Late night Tarot showing

Yowser! Late night with some lovely fellow seekers throwing Tarot and i-ching. The skies were kind last night with many questions answered and spiritual paths cleared. I do have a woolly head today.
Meanwhile Tarot to be shared with y'all.
The Celtic cross is fascinating. It has cross in the middle of the spread. This is what is called the 'hub'. These are the issues that your world is turning around. See below.


Then there is another cross.


The horizontal line symbolises your past to future from left to right.
The vertical lines symbolise the journey from unconsciousness to consciousness, from top to bottom.

The cards on the outside are called the 'staff' and this is where your inner guide, the observer helps you understand what is happening in the cross.

The tarot gets you talking and thinking. Hopefully this will help you take action at at least think about your next move.

Anyway, my next move is to the coffee shop, so have a nice day!

What is your Tarot year this year?

Calculate your year cycle.

1. Add together your month and day.
   e.g- Dan: Sept 22 , which is 09, and the day, 22, which adds to 31.
2. Take your 31 and DO NOT REDUCE IT FURTHER. Take this number and add it to the year you wish to know about. For instance, 1997 plus 31, which gives us 2028.
3. Now, take 2028 and add the digits together. 2 + 0 + 2 + 8
4. From this we get 12. Dan is in a 12 year, the Hanged Man. We do not reduce this further to 3, though it is understood that 3, the Empress, is a part of his year cycle energy simply because it is a lower octave of Hanged Man. (12 reduces to 1 plus 2 = 3.)

Then go here to read what your tarot year will be.

Dreams and forward motion

Incredible, bizarre dreams last night, after doing a tarot reading for the symbols of my year ahead. Interesting things came up for me and I am certainly more mindful of my priorities and what I want to achieve this year. I asked a friend last night what her plans were for the year and she told me about her husband and her children but didn't mention her own plans, when I questioned her again about her own plans she struggled and I thought about all the women who struggle to be heard, to allow themselves to live out their own dreams and goals and hopes. Somewhat hard when you don't know what they are though, take some time to allow yourself to have possibilities in life.
I read once that women should have three lives: one to live for their partner, one to live only for their children and one where they live completely for themselves.
I think about that all the time and try to be present when I am in the moment with all of these triple pleasures. It is hard but not impossible.

When The Good Doctor came to stay recently she marveled to me how I could sit in front of the TV at night with my laptop on my knee but when the changelings or Gandalf needed me I was right there. It was not hard for me to be with each task or person 100% and then I would go back to my laptop and be back in that completely. This does not make me more special or gifted, it is something that I have had to master but now I don't feel guilt now that anything is suffering from my lack of attention. What you put your attention on grows, so I divide my attention equally wherever possible, this means that things grow at the same time, albeit slower than me focussing on one thing at a time but still all the time, progress is made.

Bring on the 18th

I am over this Mercury Retrograde. Apparently this transit brings on burglary, which a dear one was subjected to yesterday. It is the 2nd robbery I have heard of since Mercury started going backwards, making me wonder about this transit and whether it is helpful in any way.
I am feeling it, I was most uneasy yesterday I double checked all my doors and left the radio on in the house, hoping that the sounds of banal pop music would scare the would be robbers away, Goddess Bookkeeper came to work and mentioned her uneasiness about her home, so the current in the air is edgy and foreboding of something that is difficult to name and grasp.
I pulled a Zen Tarot card that best represents the air and The Rebel was the one I drew.
Food for thought.
The air is thick with rebellion at the moment, certainly things are going awry in my world, the Rebel asks us the live our life with truth and take responsibility for our lives, difficult to do in a Mercury Retrograde transit.
Here's a link that has some good tips for this time. I am off to do a final list of things to look before Mercury goes direct on Saturday.

Zen and the art of change

I threw some Zen Tarot last night, a modern version of the tarot. I liked it, very to the point and spot on in my case. I did the Flying Bird reading, which charts your rise in consciousness as you learn from each experience. I started at Aloneness and ended up at Thunderbolt, with lots of fun in between.
One card which I found interesting was the Change card, the symbol of which is a Storm in the shape of an I-Ching coin. The card encourages us to head for the centre of the circle, the eye of the storm. It is only in the eye of the storm that we can see the patterns swirling around us, you are safe in the middle and when you can see the patterns you are in then you can break them.
So I suppose next time you are encountering stormy times, go into the middle and take a look around you, don't flirt on the edge. Go into yourself and the patterns will be come familiar and this you will see which ones are harmful, habitual and necessary.

Crazy Card Wednesday

I sit in my study.
I have pulled some inspiration cards at random after asking "What do I need to know in order to make the right choices from the heart?"

Goddess Card- Nemetona- advice - "Create an altar or visit a power place to connect with the Divine."

Archetype Cards- God [Not much more to say on that]

Tarot- Four of Batons-The card of teamwork to build a grand vision to bequeth to the future.
Interesting.

I may throw some Tarot tonight, I am feeling all gypsy like, a little Stevie on the stereo and we will see what emerges.

I will do this in my own room, I have taken over the study and I have all my 'things' around me, I love it so much, it made me think about Virginia Woolf and the importance of 'A Room Of Ones Own' and I found this quote.

"Now and again an Emily Bronte or a Robert Burns blazes out and proves its presence. But certainly it never got itself on to paper. When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to. Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
- "A Room of One's Own," Virginia Woolf

'Anon' no more, wise women. Create your space, use your space and own your space.
Write your words, paint your pictures, compose your music and spilt the atom, it can all be done in your rooms, channel the Celetic Goddess Nemetona and honor your need to have somewhere to be and become.

Grab your astral passport

I did a past life workshop today with the Piscean Princess and Blessed. I am not usually a fan of workshops but I did enjoy this one as it focused on regression meditation and gave some great tips for recognising the past life information and signs from other lifetimes that occur in this in this life. There were some fabulous coincidences that were swirling around the room and there was no traumatic past life episodes that came up for anyone. I tossed around a few different lives, some more pleasant than others but all with the same theme. The teacher suggested that certain countries we desire to travel to are places we have had good experiences in other lives, the countries we had no desire to see were ones in which we had not had a great experiences.
I have never had any desire to go to India, today in the past life regression I saw myself being sacrificed in India for heretic thoughts, all makes sense now.
Discussions of parallel lives also, the teacher suggested that perhaps when we have zoned out we are off living out another experience in another time and place as someone else. Food for thought. We had to pull a tarot card and use it though our day. Not the traditional tarot but the Osho Zen tarot, which is about what the inner you needs to know for the here and now.
I randomly picked the card- 'Letting Go', which makes sense to me on an inner level. That seems go be the theme of this lifetime.

Astrowise, the Mercury squares Pluto, if you are feeling this energy statically this means that you may read between the lines and see negativity all day, suspicions and a you will buy yourself a one way ticket on the paranoia train. The dynamic part of this transit is that deep, pentraing conversations can occur should you be in a place to be open to this.

Also Moon in Aries. Activity, action, but take care not to be combative. A great time for new beginnings which is fab as Blessed and I did a Business Success Spell for her and Ram- Beau's business today which works a charm. I did one about 5 weeks ago and it works you just have to be prepared for the energies to swirl and then settle, trust and they will.

I bought a lovely gold Ankh today for my wall at work, I have so far an Om symbol, an evil eye talisman and a Hand of Fatima. Lots of info on the Ankh here, fascinating stuff.

Banish the dark, welcome the light.

Full moon energy has driven me to bring out the tarot. I am still enthralled with my cards, they seem to connect and calm me whilst offering suggestions from the non local field to try new paths and spurring me onto the road less traveled.
It was a spot on reading and optimistic till the final card which was the Two of Batons, the dueling card, the card of self doubt. Trés relevant, as I lay awake last night and had the voice of self doubt lying next to me on the pillow, whispering sweet nothings into my shell pink ear! Shut the fuck up I told it, it got louder! Nice.

This seems to be a common theme for me, just when I get to a place where I am ready for lift off on a personal project the voice starts. So how do I mute it, how do I let it go?
I read that I should break my dream into short-term projects. Apparently if I am unwilling to turn my dreams into projects, I should check and see if this is a dream you want to keep a dream or one you want to turn into achievement.
Way to take the pressure down man!

What is crazy is that the experiences that were fuelling the self doubt are the reason I am where I am right now. I turned lemons into lemonade, yet I let the past define me when I listened to the voices. Wayne Dyer explains that we are the boat on the sea, we are not the wake behind the boat. We are not the wake. Do not let the past define you.

Final note: This is the message on Wayne Dyers mobile phone, no I am not lying, it really is:

You have reached Wayne Dyer and I want to feel good. If your message is designed to do anything other than make me feel good, you have reached the wrong number.




Trés funny! I may do this myself.
Resolution: I will not say anything to myself or anyone else that is not designed to make them and myself feel good!









P.S You are all fantastic, amazing, brilliant people, who change the world everyday.

The Manifester

Super spooky day. I went into town with Gandalf aand I manifested a park for us, then as I was feeling slightly cocky, I decided to work on an important phone call with exciting and splendid news for us when we returned to work. Guess what? We got it, the phone rang and a new and important client rang to tell us they have a brief for us! Lovely stuff. I am feeling quite special and clever right now.

I did a tarot spread for myself last night and it was amazing. Everything is linked it becoming evident to me. My current influence is the Moon card, which apparently is influenced heavily by Pluto. I am currently going through a Pluto transit, heavy stuff. Will be with me till 1st November 2007, makes sense. Transform, transform, transform!

I am seeing patterns emerge with the more that I learn though. It's all connected, there is no one right things and it all works if you believe it can: car parks, new clients calling, marriages, babies and cures for cancer.

New tarot working fine

My new cards arrived and I have been throwing cards like crazy, plus I have a new book and I have made my own book with the Jung explanation, the general meaning and the primary archetype year explanation. So ghey! Tarot whore.
But, I threw a reading for a friend in love this morning, trés interesting! Then I did one for moi which really gave me the news about my priorities, a heads up which is both confronting and confirming.

Meanwhile I sit at home with sick son now and recuperating daughter. Piscean Son is watching Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Watching it validates for me that The Da Vinci Code is really Indiana Jones at the Louvre.

Nodes

I feel bad about not posting what Tarot books and cards I like, so i am giving you a little gift to waste some time on.

What is your North Node?


This is your opportunity for growth in this lifetime. The South Node is what you learnt in your past life, you have those skills so don't rely on them in this one, grow, expand and get some new tricks and tools.

Find out here!


Then go here for an excellent explanation.

Hope this add some clarity to your day.

Ephipany

I didn't sleep much last night, was awake thinking, no matter what I did I could not stop, what Blessed calls, the monkey chatter!
I was not worried about anything, just the mind was going a million miles per minute.
I did have a few spiritual breakthroughs and I also worked out the primary archetype of the business and was happy to see that the business also has a Soul archetype.
I looked up these and the correlated wonderfully with our vision for the business. It made much sense to me. I will include this in my planning when I meet with Dominique the Wonderful this week for our big planning session!
I attribute my lack of sleep to overworking my brain on Tarot all day. Too much stimulation for the grey matter perhaps.

Which way is up?

Have bought Gandalf a Feng shui kit for his office, with eight easy lessons!
Should we trust the eight easy lessons bit? Does it come with a set of free steak knives?
It does come with a compass which is great, as I have issues with direction, both Physically and Metaphysically. He is in a dungeon of an office, no natural light till we do the renovations this year. Poor little lab rat!

Gee, I whipped through my list at work yesterday, must be the astro transits occuring. I tell you though, the further I delve in Astrology the more complex it seems, it is so much more then the whole Sun sign thingy.

I have a hankering to do a Tarot reading about ME tonight. Would love to see where and why and what for. I did one for Saggo sis-in-law on the weekend and was frightfully spot on, I kept apologising and gesturing to the cards.

In the immortal words of Bart Simpson:" Wasn't me, wasn't me!"