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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  Well, it started on Saturday… this Jesus thing, he’s been around me for some reason.  Oh, but he thinks it’s funny that I call him “Jay-sus” lol ;)  Jesus would really be a drag if he had no sense of humor, ya’ know? 

Anyway, I thought nothing more about it after Saturday, but there he was again this morning…  He went shopping with me, heh :)   Today was my errand day.  And it was an exceedingly icky day weatherwise — icy cold, and highly wet, rain or really cold mist all day long.  I shivered as I closed my umbrella and walked into the post office and around the corner to the area where my p.o. box is located. 

Very unusual, a little lady with coal-colored hair appeared outta nowhere, and was opening a box not far from mine.  I said something about the icky weather and she said something sweetly about being grateful :)  “Yeah, you’re right…” I responded.  Then, also out of the blue, she said to me, ”Remember Jesus is always with you, no matter where you go.” :)  That really stoked me, since having had the Jesus energy around me just a coupla days before.  I just smiled at her, thinking “You are Jesus, sweetie.” 

My next stop, minutes later, was the grocery store…  As I looked for a park, I noticed where someone had written on the front of a car, “I (heart symbol) you.”  That was so close to the mention of Jesus, I couldn’t help but think that was him talking to me again ;)  { Update: Hey, I was just re-reading this, and realized that I hadn’t tied this “I (heart) you” with my other Jesus post where I noted that I had sang “Jesus loves me…” as a little one…ah, that just makes me smile all over again :) }  Throughout the day I was seeing and hearing things that aligned with this energy…  even hearing “Jesus” a couple of times on the radio as it scanned.  At one point, I felt I was chatting with him in my mind, mostly joking with each other :) 

Then I started seeing the number 16 everywhere, that usually represents, for me, the Tower card in the Tarot (number 16).  Interestingly, I had a day last year around this time when I began seeing the 16 like that, but that one last year was unnerving, I felt the Tower inside me, I shook inside (like the Tower), it frightened me … and sure enough, it proved to be a warning of something not-so-good about to happen…  But I lived through it, and came out of it for the better.

But this one today was different, I felt no fear, and I saw positive things around the 16.  So I felt this, unlike the other, was a positive message.  The Tower card can represent “enlightenment,” and freedom…even just a surprise.  At one point I was in a store, browsing, and I began seeing it again on items in the store.   I felt I was about to get a “surprise,” and felt I might be seeing someone that I knew…  And sure enough, just before I walked out of the store, in walked a co-worker I never would have imagined seeing there — it really did shock me (surprise)  :) 

At the end of the day, in the parking lot of my last stop for “errand day,” I was backing out and saw flashing lights at a distance, an emergency vehicle.  As I got on the main road for home, more emergency vehicles (I don’t think they were related to the other), about four of them, I had to pull over a couple of times…  These also reflect “Tower” energy…but again, I noted that I felt no fear inside from them…  I glanced at a license plate in front of me that simply said, “Sun” and that made me smile… that’s the “God/dess” card in the Tarot, a card about much joy.  My favorite card…

I’d gotten a lot of messages through the day like “No problem,” and “Don’t worry.”  So that was comforting.  Also many things that represent intuition, and “magic” and, of course, Jesus is part of that :) 

Still not entirely sure why Jesus has been hanging out with me lately, but I did get a strong message about “Heaven” at one point today.  I’d been getting that the Six of Cups card is related to it.  That is a sweet card that can represent home and joy and peace…  “Jesus” told me that this is “heaven” — it’s all the same thing – peace, “home,” joy — “Heaven.”  Ahh, so that’s what it meant when I heard years ago, at a climactic point in my life, that I was “getting closer to home.”  Home, peace, joy — “heaven” :)  I hope Jesus’ visit means I’m just almost there — I think so :)   I’m feeling very “blessed” lately…

Thanks Jay-sus, I heart you too *muah* ;)

Peace,
Dove

By Dove, www.TarotwithLove.com  A cool synchronicity this morning…  I did a search on Google for a passage I had remembered reading the other day.  I searched with this, “Deepak selfish demanding wife” :)   And sure enough, I got to a page that had the passage I was seeking.  I wanted to post it in a comment to this blog (see second comment) about embracing our anger.   Just as I arrived at this “Deepak” page, a co-worker walked up and began chatting with me.  As he walked out the door afterward, I looked up and saw (glass walls here) a van sitting in the parking lot that said, “JE Systems” on the side of it.  Hey, I thought, that says, “Jesus.” (Je-sys)  Too cool, because the caption of the web page I was on was, ‘Who is Deepak Chopra’s “Third Jesus”?’  :)

So we have an emphasis on the Jesus energy this morning.  I’ve been getting a lot of synchronous “hits” around me ever since noticing this “JE Sys” thing, and while typing this.  I stopped at one point, and came back to it and had some interesting things “appear” each time.  During the first one (typing this), a girl walked in front of me with an eagle on her t-shirt (eagle totem, “Great Spirit”).  Then just now I was searching for a blog where I’d written about the number 33 (sometimes called Jesus’ number) and right before (I mean, immediately before) finding it, a guy walked in front of me with the number 11 on his t-shirt.  The name of the blog is “Master Number 11” :)  (See the 6th or 7th comment for the elaboration on the 33)  So I’m guessing all these syncs are the Universe’s way of saying they be likin’ what I’m chattin’ about here ;)

Although I feel the “Jesus” energy is a part of my path, I don’t really have the inclination to talk/write about it so much…I s’pose that’s because it’s tied to organized religion, which I have ”issues” with…  There’s no doubt that the number 33 is a part of my energy, it has been prolific in my life.  (Wow, an albino couple just walked through the door — an oddity or rarity, which would again be the Universe speaking…but in this moment, I have no idea what that means, lol)  But they came in right here at this point, and I’m speaking of the 33 being part of my energy — may simply be a punctuation of that fact :)  I was about to say my current apartment number is also 33 …  

Another Jesus memory that has stayed with me is when a novice intuitive, like me at the time, did a reading on me and he said he saw my heart, and that it was golden like Jesus’ :)  It really rocked my world when he said that, my spiritual path did begin in the church when I was a little one, so it very much moved me… That reading was about a decade ago.  Oh, and I gotta mention that I was told that during potty training, I would sit there singing “Jesus loves me” lol ;)

Anyway, so I was on this web page with an excerpt from Deepak Chopra’s “The Third Jesus.”  After noting the “Je sys” synchronicity, I felt there might be something on this page for me, it is interesting reading, but this part below is what I zeroed in on…

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The first Jesus is less than consistent, as a closer reading of the gospels will show. If Jesus was perfectly peaceful, why did he declare, “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword”? (Matthew 10:34) If he was perfectly loving, why did he say, “Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth”? (Matthew 25:30) (Sometimes the translation is even harsher, and Jesus commands “the worthless slave” to be consigned to hell.) If Jesus was humble, why did he claim to rule the earth beyond the power of any king? At the very least, the living Jesus was a man of baffling contradictions.

And yet the more contradictions we unearth, the less mythical this Jesus becomes. The flesh-and-blood man who is lost to history must have been extraordinarily human. To be divine, one must be rich in every human quality first. As one famous Indian spiritual teacher once said, “The measure of enlightenment is how comfortable you feel with your own contradictions.”

http://community.gaiam.com/gaiam/p/Who-Is-Deepak-Chopras-Third-Jesus.html

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That last line I felt was aligned with what I was trying to convey in my blog I mentioned above about anger.  That quote from Jesus mentioning both peace and a sword brings to mind another energy that is very much a part of me, Goddess Athena :)  Yeah peace is the deal, but there are times, at least in this experience, that we must fight (Athena is about both war and peace).  We create it all, and so we must deal with our creations, our “monsters,” until we learn how to manifest better things…  and “Armageddon” is a battle within us — of course, because we are the world, and so the physical world will “rock” when we do :)

Peace,
Dove