Nugget

The Golden Rule - The Person Who Has The Gold Makes The Rules.  I heard that from a speaker in a business class I took this last week.  When he posed the question, 'What is the Golden Rule'   I like others in the class responded with what was learned in our youths - Treat Others As You Would Like To Be Treated or Do Unto Others As You Would Have Done To You.

We really don't know what parameters other are working from.  I was raised different from the next, so to assume I know what others need or want, my assumptions start from what I need or want, and we all know the rule of the true meaning of  'assume'. 
What is the greatest idea of myself  that I can be today?  I am going to work in my garden with that thought for today.

"You're on your own - And you know what you know,
And you're the one -   Who'll decide where you go."  -Dr. Suess

RWS -Rider Waite Smith Tarot

Carnations Please

I recently read something in one of Deepka Chopra's books and I am going to paraphrase what I remember of that passage. 'Imagine ourselves as a flower, the inner bud is our highest self, our Soul and all the petals are our many Lifes all occurring at the same time.'  Pretty deep stuff getting into the Space Time Continuum with Space being fluid and all possibilities all happening at the same time...WHAT?
When I read it I thought of more like maybe Mother Earth as the inner bud and each of us are the petals on the flower of the Earth.

Sarasvati appears to be setting on a lotus flower and lotus flowers are typically thought of as a flower notating wisdom. So here we find the internal workings of the bud of the Flower - Earth.  There is lots of Light, Music, Knowledge, Wisdom, and Comfort.  Are not all those things within us if we could remember how to access those parts of ourselves, our inner 'bud'?
I think today I will go buy me a big flower bouquet and appreciate the simple beauty of each of the flowers.

Namaste

The GODDESS Tarot -Kris Waldherr

Stop Look Listen

This King is not at Court.  He is out previewing his lands and peoples. Seems to be, he might be out at one of the local villages listening and arbitrating a problem.  Maybe attending a marriage or jousting event.  Whatever it is he is not totally interested in what it is, his gaze to the left says to me 'how much longer must I be in attendance'?  Whether he is at Court or not, he still dresses in his Kingly garb, one of his finest white robes, cloak of power, crown, and his staff.

First impressions.  Part of his power is they way he presents himself.  If he looks like a King he must be a King.  Are we all not judged a bit on the way we dress; how we present ourselves to others?  Mostly yes I say, but I also notice with so much technology these days, most people hardly give another a 'once over.'  Too busy with their phones and ipads.  Too much of rush getting somewhere.
Today while out and about, I will slow myself down and take time to listen and really look at those around me.  Enjoy the moments and the day and not rush back to my castle.

The GODDESS Tarot -Kris Waldherr

I am the Jewel

I often wonder who I would be if I was allowed the opportunity of self discovery.  What would the World be like if children could be children a little longer and be who they were born to be?  When I was a young girl we went to a preschool for just 4 weeks in the summer prior to 1st Grade.  Now they are starting children in school at like 2 and 3 years old.  The mechanics of education, A,B,C & 1,2,3.  What if we could be the poets, artists, jugglers, engineers, doctors, butchers, bakers, and candlestick makers that was innate in us?  What a wonderful world this would be.

Sometimes I think wistfully of who the other Carolyn would be now.  The nuns at the Catholic grade school taught with the limited vision that the Church and mainstream American academics called for.  I remember doodling.  I remember bits of poetry that Mother thought were a bit dark. I remember a nun in music appreciation class would not let me sing because I couldn't hold a note.  All the softer parts of life drummed right out me.  No wonder so many of us are adrift later in life looking for some kind of meaning.  Taking up this blog is helping me remember those bits of myself  that I had to put away so many years ago.

The GODDESS Tarot - Kris Waldherr

Wait and see

I have had a lot of these days in my life.  Wait and see.  I wonder if it is a lesson in patience?  When I was a child, we had to 'wait and see' what kind of mood Dad was in that day before we could play, have dinner, watch tv.  In my younger years it was a wait and see what everyone in the group collective wanted to do.  I got tired of the all waiting... so I chose to do a lot of things on my own.

My business has stalled these last few weeks and I am waiting for things to turn around.  Instead of getting ready to go in panic mode because no one is calling, this is a reminder that the Wheel turns and my 'Ships' are coming to port.

'All good things come to those who wait' - While that may be true it drives me batty waiting.


The GODDESS Tarot - Kris Waldherr

I Do

               WE'VE ONLY JUST BEGUN
We've only just begun, White lace and promises, A kiss for luck and we're on our way, We've only begun...
Sharing horizons that are new to us, Watching the signs along the way, Talkin' it over just the two of us, Working' together day to day...    -The Carpenters

Isn't this how most relationships begin.  Ahh the rosy glow of beginnings of new love.

I never did marry.  I never found the 'someone' that I wanted to say 'Yes I will stay with you the next 70 years of my life.'  I couldn't do it.  I watched my parents struggle, my older sisters and their not so well chosen mates.  Now much older I can see my parents did pretty darn good, considering where they came from.  I learned their stories and their childhood misery's and see that yes they started off this way and then Life happened. Work to do, the castle to be cleaned, 7 children to raise.  There can be joy and happiness but you have to make that a priority in your life. 


The GODDESS Tarot -Kris Waldherr

Beginnings

The traditional card for '0' is The Fool.  TARA was/is the Tibetan Goddess of Compassion.  She is no fool and she has been on her journey for time immortal.  She does not look off, out in to the unknown, but turns back to me and says "are you ready?"  A guide to help me get started on a new path.  I sometimes wonder if I got the chance at a 'do over' in life if I would choose to do all the same things I have already done, walk the same path ?  Most likely I would unless I could keep the memories. 

New beginnings are happening all the time, everyday, usually without me noticing them.  Wishing that life was different; if I take a moment I realize it actually is different.  And as I go about my day I will keep a look out for the lion hiding on sidelines.  Ready to pounce or ready to give me courage? 


"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. " -Lau Tzu


The GODDESS Tarot -Kris Waldherr