Love Life

Today's oracle card is Love Life.

Love this per the Wander Society:

To wander is to wake up as if from a deep sleep.  All of your senses become active and alert again ... You remember who you were when we were young, before you gave your life to other things (technology, school, money, people).

The Supernatural - My card pulled from Beautiful Creatures Tarot Deck

I got a call from Brian while on the phone with my mom.  He called for girlfriend advice.  Pinch me; really?  it took me 28 years to realize I never thought I would have such a sense of usefulness. Unique blessing indeed.   I told him he needed to cultivate his patience and communication skills.  Communication is big with girls.  I described how there is an art to being vulnerable and that in order to be with the right person, he needed to be the right person.  If anything, he will do his future self a favor by cultivating this technique.

I called him the next, at his encouragement to see how things went and he said he is doing well and it home with him about in order to find and be the right person, he himself needed to be the right person.  

Still Do

Yesterday, I pulled two oracle cards; one about admitting my true feelings to myself and the other about parental care.

Today I got "parental care" yet again.  Can't help but wonder if it's about the role reversal thing, as it's never easy to think about your parents needing "parental" care.  I also pulled "sentimental feelings".

Blair enters the picture, mid-blog and summons my full attention as she tells me about her day spent with her new friend, Sydney.  They beached and taco'd.  She shows me her varied tan lines, and how she is trying to keep her face from sun damage and premature wrinkling.

Next we are mirthful about Macy and how vibrant and healthy she is for being nine.  Blair woefully suggested she may have cataracts due to her blurry pupils.  I confirmed the possibility since she's up in there in age for a dog.  One constant about Blair is how gentle and caring she is with animals.  It will be interesting to see if she goes into an animal-caring profession.

So back to yesterday, my inspiration was Hines Ward.  I knew nothing about him prior to listening to him on a podcast hosted by Art of Charm.  His story and amazing attitude kept me lit and awake during my commute home from work, despite dragging ass all day.

I was more rested today, so felt productive work-wise.  I listened to fellow gals in the industry as they ranted about the toxic effects unreasonable workloads and employer expectations can have.

After learning about a mass mosquito spray being done across the county, my plans to exercise got delayed.  Instead of doing downward dogs, I was downward in milkweed and netted butterfly cages.  I replenished the famished caterpillars' food supply and moved the cats, as well as the convalescing milkweed plants, inside.  I move them into my room, where they are safe from home-for-the-summer teens and friends.  The thing is, I get so carried away watching them eat and move about that I end up accomplishing much else.

I forged forward and encouraged my body to move, whispering how great it will feel once I get momentum.  Maybe it was the energy I expended on the butterflies, but I did not reap an exercise high this time.

Today's Fairy messages are "Be Yourself" (the 5th one I pulled this month) and "Walk Away".  It seems an underlying theme to ensure I do not compromise who I am for others.  Which I have.  And still do.  But I'm getting better.

I saw this fantastic saying below and found it so appropriate for this caterpillar/butterfly chapter of my life :)

Trust and beauty

After a morning fraught with annoyance, I grabbed the closest thing to me as a tool to escape Anguish's embrace.  It was the Fairy Bible by Teresa Moorey, I intentionally it left out to remind me to look up fairies that help in the realm of gardening and rearing caterpillars/butterflies.

A few Monarch butterflies from the batch I rear

I always get excited at this stage, knowing it will be flying the next day!

A bouquet of soon-to-be Monarch butterflies

My fingers stopped on the page about my Gemini air sign.  My eyes drank in the fable about a fairy named Vila.  Ultimately, it was about keeping one's word.  "Air is the Element that best symbolizes clarity, purity and trust.  If a promise is broken, that trust may be gone for ever.  Fairies abhor beaches of trust, and none more so than the Vila.  This story also symbolizes the deep betrayal of the land of our own inner natures when we turn away from the bond we have nature ... "  Poignant.  However, my search for fairies that help with butterflies continues.

Laura came up to see my butterfly garden yesterday.  During her visit, she helped inspire renewed interest in implementing daily rituals.   I am excited!  It may be just what I need to feel more grounded and sure-footed in the wake of such overwhelming and chaotic years. 

Two daily rituals I aspire to implement are journaling and engaging with Earthly elements.  I take comfort in returning to once familiar and well-loved activities.  


I tried handwriting a journal entry, but several, difficult pens later, I find myself back in this digital haven.  This seems to be the mode of least resistance in the way of enabling me to remain constant.

I also decided to pull a daily Oracle card.  Although today, I pulled two.  One from the Butterfly deck: Parental Care (about reversing roles with your parents); and one from the Faerie (surprise) deck: Express your Individuality (I construed as staying my ground as far as what makes me, well, ME.

In the new book I bought, "Soul Searcher's Handbook" by Emma Mildon,  I did a quiz within that said I was a Bohemian.  "... You are party is about seeing the beauty in all things, all experiences, and all people -- you always see the bright side, come out smelling roses, and have a natural glow that attracts others to you ..." This is consistent with my email address "lookforbeauty@..."

I trust in beauty.