April 18, 2011

Possibility of today?
The Emperor and Hierophant, as well as the stars, are helping you to give your gifts in the world.  This work is coming from an inner truth...it is a past life gift.  But you are resisting it because of past life pain.  Get past the friction.  Go deep into the well and learn what it is you are to be giving. 

Medicine Path: Skill
Expressing your highest nature through your work is sometimes easiest when work is not exactly as wish it to be.  There are hidden gifts within friction.  Therein lies the secret way to gracefully life.  You are not what you do.  Your work is a higher mirror, providing a reflection from which to learn in your evolutionary process.  Then work becomes a higher skill. Come to the inner truth that produces true skill.

Tarot: The Emperor and the Hierophant
The emperor is the social word, the structure of civilization, a symbol for its law and order, may they be good or bad, but the power behind them. He is the abstraction of establishment, its stability and security.
The Hierophant - A day ruled by the Hierophant will be one filled with the opportunity to learn. It will be revelational, inspiring and interesting. If you allow yourself to be open to the forces that surround you, you WILL learn something important! So - pay attention!!!!





Goddess Deck:Isis

Isis is the goddess of motherhood, divine magic, alchemy and fertility.  She is feminine and can take care of business.  Her message is that the current situation, especially one that has you afraid to move forward, stems from a past life. Your roots upon this planet are strong and deep, some anchored in far away lifetimes.    They may be paralyzing you.   Sometimes you bury these memories to hind from pain.  Reveal those lessons to yourself now, strong sorceress, and move forward with the confidence that you have sage wisdom behind you.




IChing: 48 The well
The symbol of the well is ancient. Still, just as a well can be deepened to produce clearer, cleaner water, so can we enrich our lives by delving deeply within — into our natural selves, or souls.

Beware of shallow thinking. Like a little learning, it can be dangerous. The image of the well suggests that along with depth comes clarity. Be patient, and penetrate both your problems and your own nature to the core. If you do not lower your bucket to the depths, you're very likely to come up empty. When greater depth is desired, a lessening of speed is often required. 




Astrology

Wonderful opportunities

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Valid during several days: This influence indicates the beginning of a new cycle of growth and progress. However, it is often the focus of exaggerated expectations. You may expect sudden windfalls, great wealth or luck, and all kinds of wonderful opportunities. And these things do happen sometimes with this influence, but most people should expect more subtle, but equally useful effects. Events now, such as meetings with persons or even changes in your psyche, open the way for you to become wiser and more mature and to have a broader understanding of the world. At this time you will reach out consciously and unconsciously and ask more of the world, but at the same time you are willing to give more to the world. This influence can make you feel either more demanding or more giving toward others, but you are not likely to get much out of it if you think only of what you can get. The law of conservation of energy in the universe says that you can transform the energies in your life from one form to another, but you cannot create them out of nothing. This influence represents a time when you should see whether you are doing that in your life. Concretely, you can expect persons who are good for you to come into your life. Or circumstances will arise that give you increased freedom or an opportunity to do something that you have never done before. Educational opportunities may come to you at this time, or a chance to travel. Sometimes this influence does in fact bring about financial advantage, but you should not sit around passively waiting for it to happen. This is an excellent time to invest or expand in business as long as you are very careful not to overdo it or overextend yourself.

 

In its negative aspects the card can represent the force of bad law in a society where stability is rated higher than morals or ethic. Once law and order are established as an institution, a bad emperor can turn out to be a disaster. And even at his best the Emperor is limited - he puts restrictions and borders to the spontanity of spirit and nature.

In a more personal view the Emperor might stand for a time of stability and structure, linear thinking and discipline. Yet we can't live without it, too many of those attributes will only lead to rational despotism and mental poverty. 



A sense of pleasure and reward, a sense of  human connection.  Get from heroine.  If never had that before...feel normal for the first time in your life. Why ayuauasca help. Shows baggage you've carried you're whole life.  No longer a part of you. Can be in present.  Shows you your full potential as a loving human.  You felt loved...felt self as love.  that's who we all are.

Tap the deepest well for sustained joy.

Each moment is pregnant with possibility.  Each milisecond contains all that is infinite joy and all that is infinite sorrow. Worry, self-doubt, fear of the future, fear in general, regret and control creates a living hell.  But the opposite is withing our reach.

Simply place your focus on to that which you wish for.  You must reach down into the very depth of your being and sustain it regardless of the whirlwind of mind and circumstance.  Kind of like the sign on the dentists office downtown: If you wish for happiness, don't be foolish enough to wait for a reason.  If you wish for love, connection, joy, contentment, empowerment and purpose, feel it now.  Everything is lining up to bring it your way.  Steeped in gratitude know -without a doubt - that what you hope for is in fact already  here. 


Medicine path: Force

The windhorse is an ancient symbol for the state of buoyant joy just before the apprentice enters the plane of enlightenment.  Force is a higher strength needed to endure the trials of consciousness and the tests of power in the north. The degree and quality of force with which you choose your target and shoot determine your power and success.  Follow your innermost passions in life.  Manifest your secret dreams.

Tarot: Prince of Cups
It teaches us about how to shape our desires into realities, and offers a powerful supportive energy to assist us.  The things that we wish hardest for, invest most energy into, manifest in our lives. This is why it is so crucial to be vigilant and watchful about the way we're thinking and feeling.  This card teaches us how to explore our dreams, our desires, our wishes and to propel them into everyday life.
 His energy will help us to achieve our aims. So select one thing that you really really want, and spend a little time visualising it, imagining what it would feel like to have it, or experience it, and then gather all your strong feelings up into a bundle and push them out into the Universe.

Goddess Cards: Lakshmi
 This is a kind universe, and everyone in it is working in your favor. There are not tests or blocks.  So quiet your mind from worries and fears.  Feel me brush your brow with a new energy of hope and optimisim.  These will fuel your exciting present time.  Step into the brightness that lightens your thoughts.  Clear your heart of fear and refuse to think of anything except your bright day and future.

Goddess:  Nara Varsa
Joy, protection, insight and weath.
Envision an unopened pink flower in the region of your heart.  Above the sun shines with the ink blue light of down and beats with the rhythm of your blood.  You feel your heart's petals open to embrace it, accepting the warmth and energy.

IChing: 47 Oppression
To endure hard times — or even grow and benefit from them — it is essential to tap that deepest stratum of personal identity, that which is deeper even than fate, and which is incorruptible by even the harshest realities. It is essential, in other words, to tap the wellspring of human endurance: hope.

In a sense, there is no such thing as failure. There is only sweet and sour reality, and more is learned from the sour, oftentimes, than from the sweet. For failure, hard as it may be to swallow, opens the blinds to the real world, and reawakens the clarity of vision known only to those who have risked, and tasted, disappointment. When in the throes of hard times, it is wise to be resolute and strong on the inside while remaining quietly cheerful on the outside. Avoid too much talking — except to your closest friends.

Astrology
This time can represent the culmination of successful effort, or it can be a time when the opposition becomes so fierce that you have to give up.  

committment to the joy of spirit

Commitment will set you free?  But to what are you committed?  Or rather, to what am I committed?

My self...with a small s?  That's isolating. 
My ego agenda?  That's simply frustrating.

Perhaps today's message is to commit (with a degree of focus and discipline) to the shining of the soul.  It's been a long, dark winter sitting in the shadows of my darkness.

Ostra says "start a new project."  The I-Ching says "your almost complete, but want these last few steps.".

Last night the great horned owl had a message for me.  The owl is tricky medicine - some fear it because of it's association with darkness, which is associated with the death, the myserious and the feminine.  The owl sees what is hidden, which makes most people uncomfortable.  We have a million and one strategies to hide our shameful secrets and inappropriate insecurities.  But the owl sees right through them to the truth of who you are...shadow and light.

The thing is...
We also try to hide our light.  We shrink from our divinity.
Last night, the owl told me it could see that as well.

So What is almost complete is the dark night of the soul, that last several years of sitting in sadness, fear, anger and stuckness. The time when I refused to run away any longer, but instead stop, sit and see what happened.

I'm finding gold.  The fertility that Ostara brings is the shining light of the soul...like the star that is seen only because it was held in the night sky.

Today is the day to commit to give birth to my light.  To use my discipline to shine up any vibration that resonates at a level that is not helpful to the upliftment of the world.  It is a time to start flying with the angels...  and chase away the evil spirits.

Blessed be.

Medicine Path: Committment
Need commitment to focus on your target. Knowing you will hit the bull's ey with every shot.  Requires your spiritual and physical being.  You need only the commitment to walk down the path though the gateway into your true destiny.  It is a process of gathering: your emotions, your mental strngth and your abilities.  It can be a long process, but it gives you endurance.  Materialize your dreams and begin to live them.


Tarot: 9 cups - Gain
Discipline, self-reliance, refinement.
Pursing a comfortable lifestyle, being tactful and diplomatic, seeking high-minded activities, remembering to be gracious, falling back on your own resources, reining in impulses, sacrificing to reach a goal, sticking to a program, taking a step-by-step approach.

Goddess Deck: Ostara
Fertility.  German Goddess who flies around to have been the divinity of the radiant dawn, of upspringing light, a spectacle that brings joy and blessing, whose meaning could be easily adapted by the resurrection-day of the christian's God. Bonfires were lighted at Easter and according to popular belief of long standing, the moment the sun rises on Easter Sunday morning, he gives three joyful leaps, he dances for joy [...]. Water drawn on the Easter morning is, like that at Christmas, holy and healing [...];

Goddesses: Tou Mou
Cleanising, luck, charity, karma, history.  She takes special notice of our actions and inactions today, keeping note on the karmic bank account.  Part of water festival...to chase away evil spirits.  Do something nice for elders today. Burn a green candle for prosperity.


IChing: 64 Nearing Completion
The situation is incomplete, but the chaos of the past is slowly giving way to order, and the goal is in sight. Nevertheless, you are still treading on thin ice — the way ahead is unobstructed, the goal is clear, but a cautious and careful attitude is essential, lest you slip and fall.  Proceed carefully, cautiously and alertly — then you will reach your goal.