Tarot Influence
Eight of Cups Reversed
Interest in the material world and success emerges or returns. Happiness and love are possible.
Astrological Influence
Taurus Reversed
Taurus reversed represents unwarranted stubborness and impulsiveness.
Element Influence
Earth Reversed
Earth reversed denotes a lack of positive connection with the life spirit–a lost soul. If you are not careful you may miss much of what life has to offer you.
Though time alone might seem a little scary at first, the Hermit card indicates that for you, introspection and a place to retreat are exactly what the doctor ordered today. In order for your relationship to thrive and flourish, it’s important that you have a sense of clarity and insight into yourself. Though it’s not necessary to go join a monastery now, you will find benefit in spending more time by yourself.
Magic is afoot in love and relationships now as you exude a special magnetism and charisma that attracts others, drawing them to you and enchanting them with your charms. Decide carefully how you want to use your special powers as you stay focused on what you want in love and relationships. You have the ability to manifest many of your desires now, so make sure that you are clear about exactly what you want.
The Strength represents what you need to succeed at life, or your basic instinct to survive. Develop your Strength and you will be able to move mountains. This strength is not brute force, it is the subtle mental energy, or directed vitality and life force. Exercise your mind and body to build this strength and you will obtain your goals today. If life isn’t difficult enough, fighting against yourself makes it a hundred times worse. Inner strength removes this blockage.
This card challenges you to think of new ideas. A card of partnership, the Lovers are about creating something new by combining previously existing elements. This principle is the same in romance, love, business or social situations. If there is truly a coming together – a union of different forces – something new and possibly very exciting will grow out of it. Learning to understand and then deal with newly created energies is what every new idea grew out of.
Do you feel it is time to go? The Universe may be telling you to right the situation. Free someone or free yourself to find someone who truly cares. Do so with kindness and warmth. Believe that it hurts more to stay. If the situation is reversed and you are the recipient, thank a partner. They have done you a favor because your romantic life now takes a turn for the better.
The Emperor finds it hard to admit that he doesn’t have all the answers. He hates to admit efforts aren’t working. He doesn’t know himself, let alone know the person he considers his Significant other. He can’t admit failure. He declines to believe something that is obvious to everyone else. Do you? He knows he has to regain his power and become master of his destiny. Do you?
Keywords: receptivity, passivity, potential, knowledge, secrets!
Astrological Correspondence: The Moon
The mysterious High Priestess closely guards her secrets and occult wisdom. This card symbolizes the unconscious, a concern with our internal worlds, spiritual forces, and the understanding of higher truths through dreams and intuition. As a wise woman the High Priestess is the goddess of fertility and is seen as a healer, possessing intuitive powers and clairvoyance, and striving to create harmony and inner balance. She emphasizes the necessity to get in contact with our inner self, to reflect and meditate, to trust our feelings, and to let dreams and intuition guide us. Observing – rather than participating or acting – the High Priestess can also represent platonic love, manipulation, a pause in a process that was progressing or even a standstill, causing doubt and confusion.
Keywords: taking action, responsibility, competence, leadership!
Astrological Correspondence: Aries
As the complement to the Empress, the Emperor represents the father figure, reigning through wisdom, order, authority, power, and control. Thus he embodies the material world, structure, and order, and balances the Empress’ abundance and pure instinct. His stable leadership and authority are not to be questioned. The Emperor reminds us that rational thought, willpower, and fearlessness yield recognition and overall achievement. Through strength he creates and builds material things, families, and communities. He gives them structure, and projects are put on a solid foundation. On an emotional level this card symbolizes the confirming of established feelings, tightening of links among beings, and self-respect. In a negative situation this card can mean despotism, tyranny, self-righteousness, and hampering of any progress.
Welcome to the week of October 8! Each week a card will be pulled for your zodiac sign, offering the guidance and insight needed to maximize your opportunities and avoid any obstacles headed your way. Reveal the message the Tarot has for YOU now!
Your card for the week: Page of Swords
If you’ve been waiting for a sign to get started on an idea you’ve had, this is it! The Page of Swords indicates you’re filled with energy and excitement about a new project or venture. The question is, can you sustain this boundless enthusiasm once you get going? No matter which direction you choose in life, there are always going to be hurdles you’re going to have to overcome — but don’t let that deter you. Know that by following your passions, you will be able to keep up this momentum.
Your card for the week: 6 of Swords
This could be the week you finally release something that has been hanging over you for far too long. The 6 of Swords serves as a reminder that, although it may be difficult, sometimes we have no choice but to move on from a challenging situation. What have you been holding on to that has prevented you from creating a brighter future for yourself? Now is the time to let this go once and for all. This won’t be an easy task, but ultimately, it is the right thing to do.
Your card for the week: The Chariot
The Chariot is a card that encourages willpower, action, and self-control. This week, you’re being asked to step into your power and bravely take the reins as you propel yourself toward a goal you have. This is no time to passively wait for good things to happen to you. This card knows that anything worth having requires hard work and discipline. By strapping on your emotional and mental armor, you allow yourself to charge into your future, undeterred by whatever obstacles pop up along the way.
Your card for the week: 7 of Cups
Have you felt like you’re juggling too many things at once? This week, the 7 of Cups recognizes you have many competing priorities, and while it’s noble to lend your energy to so many different things, it has proved impossible to give the right amount of attention to any one of them. As a result, one or more of those areas have suffered. Choice can be our friend, but it can also be our enemy. Now is the time to figure out where your time and energy is best spent.
Your card for the week: 10 of Pentacles
Lucky you! The 10 of Pentacles represents security, as well as success and accomplishment. Have you not been properly recognized for your professional efforts? Has it felt like the universe has put one obstacle after another in front of you? Has money been tight? Have you felt deflated in matters of the heart? Well, good news has arrived! You could finally see things coming together for you this week in one or more of these areas, rewarding you with a sense of satisfaction for staying the course no matter how tough things were.
Your card for the week: 6 of Cups
The 6 of Cups is about the past impacting the present. This week, you’re being called to examine whether or not you’re tethered to your past in some way. While it’s true we sometimes need to look in the rearview mirror as a way of informing current or future decisions, we can easily become stuck living in the past if we’re not careful. Don’t let nostalgia or distorted memories prevent you from making progress and appreciating what’s happening in the here and now. Allow your past to be a source of improvement rather than a source of stagnation.
Your card for the week: Queen of Swords
Get ready to sit high upon your throne this week! The Queen of Swords is incredibly perceptive, embodying an intellectual sharpness and maturity that helps her tune out the noise of emotion and outside opinion. You could be facing a decision now or in the near future, and this card is serving as a reminder to rely on your logic and to look at all the facts before proceeding. You have an abundance of experience and wisdom that you can draw upon, so make sure to utilize it.
Your card for the week: Temperance
Temperance is a card of balance and moderation. Receiving this card signifies a need to keep a more go-with-the-flow attitude, practicing patience and adaptability as best you can. Perhaps you’ve been resisting a change in your life or letting a stressful situation get the best of you. If this is the case, become human Teflon. Allow things to slide off your back instead of meeting them with resistance. By finding your inner balance, you set yourself up to find your outer balance once again.
Your card for the week: 10 of Wands
Has it felt like you’ve been shouldering the weight of the world? The 10 of Wands acknowledges an immensely heavy burden you’ve been carrying around. It’s possible you’ve taken on too much in trying to meet your goals, and now it’s essential you ask for help or scale back on what you’ve committed yourself to. This may be a tough pill to swallow, because there’s issues of pride and an unwillingness to delegate at play. However, you’ve reached a point where your ability to meet your goal is compromised. You deserve to enjoy life, so ask for that helping hand this week..
Your card for the week: 5 of Cups
The 5 of Cups indicates you’ve been allowing yourself to wade in a sea of regret and disappointment. While the pain you’re feeling is very real and shouldn’t be minimized, it isn’t a free pass to stay stuck in this mode forever. By choosing to focus on your perceived failures or mistakes, you can’t see the positive things right in front of you, nor can you move on toward greener pastures. There’s still hope, and it’s important this week that you find where that hope is and shift your attention to that.
Your card for the week: 2 of Pentacles
You’re going to learn that life is a balancing act this week! The 2 of Pentacles represents achieving harmony with opposing forces. Have you been called in different directions recently? Are what you want and what you need conflicting? Has work taken time away from your personal life or vice versa? This card wants you to take a step back and figure out where your priorities are. By knowing where you want to spend your time and energy, you can come up with a solution that sets you up for long-term success in all areas of your life.
Your card for the week: 9 of Wands
You could find yourself approaching the finish line this week! The 9 of Wands recognizes the persistence and dedication you’ve put into a personal goal you’ve been working toward. Your initial goals and ideas were planted and have grown, and you are so close to finally reaching your destination. While the road may have been long and weary at times, this is no time to give up. Resilience is your greatest asset right now, so put on your battle armor and keep moving forward no matter what life may throw your way.
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IN 1492
In fourteen hundred ninety-two
Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
He had three ships and left from Spain;
He sailed through sunshine, wind and rain.
He sailed by night; he sailed by day;
He used the stars to find his way.
A compass also helped him know
How to find the way to go.
Ninety sailors were on board;
Some men worked while others snored.
Then the workers went to sleep;
And others watched the ocean deep.
Day after day they looked for land;
They dreamed of trees and rocks and sand.
October 12 their dream came true,
You never saw a happier crew!
“Indians! Indians!” Columbus cried;
His heart was filled with joyful pride.
But “India” the land was not;
It was the Bahamas, and it was hot.
The Arawak natives were very nice;
They gave the sailors food and spice.
Columbus sailed on to find some gold
To bring back home, as he’d been told.
He made the trip again and again,
Trading gold to bring to Spain.
The first American? No, not quite.
But Columbus was brave, and he was bright.
Happy Columbus Day, America!
Lady of the Abyss & The WOTC Staff
And I was wondering why no one showed up at work today, it is a holiday! Just shows you how much I keep up with the days, lol!
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Good Sunday Morning, all! Wouldn’t it be lovely to open your window, feel the fresh Autumn breezing blowing against your skin and not a worry in the world. HA! Not around here, that is only some fantasy that I am waiting to come true. I woke up this morning and literally jumped out of the bed. I had a huge brown recluse spider sitting on the pillow next to me. Now if that isn’t something to wake up to, I don’t know what is.
I know the Goddess put all her creatures on this planet to serve a purpose. What is the recluse’s purpose? Who knows? I haven’t found it out yet. I had a bad experience a long time ago with the recluse spider. I use to refinish antique furniture. I had a brass bed headboard that had to be stripped of all the old paint that was on it. So I took it out into the backyard were I wouldn’t get high off the flumes. I placed it next to a metal clothes line post. I started to strip the paint off the headboard. I noticed some burning on my leg but I thought it was because of the stripper had accidentally splashed on my leg. The pain got worse and worse. I stopped, went in and took a shower. I noticed my left leg was a bit red and swollen. Didn’t think anything about it because stripper will do that. The next day I got up, my leg was red from my foot all the way up to my knee and hard as a rock. I immediately went to the doctor and come to find out, I had stepped into the den of a bunch of recluse spiders. I went through many an injection, drainings and the such. The doctor thought I was going to lose my leg because I developed blood poisoning in it. After six months of treatment on my leg, I was finally out of the woods. I still have one heck of a scar on my ankle from these lovely little creatures. So you can see now why I jumped out of the bed when I saw one on my pillow this morning.
I have now since discovered that the men yesterday doing the yard work ran into a nest of these nasty spiders. Did they get the spray and kill these little beggars? No, instead they just knocked the nest down and spiders went flying everywhere. Since I now know that and I am highly allergic to this little monsters, we are taking the day off to spray every building on the property. You spray the outside then you spray the inside. When you spray the inside, you cannot stay in the building for so many hours. The guys have already got their sprayers and are ready to go. I told them the first place to hit was my cabin. Soak it down, I didn’t care. Next will be the office then the warehouse. They don’t know it yet but they are also going to cover the grass for those little demons. You can tell how much I love these little spiders.
Now you know why we are not on the internet today. I hope you can understand. The doctors did tell me since I had so many bites and got blood poisoning from the spiders the first time. That if I was ever bitten again it could kill me. Since my luck has been running so good in the past year, I think to be on the safe side, it is best to get the place sprayed and we will resume normal operations tomorrow. I apologize for the inconvenience but I really don’t want to die anytime soon.
Our schedule for next week looks fairly normal. There is only one day on the calendar that I see we will be off the internet and that is Tuesday. I have a doctor’s check-up that day. It is to make sure the new medicine is still controlling my spleen condition. Oh, yeah, for the new ones here, you have no idea what kind of year I have had. I won’t go into it because it would bore you to tears.
Anyway that is the low down on why we are not on the internet today, we are killing little brown spiders. We will be back tomorrow, then off Tuesday for my doctor’s appointment. Besides that the week looks pretty normal. Whatever normal is for us, lol!
Got to run for now, the guys are getting ready to spray.
Have a great Sunday,
Lady of the Abyss
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By Joyce Sequichie Hifler
Remember all those time when you make three trips to the other room to get something, and before you got there you had already forgotten what it was? Didn’t the thought of age dimming your memory enter your mind at those times?
There’s really no need to waste time thinking that way. It is not the case of a scattered memory, but a skittery mind, jumping from one subject to another with only circumstances to remind you.
And haven’t you awakened sharply in the middle of the night because suddenly you remembered something you should have done, or something you must do? Age again? No, it was the only time your subconscious mind ever found you quiet enough to remind you of something you wanted to remember.
Life would be so much more orderly if we took several minutes night and morning to sit completely away from outside sights and sounds to recall the important things. As long as we are able to see and hear the activity about us we have difficulty thinking soundly. The conscious mind is capable of carrying just so much, and then the debris must be cleared away before the “filed away” things in the subconscious can be remembered.
“Be still and know……”
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October 6 – Daily Feast
A world of things exists that we will never be able to explain. But all we have to do is look around us at world events, natural disasters and at the cold, clear glint in the eye of ignorance, and know that to be somebody we need more than to become clever. The big deals do not make us. Little steps, little thoughts, words and little acts – who we are and who we will become depends on the small bricks in our foundations. What do we have of contentment? It is the measuring stick for wandering souls who have lost the way and don’t even know it.
~ I was living peacefully with my family, having plenty to eat, sleeping well, taking care of my people, and perfectly contented. ~
GERONIMO – APACHE
“A Cherokee Feast of Days, Volume II” by Joyce Sequichie Hifler
If you’re not careful, complacency can make everything you’ve gained crumble to the ground. Don’t let your success be victim of that same success.
Avoid complacency by responding to each success with gratitude, humility, and continuing effort. Treat success as an opportunity to create even more success.
If all you do with your good fortune is consume it, you’ll soon be left with nothing but regret. Instead, seize the opportunity to build upon your success.
The joy of accomplishment is in the doing. The way to continue that joy is to continue the doing.
Realize that the biggest reward of any success is the opportunity to aim for even more success. Feel the extent of that opportunity, and go to work on it.
Make every success into a new starting point. Delight in continuing to fill your world with new achievement and value.
— Ralph Marston
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As a human being living on earth, it is important to learn to ground yourself in relation to your earth mother.
We often hear people telling us to ground ourselves, but we may not be sure what that means and how we might do it. Grounding ourselves is a way of bringing ourselves literally back to earth. Some of us are more prone than others to essentially leaving our bodies and not being firmly rooted in our bodies. There’s nothing terribly wrong with this, but while we are living on the earth plane it is best to stay grounded in the body.
One of the easiest ways to ground ourselves is to bring our attention to our breath as it enters and leaves our bodies. After about 10 breaths, we will probably find that we feel much more connected to our physical selves. We might then bring our awareness to the sensations in our bodies, moving from our head down to our feet, exploring and inquiring. Just a few minutes of this can bring us home to bodies and to the earth, and this is what it means to ground ourselves.
We can go further by imagining that we have roots growing out of the bottoms of our feet, connecting us to the earth. The roots flow with us so we can we always move, but at the same time they keep us grounded. We receive powerful energy from the earth just as we do from the forms of energy we associate with the sky, and our body is a tool that brings these two energies together in a sacred union. When we are grounded, we essentially become a strong container in which our spirits can safely and productively dwell. This is why grounding ourselves every day, especially at the beginning of the day, is such a beneficial practice. Fortunately, it’s as simple as bringing our conscious awareness to our bodies and the earth on which we walk.
Virgo is an Earth sign so it’s practical, but it’s also related to Mercury which means it has an active mind. If you were born with the Moon in Virgo, you are known for your intellect, curious mind, and intuition. Virgo likes to cut through the noise and get to the good stuff — constantly sorting out thoughts, feelings, and everything around them. Leave it to Virgo to figure out what’s useful or useless, what’s true or not true, what’s right or wrong. It’s not surprising that this sign’s motto is “I analyze.”
Before we talk specifically about the Moon in Virgo, let’s talk about the Moon for a moment. In astrology, the Moon in considered a planet — it’s the fastest moving of them all. Because it moves so quickly, the Moon passes through each of the 12 zodiac signs every month. Just as the Sun has a placement in our chart, so does the Moon.
No matter which Sun sign you were born under, for a few days each month, we all feel like a Virgo. Because Virgo loves order and cleanliness, you’ll feel a stronger urge to organize your living spaces during the Virgo Moon transit. This is also an excellent time to work on any projects as this diligent sign has an uncanny ability to analyze the critical details most of us would miss!
Virgos loves to lend a helping hand, so don’t be surprised if you are the first person to volunteer when a friend asks for a favor. Don’t be mistaken — you won’t feel obligated in the least bit. Because Virgos love to pitch in, you’ll not only want to come to someone’s aid, but you’ll also get extreme satisfaction from it. What can we say? This sign truly enjoys being of service to others.
When the Moon is in Virgo, you may feel more motivated to take your health more seriously. You might find yourself re-evaluating your diet and nutrition, or possibly taking up a new fitness regimen. Don’t be afraid to get out and flex those muscles!
In the late summer, when the Sun is in the sign of Virgo, we have what is called a Virgo New Moon. This is always a time of new beginnings, and a time of a new emotional cycle. This New Moon is different in that we don’t plant new seeds; instead, we try to figure out what to do with what we’ve harvested. You’ll find yourself asking, “Where do I go from here?” The key is figuring out how to use what you’ve been working on to create a different kind of new beginning. Now that you’ve plucked that wheat the Virgo is known for holding, how are you going to use it?
Six months later, at the end of winter, we have what is known as a Virgo Full Moon. Because the Sun is in the sign of Pisces, this is a time when you’ll get lost in your thoughts, and find yourself dreaming about the future. The energy of this Full Moon helps us balance this out by bringing us back to reality, and showing us how we can make these fantasies a reality.
Virgo is an Earth sign so it’s practical, but it’s also related to Mercury which means it has an active mind. If you were born with the Moon in Virgo, you are known for your intellect, curious mind, and intuition. Virgo likes to cut through the noise and get to the good stuff — constantly sorting out thoughts, feelings, and everything around them. Leave it to Virgo to figure out what’s useful or useless, what’s true or not true, what’s right or wrong. It’s not surprising that this sign’s motto is “I analyze.”
Anyone who knows a Virgo knows that they need to feel useful, and somehow contributing to a project, a relationship, or whatever it is that needs their assistance. This is why someone with a Virgo Moon is seen as a hardworking team member in the workplace, or a loyal friend who rushes to their friends’ sides in difficult times. Virgo has been accused of being critical, but they don’t do it because they dislike something — Virgo is just trying to help!
Those born with the Moon in Virgo are some of the most loyal people you’ll meet. Yes, Virgo has high standards and loves to examine every aspect of a relationship before jumping. This doesn’t mean Virgo is cold — they can be just as passionate and loving as other signs — it’s simply that they want to know what they’re getting into. Rest assured, once a Virgo is on your side, they are in it for the long haul.
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