Another relaxing evening last night especially since I finally got my model railroad working. I figured out the wiring problem by disconnecting the wiring on the section of track that was causing issues and then running a locomotive on the track and it ran the complete oval without a hitch. Then I was able to really relax and get into reading an article from Issue 29 of Witches and Pagans magazine, a 2014 issue at that!
Then off to bed I went around 10:30pm. The only dream I remember having is one where there was some leaky plumbing in a building we were in, we being my Dad and myself, the other people were around but not visible. To deal with the leaky plumbing we had to go out into an alley about a block away. Surprisingly, we were in a city and may of the buildings we passed by were run down and unoccupied with most having no windows left and no contents inside. We had to enter an alley but had to quietly walk past some guards presumably patrolling the city. They had an alien feel to them as they were wearing uniforms and helmets with blacked out visors. A surreal dream!
Then the alarm serenade us from our slumber...
...Spirit Is and today's Pagan Tarot Energy is the "Seven of Wands: Our Witch is dressed in her white robe and is sitting on the sunny deck of her house at the patio table, with her young man standing behind her. He leans over her shoulder, pointing at something she is working on. She is figuring her budget and writing out checks to pay all the bills. A calculator is sitting next to her and she waves a magic wand over the budget she is writing. Six more wands are threatening, but she seems to have a handle on things. And having someone to help her isn't bad either. You may be facing a challenging situation. Don't worry - you have the skills, knowledge, and resources to make the right choices to resolve this. Be steadfast in your decisions and resist waffling or changing your mind. Don't try to handle it alone; there is someone you can turn to for guidance or even just reassurance."
Trust yourself and your abilities. As much you might think you do not have the wherewithal to handle your current circumstances you stop denying the truth because you do. Take a moment, take a deep breath and think back to other tough situations you've handled, perhaps even the praise you received, then give yourself a pat on the back and get on with dealing what is front of you.
You can and you will handle it!
Thank You Spirit.
Took time to relax yet again yesterday. After our weekly grocery run and experiencing the weather outside we decided to stay in the rest of the day. So I gave myself permission to relax for the remainder of the day. I think it did me well. As I completed reading an article from Sage Woman and really came into contact with and strongly felt the presence of Spirit. This spiritual connection followed me into bed and stayed with me throughout the night where I even awoke at one point and saw what I do believe was a bird passing by above the bed. Then in a dream I opened the door of my van to welcome a client and thank her for enlisting my services. I offered her a seat a surprising seating arrangement set-up outside the van--a really nice wicker chairs and a table--I at first refused to accept that this could be possible because how could I possibly carry it all in the van but then just let it be as this was a dream after all. Or was it?
Spirit Is and today's Pagan Tarot Energy is "The Chariot: Signifies both a time period in which we have felt as though our wheels were spinning, getting us nowhere; and also that such a time period is nearing its end, and we are about to begin to see our energies released for growth and movement again. The timing was not right for our success, but now that time is coming."
I look forward to the growth and movement coming my way. I love and respect myself and formally ask to be allowed to be a Spiritual Guidance Counsellor and Tarot Intuitive/Tarot Card Reader. I sincerely believe that I am ready, able and more than willing to accept the responsibilities and challenges that come with being an active and guiding member of the spiritual community thus fulfilling my purpose. I am forever thankful, grateful and humble to be bestowed/loaned such gifts as these. May I give the them the love, devotion, time, honour and respect they deserve.
Your wheels are about to touch the ground and carry you toward you long sought goals and desires. Are you ready? The time is here and that time is now!
Thank You Spirit.
Not much time to relax yesterday morning as we had to head for eye exams around 9:00am so we could get downtown in a timely manner and make our 10:00am appointments. Here I thought my eyesight was getting worse yet I walk out of there with a better prescription than I walked in with, well at least for one eye. My right eye didn't change.
We met friends for lunch at Hamburger Mary's before coming back home. Oh, since we had time to kill before lunch we walked through Nordstrom, don't think we'll be shopping at this sore any time soon...each to their own but looking at a t-shirt on the clearance rack and still seeing a price of $195.00 is a bit much. I worked briefly at a high end clothing retailer about ten years ago receiving and shipping stock and the quality of the clothing was really no better than something I could find in H&M or Old Navy for example...my opinion only though.
Once we returned home I relaxed the rest of the day although I did make dinner. I was feeling tired and sleepy so I broke up my time between typing here on the computer, reading Sage Woman, and watching TV...and finding that as I was doing all of this I was also strengthening and feeling more the connection I have with Spirit...feeling great!
Spirit Is and today's Pagan Tarot Energy is "XVII The Stars - We are finally able to see clearly where our Destiny and Karma are leading us. We see the hand of Goddess pointing our way to us and every small clue in our lives takes on a brave new significance. We will never feel alone again."
More and more each day I feel more connected with myself and thus Spirit, the Universe, Nature and the world and the people around me. As I feel more connected I feel more of the energy of light, love, peace, compassion and empathy that flow through the cosmos as well as each of us and all we have to do is open ourselves up to it, accept it and recognize that it is the natural state of the universe. The more connected I am the more I understand that I am indeed on the right path and am being the opportunity of a fresh start, a fresh start that first comes with breaking out in the social media world that will be followed by more face-to-face interactions with people. I've got my work cut-out for me but do I ever look forward to it.
I visited my camper Serenity the other day to try and get a sense of whether or not I should keep or find a way to sell her and as I sat there eating my lunch I did not get any feeling that I burdening myself having her in my life or with the fact I only own her right now through a loan that I am in the process of paying back. And then here this morning as I sit here reflecting on "XVII The Stars" the idea of turning Serenity into a life size altar and images of what that will look like filled my mind. This as I was contemplating my new social media presence and soon-to-be face-to-face interaction with people that seek out my services...Serenity is my altar. And as crazy as it may be, I still feel that I should take her out of storage and simply have her parked on the street most of the time. Here in front of the condo or several blocks away where there is "free" parking. For some reason, I get the sense that my sweet little Serenity is to play a central role in my new role or renewed role of Spirit Guide, Spiritual Guidance Counsellor and Tarot Intuitive (Reader).
"XVII The Stars" is also telling us that if we open our eyes and give ourselves permission to see, the divine and wonderful world of Spirit will come to life before us where it's always been. We have to remember that for most of us we were taught to close our hearts, minds, spirits and eyes to such a world at a very young age. It's always there and always will be we just have to decide if we're reading willing, and able to not only see this world again but interact with and learn from it.
Thank You Spirit.
Last night we had my brother and a couple of friends over for dinner and we all had a wonderful time. The Porchetta was fantastic and the rice pudding was scrumptious. And I must say that I made a very decent Sangria as it was going down very easy. And after our guests left, the after dinner cleanup was for quick and easy and we were in bed shortly after 11:00pm.
Spirit Is and today's Tarot Energy is the “Sage of Cups: Emotional maturity. A good mediator or counsellor.”
The “Sage of Cups" today is about balance, understanding, and finding middle ground through quelling the heated emotions that might arise and finding room for and areas where compromise can bring about a peaceful, collective resolution to the dispute at hand. It's a day where we must strong and level-headed so that we stay above the fray where we are then in a better position to offer a solution rather than become part of or exacerbate the problem.
And what better way to do this than to adopt the energy of yesterday's Tarot Energy, the “2 of Coins: Tai Chi. Flexibility. “Going with the flow”. Living in tune with your environment.”
Yesterday's “2 of Coins" promoted a good balance and flow of mind, body, and spirit not only with each other but with nature too, including the world around us as in the energy and the people we come into contact with throughout the day.
Thank You Spirit.
Spent almost two hours temporarily securing the track on my model railroad with track nails in order to better assess the way the track segments connect as well as the electrical flow throughout the layout. I have a small section where I think the wires are crossed causing a short so I will go and change that right now while I remember...I'll be right back...didn't work still shorts out...drat, another reversing section to work with.
Sleep was good until I awoke half an hour or so before the alarm but I did my best to use the time to meditate and give sincere and humble thanks for the gift of life for another day...
...Spirit Is and today's Tarot Energy is the "Man of Swords: A rational, scientific approach. A thorough investigation.”
It's a day to be rational and logical in all that we do today whether we're working alone or interacting with fellow employees or customers or a bit of each. Logic and reason can go a long way and sometimes it's even best to take our time with our words, thoughts and actions so that we think before we act thus minimizing the potential for adverse and unforeseen consequences.
Thank You Spirit.
We certainly enjoyed our night out at the movies. The "Arrival" is our type of movie. We thought it was a great nerdy, intellectual, science fiction, alien type of movie. Using science, language and symbolism to solve a crisis rather than resorting to weapons, violence and war.
I slept through the entire night and the alien ships played a role in one of my dreams, at least the shape of them...now that I think of it...I do believe the elongated oval shape with one flat side of these alien ships became cookies in my dream. Then having a fresh start and starting out reading cards and guiding people spiritually filled other parts of my sleep.
Spirit Is and today's Tarot Energy is the “4 of Swords: Napping Between Rehearsals. Resting and gathering strength for the next phase. A vacation or “time out”."
Give yourself permission to be lazy for a moment or two. Sit down, put your feet up, take a deep breath, exhale and let yourself really sink into that chair. Feel free to do absolutely nothing. It's not good to always be busy and going to sleep every night is not quite the same as having a lazy day and simply relaxing. Contemplate if you will but first let your mind slow down and unwind for a moment or two, let your mind wander, then focus your thoughts. But remember today is about resting and this is even hard for me to do.
Thank You Spirit.
Tuesday, November 22, 2016. A disturbed night of sleep. Awoke a couple of times and had a hard time getting back to sleep. Felt good upon awaking though so not such a bad sleep overall and maybe falling asleep quickly wasn't such a good thing. Was reading Sage Woman magazine in bed and started feeling quite sleepy so by 10:30 I was pretty much half asleep. Love the articles in that magazine and they always make me feel good...always a good read from cover to cover for me.
Spirit Is and today's Tarot Energy is the “4 of Coins: The Lighting Director. A position of power. Wanting to control how others perceive things.”
As we go out and interact with others we must always guard against trying to influence how they should think about things in life. In my quest to be a spiritual guidance counsellor and tarot intuitive I must be careful that I'm not trying to control the thoughts of others while facilitating their interaction with Spirit. It all has to be about them, not me and I must strictly remain as a guide, a human roadmap as they go about their journey in re-establishing their connection with Spirit and themselves.
Oh...time to go, catching a movie tonight..."Arrival"...
...it's now November 23rd...time to write the next entry...
...Thank You Spirit.
The Eastside Culture Crawl took up a few hours of our day yesterday. It was fun to walk through the dozens of studios that filled the 4 floors of 1000 Parker Street. Then we had some street food for lunch, a bowl of hot chilli from the Chilli Tank, $15.00 for two decent sized bowls and a slice of bread each.
Still piddling around with my model railroad, trying to do something with it each day...sleep was okay last night but not great, the new norm it seems for when I have the job to wake up for. But then my dreams were not related to the job at all but rather possibilities--spirit guide, tarot intuitive, driving around a city looking for a parking spot and eventually finding one and when I did I seemed to be in an Asian country or an Asian community of sorts.
Spirit Is and today's Tarot Energy is the “3 of Swords: The Wreckage. Feeling heavy-hearted after an emotional storm. Feeling hurt or betrayed.”
For all of you out there that might be feeling lonely or completely alone, I feel your pain, anxiety and even to a degree your sense of loss. Your feelings are real so feel them but please do not let them overwhelm you. Find a way, find something that you can cast your eyes and attention on that will lift you up and help you see and feel the loving presence and warmth of Spirit in your life. No, this is not to dismiss how you feel but rather help guide you beyond this temporary situation , to help you transcend it so that you can see that goes on beyond this and you have much to look forward to and be more joyful about.
Accept your feelings and the way you are feeling now but also recognize that you cannot dwell forever in this state of melancholy and emotional distress for life, your life is important and it's important that you find a way to snap out of it so-to-speak so you can move on to become whole and complete again where you wear this emotional wreck as a badge that symbolizes that you survived, challenged but becoming a better person for it.
Thank You Spirit.
