today, so maybe just sitting around and enjoying the moment. Take 'em as they come.

Celestial Tarot

Getting started

 

New beginnings happen all the time. Sometimes we are well prepared for our new undertaking, others, we are like new born babes starting a new adventure. Sometimes we know what we know and other times we seek to know what we need to know, and sometimes it is a quest for some fun.  All kinds of reasons to start something new.  The real business is getting started. 

The Celestial Tarot ~ Kay Steventon & Brian Clark

Good question

 

A few weeks ago during a captious phone call with a client I place three one dollar bills in a container on my desk. The ditty bucket holds bits of odds and ends, stamps, a few pens, a couple of business cards, and now three one dollar bills. They are there to remind me to think about what a few dollars more is worth.  Business is business.

The Goddess Tarot 

Musing

 

Wherever you go, there you are.

The Goddess Tarot

Evaluate

 

Yesterday when with a client, one of the last I will be working with, told me recently in one of her sessions with therapist, that she was advised to think about if her house was on fire and she just had a few minutes to grab what she could, what would she get? The understanding is everything else is not really that important. Something to think on. This gal in this Six of Swords looks to have done just that, grabbed what she could, the most important things to her, and left the rest behind. She looks back longingly at that which she left but she got the important things and is ready to move on. 

The Goddess Tarot

Own-self

 

There are times when we need the approval or blessing of another, but most the time not. Check in with oneself and do what your intuition tells you what is best.

To thine own-self be true.

The Goddess Tarot

It's All Good

 

Another 'Money Tree' I looked at all the Pentacle Cards in this deck and only the Ace and Ten have Pentacles hanging on the tree. This tree is blooming in the arch of a gateway. Maybe this is the advice I am seeking this week, to wait and watch. I don't always have to be busy or planning what's next, just let things blossom and bloom as they will. Trees, given sunlight, water, and room to grow will do just fine on their own. Me too; basically we are growing things, needing mostly basic sustenance to thrive. I have made adjustments in my life and now patience is needed to find my place and bloom and grow. 

The Goddess Tarot

Inconsistency

 

Staring at the bottom of my empty cup is not going to make it fill up with anything anytime soon.  In addition, filling it up with just any ole thing is not going to be satisfactory either. Today feels more like a Five of Cups moment. I am going through that transition period of lingering with what was and not turning to view what could be. Actually I have been lingering at this moment for quite awhile and really beginning to get bored with it and myself. Bored enough is the question? I think the King would say "enough with this indecision, get on with it" but the 'it' is the question.

The Goddess Tarot

The Money Tree

 

The Money Tree. I couldn't tell you how many times my parents asked me and my sibs if they thought we had a money tree in the backyard? I asked my nephews and niece the same thing when they would come to visit. Oh if only. Well not really. We did have some lovely trees in our backyard; three really huge maple trees planted to sunscape the back of house, they were fantastic trees for climbing. Several peach trees that gave us a bountiful of yumminess every other year. A crabapple tree that produced hard little projectiles that mostly we had to pick up and toss over the fence line so they didn't dull the lawnmower blades. I love trees and realize now that all trees are money trees, giving us so much.  

The Goddess Tarot ~ Kris Waldherr

Ill fated

 

Well heck. Could this be an ill fated day?

The last five days I have drawn two nines, a ten, and two sevens. If I think I have a winning hand with two pairs, better think again. Someone has a better hand than me. Just fold 'em today Carolyn, and nobody gets hurt.

The Linestrider's Tarot

Self-appreciation

 

It's okay, no really okay, no really, really okay, really it's fabulous to self congratulate ourselves on a job well done. Go ahead, give yourself a wing-slap, a pat on the back. Did good, tell yourself.  Self-appreciation goes a long way to validating ourselves. Best person to do it, is ourselves. 

The Linestrider's Tarot

Head Scratcher

 

Yesterday I wrote a statement that some of Life's lessons are harder than others. That stuck with me all day, thinking about those Life lessons. Why do we need to go through them, I wondered? I have postulated as others have that we reincarnate through many lifetimes learning lessons. Yet I wondered yesterday, why do I/we need lessons when we come from the Perfect Whole, The Universal Divine, or call it That Which IS, or however one wants to describe The ALL. Even as Cosmic Dust we are pure energy, so why the lessons? Not sure, maybe it is another of Life's lessons.  

This portrayal of thinking you can get away with something is of course one of those lessons. When we deceive ourselves or others, there comes a time of reckoning, even if it is in our own thoughts of remorse.

The Linestrider's Tarot

Emotional blackmail

 

So much tragedy and loss and heartbreak is used to tug on our emotional heartstrings. Turning on any kind of media and you are exposed to it. The war, starving and abused children, tortured and abandoned animals, it gets to be too much. It hurts and scars and scares us. I turn on the tv and shortly thereafter turn it off. It emotionally wounds us. What's the answer, I don't really know. Don't want to ignore it all, but self-protection comes into play. Right now I just want to rescue a kitty that is hanging around the home. My cat, Kitty will not tolerate another, but I want to help the little cat, who runs as soon as I open the door. I guess that is the best answer, trying to do the best we can do with what's going on in our own homes and right outside our doors.

The Linestrider's Tarot

Headaches

 

Another nine, interesting. 

I bought a walking stick awhile back hoping that it would help me get about easier when walking in park. Well that has not yet happened as my legs have been a bit more challenging lately. I read somewhere recently an interesting fact that walking sticks were also used as a recording device. When most of us or our ancestors were nomads, moving from place to place, taking with us only what we could carry, the walking sticks were used to record events. Information handy and portable. Taken with them wherever they traveled. Reminds me of our parents pencil marking our growth for us on a wall or back of a door. Today we have the tv with its reports and cell phone cameras at the ready, with overwhelming information, that burdens us. 

The Linestrider's Tarot

What's next

 What's next after you achieve your 'hearts desire.' Sometimes we spend days, weeks, months, years chasing that success, that prize, that 'be all' and yes it is a wonderful moment and maybe even longer. Still the moment passes. What's the next pursuit when you got what you wanted? That's our problem, never quite satisfied. Looking towards tomorrow and not living in the moment. Enjoy the now. Be the now. Tomorrow, if it comes, has it's own rewards and sorrows.

The Linestrider's Journey Tarot ~ Siolo Thompson

Just not true

 

Another card, similar to yesterday's query. Is she rising up from those bushes are entangled in them? The cards in this deck seemingly have a darkness shroud to them; looking through the deck most seem to have little lightness to them. So is Earth Wisdom found in the dark corners? Not really. Answers can come from many places and not just in the dark corners where we are struggling to find ourselves.  Yes, sometimes we need the struggle, but answers do not need to have a painful foundation. Forget the lament "No Pain, No Gain" There really is no truth in thinking we have to hurt or struggle to achieve.

Earth Wisdom Oracle Cards

Strike a pose

 

I cannot tell if she has fallen into the bushes or has purposefully immersed herself in the the foliage. Sometimes Life happens that way; what we thought we wanted turns out to be something else entirely. Life is curious sometimes, giving us what we need instead of what we thought we needed. Instead of asking ourselves "how did I get here?" ask "why am I here?"

Earth Wisdom Oracle Cards

The Big Picture

 The Big Picture changes throughout our lives. The first was when we were trying to figure out what all those big heads were cooing about. Exploration was the next big picture, getting up on wobbly legs and seeing where they would take us. (Kind of interesting to me that I started out on wobbly legs and have come full circle and am back to wobbly legs.) Next was, did Bobby really like me, what about the others, would what's her name be my best friend?  The Big Picture question change as we change. I look back and realize that all those big questions on the Big Picture seem insignificant but in fact each lead me to where I am at now. 

Earth Wisdom Oracle Cards

Grace under duress

 

'Simple elegance or refinement of movement' ~ Webster's definition

Well I am anything these days but refinement of movement. Still I am grateful for the movement that I have. Everyday now I am applauding myself on another day of movement. We really take our legs for granted, even me after almost losing movement of them ten years ago. That's how we are, we take things, ourselves for granted.

I like another thought on Grace; "All actions begin with a thought. Gracefully shape your ideas"  - That is something I can work with.

Earth Wisdom

Askew

 

Grief can do this to us. Makes us feel out of balance, maybe not connected to world because we are only focused on our grief. We all grieve in our own way and with no time limits established. Though not necessarily grieving today I have a few concerns that are keeping me 'off kilter.' Focused on my own self-concerns I realized that I did not fill the bird feeder, and remembered why, because I was out of bird seed. My whole afternoon yesterday was taken up with others and the birds forgotten. Late yesterday evening they had nothing. Do birds feel grief while going to bed hungry? Well I got out my own way and went to the store first thing this morning for bird seed. The birds will be happy, Kitty will be happy cause her 'bird tv' is active, and I can enjoy my birding view and forget about all the other stuff.  Grief can be dealt with with by focusing on something else; birds and the natural world is a good focal point.

Daily Planner

 

Time out please! Wait, I don't need permission to take the timeout that I need. It is a simple as stepping through the gate of awareness and leave the chaos at the doorstep. Everything smooths out when you just relax. I wonder if sometimes if we can become addicted to the chaos and stress. There was a bit of time late yesterday afternoon while talking to a difficult client that I could feel my heart contract and my BP rise, and thought, is this how I want to go? Is this worth it for a few dollars more? Tomorrow is here.

My Daily Planner needs to look like this. Easy peasy.

Earth Wisdom Oracle - Artwork by Cristina Scagliotti

Retreat

 

Hopefully this will be me, sooner than later. Retreat to my place of comfort and joy, my own little backyard for Spring and Summer. Then I can figure out where to go from there, or stay put. It's okay to say to ourselves, "Enough"

Not sure I will make it to the beach this year. I can still go to the local park and hobble my way to a bench located just under a huge and lovely tree and bathe and bask in tree magic!

The Enchanted Forest

This or That

 How uncanny the Tarot can be. This morning I will be oft to a funeral. My Sister's FIL passed Monday and today it is the final goodbye for the family. 

On a personal note, I may have an appointment late in the day. Someone I have worked with before and it will be the last home I sell for them. Partly because they have a sister that has her license now, and this sell was promised to me, unless of course they sold themselves, which happens and still could before I get to them later today and the other part is a personal decision. I really must 'step' back or away from direct sales. My legs are not working very well. The nerve damage and age are finally to the point that I may have to start using a walker and of course there are stairs and stares. So Death's visitation has a dual meaning for me today.

The Enchanted Forest Tarot