Free, and Festive (with potential Failure).

             Pretend you can hear me singing…….  Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday Dear Corina, Happy Birthday to yoooooouuuuu! (Believe me when I say you were better off with the imagined voice.)  Hope your day was fabulous and full of gifts.

             My day was full of raindrops.  Well, not FULL, but it was fairly wet out.  I avoided much of the water simply by biking between cloudbursts.  Here is what it looked like coming home from the gym.

The Burrow is a bit more than two miles, that direction.

             As you may have noticed, (hopefully SOMEone notices these things) an updating occurred over there <—– in the Moon Phases and Other categories.  We have another retrograde on the horizon, but we’ve been in a similar situation with different planets for weeks now, so hopefully this one won’t be too bad.  It’ll be the last Mercury event of the year, I think.

             Also, I baked.  I know, what can I say, it just happened.  And not all that successfully either.  I’m not sure, they are still up there cooling.  I’ll share the recipe I used, but I can’t review whether it’s a good one or not.   As I texted Dan, too early to tell.

             Instead, we’ll just look at our card and move along.  (We KNOW I’m good at that.)

“Wolf  ~   

Listen to your inner wisdom and enjoy the gift of freedom.

Wild, intelligent spirit of the plains and forests, Wolf takes what he needs, no more, no less, and counsels you to do the same.  He instinctively trusts in his acute physical senses and the strong co-operative bonds of his complex social group, and is rewarded with freedom.

Follow his confident, firm paw prints down uncharted tracks, listen attentively to your own inner voice as you walk, trusting in the strength of the relationships you value and the gift of brother Wolf, which sets you free.”

             All of us Pentacle People are massive Wolf fans, most certainly more dog-people than cat.  But more than that, the overwhelmingly dynamic aura of Wolf is just so damn appealing, and so very much like us, the two-legged folks, so it makes perfect sense that we’d be drawn in that direction.

             This message is profound too, as it talks about how we are able to harness our inner gifts, by merely tuning in to our own personal guidance systems, by listening to our Team, by connecting with that powerful Wolf energy and being part of the vastness that is this Universe.

             While this image may be more comfortable for some than yesterday’s, they have similar points of view.  The work they both do, with all of humanity or all of their pack, is for the Higher Good.  If some of us turn away from the signs we get, merely due to the appearance of the messenger, we are losing out on something valuable.

             For so long I struggled with the way angels were portrayed, and how they were “claimed” by some groups, and not others.  Once I finally realized that these beings of Nature were no different from Faeries, Mermaids, or Elementals of any sort, I was better able to hear their voices.  I also searched around for some easier to understand (channeled) illustrations.

             For me, the more help we can get down here, the better.  If we are able to listen, and tune in, with love in our hearts, living in a genuine and truthful way, every lesson we need to learn will be that much easier and more successful.

Today’s Deck:

Animal Messages – Seek Inspiration From Our Animal Guides by Susie Green

Recipe for Granola Muffins:

(We made granola from this recipe.  And by “we” of course I mean Daniel.)

(Also, I didn’t proofread or try to reformat this recipe, just did the quick cut & paste.  We’ll have to live with that.)