You want to hear about the pool don’t you? But first, prepare yourselves. I have incurred a brand spanking new painful and stupid injury. I bruised my left big toe on the cement deck as I was getting into the water. No, I did not delay, nor even mention it (except to Dan, he needs to hear ALL of my complaints). I soldiered on through the class. (If it gets much blacker though, I’ll take a picture of it for you.)
As it turns out, I WAS missed. Mostly. There was one, maybe two, who had asked about me because they were kinda glad I hadn’t come back. Which later, Daniel and I laughed loudly about. My pal, Jana* and her aid were there to hug me the second they heard my voice. It was pretty damn awesome to feel so wanted. (Even if some people didn’t want me, that was just damn funny.)
*I have no idea how far back it is in the archives (History Quilt Secretary Robin, any thoughts?) that I mention Jana and Patty. Suffice it to say that she is an adult with some form of mental delay and minor physical disabilities, and I absolutely positively adore her.
My camera flash did a weird thing to the blue color on this concrete, so I went without. Not as clear a shot, but better than being distracted by the overly-not-true-to-life-pool-deck-paint-shade. There’s our brought-from-home -weenies and the Mermaid Water! (No, we don’t know anyone in this photo, I’ve included it here merely because I wanted to share the ambiance. Although, I wish you could smell it too. Even though the chlorine level is nearly nothing, there is that distinctive, and to me, uber clean aroma that I can’t get enough of.)
One other good news item to report (sadly no, it is not to say that my digestion is any better, because it is not), and then we’ll get to our card (which I can’t wait for because it is super interesting and I am fascinated by the little icon or symbol or petroglyph or whatever it is that’s on this illustration, plus, it adds down to a Three, which is such a nice number, not as great as Five, but right up there on the list). We had time for a few errands this afternoon (before we had to load up our towels and suits), one of them was the bank.
I often go to my local branch and bug the guys who work there conduct my measly sad highly important business transactions. For some reason this particular branch is full of strapping young dudes who are inordinately helpful and seem to find me hugely entertaining (they probably have crazy old aunties or something). There was a confusion on my last statement (yes, I still receive statements on PAPER via the MAIL).
Clarification from Head Dude was joyous though. Not any service charges at all, but waived fees! It was only thirty bucks, but hey, that’s a lot of money to me. Going to the plus is WAY better than having it minused.
So, a delightfully pleasant day, on many levels. (Other than the stomach situation, but hell, it’s been two weeks, what difference will another 24 hours make? None, that’s how much.)
As I said yesterday, returning to my class qualified as pretty significant in my life, so we went with the Special Occasion deck. This one is the second to last in the category of Fire, highly appropriate for me due to the fact that the salty water is VERY warm and my face gets VERY red after an hour of sloshing around out there.
“Lizard ~ Daydreaming.
Deja vu occurs when we consciously ‘bump into’ vital details or aspects of daydreams had on earlier occasions.
When we daydream, we energetically leave the present in order to astrally ‘check out’ our potential future. While physically doing something routine, we find our conscious mind wandering, leaving the physical confines of our body on an astral level and exploring future aspects of our life. When our conscious mind realises that we have been daydreaming, we snap back and instantly forget what we have just experienced and the body of the daydream is expelled from our mind forever.
Daydreams are Spirit’s way of allowing us to consciously explore our future while remaining bodily alert.
About a week or two after having your daydream, you will suddenly get the uncanny feeling that you have done this all before. Even though the conscious mind disagrees, the subconscious mind remembers visiting this time and space. It remembers that you placed yourself in this setting – astrally – weeks before, with the subliminal intention of remembering the fact on your bodily arrival.
The physical sensation is your wakeup call, meant to trigger a realisation that something in or around you offers a window of opportunity, that once acknowledged will initiate a great change of fortune in your life.
What you visualise in your daydreams, Spirit offers the map to find, and all that is left to do is follow the directions with intent and resolve.
If Lizard, a creature who spends her days basking in the sun and daydreaming her future into being, has visioned her way into your cards today, you are being advised to take serious note of what your dreams are trying to tell you. Keep a journal. Lizard wants you to look at your daydreams as viable messages from Spirit and veritable roadmaps to possibilities that would normally remain faceless for eternity.
Spirit gifted you with this life as a chance to make your mark on the world. Don’t wast a single chance by choosing to ignore the unrealised but fertile potentials your dreams may be gathering and shaping for your future.”
The dreaming stories of the Aboriginal peoples are some of my absolute favorites. As you will hopefully recall, my own grandmother dreamed me before I got here. That phenomenon says many things to me, as it did to her. For one, it validated the knowledge and history of the ancients. In another perspective, it validates what we know now about our life blueprints, those plans we all agree upon with our loved ones before we come here in our current embodiment. This explanation of deja vu is not one I’m familiar with. But it rings true within the framework of these customs.
Basking is something nearly all cold-blooded creatures do. More times than I can count family members of mine have found me stretched out someplace taking up space in a patch of sunshine. Apparently I’ve been doing it nearly my whole life. No doubt this is one of the reasons I relate so well to reptiles, both big and small.
When I saw that Lizard was our messenger today, the day I returned to the salty water heated naturally by the sun, I was even more sure that our lives here ARE lessons, and that we ARE intended to share them, with a giving heart and an open mind, as much as we possibly can before we step off this physical path and head joyously Home.
Today’s Deck:
Animal Dreaming Oracle Cards by Scott Alexander King
I had a similar phenomenon. Sort of. Recently I connected with the placekeeper for the hero of my next novel; Rio Ferdinand, soccer player for Manchester United. He’s gorgeous. Sigh. I digress. Anywho, while I was waiting for the gkiddos to finish kid fit class & kick boxing, I was perusing magazines looking for collage pics. Who did I find an absolutely stunning pic of? Rio Ferdinand. Another sigh. In the NYT magazine, no less. Along with pics of several of his teammates. It was awesome.
Affirmation that I’m on the right track, my friends.
Affirmation in a huge ol’ freaking way!!!
Hello? This is the Universe calling.
Welcome back to the pool. I like Lizard’s message. I will find some sun and bask…here I thought I was just a solar powered bear.
If we had vented heat, Dan would be standing over it wrapped in a blanket, his version of basking. Just a suggestion, in case you couldn’t find any sun today.
So sorry about the foot injury
. But really glad the swimming went well – of course you were missed!
Off to lie in a heap somewhere and do some serious day dreaming ( it’s snowing here, so too cold to stray outside!)
See above remark about ways to warm. Hot water bottle (or dog) might be another idea. Although, under a duvet (or uber heavy quilt) sounds very appealing too.
I just spent an hour catching up. I thought I only missed a week, but it turned out to be more like ten or twelve days. I’m SO HAPPY the pool is a go, and I’m not at all surprised that they missed you. And it is too funny that the people that didn’t miss you would actually SAY that to you. RUDE. (as BonQuiQui would say).
We are all out of the old house, but it will be weeks if not months before we are unpacked and organized here. Chaos abounds. But I will remember to daydream while doing mindless unpacking. Missed you, Miss Julie, and all the JulieLanders.
Happy End-of-Moving! And yipee for catching up. We missed you too!
Lol, I ADORE BonQuiQui so very much. This particular RUDE was more passive-aggressive than anything else. She had enquired at the desk, more than once, if I was teaching, but didn’t say WHY she was asking. Since so many others had asked too it just sounded like she WANTED me to be there.
Last night she kept “suggesting” things, “reminding” me of ways we did certain things before. It was entirely clear that she was so fake and so NOT happy with me being back. She was just hysterically transparent about it all that we couldn’t help but laugh.
Windows of opportunity … that is always a good thing. Glad you are able to splish-splash once again!
It was so nice, the smell, the feel, the (majority of) welcoming faces.
Glad you are back at the pool and people are happy to have you back. Mostly. Sorry ’bout the toe.
I have spells where I have deja vu a lot, and then it will subside. I will have to keep my mind open for those windows of opportunity.
Isn’t it funny how this tends to run in batches? I have that feeling in sort of clumps of time too.
Sorry about your toe, but thrilled that you get to play in the water again. I’ve been playing in the fruit trees. Nice and warm in the sun, I feel just like a lizard. : )
The Magickal Lizard Fairie of Citrus Fruits, that may have to be your new title.
Yay for splashy class! And for people who want you back! (We’ll just ignore those others.) And for thirty extra dollars! That is not a piddly amount. Do you know how far I can stretch thirty dollars? Looooonnnnnnnngggg.
I’m leery of anything that tells me to pay more attention to my dreams. You would be, too, if I had a dream-projector. They’re…disturbing. Here’s something interesting, though (and appropos of nothing except that it involves dreams). In my writer’s group recently (like two months ago), one of the other writers asked if any of us remember our dreams. I was the only one who did, so he asked if I ever remember reading in my dreams. I thought yes, but he said no because deciphering words is a left-brain activity and dreaming is a right-brain activity, so we’re not supposed to be able to do it. Well, after that I began to pay attention, and I do read in my dreams. Nothing big, signs and headlines and stuff. I write, too, but again, not big stuff. I wonder if that counts? And now I’m curious, does anyone else here read in their dreams?
Me too! That dollar amount just seemed too big to me, which was why I went in and had a sit-down with one of my Bank Boys.
Your dreams ARE a topic unto themselves. I’m amazed you get any rest at all.
I remember reading in some of my dreams, but in MY belief system that happening is a known phenomenon, like lucid dreaming. When you are reading something and it is “new” knowledge this is a sign that you are being infused with Divine Wisdom. Like you are actually learning this, perhaps in a visitation or astral travel situation, not a dream at all.
I can see why someone science-y would remark on it being un-doable, because we are NOT doing it, we are being given the gift of knowledge from outside of ourselves.
In defense of sciencey people, I suspect this is an urban myth… possibly spread by Batman, lol
http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/8j9yq/today_i_learned_the_reason_you_cant_read_in_a/
Okay now THAT was an interesting thread to follow! Especially the one comment which mentioned Out Of Body Experiences, always an option. Thanks!
Dee, and other fiction writers who might want some fun character details, be sure you read this one.
Yeah (waves hand), in my dreams I read. Usually important stuff too, sending me into adventure. But not often. I’m too busy falling.
Okay, see the above comment I just left Dee.
Falling? You do know that you are leaving your body don’t you?
It is amazing how freaking stubborn I can be sometimes. Today was not one of my better days and I eventually gave up and took muscle relaxants to help shut my back up. Which made me more tired and cranky. (I didn’t sleep well last night plus the dog was having pain issues in his leg enough to make him whine every time he got up. I can’t sleep when there is pain in my house.) So I finished a little bag I was making so that I had something good from today. Then I remembered that I had barely gotten to read your post this morning before diving out the door for an appt. ’cause I got up late. I -knew- I had read some of the pool stuff. Couldn’t bleeping find it. (Of course, I’m drugged and tired and that probably hasn’t helped.) So I snarled, got my game face on, and typed ‘pool’ in the search bar. I know, what the hell was I thinking? (Did I mention I can be really stubborn?) The good news is, I have recovered my ability to scan pages for one particular word without reading all the other stuff. (Like archive stuff I haven’t read and don’t want to read out of order.) However, I think my legs have gone on strike from sitting so long. SOOOOO – You began your swimmy classes on Jan. 13, 2009. On Aug. 23, 2010 you tell us about the pool itself. Patty shows up on Sept. 20, 2010 and you mention a ‘Special’ friend on Sept. 30, 2010 which you later tell us on July 15, 2011 is Jana. This is shortly after you began teaching the classes. Whew!
I found it interesting that your card today speaks of daydreams while a card I pulled yesterday told me to pay attention to night dreams. Hmmm.
So, I’m going to see if my legs work, maybe watch some crabs eat popcorn, and maybe knit some more. It depends on how late my poor son will be up doing homework. He didn’t get home till nearly 9:30. Sigh.
OH. MY. Gawd!
Robin, you amaze me. Also, holy crap woman, take care of yourself!
Thank you seems ridiculously inadequate, so please know that my gratitude for this is massive.
(And I am SO not going to mention finding anything ever again.)
Oh, I don’t mind finding stuff. What got me yesterday was that for some reason I just couldn’t let it go. Not remembering made me mad and instead taking a pass on this one (’cause of lack of sleep, pain, worry, and then to top it off – drugs), I chewed it to death. Which then also made me mad. Grrrr… I should have just crawled under the bed yesterday and refused to come out till sanity returned. Today I am sane. My back has yet to try and put me on the floor, I got sleep last night till the garbage men came through. There is something screechingly wrong with their truck. And the dog beds (stuffed with egg crates) from a previous puppy that I was able find in the dungeon (thankfully wrapped/taped in garbage bags) seem to be helping the current puppy. We’re good.
Whew, so glad to hear!
Oh. I’m glad you’re back at the pool!
Thanks, I’m really happy about it too.
So glad you are back at your favourite place and some favourite people too.