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The Sun! What a wonderful card: happy, optimistic, empowered. When this card shows up in a reading, it suggests that things are going to go well. Your hopes are on their way to being realized. Good things are coming your way. Creativity, confidence, positivity and generosity will abound, from you, to you, around you. Today, […]
Spring! Late spring now. It’s well established, where I live. In early spring here, there is still snow. Brave little snowdrop and crocuses do appear, sometimes pushing through earth, newly visible in spots between snow, sometimes pushing through the snow itself. Yet, despite slowly warming temperatures and increasing hours of daylight, they could be covered […]
Here we are in the second quarter of the year. Spring is springing, where I live. The snow is mostly gone, the temperatures are petty consistently above freezing, and precipitation is more likely to be rain than snow. In these parts, we call this ‘spring’! And with the new quarter, we move to a new […]
I have never seen myself as a particularly passionate person. (That, it emerges, is absolutely false, a mis-understanding of myself caused by attitudes to emotions learned in childhood, and all the resulting choices made on the foundations of those attitudes. And that can be the topic of another post!) However, if someone has asked me […]
A friend gives you a gift. Do you receive it with expressions of happiness, compliment the beautiful wrapping, open it with care (or tear into it with eager enthusiasm!), exclaim over the rightness, the thoughtfulness, the pleasure of the gift, and then warmly thank your friend? Or do you take it with a grunt, while […]
In this month where the theme is supposed to be love and pleasure, I am going to start by talking about abuse and woundedness. I have set aside the post I had intended for this week in order to use this one. It feels right. (For those of you who, like me, have been scarred […]
Two quick questions: What do you think of when you think ‘February’? What colour springs to mind? I’m betting the answer to the first question was “Valentine’s day”, and the second was either pink or red. It’s as if the entire month exists for one Hallmark Moment. And that’s wonderful, if you’re in a happy, […]
For the month of January, we’ve been exploring approaches to growth and self-improvement. On this final Monday in the month, I decided to pull a card and see what the Tarot had to say about this theme. We want to be fuller, richer, happier people. We want to discover who we really are, and then […]
I have a poor memory. Lists are a way of life – and I like them! I like ordering my thoughts to make that list. I like ticking things off the list as they are completed. I like adding extras, things that didn’t make it onto the list, but got done. So I’ll write them […]
Some while back I read an article which suggested that, when we are setting goals for ourselves, we move from thinking “I should” to “I could”. I tried it out. My ‘should’ was easy to find: “I should get more exercise.” It’s true. I really should. My last job involved quite a bit of walking […]
