Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Sometimes seeing the small things means you’re missing the bigger picture. Everyone reacts to immense stress in different ways. Some run away, some retreat within, some fall apart before your eyes and others throw themselves into what’s before them and block out the situations causing anxiety. Don’t judge others by what YOU do. It’s not fair to them, or you.

Additional Insight:

Giving up is not the answer. But there are many ways people try to handle the challenges in life, and do so in a way that they’re not taking it out on those around them. Going within may help some regain control of their emotions so they can stand up another day. Running away for a few hours each week, can help others replenish their strength. Shutting out the world and falling into a book, game, or even TV can help some block out the stress for a little while.

Stomping around the house, yelling at others, slamming doors and dishes might be your way to release stress. But in doing so, you spread the anger around and cause others to feel targeted.

There is no set standard for how someone is “supposed” to act in order to deal with the trials they face. And everyone has their own way of handling anxiety that may not appear to be normal. The problem with this perspective is that people assume others have faced the same issues in life that they have and therefore expect them to act a certain way and as they would.

You don’t know what has occurred in someone’s life. The trials, tragedies or events that crossed their path maybe totally different from your own. Even the same events can cause different levels of anxiety in one person compared to another because of spiritual karma. Each person is unique and deals with all events in life, good, bad and indifferent based on their experiences, present and past.

Instead of being harsh, looking down on others because they aren’t reacting the way you think they should, or want them to; try compassion. Let those you care about know you’re there and you do care. Don’t bait them into an argument. Don’t push them into talking if they’re not ready to. Remember everyone needs human contact and a feeling of connection. A simple caress of a shoulder, a hand on the small of their back as you walk together, holding hands, or a hug can speak volumes when there’s no words to be said.

Researchers at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah, conducted a meta-analysis of published studies and found that having social ties with friends, family, neighbors and colleagues can improve our odds of survival by 50 per cent. You can read about their study online in a paper published in the July 2010 issue of PLoS Medicine – “Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review” by Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Timothy B. Smith, and J. Bradley Layton.

Springwolf Reflections 2013 Motto:
I attract and acquire more happiness and financial abundance than I know what to do with!

© 2013 Springwolf, D.D., Ph.D. Springwolf Reflections / Springs Haven, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Don’t blame others who have nothing to do with your problem. They can’t fix it. Rumors are swirling around like a Tornado. But as with all rumors, they’re rarely accurate or true. If you have an issue with someone, it’s best to ask them directly instead of helping to spread the falsehoods. Whether their good or bad, lies can harm people and reputations through unknown consequences. Don’t be part of chaos. Be part of the solution.

Additional Insight:

Managing your actions by rumor is the worst thing you can do in life. Even if those rumors aren’t about you directly, they could impact you emotionally and perhaps physically if you allow yourself to believe them. Don’t live your life on lies. Show your strength and belief in yourself by standing up to rumor and innuendo. You maybe glad you did for the entire month of May!

If you want to know something, go to the source and tell them you heard this or that and want to know if it’s true because it affects you. Or let someone know rumors are going around and you want to make them aware of it. If it’s true, then you may want to offer compassion and help. If it’s not, you want to do your part to stop the rumors.

Always check the facts first. Don’t be a social media “forward participant”. It’s so easy to spread lies, misconceptions and falsehoods through Twitter, Facebook and through every other digital media outlet.

If you see a story online that seems amazing in a good or bad way, research the story before you hit that forward button. It’s easy to type in elements of the story in a search engine and look through legitimate news agencies for the same story. If you can’t find the story through news reports, then there’s a good bet it’s not true. So when you forward the story, you can make note that it’s false and an internet rumor. Go the extra step and search for the story on Snopes.com, who tracks and follows up on many of the false topics spreading through the world.

Don’t be seen as the gullible person who can’t keep their mouth shut about anything. Don’t be the gossip-monger who wants to spread the latest rumor and appear to be “in the know”, when it may turn out to be false and untrue. You will gain more respect by being the person who is reliable, honorable, trustworthy and can keep a confidence. Leave the rumors behind and manage your life on the facts.

Springwolf Reflections 2013 Motto:
I attract and acquire more happiness and financial abundance than I know what to do with!

© 2013 Springwolf, D.D., Ph.D. Springwolf Reflections / Springs Haven, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Don’t bend over backwards to make things easy for someone who’s trying to keep you down. You could be tricked into doing their work and getting none of the credit. Make sure you do what you must do, but keep the extra effort for projects you know you’ll reap the rewards from. And don’t forget to toot your own horn when you get the opportunity.

Additional Insight:

You don’t have to “brag” or continually tell others “I did this”. Not everyone needs to know you’re the one doing the extra work. Make sure your boss knows and if they’re the one you don’t trust, find a way to catch the boss’s boss in the hall for a casual conversation. Ask them a question about the project and casually say “I’ve gotten this and that completed, and have this left to do. If I need help with that, can I pull a resource for there?”. There are many ways to let those with the power know you’re doing the bigger job. But whatever you do, don’t diss the boss or make any negative comment about them. “I don’t know about that, I’ve been working on my piece” is good enough to get out a jam.

Diplomacy is all about spin. What you don’t say is equally as important as what you do say. “I’ve been overwhelmed with my piece” would be the wrong spin. Always speak with confidence, innocence and good intentions. Always spin your effort to successful conclusions. Always ask if you can ask for help, but in the end leave yourself room to say “I thought I might need help, but I didn’t”.

Remember sometimes if you can’t beat the crooks who try to steal your piece of the pie; it’s better to join their game and play it better than they do.

Springwolf Reflections 2013 Motto:
I attract and acquire more happiness and financial abundance than I know what to do with!

© 2013 Springwolf, D.D., Ph.D. Springwolf Reflections / Springs Haven, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Let things come full circle today. One chapter will end and a new one will begin. It’s not starting over! So don’t worry about getting knocked down! This time, you’ll be able to apply what you have learned, make better choices and look at situations from a different angle. Your wisdom and experience will shine in ways that bring about positive growth and illumination. As well as, an easier path that moves you forward.

Additional Insight:

When we repeat patterns, we do so because there are lessons we didn’t learn the first time around. Take some time to relax, look back over your choices and the decisions you made the first time. Be honest with yourself concerning how those choices played out and what you need to do differently this time.

The best way to do this is through meditation and going within. View the wheel from a higher perspective. Look at it through a spiritual view instead of an emotional response. Don’t be hard on yourself or blame yourself for choices and decisions that didn’t work out the way you desired. Learn from them instead.

As the wheel turns you’ll be able to ride through the changes with ease if you can keep your view from that of spirit. Allow the wisdom you have gained to serve you and the changes will be positive ones. Fight the changes and you’ll create more stress and strife that you don’t need or want.

The only real constant in life, is that things change. Allow them to change for the better.

Springwolf Reflections 2013 Motto:
I attract and acquire more happiness and financial abundance than I know what to do with!

© 2013 Springwolf, D.D., Ph.D. Springwolf Reflections / Springs Haven, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

You already hold the key to Emotions, Happiness and Abundance. They’re beneath the surface and within you. Stop searching for what you desire on the battlefield. All you will find there is more waste and turmoil. There’s no need to fight with those around you. Let it go.

Additional Insight:

Sometimes the only thing that keeps us from achieving what we desire is ourselves. With a constant feeling of struggle and angst we express the exact opposite of what we “say” we want to find. Thereby creating events filled with self-fulfilling prophecies.

Stop trying to fight your way though the brush and simply walk around it. You’re making things harder on yourself for no reason at all. Other than it’s what you’ve become used to. It really isn’t true that “the devil you know, is better than the devil you don’t know”. Most of the time the one you don’t know isn’t even there.

You need to stop beating yourself up, looking for the next obstacle to tackle and instead, look for the ways around the conflict all together. Don’t fight battles for other people. Don’t get sucked into battles that aren’t yours to fight in the first place. Don’t get baited into battles that have nothing to do with you at all. Walk away.

You don’t need to raise the white flag. You don’t need to proclaim peace. All you need to do is look within and you’ll find the path that leads around the anger and conflict. It’s the best thing you can do for yourself today, and the rest of the week.

Springwolf Reflections 2013 Motto:
I attract and acquire more happiness and financial abundance than I know what to do with!

© 2013 Springwolf, D.D., Ph.D. Springwolf Reflections / Springs Haven, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Don’t rest on the thoughts of others, they haven’t walked in your shoes and have no idea what challenges you’ve faced. You can’t make decisions or base your actions on the box someone else tries to fit you into. It’s your responsibility to define who and what you are. Stand up and take control of your own thoughts.

Additional Insight:

It’s easier to take in the comments from others, whether they’re negative or not, and be what others see you as. But that does a great disservice to your own path and more importantly your own spiritual mission.

If someone says “You’re a healer”, that’s nice of them. But if it’s not something you’ve thought of before, then it probably isn’t true. It’s no different from if someone says “You’re nothing but a slob”. In either case, you’re allowing someone else to define who you are.

Don’t go out and spend tons of money on new cloths or a new hair style to combat a negative remark from someone who probably doesn’t like they way they look themselves. You are doing the same thing as someone who spends tons of money on the next course in healing, or on crystals, or that new talisman you decided you had to have because someone said you’re “magikal” or you can control the weather.

Listen to your own inner voice, meditate and go within to discover who you are, what you are and who you’re meant to be. You’re much better off listening to yourself than trying to fit into someone else’s box. After all, their box probably limits your talents, abilities and possibilities. Be unique. Be yourself! There’s no one else in this world who’s like you. And that’s a pretty special thing.

Springwolf Reflections 2013 Motto:
I attract and acquire more happiness and financial abundance than I know what to do with!

© 2013 Springwolf, D.D., Ph.D. Springwolf Reflections / Springs Haven, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Your cup runneth over with healing and compassion. Believe it or not, success surrounds you as the sun rises today.  Take a little time to celebrate and let go of the stress you’ve been hanging onto. Don’t worry about the tears of joy, you’ve earned the right to shed them.

Additional Insight:

The cup you’ve been filling all this time is finally reaching the brim. You’ve put a lot of healing into that potion and it’s finally paying off. The light of success is upon you and whether you see it or not, a lot of work is going on behind the scenes.

You are being chosen and you’re the one who will be rewarded for all the hard work you’ve been doing. Make sure you’re ready to take on the new responsibilities of your life. Tomorrow get focused, document the next steps and be prepared for when the doors open.

Take a little time to celebrate and let go of the anxiety you’ve held onto for so long. You deserve the down time and you deserve to be happy and revel in the new!

Remind yourself the results are in and you’re going to be fine. You’ve earned it. You deserve it. And it can and will be yours!

This is post 555. I love numbers like that. When a number appears in a 3-digit pattern like this, it could represent influence over the Mind/Body/Spirit aspects in your life. In which case we would apply the meaning of 5 from numerology to each area of your life.

Five – The number of chaos and force, influences, and creation.

• This number is associated with Jupiter.
• This number is associated with the Holly Tree.
• This number is associated with the Wolf.
• It represents Chaos and Creation (out of chaos comes creation).
• Positive Direction: The number of leadership and the executive. This is the number of optimism and vision. Being able to see through the chaos and create success. Those with 5 in their life are assured of their own ability to succeed and create success even in adversity. They are adventurous and easily take risks.
• Negative Direction: 5 can sometimes be too risky and make decisions based on a whim instead of inner intuition and research. They can over simplify, or live in a perspective of what could be instead of what is. While this might be beneficial in business, it’s detrimental in relationships and family.

But another approach in numerology for a 3 digit number is to add the numbers together to a single digit. 555 becomes 5+5+5=15 | 1+5=6.

Six – The number of family or community, coming together in harmony, working together and being in balance together as a whole.

• This number is associated with Venus.
• This number is associated with the Alder Tree.
• This number is associated with the Red Hawk.
• It represents Divine Harmony.
• Positive Direction: This is the number of family, compassion, caring, diplomacy and children. Those with 6 in their life tend to be great parents, supportive and respectful to family and friends. They honor their elders and enjoy their children.
• Negative Direction: 6 can also be the number indifference and argumentative. They can exhibit dissatisfaction through defiance and disrespect. They can fall into moments of being controlling in order to “make” things happen their way.

Which ever approach you see today, the message is for you and should be applied or joined with the message of today’s Tarot card to further explain the meaning of the day’s insight. Either way, it looks like it should be a good day for some folks!

Springwolf Reflections 2013 Motto:
I attract and acquire more happiness and financial abundance than I know what to do with!

© 2013 Springwolf, D.D., Ph.D. Springwolf Reflections / Springs Haven, LLC. All Rights Reserved.