Transparent Oracle Sunday!
29, Guide:
Turtle (West). West is the direction of Water, and thus, of feelings and
emotions, relationships of all kinds, cleansing and healing, the wisdom
associated with natural endings, and the bubbling up of pure joy. Water is Turtle’s environment, but not
only Water, for 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.
61, Gateway: The Self (Within). This card is considered a “blank canvas,”
in that it has faces and hands like the other Within cards, but there are no
traits or textures or shapes or colors infused into the faces and hands. That is because each of us is unique;
this is a great significator card, and I am choosing to accept The Self as
offering a message: “These cards offer a unique message to you, but that
message must be perceived through your own unique senses and interpreted
through your own unique intellect.”
This card tells us that the first and main purpose of life and living is
to get to know our individual Self.
35,
Landscape: Forest (North). North is
the direction of Earth, and thus of the physical or physically formed or
manifested world, and of nurturing, health, finances and security, and the
wisdom associated with living simply, being well-grounded, and being in touch
with our physical body. Forest is
about the results over the long term, results which happen because of fertility
and nurturing and patience; Forest represents the manifestation of age and
wisdom and patience, connections (and results) that are not openly apparent but
rather, like roots under the ground, are all around us. Different energies can work together; a
Forest is proof of that.
I then stacked my cards and
created my mandala. This one has a
different feel from the past few weeks; rather than a sense of accomplishment,
my first instinct with this one is a sense of blockage. Getting to know myself is an ongoing
process, I know this, and from the messages in these cards I am getting a hint
that it is time to examine a new layer of the Self. It seems that self-protection will be an important part of
this process, the ability to shut things out, the ability to open completely,
and the ability to open to what I need or want and still filter out
distractions. This is a long-term
project, for sure, and it won’t be accomplished by just shutting out the
outside world. Time to stick my
head out from my protective shell and see what is around me!!
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