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Deck: The Gaian Tarot
Spread: Card of the Day
Date: Mon Dec 10 20:43:41 EST 2018


Today's Card
0 ~ the Seeker (Reversed)

(The Fool)
A New Beginning

 
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The Seeker begins a journey, taking a moment to contemplate the road ahead before setting off down the hillside. Perhaps she is murmuring a prayer or setting an intention. She travels lightly, carrying all she needs in her bundle. She has embroidered a butterfly on the back of her vest, signifying her delight in taking wing and setting out on her own path.

A great mountain rises in the east, and the river slowly meanders on its own journey from the mountain range down to the bay and the ocean beyond.

The Seeker is at that stage of life between childhood and adulthood when anything is possible; her life lies before her like a page waiting to be written. With Fox as her trickster companion, who knows what surprises may await her? Swallows and swallowtails flit and flutter around her, guiding her way.

When you get this card in a reading . . .

You are starting a new journey, with a beginner’s mind. It’s time to hit the road, either metaphorically or literally. Every time you set out on a journey, whether it’s a one-day hike or a new career, you embark on a spiritual journey as well. Be open to all the twists and curves in the road ahead. Be ready for wonderful surprises. Keep your heart open and maintain an attitude of innocence, trust and spontaneity. Remember that many innovators, creators, and explorers were considered foolish by the conventional wisdom of their time. Dare to take a risk! Before you is a brand new adventure — the chance for a fresh start and endless possibilities.

When you read the Shadow side of this card . . .

You may be longing to hit the road, escape, or seek more adventure in your life, but you are afraid to do it. Maybe responsibilities are holding you back and it seems like the wrong time to take a risk. Do you fear you have too much to lose? On the other hand, you may too nonchalant, like a vagabond or an eternal child who refuses to grow up. It may be time to be more serious and settled. Be careful of a tendency to be naive or gullible. Are you being wise or foolish about your current situation?

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Deepen your understanding of the Seeker

Themes

Spiritual quest • Innocence • Childlike wonder • Pilgrimage • A new beginning • Simplicity • Spontaneity • Adventure • Taking a risk • The wisdom of the fool • Alpha and Omega

Symbols

White feather in hair: Purity, innocence, soul-flight.
Bundle with talismans: Her “baggage” and the prayers / hopes / aspirations she carries on the pilgrimage.
Walking stick: Helps her over the rough patches; something to lean on. May be a magic wand in disguise, a branch of the world tree that connects heaven and earth.
Mountain: Spiritual ascent, clear uncluttered mind, high ideals, peak experience, meeting place of heaven & earth (yang).
Valley: Fertility, cultivation, home (yin).
River: Boundary between one world and another; passage through various worlds; going with the flow; purification; refreshment.
Tree: Tree of Life or World Tree (axis mundi), connecting the heavens, the earth and (with its roots) the underworld.
Birds: Messengers between heaven and earth; soul-flight, freedom.
Swallows: Harbinger of summer, a good time for a journey.
Butterflies: Lightness, joy, transformation, metamorphosis, symbol of the soul.
Fox: A trickster in southwestern Native American tradition; a shapeshifter in Chinese myth. Blends in with surroundings, signifying stealth, cunning and camouflage. Often seen at the borderlines of dawn and twilight; can be a guide to the Otherworld.

Journal Questions:

What journey do I begin today?
How can I cultivate beginner’s mind?
How can I be more childlike?
Have I lost my sense of wonder? How can I reconnect with it?
Where or how in my life do I feel foolish? Is this my perception, or the judgment of others?
Where or how do I need to lighten up?
What grand adventure would I like to have?
Where do I need to take a risk?
What is shapeshifting (changing shape) in my life?
What am I carrying in my bundle?
Is my baggage light or is it heavy?
How can I simplify my life?
What kind of healing does the Seeker offer me?
What kind of healing can I offer the earth through the example of the Seeker?

Affirmation
 
I make my life a walking prayer.



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Deck: The Druid Oracles
Spread: Card of the Day
Date: Mon Dec 10 20:50:38 EST 2018


Today's Card
Goose

Gèadh

Pronunciation: Giagh

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Vigilance • Parenthood • Productive power

The card shows a pair of greylag geese in the fens. Ancestor of the farmyard goose, the greylag mates for life, and was once the only goose that bred in Britain. It may have earned its name from the observation that it "lagged behind" when other species migrated, although its name is more likely to mean "gray-legged." In the foreground we see bramble and gooseberry growing, with goosegrass to the right, and Ngetal (reed) in the background. In the sky a flock of geese are flying in V formation, heading out toward the sea.

Upright Meaning   This card may indicate that you are ready to take on the responsibilities of raising a family, or of committing yourself to a long-term partnership. Gèadh brings creative and productive power. It allows you to open to this power, secure in the knowledge that your relationship or family or working partnership will provide a stable environment to act as a crucible for your creativity.

Raising children is one of the most joyful and worthwhile activities we can undertake, and the goose, with its strong attachment to its family, combined with its ability to fly extraordinarily high from one continent to another, shows us that it is possible to be both grounded and spiritual in our daily lives.

Reversed Meaning   Are you overly concerned about your rights, possessions or territory? You may not need to strut and hiss quite so much, and you may not need to be so possessive of your partner. Many geese mate for life, but not all humans do, and in the end staying together may not be in your best interests. If the relationship is really to last it will thrive on mutual respect and freedom, rather than jealousy and possessiveness.

The ancient Celts kept geese for their eggs rather than their flesh. They knew it was better to keep the goose alive and productive, rather than destroying its productive capacity by eating it. They kept sheep in the same way—for their wool and milk rather than their meat. The lesson for us is that if we want to ensure our productive power, our capacity for creativity, we must look after ourselves. To make sure the goose keeps laying the golden eggs, we must keep the goose alive—well fed, well rested, well exercised.

The Tradition of the GOOSE

Swarms of bees, beetles, soft music of the world, a gentle humming; wild geese, barnacle geese, shortly before All Hallows, music of the dark torrent
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It is said that the Druids of old were expert at divining from the flight of birds. As well as their psychic abilities, they would also have been using their skills as keen observers of the natural world. The arrival or departure of migrating geese, for example, would have given warning of the coming of winter or summer, and because of this the goose has come to symbolize seasonal change. And if wild geese were seen flying out toward the sea, it was taken as an augury of good weather, while if they flew toward the hills, it was said that bad weather was on its way.

In the quotation above, the writer talks of the barnacle geese who arrive in Britain in October for the winter. Coming from the Arctic, their arrival shortly before Samhuinn (All Hallows) would have been a powerful sign of approaching winter. Their origin being unknown, barnacle geese were said to hatch out of barnacles attached to driftwood, out of trees, or even out of acorns. In Scotland barnacle geese were sometimes called tree geese, since legend told that they came from willows on the Orkney Islands.

Samhuinn is traditionally the time of divination, but this period extends to fall generally, which is a season suited to introspection and reflection. The festival of Michaelmas represents the Christianized version of the autumnal equinox, and it was traditional to hold a goose feast, when the breast-bone called "Merry Thought" was examined and pulled for portents of the future. The pulling of the lucky wish-bone of the chicken is all that remains today of this custom, which may well have pre-Christian roots.

The goose feast also occurred at Christmas, and the goose signifies the renewal and purification represented by midwinter, when the sun is reborn at the solstice. Since the goose is a solar bird, laying the golden egg becomes a perfect symbol of this solar rebirth, with the mother-goose representing the Mother Goddess.

The Fierce Goose

Some of the strongest associations of the goose are with the qualities of aggression and defensiveness. The fact that the goose will vigorously defend her family and her territory, and that her loud honking gives ample warning of any visitor, has made the goose a powerful symbol of defensive power and guardianship. A great stone goose gazes watchfully from the lintel of the Iron Age cliff top temple of Roquepertuse in Provence, guarding a shrine of war-deities. At Dineault in Brittany a bronze figurine of a Celtic war-goddess has been found, complete with helmet surmounted by a goose in its characteristic threatening posture, with its neck thrust forward. And in the former Czechoslovakia, Iron Age warriors were sometimes buried with geese. Wild geese are good at flight as well as aggression—we still talk about a "wild goose chase" because they are notoriously difficult to capture and kill.

Erotic Power and Fidelity

The greylag, and other varieties of goose, mate for life and will fiercely defend their mate and their goslings, which, although ready to fly two months after hatching, will stay in the family for much longer. Complex courtship rituals and "triumph ceremonies" performed each time a pair meet have made the goose typify courtship, partnership, and fidelity, although its preoccupation with mating came quite inappropriately to signify loose morals—a goose being a common term for a prostitute by Elizabethan times, and venereal disease being termed "Winchester goose." In reality the goose displays extraordinary steadfastness and devotion to one partner, but its pre-Christian depiction as a bird of creation and its related association with erotic power became distorted in the Christian period.

Although the Romans considered goose fat an aphrodisiac, the Celts used it for healing. On St. Kilda, in the North Atlantic, Britain's remotest island, it was called Gibanirtick and was greatly prized for its healing powers. With the first Christian missionary arriving only in 1705, St. Kildans retained their Druidic beliefs and practices well into the eighteenth century.

The goose with its strong attachment to its family combined with its ability to fly extraordinarily high, is a powerful symbol of the union of heaven and earth—and of the way in which we can unite both our spiritual and our everyday concerns. The American poet Mary Oliver expresses beautifully the ability of the goose to unite freedom and rootedness in this excerpt from her poem Wild Geese:

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting—over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.



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"You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should."

https://www.facebook.com/waniyal/posts/10156543021150831

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2018-12-12 09:10
https://twitter.com/DagbokDog/status/1072827353795985408?s=19

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https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2146433892092155&id=100001766942868

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https://www.democracynow.org/2018/12/11/our_leaders_are_behaving_like_children

'GRETA THUNBERG: For 25 years, countless of people have stood in front of the United Nations climate conferences asking our nations’ leaders to stop the emissions. But clearly this has not worked, since the emissions just continue to rise. So I will not ask them anything. Instead, I will ask the people around the world to realize that our political leaders have failed us, because we are facing an existential threat and there is no time to continue down this road of madness.'

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"At this very moment, for the peoples and the nations of the earth,
May not even the names disease, war, famine, and suffering be heard.
Rather may their moral conduct, merit, wealth, and prosperity increase,
and may good fortune and well-being always arise for them."

https://www.worldprayers.org/archive/prayers/invocations/at_this_very_moment_for_the.html