Happy Ostara!!!
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Welcome to the house of Aries!
Our sun makes it’s way into the house of Aries today at 1:32pm EST. All babies born between today and May 20th will have the Aries sun sign. My birthday is April 5th. Welcome to my impulsive, stubborn, intelligent, loyal, and loving sign.
~ Today, Saturday (3-20-10) @ 3:41pm EST, the Moon will v/c until 8:28pm this evening ~
Still more Spring cleaning. Although I can’t think of a better time to finish it off than today. I think a nicely cleaned home, refreshed by Spring, will do wonders for the atmosphere around here. There’s nothing negative in the atmosphere, but can we really be TOO peaceful?
~ When She rights her course @ 8:28pm EST, She’ll move into Gemini where She’ll remain, from Saturday evening until 9:49pm EST on Monday (3-22-10) ~
My almanac says:
The Moon in Gemini is a light-hearted, breezy, laid back, and curious, energy but watch out because it can also be fickle and restless.
The Moon in Gemini generally favors mental and communicative actions, and more than one activity at a time. Multi-tasking twins.
Reading, learning, emails, time with family, errands, games, writing, teaching, making connections.
~ Moon Manifestation Tarot Card ~
* Knight of Staffs *
Funny, when I first turned this card, I thought it was amusing how the Knight of Staffs sort of embodies the energy that is known to those of us bearing the Aries sun sign. Of course the synchronicity of that made me unsure exactly of what it meant for me this weekend.
Soo.. yep, you guessed it…. 3 card spread it is. Now here’s the part that made my heart jump.
* Justice * * Ten of Swords *
This is EXACTLY what’s happening in my life right now. I was completely stunned speechless by this….
Justice is all about balance. (amusing to me to turn it on Ostara too..lol) She’s all about reaping what you sow… cause and effect.
Ten of Swords has the market cornered on martyrdom. The great melodramatic. But situationally it can be the bottom. The part of the barrel where up is the only option and it’s just time to move forward.
~ My Plan: Saturday afternoon through Monday night ~
Two years ago, I witnessed a drunk, verbally abusive man kick a 3 year old boy to the floor. I rounded on him in such fury that tears streamed down my face and my voice cracked as I advanced on him screaming that he had no right to treat anyone in that manner and that I would personally end his time on this planet should he ever so much as look at a dog cross-eyed again let alone a defenseless child.
This was the point at which my husband had been informed as to what the screaming was all about and came to my rescue as I was about to be punched… yeah, his hand went up…. and it was almost the last thing he ever did. Long story short, it was someone we know… and it’s this whole tragic tale because the kicked child and his sister are the grandchildren of these people (step-grandchild of the kicker) and they have custody because grandma’s daughter died 6 months earlier in a car accident…. Then like 4 months later, the 1.5 yr old daughter has brain surgery for cancer.
SO! This family has had about all it can take in such a short time. Nope. Not yet. A year and a half after I confront an abusive drunk for treating them that way, drunk abuser commits suicide. Now, these are people we know and care about, but not people we see often. Between “the incident” and the suicide, we saw these people, with and without HIM… maybe 4 times total. That’s in 2 years. So I don’t know what else went on.
She’d gotten up the nerve to leave him. Took her grand kids and got an apartment. Took essentials intending to go back for the rest later and had been gone about a week. He is found by his mother-in-law, alive but unconscious. He died in the hospital 36 hours later. I refuse to discuss how he did it here.
So now he’s gone. Turns out he has 3 different life insurance policies that he took out, on himself, by himself and in secret. He took them out 2 years prior to his suicide and one of the stipulations of the policy is that it only pays after the policy has been active for over 2 years if death is ruled suicide. So… he was planning it for 2 years. And he planned it so she’d be okay after he was gone because SHE’S the beneficiary on ALL of them.
Well… his family is PISSED! They’re fighting her for her house because it’s only in his name…. and it’s looking like they’ re gunna win. I don’t know details. I DO know, however, that we have an empty house for rent. Hubby is at her house right now talking numbers with her. We’re gunna cut the rent down to what she can afford right now. It’ll cover the monthly mortgage and the insurance so it’ll be fine.
Hubby is hoping that when everything is all settled in a few months, she won’t want to move herself and 2 kids again and will just buy the house. I think that’s a pretty likely outcome.
That’s what I’m up to through Monday night. I have Spring cleaning to do here and the painting and cleaning to finish up there for Monday.
That’s also my summation of my tarot cards. I was the passionate Knight of Staffs who jumped in and stood up for and was the catalyst for change. I think by my acting in the way in which I felt honor bound to act, by speaking out and not turning away as people often do in cases of abuse, I started a snowball effect that began change in their lives.
Justice is the balance. I’m reaping what was sown when I acted. I’m being rewarded for being true to myself and God and truth and all that I know to be good. At whatever risk to me. I surely hadn’t the briefest thought for my own well-being when I flipped. All I could see was RED over the injustice.
I felt like the Ten of Swords WAS her. She’s VERY much a martyr. Woe is me is her motto. I will concede that she has lead a very rough life and I am compassionate. Obviously I am compassionate. I also understand that she has chosen every path taken. I pray that she may see that the road only goes one way. We can’t live life looking back and regretting. I believe she will get there. She is obviously a very strong person, even if she doesn’t believe it.
I also felt that the Ten of Swords was representative of her situation. Being out of her home, and moving with 2 grand kids… The suicide. The car accident. The cancer. It’s so bad, you almost have to laugh. I mean, honest to GOD, I didn’t ever imagine these things happened like this outside of soap operas! So, it sure looks like the bottom to me. I think her moving to our house is not only a sign that my wise Hubby is right and she’ll buy it, but a sign that things are looking up for her. Her life is going to improve from here.
I feel deeply blessed to know that I acted in a way in which I was true to myself, and it’s turning out so well for everyone involved.
Even the abuser. I know that he can see it all from where he is and I know he was heart broken over what he’d done when he got there and saw it from his new perspective.
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