Today's Tarot:
Five of Wands
The card of conflict. Here's hoping things are easily resolved throughout the day. Work is always a source of power struggles for me. There are members of the staff who are just there to earn a paycheck and don't really bother to do anything and yet they bitch and moan when someone changes a display. Now given, most of these people have been there for more than a decade and in a way have earned the right to stand around. However, they make it harder on those of us who are still trying to maintain the business. I spend far too much energy at work trying to not blow up at them. This then causes inner conflict. I don't want to feel hateful and frustrated all the time. Plus, I become very resentful of those who don't pitch in to make work a positive place. Its a challenge to strike a balance.
Friday, September 30, 2011
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Breaking bonds....
Today's Tarot: Eight of Swords, reversed
So glad this card came out reversed. The Eight of Swords is a card of bondage and mental blocks. Reversed it is a card the signifies a release from restrictions. However it can also suggest relationship problems and warns against power struggles. Today is a day to aviod arguements and to release bounds.
So glad this card came out reversed. The Eight of Swords is a card of bondage and mental blocks. Reversed it is a card the signifies a release from restrictions. However it can also suggest relationship problems and warns against power struggles. Today is a day to aviod arguements and to release bounds.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Listening...
The following is my current Free Will Astrology Horoscope from Rob Brezsny. It really hits home and is a lesson that I often need work on. As anyone who knows me, can tell you, I'm a terrible listener. I need to cultivate a sense of active listening.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I've got a challenging assignment for you. In
accordance with your current astrological omens, I am inviting you to
cultivate a special kind of receptivity -- a rigorously innocent openness to
experience that will allow you to be penetrated by life's beauty with
sublime intensity. To understand the exact nature of this receptivity,
study Abraham Maslow's definition of *real* listening: to listen "without
presupposing, classifying, improving, controverting, evaluating, approving
or disapproving, without dueling what is being said, without rehearsing the
rebuttal in advance, without free-associating to portions of what is being
said so that succeeding portions are not heard at all."
Perhaps its time to read a little more of Maslow's study and start listening an stop talking.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I've got a challenging assignment for you. In
accordance with your current astrological omens, I am inviting you to
cultivate a special kind of receptivity -- a rigorously innocent openness to
experience that will allow you to be penetrated by life's beauty with
sublime intensity. To understand the exact nature of this receptivity,
study Abraham Maslow's definition of *real* listening: to listen "without
presupposing, classifying, improving, controverting, evaluating, approving
or disapproving, without dueling what is being said, without rehearsing the
rebuttal in advance, without free-associating to portions of what is being
said so that succeeding portions are not heard at all."
Perhaps its time to read a little more of Maslow's study and start listening an stop talking.
Choice...
This seems to be a Pentacles themed week thus far. Yesterday's tarot pull was the Ace of Pentacles. That aligned with the New Moon makes me hope that new prosperous beginnings are just around the corner.
Today's Tarot:
The Lovers
This is a card of passion and choice. Its time to look forward and backward to see where this path is taking me. Another fork in the road, a time to evaluate the next step. Autumn is often a time of re-evaluating for me. I tend to make big changes in my life during this part of the year. "We live the life we choose, no matter if we make the choice ourselves or allow someone else to make it for us." Is a quote I hold dear. There are a myriad of possibilities that need to be looked at before the next direction is chosen.
Today's Tarot:
The Lovers
This is a card of passion and choice. Its time to look forward and backward to see where this path is taking me. Another fork in the road, a time to evaluate the next step. Autumn is often a time of re-evaluating for me. I tend to make big changes in my life during this part of the year. "We live the life we choose, no matter if we make the choice ourselves or allow someone else to make it for us." Is a quote I hold dear. There are a myriad of possibilities that need to be looked at before the next direction is chosen.
Monday, September 26, 2011
Seed-time...
Today's Tarot:
Seven of Pentacles
The card of seed-time and unknown possibilities. Exert from The Renaissance Tarot that really hits home, "This card is linked with hard work that is currently producing little financial gain. The temptation is to allow anxiety to block progress. Fears of poverty and unfounded concerns about the future may subvert energy and creative growth at this time. Focusing on the rewards, instead of the process required to claim them, could be the problem." That pretty much sums up my current inner landscape. I have some many possibilities knocking at the door and floating through my dreams, and yet my current hard work isn't getting me any closer to them. Here's hoping this card pull is the seed that brings forth growth.
Seven of Pentacles
The card of seed-time and unknown possibilities. Exert from The Renaissance Tarot that really hits home, "This card is linked with hard work that is currently producing little financial gain. The temptation is to allow anxiety to block progress. Fears of poverty and unfounded concerns about the future may subvert energy and creative growth at this time. Focusing on the rewards, instead of the process required to claim them, could be the problem." That pretty much sums up my current inner landscape. I have some many possibilities knocking at the door and floating through my dreams, and yet my current hard work isn't getting me any closer to them. Here's hoping this card pull is the seed that brings forth growth.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Fairy cards....
I've embraced my crafty side today. Something I haven't done for far too long. As an artist I often go through long periods of inactivity as far as my work goes. Sometimes this is due to being in a creative rut and sometimes its because I'm figuring out the ins and outs of a project. Today I'm working on greeting cards. They have paper doll like fairies, witches, and princesses affixed to them. They're cute and quite fun to make.
Today's Tarot:
Three of Cups
This is a card of celebration and of energy returning after a long period of stagnation. Perhaps this is pointing towards my renewed sense of creativity?
Today's Tarot:
Three of Cups
This is a card of celebration and of energy returning after a long period of stagnation. Perhaps this is pointing towards my renewed sense of creativity?
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Pumpkin Festival
Today is the Rapid City Pumpkin Festival. I'm so excited to go downtown and celebrate the beginning of Fall! This is my favorite time of year. Crisp breezes, changing leaves, warm sweaters, fall colors, pumpkin flavored everything, Samhain just around the corner! a
Today's Tarot:
Temperance
Finding harmony, balance, and adaptability. Finding balance is a constant goal in my life. I've also been struggling with adaptability the last few years. I don't seem to roll with the punches quite as easily. This is also a card of re-newed creativity. It is the card of the Alchemy. A card of changing something ugly into something beautiful.
Update:
Yesterday was indeed about adapting and finding balance. Anyone who knows me, knows that I have a hard time sitting still. Even when I want to be lazy I feel guilty for not being active. I had little to no energy yesterday and yet spent the whole day trying to balance my mind's need to clean the house with my body's need to relax. Today seems to have brought more of this feeling.
Today's Tarot:
Temperance
Finding harmony, balance, and adaptability. Finding balance is a constant goal in my life. I've also been struggling with adaptability the last few years. I don't seem to roll with the punches quite as easily. This is also a card of re-newed creativity. It is the card of the Alchemy. A card of changing something ugly into something beautiful.
Update:
Yesterday was indeed about adapting and finding balance. Anyone who knows me, knows that I have a hard time sitting still. Even when I want to be lazy I feel guilty for not being active. I had little to no energy yesterday and yet spent the whole day trying to balance my mind's need to clean the house with my body's need to relax. Today seems to have brought more of this feeling.
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