Daily div.
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sh1njuk1 I was going to write back to my mother-in-law, but realized that I am too tired to handle that with the delicacy it requires. First thing tomorrow!
I'm catching up on two days of divinations, but will try to go quickly.
First day of Edgefield, Me: I think this card just represented me traveling, lol! I focused hard on getting us all out to Edgefield, the place I'd been longing to take my family for months now, and which we finally, after several tries, made it to!
First day of Edgefield, Situation: My period didn't start, but I did have insomnia because it was so hot and humid. Also, I wore my mask most of the time indoors, even though almost no one there was wearing one anymore. My reasoning? I was still quite sniffly as I was recovering from this sinus infection, and I didn't want to spook anyone. No one gave me any weird looks, so on balance, that must have been the right choice :)
First day of Edgefield, Outcome: I didn't drink much, and we didn't push ourselves too much either. Finally, there was nothing we really had to "do". I felt a deep sense of relaxation there (and I told every part of myself during the SOP that it was OK to take a break for a little bit, we'd all worked so hard...). So I will count that as Peace through Self-Discipline.
Divination, done right before Lugnasadh ritual:
Me: 8 of Hearts (The Moon): I conducted the heck out of that ritual and it got spooky.
Situation: King of Spades (The Emperor): I think I managed the entire day pretty well - let my husband relax in the AM, got the ritual done, suggested we drive out to Vista House in the Gorge, which was open! The first day since COVID started! What a beautiful place that is... I have such wonderful memories there, and now so does Mike :) Then we managed my mother giving us the completely wrong address for the place to meet her to pick up my son, and not bothering to pick up her phone when we called. Just the same ol' same ol'. We asked the guy living at the wrong address what he thought the right one might have been, put that into our GPS, and got there on time anyway. Heck, he might have been the "Wisdom" part of this card...!
Outcome: 7 of Diamonds (The Star): We hung out for a bit at my mom's friend's farm - her daughter is running it, and has big plans to sell at a farmer's market. Plenty of animals, all sorts of crops growing everywhere... enough to feed all three people in the home for a while if needed. A relaxing atmosphere, and I suddenly realized, a vision of the future - this is what every home with any sort of yard will look like in 20 years - pieces of old cars reused to make chicken coops; a rutted dirt path between all the garden plots because gravel is too expensive; growing a little bit of everything under the sun, and planting young fruit trees with an eye towards the long run... Maybe that recognition would be depressing for most people. But I see in this lifestyle the will to survive. More people that we might think will find that they have it. What we still have, even now... is options. (And I got a good glimpse of just how much I have left to learn... one step at a time!)
Divination, done right now for tomorrow:
Me: 5 of Spades - Possible Disappointment, A Strong Opponent, "danger, struggle, competitive"
Situation: 6 of Hearts (The Lovers) - Love, Beauty, Union "elements that naturally belong together will find each other"
Outcome:7 of Clubs REVERSED - no beavering will happen tomorrow, alas
Not even gonna guess - just gonna SLEEP. Tomorrow awaits!
I'm catching up on two days of divinations, but will try to go quickly.
First day of Edgefield, Me: I think this card just represented me traveling, lol! I focused hard on getting us all out to Edgefield, the place I'd been longing to take my family for months now, and which we finally, after several tries, made it to!
First day of Edgefield, Situation: My period didn't start, but I did have insomnia because it was so hot and humid. Also, I wore my mask most of the time indoors, even though almost no one there was wearing one anymore. My reasoning? I was still quite sniffly as I was recovering from this sinus infection, and I didn't want to spook anyone. No one gave me any weird looks, so on balance, that must have been the right choice :)
First day of Edgefield, Outcome: I didn't drink much, and we didn't push ourselves too much either. Finally, there was nothing we really had to "do". I felt a deep sense of relaxation there (and I told every part of myself during the SOP that it was OK to take a break for a little bit, we'd all worked so hard...). So I will count that as Peace through Self-Discipline.
Divination, done right before Lugnasadh ritual:
Me: 8 of Hearts (The Moon): I conducted the heck out of that ritual and it got spooky.
Situation: King of Spades (The Emperor): I think I managed the entire day pretty well - let my husband relax in the AM, got the ritual done, suggested we drive out to Vista House in the Gorge, which was open! The first day since COVID started! What a beautiful place that is... I have such wonderful memories there, and now so does Mike :) Then we managed my mother giving us the completely wrong address for the place to meet her to pick up my son, and not bothering to pick up her phone when we called. Just the same ol' same ol'. We asked the guy living at the wrong address what he thought the right one might have been, put that into our GPS, and got there on time anyway. Heck, he might have been the "Wisdom" part of this card...!
Outcome: 7 of Diamonds (The Star): We hung out for a bit at my mom's friend's farm - her daughter is running it, and has big plans to sell at a farmer's market. Plenty of animals, all sorts of crops growing everywhere... enough to feed all three people in the home for a while if needed. A relaxing atmosphere, and I suddenly realized, a vision of the future - this is what every home with any sort of yard will look like in 20 years - pieces of old cars reused to make chicken coops; a rutted dirt path between all the garden plots because gravel is too expensive; growing a little bit of everything under the sun, and planting young fruit trees with an eye towards the long run... Maybe that recognition would be depressing for most people. But I see in this lifestyle the will to survive. More people that we might think will find that they have it. What we still have, even now... is options. (And I got a good glimpse of just how much I have left to learn... one step at a time!)
Divination, done right now for tomorrow:
Me: 5 of Spades - Possible Disappointment, A Strong Opponent, "danger, struggle, competitive"
Situation: 6 of Hearts (The Lovers) - Love, Beauty, Union "elements that naturally belong together will find each other"
Outcome:7 of Clubs REVERSED - no beavering will happen tomorrow, alas
Not even gonna guess - just gonna SLEEP. Tomorrow awaits!