Best wishes for 2010 – reading for the year
The card I drew to guide us in 2010 is the nine of cups, subtitled Happiness in my favourite Thoth deck. It’s a beautiful card showing nine purple cups topped by golden lotus flowers stacked in three rows of three like a champagne fountain, with streams of liquid gold flowing bountifully down from the top cups to overflow onto the ground. It looks like a celebration in itself and that is exactly what this card means in its simplest sense.
Woman’s wisdom
There has been a lot of emphasis placed on the return of the feminine “mother” energy to our planet as we approach 2012, and I attended an excellent workshop on the meaning of the divine feminine a couple of weeks ago. What I already knew, but it was brought home to me fully during the course of that weekend, is that as with all great spiritual truths it begins with yourself. The divine feminine is essentially the unconditional love aspect of Spirit and I realised just how difficult it is to give that to ourselves, let alone extend it to others.
Handling the Death of a Friend
I recently lost a very dear friend – she was the first person I really connected with when I moved to this area and she was a big part of the reason why I felt so welcome and at home here. Apart from my Nan, a good many years ago now, this was the first time I’d had to come to terms with the death of someone important in my life and it has been an illuminating experience.
Family matters
In my healings over recent months the issue of isolation is coming up again and again – people feeling alone, different, as if they don’t fit in with their family or the people around them. I can completely empathise with this as it’s something I struggled with for many years. I tried to fit in, to make friends within certain groups but it felt like a lot of hard work for very little return. What I finally realised was that I was looking to others for validation, identity, a sense of belonging and even my own happiness.
Me and my shadow
Do you ever ask yourself why a particular person or trait in someone irritates you so much or catch yourself reacting over-dramatically to something really quite trivial? I have come to recognise that when I do, it’s my shadow rearing its head. What I’m actually reacting to is something that I don’t like or want to admit exists within me, only it’s so much easier to see it in other people!
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Quietly, everything is shifting.
You don’t need to know exactly what it means yet.
Just stay curious -
about what you value,
what you believe,
where you stand.
#StayCurious #TimesOfChange
Aries New Moon 🌑♈ (Apr 17, 12:52pm UK)
A new cycle begins - an invitation to step into something new and live more fully from your true self.
Full guidance + podcast in the link.
#AriesNewMoon #NewBeginnings
A coastal walk revealed something magical 🌊
As the sea spray rose, shapes began to form, first dancing figures… then a face. Zooming in, I saw the laughing Old Woman of the Sea looking back at me. Take a look… 👁️
#SeaMagic #Elementals
As we leave the Easter weekend, this is what my heart is singing:
"We all live under the same sky
We all will live, we all will die
There is no wrong, there is no right
The circle only has one side"
- Lyrics from "Side" by Travis