one, two, three

Spring is around the corner, just three weeks away.  Besides the time honored 'Spring Cleaning' projects, it is always a good time to start something new.  A garden, a self improvement program, or maybe a new community project.  As with anything new, it has to be tended, nurtured, and then eventually harvested or completed; and what we harvest depends on the all the foregoing things.  These gals took the time to plant, tend, and harvest their herbs.

I always like to start a new program in the Spring.  So many people make 'New Years' resolutions which for the most part do not last.  Spring is a much better time to start a new project with warmer days, lengthening daylight, and Spring just feels better than the deep dark days of Winter.  So what new project interests me?  I always have a list of things I would like to do or work on; deciding is the challenge.  Maybe I will put 3 choices on a slips of paper, toss them in a basket, pick one, and get started.
eenie meenie miney moe

JOURNEY THROUGH THE GAIAN TAROT -Joanna Powell Cobert

Meow

I really don't have any thoughts for the day.  I wish I had this kind of attitude.  Maybe that is my task for the day.

Sunny Days

Children, usually upon greeting each other can become automatic friends.  The author of this card comments "horses ridden by children from the East and West."  Children don't see the differences in each other and just enjoy themselves in the moment.  We are born fully accepting everything and everybody that comes with in our sphere.  The distance, segregation, bigotry are learned along the way. 

And along the way we learn about the imperfections in our own selves.  There ensues the life long pattern of unhappiness.  Ahh to to live in the constant bliss of the The Sun and early childhood days of joy and laughter.   Today and tomorrow the weather forecasts full days of sunshine  and unseasonable warm days, a blessing for February weather.  I am putting all that other stuff on the shelf and spend some days in the Sun.  The Sun burns off all the shadows.
Also the Sun is supposed to help lower my cholesterol levels, which the Nurse Practitioner says is on the high side.

MARCO POLO Tarot

For a day

Now this is an activity I can wrap my head around.  Chasing butterflies.  Simple, easy, carefree living.  This adventurer is about to get a good soaking but I don't think it will diminish his joy.  He and his traveling companion will get a good laugh about the whole thing and then continue on their way.  The Sun is brightly shining and he and his clothes will soon dry.  And I think he has fallen before and lost one of his sandals in the last creek and just continued on his journey.

Live for today, just for today.  Bundle up the cares and worries and leave them for another day.   And who knows when you think you are taking a misstep, the bundle of worries I carry may slip off like my other shoe and wash away down stream. 
It is a little early in the year for butterflies, but I do have a butterfly brooch and I think it will go smartly with a sweater today.

"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all of our lives." - Albert Einstein

MARCO POLO Tarot - Lo Scarabeo

Beware

Today I drew the Seven of Swords and nothing much came to me from the image.  It is so different than most seven of swords cards, even down to just one sword appearing in the imagery.  So I put it back in the deck and reshuffled thinking of the seven of swords and then I went looking for the card again, and the two flanking cards to help me fathom the message.
There are two players in each card seemingly doing everyday things for them, but are they?   The Seven of Swords can usually mean trickery and possibly theft.  Well here we have it, I see it. In the first card the one gal is checking out the others art to use the idea for herself.  The middle card now is clear to me, the dude with the sword is not standing ready to defend, but is going to take the jeweled orb even if he has to kill the setting overlord.  The third card just came off as beware the 'smile and handshake' the one guy is definitely up to no good.
Again I better pay attention to what is going on around me today.

Sharyn, you are right this deck is making me dig a little deeper. Thanks.

MARCO POLO Tarot -Lo Scarabeo

Not sure what to think

This card of Temperance does not make sense to me.  To many incongruities.  The Goddess Temperance stands before those two women and they are not in awe or humbled by her presence?  I guess even the higher powers have to have water to survive.  And then when the two women do get to the waters edge how are they supposed to get their water?  That's a pretty steep drop off; they are going to get their dresses in a mess laying down to scoop up the water.  And what about that waterfall in the background, wouldn't that make the water much more turbulent?

Maybe today I will pay closer attention to the details of everything going on, all may not be what it seems. 







MARCO POLO TAROT -Lo Scarabeo

No, not for me

It looks like it's tournament time.  All dressed up and ready for the day ahead.  Mostly for show it seems, but still he needs his wits about him as he prepares for the  archery competition.  "No I don't want to have a drink, here take it back."  Celebration comes after the success.

I think a lot of Pages are about communication and beginning something new.  Maybe he used to party in his college years or days gone by but now he has to get down to showing that he can do what he has been learning and practicing. 
So for today I will look for a new way of doing, saying, or starting something.  I am bored anyway so some new approach will go a long way to lifting me out of apathy.

"Oh the things you can find if you don't stay behind."  -Dr Suess

MARCO POLO TAROT - Lo Scarabeo