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By Dove, www.TarotwithLove.com  I had the coolest vision yesterday.  The first one I’ve had in a while — I tend to resist meditating, but when I can get myself to do it, I get so much from it.  Yesterday, while meditating, I asked a question about my health, how to improve it in a specific area.  And I was amazed that I immediately saw something in my mind’s eye. 

The image was all soft and dark — shades of gray, charcoal gray, black…but it was calming and sweet.  There was a deep-orange-colored ball sitting on I guess what was the horizon, like one of those gorgeous sunsets in the late, just almost dark, evening.  A silhouette of a person reached out from the right side of this vision, and gently scooped up this orange ball into both of her hands.  She lifted it up to her mouth, still with both hands, put it slowly into her mouth and swallowed it.  It was a beautiful vision, and I was so grateful for it.

And so I then pondered about what might be the meaning.  I had asked a health question, and I’d been told in the distant past, both by an alternative practitioner as well as from my own intuition, that I needed to get more sun.  But it’s also interesting that the sun was this dark orange color. 

And then I came upon a post in my blog roll this morning – I love his/her elaborations on symbolism and all.  When I came upon this recent blog (posted about an hour before I came upon it), it very much intrigued me, very synchronous to my vision yesterday…  The post was about the symbolism of the penny, a correlation with the sun.  But also, the copper.  The color of my vision’s sun could very much be considered “copper.”  While organizing recently, I came upon a copper bracelet, with some lovely Native American designs on it, that I had purchased years ago.   I popped it on my wrist, and have been wearing it a lot lately.  Some believe we can absorb copper from the metal in this way.  So I thought it might be a good thing in case I’m lacking in copper : )  — I have noticed that it has faintly turned my wrist green at times.  I’ve read that might be an indication of a need for copper.

So my sweet vision may have been confirming my continued need for more sun (and Vitamin D) as well as copper all in the same message.  And also a  need to align with the message of the Magician, the number 1 card in the Tarot, which the above-mentioned blog seems to be describing with her penny symbolism post.  AND, the sun can also represent that Higher Power within us — and an ongoing effort to get and stay connected with that is most assuredly one of the best things we can do to improve our health and our lives.

It’s wonderful how one vision, one message, can hold so much meaning : )

Namaste,
Dove

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By Dove, www.TarotwithLove.com  I did this pic a few days ago, but I didn’t post it because I wasn’t sure what it wanted to be called.  What I learned from it was a good lesson as to how nothing is really “bad” or “negative,” that something “good” seems to grow from everything. 

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“Righteous Rends” by Dove, October 2007 

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I’ve said it before, if we always made the supposed “right” decisions and everything was always “positive” and hunky-dory (lol), would we really be getting anything from that?  Aren’t we drawing much joy from the growth via our rocky times?  It just seems we’d have no depth without those rocky times.  How could we ever truly know and enjoy the “good” if we’d never known the “bad.”  Look at Paris Hilton, the girl is fluff, she doesn’t have a clue…even after her harrowing stint in jail, lol ;)  Ya’ can’t help but feel sorry for the girl, because she “has it all” and yet she has nothing, she hasn’t a clue…she’s blind to the blessings of prosperity…because she’s known nothing else.  And so she actually doesn’t truly have it, it doesn’t reach her, it doesn’t bless her with an abundance of gratitude… 

Anyway, a bit of rocky-ness at work the other day spurred me to create this image above.  I’m seeing that the images that come through me when I’m mega-angry are, oddly enough, the best ones in my opinion.  I like them all, but the ones that come from that fresh and raw anger, seem to really grab me, I love them :)  And think about artists who have and do create the most wonderful artworks and songs from those so-called “negative” emotions, depression, deep sadness, anger…  If such beauty can come from these things, how can we feel they are of no value, and be so ready to dispose of them — deny and dishonor them?

Again, I had a hard time coming up with the name for this image that came from my recent anger – a lot of things came to me, but I didn’t feel sure.  I did some Google searches on the “X” and other things I see in it, drew some Tarot cards on it…  Some of the things that came up with this were referencing this image as  Tic-Tac-Toe, and “The Game of Life.”  I saw strategy and love in the x’s (a recent blog elaborating on love symbols and referenced the rune “X” as one of them).  The tear in the middle seems to have been brought about by the spiral, given that it seems “active,” right in the center, and right there by the jagged opening.  I saw that as a spiritual/emotional thing. 

The spiral can represent the female form of “God” or “Goddess.”  It can represent the unending journey of life, growth and development.  The spiral seems to be a potent symbol for me, I find it in many of my creations, and have seen it in visions and dreams…

I kinda feel this pic is saying these “rends” in life are a good thing, we grow and learn from them.  All I know is what came from my “righteous anger” created good things at my job, the end of a situation where I was allowing someone to treat me in an unacceptable way… something I’d been “swallowing” for a year.  And something that “being nice” simply fueled.  But the outcome of this situation, of me allowing my anger to be, of not fearing it, of honoring it — by not destroying someone with it, but showing them my “power” in it…it showed me that I can face my fear, walk through the fire of it, and still be okay — and even better — on the other side of it.  I love my anger and all my other precious emotions.  I have them for a reason, and I am very grateful for them, for all that I am :)

Both health issues (directly attributed to anger by those in-the-know on the correlation between health issues and dis-ease) and life issues have begun to rectify themselves in my life because I have begun to allow my anger, to honor it, as it should be.  It is not a wicked thing, it is part of this amazing human-spiritual experience. 

I feel compelled to interject that I am not advocating going around being angry all the time.  In fact, quite the opposite.  Ironically, people who are always talking about how bad these “negative” emotions are, are actually holding onto to them in their denying/hating them, in their futile efforts to MAKE themselves be happy, lol  It doesn’t work that way.  We aren’t all “sweetness and light” no matter how much we try to FORCE ourselves to be. The genuine “happy” comes from allowing all of our emotions to be, feeling them, honoring them, appreciating/loving them, and then letting them pass.  You will know you are not fully or properly doing this if you tend to have a lot of aches and pains … and assorted other health issues.  For example, backaches often represent worrying about money.  Yes, we need to replace that fear with “faith” and positive thoughts about our money situation, but first we have to face the fear, allow it to be, honor it, release it and then begin to think/feel that wonderful “faith,” that “knowing” that all will turn out well.

Above all, let it be okay that you are human, love your “human-ness” and all that you are.  That’s a good thing :)

Peace, 
Dove

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By Dove, www.TarotwithLove.com  Gawd, it’s a gorgeous day :)  I’m sitting here at work, playing as usual ;) … the front doors are open (which I sit right next to) and the lusciousness of a sunny, 70-degree day and its intoxicatingly light breeze is pouring in…lotsa green trees and blue sky paint the background of my delightful view :) I decided to paint on MS Paint some more this morning.  The amazingly creative spider came through, sprinkled with moons — it’s all representing a plethora of creative energy going on.  It wants to be called “Moon Juice.” heh… I love that :) You can’t see it from this pic, but on her back she has a purple full moon and a couple of crescent ones above that. 

Purple = spirituality.Here she is…

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By Dove, www.TarotwithLove.com  Well, here’s my latest in a series of my MS Paint pics spurred by a lot of anger needing to be released a few days ago….and then some depression that followed.  And then it seemed I’d turned the spigot on a lot of repressed anger, that it seems I’ll be working on for a while…  Hmm, that anger…is certainly some powerful fuel for creating.  Unbelievably, I spent the whole day on this!  It’s called, “Spiraling Heart.“

Peace,
Dove

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“Spiraling Heart” by Dove, September 2007

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By Dove, www.TarotwithLove.com  Back on MS Paint this  morning… It’s all gray and rainy here and I was feelin’ kinda depressed, some residual anger from yesterday (see my “Fire in the Belly“/pic) and other things I s’pose are making me feel kinda blue…  I thought I’d try the Paint program again to feel it and clear it out. 

I was feelin’ it, I started out just wanting to draw a bunch of vertical lines to represent the rain, and then several geometric shapes grew from that… I was feeling more depressed and it looked like crap to me — I kept painting over stuff…so I wanted to stop…several times.  But then I just kept going.  And, although it looks a bit morbid, I kinda like it :) and I hope pushing myself through it was healing. 

I often show a woman I work with my creations.  She’s a sweet little “church-lady,” and I like her in spite of that, lol ;)  I was concerned how she might react to this one, she liked my “Rage” from yesterday.  I had this one on my desktop to show her, and she goes, “Oh … well.” (LOL)   But she liked it, she invariably has something positive to say about them.

I always ask my pics what they wish to be called and this one just kept saying, “Patterns.”  That seemed like a boring name, so I wanted to come up with something better…  I asked my Tarot to help me with that and drew the King of Cups.  Hmm, well, that card can be about addictive patterns, an alcoholic or the like…he can also represent a therapist.  Here’s an interpretation I came upon that seems appropriate here…

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The King of Cups represents an individual who has repressed his emotions and dreams to be able to succeed in a world that appreciates material achievements. This individual has conflicting emotions regarding intimate relationships. On one hand there is a desire for closeness and commitment; on the other hand there is a fear of being contained and limited by these emotions. Confrontation is necessary to face fears and accept the growth that comes with emotional challenges.

 Source:  http://www.psymon.com/tarot/cups-king.html

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“Addictive Patterns” seems boring too.  I started to just take the heart hint and call it “Heart Patterns,” which isn’t bad…or maybe “Pernicious Patterns” or “Perpetual Patterns.”  But none of those seem to quite get it, so, I’m stickin’ to the name it originally gave me, plain ole “Patterns.”

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“Patterns” by Dove, September 2007

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By Dove, www.TarotwithLove.com  Several hours ago, something kinda, well, enraged me.  I haven’t been that angry in quite a while.  One of those things that violates ya’, but there’s nothing you can do — just something a young, not particularly astute (being nice here) person did without thinking, and there’s no way to repair the damage… 

Since there’s no one I can reasonably rip to pieces, hehe, I had to come up with a way to release the anger.  First, I asked my Tarot cards… “I’m on fire here, and I don’t know what to do with this, what’s your advice?”  I drew the Ace of Wands and the Eight of Cups.  At first, I saw in those cards that I should feel my anger and then just let it go — the Eight of Cups often means to walk away from something or have a change of heart. 

Okay.  Feel my anger, I felt like I’d been doing that plenty :)  Then I looked again at the Ace of Wands and felt like it was telling me to use this fire, release the anger by using this creative fire.  So I just spent the last couple of hours in the MS Paint program spewing my anger into this image below…while the fire burned in my belly.   Most of it was releasing the anger through the painting, and some more was released by talking it out with some people here at work (while painting) who knew about this situation. 

Ya’ know, it’s wild, I’ve done this a few times in the past (should do it more), but while painting, I release these deep, heavy sighs — very cool how you can feel yourself letting it go…  Anyway, I still feel a few embers, but feel much better now :)  So here’s my “Rage” on a page, heh ;)

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“Fire in the Belly” by Dove, September 2007

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I put my “Rocks and Rumi” photos on another of my cyber places and everyone is agreeing over there that this is the best one…me too :)  The way the light was caught on the crystal, it looks like there’s a fire inside of it.  I see a wondeful symbolic message in that.  Fire is about passion and creativity…  And the Star is about faith, hope and dreams coming true :)  Sounds mah-vuh-lus ;) 

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I noticed several one-line phrases spoken to me this morning.  Some of them put kinda indirectly to me.  This is one of many ways the Universe speaks to us.  Words, phrases and such from others.

This one statement grabbed me while walking passed one of the managers here.  He wasn’t speaking to me, but this statement came out of his mouth just as he was facing me in passing. 

“Yep, things change, things can change pretty quickly.” 

Something along those lines, with an emphasis on “change.”  And that’s an apropos message for me at this time, and one that my Tarot cards spoke of this morning as well…an ongoing message that I’ve been getting in a variety of ways.  And I keep drawing aces, lots and lots of aces.  I’ve drawn them one right after another, it’s wild…  Aces are like seeds, they represent potential and new beginnings.

Here are some statements spoken directly to me this morning.  I took notice of them, because this was essentially all that was said, and most of them were from people that have never spoken to me before. 

“Oh, I didn’t know you were there.”    (While I was outside, under a tree, on a break)  

“Ah, I didn’t see you there.”   (desk is in a corner where most don’t look upon entering)

“You’re too quiet.”  (he’s never spoken to me before, but he’s in here all the time…)

“You’d better hurry.”  (I was outside, walking back from a quick sunshine break.)

 ”No Fear”  … (a company on my ID screen here at work, right after regretting a post I’d made)

Another lil message on my ID screen (receptionist) … A company came up on the ID screen that started with “Artistic”   I got that one immediately upon thinking about playing on the paint program on here.  I love color…  I love writing, painting/drawing, photography.  It is fun to create :)  But I rarely allow myself the time to do so. 

So maybe the Universe thinks I’m being “too quiet” with regard to expressing myself creatively.  Maybe our creations are more important than we know, even those little doodles that we surely feel are so insignificant.  But maybe our creations, big and small, are significant…maybe they heal us and the world somehow. 

The Empress card in the Tarot comes to mind.  She’s all about creativity and fertility, often the woman on this card appears to be with child, but she’s not just about creating babies, she represents all types of creativity.  She’s also about love and nurturing.  I think our creating nurtures us.  But it’s gotta be the right creating for us, and the joy of it is how ya’ know.  For some, it’s creating a child, for others it’s a painting, a garden, an essay or a cake :) 

Creating creates joy within us.  We nurture our seed to life while the creating nurtures us, and sometimes our creation clearly nurtures others.  But even if our creation inspires no one else, the joy of it heals us.  And if it heals us, then it heals the world. 

Here’s one of my older doodlings :)  …  a drawing that I like to call a painting :) that I did with those little pastelle wands.  It calls itself “Portal on a Cloudy Day”   I love the healing colors — sweet green and cool blue swirling an opening to the magic of a cloudy day :) 

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 ”Portal on a Cloudy Day” by Dove

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