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Ten of Cups

CHALLENGES/​OPPORTUNITIES: 

You know in your heart that you have done what is best for all concerned.

With the Ten of Cups in this position, let yourself relax, knowing your labors are completed. The worst is over and a much-improved future lies ahead. You are moving forward to a life which is very different from the one you inherited. You know that your heroic effort has made a real difference in the way things are now unfolding. Even if you don't receive all the recognition you have earned, a solid core of self-esteem is now your permanent possession. You did the right thing under challenging circumstances; you kept the greater good in mind. Knowing this produces feelings of personal gratification. Now you can lay this situation to rest and learn to live in a totally new way.

More rain whilst we while away with engrenages season 7

A reward you have long striven for is at hand. Embrace it, and know it is well-deserved. Be sure to take some time to enjoy the success.

Part of your past has finally released its hold on you, and you are now in position to face the future.

Your past struggles have put you in a place from which you can gain a stable position.


Money you have spent wisely is the best indicator of your future security.

Financial hardships and uncertainties in your future can be overcome with prudence, and you will reach your financial goals if wisdom prevails.

Endure. You are approaching a time of mental and physical renewal.

A change of residence or a journey may be in store for you.

Fulfillment will be attainable for you, if you summon the strength of will to realize your ambitions.

You will reach a turning point in your spiritual life, and there you will find trust, forgiveness, and contentment.

A new phase of your life will come suddenly upon you in a blinding light of inspiration.

Brown rice, coconut oil and pink salt for lunch..

We step into a new week on the heels of a dynamic Scorpio New Moon, which is ushering us into a November filled with new opportunities and new awareness. In fact, today's opposition between the Sun and Uranus is a call to get out of our comfort zone.

What does it mean to get out of our comfort zone? Uranus has been in Taurus since March and it ushered in a seven year story of where we need to stop playing safe in a certain part of our lives. (Not sure where? Check out my Uranus in Taurus: Sign by Sign guide in the link below.) So this new moon, with its opposition to Uranus, means that we're checking in with our Uranus in Taurus story as we start the week.

That said, we're coming up on Mercury Retrograde this week, on October 31. And while I'm not a Mercury-Retrograde-Freaker-Outer (official term), we just need to keep our eye out for miscommunication and any other scenarios where things may get wonky. Just do your due diligence. And with Mercury stationing in Scorpio, there may be a few secrets revealed this week.

Libra and Libra Rising — Finances, intimacy, sharing, the deep self. You will delve into your deep self. You will awaken your sexuality. You will have an emotional breakthrough. You will transform what vulnerability, sharing, and trust means to you. You will reinvent your relationship with money and wealth.


Aquarius and Aquarius Rising — Home, family, foundation, emotional core. You will move either literally or metaphorically. You will pull up your roots. You will transform what family means to you. You will break from the past, including memories and ancestry. You will powerfully awaken your emotional core needs.

https://empoweringastrology.com/

November looks interesting..

Hades, God of the Underworld, Brings Liberation to the Feminine

October 27, 2019 | Leave A Comment

Introducing the Archetype of Hades / Pluto in relation to the feminine awakening path.

Hades, God of the Underworld, Brings Liberation to the Feminine

Hades, God of the Underworld in the Greek pantheon, is the overseer of the process of death and rebirth, both in the physical and spiritual realms. Hades rules and presides over that which is hidden in society and deeply within ourselves. This archetypal energy is one powerful bringer of change and igniter of passion in a world that so often wishes to keep the hidden hidden, the secrets swept under the carpet and the shadows locked away. 

Potently oozing deep, unashamed masculine sexual power he can incite immense arousal, fear of power, deep desire to explore the darker sides of sexuality, resistance to change and other shadow aspects we hold around all things that are associated with power. This is why it’s so transformative and revelatory to consciously work with this energy. To open, awaken and clear out any of the murky debris in this particular line within us and to see this energy as an aide to our path and an important aspect of the deep journey into knowing thyself.

The Dark God energy of Pluto brings the message that it’s time to break down our walls, to re-do our boundaries and to prepare for massive transformation. This energy doesn’t give a fuck whether this message is politically correct or not. He’s here to shake things up, to unearth the hidden truths lying deeply within his kingdom., to rattle old, outdated ways, to break down restrictions and to rebuild the new way. He’s here to bring death to the old and bring about change for the new direction both within our lives and in the collective. 

Troll-athon.

On the basis of sex..

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part II

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1188446480547418112.html?refreshed=yes

Acquaintance zone

Cinnamon burmami,indian Gurmar,banaba leaf,alpha lipoic acid,chromium oxide,magnesium oxide.

She writes..

Domestic circumstances in your life are about to enter a new phase. A new home, a new addition to the family, or simply a new happiness. The change will be significant.

Your material success will bolster your confidence.


Your business ventures will be financially successful. Prudence and good investment will pay off for you, and the risks you take will eventually be seen as wise decisions.

No more hiding ( probably the only rebellion I ever had)

The child below bellows. Old bitters amplified.Sprayed on layers that stick. The world is not so firm, it's days have altered. Grazed and forlorn in the brink. MB

"Less safety means more shallows."

To go truly deep in an intimate relationship, we need to feel safe with our partner. We need to know — and know with our whole being — that we can trust them, and not just when we are with them. This trust is based not on thinking that we should trust them, but rather on consistently sensing in our core their trustworthiness—their integrity, their reliability, their commitment to remaining present under all conditions, their passion for accessing love, depth, and freedom with and through us.

If we cannot count on our partner to consistently take good care of the container of our relationship — as when energy is leaked through cracks created by erotically wandering attention — then we will find that we can go only so deep with them.

If one partner is chronically calling the whole relationship into question every time there’s a fight or conflict, then the other is probably going to become wary of opening fully. Less safety means more shallows.

Making the ground of a relationship unnecessarily unstable — as when certain boundaries are overridden or trivialized in the name of “freedom” — keeps our relationship from being as deep and fulfilling as it could be. The point isn’t to create a fortress of security, but to literally be a safe place for our partner to let go of playing it safe. Feeling safe is much more than just feeling secure!

Real safety creates an atmosphere in which we can give our all without giving ourselves away.

Real safety makes room for a radically deep sharing of all that we are. Without it, we may seem to be free to go where we could not otherwise go, but such freedom — in its relative superficiality — is actually far more limiting than is the freedom that arises in the presence of genuine safety between intimates.

The safer I feel with you, the deeper I can go with you. The safer I feel with you, the deeper the risks I can take with you. The safer I feel with you, the deeper and more fulfilling the passions are between us. Real safety gives us room to show up in all our colors.

Such safety gives us permission to be in as much pain as we actually are, thereby making possible the healing we need in order to come fully alive, the healing through which we are, to whatever degree, awakened by all things, including our pain.
What joy, what benediction, what grace, to share this in the dynamic safety possible in an intimate relationship! ॐ <3

Robert Augustus Masters

terf till I die. ( god bless the YPG)

Anna Campbell

Amara Renas /Aziza Jalal

kintsugi

Rice is nice.

I am I plus my surroundings, and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

—José Ortega y Gasset

I dreamed a big fish..

Trout

To see a trout in your dream symbolizes increase prosperity and fortune.

Days of sedentary and candle stares

"Sometimes, when you get too comfortable & things are too smooth, the Almighty will shake you out of your comfort zone. Don’t be alarmed. Read His signs. If you have a good attitude & bear patience, He will grant you something that’s greater than you imagined....The hardest part of life’s journey is going through the unfamiliar or unknown because we don't know what to expect. But when you walk in firm faith, you no longer worry about what will happen down the road. Your heart trusts the Almighty. You know He has it all figured out!"

Mufti Ismail Menk

PLAN done sort of day.

OCTOBER 2019 October brings you to a crossroads in your journey, asking you to widen your horizons and explore enticing professional opportunities. As you can see, you have more freedom and options than you imagined. But stay focused on the big picture and a long-term goal. A real way forward is being revealed to you, and you can make pivotal choices that take you further along your journey. As they say, it’s not just what you know but also who you know. You’re making connections, you have friends, and you know people who’ve been down a road you’re on. They can offer valuable advice, perhaps even open doors for you. An opportunity could be something you’ve prayed and hoped for. This is your elevation to the top, but the higher you climb, the longer the drop. Stay true to your integrity and seek the highest truth and you can achieve success you can truly be proud of. As the sun enters Scorpio on October 23, followed by the Scorpio new moon four days later, you’re beginning a whole new cycle in your career, stepping into your true power. But Mercury stations retrograde on October 31, suggesting new information could mean reevaluating recent choices. Remain open-minded and you can make valuable discoveries. CTOBER 21, 2019 - OCTOBER 27, 2019 Go easy on Monday because you could have a tendency to give money away rather than invest it wisely. While it’s great to be charitable, only do so if you can afford it. There are other ways to give, including a few random acts of kindness. As the sun joins charming Venus and thoughtful Mercury in a more prominent zone of your chart on Wednesday, this is the time to embrace the spotlight. As the sun will be here for around four weeks, make it a priority to showcase your skills and freshen up your resume. This is very much the time to promote yourself even if you feel a tad squeamish about doing it. Take a leaf out of Leo’s book and proudly display your talents to the world. Trust your instincts on Friday and over the weekend because you could get an idea for a lucrative scheme. If so, don’t ignore it. Do something about it OCTOBER 21, 2019 You are going through a bit of a re-birthing period right now and you may feel as if you have just emerged from the darkness. A new cycle has just begun for you, and you may find that things are rather emotionally charged at this time. Don't be surprised if conflict rears its ugly head as a result of tension in this area of your life. Today's square between the Sun and the Moon is stirring up trouble within.

Watching Wallis Markle.

A journey relating to work is imminent and if you've had your eye on that new car it will soon be yours.

Beautiful Tomboys of the 1930s BY MESSYNESSY

Photographer Marianne  Breslauer’s main muse – Swiss writer, journalist and photographer Annemarie Schwarzenbach.  


https://www.messynessychic.com/2016/06/21/beautiful-tomboys-of-the-1930s/

No f*cking idea..

Your success can only be achieved through strength and clear vision.

You will make a sudden decision, and it may result in a long journey or a permanent move.

There is joy and possible wealth in your future, and your past fairness is at the root of it all.

Courageous action, and the embrace of the new, may deliver a personal triumph to you.

A sudden uplift in finances will allow you to make a major decision you were previously hesitant about.

You have nurtured an emptiness your entire life. That void will be filled by a new creation, a new adventure, or an entirely new life. Prepare for a transformative experience.

An abundance of love lies ahead of you. A rich and full life.

You have nurtured an emptiness         

Her name is Dawn Orwick.

Rapprochement

Mind fasting ( alive time or dead time)

The Art of Staring Into Space

Creativity happens when you find the courage to do absolutely nothing

Will Buckingham

Sep 10 · 6 min read

Photo: Marissa Ramsey/EyeEm/Getty Images

Ispent much of my time in school staring out of windows. In class, I only had to glance at the birds wheeling in the sky and I would be lost for a minute, two, 10, 20… until my teachers yelled at me for daydreaming and broke the spell.

But I wasn’t daydreaming. Dreaming implies dreams. It implies content. But I wasn’t thinking about anything in particular. I was just staring out the window into space.

My teachers would sometimes ask me, “What’s so interesting outside the window?” I never could give a good answer. I wasn’t really looking at anything. So I usually shrugged, mumbled an apology, and tried to focus again on my schoolwork.

After a few minutes, inevitably, my mind wandered again, my pen lifted from the page, I looked out of the window, and…

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I used to be so good at staring into space. I was an expert. World-class. But school trained me out of it.

By the time I hit my twenties, I had lost the ability to get absorbed in the not-quite-nothing there in the middle distance. I had internalized the disapproval of my teachers, so if I caught myself in the act, I would stop and remind myself to concentrate.

You go to school to make the expectations of culture your own. By the time you leave, you take that culture for granted. From my schooling, I learned that people who want to be productive, people who want to get things done, don’t spend hours staring out the window.

I used to be so good at staring into space. I was an expert. World class. But school trained me out of it.

Like whittling sticks and chewing on stems of grass, the art of staring into space belonged to a different era. It had no value in the modern world.

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It was the medieval Chinese writer, Liu Xie, who convinced me that my teachers were wrong.

I stumbled across Liu’s book about the art of writing, Creative Minds and Carved Dragons, a decade-and-a-half ago by accident in a second-hand bookstore in the north of England. I opened the book and started reading.

Staring into space, Liu said, was indispensable for creativity:

The creativity of the mind is the far-awayness of the spirit. Silently staring and contemplating, your thoughts reach across one thousand years. Quietly, your face twitches, and you can see across ten thousand miles… So, if you want to use the potter’s wheel of creative thought, value empty stillness.

In his defense of the art of staring into space, Liu draws on one of his biggest influences, the philosopher Zhuangzi, who refers to this art as “mind fasting.”

We spend our days putting things into our minds. We imagine the mind as a huge, elastic container into which we have to cram as much as possible. We hope that by cramming all this stuff in, we will become knowledgeable and wise.

At least, this is what our teachers told us. This is why they told me it was important that I stop staring out of the window, and focus instead on drawing diagrams of blast furnaces and benzene rings. Of course, I’m thankful for some of what I learned at school. It’s useful to know things. And it’s fun, too. But there is a big problem with this feverish quest for knowing stuff: there’s never any end to it.

Creativity cannot exist without the empty stillness that comes from simply staring and contemplating.

Zhuangzi says there’s an infinity of things that we can know, but our capacity for knowing them is limited. This being the case, shouldn’t we at least have a day off? Shouldn’t we fast the mind from time to time? Maybe two days out of every seven? Would that be so terrible?

“We have come to know the wisdom of knowing stuff,” Zhuangzi says. “But we do not yet know the wisdom of not knowing stuff.”

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Ideas come to you when you stare into space. Out of nowhere, they make themselves known. “Good fortune stops by when you stop,” Zhuangzi says.

The craft of writing has always depended on the writer’s ability to stop. It has always depended on fasting the mind. Creativity cannot exist without the stillness that comes from staring and contemplating.

As a writer, I have come to see how this obsession with filling the mind with information can be counterproductive. All that feverish activity allows little space for anything new to arise. Zhuangzi calls it “hurtling around whilst sitting down.”

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How do you recover an art you have unlearned? Having lost my knack for staring into space, these days I resort to hacks and workarounds. I go for a walk down to the sea, leaving my electronic devices at home, then sit on a bench and look out over the waves. I lie on my back on the sofa and look at the ceiling. Or I travel by bus or train, the best hack of all.

I love bus travel. It tricks my mind into thinking it’s going somewhere, that it’s being productive. But then it allows me to get on with the serious business of staring into space. As the bus bumps down country roads and the light flashes through the leaves of the trees, I still have hours ahead of me.

Of course, I could use this time to write or meditate, to plug in headphones and put on a podcast, or even learn a language. I could be productive. But as I resist the temptation to do any of that, my mind disengages. I gaze out of the window without really looking. My muscles relax. Thoughts cross my mind, but I’m not really aware of what I’m thinking. Outside the window, I notice things without really noticing them.

By the time I get off the bus and stop at a small roadside café for a cup of tea, my mind is almost entirely vacant. The word for it in Chinese is xu. It doesn’t mean “empty,” so much as “unfilled.” It’s not that there’s nothing going on in my mind. It’s as full of activity as a vacuum of empty space is, with its energetic pop and fizz of subatomic particles.

And then a thought arises. A thought that could not have arisen without this empty stillness. An idea for a book, a story, an article, a new direction.

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It’s hard to unlearn the habits of your schooling. It’s hard to cast off the feeling of guilt that comes from staring into space. In those moments when you want to write, but you’re stuck and can’t find a way forward, nothing seems more counterintuitive as a remedy than simply sitting and staring into space, or catching a bus that goes nowhere in particular. “But I should be doing something!” you think. The trick is to stop doing all the somethings you think you should be doing. Creative good fortune stops by only when you stop.

I often think about a story in Rethinking Symbolism, by the anthropologist Dan Sperber. It’s a snapshot from his fieldwork amongst the Dorze ethnic group in Ethiopia:

A scene marked my childhood: my father was seated in an armchair in the lounge, completely motionless, his hands empty, his eyes fixed on nothing. My mother whispered to me: “Don’t bother your father, he is working.” This worked on me.

Later, I too became a scholar, I went to Ethiopia as an ethnographer and I heard a Dorze mother whisper to her son: “Don’t bother your father, he is feeding the ancestors” — then I sat down on the hill from which one could see the Dorze market, but I was looking at nothing, and I was motionless.

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Though I am slowly relearning the art of staring into space, I wish I knew Sperber’s story or the wisdom of Liu Xie when I was in school. Then, when my teachers scolded me for looking out of the window, I could have told them I was feeding the ancestors or using the potter’s wheel of creative thought, and politely requested they leave me alone.

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Notes

1. The translations from Zhuangzi are my own. They all come from the fourth chapter (“Amongst Humans”) of the collected writings. One of the best contemporary translations is Zhuangzi: the essential writings with selections from traditional commentaries by Brook Ziporyn (Hackett 2009).
2. Liu Xie’s book has been translated into English several times. The most famous translation is by Vincent Shih: The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons (Calligrams 2015). The translations in this article are my own.
3. Dan Sperber’s Rethinking Symbolism is out of print. But it is available for download on Sperber’s website (scroll down to the bottom of the page).

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This story is part of The Art Of, an ongoing series that supplies you with instructions for living.