Serenity Sunday

Hello again all! I hope everyone had a very safe and Happy New Year. Ours pretty much blew in with gusty winds late New Years Eve and continued to blow, quite good at times, New Years Day.  I don't like to make New Year's resolutions, I feel that they set one up for failure but I awake each new day and set my mind to create a better day than the day before...and if the day before was terrific, well then, I'm in for a real treat!

My List:

1.) My kids

2.) Good friends

3.) Uplifting music

4.) Sunshine peeking from behind the clouds

5.) Kind words

6.) Fresh starts

7.) Snow on the hills, not in my yard

8.) Blackberry pie

9.) Scented candles

10.) Funny movies

Tarot Tuesday

When I first started out learning to read the tarot, I almost always relied on the LWB (little white book) that comes with (whatever) deck I was using. Later, I learned to trust in myself a bit more and started "going with my gut" which usually turned out to be more appropriate for the situation than the LWB was. I began take the advice of many seasoned readers and kept a notebook with my observations of the cards and a few simple spreads...I now give this advice to anyone just starting out.

Aces, I learned, are about beginnings and Pentacles stood for material things such as financial issues and material goods. Just for grins and giggles, I picked up the LWB for The Universal Waite deck (which I'm going to be using for a while as my daily deck and for Tarot Tuesdays) and read what keywords it had for the Ace of Pentacles. It read: perfection; attainment; prosperity; felicity; bliss; valuable coins or artifacts; treasures and the combination of material and spiritual riches...Wow, that's heavy!

Although the keywords from the LWB are a general idea to start with when learning,  it's been my experience that the Ace of Pentacles,( like the Aces of the other suits)  represents  new beginnings, fresh energy and inspiration. and  symbolize the material world and things associated with matter and the body... (they also represent money and  financial concerns) and therefore a deeper meaning can be attributed than just single words such as riches, treasure, bliss or gold. To me, it is a progression... starting  from... 1.  having a  desire or need (Cups) 2. the need becomes an idea or concept (Swords) 3. then the idea is put into action (Wands) 4. and with the action, you then begin experiencing the end result (Pentacles.)

The Ace of Pentacles can be an indication that you will be able to make your dreams real. Your ideas can now be turned into something tangible.  Maybe that funding that you needed will be available for you to get your ideas off the ground. Now may be the time to tap into the material force of the Ace of Pentacles and  have all your ideas  succeed.

Tarot Tuesday

This morning, I drew an excellent card to represent this week with all the activities and preparations leading up to Samhain or Halloween. The World card tells us of completion, of everything coming together in fruitation. It represents reaching the goal, completing the journey..we have come to the end of one cycle and we are now ready for the next cycle.

The World represents  balance.. where all is right with the world... all is as it should be and everything has come together, in the right place.. doing the right thing... completing what we have envisioned and feeling fulfilled and complete. 

In this sense the World card also heralds new beginnings that naturally emerge out of the completion cycle. The "Old" date for Samhain occurs when the sun has reached 15 degrees Scorpio but most of us celebrate  Samhain (the witches New Year) on October 31st. This is a good time for us to look at wrapping up the old and preparing for the new in our lives. Think about the things we have done in the last twelve months.

Have you left anything unresolved...? What blessings have you harvested..?What do you need to thresh (leave behind) and start fresh...?. Once we've  gotten that  cleared away and out of our lives then we can begin to focus on  the next year and what we want to accomplish.

Serenity Sunday

Releasing....such a powerful word. Each auumn the flowers and trees release their leaves and prepare to sleep for winter, for us it is a time to release the old energies and bring in  new energy. For me this has been a time of weeding out the unnecessary parts of my life, those things that do not serve my higher good anymore. Our energy will seem to lower for a while but we are simply following mother earth's cycles and before we know it winter will be over and spring will bring fresh life and the cycles start over again....Ah, the rythym of life!



My List:

1.) My kids

2.) A safe home for my cats

3.) Positive energy

4.) Fresh starts

5.) Meditation time

6.) School days

7.) Old green leather recliner (relief on my sore back!)

8.) Great freinds

9.) A beautiful yard

10.) My Dell laptop