Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing – Three of Cups – Inverted

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Your cup is full even if things are upside down today. Stop listening to the complaints of others and taking on their messages and energy. You’re not following their path and you don’t have the same issues as those around you. You’re working yourself into an unnecessary frenzy, so stop it! Focus on your work, what lies right in front of you and avoid the negative rants from others. At least for today, close the door, stay inside, and be alone with your thoughts. You’ll be much better tomorrow and you’ll feel more empowered to continue YOUR work.

Additional Insight:
Even on the brightest of days it’s easy to get dragged down by the emotions of others. Their negative outlook isn’t the same hardships you face. While they’re spinning their wheels and spiraling out of control, you have been working hard, staying focused and trying to deal with the challenges on your own path. You may feel out of sorts today, but blame it on the weather and avoid allowing the fear and frustration of others to pull you down farther into their muck and mud. You are FAR from being stuck in a deep hole with no way out. Tomorrow things will not seem nearly as bad and you’ll be much happier for keeping the baggage of others off your shoulders! So perhaps for today at least, it’s a good time for a little seclusion where you can think about your path, focus on your own solutions and work through your issues with your own inspiration and connection to the Divine forces in your life.

Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: Two of Swords – Inverted

Feb15

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

The search for understanding can only be accomplished in the light. Be careful in hiding behind the pillars and in the shadows, for what you might find will be tainted and inaccurate. Don’t allow fear and trepidation, be it yours or someone elses, influence your path and cause you to runaway and hide. That won’t solve anything and will create more confusion and sorrow. Stand in the light of the Divine and face your fears. If that means cutting off your association with certain people, do it now. You’ll be much better off in the long run!

Additional Insight:
Running away from your problems, or associating with those who don’t hold your best interest to heart is not the way resolve the issues in your life. The shadows of fear and negativity distort your view and your perspective. Don’t try to run from it with the negativity of those who only want to use you. Things are not that bad when you work in the positive light of the Divine. You will see the silver lining if you step from behind the pillar, make the effort and take the time to look for what is really going on, and how this situation will benefit you in the end. You won’t have to go it alone.

Should You Really Follow Your Heart?

Feb14

Which Is The Better Guide: Emotions or Instincts?

Happy Valentines Day to one and all.

Today many people will experience new love, others will rekindle old love, and some will find the strength to walk away from destructive love. It’s a day where people often allow their emotions and heart to get in the way of what they need and allow what they want to take over. But are your emotions the better guide to making the right choices?

The answer might be easier to figure out than you think. We often tell people to “Follow your Heart” when making important decisions. While that might sound like good advice, it’s often the wrong thing to say. Our heart or emotions are often clouded by a variety of psychological elements. Past hurts, nagging voices in our subconscious, fear and trepidation of a potential future of pain and distress all play a role in forming our emotions and emotional responses. Continue reading →

Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: Knight of Swords – Inverted

Feb14

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Watch the signs around you today, they’ll point the way in the right direction. You can hold love up in triumph if you use your common sense along with the emotions of your heart. Don’t go it alone only your feelings. You may make a choice you’ll regret tomorrow. Be smart, listen to your gut instincts, you’ll be able to tell which path is the right one. And you’ll not only protect your heart, but your mind and body as well.

Additional Insight:

Emotions of the heart aren’t always your friend and can lead you to quickly to things you think you want, but end up being something you don’t need. Be cautious on this day of love and guard your emotions. If this love is meant to be, it will stand through the day with patience, devotion and compassion. If you move too quickly you could be putting your heart, as well as your mind and physical body in harm’s way. Take it easy, watching the signs that pop up around you. Be aware of the inner instincts that pop up in your gut feeling. They’ll let you know if it’s ok to move forward, or to simply say thank you and walk away.

Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: Five of Swords

Feb13

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Don’t be afraid or angry about explaining your decisions, they were yours to make in the first place. While you may not have taken the advice of those in your life, they must remember it IS your life and you must be the one to live it. But if you show a little compassion toward their hurt feelings and offer your reasoning behind your decision. They don’t have to agree with you, but they should respect your choice. If they can’t do that, then maybe they have ulterior motives that they’re not being forthcoming about. Ask them.

Additional Insight:

Hurt feelings aside, you can’t please everyone and you can’t run your own life according to someone else’s assumptions and expectations. They are not the one who has to live with the consequences for the rest of your life. But don’t get angry and offended if they’re upset that you asked for their advice and didn’t take it. They could be upset because they care so much about you. So try to be calm and compassionate. Explain why you made your choice and why it was important to you. If they can’t live with your decision, than accept that and walk away. Don’t give into their demands. Who knows, they might be right. But you’ll learn lessons as you pursue your dreams and goals. Be true to yourself and you’ll have no regrets over the woulda-shoulda-couldas.

What Is A Spiritual Expert – Part II

Feb12

The Alpha Role A Title Is Earned. Not Taken!

What Is A Label:

Almost everyone wants to put aspects of life into categories. To give a name or label in order to segregate this group from that group. Most of the time this isn’t done to degrade or persecute people. But rather to make sense of the world around us. Humans like order, to compartmentalized their world into smaller pieces as means to deal with life and all its parts. Spiritual people are no different from anyone else in this regard. People want to be able to call them self something that represents who they are and what they believe, or their standing within their community. Labels are simply a way to do that. It’s not a bad thing and merely a part of the conscious mind trying to organize the vast information they hold in the mind and process within their consciousness.

Not everyone feels the need to take on a label. And that’s ok too. But consider how people use labels every day and in every aspect of life. We organize information on our PCs with folders (labels) to make it easier to find files. We organize papers in file cabinets in order to quickly locate what we’re looking for. We organize the kitchen to know where the glasses are versus the plates and silverware. Everyone uses organization and labels in their daily life, so why wouldn’t we use it to identify the self as well? Even those who don’t like labels use them in various ways that they’ve become accustomed to. We identify ourselves as male or female, child or adult, spiritual or atheist. Labels aren’t always a bad thing. Saying I’m pagan isn’t a whole lot different from saying that section of the kitchen is the glass cabinet. So don’t be too hard on people who use labels. They’re just trying to make sense of their world or they have no issue with being self identified.

For those that do choose this method of identification, the label you chose should feel comfortable to you. To do that, you should learn about the label you chose, what it means and how it relates to your perceptions of your path. There’s a difference between a spiritual healer and a healer. No one else has the right to place a label on you and define who you are. But you must understand what the label is and what it means before you take it on. If someone tells you “I sense that you’re a witch”, that’s nice. But don’t take on the identification just because someone else has a perception of you based on their own perspectives. They could be totally off the mark and you could waste days or years trying to fulfill a label that wasn’t yours to begin with!

What Is A Title:

Titles are a little different from labels. Titles are labels that are earned. Not taken on to be impressive or to create a false sense of importance. So when it comes to saying your an expert, a Shaman, Priest or High Priestess, or any title of authority, make sure you have the right to take on those titles and you’re not misrepresenting yourself to others. Continue reading →

The 5 Minute Meditation

Feb10

Let Go Of The Stress & Relax

There comes a time in everyone’s life when the stresses of work, finances, relationships or family become overwhelming. When this occurs even the little things can seem like one more boulder on your shoulders and you simply can’t take anymore. And it always seems to happen at the worst time of the day too.

Close Your Eyes & Relax

In today’s world meditation is viewed from two perspectives, from the spiritual form of enlightenment and becoming one with spirit. If this type of meditation interests you, you may want to read The 5 Minute Alignment Meditation.

The other is through the eyes of mainstream medicine as a non-denominational practice that can relieve stress, improve blood flow, stimulate the immune system and create or enhance productivity.

Meditation from a non-spiritual sense has also been shown beneficial for relieving stress, improving health and increasing productivity. Over 300 hundred clinical studies here in the U.S., and thousands upon thousands of stress reduction programs throughout the world, attest to the usefulness of meditation for corporate professionals, blue collar workers, or for anyone who has stress in their life.

In 2008, a new study by Emory University researchers showed that those who practiced any form of Meditation had physiological changes that indicated lower stress levels. When presented with a stressful task, study subjects who practiced Meditation had lower levels of a stress hormone called cortisol compared to those who weren’t taught meditation methods. Lower stress levels have been linked to better immune function and lower rates of a variety of diseases, including depression and even cancer. Read more about Meditation As A Stress Reliever.

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Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: Three of Pentacles

Feb10

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Be content and look at the gifts nature brings you. Through mind, body and spirit, as well as through the success of your work, you can be at ease if you allow yourself to be. Your garden is sprouting and growing, and it will be in full bloom by the spring. Don’t allow your past trepidations overshadow how far you’ve come since last year. Take a deep breath and relax. Spend your weekend on the things that are most important to you. Take a break and enjoy your moments of relaxation!

Additional Insight:

It doesn’t take a lot of time to relax. Sometimes you simply need 5 minutes to close your eyes, take in 3 deep cleansing breaths and give yourself time to release the “over” the limit stresses. Many are feeling over burdened, and that can mean all the little things that create temporary and unimportant frustrations feel like they’re piling on the big things.

Some people just need someone to talk to. That doesn’t mean solving their problem, it means being there in support to listen and allow them to let off steam. It doesn’t mean they’re trying to put their extra burdens on you. In most cases, they just need to “get it out” and talking is their way to “let it go”. Don’t belittle their stress, you may not know the full story of what’s going on. Don’t compare what they share with the great stress you’re under. Again, they may not be telling you about the giant boulder they’re holding on their shoulders.

If you don’t have someone to talk to, if you can’t get out and take a walk, or go to the gym, or even clean the house to release your frustration, then try a quick meditation. Don’t let the “last straw” send you over the edge. You’re going to be ok.

The Art Of Communication – II

Feb9

Expectations & Assumptions

Communication is one of those things that people often mess up with expectations and assumptions. We expect people to respond to our communications in a certain way and when they don’t many people don’t know what to do. Assumptions are equally as good at messing up communications as well. But the good thing is, they don’t have to with a few little changes in our thinking.

I read an article recently by a journalist who shared a personal story relating to a miscommunication between her and her husband. Only I felt her conclusions to her story were missing a key point. She made assumptions that impacted her expectations and created the problem. Basically the short side of the story was this. The journalists husband was given the afternoon off because of a job well done on a recent project. He called his wife and told her about the nice reward. She decided to cancel her afternoon, pick their daughter up from school, ran by the grocery store and planned a nice special afternoon for the entire family. The time went by when her husband should have been home, but he had not arrived. Of course she tried to contact him on his cell phone, but there was no answer. Another hour went by and she was becoming angry. Two hours went by and her anger grew. Finally after 3 hours, in walks her husband all smiles and happy only to be met with her anger. She laid into him and in his defense he reciprocated the anger. In the argument he announced that his phone died and he didn’t have a way to charge it. Ok that explained the cell phone. His delay in coming home occurred because he took the opportunity to get a hair cut and stop by a store for shaving cream on his way home. Ok that explains where he was. Continue reading →

Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing – Queen of Swords – Inverted

Feb9

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Play your own tune and don’t worry about the criticisms of others. Many around you can’t see the work you’re putting in. And that’s ok, they don’t need to. You have satisfied your own conscience and gotten the job done. Anyone that expects more than that must look at their own plate and focus on what they need to do. Stick to your plan and your path will ride out the little bumps and take you to your goal without greater hardship.

It’s easy for others to criticize than for them to look at their issues. But just because they throw in their two cents doesn’t mean you have to listen to them or take in what they say today. You know how hard you’ve been working and even though you haven’t been telling others about the long hours, those who are important to you have noticed. So don’t change your tune, it’s your music to play and today the only person you need to satisfy is YOU.

"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