ladybird, ladybird
March 24, 2010
For the second night running I have had three ladybirds flying around the room and landing on me. So I looked up in my totem animal book to see what the ladybird has to say.
To my delight its so very positive
If a ladybird has come into your life it is time to begin channeling positive energy and passion into your own life. She will help you learn how to direct this energy successfully so that you can implement it into everything you do. It is also a good time to start being optimistic about your life. Being optimistic, doing daily affirmations, and creating your own reality are all things that ladybird will help you master during your time together.
Ladybirds are a very lucky totem to have. They are very passionate and creative and have a lot of positive energy surrounding them. Individuals with ladybird for a totem will have great success in anything that they do.
Ladybirds have very fast paced and fiery energy surrounding them. This enables them to direct their positive energy and passion into everything they do with tremendous force and success. When channeled, this energy is very powerful and can help those with ladybird as a totem get a tremendous amount of high quality work done in a short period of time.
Since ladybug has so much positive fiery energy surrounding her, she is a wonderful totem to have for positive thinking and affirmations. She will teach you how to see the positive in all situations that you encounter so that you are able to successfully handle everything that you are dealt.
Ladybirds will also help you use positive thinking and optimism while channeling your thoughts into reality. She will teach you that your thought patterns and the energy you put into them manifest into the universe and can have a tremendous impact on what your reality consists of. If you have a bleak outlook on life and are very pessimistic these thoughts can bring more negativity and darkness into your sacred space. By having a positive outlook and adding optimism to your thoughts, that positive energy will manifest wonderful things in your life.
Be stone stupid
March 24, 2010
I recently came back from teaching a workshop about the Hero’s Journey, this quote I plucked from one of my most favourite books of all time, just about said it all.
“Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. That is creative life. It is made up of divine paradox. To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estes (Women Who Run with the Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman)
Being stone stupid is Just like THE FOOL who starts his journey around the TAROT, he steps out on his own epic journey of the Hero. He’s uncomplicated, doesn’t worry about whether he makes a mistake or not, lives live joyfully without fear of embarrassment or failure. He is jubilant, he is joy, and he sees the world has so many possibilities available to him. He embodies the energy of the hummingbird archetype, the little bird with courageous ambitions and who feeds from the sweet nectar of life.
The Fool Tarot card illustrated here is a deck by Japanese illustrator Yoshitaka Amano. See more of his work here
