The Wayshower

Card of the Day... Seeker of Crystals

Seeker of Crystals - The Cowardly Lion

WE are all learning about the tremendous amount of courage required to face obstacles all the path of life.  As we travel into the future, let us remember the story of the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of OZ.  Dorothy finds him in the woods, seemingly very defensive and self-assured.  When the lion's scary tactics don't work, he is confronted with his own fears and vulnerabilities.  He sets off to see the Wizard with Dorothy, the Tin Man, and the Scarecrow to acquire some courage.

As the story unfolds, the lion transforms himself through bravery in order to save Dorothy from the Wicked Witch.  As in many fables and fairy tales, his courage and magnificent true self emerge on the journey as he is asked to serve and protect his beloved companions.  His earlier facade is no longer needed as he faces life-threatening situations in which truth, valor and honor are required.

In the Seeker of Crystals card, the Cowardly Lion is traveling the Yellow Brick Road and receiving a garland of flowers to crown his achievements.  There is a strong rapport between this image and the Beauty and the Beast Trump card.  If both cards do come up in a reading, it is indicative of a major lesson about spiritual empowerment.

When the Cowardly Lion appears for you, remember to tap into your hidden strength and power.  Sometimes this power must be expressed in a gentle manner; other times it should be revealed in a fiercely passionate way.  The false pride and selfishness that you may project out of fear and doubt are best replaced with an honorable willingness to feel your own pain.  Let the inner truth of your radiant soul come shining through.  Just like the Cowardly Lion, you will be crowned with a victor's wreath denoting glory and hard won accomplishments.

"Inner Child Cards"

Isha Lerner and Mark Lerner

Illustrated by Christopher Guilfoil

If You Saw Yourself

 If you saw you as God sees you, you would smile a lot.

 

Conversations With God, Book 3

Neale Donald Walsch

Page 349

 

 

Card of the Day... X Alice in Wonderland

When the beloved children's story Alice in Wonderland begins, Alice is sitting next to her sister on a hot summer's day by the riverbank.  Later, when her epic adventures in the realm of dreams and kaleidoscopic visions are over, she r to exactly the same spot by the river's edge... Her psychic journey with the White Rabbit, the March Hare, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mouse and the Caterpillar, the Cheshire Cat, figures shaped like cards led by the Queen of Hearts, and other bizarre characters has been a complete cycle, a spiral dance of the mind, a circular odyssey.  Everything about Alice and Wonderland brings us back to the image for the 10th card of the Major Arcana, The Wheel of Fortune.

Children have always adored merry-go-rounds, Ferris Wheels, and magical spinning wheels of all kinds.  The ancient Wheel of Fortune is a symbol of the numerous experiences (ups and downs) of a lifetime, the wheel of many lives, the spiritual reality of reincarnation.  Coming after The Hermit card, which signifies humanitarian service and illumination to the world.  The Wheel of Fortune suggests the need to prepare oneself for a future incarnation of the greater spiritual life ahead.

Two characters -  at the start and end of Alice in Wonderland - particularly stress the higher keynotes of this card.  The White Rabbit who leads Alice into Wonderland pulls a watch out of his pocket and keeps saying that he is late for an important date.  This emphasizes the keynote of time, the great cycle of minutes, hours, days, months and years -  the wheels upon wheels of duration that appear to fill eternity.  The outer clock has become suspended as Alic fall down the rabbit hole into another dimension of time.

Later on, the strange figure of the Queen of Hearts keeps saying, "Off with her Head!"  It seems that the thinking and intellectual aspects of the brain must be put on hold at this stage of reality.  One must somehow become a true Queen of Hearts and penetrate to the center of life where the pulse of life is strongest.  Ironically, by the story's close, Alice, on the verge of reawakening, see the entire pack of cards from her dream rising up in the air and falling upon her.  It is fascinating to note that the Alice in Wonderland card is midway - at the center - of the journey through the Major Arcana and that Alice's cards are surrounding her.

A larger theme in Alice in Wonderland is that all of life can be likened to a dream.  Plato, Shakespeare, and other authors have pointed us in this direction, and Lewis Carroll (in real life, a tutor of mathematics and Librarian named Charles Dodgson) created his adventures for Alice Liddell, an English child, in 1864.  Carroll loved the world of games and enjoyed inventing novel approaches for the imaginative amusement of children.  The constant play on words in the story is extraordinarily profound and reveals the circuitous logic and playfulness in language.

When this card appears in your reading, see you life from a higher perspective.  Explore the realm of dreams and keep a notebook of your out - of -body journeys.  Good fortune may be just around the corner.  Anticipate a turning of the wheel of fortune in your favor.  Be the eternal optimist.  Know that the power of prosperity consciousness is your ace in the hole.  Take advantage of golden opportunities coming your way.  Good luck is on your side.  Let it ride!

Traditional Tarot Archetype:  The Wheel of Fortune

Planetary Ruler:  Jupiter

"Inner Child Cards"

Isha Lerner & Mark Lerner

Illustrated by Christopher Guilfoil

There is Always Enough...

When you manage to stay connected to your Energy stream, you always win. And you know what, somebody else doesn't have to lose for you to win. There is always enough.

--- Abraham Excerpted from the workshop in Los Angeles, CA on Sunday, February 2nd, 1997 # 25

2012 - A Message of Hope...

"There can be no Peace, until we find Peace Within"...

 

Happiness... Depends on You!

Tell everyone you know: "My happiness depends on me, so you're off the hook."

And then demonstrate it.

Be happy, no matter what they're doing.

Practice feeling good, no matter what.

And before you know it, you will not give anyone else responsibility for the way you feel -- and then, you'll love them all.

Because the only reason you don't love them, is because you're using them as your excuse to not feel good. 

 

--- Abraham 

Excerpted from the workshop in Asheville, NC on Saturday, April 30th, 2005 # 26

 

Happiness Is a State of Mind (Part 1)

Think of a person who just knows that if he could only have a little more time, a little more money, or a little more love, he'd be truly happy.

NDW: He does not get the connection between his "not being very happy" right now and his not having the time, money, or love he wants.

That's right. On the other hand, the person who is "being" happy seems to have time to do everything that's really important, all the money that's needed, and enough love to last a lifetime.

NDW: He finds he has everything he needs to "be happy" . . . by "being happy" to begin with!

Exactly. Deciding ahead of time what you choose to be produces that in your experience.

Conversations With God, Book 3

Neale Donald Walsch

Pages 14-15

Your Moment of Awakening (Part 1)

Your moment of awakening can come to you at any time, and through any person.

Therefore honor all times and all people, for the moment of your deliverance may be at hand. It will be your deliverance from The Illusion, the moment when you can be with it, but not within it.

 

Communion With God

Neale Donald Walsch

Page 199

 

On this day of your life...

 ...that you can be happy right here, not tomorrow, not in ten minutes, but now.

You can be happy right now.   Byron Katie said that, and she is right.

Happiness is allowing yourself to be okay with what is, rather than wishing for, and bemoaning, what is not. Obviously, what is is what is supposed to be, or it would not be. 

The rest is just you, arguing with life.

Somewhere along the way you will have to learn to just Trust Life. (Read that, "Trust God.")

Why not start today?

Love, Your Friend....

Neale Donald Walsch

On this day of your life...

...that betrayal of yourself in order not to betray another is betrayal nonetheless. It is the Highest Betrayal.

 

You are not avoiding betrayal by betraying yourself, you

are merely choosing whom to betray. In fact, there is no 

such thing as "betrayal." There is only the truth, finally 

spoken. 

 

That is not betrayal at all. That is love. For another, 

and for yourself. Can you love that much?

 

You know exactly why you received this message today.

 

Love, Your Friend....

Neale Donald Walsch