Archive | 2012

Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: Knight of Cups –

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Chivalry is on your side, so ride your magik carpet over the fray. There are battles going on all around you today, none of them are yours to fight. Stay above it all, don’t give your input or get sucked into the negative games being played. Set some shields of protection, stay focused on your own mission and you can avoid being burned in the skirmish!

Additional Insight:

As usual many around you are fighting against the tide and trying to force things to happen to their will. Their selfishness will work against them, so be careful not to get pulled onto their sinking ship. Don’t offer advice, don’t provide information or insight. Simply walk away and let them fight their own battles. It’s very important that your name not be linked to theirs and you’ll be fine.

Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: Four of Swords

Apr11

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

It may seem there are tears all around you today. Remember the compassion and concern you have received in the last year. Now it’s time for you to give back some of that which you received. Sometimes a hug, and a simple comment of “It’s going to be ok” is all that someone needs to hear. If you are the one with the tears, remember to look beyond that which is on your plate and see the buffet before you. While one door may have closed, there is a bounty of blessings on your table to be shared.

Additional Insight:

Sometimes one door closes behind us in order for others to be opened before us. You’ve learned all you can from the past and it’s time to move on. So whither you’re the one with the tears, or the one giving comfort, take time to look at the blessings you do have in your life and what you have to give or what you receive from those around you. You may notice that things aren’t as bad as you think. And while you can take time to grieve, don’t wallow in self pity and create a deeper chasm of despair than there needs to be.

Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: Three of Wands – Inverted

Apr10

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

It’s ok to be unconventional. Some of the best ideas come from being upside down and a little different. Don’t let others push you into being what they want or think you should be. Live true to your own inner instincts, respect all things around you; including yourself, and allow your inspiration to flow and brighten the world.

Additional Insight:

Just because others are afraid to be a little different, doesn’t mean you have to live through their fear. In today’s competitive world looking at the world with a different perspective can help to think outside the box. Utilize your own intuition to inspire new solutions and exciting concepts. Use your unconditional perspectives to imagine new innovations that others have never conceived. Be yourself! And others will come to appreciate your different perspectives.

Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: Six of Swords

Apr9

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Keep your eyes on the future and the plans you’ve already put in place. There will be a great deal of distraction today, but don’t let it get to you. They’re mostly good interruptions reminding you to enjoy life while you’re working along your path to achieve your goals.

Additional Insight:

Taking a few moments to stop and smell the roses isn’t going to derail your plans for the day. Sometimes we have to be reminded of the blessings we have along our path already. Make sure you take notice. Some of these things are the reason you’re working so hard. Don’t get so focused on the end goal and lose them along the way.

Sunday’s Homily: Emotional Manipulation

Apr8

Sometimes people will go out of their way to bait you into an argument simply so they can feel superior. Don’t allow them to manipulate your emotions and control your reactions. ~ Springwolf

Passive Aggression

Being passive aggressive is a method of showing aggression in an indirect manner. Such as making negative comments in a general manner that is not specifically directed at someone, but is intended to put down or denounce what a specific person said. In other words, it a cowardly way of insulting someone and baiting them into an argument without doing so face to face.

This happened to me recently. In responding to a question on an IMM Ministers forum, I made mention of living in balance by implementing your spiritual beliefs upon your physical path. Walking Your Talk© so to speak. It’s not enough to believe you are spiritual if you don’t apply those beliefs in your every day life and respond to others accordingly. Another member responded to the same question and for some reason felt the need to say “it has nothing to do with balance” and continued to make his point which seemingly had nothing to do with what I had said.

So why add that statement to his response? Why put in a comment that was seemingly directed at my reply, since I was the only one who had, up to that moment, made a comment about balance? To me it had the purpose to bait me into a confrontation or to denounce my view because he doesn’t agree with anything I say on this forum. Being one of the very few, if not the only pagan minister on this forum, there are a few members who consistently attack my comments and perspectives. Not that this is unusual or uncommon in general. If you’re going to put your Pagan hat on and wear it in public, you’re going to get negative comments from time to time. I’m used to this. But it is disheartening to know that this kind of immediate bigotry toward pagan perspectives can occur on a forum that’s designed for spiritual ministers and specifically fellow ministers in the same organization. To me, it’s a bit hypocritical. Continue reading →

A New Article on Spring’s Haven: Balancing, Clearing, Cleansing & Protecting Your Energies

Apr6

Why Balance Your Energies
You ever wake up in the morning and feel “out of it”, “not all there” or flighty? Or perhaps you notice in the middle of the day that you feel “heavy”, or “pulled down”. This could be from an unbalance in your energy field. There is some validity in the old adage “Too much of a good thing can still be bad for you”. It’s very true. Living to much in the spiritual mind and not being grounded isn’t any better than those who live in the physical world and never give their spiritual natures a second thought, or a first one for that matter. It’s an adage that tries to define living in extremes is not living in balance.

Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: The Hermit : Inverted

Apr6

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Don’t stay closed in or segregate yourself from others. All you’re doing is punishing yourself. You’re light shines brightly today and you have the potential for helping others see their way out of the darkness. But the first person to help, is yourself! So get up, get out of the dark office, cubical or bedroom and let your light shine!

Additional Insight:

It’s important to remember that the energy you put out to the world is what your will receive in return. If you cut yourself off from others, they will not come looking for you. All you will do is build walls and block yourself from receiving the one thing you want the most. Shine your light upon yourself, be your own best friend and take yourself OUT into the world and share your brightness.

If you’re not willing to shine brightly for yourself, how are others going to the glow within you? So the first person you need to help with your own love, compassion, kindness and friendship is yourself. You deserve it, you’ve earned it, and when all is said and done, you need you! So get up, get out, smile and enjoy your life. You’ll be surprised how many others want to come along with you.

Soul Talk & Soul Permission

Apr5

Spiritual Communication
Spiritual communication comes in many forms and for many different reasons. Most people think about spiritual communication as something between themselves and whatever their Divine force is in their life. Others see that and the ability to communicate between themselves and spiritual beings, such as spirit guides, teachers, angels and a like. Still others attach to all that the ability to speak with past loved ones and other spirits who travel the heavens sharing knowledge and spiritual understanding fiT the concept.

Not many will add to all these types of spiritual communication the connection between incarnated beings, from you to me or vice versa, on a spiritual level. Many of us on a spiritual path believe we are all connected through spiritual energy and interconnected through the Divine consciousness. But for some reason, we forget that means we’re connected to each other through spiritual energy. And just like we can connect through that energy to those souls on the spiritual ethereal plane, we can also connect to those who are here with us on this physical plane.

Some call this soul connection, soul communication, or something catchy like Soul Talk. In Reiki, we call this the Sei hei ki spiritual communication connection, where its used as a link for healing. And just as there are many reasons to connect to spirits on the ethereal, there can be many reasons and intentions for connecting to another soul here on the physical plane as well. Continue reading →

Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: Eight of Wands

Apr5

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Ride ’em cowboy! It’s going to be a whirlwind of a day, but you have the skills and talent to hang on and ride through it. Let your imagination come forth and you’ll find some interesting and maybe even surprising solutions to the challenges that rise up to meet you.

Additional Insight:

Don’t worry about all the things coming your way today. Some are trying to attack your position, but most are opportunities waiting for you to knock them out of the park. Have faith in your abilities, your instincts and trust your own judgement. You know what’s best not only for you but for your situation and position as well.

Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: Two of Pentacles

Apr4

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

You may have more than you can carry today. Don’t be stubborn and try to get through everything on your own. Ask a friend or partner for help and accept it graciously. Between the two of you, you’ll carry your responsibilities through the day and be just fine.

Additional Information:

You really don’t have to do everything on your own. You go out of your way to help everyone else, why can’t you allow those people to pay you back and help you for once? Stop being so stubborn! Stop acting like you’re the only one who can do what needs to be done. There are many ways to carry a load, and you really can let someone else help.

"Believe In Yourself, Even When No One Else Does."
~ Harvey McKay ~
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“Take a chance on faith. Not religion, but faith.
Not hope, but faith.
I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar.
Hope walks through the fire and Faith leaps over it.”
~ Jim Carrey ☆ 2014
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“I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less. And I am one of the seven billion human being. Basically we are the same… your emotion, my emotion, your mind, my mind.., same physical. So I always look [at it] that way. We are the same.”
~ Dalai Lama 2012 ~
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"Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
~ Bruce Lee 1971