October
12: These days the sweet chestnuts are falling from the trees. Poor people were
fed by those trees for free. Who or what will provide for me?
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| The Enchanted Map Oracle |
Then I
opened the little guidebook and I read:
Dig deep for inspiration and truth. Now is the time to
become resilient and adaptable. Is your life presenting you with opportunities
that seem to yield nothing? Have your ideas dried up? Does it feel like you’re
on an endless journey through a dry, hot, lifeless desert? This card reminds
you that there are times when you are meant to become resilient as you journey
through harsher circumstances. You’re being required to conserve your energy –
until, after consistent effort, you reach the oasis you’re searching for.
Consider the creatures that live in these conditions: they have adapted to
thrive in spite of the outer environment. In a desert, water, essential for
life, can be found deep underground. Go deep within yourself now…find your
truth there. Let Spirit sustain you while you locate the real source. Whatever
it is you’re asking about will not be found in the conditions you’re in until
you move past the surface of things and choose to do the real work and discover
the answers deep within you. This may not seem like the most productive time
but looks are deceiving. This is a most important place to find what is truly
right for you.
So it all comes
down to this: I have to take care of myself in times of need. Inside me I have
resources not yet discovered. To stay in the scenery of this card there is a
well inside where I can drink and be filled with strength and intuition which
will guide me to the meadow, the forest, to anywhere but here
I’ve been
in the desert several times already but never it was so dry and barren as last
time. Although I didn’t know it at the time those inner resources have pulled
me through. Now I know that every time you’re in the desert you learn and adapt
to survive and you become more flexible and resilient and your higher self knows
that there’s always an oasis to be found.
Today I’m
going to fill my inner well with some meditation and reading. You never know
when you’ll need it. My daughters boyfriend is making coffee; for now he
provides for me. J
I love this card and the strength I feel from this woman. She reminds me of my own strength and to remember how strong I am. Seems she speaks to you in a similar way.
ReplyDeleteI would like to see more of this deck. Love the colours. Will have to check it out. For now, I am off to make my own coffee ... haha. I am grateful to be able to provide for myself. :))
It's beautiful deck. Colette Baron Reid has a lot of the pictures on Facebook, so you could go there to check it out.:)
DeleteNice card, and nice way to understand it. Nothing like a good cup of coffee in the morning :) Happy Saturday!
ReplyDeleteThanks, same to you ! :)
ReplyDelete" She’s standing tall and confident, her head held high: She is the one who will provide for herself in times of need."
ReplyDeleteWhat I thought of before I read the post was "She is the one who will offer succor to the flora and fauna in this hall of need"
We have had it hammered to do self care in order to do other care. Until we are fearful of reaching out to others, lest we fall aside ourselves.
Such a fine line to tread.
The self-care hype is probable the result of many women giving and caring too much for decades. Now it is up to us and all those women to become equilibrists searching for balance
DeleteThe bird in the card reminds me that there are times I need to look objectively at the big picture of my life. If I do, I will see plenty of times when my life sucked, but I will also see me moving on past that place eventually.
ReplyDeleteYes that symbolism fits well with birds. The two of wand in the Osho Zen is a bird flying high above the mountains. The card is called Possibilities. Often when things get hectic I imagine my self above the situation and everything seems less pressing and important and decision making becomes more easy.
DeleteI love how the wind is catching her yet she appears to be embracing it, letting it wash over her. It is almost as if she understands that the winds can change in an instant and she is ready for that change, knowing she can handle it. "Whatever it is you’re asking about will not be found in the conditions you’re in until you move past the surface of things and choose to do the real work and discover the answers deep within you." - very powerful and very very true.
ReplyDeleteThis is a very intuitive deck. One day a card is telling me this tale,the another day it's speaking of something entirely different. I don't use it that often, perhaps to keep its advice's fresh and clear :)
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