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By Dove, www.TarotwithLove.com  Wow, a lot of magic going on right now.  I pulled up an MS Paint pic I did almost exactly a year ago (amazing that I’ve been doing these that long).  It was one of the first ones… I wasn’t that thrilled with it, so I played with it this morning.  I really like the new version, it indicated it was “Goddess.” 

I was about to post it just now when I heard a guy in front of me (my reception desk) talking about a rattlesnake experience.  So I felt it was a totem for me.  It also reminded me that a guy about an hour ago was also standing right here talking to me, and he mentioned “cobra” (speaking of a vehicle).  So it seemed clear that I was getting the snake totem in general.  Here’s a link to my snake totem post. 

This rattlesnake interpretation (below) intrigues me because it mentions the number 16 (and “Mother Goddess”), a number I’ve been getting prolifically this week (I spoke of it in one of my “Jesus” posts).  It ties to the “Tower” card in the Tarot…  But I feel this is pointing to something that is a positive, unlike the rough-ride Tower experiences usually bring. 

Another part of all of this is a multitude of “lightning” messages this week…  It all seems to be a strong message about creativity (Cobra is the King of Wands in the Animal-Wise Tarot and this has been a message about significant creative ventures for me in the past) and it also seems to be about healing and clearing away of the old ways… 

Another sync with this totem, I showed a recent MS Paint pic, “Wild Elephants and Hollow Cake” to a co-worker, he said the cake reminded him of a rattlesnake’s tail.

Here’s the pic I did this morning, “Goddess.”  It’s interesting that the previous eyeball had been something that looked like the Earth, but it’s now become a spiral.

Peace,
Dove

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“Goddess” by Dove, March 7, 2008

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Rattlesnake Totem

Rattlesnake is one of four venomous snakes native to California. Rattlesnake belongs to the pit viper family. There are 16 rattlesnake varieties and numerous colors, with distinct shape patterns. Rattlesnake is approximately four feet long and its body is covered with small scales. It has no eye lids and no legs. All rattlers are positively identified by the jointed rattles on the end of their tail. Rattlesnakes are dangerous and when disturbed, coils up and rattles a warning. If it is cornered, it will definitely strike. Rattlesnake hibernates in winter in deep dark crevices and ledges. When temperatures begins to warm in early spring, snake crawls out to hunt for rodents, lizards, squirrels and small rabbits.

All snakes are symbolic of death and rebirth because they shed their skin as they outgrow the old. In ancient times snakes signified the mysterious; they were primitive symbols of the Great Mother Goddess. If rattlesnake is your power animal there will be significant changes in some area of your life. You are going through a major transitional period. Try to make conscious choices and pay attention to your dreams which may contain valuable information about those changes. Make sure of the intention of others before you strike out at them. Rattlesnake’s message is change and renewal. Perhaps you need to take time out to digest new information or knowledge. Attend a Goddess workshop and get closer to nature. You are most powerful when you meditate, or spend some (quiet) time outdoors.

Source:  http://www.lilytherese.com/POWER1.HTM

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By Dove, www.TarotwithLove.com  If you’ve read my Tarot story, you know that it was Kris Waldherr’s Goddess Tarot that captivated me to such a degree that I walked through my religion-induced fear to find my special joy in these cards.  I’ve never had one regret about doing so, au contraire :)  I’ve never had such a love, such a passion, for anything else in my life.  

I was moved just now by the Star card in Kris’ Goddess cards, I so love that card — I envision having an original painting of it hanging on my wall someday :)   I went to her website and was looking at some of her paintings of the cards.  I didn’t see the Star card in the originals, but she does have the High Priestess there.  She’s a beauty as well.  Here’s a link to a print I found on there for the Star card  You can’t see it that well though.  

Some favorite ”minor” cards are the love cards, Ace of Cups and the Two of Cups — the Lovers card (major) is gorgeous too.  What can I say, I’m a Libra, I love love :)  And I have this thing about hearts, and only recently realized it.  I was wondering in this moment how many hearts, or heart shapes I could see in my apartment by doing a 360.  Despite my becoming more and more of a minimalist, I’m surprised I saw eight hearts :)  None of them are blatant (can’t stand a gaudy or garish environment), some of them very obscure, but I see eight hearts — one I had even missed, but saw in looking back again.  It’s fascinating discovering that we have this “draw” or resonation with certain things/symbols, and spend much of our lives without even realizing it.  It’s cool when we finally do :) 

The Goddess Athena.  She also was prominent in my synchronous journey toward the Tarot.  Kris’ image of her is on the Goddess Tarot box, (and on her Justice card), that image was key in my being drawn to it.  Another synchronicity that I didn’t discover until after my story had long been published — a poster that I purchased maybe 25 or more years ago, long before I even knew the word “metaphysics” and would have giggled at the idea of “goddesses” at the time :)   I loved this poster, a picture of lovers (of course, lol) in front of a classy old car, a photograph by Anthony Crickmay.  I loved the caption, “The Outsiders.”  Again note, I didn’t know at the time I was, well, one of the “Outsiders.”  I paid 75 bucks to have it framed.  For some reason, one day (again, after my Tarot story was published in 2004), I zeroed in on the upper right-hand corner of this pic.  Why I never did that before that point, I don’t know, the writing isn’t that small.  It says, “Athena Editions” :) 

Like so many other synchronicities on this journey, seeing “Athena” on something I’d been drawn to such a long time before any of this “magic” began to happen…that totally thrilled me.  I still have this sweet picture, despite many efforts over the years to sell it — it’s kinda “young-ish” for me — I haven’t been able to.  It seems to want to stay with me, so it is still fashionably and young-ishly sitting against the wall in my bedroom :)  I have another “interesting” story with this pic, when it was hanging on my wall during my two-year stint on the West Coast, but I’ll save that for another time :)

My second favorite Tarot deck is the Morgan Greer deck.  Love the images — rich, deep color, and I love the no-frame look.  Little pieces of art.  The Morgan Greer High Priestess is a jewel.  That pic (at that link) doesn’t do her justice.  I love this High Priestess image, her face, her amazings eyes, so gorgeous, dignified, mysterious.  But you can’t see the wonderful detail, those eyes, in this pic.  My other fav of this deck is the Lovers card :)  I love the way she’s looking at him.  I often wonder what “my type” of guy is, the “perfect” guy for me, and I can’t really figure it out, but I feel sure he would look much like this guy, lol ;)  The Jay-sus look, hehe

But of all of my favorite cards, I have to say, my the number one favorite, the one that sparks the most joy in me upon seeing it is still the one that “melted away my icy fear” years ago, in first discovering my passion for the Tarot.  Well, I don’t have a link to the image, but it’s that gorgeous, beaming with brightness and goodness, and representing the “God/dess” in all of us, (Goddess Tarot) Sun card  :) 

Peace,
Dove

Well, that’s what I saw upon arriving to work this morning ;)  Yet another spiral — been getting that symbol a lot lately, including in a recent pic I created.  No, the one I saw this morning was not a vision, heh, it was on the cover of Family Circle actually.  One of my favorite mystical symbols, the star, was there too.  Both were among a bunch of fancy and highly-sugary treats on display.

Upon finding the magazine here on my desk, I immediately zeroed in on the chocolatey spiral that one of the treats formed on a background of something minty-colored.  It’s one of those rolls sliced — formed with different layers of stuff, rolled up and cut — and voila, a spiral.  The star is a giant cookie, looks like a couple of layers of butter cookie, apricot jelly showing through the star opening in the center, white sugar-powder all around it.   Okay, none of that was really relevant to my post, but it was fun describing it, lol

The Universe has such a “sweet” sense of humor ;)  Again, this spiral symbol, I keep getting it lately — even last night was reading a blog that spoke of it…  Been wondering what the Universe is trying to tell me with it.  But with this one, with the fabulous star symbol and the “sweetness” of the whole presentation, it’s gotta be a very positive thing.  Not that I doubted that :) 

So I’ve been searching for various meanings of the spiral and finally came upon one that I strongly resonate with.  I’ve posted a few excerpts here with the link to the article.  It’s a great article, called “A Glimpse of the Spiral as a Symbol for the Transcendental Mystery of God” by Paula Vaughan.  (Note, everything inside the two lines like this ====== are all excerpts from this one article.)

Dove

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Archetypal Symbols
Carl Jung, the founder of Depth Psychology, helped reconcile the unconscious and conscious halves of his patients’ psyches by studying symbols found through dream analysis and spontaneous artistic expression, thereby enabling people to heal. He proposed that symbols appear when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt (Storr, p. 249). Jung said that when we attempt to understand symbols, we are not only confronted with the symbol itself but we are brought up against the wholeness of the symbol-producing individual who is in touch with his unconscious (Jung, p. 92). He explained:

Spirals in nature, the body, brain and soul reflect our kinship with God. Jung said the spiral shows there is nothing but God — man is God become concrete (Storr, pp.344-345). The spiral represents the cyclical ebb and flow of God’s energy that is always moving the collective mind, body and spirit of humanity toward balance and health. God’s existence is witnessed through spiral archetypes in art, dreams, symbols and the synchronous, collective unconscious that bridges the gaps of culture, time, space, and reality.

Source:  http://onewomansmind.net/center/spirals.html

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Wonderful article.  Much more, I highly recommend going to the site and reading it all.

Peace,
Dove

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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