Tuesday, October 18, 2011

TAROT Notes

Pentacles:  (Earth)
   Money, Financial Matters
   R:  things

Swords:  (Air)
   Thoughts, ideas
   R:  attitudes


Cups:  (Water)
   Relationships
   R:  Emotions


Wands:  (Fire)
   Intuition
   R:  will

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Deck of the Day: Voyager

The following is from James Wanless' Voyager newsletter for October.  Easy to understand commentary on the four money cards in this deck.  Check out your favorite deck and see how it applies.  Bright Blessings this day!


Voyager Connection
October 2011


Money Magic Issue

The Four Money Cards in Voyager Tarot
What are the four "money cards" in Voyager?  These are the only cards that have actual money coins in them - Emperor, Sun, Ten of Worlds - Reward and Sage of Worlds - Master.  These four cards indicate four basic strategies for making money.
EMPEROR: Build an Organization, a Company, an Empire.
SUN: You, Yourself, are the Business – "Solopreneur."
TEN OF WORLDS - REWARD: Investments, Gambling, Speculations.
SAGE OF WORLDS - MASTER : Right Livelihood that integrates Profession and Profits with Passion, Play, Path and Purpose. 
 
What's your way?  Pick Cards for yourself about each of these approaches.
 
Reading the Tarot to purposefully empower people is "Right Livelihood" because not only do you make money, you also learn about yourself and grow yourself in the process.  It's both a spiritual path and profession -and it's fun.  Reading the cards is becoming a recognized "folk therapy," a kind of affordable counseling for millions that combines coaching, mentoring, therapy, and futurizing.
 
The Fortune Mind: Science of Good Luck
In an empirical study of people who are lucky, it was found that good fortune is an intended product of following four principles.  These four qualities describe the "fortune mind," the ability to see and seize opportunity everywhere and to turn and transform any situation into gold!
The Four Fortune Principles:
OPEN: Being open to everything, every moment, every person, every every in every moment.
POSITIVE: Always remaining positive regardless of what happens.
INTUITIVE: Trust and have the courage to act on the intuitive feeling and impulse.
OPPORTUNISTIC:  There is an opportunity in every situation to be seized.
When you do the Cards, keep in mind these qualities of being open to whatever card comes your way, trust your intuition, and be positive to the growth opportunity that each card (and life experience) brings you. This way, you don't have to try to get "good" cards.  Every card is good in the sense of being a useful, productive, insightful resource and energy – food for thought and growth.

Fortune Arrow Reading  
Use the three "Fortune Arrow" cards of Magician, Sun and Fortune as your path to money magic!  
As a Magician, determine your magic (your gift, talent, thing, art, shtick, genius). As the number one card in the Tarot, you must know your magic to fulfill your potentials and live your destiny and life purpose.
Pick a card that gives you insight into your magic.  If you don't know your magic, pick a card(s) to suggest how to become the Magician in you.  
As the Sun archetype, show and shine your magic to the world!  Express your magic and reveal your gifts again and again on a daily basis like the sun.  If you don't use your magic, you lose it.  What a waste of life.  Pick a card that indicates how you are or can be the dynamic, powerful, passionate, creative magician in life.  
As the Fortune-Maker, be opportunistic.  Seize the day and the moment as resource for growing and building your fortune.  Be open and receptive, allowing and accepting.  Follow the four principles of good luck.  Pick a card that reveals your present opportunity in life. 
Place your Magic, Sun, and Fortune cards together as an indication of your fortune path, the arrowhead that leads the way!
 

 

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Come, My Merry Makers....

78 leaves fall from the maple.  The curious and wise gather.  Decks pop open.  Wisdom tinkles tea cups.  Once again the wisdom of the Tarot gathers us into a circle to share.

The Fool stands playful, jaunty and two white papillions nip at  heels.  Leap.  Fly.  Reach out into the void.  The Now is in the current step.  What is your journey?  I forget I am in my Lovers year.  Yes, yes, of course.  Heirophant cycle.

To figure your growth year:
  Birth month:  ____
+  Birth day:     ____
                         ______
=                       Total
+                       2011
                         _______
Growth Year:


The Fool (0)  is your journey, the soul essence of forward stepping, and will not show up as a growth year.
The Magician (1) holds all the tools of transformation and will not show up as a growth year.


Your Total + the current year should not exceed 21.
22 will always be reduced to = 4 (The Emperor)
28 will = 10 (Wheel of Fortune) and will not be reduced more.

Next month we will look at  growth cycles and patterns of evolution.


(Thanks to Mary Kaye Greer, Angeles Arrien and Rachael Pollack.)


Bright blessings on the shiney autumn day.


 

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

A Gathering of Fools

The call of the cards, 78 archetypes of wisdom.  Tracy and I have yearned to do a study group and finally as the chaos winds of autumn settle, the reality begins.  Today we hovered over first decks, favorite decks, coveted decks and allowed the Fool to guide us.  No absolutes.  With gratitudes to Rachel Pollack, Angeles Arrien, Mary Kaye Greer and James Ricklef (Fool above), we launched into the current of the cards with great joy and expanded understanding.

Friday, September 23, 2011

labyrinth on equinox

roadside blackberries stain my lips
dogs and i step forward, back, turning
south, east, north west and round again

cross quarter sun shoots hot beams
light shimmers into my squint
the circle of the year turns
walk away from ego, merge with soul
breathe the chi of now


Friday, September 23, 2011

Lightworkers As Light Anchors

As we in the Northern Hemisphere enter our Fall Equinoctial gateway this weekend, we're also entering the end of time: the Ninth (and final) Wave of the Mayan Calendar concludes on October 28, 2011, according to Mayan scholar Carl Calleman's research. Then what?

Equinoxes, when day and night are of equal length, are all about balance. This one is also about deep integration, beauty, and yes, despite outer appearances, peace. One of the best ways to bring more of these attributes into your life now is to see yourself as an anchor of light, itself an oxymoron. Yet this is the moment when all paradoxes coalesce into perfect sense.

Cosmic weather reporter, Irma Kay Sawyer, Irma Kaye Sawyer introduces the designation, Light Anchor: someone who is "grounded, yet familiar with travel in 4/5D states, either to share energy (as a healer), information, or both. Light Anchors usually have Sun in an Earth Sign, and/or predominant earth planets, but this is not always the case. Their job through the Shift is to 'hold down the fort' (they like that term!) and create a safe space for people to awaken to their own light resources. Most of our spiritual visions are seen in our meditation time. Many Light Anchors are Adult Indigos (1st and 2nd wave) and also 'Wizards' who are in their late 60s all the way to their 80s now. Light Anchors often work with words to convey their messages and can serve as teachers, writers and channels."

In nautical terminology, a light anchor, or kedge, is used to help turn a ship around. The flip side, an anchor light, indicates a vessel is stationary; not under power. And while it's gratifying to anchor the light, right now many of us seem keen to sing, "Anchors Away!"

So yes, balance is key, along with acute creativity. A very early name for my work, before Live Your Light, was Metamorphosis: The Center for Creative Change. Astrologer Allison Rae offers a potent look at creative changereative change this Equinox weekend, in the form of 100,000 Poets for Change, who are creating social artistry via global public readings, demonstrations, concerts and vigils.

We each have the choice and opportunity now to become social (r)evolutionaries: light anchors for an emerging world.