LunarMusings

One Thing: Be Brave!: Tarot Readings

 

I haven't done a Be Brave! entry in quite some time.  I haven't done much here in quite some time actually.  :)  Its been such a busy year so far and for the last month  I have been furiously getting ready for an art fair that I will be participating in next week.  (I will post information on this in a later post.) 

But for now, for this moment there is this.   After 12 years of studying Tarot and reading for myself and friends via emails and the occasional late night card reading, I have decided to make my services available to those wanting to use it as a tool for growth!  I feel the butterflies fluttering furiously as I type this.  Its a big step, but one that has been coming for a while and I am excited to see where it leads me.

For now I will be doing it via email so others will have a hard copy for themselves to use in their personal work.  I have quite a ritualized approach to reading, and as yet don't feel comfortable doing it in real time with the querant in front of me.  Perhaps that will be my next Be Brave! step! 

This is the beginning.  I look forward to being of service to whomever seeks it.  Here is what I wrote as a description on Etsy:

The Tarot has been a potent divination tool for many generations in a wide variety of cultures. Jung described them as being mirrors to the deeper unconscious. When things seem jumbled by the emotions and over stimulation of our daily lives, the cards serve as a mirror and map of what is truly happening on the spiritual plain underneath all the noise.

My readings serve to illuminate the underlying dynamics of the circumstances in your life, and pull through the questions that want to be asked by you. Deeper then fortune telling, the cards reveal the things that you can't see or are unaware of, and that are keeping you from living your truest, freest, fullest potential.

An Inner Revealings reading is a tool to empower you in your own personal work of healing and evolution. These readings are intended for you to take into your journaling, your meditations, your altars... that clarity may be sought and that a path may be paved for you to explore yourself deeper. For this reason, I find that having a typed copy of a reading works well when wanting to go back and reread what was revealed by the cards.

With purchase, please submit a summary of what is going on for you at this time, and what you are seeking to gain further insight from. An email will be sent to you within 3 days.


Disclaimer: The intent of these readings is to offer insight into a situation that will aid you in your personal work. These readings are a tool. Your life and your choices are your own and I as your reader do not assume responsibility for your actions. I do however make every conscious effort to read your cards responsibly. Tarot readings are not intended to replace the help of a professional when needed, and serves best those who have an established practice of self facing and inner work.

One Thing ~ Be Brave!: Taking A Break

I'm soaking up the last bits of Winter by hiding in a lovely cabin with friends up in June Mountain, California.  (Just north of Mammoth)  I'm amazed at how much snow I have seen and been in this Winter.  Being a Southern California girl... well... you can imagine how much I don't normally get!

I've been pretty scarce around these parts in the last several months.  So much is stirring and changing.  And I have been in a very deep place of incubation this Winter.  I am on a precipice.  Scared, anxious, excited, brimming with ideas and all the seeds that I took with me under the ground cover of this season.  Spring is less then a month away, and I need to take this time to really gather the energy it will take to launch myself off this cliff of limits and fear I have been much to comfortable on, and fly into the new frontier of my one big life.

Some of my seedlings, (new layout for this blog, a zine, new art and journals at Lunar Adornments, a collaborative project to create a deck of meditation cards centered around Sacred Pregnancy), are taking up residence in my heart and mind and demanding full attention.  These babies wanting to be born deserve to be BIG.  And I want to play big in life through them.

So I'm off for a month.  I'll return in the Spring with flowers in my hair, sacred art of the soul to share and much to write about!  I will continue to visit blogs when I can.  I get so much love and inspiration from all of you living your lives in the Beauty Way that you do...

Much love to all of you, and may the rest of this potent season give you the energy, nurturance and magic to launch yourselves in a big way this coming Spring!

One Thing ~ Be Brave!: Dream it.

I got this note from the Universe today:

            By the simple act of thinking, Elena, vortexes are created, invisible energies are applied, and circumstances begin creeping to make real what was previously just imagined. This supernatural pull of your thoughts continues long after you think them, whenever there follows intent, expectation and action; moving mountains, parting rivers, and doing the "impossible" until there is the inevitable manifestation.

        This is how your "thoughts becoming things." How they physically become things in a dimension that already exists, with billions of players and massive momentum. Not by appearing out of thin air, but through a manipulation of such forces in the unseen that literally begin shifting, morphing, and arranging all of the elements in your life so as to deliver to you the nearest equivalent of what you've been thinking. In other words, the "law of attraction."

    "Thoughts becoming things" explains the law of attraction. It's why there is a law of attraction. And unlike any other 3 words in all the vocabularies of all the languages in the world, "thoughts become things" tells you exactly where you fit into the picture, as the thinker, the decision maker over what you will think about, revealing your power as a supernatural, all powerful, unlimited, CREATOR.                    

        But, of course, many prefer not to think of themselves as so phenomenally powerful.

            The Universe

So as I'm preparing information packets for my upcoming Solstice Visioning Gathering, I want to encourage myself and all of you to dream big, think big, and let your intentioned thoughts become reality!

One Thing: Be Brave!: Coalescing The Vision

I have this dream... a big picture vision that I have held for quite a long time.  Its simple in some ways, often times its of a feeling, of me Being in a moment, by a window with lots of trees outside, the Ocean not to far off, and I'm creating and writing. 

Lately, I have become aware of how terrifying it is for me to really look at this vision with the eye of the Witness.  To See it as valid.  To actively fill in the details of this life I want to live.  So I have post it notes of ideas here and there, journal lists, books... fantasies.  But never do I give it enough importance or attention as to really sit down and begin to actively paint the whole picture, putting into it things and aspects of my choosing.  To do so would mean that it would be a Vision for my reality.  The manifestation of which would be possible.

I'm surprised at myself and how large a block I carry over this.  I've done quite alot of internal work, and yet this is still a huge issue for me.  Perhaps its the biggest one.  Letting myself Have the life I want... 

So this weekend I sat down with poster sized paper and began the process of bringing some of these little bits of vision together.  Coalescing the beginnings of a life design, starting with my creative work.  I'm afraid for reasons I can't fully identify, but I am going to move forward anyways.  To not do so will probably kill my soul at this point. 

This was and is my One Thing right now.

Blessings to you all.

Wellness Wednesday: Be Brave!

So for Wellness Wednesday this week I am feeling the need to introduce a challenge to myself.

I have been feeling a bit stunted creatively.  Or perhaps not just creatively, but all around.  There is certainly a lot going on in my life right now, but the flow isn't feeling smooth.  I feel like I take mini leaps here and there, and then I also find that I stifle leaps or openings that present themselves and want to be engaged.  There are things that want to make my life bigger and I am tending to shy away in fear of having more.  I so believe that this has a huge impact on my over all health.  The blocked energy in my life reflects as blocked energy in my body.  New aches and pains, low energy... all things affected by how I block movement in my life due to fear of expansion.

So over the last several weeks I have been noticing a new badge out in blog land.

Jessie over at Diary of a Self Portrait writes:

Last week I wrote a post here announcing my commitment to doing one thing every day that scares me and asked others to join in. Because of the incredible response that I have received from friends and fellow bloggers, I have decided to create a badge as well as write a post explaining this project to anyone who might want to know more about it.

This project was inspired by the words of Eleanor Roosevelt:

Do
one
thing
every
day
that
scares
you. 

One day, while shopping for art supplies, I found a card with this quote on it and thought of my mom...but then the unexpected happened and the idea just wouldn't leave me alone. Eleanor's words seemed to be exactly what I needed to help me get out the rut I had somehow gotten myself in. I figured, what's to lose? Should it surprise me that amazing things have already started to happen?

I have been a part of creative blogging communities in the past and I am always blown away by the power that emerges when a diverse group of people come together--especially when joined by a common thread. And that is why I asked others to join me in this project--so that we can remind each other to be brave on a regular basis. So that we can offer support. So that we can be each others' believing mirrors.

I have committed to doing one thing that scares me every day for a month. I started on September 27, 2007. However, because Halloween is such a perfect day to celebrate a month worth of adventurous living, I've decided to continue the project until October 31st. And, if I learn anything at all in doing this, I will continue with acts of bravery well beyond any date that I might set for myself.

Here's the rules:

• (most important:) MAKE YOUR OWN RULES.
• Do this for yourself.
• Make a commitment for the length of time that best suites YOUR needs--one day, one month, one year, one moment...it's all up to you, and you alone. ;)
• The "brave" or "scary" things that you choose to do can be as big or little as you want them to be. Sometimes it's the little things that can be the most scary!
• (not to quote Nike, but...) Just do it.
• Be on your own schedule.  You don't need to make a commitment until YOU are ready.
• This is your unique journey--make it whatever you want it to be.

I kept coming across this and getting very nervous.  I am called to commit to this in order to create more movement in my life and also commit more fully to this life goal that I have been shyly engaging in, but not living out loud with.  Part of my Wellness plan is to live as passionately and transparently as possible.  But what I am finding is that there are brave leaps and bounds that want to be taken, and I am much to comfortable in my hiding places to act on them.  I want to continue making this blog a place that inspires me, and moves me to crack open in ever braver, and ever expansive ways.

So!  I am not sure what my own rules for this are going to be, nor do I know when the next moment of bravery will come, but I do know that for the sake of my well being, I need to continue moving in the direction of my growth. 

May we all continue moving beautifully and bravely into the fullness of our magically potent selves!

Be well.