What one thing?

Yesterday's King had his eyes on the prize, now off to find that one thing that is needed to complete his task.  It looks like all the offerings in the Seven of Cups have been sorted through and experienced and even something more, and yet it isn't what the King was looking for.  What will need to be discovered that will bring him/me to the satisfaction of the Nine of Cups?  There was something recently read about getting what you thought you wanted and still experience dissatisfaction.  So the absence of those things are not the answer to happiness. Maybe the journey is what fills the ninth cup. Seek and you shall find.

The only other thing these eight cups makes me think of, is getting all your ducks in a row, impossible, I thought so too.

Eye on the prize

Keep your eyes on the prize. 

Unexpected company

What is going on here?  I drew The Hermit today and thinking that maybe a guide would show up today, or someone who just happens to give a bit of advice or suggestion.  Maybe someone in the checkout line at the grocery; you never know.  Anyway the scan came out like this. How did The Magician sneak in on the The Hermit?
I evidently left The Magician on my scanner yesterday. I have never left anything on my scanner; not just on the blogs but all the other thousands of documents from my work-a-day life.  Why The Magician and why now?  Today will be interesting to see if I find out. 

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Is it "we do what we are, or we are what we do?"
The Magician today appears like a diviner, drawing information or energy or what is needed to oneself.  A lightning rod.  Can this be the moment of "Magic" when we realize we are the Magician?  We can change what needs to be change just by calling that change to us? 

Change the way we look at things and the things we look at Change.

One does

One does what one must.
Yesterday The Wheel, going up and down,
Today The World, going round and round.
I am saddened by so many who have lost their way in opiod addiction.  I know several and have known several others that got caught up in the cycle and never found their way out.  I could have been one of those and still may be. Pain and escape from feeling.  Blaming the drug companies, sure, but we must look at what brought us to this crisis. Sadness, despair, the evening news.  I am just a second away from turning off the t.v. and never watching it again. The World turns but do we have to have everything thrown in our face, day after day?

Ever Turning

My life lately has been me being the marble, bouncing around on the roulette wheel.  I have sore places that I can't see from all the knocks. The Wheel ever turns.  On top one day and crushed beneath the wheel another. The How and Why of it sometimes we just never know. 
Lately I have been finding dimes.  For years I used to find money all the time.  Now, so much is bought with the convenient debit cards, dropped money is a the thing of the past.  Still I find bits of coins here and there, but lately dimes.  In the last 3 weeks twelve or more. Which is more than I found all last year.  Makes me wonder.  Tens are usually a signal something needs, must, or will change.  I guess I am in the midst of that.

Sake

Arguing for the sake of arguing.  I think this is the trap I get myself into sometimes.  The battle is not without but within.  I can, yes I can! Suppose I can't?  Do I beat myself up because I failed myself, or what I think I failed at?  Do I continue as though nothing is wrong; so as to make others more comfortable?  I do everything to make myself and others think things are alright. Who am I kidding.  I think I learned that lesson from my Father.  "You want something to cry about, I'll give you something to cry about." Brutal.


"The deeper the cry, the more clear the choice." Mark Nepo




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