Category: Who Am I

The Wheel of Fortune, Real World Style

So I go  to Subway to put in an application because my retail job only gives me 9 hours a week.

I accidentally walk in a pizza place that is hiring.

They are in desperate need for someone to work a shift that is PERFECT for me.

I go back to confirm and the place is boarded up. lol!

Turns out a car drove through their front window, and no one knows when they will reopen.

My head is spinning from the Wheel turning, flipping, and turning again, but okay, I roll with it, TraLaLa as Jareth the Goblin King would say.

I drive past today and construction workers are hard at work putting the front of the pizza place back together.

So I”m going back and leaving a note next time I’m up the road!

Plus drop the Subway application off.

Note: The Wheel can mean literally a vehicle or a journey in a vehicle. Cosmic Humor there.

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This is the Wheel of Fortune in a nutshell. Or a single week. Whatever.

For the traditional meanings of the Wheel, you can visit Biddy Tarot. 

I’m going to go take my dizziness prescription meds.

wheel of fortune. radiant rider waite

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The Hermit in Love

(Feature Image from Sacred Circle Tarot, by Anna Franklin and illustrated by Paul Mason.)

Remember this guy?. My little Hermit?

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Well he’s been free range in my bedroom a while now in my bedroom, and he’s really liking it, comes out of his basket once in a while even!

free range dandi

Well, he’s figured out there’s a female living in the living room. 

And now he spends his time casually hanging out by my bedroom door, in case she happens to see him .. he acts just like a teenager. The attitude is exactly the same! “Ohh I just happen to be here, looking cool…. for no reason whatsoever…. even though I usually live in a basket…!” He’s lucky he hasn’t been stepped on.

I present to you, the Hermit in Love:

the hermit in love

(I used the Sacred Circle deck’s Lovers card for the feature image because it captures how he is acting better than Rider Waite does. To read some reviews of this pagan deck, click here.)

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Biddy Tarot Podcast: Creating Constructive Energy, with Carrie Mallon

Creating Constructive Energy

-taken from Biddy Tarot Podcasts

Brigit says, “Have you ever found yourself stuck in a rut, doing something that isn’t serving you without a clue how to change? Perhaps you’re in a relationship that has become dull and disconnected. Maybe your eating habits have gone astray and your health has suffered. Or, maybe you’ve found yourself chained to your mobile devices, eagerly awaiting the next notification but disconnecting from the real world around you.

Well, did you know that you can also use the Tarot to turn that destructive energy into something more constructive?

In this podcast, I invite special guest Carrie Mallon to share her Tarot technique for discovering destructive behaviors – and replacing them with constructive energy – to create your best life.”

In this episode, you’ll learn:

  • What constructive energy vs. unconstructive energy really means
  • How to identify your unconstructive patterns
  • Techniques for using Tarot and journaling to spark behavior change
  • How to make the change last
  • Carrie’s real life example to show how the technique works in action

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The Fool and Star Wars

(Feature Image: Illustration by Elan Rodger Trinidad / Theory of Everything)

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lol I played PS4’s Star Wars I for the first time today! (7 year old been asking forever for me too, and in order to celebrate our rainy Saturday at home, I said YES finally).

I feel the Fool’s energy in this because I made a jump and tried something brand new and the experience was HILARIOUS and fun! And there was no control anywhere in the equation.

So this is what the screen of my games looked like:

  • My Power Hungry Shooting Spree as a … that metal thingie that walks around…

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That’s what I did. Mowed down trees for a while…. I didn’t kill anybody except the poor trees. Alex was HORRIFIED. Because I am a tree friend in real life! I tapped into a whole different side of myself lol!!!! But that’s another Tarot card for another day!

  • When I got stuck IN A BUSH. And had to be jet packed out BY MY 7 YEAR OLD. This is what that looked like:

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Until Alex took the controller and jet packed me out of it. I was too panicked and hysterical and wouldn’t know a jet pack if it smacked me in the face anyway. Thank God he was there.

  • When I got squished by accident. By a falling ATST:

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That was pretty traumatic, seeing that thing coming down on top of me.

  • The many times I died: Many. Multiple. I can’t find any pictures of the death screen surrounded in red … I guess it’s not something other players brag about. I, however, have to work with what I’ve got.
  • When I got shot at.
  • I spent a lot of time doing this:

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With Alex yelling “MOM! PULL DOWN!!!!!!!” lol Until I finally figured out how to aim myself … and walk at THE SAME TIME.

  • My most challenging moment (besides getting shot at and squished by an ATST … learning to follow a path!

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Harder than it looks.

And without my path and surroundings turning into this:

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Seasoned Battlefront players will understand this pic. I got sick of the gray areas! But Alex said (and I agree) that I would never survive playing online so I had to deal with the limitations of the offline game.

In the end,

… we came to the conclusion that “Mommy can’t survive on her own. At all.” lol!!!!

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“Growth Happens in Subtle Spaces”

Appropriate for this Time and Place in my life. Maybe yours as well?
From  Mystic Mamma regarding this month’s Full Moon in Taurus:

Growth happens in the subtle spaces,
beneath the Earth,
before we can see any evidence
of any new beginnings.
Deep down inside, there are changes occurring, 
on a personal level and in the collective.
Behind the scenes, things are shifting
and real change is slowly unfolding.
But it takes time for things
to take shape and give an outward
manifestation of the inward.
Remember this and do not think
that progress is not occurring,
because it is.
As Full Moon rises in Taurus,
take time to ground into
our dear Mother Earth.
Remember that she is alive
and calling us back to her.
We are not Motherless children,
we belong to her.
In her, we can always find
our place of belonging.
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The Hermit in Daily Life

 

*Inaugural Tarot Post*

 

The Hermit can come into our lives in some surprising ways.

I actually live with a guinea pig who exemplifies the Hermit’s energies as much as I’ve ever seen anyone do. This pig is my 7 year old’s; his name is Dandilion. He looks like this when he is visible (sitting on my 14 year old’s shoulder):

dandi

Most of the time though, he looks like this:

hermit 1

Kind of like a turtle, Dandi has a basket home he is very attached to. He is so attached to it, he takes it with him when he moves around his cage. He doesn’t need to come out to eat . . . he and his basket just mosey on up to the food bowl and eclipse it, and he eats from there:

hermit 2Dandi doesn’t need to snuggle, or chat, or leave his basket. He is perfectly happy to sit inside it for days at a time, just contemplating his own existence. He condescends to poke his nose out of his little window only if he thinks he hears me coming with a snack. And if I do? He takes it from me and pulls it into the safety of his little turtle shell home.

Every time I look over and see this sight, it makes me laugh and think of the Hermit of the Tarot. Except Dandi doesn’t need a lamp. Or a staff. Just his basket.

For more in depth information about this Trump card, you can visit The Hermit Tarot Meanings page of Biddy Tarot.

To book a Tarot reading and find out which Trump you most resemble, either comment below, email me at fiery.kaleidoscope@gmail.com, or text me at 410.490.6357. We can blog the results ! 

Blessings,

Fiery K.

 

 

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“I know in my heart of hearts that I cannot help but do the best reading possible. I know in my soul that I cannot live without giving someone the gift of my love. I cannot survive a life without a spirited desire to share my heart.”

– Debra Silverman

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