Goodness me!! Jeeze these are a kicker this week! Ouch! I have said a lot on each card so let’s keep it simple to close. The message this week is quite simple for me. “The world is too much with us” as Wordsworth said. It is very easy to get side-tracked by the physical environment, the world is in chaos, there is no doubt. For me the only way to get through this is to breathe and focus on my energy, what am I putting out there, am I adding to the fear and hatred, or am I acting in love and compassion.
Am I surrounding myself with loving, supportive and healing people, or am I adding to the problem by “going to war” – no war has ever solved anything – only resulted in more hatred, more anger, and more crap – breathe through this week, time to find things that make you happy, face the fear that surrounds you and decide what you can do WITH-IN YOURSELF to experience it differently.
Have a blessed week – hug someone you care about – it will make you both feel better!!
Card by card explanation
Psychic Tarot of the Heart: Well-deserved Reward
Discipline, grace, compassion and satisfaction.
Have a look at your relationships, either way, your efforts are paying off. Relationships you are involved in with compassion and grace are coming together, relationships you have processed with anger, frustration, and other fear-based emotion are also showing dividends.
We experience this reality in relationship to others and the world around us, we exist because there are others apparently separate from us, we can only experience our existence relationship to others.
The Psychic Tarot: Awareness
Tender-hearted Masculine Energy.
Being a man is not only about power, protection, control and strength, sometimes that power and strength can be gentle and supportive too. This card reminds us of this aspect of masculinity.
The same hand that wields a sword can also hold up an elderly person, cradle a baby’s head, and gently touch a rose. It is all in the intent you use your strength. There is a saying “you catch more bees with honey than vinegar”. Strength can be gentle too. Gents, time to check your masculine actions, your strength etc. Are you using it to control and manipulate with fear, or are you using it to support and guide?
Ladies this doesn’t let you off the hook!! We all have masculine and feminine energy within us – it is a balance we create constantly – when you are needing to stand up for yourself, do you attack or stand calm in your strength?
The StJinx Arcana: The Crown Prince of Swords
(Traditionally the Queen of Swords): Direct communication, clear boundaries, honesty, fairness, clear perception. The Crown Prince of Swords is the epitome of the feminine aspects of air (thought) embodied with-in the masculine form. His energy is more supportive and balanced than the King of Swords.
Although he is keenly perceptive and can see through crap in a second. He is honest, blunt and forthright. Don’t underestimate him though, he sees and catalogues everything and when you least expect it can unleash a torrent of logic and power that leaves you reeling. In this context maybe a reminder to breathe and listen rather than speak, use logic and not emotion to process this week.
Make clear boundaries, and stay with them – just a note here – if you have clear boundaries and someone crosses them, this does not entitle you to demand their compliance, they have just as much right to their thoughts as you do, it does mean though that you can remove yourself from the situation, reduce contact with them etc. Enforcing your boundaries does not mean forcing everyone to bow down to your will, it means deciding who you allow into your space and who you don’t.
The Teachings of Abraham Well-being Cards
It is my dominant intent to look for what I want to see.
When you look at and work with quantum theory, you come across an interesting phenomenon, best explained by describing a scene from the movie “What the Bleep Do We Know?”. In the scene Marlee Matlin is standing with her back to a basketball court – on the court there are thousands of basketballs bouncing some high, some low, some rolling, etc., when she turns to face the basketball court, there is only one ball bouncing as she expected it to. This is how our minds work, we process billions of bits of information a second, but are only aware of a few thousand of them.
As we go through life, we make “agreements” with reality. These agreements can be from religions, parents, causes and others who help shape our minds in childhood. These agreements become our “conscious filter” so to speak. When we have an experience, our conscious filter, filters out all the stuff we don’t want to see. Starting to make sense why two different people, involved in the same situation, can see things very differently. This card reminds us that what we are seeing and experiencing is only part of what’s really happening all around us. We have seen this a lot in the last few years. If you are looking for discrimination, you will find it, if you are expecting people to treat you badly, they will, it is actually not in their actions, but your interpretation of their actions.
Remember always that “negative” emotions are always based in fear. If people treat you badly it is because they are living in fear. This does not, obviously, condone or excuse aggressive behaviours, but it can help you deal with the experience and help you to forgive and release pain that no longer serves you.
Get up in the morning and make the choice – everything is a choice. Make a choice to find 5 things to be grateful for today. Then at the end of the day, list them. This will help change what you look for, so what you look at will also change. PRO TIP – don’t repeat anything on your list for at least 21 days!
Psychic Tarot: Suffering in Silence
Are you sitting at home at night wailing about the unfairness of life, bemoaning your fate, thinking everyone hates you, then putting on a brave face to the world, or even worse, going out into the world with war on your mind to destroy and harm all those that have harmed you – remember the lesson in the previous card – they may, or may not have intended to harm you. If they did – don’t destroy them, they are having their own experience and if it involves harming others, they are living in fear, and guess what, by you buying into that and fighting back, you are giving them exactly what they want. It is called being an adult.
You are now longer a two-year-old throwing a tantrum when you can’t get your own way because someone else hates you, or is mean to you, you are an adult, and an adult knows that other people do not have to dictate their actions, they can choose to be offended or not.
An adult can decide whether someone should be part of their lives or not. If your friends don’t like your partner, well they don’t have to visit or be included in your circle, if your colleagues discriminate against you, or hate on you at work, you don’t have to work there?
A mature adult knows that the world isn’t going to change because you are upset. It is gonna do what it is gonna do and ranting and railing against it is just gonna get you more hate. Smile, breathe and leave the situation. If someone says something offensive to you, smile and say you know you may be right, but I like who I am, I don’t expect you to.
Say it with love and compassion. You can not change the world BUT if you change yourself, the world automatically reacts and responds to that, you will start meeting people that do demonstrate compassion, that do understand you, that can celebrate you as you celebrate them.
The World Is Too Much With Us
By William Wordsworth
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not. Great God! I’d rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.