Answers

Are the answers we seek within or without?  Above or below?  Do we go to specialist, doctors, healers, soothsayers, shamans, and the like to get answers that we seem unable to divine on our own?
There are a number of trainers, healers, and life coaches that use the affirmation "all I need is within me now"  and if so why do we go to them?  If I/we were born with everything we needed why do we go so much 'out' to find the answers?

I was invited to this open house of a facility that is offering alternative medicine approaches last night.  A client that I worked with a few years ago works at the facility which had expanded and they had moved to a new location and she thought that I might be interested.  The focus of this facility is 'Homeopathy & Herbal Therapy' and Ozone treatment.  They draw blood, ozone treat, and replace back in body, mega doses of some vitamins, hormones.  The focus as one doctor said is not being a pharmacy to heal the body.  Sounds good  and they are doctors right?   I am not sure.  I have pervasive and chronic pain from my trauma and do not want to live my life on pain meds but I am not sure about this either.

RIDER WAITE SMITH Tarot

Comings and Goings

Cycles.  My Father used to say the only 'Constant in Life is Change'.  Or another favorite, 'The more things change the more they stay the same'.  This Ten of Pentacles feels that way to me, about change.  The tens are a shifting point, a cycle completed and then back to the Ace and a new start. 

I had lots of fun with froggies and toads yesterday and their magic wands.  Can you see it, The Wand of Magic there along the wall below the arch in the grasp of the passing individual?  Everyday magic in something as simple as shared fun with my new friends in this online blogging community. 
I have been allowing myself to get bogged down with the change that is coming in my near future and yesterday's fun reminded me not to lose the magic in the simple - everyday goings on.


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Twinkle

"When you wish upon a star
Makes not difference who you are
Anything your heart desires
Will come to you"
~When You Wish Upon A Star  by Leigh Harline & Ned Washington for the Disney Movie PINOCCHO

That is the first thing that popped in my head when I drew this card.  Ahh the lovely wish card. I still wish upon the first star I see at night on the evenings I am outdoors.  Here at the 'Well of Wishes' I am finally beyond the walls that I have built around myself.  Here, outside of those imposed boundaries I find my most basic self and and I can really get to it...What is it that I really wish for?
I started a list yesterday and in each line there was the word "want" ---forget about it.  Want is a word of lack.  So today I am doing a list of  I AM.   More empowering and has a much better vibes than all that - wanting. 


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Polarity action

This two could be all about choices.  That sphere she is holding makes me think of a 'amplification sphere'.  That's the term that popped in my head.  Something that one speaks into and then sends out into the ethers.  Or maybe a it is a received message sphere that someone has sent to me.  A different type of message device yet it seems I am somewhat familiar with it, from another time or place.

I stand at the ready for change, yet unsure what will be next.  That's the crux of choices.  This or That.  If I am unclear of what I want or need to do then how can there be change?  I think maybe speaking into the sphere with what I want and need and sending it out in to the World will help me be clear about my intentions.
At least I am not walled in.  I stand on top of the wall and realize that the world is not flat and I won't fall off the edge.

"Why sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." ~ White Queen  from ALICE IN WONDERLAND

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Pack an extra pair

"One for the money
Two for the show
Three to get ready
Now go girl go"

Actually the fourth line is 'now go man go' so a bit of of deviation on my part.  Actually I could have gone with,  Now go Carolyn go.
Then that word deviation caught my attention so I looked up exact meaning - anything that varies from the accepted norm or standards.
This Chariot energy doesn't feel like its going anywhere.  Just all dressed up for show.  Now looking a bit closer I see that I am outside the city walls.  I am ready to move on.  So where to go?  I think that this card's advice to me is preparation.  Change is on its way, so I better get ready cause things are going to start happening.

RIDER WAITE SMITH Tarot -Arthur Edward Waite Pamela Coleman Smith

When I first studied the RWS cards; as with most students this deck was the go to, to get started.  I noticed Pamela Coleman Smith's artist notation is on every card and twice on one, not this one.  Interesting.

Backward glance

I don't care for the King of Swords; he is too self important and a bit judgemental.  Those old men think they know more than they do.  Can't trust them, they usually are only interested in the outcome as it pertains to them.

I wonder if I will have to change my perception of old men now that I have torn off lots of pages of calendars, and I too am a bit aged.  Is he here at the site of one of those walls he tore or knocked down and lives with some regret?  I have had this type of reflection lately.  Looking back, would I have made different choices knowing what I know now?  I realize the answer is that if a I chose different, the Carolyn I am today might not even be aware enough to ask that question, quite possibly might not have made it this far!  There are things that I don't want changed and they would have changed or not happened if I had chose differently somewhere along the line. So I am okay with my backward glance.

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side trip

I wonder if this rider is out for a vision quest.  There are many places in the World that people decide to make a sacred pilgrimage.  I wonder do they travel to these places to seek answers?  To commune with the Divine?  To go there cause everyone else goes there?   Another walled place.  These people just built their homes in side of the wall of a mountain.

I never cared for the desert southwest area.  It is too dry and barren.  Life had to be challenging and still is for folks to scratch out a living in such an area.  Now with modern conveniences there is more comfort and ease but it is still so dry. 
I will take the Scottish Highlands and LochNess Monster of yesterday over this place.  Both sacred areas to the people that live in those places.   With my walls coming down in my life, where will my vision quest take me?



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