The Enchanted Map - Chapter 3

A case of Mud Fever with a Favourable Forecast

23 October 2013

Horton's particular lodgings on the Enchanted Map left the poor ellie worse for wear, but ever-inquisitive. Dying to know the state of integration (so as to move swiftly out of the mud and into the light), the question burned: 'Am I surfing the learning curves channelled to me successfully?'

I drew one card: Wizard of Awareness (3) 

The mantra read as follows: 'Your soul knows best. Be still and observe.' 

The card advises me to be neutral to what happens around and within me. When I get stuck struggling with myself, observation can neutralise discomfort or over-excitement. With no opinion or desire, I will be able to see more clearly.

On how one wears the world as a loose garment, the card says: 'Nothing that happens to me is personal. People come and they go away. Experiences change and evolve. Things don't stay the same.'

The Wizard asks me to give up the need to limit or define what I'm experiencing now. It's ALL GOOD. I must let it be, and notice the miracle unfold without ANY direct influence from me.

Right as rain, the Enchanted Map reaches new frontiers yet again!

24/10/2013 20h00

By now driven dilly with an illness resembling the dreaded 'man-flu' as reported during a self-study by a similarly off-centre Prof Sputnik some weeks back, Horton throws a trunk to the heavens, asking 'What does this illness mean now?' 

I drew two cards: Golden Palace (23)   Home (27)

The mantras read: 'There is always enough' and 'You are comfortable in your own skin. You belong.'

Reflecting on this, chewing long and hard on some marula bark, I am admonished to let go of my tight grip on what I think security should look like. Secondly, now is the time to conserve energy and count my blessings (back to GRATITUDE!) Furthermore, I should resist the pull to become miserly - there will be enough money, love, youth, food and shelter to go around (only too true when an SME gets ill and worries!) A mindset of fear and lack will shut off the flow of true abundance.THE WHEEL TURNS - ALWAYS! Practice FAITH and the TREASURE will be REVEALED... in plain sight.

The second card is all about taking inventory if you don't feel at home (and illness hardly makes anyone feel all cushy!) So I must review from my sickbed what I am hiding from, whether I'm afraid to be myself, and if I don't feel I belong where I am. I should consider another path (perhaps another neural pathway?) Perhaps, my understanding of 'home' dictates that such a place must be unsafe, unstable or unfulfilled.

Snivelling and spluttering, the realisation keeps dawning on me (day in and day out ) that there's more about me to explore, love and adore than I realised I wasn't doing (elephant regards butt in mirror and winks knowingly). A new sense of safety and security must be created WITHIN before any outer changes can (or should) occur. Fair enough.

More recently, I may have been plodding familiar paths to my original source(s) of pain - perhaps to rediscover and safeguard that treasure I thought lost or stolen. 

This journey is certainly getting very interesting... enchanting, one might say.