Card Meanings Rider Waite- The Fool 0

“We are never so close to being fools as when we think ourselves wise,”

To me, this quote illustrates the Fool the best. The Fool thinks he knows everything there is to know just like when we were teenagers we thought we knew it all. The Fool is brimming with optimism, convinced of his own brilliance and utterly unaware that anything could possibly go wrong. All in all, it’s a good place to start because at least he is starting. He hasn’t talked himself out of something before he’s even begun, he sees the possibilities not the problems. He’s the consummate “glass half full” person.

In a reading the Fool’s appearance suggests the start of something new. And it’s the ultimate beginning, even more so then the Ace’s because of it’s deeply spiritual nature. The start of all spiritual journey’s is the acknowledgment that a journey is there to be undertaken. The Fool appears most often when you simply don’t know what happens next but you darn sure want to find out. It is the willingness to leap into the great unknown, of sometimes not being aware that there is a great unknown to find.

In relationship readings the Fool is about new beginnings, adventure and a total lack of regard for consequences. There is also somewhat of an element of loving for the sake of it. In love with the idea of love, as it were. This can be both good and bad. Sometimes it involves seeing the other as a romanticized version of themselves, that is not so much as they really are but as they wish them to be. Think the poet who compares the colour of his loves eyes to the blue of a summers day. Very sweet but not very practical.

In a negative spread position the Fool becomes almost a parody of himself. I often think of Romeo and Juliet. So in love with the idea of love and with each other that the consequences of their relationship were the furthest thing from their minds. So quick to act on their feelings that they neglected all the other elements essential to a happy and full life. The Fool in a negative space become self absorbed, willfully blind and so determined to ‘follow their heart’ that practical considerations are left far behind. It is to act, not only disregarding consequences, but to act as if consequences cannot touch you. Like the man who, having jumped from the top floor of the building says passing the third floor, ‘see I’m doing just fine’.

As a person the Fool can represent someone who refuses to see the world as it really is and chooses instead to see it as he wishes. This can be both positive and negative. Sometimes optimism is called for and it is an important step to take on the journey to creating your own reality BUT sometimes it borders on stupid, like when someone thinks they can ‘positive think’ away a life threatening disease. As a person the fool always represents someone who seems young at heart. Someone who is often tilting at windmills and who never allows the occasional failure to dint their enthusiasm. These people are often fun to be around, though they can be rather exhausting. You’ll often hear them say, “But this is different!”

As a guided meditation, the Fool will take you to the place you need to begin your journey into self. He marks the divide between what you already know and what is a mystery to you.

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Top Ten Things You Need To Know About Wishing

1- Make your wish then move on

You’ve finally decided you want to wish for something, what do you do next? You make your wish in what ever form suits you (eg on a star, with a collage, chicken wish bone, your local faerygodmother etc) then you move on. By moving on I mean you get on with your life. You don’t obsess about the wish, or wonder exactly how it’s going to come true or when or if or any other form of picking at it. You just let the wish go to do it’s own thing, trusting that, having made the wish you have done at least part of your bit. It’s actually really important that you move on from the wish making stage or you get stuck there, stuck in the mindset that led you to make your wish in the first place.

2- Next comes the hard work

Having made your wish you have to live as if that wish were going to come true. Have you wished for a dream job? Start applying for it or getting the courses you need under your belt to do it. Wished you could be a successful writer/ artist/ photographer etc? Well, start writing or painting or taking photos etc. You can’t be successful at something you haven’t even started yet. If you have started keep doing what you’re doing and learn to get better at it. Have you wished for new love? Work on yourself and your own issues till you are a person who can see yourself being loved be the person you want to love you. Whatever your wish, you have to be the one who puts in the hard work to accomplish it, you have to do something to open up the space in your life to allow it to happen. Couch potatoes don’t get to be astronauts until they’ve seriously put in some hours at the gym.

3- Make sure you really want it

What will achieving your wish cost you? Do you want a super successful career as a top level CEO? Are you prepared to sacrifice time with your family and loved ones for that, working 90 hours a week with that sort of responsibility on your shoulders? Is your wish really something that you think you should want because it’s expected of you? Do you wish for a relationship but deep down inside think that your own company is just fine and that you are rather happy, if somewhat lonely, on your own. A relationship isn’t something you do to fill up loneliness, but that’s a whole other subject. Making a wish is a powerful signal to the universe that you want something to change. If you don’t really want your life to change then don’t make any wishes.  

4- Put some thought into what needs to change

Speaking of change, that’s exactly what wishing is. Saying out loud you want things to be different. It’s important that you devote some time and energy to what exactly those changes mean. That dream job may only be available somewhere far from your family and loved ones. Or getting it might mean having to lose your partners job so he or she can be with you. If it’s love you wished for then what needs to change about yourself to allow that love in? Are you ready for a new relationship or are you still clinging to the shards of a broken one? If you wished you were fit and healthy then it stands to reason to get your wish you have to change your diet and exercise habits.

5- You can’t control the timing

Usually when we make a wish, the subject of the wish is of pressing importance to us. We want it to come true now. But, if you wish for love, what if the right person for you isn’t available at the moment? What if he or she is simply not ready for a relationship or with someone else or learning lessons that are important to both of your long term happiness? You could always settle for someone else but that would defeat the purpose of the wish wouldn’t it. Same goes for dream jobs. What if someone else has the right job for you at this moment in time. Sometimes we just have to wait until everything is ready for our chance. The Universe has a much bigger perspective then we do and can see where to slot us in. “Oh yes, I have an opening for a dream job next Thursday, can you wait?” None of us are going to say, “No I need it by tomorrow or I don’t want it.”

6- Don’t make a wish about someone else that you wouldn’t want someone else to make about you

This one is a doosy and applies especially to relationship/ love wishes. Don’t wish for a specific person to love you. Think of how you would feel if someone out there was wishing you would fall in love with them even if you didn’t want to. This is where the number one Golden Rule applies. Do unto others as you’d have them do unto you. It’s not a nice or comfortable feeling to be the object of someone else’s obsession, even if you aren’t aware of it. This also applies to wishing for the downfall of others, wishing they’d get their comeuppance (no matter how much they deserve it), wishing they’d go away etc. Be nice. Hold a mirror up to your wish and see if you are comfortable about someone wishing that on you. If the answer is yes then proceed joyously. If it’s not then it may be time to look deeper into why you would want to wish that.

7- Readjust your expectations

Just to bring up our couch potato astronaut again, some wishes are seriously unrealistic. Don’t be surprised when you and all of the other millions of people don’t win the Lotto. That’s a lot of wishes vying for one small trophy. Same goes with relationships. If you want a handsome, successful, rich, generous, family oriented, committed, romantic, down to earth, (etc etc) man then don’t be surprised if you don’t meet him till you’re 90. There aren’t too many of the rare ones going around (that’s why they are rare). If you want to be happy in a relationship readjust what exactly it will take to make you happy? Is it more important that he’s rich or handsome? What about romantic vs down to earth? Romantic men tend to not be quite so good with DIY- he may not be able to fix your taps but he’ll have some lovely poetry about the sound of their dripping. The more realistic you can be about your wish, the easier it will come to you.

8- Be careful what you wish for

Wishes are notoriously tricky things. There’s a reason they figure the way they do in stories. Say you did write a laundry list of qualities you absolutely had to have in a man (or woman) and, miracle of miracles, you met and fell in love with a person who embodied them all. We can never think of everything before hand, so there will undoubtedly be something you didn’t see coming. Say you got Mr Perfect as described above, but forgot  to include getting on with his mother. Yep. You guessed it. Mr Perfect comes with Mother in law from hell. Or dream job gets landed at your feet, oops, forgot to include the bit about working for someone worth working for. Turns out the job is fantastic and everything you hoped for, but, it comes with a nightmare boss, or commute to work, or a junior who has a crush on you. You get the idea. Wishes always come with a price and a lesson to learn. Just because this is the way of things doesn’t mean you should not wish or aim for your highest ideals. After all, the other option is to stay stuck and unfulfilled.

9- Know yourself

The best wishes come from a place, deep inside yourself, that is serene and secure. Wishes made from the surface, from a place of being afraid of being left behind, or unloved or insecure tend to backfire. The better you know yourself. The happier you are with who you are right now, the better your wishes comes true. The more magical and amazing their appearance, and the more fulfilling they will be. So, before you make any wishes really, really know yourself. Ask yourself the hard questions like, why aren’t I in a happy relationship now? Do I want too much? Am I capable of giving to someone else what I wish they would give to me? Am I in the right place emotionally? Do I need to work on my issues? Why don’t I have the right job? Have I gone down the wrong path or followed a path that no longer fulfils me? Know thyself is the first step to just about anything spiritual and it is certainly at the start of any journey into wishing.  

10- Some things just aren’t meant to be

Some of our noblest wishes are for others. I wish they were well. Or I wish they could find happiness. Or I wish that persons misfortunes would come to an end. But sometimes that’s simply not what destiny has in mind. Sometimes we have to let go of our wishes because there is a reason why they can’t come true. We can’t always see these reasons from where we are at. That’s what makes not getting a wish hard to deal with. But sometimes we simply have to trust that things happen for a reason and that we aren’t privy to all those reasons. This holds especially true when we wish someone would feel about us the way we feel about them. 99% of the time it’s to do with their issues, not ours. So, if you don’t get your wish, go back to the start of this list. Move on. There are more wishes out there. More paths to a fulfilling life. And, when it comes down to it, some things in life are simply sad. We can’t gloss over the fact that there are some crappy things about life. Like being sick. Or losing a job. Or losing a friend. We only experience joy because we have something to compare it too. Sadness. Being sad isn’t bad, in and of itself. Losing yourself in sadness is. The single best thing to wish for? Healing the self. All things are possible for a person who is whole, in and of themselves.

 

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So you're tired of hearing about "rape culture"?

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The following includes descriptions, photos, and video that may serve as a trigger for victims of sexual violence.
Please be advised. 

Someone asked me today, "What is 'rape culture' anyway? I'm tired of hearing about it."

Yeah, I hear ya. I'm tired of talking about it. But I'm going to keep talking about it because people like you keep asking that question.

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We Need To Talk About The Money

Here in Australia we are experiencing the longest election cycle ever- a Federal election will be held in September this year. That’s months and months of posturing by both major political parties; a “talk about it ad nauseum  but really say nothing” approach by the mainstream media and an absolute lack of any options for a political way forward other than growth. The major parties agree on that much, they just differ on how they are going to approach it.

So where does that leave people like me who don’t want to vote for more growth? Where is our national debate on whether growth is even desirable? Why is the economy the only thing “worth” discussing? I can’t not vote (it’s illegal in Australia). I can vote Green (which is the closest I can come to principles I can agree with but even then it’s far short of what I’d like to see on the agenda) but a vote for Green is effectively a vote for Labor. (woo hoo, more of the same of the last few years disasters, just what we need).

There’s plenty of alternative media discussing issues that matter. But Australia’s future will be decided by a majority (hopefully!) of people who don’t even have a clue that there more important issues than the growth of the economy. It’s one thing to get angry at the majority of Today Tonight and A Current Affair viewers who can be manipulated in caring about such a silly and narrow range of issues- part of me wants to scream at them “where are your brains?!” but the rest of me realises that they simply don’t have the information necessary. Same goes for readers of the tabloid newspapers (probably the same people).

Issues I want to see in the mainstream media- that is I’d love for shows like Today and Sunrise, Today Tonight and A Current Affair to get as fired up about these as they do about Julia and Tony-

  • The future of economic growth- why economies can’t keep growing forever and why a shift into a steady state economy is the only responsible thing to do unless we want to collapse society and the environment altogether.
  • The widening gap between rich and poor- while I don’t think we are as badly off as the US I’d love to see a similar chart or figures for Australia and the UK. I’d love to see comparisons of those charts with other, more equal nations and I’d love a discussion on whether those countries are better off.
  • What exactly is a “better off” society- is it the society with the biggest GDP regardless of what that product was spent on? Why is spending on prisons regarded the same as spending on schools? Isn’t it obviously not good for society to be spending more on incarceration than education? Isn’t a single figure like GDP grossly inadequate for measuring a nations progress?
  • Real reform of the banking and finance industries- if the government can take on big industries like tobacco, then they can certainly take on banks and move to curtail the ever increasing record profits they keep making at the expense of home owners and self funded retirees. Perhaps banks could be subject to the same principles of Credit Unions which is that all credit union customers are also shareholders. Is there currently a requirement that a shareholder must also be a customer of the bank? If not why not?
  • How stock markets actually affect us (instead of just numbers on the screen)-  Stock prices going up means more money for the company, right? So if the company has more money how are they spending that? Are they spending that? If they are losing money on stock prices where does that money come from? It’s not about needing to go to Uni to study economics to understand this stuff. It’s important enough to society that it’s reported in every news bulletin- therefore the media has a responsibility to ensure we all know what the consequences of those stock price movements actually mean. Unless of course it means nothing, or won’t mean much for long because it changes again so fast no one can keep up. If it doesn’t mean anything then why does it take up space on news programs?

I could obviously go on and on but as you can see there’s something of a theme going on with the questions I’d like to see in the mainstream media- it’s all about money. Last time I looked, money was something we made up as a form of IOU to make it easier to conduct transactions. What’s the point of money if it prevents us from completing transactions that are in all of our best interests?

Despite overwhelming evidence on climate change, sorry, we can’t fix it, we don’t have enough money (bullsh*t). Because, of course, having money is more important then say a climate humanity can survive and thrive in.

Despite desperate need for reform on education as recommended by the Gonski report, sorry, we can’t afford it. Interestingly, the Commonwealth bank could if it sacrificed less then one years profit- which begs the question; how many individuals benefit from the Commonwealth Banks 7 Billion dollar profit for 2012? How would society benefit from implementing the Gonski recommendations? Wouldn’t the Commonwealth bank actually make more money in the long run from paying for the entire scheme because there would then be more people with better paying jobs who could later afford bigger mortgages? If the Commonwealth Bank invested in Gonski, they would greatly benefit within a twenty years, and as a side affect so would the entire country.

There’s the  National Disability Insurance Scheme that would allow countless of people to have a quality of life that able bodied people take for granted.

What about the National Broadband Network that would allow regional and remote areas equal access to services city dwellers take for granted. The list goes on.

Somewhere along the line, money has become the be all and end all. Whether or not we have it, how it is spent and how to make more of it. Money doesn’t not create a happy and equitable society- we do. Money has somehow become our master when it should always have been our slave. Let’s talk about that some more. Surely, it’s the only discussion worth having right now.

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Sylvanius- 19th Feb 2013

I just want to give Sylvanius a huge hug. It’s been ages since I’ve had a moment to just play with my cards with no prior commitments. I know I haven’t really got anyone but my self to blame for that but it IS nice none the less to have this moment to just play.

So, I say to Sylvanius, what do you want to talk about?

“Ta da!” he says, lifting the golden mask.

“What?” says the little faery underneath, “Didn’t you know I was here?”

Well, yes, I did but it’s nice to see you… um… Am I missing something?

Sylvanius laughs. “You’ve been so busy lately that you’ve forgotten who you are.”

Really? I didn’t think so, surely being busy isn’t the same as forgetting yourself.

“Ah, but you’ve been the you that they expect you to be, not the you that you want to be.”

Well, that’s true. But I do want to be the me that others expect of me too, because the others we are talking about are important to me. It’s not very different from the me I normally am, or want to be, just more social.

“Yes, and now it’s time for you.”

lol, well that’s true, that’s exactly why I drew a card for myself right now, because I could, because I’ve ticked everything off my “must do” list and now only have “do when I feel like it” list. It’s like the last few weeks have been so busy with so much on, this is the first moment I’ve had to take off my “mask”. It feels like kicking off my shoes and taking off my bra after a busy day out. It’s a nice feeling. Talking to the faeries is like settling in with myself… just relaxing.. being me… being a human being instead of a human doing… yeah, I like that.

“Don’t forget me!” pipes up the little glowing faery.

I won’t! What do you want to say?

She doesn’t say anything- she just laughs her head off and zips away, dipping in and out of my view. Hmmm. I wonder what it is she doesn’t want me to forget? Maybe that part of being me is being silly, spontaneous, spur of the moment. Actually, she kind of reminds me of my inner child and how I haven’t done anything for a while to let my inner child out to play. I have had relaxing moments but they’ve all been grown up ones, nothing … child like. I wonder what I did with those pots of finger paint? Maybe now is a good time to see if I can find them…

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Why Card Readings Are Like Wikipedia

Thank goodness for the randomness of thoughts. Today’s rather random thought was just how much like Wikipedia card readings really are. Here’s why-

1- You can get a useful overview of a subject / your life

Most Wikipedia articles give you a pretty good idea of what you need to know about the topic without going into exhaustive detail. So too a good general reading. It’ll cover all the bases, most likely with a brief history (like Wikipedia) as well as bringing you up to date on current developments. A good reading will touch on all the most important elements of your life and give some hints and clues about what is coming up next. All a reading needs to really match Wikipedia is a convenient sidebar with some facts in brief. Hmm. That actually sounds like a good idea…

2- You can get an answer to a specific question

Workplace disputes about important questions of trivia are often solved these days by googling it. Last week for us it was trying to remember the third US State that started with C (Colorado as it turned out) and who answered that question? Wikipedia. It was the first site that came up with a simple straight forward answer that we didn’t have to hunt too hard to find. Readings can do much the same thing when you keep it simple. Is this a good car to buy? Ten of swords says no.

3- There are a few people out there in it for the mischief but most just want to help

Every now and then you get a Wiki shakedown- someone comes along and either fills a topic with their own personal agenda / politics or they are simply trying to make mischief. You get that with a few readers too who think it’s a great way to make money with no effort (I’m looking at the loony’s who try to sell you $1000 candles to ‘break the curse that’s on you’). Most people though just want to help. A lot of the time we are right and every now and then we get it wrong whether through misunderstanding or lack of care or just having a bad day.

4- If you use the knowledge gained from Wikipedia / a reading you can’t cite it in most real world situations

Try saying at a job interview, “oh I know I’ll get the job because I got a card reading that said so,” chances are you won’t get the job. Same goes for citing Wikipedia in your school report- instant fail. That’s not to say that you can’t use the knowledge you gained from either source, you just can’t admit it to most people. Admittedly a lot more people use Wikipedia then card readings but I’m working on that. In the right perspective, card readings can be a very comforting and useful tool in an increasingly chaotic world.

5- Better articles / readings tend to have more references to how they got the knowledge

How many Wikipedia articles have you seen (especially on obscure topics) that are doted with “this needs citation” on relevant facts. The best articles have lots of references to the sources of knowledge. The best readings I’ve ever had have also done something similar. Now I may be biased in that, being a reader myself, maybe non readers aren’t particularly fussed the four of cups being the source of their disappointment. I’m even happy with “I see this for you because I’m getting a strong feeling about it,” or “I just had a mental image of a handshake so I see you settling that deal”, just as long as the reader speaks about how they came to the conclusion they’ve made.

There’s probably a lot of reasons why I’m wrong about my conclusion that readings and Wikipedia have a lot on common, but that’s the thought that stays with me. In the spirit of a truly wiki experience let me know what you think. Do card readings and Wikipedia have more in common than not? And if this is such a silly assumption on my part then why exactly?

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What Makes Us Tick Spread

9780733625077I’ve just finished an awesome book by Hugh Mackay called What makes Us Tick? He discusses the ten desires that drive us and talks about how those desires are both good and bad. This fascinating book sparked off lots of thoughts in my head but the one thought that has floated to the surface today is that his ideas make a perfect basis for an insightful spread and I’m itching to try it out.

The Spread

  • Being taken seriously
  • What you believe in
  • Your connections
  • Your usefulness
  • Your sense of belonging
  • Your desire for more
  • Your sense of being in control
  • Surprises! Your desire for something to happen
  • Love
  • Your place

I’m looking for three volunteers to try this out on. The only conditions are that I haven’t read for you yet and that you are willing to have both your reading and any discussions about the reading posted here in the comments.

If you try this reading for yourself can you please let us know here how it goes. I’m very curious to see if it works.

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Card Meanings Rider-Waite The Tens

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The tens are resolution, the end result . The keywords here are

  • 10 of Wands- burden
  • 10 of Cups- fulfillment
  • 10 of pentacles- satisfaction
  • 10 of swords- destruction

 

Going Deeper

10 of Wands

The 10 of  wands represents the feeling of “keep on keeping on”- the need to get a job done, despite potential reward or outcome, simply because the job itself needs to be done. Sometimes it feels like a burden. Hard work for the sake of it. There is always a reason for the hard work even if it isn’t apparent. Responsibilities and duties are also represented by this card. Best case scenario is a determination to achieve. It’s knowing that the effort is worth it.

In relationship readings the 10 of wands still indicates hard work. Sometimes it’s about the work that needs to be done on relationships like counselling or discussions and negotiations. Sometimes its work interfering with the relationship, like long hours or exhaustion compromising the integrity of the relationship. Choosing work over relationships.

In negative spread positions the 10 of wands expresses the worst of burdens- feeling the weight of the world on your shoulders. Feeling alone with unavoidable duties that cannot be relieved. It can also be taking on too much, being overwhelmed with responsibilities or commitments.

As a person the 10 of wands represents someone who prioritises work over everything else, or someone who feels responsible for everything.

10 of Cups

The 10 of Cups is always a welcome sight. It is happiness, success and fulfilment. Joy and the end of a long journey. There is always a feeling of having “made it” when this card appears. This feeling is often temporary because real life keeps going on and new challenges arise. This is the “newly wed” feeling. It’s still worth celebrating because it’s what we aim for- being happy instead of being merely content.

In relationship readings it is, not surprisingly, a great card to see. It suggests the right person at the right time, the happy conclusion of any journey and a happy and successful love. This is ultimately the best card to have as the outcome to a relationship question and you can rest assured that no matter what obstacles you have to surmount to get there they will be worth it if this is the outcome.

In negative spread positions it is still worth having though it does suggest that an attachment to a “happy ending” may be blinding you to the reality of the situation. At it’s worst it suggests that this is as good as you can imagine for yourself, feeling like this is as good as it gets even if the reality of the situation is quite awful.

As a person the 10 of Cups suggests a happy and fulfilled person who can make the most of whatever situation they are in, one who always looks on the bright side or one who has achieved what they have set out to do.

10 of Pentacles

This card is also success but in a more practical sense. Rather then blissful happy love it is a more long standing contentment. The sort of happiness you get from years of companionship and camaraderie. It also suggests passing down or sharing knowledge gained. Help from family or well established friends. It is living a full life and enjoying your belongings and life as it is.

In relationship readings it suggests a wealthy or at least comfortable marriage/ partnership. Financial stability arising from your combined assets or ability to accumulate. It suggests being looked after and a dollar value being placed on what the relationship can achieve.

In negative spread positions it suggests a mercenary marriage or a  gold digger. Marrying the money instead of the person. It can, at it’s worst, suggest that family interference is affecting a love relationship, for example when the family does not approve of your choice of love. Or someone who is overly attached to their family and chooses them over their love partner. It can also suggest being trapped in a relationship because of fear of the financial repercussions.

As a person the 10 of Pentacles is someone well established in their career and life and who is comfortable with their financial position (not necessarily wealthy just happy with where they are at). It suggests an older person who has a wealth of knowledge to share and who is willing to share it (whether or not they are asked).

10 of Swords

Probably everyone’s least favourite card to see. The 10 of swords is as bad as it gets. Ruin, destruction, betrayal. There aren’t a lot of nice things to say about this card. It’s rock bottom. It’s not just about giving up but about having all your options taken away from you. At it’s worst its someone or circumstances kicking you while you are down. The only ray of light here is that this is it- they can’t do any worse to you now.

In relationship readings it is betrayal and the end. Consider a relationship with this card as the outcome as dead and buried. It is possible to bring a relationship back from this point, but it is really really hard work and you’d need to ask yourself if it was truly worth it.

In negative spread positions the 10 of swords is at it’s worst so take extra care with your safety. In positive spread positions it can indicate the ultimate in pessimism- seeing the worst in others or situations when there is no need to. It can also be fear of something bad happening. “Worst case scenario” thinking.

As a person the 10 of swords is either the ultimate “poor me”, someone who simply will not heal or move on from past hurts or the worst kind of betrayer, someone who actually goes out of their way cause hurt and pain.

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by faerygodmother on January 21, 2013  •  Permalink
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17 Days After- Newly Wedded Bliss

Well it was everything I hoped for and a few things I feared. There were arguments plenty leading up to the day (note to self- my mother won’t be catering any more big parties) and little details got lost, but nothing spoiled the day. Just goes to show that for all the fussing about small things the only thing that mattered was the big thing. Saying “I do” to the love of my life.

The day itself was romantic, mystical, funny and totally us. We kept the traditions we wanted to- the bouquet and garter toss (I’m looking at you Lee!), the speeches (note to self- drunk parents make embarrassing speeches) and the cupcake tower was everything I could have hoped for so a HUGE thank you to hubby and daughter for that amazing centrepiece. Aussie cupcake towerOur first dance was one of my favourite moments ever, as was daughter reading the poem during the ceremony- I’m kind of glad she didn’t get a chance to read it first because THAT moment was gold! My quote bottles were awesome. They looked divine and made the best gifts. I’m SO glad that idea workedquote bottles.

I need to send a big thank you to all the people who made our special day as special as it was- you all rock. You know who you are and I am so grateful for all your love, support, laughs and hugs. Watch out brother dearest, hubby won’t be the espatada apprentice forever, lol. And a very special thank you to Kylie and Angi. We knew we had good feelings about you both when we met you and it was thanks to you both that the day was what it was. You are both magical and talented and deserving of all the blessings I could possibly heap on you. May this year and every coming year be bright and beautiful and incredibly successful.

Funniest thing about it all? That nothing has changed and yet everything has. I really can’t explain it any better then that. The break after the wedding has been lovely, refreshing and given me a new lease on life. Very keen to get back here, get writing set some new goals for the year. I’ll be spending a LOT more time here and expanding what FaeryGodmothers Fortunes offers, including full private readings at a very reasonable price plus some tailored tutoring. If there’s anything else you’d like to see here please let me know. I’m very excited about the future of this blog as it’s been far more fulfilling then I thought it could be so it’ll be getting a larger chunk of my attention from now on.

So, thank you so much all for your patience. I know that there are some of you that have been waiting for me to get back to you since November. Sorry! There won’t be the long delays any more, I promise.

The last thing I have to say about the wedding is this- I wrote this poem in answer to the question “How do you define, love, marriage, trust and commitment?” It encapsulates everything I feel for hubby. Here’s to you love…

We two here, though far and wide

Our hearts and minds have travelled

Have found each other finally

The mysteries unravelled.

For love was never difficult

Not fraught nor emotionally charged

It was simple, soft, uncomplicated

A twining of our paths.

Our trust was there in moments

Full grown right from the start

And each and every day

You are more firmly in my heart.

Our marriage is the best of us

We two walk hand in hand

Simple, strong, eternal

Like our ever changing land.

The family that supports us,

With those we share our days

Bring strength and love and kindness

In so many different ways.

So this is it, commitment starts

We know it will never end.

For nothing could be truer than

My best and loving friend.

just us

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by faerygodmother on January 7, 2013  •  Permalink
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45 Days To Go- Here Comes the Finish Line…

Progress on the wedding plans- getting there

A picture tells a thousand words. We’ve spent the last six months getting from here…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

….to here.

A lot of the big picture work is done (or nearly finished) so here come the details. Like this one for the vases…. I’m putting poems and quotes on bottles we’ve been saving for the last few months to use as vases all around. My theory is that enough flowers and fairy lights will make anything look like a party venue.

Discussions are continuing with the caterers (my mum) and cake maker (my daughter). I’ve been annoying the bejesus out of everyone taking lots of photos for the photo slide show that’s going up on the big screen. I figure it’ll be more fun if there’s photos of everyone that is at the party, not just us (hours and hours of photos of me and hubby-to-be would annoy even me).

The flowers are coming along. I think they’d be coming along better if it would just hurry up and rain already. It’s been a very dry few months so water is becoming a major issue. Thank goodness for awesome neighbours. I’m not panicking yet about the all important snapdragons (they are my hoped for wedding bouquet) because they are finally starting to do what they are supposed to do ie put on some decent growth. There’s still 6 weeks of hopefully awesome weather coming and I dare say that now they have gotten started they will look gorgeous at just the right time.

In other news, I’ve got a dress fitting this afternoon and an appointment with the photographer, so actual wedding stuff is happening too. It’s weird just how much of this wedding planning has actually been about house stuff. But like I said, it’s getting there.

That’s it for now, I’m off to find suitable vase poetry and quotes (surprisingly difficult to find happy love poems, who knew?!). Hopefully I’ll be back to post another update before the big day, but if not, just bear in mind that this site should be back to normal (ie more regular blog posts) in the new year. Thanks for all your patience people!

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by faerygodmother on November 6, 2012  •  Permalink
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