Decision time

If one need some advice this is the dude to go to.  The King of Winter-Swords.  Kind of neat the way the cards keep in step with what is going on.  Yesterday's card of Balance advised on seeking counsel, and here he is.

I think I can choose for myself, thank you.

I wonder why the lion portrayed in Strength has wandered in to the garden of  Temperance?  This card is titled Balance, but I think balance is more of a Justice consideration.  Temperance is more of blending, but I don't see that here.  Why the red of blood or iron ore?  I don't think there is a blending quality to this card otherwise the chalice would be full of a swirl of red and white.

The caption on the bottom of the card suggests that I take everyone's input into consideration.  Why?  I have come far enough in life that I know my own mind.  I am who I am.  That fairy is so pale that I think she has given her own lifeblood to a situation and still being asked to consider others viewpoints.
The new year is just around the corner and as cast my gaze on what lies ahead, do I really have to consider what others want or think I should do? NOT. 
It is clear to me as I write this why Temperance is located between Death and the Devil in the traditional cards of the Tarot.

"Stop  letting people who do so little for you  control so much of your mind, feelings, and emotions."  - Will Smith



FAIRY Tarot Cards

I'll take that

Who is this woman and what has she got to say to me?

I drew the Queen of Autumn (pentacles) this morning and I couldn't figure out what her finger was pointing at, so the deck was there to her left so I drew the next card so I could see what she was directing me to: The Wheel.
So I am wondering if she is one of the Fates and what she spins today is gold.
Works for me.  I look forward to a golden day.





FAIRY Tarot Cards - Doreen Virtue & Radleigh Valentine

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Appearances can be deceiving.

This fairy appears to be doing lots of chores and work around the fairy castle, but I think not.  Her clothes are a bit dirty but her face, hands, and feet are not befouled with muck.  Sometimes we can delude ourselves that we are overwhelmed with so much going on and in fact the burdens we carry are only in our heads.
I have a squirrel running around in my head and my 'what if' record is on constant replay.  It is a hardship I am placing on myself.  What to do, what to do, what should Carolyn Sue do?

Things have a way of working out. 

More than four walls

What makes a house a home? This week I have drawn the house card several times on and off camera.  Today's draw of two homes really makes me think that there is something that I need to pay attention too, otherwise I just may get hit over the head with an I-beam.

When I look at the house, home, and now the big house card I don't get any sense of some relayed bit of information, no warning bell, not even a twinge of anything.  I mean the obvious is I work in the real estate field, but that is not what is being conveyed here either.
Maybe it is a simple as the advice my Father gave me, first and always keep a roof over your head.  That is great advice since it has turned cold and wintry here and I am ever so grateful for home and central heat.   Guess I will think on it some more today.



CELTIC Lenormand - Will Worthington & Chloe McCracken

Go figure

I have been challenged by this deck this week.  The booklet suggests drawing two cards for a reading or advice.  The Tarot usually follows a story line, these Lenormand cards do not.  No way around it, card 13 in no way logically follows card 12?
The best I got with these two cards is my intuition advises me to play.  Or, maybe going really deep, be careful which tree and branches you cut down for your water trough(play and day to day life) because it might be the thing that holds the owls(wisdom) who eat mice that get in your grain). Then you have to spend your day chasing mice instead of play.     

Don't cut yourself off from your highest self or good.

CELTIC Lenormand

                                                                                  

Tidings

Season's Greetings

 It's the Holiday Season.  Yesterday I finished up addressing my holiday postcards for mailing to clients and customers.  The other day when I was getting my haircut I was flipping through Martha Stewart's LIVING Magazine and she had a calendar of her December events.  On December 8th she had marked - mail Christmas Cards.  Good enough for me - so out in the mail goes my Christmas mailing today.
I am always tickled this time of year with the debate of is it... 'Happy Holidays' or 'Merry Christmas' Every year the same question.  For me it is Merry Christmas.  For a nod to all those out there in confusion I am went with HAPPY CHRISTMAS for my postcard salutation.

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