Mastering Life in Maine

We gain wisdom from experience. If we are wise about a thing but we have never in this life done it then this is wisdom gained from other lifetimes. For example, I have always know the terrible lure of gambling, and not gone there in this life. We often are not wise about a thing  until we suffer the consequences of it.  This is why you do not ease the pain of unwise behavior. To protect one from their own consequences even has a name, enabling. Within reason we let them  find their own way out.  This is why we need freedom. We need to be free to engage life  as our soul steers, even unwisely,  that we may learn the lessons  of that experience. Can you imagine passing this life only to have to return because you failed to find wisdom because of some law,  or over-protective, well-meaning person? I no longer call negative experiences  Errors. I call them lessons.  Think of the things you already know. Not to hurt other peo

When this card shows up in a reading it represents a new adventure. As Significator it implies that the client is in a position of inexperience. As the Crossing card it implies that the client needs to undertake  a new path, as they have fallen into stagnation. It represents the spiritual directive -  Go forth and make known the unknown.  The Major Arcana may also be read as "the Book of Life."  In this sense The Fool is the virginal soul seeking rebirth.  Virginal not necessarily in that it has never been born before,  but in that it has drunk from the waters of forgetfulness, (Ancient writers tell us that to drink was a choice and the wise man would never do so.)  and has no memory of past lives to hamper it in this lifetime. In a spread The Fool may also indicate that  a would-be child spirit is near the questioner,  seeking a chance for rebirth.  But why does this card say these things? First, he is striding down a mo

When you sit in prayer or meditation And there is something you want to ask  God to bring into your life You hold that image there in silent  Contemplation. But when what you desire most Is that God be in your life.  That God reveal itself and be known. There is no image to contemplate Even the word itself, God, Implies the known paths of religion. (I see the value of religion And I see the harm of religion. I assert, with full confidence, There is God beyond church on Sunday. Enjoy your faith and your dogma,  If religion is your path. So be it. I have traveled that path to it's end.)  God remains and enigma to me. I wish this state of things to change. In my silent moments I will contemplate Nothing. For if God has no image And all that has an image is already known Then the unknown Must be image-less. And God is the great unknown. 

Dream: I was gathering And captioning pictures And I was posting them online. Then I learned I was Resurrecting the memories Of people who were dead.  I wasn't happy with what I was doing. Interpretation: The captioned pictures  Represent memories of your own past. Things that were once joyful But are your past - dead. There is always more to experience But we tend to look to the world For different experiences Within the human experience.  The time for that is long past. Happiness lies on the inward Path - back to God. That doesn't mean you die It means you are ready for  A new adventure. 

If what we believe effects our future. We never want to believe we are victims. We never want to believe anything That we don't want in our future. And people who try to convince you otherwise are toxic. This blogger expresses this well: Pavlina

To be a wild child Is not a romantic thing; (Elves and fairies take us) Not when you know it  From the inside. Are all children born wild? Like a young horse. Is tameness a thing you learn? (Or must you be broken?) Is becoming civilized, Becoming a good citizen, A thing children desire? Or is it a thing perpetrated On a free entity  For the sake of survival? (Does socialization break children?) Do you recall a time when You wanted to please your parents. (When you really loved them) A time when you were very good. You listened, and learned How to be polite  And respectful of others. In a perfect world That earns a child Parental approval and  (Unconditional love) Something close enough to love To pass for it - with a little denial. But the world is not perfect And too often our parents are not wise. (Children rearing children) Sometimes no matter your efforts,  It is not enough, never enough. When your best

There needs to be an acceptable way  To express my darker side.  (Art.)  A way that doesn't cause harm  To myself or others.  (Art.)  I wish I had been taught this as a child,  But I found it eventually.  ART! 

It is my understanding That our advent in this The physical realm Were undertaken in the spirit of Adventure. We wanted to experience  What it was like To be within the physical. To smell a sweet flower. To drink cold, pure water From a spring. To feel a gentle breeze Ruffle your hair, your clothes. Without a physical body Our hands simply pass through Without the sensation of touch. And so we are in every life Enchanted with the opportunities That come with once more Having a body. But we have lived thousands  Of lifetimes here. There comes a point now When we run out of things to do. Things that are new and inspiring. Many... most, will try to double down On things that have given joy In the past. Food and sex. Remember the Romans? Ever searching for greater thrills Vomitoriums, cannibalism,  Voyeurism, Incest... you know. But there is another way. When the world runs out of thrills It is time to turn inward. It

  The map of middle earth is very obviously related to brain anatomy; and the functions of various areas of the brain are symbolized in Tolkien's descriptions of these areas, their culture and history.  The three chief markers of this are the three elven settlements that come into the story: Rivendell, Lorien, and the Grey Havens.  The Shire, the river Greyflood, and Fangorn Forest also can be fairly easily located by function and position on an anatomic cross section of the brain. This is important to the understanding of Tolkien's masterpiece, and, in part, it is meant to act as a guide to spiritual evolution. In brain anatomy the structure which roughly corresponds to both The Greyflood and Rivendell, is the Sylvian Notch, or fissure. This area of the brain was first defined by Franciscus de la Boe Sylvius, in 1641 . It is now usually referred to as the lateral sulcus or lateral fissure, and it is one of the most prominent structures of the human brain, dividing

Dreamer: I was in my living room with Bernie Sanders The sofa was not in its present place It was in the north of the room and it was red Very dark red, almost black. He was seated there. I was so pleased to see him I hugged him in a friendly manner a couple of times. Then he asked me to stop speaking against him Or at least not so loudly. Interpretation:  This is not the first I 'important meeting' dream  You have shared with me. And I believe this goes back to the first dream you shared, The one in which you were one Of four 'queens' in this country.  We all have lives happening on other levels of reality. Other lives, where we have jobs and duties Because that is part of life. To contribute. What I am saying is that the two of you met, And he has put a request to you. North is the position of spirit - you met in spirit. Red is both that Bernie is deeply socialist And that the meeting happened  In the Earthbound/Inf