Talking Trees…

April 15, 2008

I started writing this on Saturday, but only had 30 minutes before quittin’ time, so I’m going to finish it now.  It’s a bit of an update on the “411″ or “Magic Monday” thing and all the vultures that came out-of-the-blue a week ago…

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By Dove, www.TarotwithLove.com  Lordy, there’s so much synchronicity here, it’s gonna be a challenge to remember it all.  Okay, on “Magic Monday” I got the number 411…  And then the Vulture totem last Saturday (exactly a week ago)… 

So yesterday was the day, 4-11-08.  Nothing really spectacular happened, but I’ve gotten dates in the past and the “thing” happened the day before or after.  A “spectacular” thing happened today, Saturday, 4-12-08.  The second major car accident next to my workplace since I’ve been here (the first was about a year and a half ago, a Jaguar and a semi, head-on collision…)   That one foretold a major “Tower” (Tarot card) experience for me that began about a month or so later — lasted about 4 months, but had a “happy ending.”  Geez, I’m hoping this one isn’t foretelling anything similar, I’ve been rode hard by those “Tower” experiences in the last few years…  And I just noted that the Vulture is on the Animal-Wise Tarot’s Tower card.  Lovely.  Even so, I’m hoping this one is pointing more toward the blissful end of “enlightenment” and since it seems to be tied to the 411(information?) … and “magic,” maybe that’s the case.  Hmm, nice, I just got a “freedom” message – that’s another interpretation for the Tower card, and healing is yet another.  And all of those are kinda intermingled…

This accident today (Saturday, 12th) I could have been a perfect witness for if I’d just been looking up from my desk — I could see the aftermath perfectly from my desk chair.  But a co-worker actually had to draw my attention to it.  He told me the details.  I noticed the car that had caused the accident was yellow, it was totalled…I could see the front all crunched in.  I focused on the yellow, the color of the third chakra, solar plexus.  Noted that this is where the energy of our “will” is, it also makes me think of the sun (something I feel I’m still not getting enough of for my health/healing).  I found it intriguing that the cars landed almost exactly where all the vultures were swirling last Saturday.  The red car was the one hit, it flipped a couple of times and then landed back on its wheels.  That driver hopped out of the passenger side, seemed okay…at first.  He got on his cell phone and then dropped to the ground.  A guy here said he must have been pumped with adrenaline, unaware he was hurt — the other guy seemed okay.

One fire truck was in my view, it had the number 2 on it.  It reminded me of how I’d been seeing the Two of Cups in the Tarot a lot lately.  That card often speaks of a love connection, but I think it’s been referencing my healing during this time — maybe both.  Hmmm, a reference to healing…is my “will” all crunched up (the yellow car) and/or is this yet another message that I’m not getting enough sun?  And has/does my crunched-up will adversely affect my root chakra (red car, spins wildly, but still manages to land upright)?   Root chakra is about the physical (grounding, health, prosperity).  I’m doing okay at the moment, better than in a long time — but am I just running on “adrenaline” (like the guy who didn’t know he was hurt)?  That adrenaline thing is certainly an issue with me, I’m invariably panting when I arrive to work (from my rush to get here), can’t seem to shake that “need” to feel panicked… Just one of the many “issues” that I feel reflects trauma from childhood…

A few days ago I did have a less earth-shaking ”Tower” experience and I feel this might have been part of the reference to this week (the 4-11-08 message), and I’m in the process of “healing” it.  I had planned part of that for this evening, but kept getting negative signs all day, and this car accident was the final straw.  I called and cancelled my plans.  Ahhh, I immediately felt better — yep, my “gut” was telling me this wasn’t the day for this important “outing” …

Wow, just so much overlapping “stuff” here.  But the trees part of it fascinates me.  Where I had planned on going this evening (but will now be going next week), the route there involves three streets, and I noticed they all have tree names (Ash, Walnut, etc)   That seemed so cool…  So I searched for the symbolic meaning of a couple of them just now and they both are on point as to what’s been coming up in the last few days.  Like yesterday – I did a comment on a friend’s blog, {< — Update:  I had the wrong link for the comment on sacrifice, but it’s corrected now) speaking of the Hanged Man card and sacrifice…  She and I also had an awesome synchronicity the day before 4-11 (on April 10th), see the first two comments.  “Double Magic“? ;)  Another sync with she and I is, well, ”wood” is sort of a synchronous connection between she and I.  Oh, man, there’s so much it’s hard to even write it all here.   I forgot…right after I made the call to cancel my plans for this evening, and felt the relief of doing that, of trusting all the negative “vibes” I’d been feeling about it all day, I looked outside and noticed a license plate on a car parked in our lot that said, “Elm.” :)  Yet another tree.  Here’s the Elm interpretation I found:

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Elm tree symbolism includes strength of will and intuition. During the 18th and 19th centuries, elms were popular as ornamentals by virtue of their rapid growth and variety of foliage and forms. This popularity lasted until World War I when the consequences of hostilities, notably in Germnany, and the outbreak of Dutch elm disease saw the elm slide into horticultural decline. Elm wood is valued for its interlocking grain, and consequent resistance to splitting, with significant uses in wheels, chairs and coffins. The wood is also resistant to decay when permanently wet, and hollowed trunks were widely used as water pipes during the medieval period in Europe.

Source:  http://www.livingartsoriginals.com/infoforests.htm

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Now the place where I was supposed to go (but, again, I cancelled/postponed) was on Ash.  Here’s the Ash symbolic meaning…

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Ash tree symbolism includes sacrifice, sensitivity and higher awareness. The wood is white, strong, and straight-grained. Ash is the timber of choice for production of baseball bats and tool handles. The wood is also favorable for furniture and flooring. Ash is a large deciduous tree with smooth, gray bark on young trees which becomes fissured with age. The leaves are green above, white below, and turn yellow, red, or purple in the fall.

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Two other “secondary” streets were part of this, but I didn’t see them on this site, so maybe they aren’t as significant.  Anyway, I just had a minute to put a bit of this here…  There’s really so much more, like with the stuck door here at work, which everyone tried to fix and no one could yesterday (mentioned it on above-linked blog).  It was finally fixed this morning.  A resistance (mine, it would seem) message…  So it’s all about resistance, will, sacrifice, healing.  But thankfully, the door was finally fixed today :)

OH MY GAWD — I just looked out the window, and in the very same parking spot where the car was with the “ELM” on the tag is a truck and guess what the number is on the license plate :) …  4 1 1 …  I’m talking a couple of minutes, between seeing those two.  So the Universe is tying the meaning of the “Elm” symbol to the 411 message.

This is just PART of what I’ve seen today — the synchronicity is so prolific sometimes.  It’s like it’s growing to a much higher “intensity” in my life.  So awesome, so amazing — the tree symbolism is so cool!  I’m just trying to convey to those who think I dream all this up or something that this life is so magical, but it only becomes so when we open our eyes to it… 

The thing is, I’ve seen things like this for years, but what’s different and so exciting in this moment is the time factor — it’s happening so much more quickly.  Like on “Magic Monday,” I was stunned to see the 411’s just ping-ping-ping like that, within minutes of each other — just like the “Elm” and today’s “411.”  That’s a rush, even for someone who already knows the magic of it all :)

And the more we see it, the more we see it :)  Sorry I typed this so fast, it’s kind of a jumbled mess and sooo much left out, but I just wanted to share the tree thing :) … and the magic.  This reality is not at all what MOST PEOPLE THINK.  It’s in no way mediocre, it is totally magical…we are totally magical.  BUT, the way it works…if a magician (the way the Tarot references us) believes this reality is all mediocre, then mediocre it is – we’re Magicians :)  We always get to choose (will) — and that’s something I “heard” often when I first began to do readings.  “It’s your choice.”  It’s always our choice as to what reality we create.  It really is all just a different kind of a ”dream” :) 

Now we just need to discover why we’re creating a “dream” where we’re manipulated, controlled and enslaved for the enrichment of others – while this amazing dream slips through our fingers…  Hint, it’s all rooted in fear, especially the fear of “death” from this dream, and simply taking it all too seriously…

Peace,
Dove

“You have a good day, darlin’” …  A guy just said that to me as he walked out the door where I work.  And it kinda warmed me :) despite my usual aversion to terms like “darlin’, ” “gal,” “sweetie” and the like — coming from total strangers (I especially dislike the term ”gal”).  Admittedly, being referenced in such a way and even finding it endearing is a rare bird for me.

I dunno, either I’m slippin’ in my older years or I’m learning that you can’t always apply a hard-and-fast rule to such things.  If some citified fat cat had said it to me, it probably would have set my cork to bobbin’ (lol…I’m so influenced by my southern roots)…but this guy is just a good ole country boy who meant nothing but kindness and respect with that “darlin’”  So, I’m okay with that…again, it kinda warmed me in an otherwise cold moment. 

Hmmm, I don’t think I’m mellowing on this issue of disrespectful or condescending terms per my feminist views, I’m just seeing that ya’ kinda gotta take ‘em as they come, use that wonderful intuition we all have :)  I think that’s one of the reasons we have it.  I don’t think we need rigid rules for anything — in fact, that’s one of our problems in this screwed up world.  So many rules, ready to shoot down anyone and everyone who breaks them.  No exceptions.  That’s BS, there are exceptions and they should always be considered.

“Guidelines” are a good thing, but I think we surely need to learn to trust our own heart in each moment.