This reading is for the week ahead. However, if you’ve found this today and resonate with it, then it is meant for you, today.
Sorry about the faint ‘chirping bird’ on the audio; it’s my smoke alarm, telling me it needs a replacement battery! I shall do that today, of course. But first, I wanted to get this post out for the upcoming week. (Gotta get my priorities right!)
Please scroll down for images of the three cards. The transcript is below the audio player.
AUDIO:
TRANSCRIPT:
So, this is a reading for the week ahead, and I’m just shuffling the cards.
I’m using the deck called, A Bridge Between Worlds, and I’m going to choose three cards.
The first card, I thought, would be about where the current energies are.
The second card, the coming energies for the week ahead; what’s coming in.
The third card, I thought, would be, ‘What do I need to know? What do I need to most know or remember?
So let’s choose the first, at random, just take a card out of the deck – that one. Then, I’ll just choose a second, at random, and a third. And I’m just choosing very quickly.
The First Card:
Okay, so the first card, this is current energies.
Before I say anything about the card – although I’m intending this is for the week ahead, I’m also intending that it’s a reading for anybody who comes across this at a later date. So, if someone is surfing online and they find this reading, and it resonates with them, then it’s meant for them, at that time.
The first card is called . . . (?!) Now, I can’t remember what I called this one (Afraid To Look Deeper). All of these cards are relatively newly made. I made 200 of them in quick succession, so I’m not familiar with most of them.
But I named them all, intuitively, I immediately named them, as I completed them. And although I can’t remember the name of this, I’m just going to say what it appears to be saying to me.
There’s a woman who is hiding her face. She seems as though she might be either in sorrow, or she’s just taking herself away, quietly, to – it’s almost like she’s hiding away, or she can’t deal with what’s out there, what’s outside, what’s going on.
She doesn’t want to look at it. And even, what looks like an angel, on the right-hand side, is hiding her face.
So perhaps the angel, or Guardian Angel, is suggesting we don’t have to look at, or focus upon, what we find distressing. (Unless we can help in some way?) But, if we can’t help on a physical level, we can at least pray for, or envision, a beneficial outcome.
So, it’s (about) not wanting to look at something in particular, or just what’s going on in the world in general – and yeah, that’s understandable.
Then, there’s another face, of a girl, who is behind the naked woman, and she looks as though she’s thinking about something. Her mind is thinking about something, she’s probably deep in thought, she’s mulling things over.
(I’m amused that I said, ‘Her mind is thinking about something,’ because sometimes, it’s as though our mind takes over and runs away with us. As though we have no control of our own mind. And it takes practice to quiet our mind, or quickly nip in the bud those negative or troubling thoughts.)
Then there is the face of the man – part of his face is revealed, to see his insides. So, he is revealing what’s inside of him. Even he – they’re all looking ahead. He looks as though he is thinking, he looks as though he’s thinking about something too.
So it’s (about) what’s going on in the mind, and not wanting to see what’s going on in the outside world.
And that certainly mirrors what I was saying previously (in another blog post), about wanting to know, wanting to be informed as to what’s happening in the world. But in another way, really, not wanting to see all this bad news, disasters, and things that make us feel uncomfortable. (Or fearful, or despairing!)
Okay, so the only other thing, that I think is worth noting, is the lion.
And the lion always makes me think of strength and courage, and self-sovereignty. And, for me, Leadership . . . (yes) it reminds me of leadership, also.
So this is about what’s currently going on, that first card.
The Second Card:
The second card is . . . okay.
I think I may have called this something to do with The Ancestors, I’m not sure. (The card is called, Connecting with the Ancestors.) Obviously, when I post the cards on the blog, I’ll put the names up there.
This shows people from the past.
Possibly, the image of the Native American, he could be ‘in Spirit,’ because he is all in white. (Shining with a Heavenly Light!)
There are a couple of people playing instruments. So, they’re making music.
Then, there is an eagle who is being nourished, by somebody.
Now that immediately makes me think of the Perspective of Eagle, which is where you look at the Big Picture. You rise above the minutia, you rise above your own life, even, and see the bigger picture of what’s happening as a whole, in the world, or on the Earth. Seeing your issue, your problem, from a different perspective, a higher perspective.
And sometimes, seeing yourself as that little ‘speck,’ in the entirety of the Earth, can sometimes help, and put whatever it is that you are worried about, or dealing with, into perspective.
And to realise that it’s actually a small thing, in comparison to the largeness of the Earth, the Universe, and . . . all of the beauty, really, of the planet. And sometimes, it does put it into perspective (or proportion) to take that view. Sometimes, it helps.
So the second card, the coming energies next week.
The little girl is lightly – almost dancing, almost skipping along.
So she has a playful energy about her, a light-hearted energy. Maybe, both that (playful) energy and the energy of taking the higher perspective, is the way to go.
Also, these people who are ‘playing their instruments,’ perhaps it’s about playing your own tune. They both seem – certainly the chap in the centre there – seems to be very much concerned with his own instrument, his own music, his own . . . yeah, making his own music.
So, perhaps, again, it is about just getting on with your own stuff. And, not worrying about things that you can’t control.
But there are things you can control. You can – play, your own instrument, play your own music, make your own song. And that is within your power.
The Native American, the Spirit (Being), I think this (card) was something to do with ancestors. He seems quite . . . wise. Calm. Someone to be relied on (trusted). Almost like that feeling – the (sense of) All Is Well. All is Well.
You know, ‘We’ve got this!’
You may not know why all these things are happening. But those who are in Spirit, those who are in that place (or plane of existence) know the reasons for whatever is going on, and how it’s going to – how it’s playing out, why it’s playing out.
To me, this about just trusting.
‘Don’t panic, Mr Mannering!’
Just trust that it’s playing out as it should. I get the feeling it’s playing out as it should. And we don’t know why. And we can see things that we think are going completely wrong and people are suffering, and we don’t know why that is (at least, in the grand scheme of things, even if we think we know, on a practical and ‘obvious’ level.)
We can’t see the Big Picture. As, I say, we need to nourish that Eagle and try and see the bigger picture, the higher perspective – or just trust that there is one.
And try and be as Light as we can be.
Then, in the background, there’s the dark night sky, with the stars, representing the bigger universe, the Beyond-Beyond. The things we know exist, but we don’t know all the answers, and we can just really deal with whatever we’re dealing with in this moment, now, in our own lives, in our own (immediate) world. And have faith that all will work out.
The Third Card:
The third one is just a reminder: What (do) I need to most know or remember?
Let’s have a look. Now, this one. It’s showing a Wild Woman.
And, she looks like she’s in a place of surrender. A place of giving up, opening to perhaps a ‘higher power,’ or a place of trust. A place of, as I say, letting go, release, surrender. ‘What will be will be.’ ‘What is, is. It is what it is.’ And, yeah, Trust and Surrender.
And there’s the little girl there, who is just standing very still, and looking, almost looking out to us. In a place of trust – perhaps vulnerability – but hoping that, whoever is responsible for her, looking after her is looking after her, is caring for her, is going to keep her safe!
And, the Goddess figure, who I think I named, Lilith, in another card, another kind of Wild Woman: strong; independent; capable; equal; balanced; powerful.
And again, the self-sovereignty; not being bullied by anybody, not being forced to do anything she doesn’t want to do. In her own power, in her own strength, and her own authenticity.
As I say, every time there is a naked being in one of my cards, I see it as a reminder of our real self, our true self, and our authenticity.
And then there is a woman there who is sleeping. I might have called this (card) something like, Wild Woman Awakening. I’ll be interested to see, myself, what I called it! See whether it bears any resemblance to what I’m describing here. (Almost! ‘Wild Woman Awakens.’)
But, as with all the cards, they don’t have just one meaning. I may have named them, but whatever I named them can have several meanings.
And certainly, the images within each card can have different meanings, depending on the question, depending on the time. Depending on what’s happening. Depending on where you are, or what’s happening in the world.
And there are things that you might see, that you haven’t seen before, that are significant and that you can read, in terms of whatever the metaphor, or symbolism is.
So, what do we need to remember?
We need to remember our own power. But also, we need to trust, and we need to surrender to whatever is going on, and not necessarily fight against it, but flow with it.
There is a lot we can do. Because we have that personal power. We have choice. We can choose our perspective – and that is very powerful. A perspective that makes us feel stronger, safer, hopeful, positive.
And, perhaps the sleeping woman is also just reminding us to rest and take time, to recuperate, recharge, maybe review where we are.
And yeah, Trust is a big one, with the little girl there; trusting that those ‘in charge’ know what they’re doing (!) and have her best interests at heart.
And, in the other card, with the (Native American) spirit with his spear, and drum and feathers, knowing more than we know about what’s going on.
And the little girl, who is stepping lightly, and skipping her way through her life. Perhaps oblivious of much of what’s going on. And, the better for it, really. Because, what good would it do, if she knew?
(Because, her knowing, her being aware, of all the doom and gloom – that is not in her control – might crush her joy. Might crush her light and playful spirit. And for what purpose would that be? For what useful or beneficial purpose?)
So, I hope that’s resonated on some level!
And I think I’m going to leave that there for now. If I think of anything else, if anything else occurs to me, I’ll add it at the end of the blog post (or within it!)
Okay, that’s today’s (this week’s) reading. Righty ho!
Wishing you a Beautiful Week.
