August 13 - August 19
Decisive, knowledge driven decision-making skills are vital to living a full life. When you allow someone else to make decisions for you, you miss the opportunity to be a creator in your own life. Knowing how to make up your mind and then taking action ends the personal chaos and allows you to take control.
If you find you have difficulty making decisions consider the following:
- The only way to make change happen in your life is to make a decision.
- You will never know what you are made of and what you are capable of if you don’t make the decision to know.
- Making up your mind should not make your life stop, it should move your life forward.
Worrying about whether you will make a mistake when you make a decision can drive many people into a tailspin. The deciding factor should be the outcome you wish to achieve. Does the decision feed it or block it? Does the decision ultimately feed life or suppress life?
Sometimes a decision is not so obvious and this is when your personal intent must be examined. REASON and ORDER and the ability to DISCERN and DISCRIMINATE are vital in these moments. Use the cards 4, 5, and 6 (The Emperor, The Hierophant, The Lovers) to assist you and see yourself as the CHARIOT driver, one who knows the right use of limitation (also seen as containment) to establish harmony.
Examples: Think about water and how easily it can be directed. Beavers do this all the time using debris to redirect the water. Humans do this by building concrete structures to hold and redirect water. Humans can do this with energy as well.
Think of your decision-making process as intent in action.
Showing posts with label Lovers Card. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lovers Card. Show all posts
Is The FDA Killing The Lovers?
I’ve been watching the FDA's approval of the no cycle pill that is being pushed on the fertile female population and I have to say I’m seeing fascinating possibilities right along side horrorific problems.
From an esoteric standpoint it is rather disturbing to see the female cycle being pushed underground like this. Take a look at the Lovers card. When spirit comes into physical form it is split into feminine energy and masculine energy. Feminine energy represents the subconscious and masculine energy represents the self-conscious (the angel is the superconscious in case you were wondering.) Our bodies take the form of one or the other and some people are blends of both. Our bodies may represent one or the other but creating cannot happen without one or the other hence we have both internally. One of the energies is not better than the other; it is not superior to the other and it is not dominant to the other. Both have roles to play in creating.
We each have masculine and feminine energy inside of us. I say inside of us because we have never found an adequate way of describing the process of masculine and feminine energy in the feeling and thinking process. Hence the problem with this new pill – are we attempting to displace the subconscious by masculinizing the feminine? And if so, what does that mean? Are women so out of touch with the mysteries they hold that they are willing to destroy them instead of traveling the path of discovery? Has society decided the menstrual cycle is taboo and so we must remove it? Is removing the possibility of pregnancy compensating for the lack of sex education? What is it women believe about themselves and about their masculine aspect? What is it that men believe about the feminine aspect of themselves?
On the other hand, there are many that believe we are becoming androgynous and eventually we will blend masculine and feminine to the point of not looking like either one in particular. This opens a myriad of possibility. Will we then be able to shape shift and become what we need to be for the moment? Wow, that might be the coolest thing ever. It certainly would challenge online gaming. Why bother paying a fee to pretend when you really can? Will we be able to disguise ourselves like the undercover cops in A Scanner Darkly?
Medically and psychologically I think this proposes another whole set of issues. You are playing with hormones here and having been a guinea pig for Depro Provera in my early 30’s I can tell you it’s not a good idea, especially when there is no emotional support for the process. Although not having a period was liberating in many obvious ways, the weight gain was something that absolutely threw me not to mention the psychological aspect. My understanding of who I was, of the role I played socially and physically became very blurred when the hormones weren’t there to create it for me. I had no tools to understand what was happening and I became very uncomfortable psychically - I just didn't feel right some how. In fact, the hormones are what make us male and female so what the heck are we doing to ourselves? Can this be safe? Is it a smart thing to do?
I know as a student of the occult world that we aren’t changing a thing in many respects – creating still happens the same way it always has, it just is. My observation is that we are changing the appearance of the process and making it more difficult to really “see” and understand the truth. We can change the way we think and that changes what we manifest but we can’t ultimately change the base process.
What do you think is the underlying message here? Is this an attempt to control the population in general or a particular portion of our population? Is it all about our societal views of nature vs man or is it divine evolution?
From an esoteric standpoint it is rather disturbing to see the female cycle being pushed underground like this. Take a look at the Lovers card. When spirit comes into physical form it is split into feminine energy and masculine energy. Feminine energy represents the subconscious and masculine energy represents the self-conscious (the angel is the superconscious in case you were wondering.) Our bodies take the form of one or the other and some people are blends of both. Our bodies may represent one or the other but creating cannot happen without one or the other hence we have both internally. One of the energies is not better than the other; it is not superior to the other and it is not dominant to the other. Both have roles to play in creating.
We each have masculine and feminine energy inside of us. I say inside of us because we have never found an adequate way of describing the process of masculine and feminine energy in the feeling and thinking process. Hence the problem with this new pill – are we attempting to displace the subconscious by masculinizing the feminine? And if so, what does that mean? Are women so out of touch with the mysteries they hold that they are willing to destroy them instead of traveling the path of discovery? Has society decided the menstrual cycle is taboo and so we must remove it? Is removing the possibility of pregnancy compensating for the lack of sex education? What is it women believe about themselves and about their masculine aspect? What is it that men believe about the feminine aspect of themselves?
On the other hand, there are many that believe we are becoming androgynous and eventually we will blend masculine and feminine to the point of not looking like either one in particular. This opens a myriad of possibility. Will we then be able to shape shift and become what we need to be for the moment? Wow, that might be the coolest thing ever. It certainly would challenge online gaming. Why bother paying a fee to pretend when you really can? Will we be able to disguise ourselves like the undercover cops in A Scanner Darkly?
Medically and psychologically I think this proposes another whole set of issues. You are playing with hormones here and having been a guinea pig for Depro Provera in my early 30’s I can tell you it’s not a good idea, especially when there is no emotional support for the process. Although not having a period was liberating in many obvious ways, the weight gain was something that absolutely threw me not to mention the psychological aspect. My understanding of who I was, of the role I played socially and physically became very blurred when the hormones weren’t there to create it for me. I had no tools to understand what was happening and I became very uncomfortable psychically - I just didn't feel right some how. In fact, the hormones are what make us male and female so what the heck are we doing to ourselves? Can this be safe? Is it a smart thing to do?
I know as a student of the occult world that we aren’t changing a thing in many respects – creating still happens the same way it always has, it just is. My observation is that we are changing the appearance of the process and making it more difficult to really “see” and understand the truth. We can change the way we think and that changes what we manifest but we can’t ultimately change the base process.
What do you think is the underlying message here? Is this an attempt to control the population in general or a particular portion of our population? Is it all about our societal views of nature vs man or is it divine evolution?
Secret Scents - Attract the Lovers Card
People who don’t believe synchronicity, or serendipity, is a real phenomenon and want to chalk everything up to coincidence, do they believe there is a higher power, God, or a divine source of energy we all come from? If they do I would love to know how they think a divine power would communicate with us. After all, we are spirit in a body (or genie’s in a bottle if you will) and when we need to hear from “home” how does it happen?
Okay, Melissa, what tangent are you off on now and what’s this got to do with tarot? Allow me to explain.
I have been conducting intense research and meditation with the Lovers Card over the last several weeks. Last Saturday I headed for the local library for my twice a month visit - I read a great deal, all kinds of topics, as you will see. I have always practiced what I call “book magic” or “library magic.” I just roam the shelves until I find a book or books that interest me. I rarely choose a topic before starting my book magic. It’s amazing how dead on the books I find are to the personal and internal life I am leading at the moment of choosing the book. It never ceases to amaze me when it happens – sometimes before actual national and international events occur as well - and I am always so incredibly grateful for the information and the experience.
The funny part of it – I usually don’t know from the title or subject that the book is going to match up or have not made the connection until after the fact. It’s the one aspect of my esoteric journey that I wish I had documented as it has been happening for a good 40 years but alas it never occurred to me that it was important other than to amuse me and help me over a bump in the road.
Getting back to the Lovers Card. One of the book’s I checked out was about Marie Antoinette and her perfumer, A Scented Palace - The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer.
It seems that the perfumer kept a diary of his business and his ascent into the French court and ultimately into the Queen’s personal circle. It’s a fascinating quick read – I got enamored with all the scents and combinations of scents, not to mention the fashion and intrigue. He even describes some of his recipes, in passing of course. Well, guess what I found out after I brought the book home and started reading? The Lovers card is associated with the sense of SMELL!
Now it isn’t earth-shattering information but it is a reminder that spirit moves in mysterious ways and maybe not spirit so much as the subconscious. It tells me that filling my mind and my thoughts with the LOVERS card and its imagery pulled me to topics related to the information and I realized in a flash of a moment, I need to begin working with scents to trigger meditative states.
Look for moments like this in your own life. I know they are there. But remember if you are preoccupied with topics that are counter to what you want to achieve then you will attract that instead. First, you need to become aware of what your mind is occupied with!
Okay, Melissa, what tangent are you off on now and what’s this got to do with tarot? Allow me to explain.
I have been conducting intense research and meditation with the Lovers Card over the last several weeks. Last Saturday I headed for the local library for my twice a month visit - I read a great deal, all kinds of topics, as you will see. I have always practiced what I call “book magic” or “library magic.” I just roam the shelves until I find a book or books that interest me. I rarely choose a topic before starting my book magic. It’s amazing how dead on the books I find are to the personal and internal life I am leading at the moment of choosing the book. It never ceases to amaze me when it happens – sometimes before actual national and international events occur as well - and I am always so incredibly grateful for the information and the experience.
The funny part of it – I usually don’t know from the title or subject that the book is going to match up or have not made the connection until after the fact. It’s the one aspect of my esoteric journey that I wish I had documented as it has been happening for a good 40 years but alas it never occurred to me that it was important other than to amuse me and help me over a bump in the road.
Getting back to the Lovers Card. One of the book’s I checked out was about Marie Antoinette and her perfumer, A Scented Palace - The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer.
It seems that the perfumer kept a diary of his business and his ascent into the French court and ultimately into the Queen’s personal circle. It’s a fascinating quick read – I got enamored with all the scents and combinations of scents, not to mention the fashion and intrigue. He even describes some of his recipes, in passing of course. Well, guess what I found out after I brought the book home and started reading? The Lovers card is associated with the sense of SMELL!Now it isn’t earth-shattering information but it is a reminder that spirit moves in mysterious ways and maybe not spirit so much as the subconscious. It tells me that filling my mind and my thoughts with the LOVERS card and its imagery pulled me to topics related to the information and I realized in a flash of a moment, I need to begin working with scents to trigger meditative states.
Look for moments like this in your own life. I know they are there. But remember if you are preoccupied with topics that are counter to what you want to achieve then you will attract that instead. First, you need to become aware of what your mind is occupied with!
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