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Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: Four of Cups – Inverted

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Sometimes you have to fan the flames of a fire to get it started. Put some attention to the flame that burns within you and get things started today. Match your inner spirit with your outer physical being to bring your desires into play and create what you need most in your life on both a spiritual and physical level. It’s not enough to think with your head, if your heart isn’t willing to follow.

Additional Insight:

You can over think things sometimes. You may mentally believe that living in the present is the important thing to do. You may practice with effort to release the past and not let it rule your life. But if you don’t incorporate those mental understandings in your heart, you can still mirror the old bad habits.

Allow your heart to find its passion again and fan the flames of desire. What do you really want? Are you being wishy-washy and keeping old dreams alive in your new world. You’ve changed and you’ve grown a lot in the past few years. Do you still want the same things you wanted backed then? Your heart thinks so, but your mind has moved on.

Take some time to examine your inner desires and bring them up to date with the new you. You may find those old dreams aren’t really significant any longer. Or they’re not really what you want today at all. Maybe they simply need a little tweaking. You’ll never know and continue holding yourself in stases if you don’t take the time to figure out….what is really your passion …Today!?

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

Oct5

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Abundance is hanging down from above, waiting to be picked. You know what needs to be done to attain it, so why aren’t you doing it? Things are not going to happen on their own. Everything worthwhile takes an effort. Stop dreaming about the things to be done, stop thinking about the things that need to be put in place. Simply start doing them, and stop putting them off!

Additional Insight:

Things are not going to happen on their own. Prayer alone won’t organize the steps needed to bring your dream into reality. At some point you’re going to actually have to do some real work to bring abundance into your life. Whither its writing a business plan, buying lumber or paint, applying to local businesses, or talking to that guy or girl you like; you must put action behind your thoughts.

Creative visualization and prayer add energy to the goals you set for yourself. But this isn’t the movies, there are no magik wands or faery wishes that will create what you want out of thin air. The magik you put behind the energy comes from physical action of putting yourself in the right place at the right time.

Believe in yourself. This message has been repeated a lot this year. Take the step and move the confidence out of your head and into hands where you can bring them into the physical world. Stop making excuses, stop putting it on the back burner, stop saying you don’t have time. Stop doing it for other people and start doing it for you! This is your time. You can do this. So get to it! Continue reading →

Busy, Busy, Busy

Oct5

Not Enough Time In The Day/Week/Month!

I’ve been working on other projects that are taking a lot of time away from my blog here. They’re fun and exciting projects and I’m enjoying them at least. Some of them are articles for other magazines. So stay tuned, I’ll be posting news about the release of those issues as they come. Some are for December so we have a little time to wait.

There are three reflection articles I have in the works for now:

Confidence and Ego – When is it ok to judge.
In our modern world, judging others has become a ‘bad’ thing. Maybe there are times when making judgements is necessary.
Teaching Your Children – Sharing the path with your kids.
Where to start and how to safely incorporate them into your practices.
Dealing With Illness And Disease – When it exists in those you live or work with.
Living with older relatives can be trying. How can you use your spiritual perspective to make things better.

It seems this time of the year things always get more jammed packed with things to do, leaving little time for the things you plan to do. I love the fall and winter seasons. The change of leaves and the excitement of seeing the snow fall on a cold winter day are both wonderfully fun for me. Now..if I could make a schedule and have it actually work out the way I plan, there will be time enough for everything! ..yeah right. 😉

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

Oct4

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Take it easy today and find something to get your mind off the stressful things on your plate. You’re working yourself into a frenzy and doing so will cause you to make mistakes and forget what’s important today. Remember you’re only one person, you can’t do it all. And by the way, you don’t have to! So stop thinking you can’t rely on anyone else, because you can!

Additional Insight:

If you don’t take care of yourself, your thoughts and actions will make you sick. You’re burning the candle at both ends because you think you have to do it all. You don’t! There are many people around who will help you out if you simply realize you’re not the only one who can do these things. Shared responsibilities can indeed be shared!

Take it easy and try to take a little nap maybe. The rest will help you get through the day and it might even help you clear your mind a bit to tackle the jobs you can’t put off until next week.

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

Oct3

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Your creative energy can manifest the strangest things, but often times they are exactly what you need at the moment. Your unique humor can cause others to laugh and help them through troubled times, but it also helps you as well. Allow your compassion and frivolity to light the darkness and help others find their way out of the shadows and from under the mushrooms.

Additional Insight:

Your spiritual beliefs and unique humor can often carry you through times of trials and help you to handle change and transition. Share that ability to assist others who do not have the same perspective. Not everyone has that inner strength and many fall into deep depression when troubles occur or a loss is experienced. It doesn’t matter if that change is the loss of a job, relationship, friend, pet or relative. The end of something tangible has equal emotional sorrow as those things that are intangible.

You can aid them in not falling too far into the depths of despair with your tempered humor and compassionate attention. Sometimes looking at the silver lining is equally as important as feeling sorrow and letting it out.

Too much of anything isn’t good for anyone. Holding sadness in can fester and cause more harm than good. Letting sadness rule your life isn’t a positive expression of emotion either. Ensuring that one expresses a balanced approach to their emotions allows one to grieve over things or people lost; and yet still maintain a sense of emotional stability.

It’s never easy losing someone or something that was important to you. But the only real constant in life is that things change. Fight that change and you’ll lose the battle and miss the chance to find love or fulfillment in the future. Accept that things change for a reason and celebrate what they brought to you in your life and you can focus on the good things in life and be open to new lessons and experiences it has to offer you.

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Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: The World

Oct2

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Everything in the world is at your finger tips. All you need to do is reach for it. It’s not going to come to you on its own. It’s not going to be given to you in a present or package. Heal your wounds and find your inner confidence to be all you can become. Then stand up and reflect that image to the world around you. You’ll be wearing the crown of success and sharing your compassion with others before you know it.

Additional Insight:

Don’t be the wounded warrior and wallow in self pity. Even if you have to start over again, you are ahead of the game. You can apply what you’ve learned through your previous experiences and this time, rely on your own insights and choices. Don’t leave them to someone else and then give up because it didn’t turn out the way you wanted.

Show compassion for yourself, from there you can grow out of the healing and into your own crowning achievements of success. Reflect not only to the world what you are, but back to yourself as well. When you believe in you; others will too.

Remember, when you align your own inspiration with that of the Divine Creation in your life; you can achieve anything. But first you must believe and get to work. You can do it.

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Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: Queen of Swords

Oct1

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Don’t let your bad mood yell at someone who doesn’t deserve it. The weather is changing and it’s affecting you physically. Use your mental prowess to control your emotions and keep them in check. If you do yell at someone, make sure you apologize and explain your condition. They might feel compassion for your situation and not get to angry at you for the bad mood.

Additional Insight:

Swords represent Strength or Strife. Which emotion will you choose today? Will you find the strength to endure and control your own emotions? Or will you look for strife and attack those who don’t deserve your pain and anger?

When the weather changes, so does the barometric pressure. That pressure in the air affects everyone differently. For some it can feel like your entire body is in a vice, for others it can cause severe migraines. The colder it gets, the worse these pains can become.

So on those days when a storm is coming through, or a weather front is approaching, try to remember that some people are dealing with a great deal of physical pain and it wears them down. If they yell at you, ask them if they’re ok. A little shoulder rub can really go a long way to helping them find a little relief.

If you’re the one suffering with the pain, don’t use it as an excuse to be mean to people. How you act and react affects those around you adversely as well. You might be suffering but if you’re not going to do anything about it, don’t be surprised if others start ignoring you or find ways not to be around you. Your pain and bad mood is yours to deal with, it’s not someone else’s problem.

Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: Five of Cups

Sep28

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

Close your eyes and focus on what’s within the crystal ball. You have the ability to align your energy with Divine Creation and create the day or dream you desire. It takes more than magik it happen though. So if you feel blocked or face an issue that you can’t seem to resolve, look within for the answer. You already know what to do, you simply have to tap into that stream of consciousness to see it.

We sometimes forget that we’re both spiritual AND physical beings. Sometimes making things happen requires a little energy from both sides to create what you need and not only what you want.

You don’t have to go it alone. Close your eyes and concentrate on that Divine creative force in your life. Whither it’s The Great Spirits, The Thunderbeings, the Goddess or “God”; that force is in your life, ready and willing to help you energize what you dream.

Make those dreams positive ones. Don’t use them to manipulate others to do something they otherwise might not do. Use them to overcome issues or resolve challenges that present themselves to bring lessons onto your path.

Remember you can, because you are One with the Divine in your life!

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Today’s Tarot Meditation Drawing: Ace of Cups – Inverted

Sep27

Mystic Faery Tarot by Linda Ravenscroft

The flow of ideas rises from beneath the cup and provides you with not only empowerment to succeed, but with the ability to spread your wings and glide through the winds with ease. Stop the negative talk and focus on what you have going for you. You may think things are turned around trying to hold you down. But look again, you’re floating beneath it all, pushing it upward and letting your own light shine. You’ve got this! Start believing it!!!

Additional Insight:

It’s not a little thing to have love, compassion and self-confidence when approaching your projects and plans. Believing in yourself, even in the face of adversity can create more than a sense of empowerment, it can overcome obstacles and pull positive like minded energy into your ventures.

Negative thoughts, breed negative energy and manifest the same hardships on the ethereal plane. Do this long enough and that energy takes form on the physical level and challenges fall at your feet each time you try to take a step forward.

Look in a mirror and decide what it is you want to see in the reflection. Are you looking for a scowl or a smile? Do you want to see anger and disgust, or joy and love? Do you want to see the reflection of success or another day of hardship and challenge?

YOU are the one who decides what lies in the reflection. Whither you’re reflecting the image of self, your path ahead or the path behind you. You choose which occurs in your life. So stop looking for the bad things, stop expecting the other shoe to drop, stop putting yourself down, and stop being so damn critical of yourself and the things around you.

You have come so far and you have accomplished so much already. You haven’t failed, you’ve survived! And today, that’s a really big thing to have accomplished! Now it’s time for you to take the survival and put it to good use. Empower yourself, believe in yourself and take the next step to achieving your goals and dreams. You really can do this! Because you already have succeeded! Now believe it and take the next step.
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Religious Awareness In America

Sep27

The Importance of Secular Government

Secular:
of or pertaining to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal: secular interests.

There’s a lot of talk in the U.S. today about the founding fathers establishing our constitution based on Christian values and therefore America is a Christian Nation. Unfortunately this propaganda by religious zealots is false and not only breeds intolerance, it misrepresents the intent of the founding fathers or attempts to re-write American History.

I believe it’s important for all people to speak up and correct these misconceptions if our nation or any nation is to remain free. Many have given the ultimate price to ensure those freedoms and if their sacrifice is to remain meaningful, everyone must ensure the attempt to change history does not succeed.

Through some research I happened upon the following article that can explain the historical position of many of the founding fathers and their predecessors. Thanks to the author for allowing me to reprint their ever so well written article here. For more reading, check the resources provided by Mr. Walker at the end of this article.

A few definitions to help up front:

Deism:
belief in the existence of a God on the evidence of reason and nature only, with rejection of supernatural revelation ( distinguished from theism).
Atheism:
the doctrine or belief that there is no God, disbelief in the existence of a supreme being or beings.

Little-Known U.S. Document Signed by President Adams Proclaims
America’s Government Is Secular
by Jim Walker
earlyamerica.com

Some people today assert that the United States government came from Christian foundations. They argue that our political system represents a Christian ideal form of government and that Jefferson, Madison, et al, had simply expressed Christian values while framing the Constitution. If this proved true, then we should have a wealth of evidence to support it, yet just the opposite proves the case. 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