Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: King of Pentacles

 

King of Pentacles

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

The Fae are working to help you manifest the energy you’ve been creating to turn things around. It feels as if it’s going extra slow because others are distracted and haven’t been doing their part. You may have to do a little nagging today and this weekend to get the ball rolling again. Don’t be afraid to push a little bit and remind them of what needs to be done and the deadlines involved. It takes a team to make all this work out in the end.


Additional Insight:

Don’t be angry or upset with how others are contributing to your plans to make things happen and turn your finances around. They’re stressed out and filled with anxiety too. Everyone is feeling overwhelmed; it’s not only you.

Giving gentle reminders and asking what you can do to help will give them the nudge to get back to work. Reminding them that things can’t move forward until they do their part will also help. As long as you’re doing that nagging with a calm voice of support. Tone is everything today!

Don’t try to make them feel guilty, or blame for something that has already occurred. They’re not the only responsible for the mess you’re in. You had a hand in it too. If you want to make things work out for everyone, you’re going to have to face the bad and the good as a team to get it done.

Spend today and the entire weekend being calm and patient. But remember you’re the one who rules over your domain. Lead the way by example and with compassion and concern. Others will look up to you and want to do their part to please you and gain your favor. A much nicer way to get what you need….and want. Continue reading

Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: Seven of Wands

 

7 of Wands

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Don’t let someone else’s unreasonable fears or selfish jealousy, talk you out of doing something you’ve always wanted to do. Make sure you’ve considered the dangers (if there is any) and taken precautions to remain safe. Then go for it. Have the courage to excel. Let yourself look back in 20years and say “I did that”! Instead of whining and talking about the regrets you have for not doing something. You never what fun and exciting things can come from taking a chance and living out your dreams! 


Additional Insight:

Others may have concern for your well-being, but their they may also be putting blocks in your way out of fear. Make sure you take time to understand their reasons for trying to hold you back before you jump into something you might regret.

They may have some valid concerns if your feat of daring is dangerous. So listen and take the necessary precautions. But don’t allow the fear from jealousy hold you back if their only concern is that you may accomplish something they were never able to do.

Courage comes in many forms and you don’t have to face a dangerous situation to express it. Courage to live your life by your dreams and standards can also be a form of self-expression. Do you give up the dream career in order to play it safe, not take chances and be a “stable citizen”? Many people have taken that road and found themselves without a job and scrambling for that sense of security. Continue reading

Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: The Lovers – Inverted

The Lovers - Inverted

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

To become one with another being, you must first become one within yourself. No one else can “make” you happy, or make you feel excited or in-love. Those are the emotions you are responsible for and govern on your own.  Relationships are a dime a dozen, but if you want that one in a million special love affair, you must first look within and find the love of self that unites your Mind, Body and Spirit. When you love yourself for who and what you are, others will love you too and want to set off fireworks each and every moment they’re with you.


Additional Insight:

When you are critical of yourself, you quickly find fault in others. When you can’t accept yourself for who and what you are, you won’t give that consideration to others. When even you don’t love yourself, it’s hard for others to see what’s within you to love.

Stop being your own worst enemy and start looking at yourself with Divine eyes. Criticism of self is nothing more than applying the fear of the world around you on the image you see in the mirror. All that negative self talk you do, comes from the many recordings you have made over the years from the unhappiness others. They weren’t or aren’t happy; so they don’t want you to be happy. Stop giving away the control over your own emotions to those who live in darkness, selfishness and fear. Continue reading

Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: Six of Cups

 

Six of Cups

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Rest your wings and dream a little. You’ve been fluttering about like a hummingbird, but haven’t taken time to slow down and see what it really is you need (not want; but need). Be honest with yourself and look inside your own crystal ball. What is it that you really want to see in there? What is it that you’ve been asking for, but have been afraid to allow yourself to have. Maybe the reflection will help you see, you already have it.


Additional Insight:

It’s ok to have far off dreams as long as you keep them in perspective. But don’t let the fanciful fantasy of far off people or places keep you from seeing what it is you already have. Nothing is perfect, not even that dream relationship; dream house; or even that dream career you’ve imagined in your head.

So when you work on your goals and things don’t go exactly the way you’ve dreamed them to be, don’t get mad and throw away everything you’ve worked for. Nothing is perfect; not even you. And that’s ok, because that’s part of life in this world we have incarnated into.

Make sure you pay attention to the expectations you put on others and on the situations you’re involved in. Including yourself. Things have turned a corner, even though you may not see everything on the new road you’ve turned on to. There are still areas to be worked out and you won’t be able to do that if you’re allowing your distractions to cloud your real goals. Continue reading

I Was Told I’m A Born…

Wolfwitch by Springwolf 2012

Am I A Born Witch, Wiccan, Healer, Shaman?

Witch, Wiccan, Shaman, etc…

The popularity of the Full Moon Friday the 13th brought in a huge number of people to my blog and my websites. Along with those visits came a huge amount of eMail too. And I thought it was interested out of all the eMails, there was a recurring theme in about 20% of the bunch.

People have been told by someone, the someone varies from person to person, but someone has told them they are a Born Witch. A naturally born Wiccan or Shaman. A naturally born Healer or  Psychic. And few other things I’d rather not define here.  ;-o

I’ve answered each of those eMails on a personal level, but with the large pattern of recurrences to that question I thought I’d share some information here on the blog about that topic.

The simple answer is.. No, you’re not.
I’m sorry, you’re not a natural born witch, Wiccan, healer, shaman, or anything else like that.

Being a witch, Wiccan, shaman etc.  is a choice, not a birth right or predestined path. There is no witch DNA strand, or Wiccan chromosome in the human body. No magikal cell that can identify you as exceptionally different from any other non-witch, Wiccan, Shaman, Healer or anything else in the context of this question. Those are spiritual paths that one selects to follow, learn about, understand through practice and exercise. Continue reading

Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: The Sun – Inverted

The Sun - Inverted

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Ask why you’re trying to shine so bright? Is it for pride, self-sufficiency and a sense of self-worth? Are you holding onto a healthy ego with confidence because you’ve accomplished goals you’ve set for yourself? It’s ok to be proud, you’ve earned that right. Or is it a strong desire for success and popularity because you want to be admired? The latter requires work, warmth and compassion. Pay attention to your actions and reactions today. Too much confidence creates a sense of entitlement and arrogance.


Additional Insight:

Too much ego creates arrogance and those who might normally look to you as an example of success, will be turned away with no desire to get to know you at all. Don’t let your physical condition (being tired or achy, etc.) change your personality so much that you become aloof and uncaring to those around you. You’re not the only one who’s suffering with lack of sleep or aches and pains. And your attitude maybe mistaken for a sense of arrogance and entitlement, instead of the fortitude trying to make it through the day.

Yellow is the color of success, and the sun has much to offer in that regard. But you must be cautious that the pride you have in your accomplishments doesn’t swing your pendulum to far in any direction. Not enough confidence and pride in your accomplishments can get you over looked. Too much and you might gain some negative attention you don’t necessarily want either. Continue reading

Happy Father’s Day!

TooCute-20140325-05For The Dads We Have & The Ones We’ve Lost

My partner and I have both lost our Dads. We both believe in life after death, talking to spirit and that our dads do visit us. This week we both have felt my Dad around and that makes this fathers day a little more meaningful.

So for all the Dads, whither they’re still here with us or they’re only with us in spirit, I offer these words. A poem I’ve always loved and says it all.

What Makes a Dad

The GreatSpirits took the strength of a mountain,
The majesty of a tree,
The warmth of a summer sun,
fathersdayThe calm of a quiet sea,
The generous soul of nature,
The comforting arm of night,
The wisdom of the ages,
The power of the eagle’s flight,
The joy of a morning in spring,
The faith of a mustard seed,
The patience of eternity,
The depth of a family need,
Then the GreatSpirits combined these qualities,
When there was nothing more to add,
And knew the masterpiece was complete,
And this was called  … My Dad.

~ Author Unknown!

 

© Springwolfs Hanko

© 2014 Springwolf, D.D., Ph.D. Springwolf Reflections / Springs Haven, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Sunday Homily: Theology vs. Metaphysics

graduating wolf

The Academic Perspectives

The Labels We Use

People today don’t use their words as carefully as they should, or in my view, as much as they used to. Words have specific meanings because we need a shared commonality of perspectives within our speech in order to properly communicate and understand each other.

Today people put their own twist on words to mean what “they” think it should mean and that can distort that common understanding. Wars have begun this way.

That concept is one of the main reasons I’m really big on academic definitions of words, especially when writing. But sometimes it’s not enough to know the dictionary definition, but also where and how the word was first used.

Words evolve over time and new “slang” meanings are created as a result. Understandable. But some words mean exactly and only what they are or were originally defined as.

This week a fellow Minister posted an interesting thread about being introduced as a Theologian instead of a Metaphysician. Which brought up a discussion of the meaning of these words. Continue reading

Be Empowered

wolf-puppies
Don’t follow me.
Don’t walk in my footsteps.
Journey beside me and
let us share in the wonderment
of the Universe together.

~ Springwolf  🐾
© 2014

 

 

 

© Springwolfs Hanko

© 2014 Springwolf, D.D., Ph.D. Springwolf Reflections / Springs Haven, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Our Best Day Ever

Thank You

So yesterday Springwolf Reflections had its single Best Day ever! I don’t want that to go unnoticed or recognized by all of us here at Spring’s Haven. It’s an event worth celebrating and we couldn’t do it without all of YOU!

I can’t say thank you enough to everyone who came by our little home on the web and shared our Full Moon Friday the 13th posts and thoughts from this past week. I’m humbled by your kindness and willingness to share my words with the world.

It will be a very long time before we can break this single day record for sure!  We had 6,081 visitors yesterday. The previous record was a meager 788 which occurred on another Friday the 13th.

Springwolf Reflection's Best Day Ever: 20140613

Springwolf Reflection’s Best Day Ever: 2014-06-13
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Yesterday really was a world-wide event. I’m flabbergasted by some of the locations our visitors came from. Continue reading