Tarot Journal #31: The Empress/ 9 of Wands (Strength)

Rising from Within

I went to look for apartments today. I found one in a good location at a price I can afford, and that made gave me a feeling that things are going to work out well. I will definitely have to pare down my possessions which is not a bad idea. I feel like traveling light from now on. I am bound to make some more changes in the next few years after this move. I am feeling like the present is opening into a time where I will be free to make some adjustments and choices that bring me closer to where I want my life to be.

As I walked on the hill in the forest, with all the birds and small furry creatures scurrying on their busyness, making nests and gathering from the abundance of the summer forest, I felt an expansion in my chest and mind as if I could rise off of the ground and have the power to make of my life what I want if I can just keep my mind from wandering into the darkness of fear of loss and failure. That does not mean I feel I can be without a plan. I just have the feeling that at some point I will decide my path and it will turn into the light of new possibilities. There will be shadows and problems to face, but at this point, I feel I will handle it all with creativity and courage.

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Raiding the Stash

Townsend’s chipmunk (Neotamias townsendii) is a species of rodent in the squirrel family, Sciuridae. It lives in the forests of the Pacific Northwest of North America, from extreme southwestern British Columbia through western Washington and western Oregon. Townsend’s chipmunk is named after John Kirk Townsend, an early 19th-century ornithologist.[2]

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Tarot Journal #30: XII The Hanged Man

Suspended on the Brink of a Precipice

I am working on reducing stress and increasing acceptance for whatever will be as I move into uncertainty. I have to accept uncertainty as a natural way of being. As the world is a random and usually unpredictable place, this should be my expectation. Maybe when I am feeling secure, I am simply in denial. I will move forward with this attitude and see where it takes me.

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A Day for Rabbits

Nuttall’s Cottontail (Sylvilagus nuttallii)

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Tarot Journal #29: 18 Moon/Nine of Cups

Drinking the Tears of the Moon

Each night I collect tears that fall from the moon

through

my sleeping mind

catching them in a goblet of flickering dreams

to drink when I awake,

illuminating,

with unearthly silver reflection,

the shadows

in forgotten corners

where the dreams tell stories

with their dancing forms

the way the bees give each other directions

to fields of pollen-rich blossoms

using the language of another way of thinking.

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