Transparent Oracle Sunday!!

8, Guide: Eagle (East). East is the direction of the rising sun, and thus of new beginnings and fresh ideas, as well as knowledge, intellectual ideas and thoughts.  Eagle is considered the King of Birds, and often is seen as a Divine Messenger because he can fly to such amazing heights.  He tells of being able to see into the distance, and of achievements (and associated honors) gotten through courage and focus.  When Eagle is around, courage and perspective and vision will bring great results.

29, Guide: Turtle (West). Water is emotional and sensitive energy that strives to stay the same; its dignities are cold/binds and wet/adapts.  Water is Turtle’s environment, but not only Water, for like Otter, many Turtles are at home on Earth (and in fact, Turtles lay their eggs on Earth).   Turtle offers us an opportunity to learn about protection; not the kind of protection that shuts out the world but rather, the kind of protection that allows us to dive deep and explore the unknown without fear.  Turtle is also slow and steady, is patient, and endures; Turtle has a long lifespan, and has existed relatively unchanged since ancient times.  Turtle’s shell shows us how to exist in spite of the churning eddies of life, without being affected by them.  After all, she is able to safely travel between the worlds because she is well-protected.

9, Guide: Wren (East).  The element of Air represents quick and animated energy that usually presents problems or challenges, the solving of which offer opportunities for growth and evolution.  The dignities associated with the element of Air are hot/separates and wet/adapts.   Wren is pretty amazing; she is a combination of ambition (sometimes ambition that seems on the surface to be out of reach) and cunning (which enables Wren to surprise us as she attains the unattainable), which allows her to think out of the box with amazing results.  Wren tells us that bigger is not necessarily better, and often it is the seemingly insignificant contribution of the most invisible of players that allows us to win the game.

I then stacked my cards and created my mandala.  This one is full of eddies of motion!  When you think about it, this should not be a surprise; after all, we are working with both Air and Water, two elements that ebb and flow and eddy.   The flow here feels like a dancer doing spotting turns while revolving in a circle; a similar image would be our solar system, with the revolving planets circling around the centrally located sun.  But there is more a feeling of centrifical force in the larger circle; the only gravity present seems to be between the individual triads.  Hmmm . . . perhaps that means they are working together to crate that larger clockwise circle (which direction usually has an outward or emanating or creating intent, as opposed to a counter-clockwise circle, which is more about drawing in or undoing).  We also have opposites here: we have Eagle, the huge bird who soars the highest and sees the farthest, and we have Wren, the tiny bird with big ambitions and the cunning to achieve them.  And Turtle is able to navigate through these churning waters,

I’ve also thrown my first Wild Unknown card, and here is the system I will use (LOL, just so I can remember): I will describe the card, describe how it makes me feel, and describe the energies or message I get from the image.  My card for today: the Son of Swords.  The image on this card is an owl with a sword in its talons, point facing in the direction he is moving; the owl appears to be in a dive, rapidly flying from upper right to lower left.  My initial feeling upon looking at the image is that I am totally on the sidelines here, watching some intense event happening; this owl does not see me and in fact, does not even know I’m there.  The energy of the card seems quite focused, as if the owl was hurrying to bring the sword to someone, or maybe he is taking the sword to safety.  Whatever is happening, it is very urgent that the owl gets to wherever he is going, a matter of life and death if you will, and he knows this.  He is focused, focused to a narrow beam, almost like the laser sight on a gun.  I don’t sense anger or fear, just extreme urgency and powerful focus.  I’ve watched countless ospreys dive like this to catch a fish; if you look away at the wrong moment you miss the whole thing, but the power in those dives is incredible.  That is what I feel when looking at this card.

Today I spent the day at Yoga Teacher Training Intensive 2.  Another awesome day; I learned some incredible things about the ways our bodies work.  Our bodies are absolutely amazing.

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