Tag: Fenestra Tarot

Right, Rules & Cops

What do you have to do that’s just right? What makes you just a bit uncomfortable because you want to be one of the gang, but can’t be? How do you handle your own Queen of Swords moments?

Today’s card is a reminder to do what’s right. Sounds simple, I know. But is it? Is it really that easy to do what’s right?

I work a job that puts me in a position where I have to tell my co-workers when they are doing something incorrect. It’s not easy. In fact, it pretty much blows because then I have to be the bad guy.

But it’s what *I* get paid for. To make sure things are being done the way they are supposed to plus help out whenever they hit a sticky situation or have an irate customer.

Do I want to have to tell them those things? Um, hell no. Luckily, the folks I work with are a bunch of those who get it. They get that they are at work to do a job. They get that they are bound by someone else’s rules. They don’t make me, or my counterparts, have to be the cops very often.

The Queen of Swords is, for me, the compassionate cop. She’s the one who leads the way by being precise and focused. I’m not a great Queen of Swords. I am more of the Queen of Wands type. This woman is a clear thinker. She’s ready to take decisive action for what is right in her world.

What do you have to do that’s just right? What makes you just a bit uncomfortable because you want to be one of the gang, but can’t be? How do you handle your own Queen of Swords moments?

However you do it, remember that if you keep joy as the underlying message for your own life, you will succeed.

Seek joy, y’all. Pass it on!

Pssst! Once you get , lemme know! We’ve got the Facebook group set up.

Queen of Swords, Fenestra Tarot, USGames, 2005

Thoughts, Swords & Purviews

The Universe frequently knocks my noggin, yanks the rug out from under me feet, or yanks my pigtails then runs.

Today’s card was pulled at a perfect time for me. See, I am furious right now. Just sick with anger about a news story that I read. I’ve already kneejerked about it on my personal page. I’ll spare you that here.

What I will say is that the 8 of Swords (Fenestra Tarot, US Games) is the perfect knock upside my noggin from the Universe. The Universe frequently knocks my noggin, yanks the rug out from under me feet, or yanks my pigtails then runs. (FWIW, I don’t have pigtails… :D)

When I looked at this, I didn’t see swords so much as bindings held by others that locked this woman into place. Of course, those are swords but not for me, not now. My fuzzy eyes have locked onto that idea that she’s held captive by others.

Swords are thoughts. Swords are mental actions. Swords are controlled by…????

Ourselves.

Our thoughts are completely within our own purview. So those swords in this card? Not in someone else’s hands. They are emanating from her and being PUT into the hands of others.

Yep, she’s giving them control of her thoughts. I do that. I forget to stay fierce about my joy. I forget to deny outside input into my interior landscape. I plant thorns when I should be planting tulips.

I can’t control others.
I can control myself.

Yep, it’s that simple. If, and only if, I keep fiercely focused on that finding. (Yes, you can assume adore alliteration.)

So today, my job is to reset my mind, to reroute my thoughts, to restore my inner landscape. Yes, the newsstory was horrific. Yes, there is something I can do about it (educate others on what I think the cause is). But no, there is no reason to walk around jacked up about it all day. What good will that do?

And, in a lovely bit of synchronicity–Thanks, Universe– I read Jodi Chapman‘s blog today.

Yes. Be nice to myself. This is what I must do. And I shall!

Will you?

8 of Swords,Fenestra Tarot, US Games, 2005

Seek joy, y’all. Pass it on!

Still plenty of time to join the gang who are going to be using C to make 2013 the best ever.