Sunday, 28 April 2019

Three of Pentacles


In the pursuit of creating our own life and wellbeing, we often tend to forget how much depends on the others to participate in our life, seemingly not always as active agents. We may forget that everything and everyone is connected to something higher than ourselves - a larger construct of a Universe's cathedral. The power of synergy is always at hand.
The real value of ideas and actions that stem from them lies in a higher degree of collaborative forces at work. The faster we understand it, the quicker it gets things done and accomplished. Through listening and sharing, through understanding that we cannot be simply experts at every single subject we may move forward to achieve what we planned.
Every process of creating has to be put into stages. The birth of ideas, then creating a scene where it is built upon them and finally fulfillment. The second part is usually when we think of finding the aids, support that can help to get us through. In other words - a good plan of management and creating things according to that.
In our cynicsm and lack of humbleness we often think that what others can do to contribute to our experience. We lack the right approach to treat people as they should be - respecting their dignity and input.
Disagreements, the miscommunication, the bloated ego, make us think of something that only we are  able to achieve. Soon we can learn that this is not the case and we are seriously misguided.
We can also experience something else - working in a mundane and simply boring workplace we are not appreciated enough and our contribution is not valued and overlooked. It might be a good idea to move on.
You also might need to find it easier to work alone. Make sure, however, that help can come in the most auspicious moments.

Sunday, 21 April 2019

Two of Pentacles


We are the jugglers, in our daily life, full-time, part-time, in the breaks between. The pressures and requirements of modern life make us so. We cannot avoid it, we cannot break this cycle. We are working multiple jobs while we are taking up different roles. There seems there is no time for anything.
But in fact it is you that manages your own time - and you can make it happen. Ask yourself - What life do you want? What responsibilities you can take?
We often take too much. And that involves the guilt, too. It involves overthinking and rationalising things that actually shouldn't be taken into account at all. The responsibility for all the damage that has been done doesn't sit well, we all know that. But is it really us to blame? We can do our bit. ANd with a moment, a hint of deep awareness and mindfulness - there is so much we are actually able to make a step forward. Even the smallest one counts.
The key is to mind yourself - your wellbeing and manage the priorities/time/life force continuum.
Being patient and flexible helps a great deal here. It's a necessary tool to wait till something is actually accomplished.
Overcommitment or not paying the proper attention to different parts of your life and the actors on the chessboard is the other side of the situation here.
Re-defining and re-assessment of your situation can put things in place.

Sunday, 14 April 2019

Ace of Pentacles

The most important question we always ask ourselves is how to motivate yourself and get started with what we really want to achieve?
New beggining as Spring may appear so can also bring some light to what we know and how to go about it. The time is nigh when it comes to initiating the endeavours that can come to fruition.
The goals are starting to manifest, there is a great deal of positive energy surrounding their accomplishment and foremostly lots of luck. Time to start building new structures but to do that you need to be in the right mindset - start mapping out the opportunities that can come and the ones you can use to the advantages of your plans.
We often ask ourselves how to invite wealth into our life. But the wealth is an idea, that can be well conceived before we have an after-thoughts that we are actually becoming wealthy. The more harmonious embrace on how to feel wealthier is usually about thinking about how much we already have and the gratitude that we feel because of that.
The more wholesome and holistic we feel about the whole inner Universe of what we have actually achieved and what resources are we able to use attracts the wealth in our external world and life.

We may feel a bit apprehensive about the success that comes strangely to easily. Rightly so - sometimes things which look good on the outside may unexpectedly fall through. Be ready to spot one. Financial gains are rarely the ones of luck and charm. They are the fruit of work and negotiations. Being pragmatic is the key to understand what wealth can do, how we can manage our expenditures and how to steer through a narrow alleyways of coming and going opportunities.
Delays and other impediments are always the signposts of such situation.

Monday, 8 April 2019

King of Cups

One of our most ultimate trials is often how to survive the stormy season being true to your own values and foremostly how to stay balanced among the bombarding impulses.
To gain the control over the conflicting emotions that stir the usual routine and take the lesson in creativity as well as maturity and stability is no easy task. But to use your wisdom while accepting the challenge of turmoil can bring you further afield in what you may have only imagined.
Life is and always will be but a trial - it is custom made according to what inhabits our subconscious plane and how we deal with that on a conscious level. The more awareness and light we bring into a limbo of the depth the more we are able to guide ourselves and use it to guide other on their own quests.
It helps us to realign ourselves using our own experience to help others but also may point out something more important. The realignment of our principles up to date.
Working with others might be quite an impossible task when they seem to sabotage our plans and introduce chaos to our known world. But this is also another task to do - it's understanding that the plan of the overal life design involves disturbances coming from outside, in this case - also people who seem to be drawn to the fact - quite unaware- that they are part of the show, too. Their drama is not yours although they might inflict so.
This process might be the greatest tool to look into the core of the problem - our emotions - this whimsical sea that we need to learn to navigate.

Sunday, 31 March 2019

Queen of Cups

The hardship of Winter is almost behind us, we are slowly submerging into the bloom of Spring.
There comes a time in your life when after a period of intense hard work and supporting others we might come to the point when the actual care should be given ...to yourself.
We are often co-dependent with others, entangled in long lasting relationships where a long term emotional addiction was preceded with initial intention of giving help, care, support and understanding but over the course of given time it has turned into something that became the opposite of what it was supposed to be.
We have been giving ourselves for long time but time has come to release the ones we loved and nurtured to freedom of their own judgement and choice.
This can surprisingly be true to ourselves.
To give life and space for new "You" - you need to let go of something that you thought will always work out.
You have your intuition.
No matter how busy your head and life is - try to listen to it - dilute the little drops of the wisdom nectar from what is you. The brand new you, a new phase, a new mode...
You might be a little bit out of touch from your emotions - but fear not. Once you acknowledge it, the whole construct of your psyche will start working towards creating a new pattern and you will soon feel it. Just Let Go...

Queen of Cups is the Queen of Intuitive Wisdom, what stems from it - is The Nurture. Taking it in as it is - Absorbing and Embracing with understanding and not judgement.

Sunday, 24 March 2019

Knight of Cups

Creativity in our life can have a multi-dimensional form. It can be both the strength and the lesson we have to learn. It can be the trigger that releases more energy and fulfills all what is yet to achieve.
Knight of Cups has a special mission.
Its main objectives are being humanitarian, altruistic, compassionate, being the patron of beauty and affectation.
When we are ruled by our heart it's not always certain what will be the outcome of the situations we are involved in. To make it our strength we need to use those tools where it is needed rather than trying to use them in all cases. How we feel about the situation doesn't always prompt the right mental and intellectual judgements. The best choice here is intuition - this embellished sword that is displayed by hunches but also affects our thinking, our view of situations.
We may be obviously misguided by all this.
Or putting too much pressure on the rational and practical thinking - judging and making assessment not really just and prone to make mistakes in the whole plan.
We might be affected by jealousy and sulkiness. Our emotions can cause being hard on others or simply not getting the best out of ourselves.
The most important of all - with being dismayed by our heart is to observe - think how much is there left to be done. How much our positive emotions and heartfelt opinion can help not cause pain.
It's all there...

Sunday, 17 March 2019

Page of Cups

I am being asked quite often where do the ideas spring from when I think of the path of life I am on.
Is it an intellectual process that brought me to the point where I can actually use my mental abilities to throw myself in the whirl and swirl of creating new things?
It's a long process and usually doesn't work instantly but if you think of getting yourself out of the walls of known world, the ambience that actually doesn't allow you to go any further - just start with the basics.
Basics? As in expressing yourself through an artistic possibility. It may by anything, it may be not what you think you are good at but still it is something you might need to consider when making first step towards releasing certain degree of tension of simply being stuck in the rut of similar or the same ideas that lead to the same outcomes.
The energy flows usually within a certain route and the trick is to drive it into another one.
The tool that we need to master here is our own intuition - that breaks through many obstacles like immaturity, passiveness and the fear of failure.
These are just a few of many but the most important point here is actually through the process we need to embrace, a process that includes hits and misses, mistakes and even to some extent failures can help us.
In the end we will feel that it is not even the goal that was important. It's an invitation to act. The elusive mystery of embracing yourself in an act of discovery.
As in Dead Can Dance song:
"Ulysses"

John Francis Dooley
Wipe the sleep from your eyes
And embrace the light
You have slept now
For a thousand years
Beneath starless nights
And now it's time for you
To renounce the old ways
And see a new dawn rise

In former days
Masks were raised
When the god came down
From off of the mountain
And the sacrifice was made
For he knew the day of wrath
Was fast approaching
Just like yesterday before the war

John Francis Dooley
The scapegoat has run
All our sins are disowned
And now it's time for you
To take off your mask
And cross the Rubicon

If you and I were one
Within the eyes of our designs
It would still not change
The fact of our leaving
For tonight we must leave
With the first gentle breeze
For the Isles Of Ken
We are assailing

Just like Ullyses
On an open sea
On an odyssey
Of self discovery