flip/flop

The other side of the World

Crucis, the Star pattern of the Southern Cross, or one of the stars in the Southern Cross.  Not something I will get to witness first hand, since I have never or ever will travel to the Southern Hemisphere. I can view it from online accounts and witness the magnificence of sky from the Northern point of view.  In the Rider Waite-Smith Tarot the Ace of Swords is pointing up; guess it is pointing down in this depiction since it is viewed from the southern perspective.
So maybe today I need to view something from a different vantage point. 





Celestial Tarot  - Kay Steventon & Brian Clark

Roar/Meow

Here kitty, kitty, kitty

I know most people link Strength with the Constellation Leo, which would all be based on the lion imagery.  Strength is more than just a roar.  Strength is endurance, going the distance, inner control and much more.  Leo the Lion is all about adoration.  They roar and meow when not getting enough attention, they are mostly about being noticed.  What's the point in being beautiful if no one tells you?
Maybe today I will encounter a lion that needs petting and I will just have to pull on my reserves and put up with someone's ego.




Celestial Tarot

In and Out

Persephone and Demeter

I wonder if Persephone had stayed in the Underworld; would her love eventually have changed Hades and his frightening image transformed to a softer image, a personage of man who loved?   Lots of women fall in love with the bad boy; maybe Persephone ate the pomegranate seeds so she would have to stay with the man she loved.  A true Beauty and Beast story.  But no, Mother Demeter wanted what she wanted, and blackmailed Zeus into getting her daughter''s return.
Spring is in the air.  The Earth turns and the grass begins to green.  The trees are soon to bud and new life begins. The cycles of Life and Death are one of the true constants. Beginnings and endings.



The Celestial Tarot

Sideway

That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

I think we have all heard that idiom before.  What a load of dead carp.  The King of Cups is a symbol of mastery of emotions, and some cup king most likely invented the saying.  I don't know about anyone else, but just about every man I have ever encountered that was a Cancer was a momma's boy. Easy enough to say  suck it up and not cry" when you go home and boo hoo into mommy's skirt. 
That which doesn't kill you, changes you, it doesn't make you stronger.  Sometimes it makes you hide out deep in the watery depths of your emotions.  If I run across this king today with some flippant comment, I will tell him to take a 'long walk off a short pier' - another 'pearl of wisdom'


Celestial Tarot - Kay Steventon & Brian Clark

Unburden

Undburdened

What can I do to go from unburden to unburdened?  The Charioteer has made a lifelong sacrifice to training.  I have to ask myself what have I made my lifelong training and what do I need to do to undue, unburden myself, to move myself in a different direction?  It's never too late to look up and find my North Star. Like the Fool, I will need to take it down to basics.  Release what drives me, strip away the armor that seemingly makes me feel safe, sell the chariot cart, and keep only the essentials.  Six years ago I was down to absolute basics and picked everything back up and still preforming for the crowds.  What will I pack in my knapsack?



The Ride Waite-Smith Tarot

Queen Me

Not me you won't

So glad to see this Queen of Wands.  Yesterday the Emperor started to get the best of me.  Last night I placed him back in deck and shuffled asking how I could deal with the bully (emperor) yesterday?  I went in search for the Emperor and the next card was the advice card, The Knight of Wands.  Immediately I felt that it recommended, "Carolyn get on your high-horse and go bonk the bully on the head with that big heavy wand he is carrying."  The Queen of Wands has now stepped in to take charge of the whole situation.  She empowers me not to put up with the heavy-handedness of the Emperor.






The Rider Waite-Smith Tarot

The Dude

Whose the Boss?

Well of course after three days of the Empress, I should have expected Mr Bossy, the Emperor to show up.  I can't help it, I just can't get serious enough to pay attention to his stern counsel.  I feel like sticking my tongue out at him behind his back and saying "you are not the boss of me!"  Well that usually causes a bit of trouble, mostly cause he does have some good advice but the way he delivers and comes across as the 'know it all' that irks me. For today if someone gives me some advice I will give it some thoughtful consideration.


Rider Waite-Smith Tarot