Tomorrow we load up and head back to the coast. I’m so happy that we get to make TWO trips! And on top of all the other traveling we’ve already done this summer. It’s exciting. Slightly stressful, what with packing and knowing I’ll forget something, bit mostly it’s been fun. Before we drive off though, I’ll set up the next post (with probably only our card) then try to check in once we’ve arrived. Brookings is our first destination.
This afternoon Dan got as far as he could on the fence project, and then we ran a few errands, via bike. Stopped in to see Anna at the shop, and had her replace all of my brake pads. (I had a slow-moving bash, right into the garage door yesterday as I came home, thought I had more halting power than I did.) We picked up a set for Daniel’s rear tire, he can do his own labor when we get back, not an emergency situation like mine were.
Is it a peach or an orange?!
Saw this in the parking lot before we rode around the block and purchased a few apples (for road snacks). Florida, so …. orange. J.D. got a package on the doorstep earlier, another mile or two along, and we delivered that to his car. Bikes in the elevator again! The only thing that got left un-done was my new Pen O’ The Month club membership.
We went in to look for something specific a few weeks ago, but I was hot and frustrated, couldn’t find anything like what we needed, so we just left. About an hour ago I realized that we’ll run out of week while we’re away, and if you don’t start the punch card this month, you don’t get entered into the prize drawing at the end.
I’ve had a perfect record every year since I won the first time, like well over a decade ago. And we COULD have gone in today! Blergh. Instead, we’ll make a quick detour before we hit the freeway (my driver will want a drive-thru coffee anyway, and there’s a Dutch Bros about two blocks away, because ya know, we vote with our hard-earned dollars).
Yard crops.
The first radish. And today’s batch of blueberries. I wasn’t out there to pick anything, but I could see the bright purple-red colored part of it sticking up out of the dirt, and when I DID pick it, all of that greenery came along with. I think my thinning was lax. Won’t make a bit of difference when I put all of it into a salad later.
Just a few minutes ago I heard a bunch of rustling noises. Loud noises. I checked around, not Dan, not Max. Oh. Behind me. Outside! There is a herd of turkeys traipsing around in the back yard!
Baby and mama.
Can you see them? I’m surprised you can’t HEAR them! What are they here to say? Walk boldly and get what you need, maybe. Take care of your family (chosen or blood related) and enjoy the time we spend together, wherever you gather.
(I’m very much enjoying these bonus messages lately. Thank You, whoever is sending them our way.)
On our card altar today I went with only two for the daily draw, instead of that usual three we’ve been doing with this deck. It’s coming to an end, in only a few more rotations, and the numbers aren’t going to fall evenly.
“Awakening ~ VII ~ Major Arcana
The veil of illusion, or maya, that has been keeping you from perceiving reality as it is, is starting to burn away. The fire is not the heated fire of passion, but the cool flame of awareness. As it burns the veil, the face of a very delicate and childlike buddha becomes visible.
The awareness that is growing in you now is not the result of any conscious ’doing,’ nor do you need to struggle to make something happen. Any sense you might have had that you’ve been groping in the dark is dissolving now, or will be dissolving soon. Let yourself settle …. A channel is now opening from the circumference of activity to that center of witnessing. It will help you to become detached, and a new awareness will lift the veil from your eyes.
Traveling ~ 8 ~ Fire: Action
The tiny figure moving on the path through this beautiful landscape is not concerned about the goal. He or she knows that the journey is the goal, the pilgrimage itself is the sacred place. Each step on the path is important in itself.
When this card appears in a reading, it indicates a time of movement and change. It may be a physical movement from one place to the next, or an inner movement from one way of being to another. But whatever the case, this card promises that the going will be easy and will bring a sense of adventure and growth; there is no need to struggle or plan too much.
The Traveling card also reminds us to accept and embrace the new, just as when we travel to another country with a different culture and environment than the one we are accustomed to. This attitude of openness and acceptance invites new friends and experiences into our lives.”
When I flipped that Traveling card over it totally made me smile. And think, of course! There is more to it, for all of us though, than just me and this next beach time jaunt. But before I go there, let’s address my disagreement with the first definition.
This deck comes from a specific belief system’s point of view, which is fine, not usually an issue. In this case, it sort of is. For me anyway. I happen to think that this DOES have something to do with the work we’ve been putting in, not just that we are a silent, and non-participating witness to our own lives, sitting aside and settling for whatever washes past us.
The Awareness card, when matched up in the traditional Tarot, is The Chariot. Which brings us back to TRAVEL! Now let’s look at the entire reading. True, there is a veil and we are looking past it, clearly viewing what we were previously unable to understand and apply. But we are able to do that right now because we’ve been focusing on our lessons, attending to our desires/needs, and living with an honest awareness of who we are/were/will be.
The Journey that is this life, the path we have chosen to walk and learn from, is very much in the forefront of our mind. We are making the conscious effort to BE in it, and to share the love of it that we now can access. It IS about the Travel, and we know that now, because we are Aware.
Other Foreign Plates:
Maryland, (new) Idaho, and New Mexico
Studiously ignoring his Nana.
Hope you have a very good time on your trip. Your produce looks lovely. I’m determined to make it to the farmers market this weekend. I want some peas because mom and I watched a television cook make a recipe using peas that sounded yummy.
Speaking of messages – I got a synchronicity-type message today. I have decided to go back to pantsing as a writer. But before I decided that I had signed up for a class on a different structure. I tried to talk myself into dropping the class but, of course, I’m too rigid to do that. So it was done for me. The class was cancelled. I will be taking a different class about motivation instead. Yay!
Aren’t grandkids wonderful – even in 4 legged form. You get to enjoy them and then give them back. I spent time with mine yesterday and will be having big fun with my granddaughter today.
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Synchronicity at its finest!
J
8:43 p.m.
8-28-12
Hope you are OK after your slo-mo bash!
It’s a tiny baby radish, how cute! Totally jealous of the blueberries!
Turkeys brought some wonderful messages! Much appreciated!
Just have to laugh at the Universe’s sense of humor! Of course! Perfect omen! And, while I totally agree that we have most certainly been “doing,” what I got upon first reading the expanded description of Awareness was that it is time to allow our learning & thinking & doing to naturally integrate into our being, or way of being (and seeing). Perhaps it is time to take a break from the conscious “doing,” just to be still for a while? And I love your added acknowledgement that it is our work & doing that has brought us so far! Damn frickin’ right! LOL!
Maximum detached cuteness!
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I was aiming for the area next to the garage door as I came down the driveway, just in case my brakes were as bad as I thought they were. They were. The bike and I are fine and there is only a black rub-up-against mark on the jamb where the front tire bashed and sorta bounced back.
J
8:48 p.m.
8-28-12
Interesting about Osho’s cards. I have objected to the male-centerednes of most of his cards; the last few readings I haven’t had nearly as much issue with. I do appriciate your translations, however…
Enjoy the coast. I hope we get over there soon, but it is gig heavy the next two weeks. Church gig at First Christian AND Washburne on Sunday, and the Benton County SO Chili cook-off the following Saturday with the tubas.
I will have to check our carrots and beets. We didn’t thin much…
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The twosome we got for this draw was just so right-on that I no longer question the validity in adding it to our rotation. It does have its not-so-great moments, but I know that The Osho himself had nothing to do with assembling the deck, so I can pretty much get past most of the minor issues that we sometimes see.
J
8:51 p.m.
8-28-12
Have a lovely trip!!!
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Thank you! The weather was IDEAL today.
I expect it to stay that way.
J
9:59 p.m.
8-28-12
Road trip! Have a great one.
I love the cards, especially the first one as I’d been a bit frustrated in the past week, and yesterday something, a realization or calmness washed over me. I remember how I had stretched out on the couch for an afternoon nap when it hit. Lovely feeling. I explored it a bit. Later on I got the mail and there was a magazine with a class on the practicing of Mindfulness. I’d just read Jenny Crusie’s post from her therapist last week about Mindfulness. The thought of staying in the conscious moment had been playing around in my thoughts for a week or so. Talk about messages. I’m going to take the class. : )
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I love that! And I’m SO enjoying how the more we tune in, the more tuned in we become.
J
10:03 p.m.
8-28-12
Turkey is the Give-Away-Eagle. You will be given gifts, and will share them and give gifts to others in turn. Basically, you will do the same old same old for you :0)
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I totally forgot that !!!
(Thank you.
Lol, it fell right out of my head.)
J
10:17 p.m.
8-28-12
Yay! Another trip! Lucky you. We’re still desperately trying to finagle (?) work and school schedules so that we can all go to Renfest together. *sigh*
For me it’s been Turkey Vultures! I probably should see if I can find out if they have any meaning attached.
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Before we lived in this empty nest (or pseudo-empty, EMMA!) we couldn’t get all five of us anywhere at the same time.
And now, years later,
we’re attempting TWO fall events.
J
10:38 p.m.
8-28-12
How wonderful! Take lots of pics. I’m glad you are getting a longer vacation than just that one day. Have fun! I hope the weather is perfect.
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The last one was TWO days, we got to see you and meet new friends. Totally festive and worthwhile. Plus, beach!
J
10:56 p.m.
8-28-12
YaY for the Va-cA – Have a wonderful time
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Thanks. So far so good!
J
10:58 p.m.
8-28-12
Hmmm. I see why that line bugs you (The awareness that is growing in you now is not the result of any conscious ’doing,’ nor do you need to struggle to make something happen) now that you explain it, but that is actually comforting to me. I worry when I am in the midst of some kind of growth phase that I will screw it up, or lose it somehow, like it is a one-time opportunity and if you goof it up, you’ve missed it forever. So hearing that it doesn’t have anything to do with my own efforts to ‘get it right,’ to grow correctly damn it, is a relief. In a way, I think you’re both saying the same thing– it IS the result of the work we’ve put in, and the new phase or knowledge or whatever has now been earned and no matter what we do, it’s going to happen. I hope that made sense to you because I’m not sure it made sense to me. ha. HAVE A GREAT TRIP.
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It made perfect sense!
Thank you.
J
11:11 p.m.
8-28-12