Here I AM

Vision Quest

This card brings to mind those fundamental questions we ask ourselves throughout our days on Planet Earth. 
Where were born, where is your home, where are you going, what are you doing?  Think about these once in awhile and watch your answers change.
I wrote about these same questions earlier this year, and I am back to them with this card.  Time to say goodbye to September, pull the page on my wall calendar, and contemplate what do I need to see, do, and finish, and maybe start, to finish my year.
I recently gathered a number of self help books and I am taking them to the Library.  I no  longer want or need to climb the Mountain of Spirituality.  I am Carolyn and it is time to just be me.

Native Spirit Oracle Cards - Denise Linn

Perfect moment

I saw something similar to this vision some years back crossing The Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina.  Their peaks do not reach as high as Rocky Mountains, still when the cloud cover hangs on the ridges of the mountains and Sun begins it's daily ascent...

When I turned this card over I heard and began singing the song, On A Clear Day sung by Barbra Streisand.  It was also the title to a cute little movie about reincarnation and Barbra Streisand stars and sings that same tune.
What a fabulous way to start my day with a little singing. 










Native Spirit Oracle Cards - Denise Linn

Sight for sore eyes

What a vision a white buffalo must be.

I am unclear what message if any that comes from this card.  Perhaps today I shall have to stand my ground.  Maybe somewhere along the line something will give me pause and I will need to pay particular attention to what grasps my attention.  Maybe, a spiritual or sacred moment; I had one the other evening, a sunset that almost took my breath away.  Maybe, Maybe, Maybe
I also thought of buffalo nickles, for whatever reason.  In 1912 they coined the design and started production for release in 1913.  Easy enough, what I discovered while reading about coinage at that time, was an ongoing concern for counterfeiting nickels and other coins.  Can you image, counterfeiting nickles.  The world has truly changed.


Native Spirit Oracle Cards - Denise Linn

Embellish

"Live larger than Life. Be the storyteller and the hero of your own life." - booklet

I was immediately drawn to this card when I drew it from the deck, so much so that I stepped right into the scene.  I could smell the wood smoke and the hear the hiss and spit of the fire. Entranced, the only disruption to the intense quiet on the beach was the sound of the wood sap that caught flame. I wondered who set the rocks and lit the fire? Would they soon return to set a hare or fish to flame or maybe come to share a story.
Embellish: to make beautiful with ornamentation.

When I was a child we would get together and tell ghost stories around a small fire.  Miss that.


Native Spirit Oracle Cards - Denise Linn

Identifiers

Medicine bags are often small pouches worn beneath clothing with items private, personal, and perhaps spiritual in nature.

At first I thought this might be a bag the Fool would carry about, but the booklet indicates that medicine bags were worn out of sight.  I carry a purse and don't know that I would call it a medicine bag, though there are a couple of stones, coins, and ibruprofen rolling  around at the bottom.  So I wonder what secret and personal items do I keep about me to help me identify myself?








Native Spirit Oracle Cards - Denise Linn

Up up and away

Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky (verse from Twinkle Twinkle)

This eagle flying about, reminds me that sometimes it is best to stay above the fray.  In the long or short march of our days, and the distance is from a personal perspective, how much of what we do really matters?  Not much I suppose, still a bunch of little bits adds up to a lot.  Maybe that is where the phrase adding your "two cents worth" originated.  Two pennies is not much, but if thousands, threw their two in the pot, there would be a lot of pennies.
Sometimes I guess we have to decide, stay out of it or cast our lot in with the rest.





Native Spirit Oracle Cards - Denise Linn

Birds of a feather

Up and out the door.

On my way North to visit my two sisters in Indianapolis today.  My sister that lives nearby and I are making a bi-yearly jaunt to visit.  They are a lot of work, still they are my sisters and we share a commonality. 
Happy Saturday.