Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: The Hermit – Inverted

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

With the whirlwind of activity going on around you, there’s no way you can stay in the shadows and hide. Your attitude is being noticed, good and bad. Make sure today, it’s much more good than bad. Smile, be friendly and help others resolve their little problems and get things done. Your work will benefit you more than you can realize today.

Additional Insight:

It may not be in your nature to hide. But you have been doing a lot of that lately. The more the Divine Universe takes notice, the more you’ll be put in positions where you must be in the limelight. Why are you fighting so hard to stay hidden? It doesn’t support the dreams you have and the goals you’ve set. So your actions are in conflict with your thinking. And that is creating greater stress, anxiety and frustration that is strongly affecting your health.

Stand up tall and proud. Smile and step into the spot light. Show what you can do and why you deserve the attention and leadership role you’re dreaming about. No one else can do it for you. And it’s not going to come to you wrapped in a nice neat box on a platter.

Leadership takes work, effort and the ability to trust your instincts. Express your confidence, while still remaining humble and respectful of others, their ideas and suggestions. And today you could shine brighter than you could imagine.

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Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: The Devil

Nov5

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

That little devilish character within is trying to tell you to relax and have some fun. Things have gotten way to serious lately and the perspective is causing you to miss the little fun things or humorous things that happen in everyday life. So stop waiting around for those big moments of celebration, they are few and far between. Instead enjoy all the little things that happen throughout the day that bring a smile or giggle or even a laugh or two. Besides, smiling makes you live longer.

Additional Insight:

One thing about being on a spiritual journey is that you learn to take more responsibility for your choices and actions. That personal accountability isn’t something to take lightly. It’s one reason why some people say “ignorance is bliss”. But for those on a spiritual path, the knowledge you gain should not be a burden or add to the weight you’re carrying on your shoulders. It’s not something that should focus your attention on the serious issues or choices that fall across your path. Rather just the opposite.

Walking a spiritual path of enlightenment should teach you that even though your free will and choices create accountability, they should also teach you that you’re not alone. You are also empowered to create the path of your dreams and that all things are possible. The knowledge you gain toward enlightenment should lift the burdens that weigh you down because you discover not only what’s really important and what has true value in your life.

When you understand this, the burdens in life are lighter and much easier to carry. The seriousness of stress and anxiety weakens and you can enjoy the little exciting and fun moments that pop up during the day.

Smile because you know all things are possible and you have the power to create them. Smile, laugh a little and let that mischievous devil out once in a while.

Grin and Bear It! Smiling Facilitates Stress Recovery – The APS journal Psychological Science

Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: Six of Wands –

Nov2

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Start celebrating, you’ll find victory today and through the weekend. Your hard work is paying off and though it hasn’t felt like it, things are turning around. Don’t forget to acknowledge the spiritual energy you put out as well. Take some time to celebrate your balance of mind/body/spirit in both the physical and spiritual aspects. You’ll be holding up the trophy of success sooner than you think.

Additional Insight:

When we remember that we are both physical and spiritual beings, we can work toward our goals with ALL our energy and resources. Consequently when we do achieve success, it’s important to remember both natures in celebration and honoring the unseen energy that helped you get there.

While it maybe a good weekend for celebration, don’t forget to spend some time in quiet and reverent reflection. Perhaps a little ceremony to thank your spirit guides and the loved ones from spirit who helped you get through the struggles.

No one is an island and there are many, both seen and unseen who have been there for you, pulling for you and perhaps even helping you along the way. Don’t forget to say Thanks while you celebrate your own hard work.

Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: The Priestess

Nov1

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Spend time looking into your crystal ball and deciding what you really want. Stop feeling guilty over wanting something more than you have. Dreams keep you reaching up and working to attain that which you desire. Dreams give you hope and aspirations. Dreams are what keep you going when you face the hardships in life. Sometimes dreams are exactly what you need to overcome the struggles of reality and get you to what you need.

Everyone faces varying degrees of stress and challenges. Yours may not be as bad as others, but they can still weigh heavy on your shoulders. Constant worry creates dis-ease within the physical body and can cause even more stress and anxiety.

Dreams can help us escape from those physical pains and mental dilemmas. They can help us find solutions, direct us to lessons we are facing and ways of overcoming them. They can provide a relief and express our inner desire for a better situation or place to be. It’s ok to have dreams, when they help to provide hope and strength.

Let yourself dream. You can become all you dream and aspire to be. Let your dreams give you the inspiration to go back to school, apply for that new management position, plan and budget for that overseas trip or find the happiness you desire in your life. You never know what you can achieve until you try.

~~~ A little disclaimer:

Dreams can be a very wonderful tool to help overcome challenges. As long as they’re kept in check, as long as they don’t create an unreal reality that you work on in your physical world; (stalking a movie star isn’t going to help simply because your dreams says you belong together). But the feelings of love and inner beauty, can fill your being and shine through all that negative self talk you do during the day. If you believe in you, then others will too.

Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: The Magician –

Oct31

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Magik is aloft and floating around the spiritual & physical world. Be part of it! Success surrounds you today. Use your intuitive inspiration to resolve issues, conquer challenges and overcome burdens. Pull the magik into your heart and soul as the day progresses. By this evening you’ll be filled with a light that shines through your smile and lights your way toward a brighter future tomorrow. ~ Merry Samhain To One And All! ~

Additional Insight:

What a great card for Samhain and the spiritual New Year! The day is filled with magik and bright energy for a better tomorrow. It’s a day to Walk Your Talk and express your own inner peace and vibrance. Many around you question your character because of your beliefs. Others may actually avoid any contact with you. Today is your chance to pull the Divine Magikal energy into your spirit and allow it to work through you as a positive force of love, compassion and uplifting force.

Take time today to reflect on where you’ve been. Review your magikal journal and read the first pages you had written. How far have you come on your quest toward enlightenment and better understanding? How far have you come to change your life toward a positive future? You have made good and decent strides in your life. Celebrate those accomplishments, no matter how small or how large! YOU DID IT!

Take confidence from those achievements and make plans for the coming year. This evening when the world has grown quiet to sit in meditation. Take time to dance around a bonfire in your spiritual mind and connect with the spirits of the Divine realm. Communicate with relatives you lost this past year, or loved ones who can visit you in spirit on this special night. Make the evening as much about a spiritual celebration as it is a reverent time for reflection.

This weekend, use the magik you feel though today to set new goals and make new plans for the coming year. Spend time then to reflect on what you’ve learned and how you can apply those positive lessons to your path for the spiritual lessons you still want to work on and the achievements you still want to make. All year we’ve talked about “you can do it!”; now that you have done it, celebrate it! Because YOU DESERVE IT!

Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: Two of Cups –

Oct30

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

You control your emotions. It’s not up to someone else to make you happy. You can accept the gift of friendship and peace, or you can continue to be angry and lonely. It takes effort and courage to make an offering of friendship. But it takes a little effort to remain stubborn and filled with egotistical anger. Make your choice carefully. It will set actions into motion that you may not want on your path.

Additional Insight:

The littlest decision can touch a hundred relationships, not only today or tomorrow, but throughout your life and even in your future incarnations. Is it worth it to hold onto your stubborn ego and stay angry?

You are not an island and while you may think you are in the right, withholding compassion and love only takes those things away from you in the end. Others will give up trying to be your friend and walk away to find love and compassion somewhere else.

It’s time to grow up and let it go. Your pride and ego are still intact. But they won’t remain so if you continue to build a wall around you that keeps others out or at bay. Tear down the wall of anger and hurt, learn from the conflict at hand and change what you can about yourself that assisted in creating the situation in the first place.

Remember, there is enough blame on both sides to go around. There isn’t a structured line between right and wrong. You’re both right and you’re both wrong. So get over it and move on with peace, love and compassion.

Today’s Tarot Meditation: The Devil – Inverted

Oct29

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Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Don’t throw your hands up and walk away. Everything worth having is worth fighting for. So things aren’t perfect. That’s life. We don’t live each day to the standards of a Hollywood vision of perfection. That’s fantasy, so change your expectations. No one can live up to that standard. Not even you!

Additional Insight:

Where did you get the idea that the right relationship means never arguing or facing bumps in the road? No relationship is perfect and everyone argues. That’s life. Get used to it. If you’re throwing away the best thing in your life because you’re having a fight, you’re not mature enough to be in a relationship.

Grow up! It’s not all about you. Relationships involve work and communication. Everyone will get their feelings hurt and your feelings are no more valid or important than your partner. You may have pushed a button that stems from a deep emotional scar your partner faced in a previous or other relationship. Their reaction may have pushed one in you.

If you truly love each other, then hold the respect you have for one another to a higher level above the hurt feelings. Let the sting of the pain subside for a day and then talk to one another. Don’t talk to your best friend who will feed the flames. Don’t talk to your buddy at the bar who has no idea what’s really going on. The only person you should be talking to is your partner. Act like an adult who wants an adult relationship and communicate with each other and resolve the issue.

Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: Four of Cups –

Oct26

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Stop pouting and facing the world with anger and angst. All you’re doing is creating more of the same in your life. You’re not an island and you’re not alone, so stop acting like you are. There are people who care about you, if you will show that you care about them. YOU control how your day goes. You decide if it’s going to be good or not. So make your choice. Which is it?

As I pulled this card today I had a spiritual visitor who indicated she had a message about “that” card. Here’s what she had to say:

There’s a difference between being a lone and being lonely. If you’re constantly angry, whither it’s at a person, a project or a thing, people are going to avoid you. That constant angst is draining and pulls others down who maybe having a good day for fighting to stay on an even keel.

Others do care about you, but they maybe afraid to show it. You may care about them, but your blind focus on negative things keeps those feelings hidden or worse, appear that you don’t care about anyone else at all.

If you want your life to change, you’re the only one who can change it. If you’re tired of the anger and frustration, then stop going off on every little thing. You expect others to deal with their issues, how about you start dealing with your own first.

Sometimes my ghostly visitors tell it like it is and don’t pull punches. What I’d say is that you can go around beating yourself up and pouting about things you said or things you’ve done, but that’s not going change things. If you want to be around happy people or people who are handling their stress on an even keel, then you have to first be that person yourself. You can’t hold others up to a certain standard that you yourself don’t meet. All you do is pull more of that same energy toward you, and like a snowball down a mountain, it will grow and eventually it may grow out of hand.

Relax a little. Get rid of some stress this weekend. Take a real day off! Go for a walk or a drive in the mountains or park. Enjoy the changing colors of fall or the blossoming color of spring. Remind yourself and those around you that you love them and care about them. Show them in the little things you do. Pick up a cookie or piece of halloween candy for your best friend. Bring home a flower for your partner. Find a sticker or tiny toy for your kids. Let the ones you love know you love them.

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Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: Knave of Swords –

Oct25

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Don’t be naive and ignore the warning signs. Someone isn’t be totally honest with you about what’s going on and not knowing could leave you hanging with nothing. It’s ok to walk a positive path and try to see the good in all things. But when you do so with rose colored glasses, you’re bound to get sideswiped and then tell everyone you never saw it coming. But you did and you’re not being honest with yourself either.

Additional Insight:

Whither you’re being taken advantage of or being told things aren’t as they really are, someone is taking something you need away from you. Don’t go looking for trouble when none has been there before. But don’t ignore your gut instincts about other situations because they “feel” closer to home and that couldn’t possibly happen. You have a certain way in your head of how things are playing out and how you want them to be. But what you want and what you need aren’t the same thing in this case.

Don’t let what you want cloud your judgement and influence you into ignoring your own inner instincts that are telling you something isn’t right here. The consequences will affect more than just you and it will take a lot of effort and expense to correct the situation if you don’t nip in the bud today.

Being spiritual and walking a positive path, doesn’t mean you have to lay down and let others walk all over you. So stop ignoring the warning signs, accept that not everyone is full of love and compassion,or ethical respect and protect your own interests today. Stand up for yourself AND your family! If you don’t do it, who else is going to?

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Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: Three of Swords –

Oct24

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Stress and strife may make you overwrought today. All those aches and pains, both physically and mentally are piling up and wearing you down. Life is filled with its ups and downs. You decide how they impact your day. Try not to let the downs get to you more than the ups lift you. Whither it’s the changes in the weather or doing the fall chores that are affecting you physically; or the stress with kids, family or finances you will get through it. Don’t make it all out to be more than it is!

Additional Insight:

Sometimes a pumpkin is just a pumpkin. It’s not hiding any deeper meaning or warning you about a bigger issue. Today you might be letting all the little things pile up and seem like a big deal. But they’re really simple little issues that will pass and have no meaning.

If you can, let them pass by and take their energy somewhere else. If you can’t, try not to make a mole hill into a mountain. A simple conversation will take care of the issue and you’ll be done with it.

Consider a quick 15 or 20 minute meditation at lunch today to ground and balance out your energies to an even keel. Or perhaps take a 15min nap and dream about something fun and exciting. How about a nice calm old fashioned clipper ship balloon ride through the clouds, or a roomy submarine ride under the sea. Take yourself somewhere in your mind that’s unique, new and beautiful.

There’s nothing wrong with taking a little escape and getting a different view on things when you come back. Reality doesn’t seem so overwhelming after a nice few moments of peaceful fiction. It really is going to be ok and tomorrow is another day.

Tips For Turning Things Around:
Here’s a trick I share with people who feel they’re constantly facing the negative side of life and want to change the pattern. Continue reading →

"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