spirituality
Concerning and exploring the human spirit and soul.
Mirror Dragon Tarot
Reading for 9-30 thru 10-6-19 Ah yes, we’re still working with the difficult 10 of Swords. Having taken the center spot this week it seems to still want to demand attention so I’m going to “cut and paste” the interpretation from last week along with my intuited info from today.
By Victoria LaPointe6 years ago in Longevity
Are You a Walking Contradiction?
Sally had always felt like a walking contradiction. Sometimes she did things she didn’t believe in just to get along. And other times she secretly did things that would not be favourably accepted my mainstream society. For these reasons, she felt conflicted, with a twist of shame. Shame, because she only displayed the material world wanted to see, as opposed to how she truly felt inside. This was probably why she spent so much of her time alone. She knew she could no longer play both sides, she couldn’t live in both worlds. It required too much energy. And to pretend to enjoy participating in the habitual and robotic daily circumstances of the world created a feeling of what she could only describe as cheating on your spouse. She was not in alignment. None of it felt right, never really did. What she was feeling on the inside was not what was showing up on the outside. She was not in alignment and it was starting to physically manifest and not in a positive way. At the time she wasn’t exactly aware of its purpose, she just felt that she was different from everyone else. This created inner anxiety, a knot in her stomach. She did not know that all of this inner-fuckery would turn out to be the greatest gift ever—freedom!
By Charlotte Kratchmer6 years ago in Longevity
How Chakras and Body Energy Connected to Our Health
It is very often that people underestimate the role of chakras and energy in their body. They say that there are no grounds under the theory that a human being consists of many different layers. They say we are physical beings and if there are any ailments, they have been caused by food, environment, predisposition, or way of life.
By Elina Doronkina6 years ago in Longevity
In Defense of Long, Meditative Rituals
How We Used to Be In the past, people would do things like go to the market every day, set the table in a specific way with a table cloth that they would change daily, take things to a temple to be blessed, attend Latin Mass each and every day, wake during the small hours to pray, or even have a ritual each day. While we sometimes make time for those today, we don't really seem to put much focus on it. With so much going on in life, the idea of losing an hour or more a day to something can be ludicrous. But this kind of intentional slowing down of your day is something that our elders found great value in.
By Jessica Riffle6 years ago in Longevity
Mirror Dragon Tarot
Reading for 9-23 thru 9-19-19 This week we have three out of three in the suit of Swords. Swords represent the Air element, which aligns with our intellect. Our language skills, memory, and cognitive ability, what’s often referred to as our left-brain thought, fall into this category. They represent our ability to run our experiences through the filters of structure, language, and logic so that we find a way to understand them and fit them into our day to day reality.
By Victoria LaPointe6 years ago in Longevity
Mirror Dragon Tarot (Part 5)
Reading for 9-12 thru 9-22-19 The Center card this week is the Empress. The Empress represents the Divine Feminine. She embodies compassion, acceptance, generosity and empathy. In following the Fool’s journey, the path of the Major Arcana, she is the third lesson. The Fool at zero shows us the Void, that into which all things are created and therefore the existence of pure possibility. The second step is the Magician who gazes into the vast nothing of complete possibility and realizes that he has the tools, the talent, the intellect, and the will to create any-thing into the no-thing of the Void. As the Empress appears she is the voice of compassion reminding the Magician that although he is able to create absolutely anything into the Void, perhaps there are things best left floating in the space of maybe or after some time or after growth and change. With her compassionate and selfless viewpoint, she presents the idea of consequence and the recognition that what may be good for the one is not necessarily good for the many. So the prevailing influence this week is a desire to compassionately combine feelings and interactions that perhaps have been at odds or poorly aligned up to now.
By Victoria LaPointe6 years ago in Longevity
Mirror Dragon Tarot (Part 3)
Reading for 9-9 through 9-15-19 The center card this week is the Queen of Swords. I see the queens of the Tarot as the teachers and nurturers. They’ve gained deep understanding and compassion while on the path of their suit and are able to guide and sustain those who come behind. With the Swords as the archetype for our cognitive thought, our ability to categorize, define and explain, we look to this queen to help us find the most effective words to communicate our needs and ideas. Her propensity to detail what we want to say with grace and a wise acceptance of others’ ability to understand allows us to find the level which can best facilitate clear interaction. Not only do we want to get our point out, we want it to be understood by those involved. With that stance in mind we use the intuitive grace of the queen to bring things into context for whoever it is we want to be able to comprehend what we’re talking about. We abandon the idea that those around us “just don’t understand us” and find ways to interact with them at their own level. In this way we can communicate effectively as well as bring the capacity of those we’re trying to reach into the exchange allowing them an equal sense of recognition. I find that people are more likely to be open to things when we’ve taken the time to think about their communication skills and made the effort to align with them.
By Victoria LaPointe6 years ago in Longevity
What Is the Power of Intuition?
There is a time when it seems like the choices you make carry so much weight. It is the time when you find that your mind floods your brain, and then your body starts to hyperactivate in all of the possibilities. One choice could be the step where the floor falls in, and you lose everything and everyone that you care about. All can be lost if we believe the lie of self doubt, anxiety, or that trust in others is completely unconditional. There are always consequences, but there is a step that we all can take before making any choice (Besides prayer & consulting close confidants).
By SAYHERNAME Morgan Sankofa6 years ago in Longevity
Celebrate Feelings
As a young woman in graduate school at The University of Georgia, I attended my first big concert. Ike and Tina Turner were performing at the coliseum, and I had seats at the top of the top of the building. I went armed with a pair of binoculars.
By Scout Cloud6 years ago in Longevity
