Being In Our Lives, Moving Through Our Lives

             As we all know, and now it’s a meme, our assigned task here is the journey.  Not the destination.  But, because we’re flawed animals, we forget.

             Recently I was made aware of a clever way to remember.  The phrasing is catchy, and it lyrically brings this message home.  I like direct, and I like alliteration.

             Here is what the Universe would like us to focus on right now:

Chance

Choice

Change

             What this means is, possibilities will cross our paths.  We are then given the option of what to do with various opportunities.  As a result of our selection, we can then alter our route.

             None of the choices are mistakes.  Just as none of the changes are problems.  No matter how or what we go with, we’ll learn.  We’ll do better.  We’ll improve.  Our forward momentum will be enhanced, which offers us additional avenues for helping others.

             Because that’s WHY we’re here!  I did like how this was worded though, it felt authentic and useful.

             Personally, this sang to me.  It sounded good in my head and when spoken outloud.  It also felt good.  Like, a gentle helping hand, instead of a jolting nudge to the ribs.

             We have to watch for those chances.  We need to feel the instinctive choices.  And then, with ease and grace, we must slide into our changes with comfort and free release of all that no longer serves.

 

 

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Circles, Cycles, Tides

             All week I’ve been seeing signs and hearing messages with a singular and common theme.  Even the current Vernal Equinox and Full Moon are telling us the same things.

             Right now?  It’s all about:

birth.

             The newness of the season, the freshening of our mother Earth, it’s in every aspect of our lives at this moment.  It is the focus of Nature.

             For me, personally, it was  …..  interesting.  So much has changed in the past few years (well, nearing a decade now, but the past three-ish have felt accelerated).  I’m no longer fighting the detours, the roadblocks, the shit that just pops up into our faces when we least expect it.

             Probably that’s growth.  Maybe that’s evolving.  Hopefully that’s learning my lessons.  Mostly it feels like I’m finally getting the hang of this Release process.  That “GAH!  It’s all new and different!” concept no longer feels as jarring, it unsettles me not as often.

             This afternoon was an excellent example.  My hours at work have been cut.   This is good and bad news.  On the negative, I go to a job because we have decided that homelessness will not suit our particular needs at this time.

             On the bright side, I love not going to work.  We took off, spontaneously, with no plan except to head for the shore.  My beloved Oregon Coast was the destination.  Sun sets at 7:30, it’s an hour away, I didn’t even have to set an alarm nor get out of bed early.

             As you can see, the day was spectacular.  Cold enough for me to be happy, the breeze calm enough for my driver and his companion to not get blown off their feet.

             All the things did not fall smoothly into place, though.   Our food factor was met with many unforeseen obstructions.  We rolled with it.  None of the solutions were fabulous, but we didn’t allow it to dim our shiny day away.

             Going to see my favorite beach is always a joy which shows on my face, an ebullient recharge I carry with me for days and days and days, drawing on the visit repeatedly.  The birth of being able to just GO do it was a gift I had not expected.

             What I think the Universe wants us to gain from all of this is that we CAN adapt.  We ARE able to flex and bend and take the alternate path.  Because we do now know, it most certainly is not about the ending, it’s entirely about the journey.

             We kept recalling the pluses, making them even more positive, and let those negatives roll right off.  It was an effortless successful, and that’s kind of a new concept for many of us.

 

 

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Answers and Alleviation

             The past few weeks I’ve been feeling increasingly overwhelmed.  As in the way of all things, (see last post re: thinking and being), the Universe stepped in.  Pun unintentional, but highly appropriate.

             Wanna guess who had to make a visit to Urgent Care and got sent home with instructions to stay off her feet for the next 4 days? Yeah, this witch.

             The eclipse, politics, Mercury retrograde, debt, work problems, increasingly painful edema, and now a new (wtf?) foot situation.  It was just adding up to equal: too much.

             I went to see a medical professional and she shut it all down.   She became the voice of Source.  She said, “no more” and she was the last word.

             Thanks, Powers That Be.  I’m listening.  And now, I’m staying home, elevating my lower appendages, practicing Self-Care, and being here in the small house which is now our home.

             As I paid attention to what the signs were telling me, I heard this:

Timelessness

             We have many lives, many chances, many adventures.  If it all doesn’t get done RIGHT NOW that’s fine.  We have tomorrow.  We have next week.  We have next year, and all the years/tomorrows after that.

             We are being reminded that the Journey is where our focus needs to lie.  Aim for the enjoyment, the lesson, the tiny moment of pleasure.

             Once again, it’s about being present.  Being in this time.  And if some shit has to be transferred to tomorrow’s list (or some tomorrows in the future) that’s perfectly okay.  We’ll get there.  We always do.

            Time does not “run out” nor does it disappear.  It wrinkles, it rolls over, it moves along, it meanders down its own path.

             And as a validation, we see that it also turns like a wheel.

Wheel of Fortune  ~10  ~ reversed

             Or, as I like to read them, with a tweak.  This view shows us that we’ve all been around the block.  We’ve seen the ups and downs.

             What changes is not the Wheel, but how we see it.  There are lean times and times of plenty.  There are times when we feel like we need a break, and then, maybe we can go on a vacation/take a day trip/slip off for a nap.

             A new cycle has begun, and we are rolling around in the middle of it.  Transitions surround us.  The dust has begun to settle.  We’re finding our groove after having lost the beat.

             Basically, no matter what today feels like, we know tomorrow is there.  An opportunity.  A new fresh day, filled with potential.  Time turns, it is gifted to us.  We can choose to embrace it, or not.

Today’s Deck:

Robin Wood Tarot

Today’s Resources:

Robin Wood Tarot and me

Today’s Sharing:

is this affirmation.  It seemed to be exactly what we needed.

             Be Well, my loved ones.  Because here we are now, exactly as we are, the perfect amount.

 

 

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