The Blasted Tower Tarot, The Moment of Dramatic Change, "I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."

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The Blasted Tower Tarot, The Moment of Dramatic Change, "I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."

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Remember From Destruction Comes Creation

The Tower Card Meaning: Disaster, upheaval, sudden change, revelation, Upheaval, sudden change, crisis, releasing all emotion, suffering a blow to the ego, revelation and seeing through illusions.

Real Life Situations: Divorce, Break up, Bankruptcy, Breakdown, Dramatic change in a life situation, Illness

Tower Tarot Card Description

The Tower shows a tall tower pitched atop a craggy mountain. Lightning strikes and flames burst from the building’s windows. People are seen to be leaping from the tower in desperation, wanting to flee such destruction and turmoil. The Tower signifies darkness and destruction on a physical scale, as opposed to a spiritual scale. The Tower itself represents ambitions built on false premises. The lightning bolt breaks down existing forms in order to make room for new ones. It represents a sudden, momentary glimpse of truth, a flash of inspiration that breaks down structures of ignorance and false reasoning. Notice the lightning bolt is oriented left to right (from the perspective of the card), from heaven to earth, and from Spirit to material. The falling figures correspond to the chained prisoners in the Devil card. They fall headfirst, because the sudden influx of spiritual consciousness represented by the lightning flash completely upsets all our old notions about the relations between subconsciousness and self-consciousness. The flames are actually the Hebrew yods. There are 22 flames, representing the 22 Major Arcana. The gray clouds are the clouds of misfortune that rain on everyone indiscriminately. The ruling planet of this card is Mars.

Tarot Card Meaning

How many times have you sat safely within the narrow confines of your life, comfortable in your current thoughts, beliefs and expectations? Then, out of the blue, something ‘shocking’ happens that completely destroys your picture of peace and harmony. It blows your mind or throws you for a loop. There is a sudden realization that your comfort was based on an inadequate foundation of false thought, belief and action. This is a humbling, frightening but necessary experience.

When you see the Tower in a reading, you may feel afraid, shaken and insecure. It is a time of great turmoil and destruction as you seek to understand how you could have been so wrong, so naive, or so blind about a particularly situation. And now, what will you do and how will you manage in the face of this shocking truth? You may be experiencing sleepless nights, depression, grief, anger and confrontation. These are normal reactions to major changes in your outer and inner worlds.

A Tower experience is any experience that shakes the foundation of your current sense of security and/or forces you to question your strongly-held beliefs, perceptions, attitudes and behaviours. It may be a divorce, death of a loved one, financial failure, health problems or job loss, or any event that penetrates to the core of your inner being, affecting you spiritually, mentally and physically. It is often descriptive of a major upheaval, disruption, emergency or crisis, and is likely to bring chaos in the aftermath of such an event.

If the Tower appears in your reading, ask yourself, “What structures in my life are breaking up?” No doubt you will already be very aware of where there is turmoil and destruction but sometimes it can be on a more subtle or subconscious level.

The most important aspect of the Tower is that with any destruction there comes creation. Thus, the Tower card represents an awakening and is about inspiration, freedom, reality and the release from bondage. It is a truth and honesty card that comes as a bolt of lightning to you through a shocking and impactful life event. It represents a necessary experience that forces you to get out of your comfort zone and to grow beyond your present level. The sudden destruction of the Tower represents the immediacy of change, and the often disorienting effects of that change. Once you hit rock bottom the choice is yours. You can revert to the self-defeating, restrictive Devil, or reach for the transformational and inspirational Star. When you begin to reach for the Star, you will come to realise that your true security and strength lies within yourself and your relationship with the Universe, and not in some false belief system or artificially-created world. Following a Tower experience, you can rest assured that you will grow stronger, wiser and more serene as you begin to develop a completely new perspective on life that you did not even know existed. These moments in time are necessary for spiritual growth and enlightenment. Truth and honesty will bring about a positive change, even if you must experience pain and anxiety throughout the process.

The Tower also represents the inner and outer structures that you have built. These structures represent your personal defences, defences that create a more socially acceptable ‘you’ by hiding your true, inner thoughts and feelings. It is like laughing politely when your boss tells a joke, or, on a deeper level, disguising your sexual feelings, particularly if you feel that they are socially inappropriate. In times of great pressure and stress, these structures will be tested and are at risk of shattering, finally revealing your true inner self to those around you. So, you need to be very careful how much of yourself you attempt to hide, knowing that one day, all will be revealed.

The Tower therefore asks you to break down the structures that you have surrounded yourself with. This can be a painful and difficult process if you resist against the external forces that are pushing you to reveal more of yourself. Breaking through this pretence can cause a great deal of anguish but remember that the Tower will fall, whether you like it or not, because you have reached your limits in this area and can no longer live with it.

Similarly, the Tower can signify your ego and the illusion of considering yourself to be superior to others. When the Tower of ego, deception and illusion is destroyed, you are free to face truth and reality without the trappings of false attachments. Are you undergoing a major shift in consciousness? Are you beginning to see things in a new way? Embrace the opportunity to accept change and move forward into a more positive psychological state, where personal freedom is the rule. Biddy Tarot Tower Tarot Card Description

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The "Masculine" Inside Us All

The "Masculine" Inside Us All

When women re-surface from their naivete, they draw with them and themselves something unexplored. In this case the now wiser woman draws an internal masculine energy to her aid. In Jungian psychology, this element has been named the animus; a partly mortal, partly instinctual, partly cultural element of a woman's psyche that shows up in fairy tales and in dream symbols as her son, husband, stranger, and/or lover--possibly threatening depending on her psychic circumstances of the moment. This psychic figure is particularly valuable because it is invested with qualities which are traditionally bred out of women, aggression, being one of the more common.

When the opposite-gender nature is healthy...it loves the woman it inhabits. It is the intra-psychic energy which helps her to accomplish anything she asks. He is the one who has the psychic muscle where she may have differing gift. He will aid and assist her bid for consciousness. For many women, this contra-sexual aspect bridges between the worlds of internal thought and feeling--the outer world.

The stronger and more integrally vast the animus (think of the animus as a bridge) the more able, easily, and with style the woman manifests her ideas and her creative work in the outer world in a concrete way.

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What is the Divine Masculine?

The Divine Masculine represents an archetypal ideal, the best and most inspiring, elevating, and restorative aspects of masculine expression and manifestation in the universe.

For those seeking an expanded understanding of the Self, the Divine Masculine is not a distant, detached, jealous and vengeful male deity. The Divine Masculine (along with the Divine Feminine) acts as a shining mirror of the Self, revealing aspects that need compassionate attention and support to become one’s highest potential.

As multifaceted, spiritually-embodied beings, we each have a complex psychological and emotional constitution that produces one’s inner health and outer reality. One of the two most fundamental aspects of being is the Divine Masculine archetype.

Each one of us, male and female, carries within our psyche both Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine archetype energies. From these archetypal energies come all our conscious thoughts, plans, desires, goals and agendas. These energies intertwine and cooperate to produce a uniquely personal expression and experience of life. Sexuality is just one expression in which this confluence of energies distinctly manifests. A male gendered body does not mean that only masculine energy is present. Gender (genitals, body) and the archetypal composition of the psyche are independent of each other.

For a man reading this, you may wish to expand your understanding of masculine archetypes and see how these are showing up currently in your life and then consider evoking a more fuller, or “higher” expression into one’s psyche. Men who consciously assimilate Divine Masculine archetype energy express higher levels of awareness and spiritual states of being along with greater satisfaction in life experience. Women reading this are equally served by contemplating Divine Masculine qualities while seeking to integrate these into their inner male expression.

God, King, Priest, Warrior, Lover, Sage 

The Divine Masculine comprises a group of archetypal energies that drives thoughts, emotions, desires, and behaviors culminating in one’s sense of right-relationship, or “flow” with life and feelings of satisfaction and well-being. There are many archetypes present in the psyche—six have been chosen to represent those with the strongest influence on conducive psychological functioning and one’s psycho-spiritual evolution. By regular conscious feeding of these archetypal energies—weaker aspects are nurtured to fullness.

A Suggested Practice

Those seeking to discover and “grow into” their expression of the Divine Masculine will want to:

1. Contemplate what the “fullness” of each expression means to you.
2. Contemplate how these currently show up in your life. Look for areas and ways you are already embodying #1.
3. Don’t look for the places you are deficient or lack in the fullness of the archetype. Only look for what you ARE doing.

As you acknowledge and accept what you are already doing, you will notice more places where you already are, or are beginning to, embody the fullness of the archetype. Its like seeing in a dark room, after some time your sight “adjusts,” or expands, and you see more of what was already there. As you contemplate each archetype, you will notice more and more areas where it already exists in your awareness and behavior. This is due to radiation of the archetype energy spreading out in a “blossoming” or unfolding effect within the psyche and happens whenever archetype energy is accessed and stimulated. Contemplation also strengthens the awareness. Two things are accomplished—you see what is already there, reinforcing what is presently integrated, and you strengthen what is beginning to emerge in your awareness, behavior and ability.

Any aspects of the archetype that seem “new” can be integrated by imagining what it would feel like to think or behave in this new way and see what shifts of thinking and behaving that produces. As you do, look for circumstances or opportunities that could be positively affected by adopting these higher concepts, principles and motivations and seek to enable their presence. More Information Here

Meaning of Emperor Tarot: Authority, Leadership, Divine Masculine, Self Mastery, Power, Father-figure, Structure, Solid foundation

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Ride With Goddess Nike To Victory

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Ride With Goddess Nike To Victory

I personally use the Gods and Goddesses as archetypes as well as I feel I have a spiritual connection with them, but you do not have to have a spiritual connection to use the Gods and Goddesses. You can use the Gods and Goddesses as psychological Archetypes. Nike is a great one to motivate to victory.

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A good book to read regarding archetypes and how to use is Caroline Myss's Sacred Contracts

Be Your Own Hero!!!!

Nike The Greek Goddess

Areas of Influence:Goddess of Victory

Nike was the Goddess of victory not just in war but also athletics. In the war against the Titans she was a personal Charioteer of the Gods.

She was often worshiped alongside Athena, the Goddess of war and wisdom.

There are no myths dedicated specifically to this Goddess.

As Goddess of victory her name is used as a trademark for a famous brand of sportswear.

Origins and Genealogy: Her father was the Titan, Pallas and her mother was an Oceanid named Styx.

She had three powerful siblings called Zelous(rivalry), Kratus (strength) and Bia (Force).

Despite her ancestry she fought on the side of the Olympians in the war against the Titans.

Strengths: The personification of victory.

Weaknesses: She wants to win at all costs.

Symbolism: Depicted as a winged Goddess carrying a palm branch, wreath and Hermes's caduceus.

Any Pictures of Nike are usually shown in conjunction with Athena. An example of this is the frieze around the Athena/Nike Temple which is part of the Acropolis in Athena's. Here the Goddess is shown adjusting her sandles.

Sacred Animal/Bird/Plant: None

Roman Equivalent: Victoria

The Greek Goddess of Victory's Archetype

The Heroine:

This Archetype awakens her inner strength and power so she can overcome great obstacles. These acts of bravery often benefit not just the heroine but her family or group.

The shadow Heroine's victory is only achieved by using unfair tactics that disempowered her opponents.

This Goddess was the personification of the victorious Hero, however her winn costs her fathers life.


How To Work With This Archetype
The Heroine:

The Heroine is one of your Archetypes if you have been able to rise above the numerous difficulties to become a stronger, better person.

The shadow Heroine asks whether your victories have been at someone else’s expense.

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Sekhmet is calling you

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Sekhmet Guided Meditation

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You find yourself standing on a sand dune. The heat of the desert washes over you in waves. Everywhere you look there is only sand. There is no vegetation or wildlife, just the heart of the sun and the ocean of sand before you. You begin to walk, each footfall sending sand trickling down the sides of the dunes.

After what seems like an eternity, you see something in the distance. It is almost the same color as the sand, but as you come closer you see it is a temple. Excited, you begin to travel faster toward it. Soon you walk through a long promenade of statues. As you look up, you see that each statue is of a woman with the head of lion carved from black stone, and you know you have come to the temple of Sekhmet, lady of the desert, goddess of the sun and of divine justice.

You walk up the steps and into the temple. Large columns rise up around you, and images of the lioness decorate the walls. Soon you come to a larger statue of the goddess. Like the other statues you passed on the promenade, this too is carved from black stone. The goddess stands with an ankh, the symbol for life eternal, in one hand, and the other hand is outreached as if beckoning you.

Feeling compelled, you walk closer to the statue. Although you didn't notice it before, there is a low altar below the goddess's statue. You see seven large jugs filled with what looks like wine on the table. You reach out a hand and hold one of the vessels. It is made from a thick ceramic. The dark red liquid smells delicious, and without thinking you put the jug to your lips and to drink deeply. Before you know it , the jug is empty. You immediately reach for another and begin drinking it down. It doesn't taste like wine; it tastes like the most delicious thing you have ever tasted. It fills you with a feeling of elation, as if you were drinking in all of life. Soon you have consumed the contents of all the jugs. You feel as if fire flows through you, as if all of life courses through your veins.

You close your eyes, and in your mind's eye you see Sekhmet standing before you. Her body is that of a lithe woman in scarlet robes. Her head is that of a lioness, although the eyes that look into your own are human. "You know me as the lady of the desert, the bringer of destruction, but I am much more. All of life lives within me. To know that to destroy is to only make way for new beginnings."

She holds up a cup filled with blood-red wine. "I am the spark that engulfs, I am rage, and I am laughter. There is nothing I cannot conquer. I drink deep of life's bloody wine, the blood of the slain, the blood of death, the blood of birth, and the blood of the womb that flows freely from the thighs. These all belong to me. The blood of life flows through me; it fills my veins like fire. From my crimson stained maw I drink, and drink and drink."

Sekhmet offers you the cup, and again you drink the wine of Sekhmet. You feel her fire filling you. Within you, you offer up all that is not longer needed in your life to the fire of Sekhmet. All that no longer serves your purpose in this life is consumed by her holy flame. And as Sekhmet's fire burns away these things within you, you feel it also empowering you uplifting you. The fire of the unconquerable goddess burns within you, and you know there is nothing you cannot accomplish.

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She Is.

SHE IS.

She is the calm in the wind

the fluidity of water 

the destruction of fire

She is the kind of woman you desire

but she never stays where she isn't worshiped…

her mind is forever in motion

a vortex you risk getting lost in

she is of her own world

she is hers…

With words that cut deep

she keeps honey on her tongue when spilling the tea from her lips,

she walks with the moon in between her hips

her curves and fine lines are her finest art…and her heart is room temperature

as she is adaptable but never conforms…

This is the kind of woman you only get a piece of  before she leaves with her soul still intangibly engulfed in yours 

She is magic.

— Andrea Siera

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Tears and The Holidays

Tears and The Holidays

Tears and the Holidays, the holidays for some can be a very Beautiful time full of memory making, reunions, good cooking, laughter, games and together time with family and friends. I grew up in a household that celebrated the holidays in their fullness, I am blessed to have so many Beautiful memories. Sometimes life happens and changes things and circumstances, the relationship with my family has changed and in the end causing me to divorce my family. I had to do what was best for me, I am almost three years away from the day I made that decision. The first year of holidays were the hardest, every year it gets easier, but there is always something in my heart that aches for my family that day. I have learned it is okay to cry, I find my tears healing and find wisdom and comfort as I cry, I give myself a big hug internally.

Many of my friends are going through their own situations that are causing them heart ache today. For some it is the first year of their life change. I know how this feels and send them and anyone else reading this Infinite Love. I wanted to leave you with some words from one of my favorite books by Clarissa Pinkola Estes Ph.D., Women Who Run With The Wolves. I highly recommend this book.

"I am amazed how little women cry nowadays, and then apologetically. I worry when shame or disuse begins to steal away such a natural function. To be a flowering tree and to be moist is essential, otherwise you will break. Crying is good, it is right. It does not cure dilemma, but it enables the process to continue instead of collapsing. And now, the maiden's life as she has known it, her understanding of life to this point, is over, and she goes to another level of the underworld. And we continue in her footsteps. We go onward, even though we are vulnerable and peeled of ego-protection, like a tree skinned of bark. Yet we are so powerful, for we have learned to sling the devil across the yard."

"C.S. Lewis wrote about the bottle of child's tears that heals any wound with just one drop. Tears, in mythos, melt the icy heart. In "The Stone Child." a story I've amplified from a song-poem given to me years ago...Mary Uukalat, a boy's hot tears caused a cold stone to break open, releasing a protective spirit...tears have been cried by a true heart; these the demon considers, "holy water."...

There are times in a woman's life when she cries and cries and cries, and even though she has succor and support of her loved ones, still and yet she cries. Something in this crying keeps the predator away, keeps away unhealthy desire or gain to ruin her. Tears are part of the mending of rips in the psyche where energy has leaked and leaked away. The matter is serious, but the worse does not occur--our light is not stolen--for tears make us conscious. There is not chance to go back to sleep when one is weeping. Whatever sleep comes then is only rest for the physical body.

Sometimes a woman says, " I am sick of crying, I am tired of it, I want it to stop." But it is her soul that is making the tears, and they are her protection. So she must keep on till the time of need is over. Some women marvel at all the water their bodies can produce when they weep. This will not last forever, only till the soul is done with its wise expression."

Tears...the soul's wise expression. Sending Infinite Love to you....

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I Can Feel Her...

I Can Feel Her...

I can feel Mother Earth through my feet

I can feel her

I can feel her weep

I can feel her sleep

I can feel her beneath my feet

I can feel her shake

I can feel her wake

I can feel her wish we would slow our take 

I can feel her beneath my feet

I can feel her rhythm 

I can feel her dance

I can feel her heart beat in my feet
I can feel her support me
I can feel her in me
I can feel her Love me

I can feel her

I can feel her

I can feel her

I am her...

written by Aphrodite Calling

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