Hey everyone. I know it’s been quite some time since I have posted. With everything that has been happening around us all, I had to take a step back for a while. The world going a bit crazy has been hard to manage. I have a daughter in second grade and a three-year-old son. Becoming a grade school teacher was never something I had ever thought to do. During this time I have found out that it truly isn’t something that I want to do. That being said I do have another job out in the world and am now an essential worker.
This is something that I have had to struggle with as I do not wish to make anyone sick or get sick from doing my job. At the same time, I have been trying to help others with the massive amount of fear that we all are surrounded by. It can get to even the best of us. This is part of why I have stayed away.
But I can not hide under a rock and I feel like we need to be able to reach out and connect to one another. We are social creatures and need one another. Even if right now the only way I can do that is via the Internet. I woke today with an itch for my cards.
So here is today’s card pull I am using the Dreams of Gaia Tarot Pocket Edition by Ravynne Phelan, but I am using the manual for the main cards as it has more information. I will be doing a three-card pull and only pulling more for clarification. If you like this deck you can get it for yourself. Just click on the picture below.
What does the Universe need me to share?
First Card is the Six of Water:
Keywords: Kindness, Concern, Sympathy, Compassion, Understanding, Forgiveness, Love, Ideals.
Key Phrases:
The ideal of kindness & compassion
Overcoming obstacles with gentle determination
Seeing all that is good and pure n humanity
Do not meet aggression with aggression
Embrace healthy boundaries
Be kind and walk away
Accept that you will falter
Meaning: The Six of Water is the epitome of kindness and concern. She represents all that is good and pure within humanity and an ideal that many strive to meet. She is kind, but not to a fault. She displays concern and care, but does so with a level of emotional detachment. She is sympathetic, compassionate, and giving, but not to the extent that she leaves nothing for herself. She is understanding, and aware that we all think, believe, and see life in a unique way, and that this determines how we behave and respond to others. She is forgiving, but forgives because she knows that act sets her free and enables her to move forward without being weighed down by past experiences.
She is a gentle soul, who overcomes all obstacles with a determination that is free of any aggression or intent to do harm. She is the peaceful warrior who wins all with a gentle touch or smile, a kind word, and a compassionate, generous nature.
Does she represent an impossible ideal? Do you strive to be like her and find yourself incapable of behaving this way all of the time?
The Six of Water comes to tell you to just be you. Show compassion. Be empathetic, understanding, and aware of all that makes us different. Be generous, but remember to keep healthy boundaries in place. Most importantly, be kind to yourself when you don’t live up to your own, sometimes impossible, ideals.
To be the peaceful warrior, you have to be as kind and generous to yourself as you are to others.
Second Card is the XVII Journey:
Keywords: Experience, Character, The Past, Cause and Effect, Consequence, Conditioning, Environment, External Influences, Providence
Key Phrases:
You are created by your experiences
Act with reason and purpose
Your character is shaped by your past
Avoid involvement in unwanted conflict
How does your past influence you?
Create happy memories
Are you reliving your past in the present?
Learn from you journey
Smile over the good and make peace with the bad
Don’t make your truths a prison
Choose quality experiences
This day is yours to shape
Meaning: The Journey card represent the first of the eight influence cards. Your life journey, your past, is made up of choices, experiences, and moments, that have shaped and created the person you are in the present. You are the sum total of all that you have experienced, and your journey and the person it has manifested plays a foundational role in every choice and decision you make.
Your journey has influenced your personality and character. You have been shaped by your successes and failures, triumphs and mistakes, heartbreaks and healing, the moments you have been alone and the moments you have shared with others. Your journey has shaped your likes and dislikes, your biases, your beliefs, and has governed all action.
If you look back at your life, you will see that you have moved through from one moment and experience to the next. You have faced obstacles and overcome them - and you have had moments that have brought you so low you did not believe that you could continue to live. You have had your heart broken, and believed it would never heal. But it did, and once it healed, you then traveled forward to the next moment forever changed. The choices you made from that point onwards were influenced by what the past taught you.
You have also experienced times of intense joy and bliss, where the moment has been perfect. You have loved with every fiber of your being and laughed until you cried. These moments have also had their influence, for they have made you lighter in spirit and moved you forward.
The Journey card represents the life you have led, and will lead, and how it has shaped you, changed you, created you, and influenced every choice you have ever made and will make, and every experience you have ever had and will ever have.
The Present: Our journey is there to learn from. We break patterns of behavior and repeating cycles by seeing the truth of our past actions, and understanding that if something did not work for us on several occasions in our past, then maybe here in the present, a different path should be taken. We learn from the mistakes of our past and action that learning in the present.
When the Journey card appears in the present, be honest with yourself; be willing to see the truths people often seek to deny. We may not always have a choice in what we experience and when we experience it - but we do have a choice in how we respond and react once the moment has passed. In the present, you are completely free to choose how you react and what lessons and truths you take away from your life journey. So ask your self if you have you allowed your past to do more than shape you. Have you allowed your journey to define who you are in the present? Do you allow the past to exert undue influence over your choices in the here and now? Learn from your past mistakes, but don’t allow those lessons to teach you to be more afraid, overly cautious, judgmental or cynical. Our truths, the wisdom or knowledge we gain from each and every experience, is not meant to cage us. It is meant to set us free.
Allow yourself to be free to live, love, and laugh fearlessly, See potential, opportunity, and possibilities as you set your feet on a path to a new destination, instead of returning to the old ones. Give yourself permission to enjoy the moments you are experiencing in the now fully and completely.
Third Card is XXII Intuition:
Keywords: Intuition, Signs, Patterns, Sychronicity, Trust, Mystery, Magic
Key Phrases:
Intuition is your sixth sense
Make your best guess
The voice of your unconscious mind
Be both intuition and rational
Heed your intuitive feelings
Watch and observe
Intuitive skill born of practice
Intuition? Or bad past experiences?
Pick the option that feels right
Seek a second opinion
Strengthen your intuition
Tap into your other senses
Meaning: There are many words and phrases used to describe the subject of the sixth influence card, Intuition - that “funny feeling,’ an ‘inkling,’ a ‘sneaking suspicion,’ a ‘hunch,’ a ‘knowing,’ a ‘feeling in one’s bones,’ a ‘gut feeling,’ a ‘premonition,’ a ‘presentiment,’ and a ‘foreboding.’ It is inexplicable. You cannot pinpoint why you feel or believe as you do - you just know it in your gut, and every fiber of your being demands that you listen.
What is intuition? Intuition is your sixth sense. Intuition is a knowing or gut feeling that you experience without fully understanding the logic, or reason behind the feeling. It might defy rational thought or explanation, but you want to trust it, nonetheless. Intuition is a bridge between conscious and unconscious minds, between instinct and reason. It is your unconscious mind communicating with you. It can come to you in a flash of insight or feeling, or you can have an intuitive experience within a dream or daydream. It is also something quite often experienced during creative endeavors. In fact, most creative endeavors are better for being intuitive.
Intuition is knowing that something needs to be done - not knowing why it needs to be done, but trusting and doing it anyway. Why? Because our intuition provides solutions.
Have you ever walked into a room and instantly felt a certain vibe? Or met someone you are at ease with from the very first moment, and felt like you have known them forever? Have you ever had that feeling that something is not right, or too good to be true? Have you ever heard the phone ring, and known before answering who it was?
This I your intuition - your sixth sense - at work, but how strong your intuitive abilities are is dependent upon how often you use them. Do you trust that gut feeling or knowing? Or do you push it aside as illogical and irrational? To have a strong intuitive ability and to use it has nothing to do with the paranormal or supernatural. Would it surprise you to know that there is a lot of legitimate research, including studies by the U.S. Navy, into how intuition works, and how it can be strengthened to help in situations where intuitive thinking may save lives? Some of the greatest scientific discoveries have been in moments of intuitive insight - Archimedes, Isaac Newton, and Frederick Kekule all followed their intuition. Albert Einstein believed that intuition was of great value, when it came to innovation and invention.
It is very easy to dismiss the intuitive feelings and thoughts that come to us, but your sixth sense is no different from your other senses. It is there to be used, and incorporating it into your everyday life will only enhance it.
The Future: It is time to learn how to strengthen your intuitive abilities in order to enhance your decisions, and guide your intuitive abilities in order to enhance your decisions, and guide your actions in the future. When the Intuition card appears in the future position, it signifies a need to observe, listen, and learn.
Expand your mind and your experiences. The more you know, the more experiences you have, the more sound your intuition will be. Although it may not seem glamorous, intuitive decisions are founded in knowledge and experience. The more practiced and knowledge you are, the less you have to think about a process. It becomes intuitive. For example, a skilled artisan has become so adept at their craft, after decades of doing the same thing, that they can make intuitive decisions regarding their work without any conscious thought or effort. To someone observing them, they would appear to just go with the flow, and, in many situations, they are doing exactly that. They are trusting their gut, heeding intuition. However, their intuitive decisions, while being made unconsciously, are based on their decades of experience and the knowledge they have accrued over the years.
Experience and knowledge strengthen your intuitive abilities. So does tapping into your other senses and treating life as the sensory experience that it is. Touch, taste, smell, hearing, and sight are taken for granted. However, if you were to take the time to listen more closely, to observe more, to feel and explore the sensations that touch inspires, and to taste not only your food, but life itself, how much more would you know and understand? The key to enhancing your intuitive ability could be through experiencing your other senses to a greater extent.
One of the best and simplest ways to enhance your intuition is to do regular readings with an oracle or tarot, and allow your intuition, your subconscious, to give you the answers you are seeking.
It is also good to challenge yourself a little by making more intuitive decisions. Examine your decision-making process, and if you are one for making slow, weighted decisions, you could try taking a little less time. Push yourself to spend less time weighing your decisions and just make them, instead. Go with your gut. Defy logic. Be a little spontaneous, and just make a guess.
To strengthen your intuition, you do need to observe more, learn more, experience more, but sometimes you also have to think less.
I pulled a Forth Card for clarification it was the Queen of Water:
Keywords: Loving, Compassionate, Empathetic, Sensitive, Vulnerable, Romantic, Intuitive, Emotional Honesty
Key Phrases:
Trust in your feelings and senses
Are you over-extending emotionally?
Look beyond the surface
Be the embodiment of love
A bright and positive outcome
Withdrawing love as punishment
To show vulnerability is to show strength
Use your common sense
Meaning: The Queen of Water symbolizes a gentle, empathetic soul, who possesses a keen sense of intuition. She is loving, compassionate, and always kind. She knows when something is wrong, when a friend is hurting and in need of comfort or counsel. She is naturally in tune with her emotions, and the emotions of those around her. It is this natural connection and gentleness that draws people to her.
She is empathic, and would never consider being deliberately cruel or unkind. She is generous and giving of herself to a fault. Only by having and maintaining, healthy boundaries does this watery queen protect herself from becoming drained.
Her ability to intuitively ‘see’ and ‘know’ is her greatest strength. She looks beyond the surface to what lies within the subconscious, seeing the emotions of old and influence the present. She can sense the mood of a moment or the undercurrents that flow through a room full of people, and because she can read other’s emotions with ease, she can often distinguish truth from falsehood.
This knowledge empowers. With it, the ever-romantic Queen of Water can often offer the perfect solution, particularly in matters of the heart. She believes in the power of love, but is also wise, and knows that relationships need to be nurtured and maintained, that emotional honesty is key, as is a willingness to share our feelings.
When we share our true feelings we make ourselves vulnerable, but to be willing to do so shows both courage and strength.
Is this Queen a part of your nature? Is there someone in your life who needs or would benefit from your help and loving support?
Or is it you who needs to seek out a like energy in your life, for healing, or guidance?
When the Queen of Water appears in your cards she signifies a very affirming and positive energy, for she is the epitome of love in all of its forms. Take heart, and know that bright days are ahead.
What a way to come back. This reading is all about the love that we are all in desperate need of. The journey that we are all in together and how it is going to change our lives as we know it. That we need to find the magic in this time and come to our own awakening to. To sharing love with everyone and trusting that its going to be okay.
We all seem to have an image of how things should be, either going back to the way things were or moving forward with how things are going to be. What we need to remember is also to be present to what is happening right now. Be here with an open heart. Make sure that you keep some boundaries but at the same time make sure that you are open to this experience. For this is a journey unto itself. Things are changing all around us. Wholes in the ozone layer a closing, the wildlife has returned to places it hasn’t been in years. These are things that we should rejoice in. For the joy in the small things that are happening around us.
Take this time to reconnect with the people who are with you, as well as yourself. This is the wakeup call that we all have been feeling and are being forced into. We have to heal ourselves body, mind and soul. Embrace this for you may not get a chance like it again.
For myself, I am learning new things as well as working on reconnecting to my own spirituality. I have realized that I have been getting locked up in all the things in life that keep me busy, districted and entertained. These keep me from being present in my own life. Which is not what I wish to teach my children. So this reading resonates with me and I see how those I love may find meaning in it as well.
I hope that you are all well and in good health. Do you feel the love from this reading as I do? That the journey that we are on is bringing change with it? Are you learning anything new? Have you started working on your own intuition? I’d love to hear from you.
I hope that this reading has been helpful to you all. Please let me know if it has impacted you in any way. I’d love to hear from you. I am doing personal Astrology, Divination, Card, and Astro Dice Readings. If you would like to have one please email me at [email protected].
While doing this reading I am was listening to Spotify playlist Wiccan, Pagan, Celtic, Viking. You can find me on Spotify under amrauthor. I hope you enjoy the music.
May your stars shine brightly upon you.
