The Enchanted Map - Chapter 9

Interlude

When life happens...

This was a busy week for me - forging ahead with new friendships, setting up a long overdue closure meeting with my ex, three 2000-word Journal articles to complete and, of course, my SME awards media invites! Flying 'solo' is certainly not a lonesome affair ;)

Between new-friend dinner dates on the Friday and Saturday night, I attended a 5-hour Kundalini Moon Moods session with Pritam Khalsa at Ishta studio in Sandton. In my current, happily congruous vibration, my pendulum worked with me to effortlessly determine my 11 cycles for every 27.5 days. This was a very useful course to determine the ebbs and flows for us women from puberty to the day we pass on. I'm now tracking these for the first time - fun and insightful :) and safer for others, LOL!

Leia also stayed out with one of my best friends for the weekend, which offered me valuable space and breathing room, for a change.

17 November 2013

Sunday with Boo was super-valuable, I believe both ways, in terms of forgiveness and understanding. Later, I did a 6-card reading for him, which took a while, as he is struggling to come to terms with things from his past. The cards were spot-on and he made fervent notes to reflect on at home... cool.

By the time I had fetched Leia in the late afternoon, exhausted on a very hot day, I was ready to crash - but not before doing a quick ketchup reading...

I asked: "Did I do well with the reconciliation today?"

I drew 2 cards: Come Together (8) and Magic Prayer (32).

Their mantras: "Love needs to be shared" and "Speak your prayers, listen for the answers, act in faith".

Doesn't that smack of beautiful synchronicity?

Drawing the "Come Together" card means I'm on the path to discovering the nature of this emotion in all its forms of expression: romantic, familial, unconditional and spiritual with (luckily, for me, another person / people involved in each instance! This card says that it assures love has come calling and seeks a partner in its dance, because I'm being cherished and, like a magnet, attracting love into my life... a time for harmonious, caring partnerships. 

Drawing the "Magic Prayer" card is a reminder that my prayers will be answered, with Spirit always near to help and heal me when in need. The advice is that I apply this Prayer: "Thy will be done through me. Thy will, not mine, be done." This conscious contact with my higher power is achieved through meditation, through listening and speaking to the Divine creative energy - once again, I'm cautioned to surrender my wishes and desires to Spirit :) as I may not get it in the way / shape / form I desire, but with my long-term needs taken into consideration: my Destiny will unfold if I stay in conscious contact with my Higher Power... I'm on the right path.

A perfect round-up to a perfect weekend!

18 November 2013

Nice to know I'm heading in the right direction. BUT whenever a benchmark is set, I get queasy about the expectations from me... Given a busy time ahead work-wise, and uncertainty about stress and veering off my healthy path, I just had to ask!

So I asked: "How do I know I'm in touch (and stay in touch) with my Higher Power?"

I drew one card: Wizard of Awareness (3).

The mantra reads: "Your soul knows best. Be still and observe."

Dear Reader, is this starting to feel a little surreal to you? No worries, me too! During my recent GIBS Course, I learned a lot about Mindfulness: being observant and remaining neutral about what goes on around and inside you. A week ago, I woke up on a Monday morning (following a deep meditation before bed-time) with the most uncanny ability - which lasted all day - to see every experience from the "outside"... what I like to call "separation from self". 

The card next reads: if I struggle with any situation inside myself, I should just step over into an observer position that neutralises discomfort and over-excitement, because I have the innate ability now to see things clearly, unencumbered by opinion or desire. To wear the world as a loose garment, I must adopt the sense that nothing that happens to me is personal: people come and go, experiences evolve, there is continual shifting and change. This builds up resilience. 

Considering that my question reflects an insecurity about "doing it right", this part of the card reads only too true: "I must give up the need to limit or define what I'm experiencing now: it's all good! LET IT BE - and watch the miracle unfold, without any direct influence from me. 

I started shuffling the deck while reflecting on this, and was just worrying about my reaction to stress (hampering my detox, smoking less, sleep patterns and calm), when a card fell out of the pack! It was Elephant Stuck in the Mud (24).

Writing it off as a clumsy mistake, I closed my eyes and drew a random card. Guess what I got: Deep Freeze (26). Yup, that's seriously ironic :)

The mantras: "You're being invited to stop and savour the wonder of your life" and "Everything has its season - now is the time to put activity on hold while you rest".

Seeing as I was exhausted already and it was past midnight after a heavy day's work, with a crazy-busy week ahead of me, this felt like a mother saying: "Go to bed!"...   So I did.