Watching and waiting IS doing something. Observation allows events to unfold naturally.
"Being still is different from doing nothing"
... Mr Han (portrayed by Jackie Chan) in 2010's "The Karate Kid"
Showing posts with label psychic tarot. Show all posts
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19 August 2011
15 August 2011
Today's Tarot - Knight of Swords
Knight of Swords - Courage is useful. How can you know your limits if you don't give them a little push every now and then?
"You must do the thing you think you can not do" ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
27 July 2011
Today's Tarot - King of Cups
King of Cups: Listen to life and it will guide you.
Every student is a master, and every master is a student. Inspiration can pop up anywhere, any time and come from anyone. It can even exist in little pieces of cardboard (like Tarot). Carl Jung called these meaningful coincidences "synchronicity". Synchronicity is the language of spirit, inspiration and guidance.
Wishing you a day of happy synchronicity.
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26 July 2011
Today's Tarot - 7 of Swords
Experienced navigators still look at a compass, maps, satellites - they get the information they need to do their job well. The same principle applies to people and intuition...even the most spiritually advanced still can benefit from guidance and validation. That is one of the best uses of oracles like Tarot.
25 July 2011
Today's Tarot - Temperance
Temperance is the "everything in moderation" major arcana card. It has developed a little negativity around it from the old "temperance movement" of the early 20th century. It isn't about pretentious austerity, or militant piety, or painful self-denial.
Today, the part of the card that steps forward is akin to one of my favorite lines from the new version of "The Karate Kid"...."being still isn't the same as doing nothing." More on that in a minute.
Temperance is about balance. In the west, we often connect old-fashioned balance-type weight scales. In the east it might be the yin-yang symbol. For now, let's focus on the balance scales, like we saw last week on the Justice card.
On scales like that, if you have something big, like banning alcohol, it takes something equally huge to balance it...like the crime and crime enforcement the Temperance Movement of the 1920s ultimately fostered.
If you have something light on the scales, it takes less to bring things into balance. That is where we start getting back to the idea of "being still isn't the same as doing nothing."
Instead of piling on weight after weight to balance a loaded scale, as we see in the historical example of Prohibition, another solution is to take stuff off the loaded side.
Summer has a bit of a reputation for frenetic relaxation. We want to do stuff, fast. We want to have fun NOW while the weather is good and we have time off from work. We have a tendency to equate "doing nothing" to wasted time. Being still isn't wasted time.
Sometimes the answer to heat and activity is stillness. For effort to be productive, it has to be balanced with passivity. For our frenetic schedules to work, we need to be still every now and again, and be still with gusto - remember it isn't like we are doing nothing.
Being still is tough. Letting things go, being aware of the here and now..."mindfulness" is a good way to put it. Bring your mind to the task of being quiet, being relaxed, being here, thinking about only now.
Stillness is relaxation dynamite. If you are genuinely still, you aren't doing nothing...you are recharging your batteries in a big way. Five minutes of stillness is a vacation compared to whole day of striving to relax.
Vacation hard. Work, play, enjoy the summer in whatever full-throttle way you enjoy. But don't forget to balance that with a little stillness too. Done right, stillness can be its own kind of extreme.
Wishing you a day of balance, and stillness when you need it.
13 July 2011
Today's Tarot - 2 of wands
2 of wands: Times of rest are as important as times of action to get the desired result. Sometimes we must simply allow the seeds we've planted time to grow.
11 July 2011
Today's Tarot - Ace of Swords
Swords are often associated with pirates & knights & all sorts of swash-buckling heros. The Ace of Swords is associated with spiritual awakening. It takes real courage to walk a spiritual path that is genuine, honest and authentic, especially if it is different from friends & family. More so if it is different from the path you have walked before. Be your own swash-buckling hero. Dare to awaken.
Today's Tarot - Ace of Swords
Swords are often associated with pirates & knights & all sorts of swash-buckling heros. The Ace of Swords is associated with spiritual awakening. It takes real courage to walk a spiritual path that is genuine, honest and authentic, especially if it is different from friends & family. More so if it is different from the path you have walked before. Be your own swash-buckling hero. Dare to awaken.
08 July 2011
Daily Meditation - King of Cups
You can learn as much being a mentor as having one. Share your wisdom as much as your knowledge.
06 July 2011
Today's Tarot - Queen of Wands
Nurturing means giving what is really needed, not trying to impose our desired result. It is an act of compassion.
05 July 2011
Today's Tarot - 8 of wands
The 8 of wands is one of my favorite cards. Why? Because it thinks like I do. Who doesn't like vibe-ing with like minds. "Birds of a feather flock together" and all that. The 8 of wands is one of my favorite feathers.
In western terms it is a card of "infinity" or "gestalt"...the biggest of big pictures. In eastern philosophy terms, it is the card of "ten thousand things"...infinite potential.
I don't know how common it is, but I'm hard-wired to like the big picture. The more I see of it, the happier I am.
Remember that old Madonna lyric..."truth is where you find it"? In my experience, especially working with Tarot and Intuition, this is very true. There are reflections, shadows, and echos of truth and inspiration all around if we are open to it. The same idea can come in a lot of different formats. We might be closed to the idea in one form, but it can be a game-changer for us in another form. Great-grandma might need to hear a church sermon to find inspiration, while a teenager might need to hear it in a rock song on the radio...or vice versa, who knows? Good ideas are woven all through the fabric of life. It is just a matter of finding the thread that works for you.
mprobable, maybe, but possible, yes. It might just take an adjustment in view to see the way there. It might just take a little dose of "big picture" thinking.And so it is with the 8 of wands. One example of the 8 of wands "gestalt" and "potential" meanings is googlemaps. Focus in too close, and you might miss your destination. But if you zoom out a little, things fall into better perspective. Underneath it all, you have a huge potential, a whole world of things to find and see, almost. Click the right links, and you can see the moon. 8 of wands reminds us of the same ability within our personal point of view. If we get too caught up in the narrow view, the little nit-picky details (don't get me wrong...attention to detail is needed, I'm talking about imbalance and excess here). If our point of view becomes to narrow and in-close, we can lose the forest in the trees. When that happens, it is very easy to become overwhelmed by our situation. The cure...the balancer...is to pull back, zoom out, and look for the bigger picture. Remember anything is possible...even if it takes a lot of work and a little luck. I
Wishing you a day filled with infinite possibilities and the wide vision to see them.
01 July 2011
daily meditation - 4 of wands
Weak foundations limit what can be built. Focusing on limitations weakens what we can accomplish. Think outside of the box and believe in yourself.
30 June 2011
Today's Tarot - Ace of Swords
Socrates is credited with saying "The unexamined life is not worth living". I'm guessing it was sometime shortly before he said "I drank what?"
The Ace of Swords hints at this same idea, only in a less morbid way.
What is so great about the "examined" life that Socrates would rather order a vente hemlock-latte than leave well enough alone?
What is the down side of not thinking about life? Isn't ignorance supposed to be bliss?
In a way it is. But how many people in modern America can live a life of being "in the here-and-now", being content with things exactly as they are. Very few, is my guess. It just isn't in our can-do, inventive nature.
On the other hand, there is such a thing as 'knowing just enough to be dangerous'. The risk lies in the shallow waters, in a vapid, pale, thoughtless, existence somewhere in-between "here-and-now" and personal growth. Today's card cautions us against wandering through life with eyes wide shut.
Examining life, trying to be a better person, and looking for the kind of spiritual awakening that the Ace of Swords symbolizes is a gift to yourself and everyone around you. You get a deeper, more colorful, more meaningful life. Everyone around you benefits from your example and your general trail-blazing. You don't have to be all-knowing, super-wise, special or amazing, like a guru on a mountain somewhere. Like the TV ad for a mentoring program says...you just have to BE there. Just walk your talk, find what is meaningful to you. It doesn't matter so much what truth you find. What matters is that you look for it in the first place. Taking the journey of awakening raises the energy around you and makes the world a better place.
Ironically, once a person decides to to in the direction indicated by the Ace of Swords...once they allow the awakening...often they end up right back at that "here and now" sort of contentment. The Ace of Swords may send you in a circle, but it is a journey well worth taking.
Wishing you a wide awake, colorful, and content day.
29 June 2011
Today's Tarot - 9 of swords
9 of Swords: Thinking of the past is a double edged sword. Take care not to cut apart the past, present and future.
Time is a connected...dwelling on the past alone without connecting it to the future is unhealthy, unwise, and heartbreaking.
Memories comfort the here and now. Lessons from the past that are applied now can make the future better. Cut off the past too much and we lose those benefits. Keep your thoughts too much in the past, and you lose the new, good things today has to offer.
Wishing you a day of making good memories.
22 June 2011
Today's Tarot - The Emperor
The Emperor: You have absolute power - over yourself. Live well, and you change the world for the better.
Wishing you a day of change for the better
21 June 2011
Today's Tarot - King of Coins
Trusting others requires insight, understanding and wisdom. Insight, understanding and wisdom requires that you first trust yourself.
20 June 2011
Today's Tarot - Ace of Swords
Ace of Swords: Whatever your truth may be, the real trick is awakening to it and living it.
17 June 2011
Today's Tarot - 4 of coins
4 of coins: Do you have a secret treasure of good mood buried in there somewhere? What random act of wacky happiness can you unleash on the world to day?
16 June 2011
Today's Tarot - The Star
There are things you know, and things you believe. The things you know, even if intangible and un-provable, are the stars that help you navigate the night.
15 June 2011
Today's Tarot - Hanged Man
The Tarot deck is larger than the modern game-playing card deck. There are two divisions to the tarot deck - the major arcana, and the minor arcana. The word arcana is now mostly associated with the Tarot deck, but, as dictionaries will tell you, it comes from the Latin word arcanum, which just means "secret". So the major arcana of the tarot deck symbolizes the major 'secrets' to life (you know, like 'beauty secrets', top tips, advice, etc.) and the minor arcana symbolizes the more day-to-day kind of hints and tips.
This card is from the major arcana. I think much of what the major arcana teaches is predicated on the idea of balance.
Here the balance point has to do with challenges. The classic interpretation of the Hanged Man is related to "stagnation" or being stuck in the mud. But like I've said before..."one man's stuck in the mud is another man's day at the spa".
If you feel the message of the Hanged Man is for you today, the message could be one of two things. It could be a hint that you are stuck in a rut, too complacent, and the advice is to challenge yourself a little bit. Shake things up in a positive way...learn something, exercise a little extra, recapture something from the past that was good for you before, call an old friend, make a new one...you get the idea.
The other message the Hanged Man can hold is that when life gets too challenging for too long, we can become burned-out, drained, "hung out to dry" (to borrow from the card's imagry). If that is the case the advice becomes a reminder that it is ok to rest and "hang out" for a while. Don't stay so long that you become stagnated and the situation flips to the opposite. (Here is where the Tarot reflects a little bit of the yin-yang theory from the orient...anything taken to the extreme can become its opposite). But if you are over-stressed, the Hanged Man reminds us to balance activity and rest...progress and stagnation...challenging ourselves and being a little more gentle with self-expectations.
Wishing you a day filled with expanding horizons and much needed rest
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