Month: September 2020

Things Look Different – Day 668

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Things Look Different

I took the two photos I’m including in tonight’s post within less than a minute of each other. The only change was the use of the zoom on my iPhone. While I do this a lot with a vast majority of the subjects I photograph – zoom in and out to see how much detail I can capture or what the big picture might tell about context – tonight’s two photos really caught my eye. Things look different.

Perhaps it’s just my mind struggling to make sense of the latest revelations billowing across the airwaves. Hearing our president admit, knowing he was being taped, that he was warned back in January of the colossal impact and likely devastation the Coronavirus was going to bring to our country. Hearing him relate to Bob Woodward in an eerily breathy and awestricken voice just how deadly and easily transmissible the virus is. And then recalling him telling us day after day the exact opposite of what he knew to be true.

It’s a lot.

And tonight’s clouds just felt like a darn good metaphor for what’s being revealed.

On the one hand, close up one can almost feel a bit of optimism. There’s some blue sky within the cross-hatch of the clouds, a bit of clarity. But if you look at the clouds a little more carefully, it’s as if they’re at cross purposes. Some seem clearly heading one way in the sky and another patch, almost within the realm of the first patch, seem intent on heading in the opposite direction.

Cross Purposes

One might imagine the view of the sky, if taken from a wider, more expansive perspective, might reveal even more hope; a bit more blue sky. More options.

Usually, when we ‘stop and take a step back’ we find some sense of reassurance or perspective.

I didn’t feel that tonight, especially when I got home and looked more carefully at the two photos. Nor did I feel it when I paid attention for the first time tonight to the latest ‘breaking news’ in what has become a fire hose of ugly revelations. But the thing is, the revelations are not a total surprise. If you were paying attention, the clouds at cross purposes were there all along.

We wanted to focus on the slivers of blue sky, the stark and dramatic outlines of the trees along the horizon.

If we’d adjusted our sights, taken a step back, we just might have caught wind of the blanket of darkness escaping our perception.

Then again, on second thought, perhaps it all looks rather bleak.

Photo: L. Weikel

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Two Visitors – Day 667

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Bumblebee – Photo: L. Weikel

Two Visitors

While I worked at my laptop on the porch this morning, I entertained visits from two distinctly different creatures. One of my two visitors was beautiful, but terribly destructive and most unwelcome. The other was not only beautiful, but also singularly and adorably focused upon fulfilling its purpose of being a master pollinator, making it a most welcome and appreciated guest.

Busy Bumblebee – Photo: L. Weikel

Little Bumblebee

I was delighted when the bumblebee you see in these photographs started immersing herself in the begonias hanging off the edge of our porch. These blooms have been – bar none – the best flowers to grace my porch probably ever. This particular hanging basket of creamy peach, brilliant orange, and dazzling yellow faces has consistently churned out blossom after blossom since early spring.

When this bumblebee showed up this morning, bouncing from one blossom to another, intently burying its head, thorax, and abdomen deep into the begonia’s sensuous petals, I grabbed my phone, hoping to get close enough to capture the intimacy of the moment.

As you can see, little bumblebee was more than happy to show me its best side and allow me to document its efforts to being the best pollinator in its age group. I was especially fascinated by the big blob of something sticking to one of its legs. It could be pollen, I suppose. But it actually looked, to me, like a part of the blossom’s plumbing.

Anyway, I was over the moon that bumblebee permitted me to get so close and capture some shots of it without seeming perturbed at all by my presence.

Photo: L. Weikel

Unwelcome Intruder

As I stood on the edge of the porch marveling at the details I could see in my bumblebee photos, I felt something thwack onto my left shoulder. In fact, I could just barely see it in my peripheral vision, but I had a feeling I knew what it was – and I was not happy.

I flicked it onto the floor in front of me and – sure enough – it was a spotted lantern fly. UGH. Shocked and appalled at the audacity of this intruder to actually hurl itself onto my body, my loathing overrode my initial, natural inclination not to kill things. Knowing they are extremely quick to evade capture or death, and before I even thought twice, I stomped on it.

They don’t belong here. They’re killing our trees.

Within the span of five minutes I was graced with visits from two diametrically opposing creatures. One that spreads life and one that destroys it.

Not sure what I make of that. I wish I didn’t have to kill anything, but sometimes we’re forced to make choices we wish we didn’t have to make. I’ve asked them to leave, but they’ve insisted on remaining and going after our trees. They’re invasive and persistent.

So…it’s from this:

Spotted Lantern Fly Nymphs – Photo: L. Weikel

To this:

The only good kind of Spotted Lantern Fly – Photo: L. Weikel

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Don’t Embolden the Dark Side – Day 666

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Gargoyle – Photo: L. Weikel

Don’t Embolden the Dark Side

This is my 666th post. That fact didn’t actually click in my head until just now as I started to write this evening’s communiqué. But of course, as soon as I realized it was number ‘666,’ my imagination started running wild. But in the end? The message I want to leave you with is, “Don’t embolden the Dark Side.”

First of all, much as you might automatically assume otherwise, this isn’t a political statement. Nor is it a warning not to mess with forces about which you may have little knowledge. (Although I would be remiss if I didn’t mention in passing that you really shouldn’t assume the Dark Side is a myth. Power can be abused and people dabble in stuff they’re clueless about far too often. It is dangerous. It’s not a joke. But that’s not the subject of tonight’s post in spite of  its number!)

Your Participation Matters

It is, however, an entreaty to do right by yourself and your community by submitting your Census information as soon as possible. For now, we have until September 30th to fill out our Census information – so don’t be disempowered by thinking (a) it’s too late; or (b) it’s not important.

The U.S. Census is conducted only once every ten years. The anonymous information gathered is critical to securing funding for all sorts of critical infrastructure support. If you’re not counted, policy decisions may be made at various levels of government that won’t be as accurate or helpful as they would be otherwise.

In other words: YOU MATTER.

And it is the Dark Side that would have you think you might be in danger by filling out the form. It’s the Dark Side that would try to scare or intimidate you into thinking you shouldn’t be counted. Or that you don’t matter. If you don’t stand up and allow yourself to be counted, the Dark Side will have succeeded in making you INVISIBLE.

Think about it. Be logical. If you didn’t matter, then the Dark Side wouldn’t be trying to end the Census count sooner than usual. It wouldn’t be ending door-to-door canvassing earlier than usual (using the pandemic – which the Dark Side wants people to believe is a hoax – as an excuse). The Dark Side doesn’t want an accurate count.

It’s SO Easy

  • You can fill out the form that came in the mail. It must be postmarked by 9/30/2020;
  • You can call 844-330-2020 to file by phone in English, or 844-468-2020 to file by phone in Spanish;
  • And EASIEST OF ALL: go online at my2020census.gov.

The Fight’s Not Over

Just last Friday a Federal judge blocked the Dark Side’s efforts to shut down the Census’s tabulations early. Why? Because the ramifications on communities is that big. Because shutting it down early is outright shenanigans. Getting an accurate count of who lives in our communities impacts so much more than most of us realize. And we’re ‘stuck’ with the numbers for ten whole years. That’s why this is a huge win!

But why wait? Take ten minutes right now and get the job done.

Don’t embolden the Dark Side. Oh. And another way you can thwart those forces? VOTE.

VOTE like your life depends on it.

Photo: L. Weikel

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A Pandemic Pleasure – Day 665

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Shankweiler’s Drive-In – Photo: L. Weikel

A Pandemic Pleasure

If we squint hard enough, every now and then we can discover a sweet spot in our lives that Covid-19 has either made possible or highlighted from another era. One such bonus to society, actually, is the resurgence of drive-in movie theaters. We could almost call our experience this evening a pandemic pleasure.

Part of the reason going to a drive in movie nowadays (as opposed to when I was a teenager) is actually a delight is the digital experience and the ability to have the audio delivered via radio. Does anyone reading this remember the speakers that were attached to the poles along each parking space?

More saliently, does anyone remember a time when those speakers weren’t dilapidated pieces of heavy metal crap with severed wires hanging from a vast majority of them? The audio on those speakers was abysmal, all crackly and only sporadically audible.

Just as I was growing up and coming of age drive-ins were becoming passé. They were falling into a state of disrepair. Malls were being built and movie complexes alongside them. Everything was changing with movies.

I do remember watching Jaws with my mom, older sister and brother-in-law, and their kids. We were at the drive-in theater in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod. It was the ‘perfect’ summer movie to watch when all we did was basically live on the beach and swim in the ocean all day!

Tonight’s Feature

I have to say, though, tonight’s adventure at Shankweiler’s (America’s oldest drive-in!) was an absolute delight. Because they’d scoped it out earlier in the season, my son and daughter-in-law knew exactly what to do to transform a ‘movie night’ into a pandemic pleasure. They knew just how early we needed to get there to snag a great location (although there probably aren’t any bad locations at Shankweiler’s – it truly is a sweet location).

It’s been at least nine months since we saw a movie. And even though local indoor theaters are open, I personally have no desire to roll the dice for a chance to sit inside a building with pretty much anyone to watch a movie I could rent at home.

But going to the drive-in tonight was so much fun! We each contributed to a delicious tailgater’s evening of snacks and salads and then watched as the sun set and the stars came out. The weather couldn’t have been better. While the three of them got comfy in chairs set out in front of and between our two cars (which were all spaced out with double the room due to social distancing rules), I made myself a nest of blankets and pillows.

We watched Bill and Ted Face the Music, which was a cute, campy movie. I have to admit, it made me sigh a little deeper to realize that the original in the series, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure came out 31 years ago. Holy cow.

We had two little kids at that time, so we didn’t got to see it in the theater. But I know for sure that we rented it (and probably watched it on a VCR also rented from the video store!).

Wow, have things changed. And yet…here we are. I don’t know what the stats are, but I’ll bet drive-in theaters are doing extremely well this year. It’s a pity the drive-in we used to take our sons to down in Warrington is now a Lowe’s parking lot. That makes me sad.

Intermission – hot dogs! – Photo: L. Weikel

 

One Last Thing

The old fashioned interludes they play on the big screen both prior to the main feature and then at the intermission between films are worth the price of admission. They’re hilarious. Here’s a still from one of the ones that graced the screen tonight. Seriously.

If you have a chance to go to a drive-in this fall, go! Especially while the summer weather is still around and the hint of a cool fall breeze is just becoming a feature of its own. It’s a veritable pandemic pleasure. And a super way to spend some socially distant time with friends or family in the great outdoors.

Intermission – ice cream! – Photo: L. Weikel

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Big Guy On the Road – Day 664

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LImax Maximus – Photo: L. Weikel

Big Guy On the Road

Oh my goodness – the weather today. It was simply one of those singularly stupendous examples of summer-on-the-cusp-of-autumn perfection. And as we embarked upon our usual round, Karl and I encountered this big guy on the road, a creature not commonly found making its way unscathed across the macadam of our country road. At least, not commonly found by us anyway!

Spartacus was the first to spot it. He seems to recognize that it’s praying mantis babies getting squished by cars season, so for the past few days he’s been frantically darting from one inert splat on the road to the next. Praying mantis roadkill was always Sheila’s most favored delicacy. She was uncannily adept at prying them off the road at the perfect angle to keep them fully intact, rewarding her with an entire mouthful of green goodness.

I’ll be honest: Over the past few days I’ve pried a few dead mantises off the road and brought them back to Sheila. She may be too frail to walk very far anymore, but she still gobbles these seasonal treats with astonishing gusto.

Leopard Snail

Which leads me back to our discovery of this magnificent specimen today. Spartacus approached it enthusiastically but immediately eschewed its plump moist body as definitely not the hoped-for praying mantis carcass. It caught my attention, though. What was that odd…thing?

As can be seen, I dutifully documented our discovery for all our benefit, at first just giving it its due. But its rather gargantuan heft could not be appropriately appreciated without context, so I provided my toe for perspective. It should be noted, I am not one of dainty feet. This snail is a monster.

As I extolled the snail’s unique beauty, documented same, and debated with Karl the merits of messing with its destiny by moving it across the road in the direction it appeared to be heading, I also managed to locate a small plastic bag in my pocket that enabled me to pick it up and help it cross the road. (I’ll admit, it’s inability to deftly dodge cars nudged me in the direction of potentially interfering with its karma.) I carry this snack size zippered bag in my pocket precisely so I have a place to store the praying mantis detritus that I bring home for Sheila to remind her of better days.

See? Everything is related.

Look at that Face

At this point, it feels important to state that in eastern Pennsylvania I do believe it is a common colloquialism to refer to people in general as ‘guys.’ In ‘these parts,’ as they say, when we use the term ‘guys,’ we are not making a specific reference to friends (usually) of either male or female persuasion, but rather ‘whomever’ – in other words, everyone in the general vicinity to which we’re referring.

So you might have bristled somewhat at my reference to this being a ‘big guy’ – but in fact, as an in-depth reading of this link on Leopard Snails reveals, they are in fact hermaphrodites. So, even more appropriate that I referred to this specimen with the colloquial expression ‘guy.’

And wow – they’ve got quite the acrobatic means of reproducing, too.

Finally, I ask you: how could you not love that face? And its name: Limax Maximus.

See, you just never know what you’re going to read about from one day to the next with me. It’s all part of the magic, you guys.

 

(T-447)

Sunset – Day 663

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Photo: L. Weikel

Sunset

Here we are. It’s Friday evening (or more likely Saturday morning by the time you read this) of Labor Day weekend, 2020.  Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the summer of the Covid-19 pandemic is galloping toward its unofficial end. And if you happened to be outside this evening you would have witnessed an utterly exquisite sunset leading this Labor Day parade.

What does it mean that we’re at the end of the summer? This year’s return to school is colossally screwed up. All anyone can do is keep their eyes on the daily tallies of infections and hospitalizations.

Oops!

I have to chuckle. I wrote the above couple of paragraphs and suddenly found myself sitting upright, coughing.

Yes, I fell asleep in the middle of writing my post for the day.

I’m appalled at myself. It was a hard snooze, too.

Take a look at these photos from earlier tonight, though. Not an owl to be heard, but oh my, the shifting colors splashed across the sky grew deeper and more lovely every minute that we walked.

Better Things

I do have one recommendation for you this weekend. If you haven’t started watching it yet, there is an absolutely binge-worthy show for you to check out this weekend: Better Things. It’s on Hulu.

Shout out to my sweet friend Cherry-Lee, who wrote about it on Facebook. I’d never even heard of it last week at this time. But based on her rave review of it, Karl and I started watching this week and – oh my. It is one of the best shows!

We just finished season two tonight and I feel like we’re only just getting into the really good stuff. I don’t want to give anything away. Trust me. It’s quirky and funny and poignant and maddening. Shocking sometimes, too.

It’s worth your time. You won’t regret it.

Pretty Sunset – 4 Sept 2020; Photo: L. Weikel

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Cloud Menagerie – Day 662

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Cloud Menagerie – Photo: L. Weikel

Cloud Menagerie

We were besieged by some wicked storms late this afternoon and early evening. I believe we were even under a tornado watch for several hours. For a variety of reasons, including the spectre of wild weather, Karl and I didn’t manage to take a walk today. So tonight I’m sharing a photograph I took on our walk yesterday, which I initially thought was simply (and obviously) a hummingbird. However, upon reflection, I realize it’s a veritable cloud menagerie.

Yet again, I’m fascinated by the abundance of playful figures I see dancing in the photo – that I did not see when I initially took the shot.

Quite frankly, when the cloud formation initially caught my eye as we walked along the dirt road lined by fields filled with wild flowers and incipient hay, it reminded me of a gigantic hummingbird. Thrusting Spartacus’s leash into Karl’s hand so I could quickly take the photo, I exclaimed to Karl, “Look at the hummingbird!” For the life of me, I couldn’t understand how he couldn’t see it, but as I put the phone to my face, he sounded bewildered. “Where? I don’t see it!”

It was only when I showed him the image on my phone that he let out a relieved, “Ooooh!”

“I thought you saw a hummingbird in the weeds by the side of the road or something and thought you could get a close-up!” he laughed.

We then proceeded to have a lively debate on whether the cloud looks like a hummingbird or a ‘dumb bird,’ as we somewhat irreverently refer to mourning doves. Quite honestly, even now I can’t decide which bird the clouds resemble more.

Other Beasts Too

What I find particularly cool, though, is how I see so much more in this photo now that I’m looking at it here at home. I know I’ve commented on this before, but I do find the regularity with which additional Beings appear in photographs both intriguing and charming.

In this photo, I see at least two other four-legged creatures cavorting in the sky quite near to our dovingbird. And while the one hovering to the right of the bird (from our perspective) does not sport a horn when observed directly, there’s something magical about the creature when you sort of look at it askance. I See a unicorn. And no, I don’t see any rainbows. Not in this photo, at least!

Gratitude

I’m so grateful for the Cloud Beings. Their presence in my life brings me joy in the most unexpected circumstances. They inspire me to expand my perception (wink) and allow myself to be nudged out of, let’s say, perhaps, a cranky mood that has me feeling totally cornered and in a box.

And other times, which I also revel in, my beloved Cloud Beings perfectly mirror the ominous onslaught of dark times or dire circumstances that threaten my inner landscape. I appreciate it when they reflect my moods. In fact, often when I’m feeling bleak and they seem to be enacting a call and response, they help me realize the treasures that can be found in the rippling or billowed opacity of the moment.

Enjoy our Dovingbird and its frolicking minions. I needed a smile when those clouds showed up; and they delivered. I’m grateful.

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Expansion of My Yet Again – Day 661

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XXI ~ World  – from Tarot of the Crone – Photo: L. Weikel

Expansion Of My Yet Again

A few days ago I wrote a post that described an additional message I received through two cards I chose from my Tarot of the Crone deck. As I was writing my post that night, sharing the astonishing synchronicity of the messages I received on my walk that night with the card I’d chosen for ‘all of us’ the night before, I started pushing up against my ‘witching time’ of having to post by 1:00 a.m. As a result, I chose to leave out a paragraph from one of the card descriptions, figuring it wasn’t as important as the paragraph I did include. Well, that card appeared again today, and in re-reading it, yet again, I feel it’s important for me to create this expansion of my Yet Again post.

I’m hoping you’re allowing my posts on Perception and Yet Again to percolate within your consciousness as this week unfolds. There’s a lot going on in our lives and in the world, and it’s important for us to be mindful of how we’re perceiving it all.

To that end, you may recall that the primary card I chose a few days ago was the World.

I’m getting the sense that it’s important for our contemplation to consider the entire reflection on this card, so I offer it here:

XXI ~ World

I am all you have been

And all you will become

 

I am the exercise

Of your power

 

And the key

To your future

“In the World, a large black figure holds twenty-one smaller figures within her. Each of the smaller figures has a face colored to represent the special power she possesses. The face of the larger World, however, is transparent. Through it and haloed around her is the swirling blue and white of a beautiful brave new world. The overall shape evokes a keyhole, outlined in a glow of blue against rich black.

The entry to a new world and your ability to create it, is in giving all that you are a place, Devil and Empress and Fool. Forget none of their lessons. Give up none of your power. Within your World, all of them come together and create a whole more than the sum of any amount of parts. More than a balance, more than integration like some locking together of pieces, when you are all, you are on another scale entirely.”

My Perspective

As I read this card yet again today against the backdrop of so much that we see unfolding in our country right now, it was obvious to me that the highlighted paragraph, above, is an essential component of the process of shifting our perception that we’re being called to undertake. Not only must we claim and integrate the various and unique powers we hold within ourselves, we must also honor, claim, and integrate the unique powers and identities of those with whom we share this planet.

I hope this adds to the richness of your reflections this week.

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Summer Loves – Day 660

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Cloud Blanket – Photo: L. Weikel

Summer Loves

I love when it gets cool enough at night for us to put the whole house fan on instead of the air conditioner. The past few nights have allowed for that, and my sleep has been deep. This evening we don’t have any electrical cooling device running, and I’m sitting here in our living room with the front door open thoroughly enjoying my summer loves, the crickets and katydids.

And as if right on cue, yes, Screech Owl, I hear you. Yes, you too are my love – but my appreciation for you is capable of being expressed year-round. Crickets are more three-season roommates (sometimes literally) and katydids really truly only seem to span mid to late-summer through early fall.

I don’t think I will ever tire of immersing myself in countryside night sounds.

A Lucky Step

The other night, Karl and I were walking home in the dark. The sky was particularly opaque from a blanket of clouds that almost looked like a billowy down comforter. Even though the sun had set, we usually would have been able to see in the residual light. Not that night, though.

As we were walking down the final hill toward our home, I was striding down the hill and felt a rather large ‘thing’ bump into my foot. I suspected it was a frog or a toad from the feel of its skin against mine, even though the encounter was brief.

I yelped involuntarily, of course; glad I hadn’t landed squarely on it. I squinted and tried to will my eyes to adjust to the darkness.

I saw a dark blob on the road and knew it could be either what I was seeking or a bunch of leaves. Using my flash to see where it was and identify it, this lovely specimen forgave me for scaring it and getting in its way as it made its way across the road.

And then it actually sat still enough for me to take its photo. It blended in remarkably well with the leaves at the side of the road. A beautiful creature. A lucky step – for both of us.

Toad Crossing the Road – Photo: L. Weikel

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Yet Again – Day 659

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Ace of Swords Tarot of the Crone – Photo: L. Weikel

Yet Again

I found the appearance of the Perception card* in last night’s post thought provoking. The encouragement it gave us to pay attention to how and why our perceptions influence what we see and hear and are influenced by what we experience or believe was powerful. I found myself circling these ideas all day. It seems Spirit felt the need to reinforce these ponderings, though, because I received the message yet again – but from an entirely different source.

I love it when this happens! It’s harder to deny the existence of interconnecting and unifying threads within our lives when these types of experiences occur.

Another Walk

Karl and I were taking a walk early this evening, luckily managing to get two miles in before raindrops started splattering around us as we approached the house. Not only had we managed to get all the way around our shorter loop, but we’d also managed to pick cards from another one of my favorite decks, Ellen Lorenzi-Prince’s Tarot of the Crone.

Karl’s choices were clear entreaties for him to continue exploring and honoring his creative process. My choices, on the other hand, were such obvious affirmations of the message I received and shared last night that we both just shook our heads and said, “Wow.”

The foundational card I chose (i.e., the ‘bottom’ card) was the Ace of Swords. I offer you the author’s words, verbatim, because YCMTSU**:

Ace of Swords~Thought

In my Sight

In my Mind

Is the Power to Perceive

The One or the Many

Worlds of Creation

 

“A great blue eye shines with stars within and reaches out to a piercing point. The Ace of Swords, the root power of the Mind is Thought. See now with fresh eyes. Hear with new ears. Perception is a power not to inhibit or to take lightly. Strive now for lucidity. Foresee what may be and speak your truth. Settle for nothing less than original thought. What is your vision? It is time to share what you see, what you know. Let the world not be diminished by the lack of your voice.”

Perception. Its power. Seeing with fresh eyes and hearing with new ears. The power inherent in the words we choose.

78 Cards

It occurs to me that it might be worth remembering that traditional tarot decks contain 78 cards. While certainly the suit of Swords in any deck is associated with the element of air and the powers of the mind and thought, it cannot be said that every person ‘reading’ the Ace of Swords would necessarily utilize the word ‘perception’ in this way or urge us to refresh and renew the lenses through which we perceive the world.

Seriously. What are the chances that perception would be the prominent, foundational message of the cards today?

Quite honestly, it makes me a little uneasy. The power of our perception is being emphasized so profoundly that I worry that I’m not quite ‘getting it.’ It feels like Spirit is saying, “Yeah, you get that this is a powerful concept. And you understand – to a point – the power all of you hold to shape and create your individual and shared worlds. But do you really get how big a deal this is at this particular moment? Do you really comprehend the point at which all of you find yourselves, collectively, at this moment?”

Goosebumps

Which leads me to share the top card I chose as we walked today. Unlike the Ace of Swords, which is only one of 56 cards that comprise the four ‘suits’ of the Minor Arcana, the main card I chose was a ‘Major.’ The 22 ‘Majors” in a tarot deck are the archetypal representatives of the story of our spiritual evolution.

The card I chose on top was the World – the final card of all the Major Arcana – the culmination of our evolution.

World – Tarot of the Crone; Photo: L. Weikel

XXI ~World

I am all you have been

And all you will become

I am the exercise

Of your power

And the key

To your future

“(…) The entry to a new world and your ability to create it, is in giving all that you are a place, Devil and Empress and Fool. Forget none of their lessons. Give up none of your power. Within your World, all of them come together and create a whole more than the sum of any amount of parts. More than a balance, more than integration like some locking together of pieces, when you are all, you are on another scale entirely.”

We are such complex, creative creatures. Our realities are like tapestries woven by the warp and weft of what we perceive and what we create as a result of those perceptions.

This feels big. We have a huge responsibility right now – to ourselves and to each other.

* Mystic Art Medicine Oracle Cards
** YCMTSU = You Can’t Make This Stuff Up

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