Follow Up: First of all, my lack of posting for the past few days is due to a variety of reasons, among them a dead internet as well as a horribly hectic schedule. That said, there have been a few things in this time that I've wanted, some more desperately than others, and while some are based on a true desire, some are based simply on a fear. What if this doesn't work out? It gives me something to think about.

Deck: Magical Mermaids and Dolphins

Focus: General

Card: Consult an Expert: More Information is needed. Consult someone with expertise in this area

This is so going to be one of those cases where I get cranky and the deck, convinced it gave me a faulty card, then later in the day something random is going to happen, and I'm going to have to consult an expert, then I'll be all "...oh."

Follow Up: Every difficult situation, I just took a deep breath and told myself that I could get through it. That I was safe.

Deck: Magical Mermaids and Dolphins

Focus: General

Card: Watch Your Thoughts: It's important to think about what you desire, not what you fear

There are situations where I am very fear based, doing actions more out of paranoia than to do the actual actions. I suppose today, I will keep an eye on those situations, and try to make decisions based on something other than fear.

Follow Up: I think the place I've truly been raising my standards is within myself. Just letting myself grow as a person, and expecting more out of life.

Deck: Healing with the Fairies

Focus: General

Card: Feeling Safe

I suppose it's self explanitory. To let myself feel safe. And looking at the card, I see this means truly safe...safe as myself. Letting down the walls and still feeling safe. Actually feeling safe to let down the walls. It sounds a lot easier than it actually is. At least for me.

Follow Up: I didn't really do anything out of the ordinary yesterday. I was just myself. However, I did have a friend show kindness to me (this is not unusual for this friend) at a time when I think I needed it, without knowing that I needed it. Maybe that's what the card was about? Accepting kindness from others.

Deck: Healing With the Fairies

Focus: General

Card: Raising Your Standards

Another conversation I've been having recently. Over the past few months, my standards have been slowly rising. But how will this apply today? Perhaps my work standards? Perhaps my performance standards? Will it be my standards in other people, or in myself? Only time will tell...

Follow Up: I'm not quite sure, actually, what, if anything, yesterday's card ment in relation to my every day life.

Deck: Healing with the Fairies

Focus: General

Card: Kindness

I suppose today I'll just concentrate on being the friendliest me I can be, and make sure I'm kind to all, as everyone deserves the same respect from one another.

Follow Up: There's not much to say, without posting an entire seperate blog on the events of the past 24 hours. I must have risen above something though, that is apparent. Situations have altered, though for how long and in what way, I'm unsure of yet. Either way, many times yesterday I took a deep breath, and told myself that I was better than my problems, stronger than them. And somehow, I got through the day.

Deck: Healing with the Fairies

Focus: General

Card: Higher Consciousness

I suppose today, I'm going to focus on what the bigger picture is. What the universe may be trying to tell me. If something starts to get to me, I'm going to take a deep breath and wonder why this may be happening.

Side Bar: The card underneath it, which I almost pulled, was Rise Above Your Problems.

Follow Up: Made quite a few decisions over the day based on nothing more than my gut. Things as simple as walking home a slightly different way to going out with friends to even when to do a certain work related task. Nothing went wrong, and it was a strange day for most parties involved. Intuition definitely had its part in the day.

Deck: Healing with the Fairies

Focus: General

Card: Rise Above Problems

Well, there definitely seem to be some common themes I'm exploring. Of the 44 cards, this is the second I've redrawn in less than a week's time. Problems, I can think of a few. The general funk the world seemed to be in yesterday (energies from world events no doubt.) The fact that, physically, I do not feel well today. One or two work problems that, while I do expect to work out, are a bit stressful right now. Yes, this is a card that seems appropriate for the day.

Follow Up: I was in a park yesterday, and honestly, there were moments of feeling environmental, which yes, I know, sounds silly, but I definitely felt the pressence of the nature. I even spoke to a spider. Well, mentally. I didn't begrudge the existance of the spider. Okay, maybe I'm reaching a little...

Deck: Healing with the Fairies

Focus: General

Card: Trust your Intuition

Okay, I get it!

Follow up: Nothing much to say. Have been following my intuition, things have been going well enough.

Deck: Healing with the Fairies

Focus: General

Card: Environmental Awareness

Well, I'm not quite sure how this will be an issue for the next few hours, but I suppose the only way to find out is to keep this in mind as the day progresses.

Follow Up: Yesterday, I pulled Postitive Expectations. Many times throughout the day, I had situaitons that I could have expected the worst from. Conversations that could have gone badly, for example. And each time, I expected a positive outcome, and each time, the situation did not dissapoint.

Deck: Healing with the Fairies

Focus: General

Card: Trust Your Intuition

Fair enough.

Follow Up: Yesterday evening, there were a few problems that I did need to rise above. Being a person I wasn't sure that I liked. Being in a situation that filled me with an odd sense of nostalgia that I wasn't prepared for. Having the stregnth to follow through with decisions I knew needed to be made. It was less of rising above my problems, and more of rising above my issues, but it applied none the less. Definitely a slight heads up for some of the unexpected things I would be facing.

Deck: Healing with the Fairies

Focus: General

Card: Positive Expectations

This one definitely seems to speak for itself, especially if one is aware of the stress that keeps coming my way due to the show. We have a rehearsal tonight and much as I'm looking forward to seeing the cast members who I don't see on a daily basis, there's a part of me that's holding on to a bit of stress. A part of me almost expecting the worst. Well, I dislike that part anyway! So, my focus of today will be to expect only the best. From other people. From situations. From myself.

Deck: Healing with the Fairies

Focus: General

Card: "Rise Above Problems"

I'm not going to say there haven't been a few things on my mind. No...I've been stressed out about everything and nothing all at once. So I guess my thought for the rest of the evening, and really though the week is to just let it go. To know that these problems are minor, at best, and to let myself sail above them.