The 'Six of Stones, Exploitation' and Saving Ourselves By Changing Our Ways

Sunday, September 13th, 2015.  We relaxed yesterday morning then headed for the beach likely for the last time this year as the weather is entering a typical cooling and wet pattern that we tend to see in Vancouver at this time of year.  For the first 90 minutes at the beach it was breezy and on the cool side but it warmed up and became a hot day at the beach.  After a few hours soaking up the surf and sun we headed home via a pit-stop for our afternoon coffee and another to take care of our weekly grocery run.

When we arrived home we un packed everything relaxed a bit, ate dinner, showered up and then relaxed the rest of the evening.  I spent a few minutes here and there piddling around with my model railroad as it has been calling out for my attention the last several days.  I'm trying to create balance and give enough commitment and focus to each of my passions these days and I think I'm close to finding a nice happy medium.

Spirit Is and today's visiting Tarot is the "Six of Stones, Exploitation: Selfish or foolish overuse of non-sustainable resources implies imbalance in work or business that is damaging to yourself or the environment.  The human race's capacity to exploit planetary resources to our detriment is motivated by a flawed belief that we have the right to do so.  As we begin to come to terms with the profound effects of global climate change and irreversible effects this will have on our children's lives, the human race still struggles to deal with the unresolved issues of how to feed the billions of new human beings born every year.  How we will resource the education, health and social service requirements of entire generation to come seems like a question too painful to even think about.  With the world financial systems and safeguards breaking down, and faith in any government's ability to tell the truth and act with integrity severely damaged, our social moral codes and once-familiar cultural 'norms' appear under enormous strain.  We all need to be aware of the price our children will pay for our exploitation of the planet's resources."

What more can each of us do to minimize our impact on the planet as well as find ways to utilize more sustainable items in our daily lives?  What can we do to influence others to do the same.  How can we spread the message that "it's not warming, it's dying"?  We need to realize that the more harm we bring to the planet and all the creatures and life that inhabits her the more harm we are doing to ourselves.  The message has to be realized today even though many of us will not likely see the disastrous consequences that might befall future generations if we don't get our act together today.

We need to put more value on the air we breathe and the water that sustains us.  Lawns do not need water as much as we do.  Let us all try to do more with less and put more value on and in the things that matter.

Thank You Spirit.

Blessed Be.