Tarot Journal #28: Daughter of Coins

Emerging into My True Self

According to Buddha

Above all, be at ease, be as natural and spacious as possible. Slip quietly out of the noose of your habitual anxious self, release all grasping, and relax into your true nature. Think of your ordinary emotional, thought-ridden self as a block of ice or a slab of butter left out in the sun. If you are feeling hard and cold, let this aggression melt away in the sunlight of your meditation. Let peace work on you and enable you to gather your scattered mind into the mindfulness of Calm Abiding, and awaken in you the awareness and insight of Clear Seeing. And you will find all your negativity disarmed, your aggression dissolved, and your confusion evaporating slowly like mist into the vast and stainless sky of your absolute nature.

From sloppy buddhist

This is what I am working on today put into perfect words by a fellow blogger.

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Video: The Circle (a visual poem)

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From director Ezequiel Pini: “The circle evokes time, or more precisely, the fragments of time that pile up in a vast scenario of unique moments and memories. It is an introspective journey of wonder and imagination through these glimpses of time. This simple form has been a character present in my work for years, it represents care, calm, and attention to achieve its ultimate perfection. We are a circle, without boundaries, beginning or end. Infinity, Unity, connection, just a circle in expansion.”

This piece is part of Moco Museum collection. To be exhibited in Amsterdam and Barcelona.

Six N. Fivefounder Ezequiel Pini celebrates a new milestone with his latest piece, a short film dubbed ‘The Circle.’ Calming and introspective, the film exemplifies the artist and designer’s surreal, otherworldly style, this time taking the viewer along a journey of many quiet worlds. The protagonist of the story —…

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Tarot Journal #27: 6 of Swords/6 of Disks (success)

A Good Map Will Guide My Steps Home

Timing and coincidence can influence the success or failure of an endeavor of any scale, but almost anything worth doing well needs passion, planning, and a whole lot of work to be realized. I am in the final outlining stages of my moving plan. I want to set it up so that I end up in a place I want to stay so I am taking care in making a good plan, adjusting the steps as new ideas and information appear. I have limited resources both financial and assistance so I am trying to work out the timing so I can put as much in place before I start the process so I can work on filling in the details as I go with eye to cost and clarity. If I can keep plans simple they might be less likely to go awry. I am trying to set it up so I can work smart and when I need help I can be clear about what I need and when I need it. An added side effect of planning is the reduction of anxiety which grows like blackberry vines in the summer when I think of all the complications involved in moving. I don’t know if all this will turn out as I plan it or maybe even better as I keep an eye out for all the possibilities available. I just know that not having a plan is madness. I may be a little unrealistic, but I am not into flying blind. So I will open my eyes and take a peek and make plans putting the pieces together where they best fit into a smooth transition to my new home.

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Illuminated Fungus

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Flowers of June

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