Suburban Psychic

The Chinese associated the power of “decrease” with late summer and the element Earth. Decrease, in a good way! In the sense that you aren’t actively working at something, but instead reaping the fruits of your previous labors. So it’s a time of abundance. Of nourishment and being mothered. As a child you may not have had the kind of nourishment, and the kind of mothering, that would have made you thrive, and the child in you still seeks it today. As an adult, you can have more control - over your actions, over your re-actions. You can direct and choose what You sow in all areas of life:  career, study, friendships, your health, your physical flexibility and vitality, your close and important relationships - and you can reap the benefits. You can be a good mother to yourself. You can nourish yourself. Pay particular attention to emotions around the stomach and spleen, which are governed by Earth. Where in your life do you feel “I can’t stomach this” ? Where do you want to ‘vent your spleen’? This oracle is encouraging you to appropriately and effectively ‘mother’ and ‘nourish’ yourself by saying what needs to be said and not stuffing it down. And this oracle reminds you to look around and be grateful for what you have sown, what you have achieved, and to treasure the abundance in your life, whatever it may be. Make a list before bed tonight for 5 simple things that were in your life today that you can say you were truly grateful for. Drift off to sleep in the warm buzz of that recognition and gratitude. 

That’s where this oracle is going... Do you have the opportunity to develop an ‘unlikely friendship’? Do it!

Jade is a soothing and protective stone. Jade attracts Love. And Money. You gotta love Jade! Who doesn’t want Love and Money? You don’t want the Love OF Money - that leads to a lonely lonely life. But Love AND Money - oh, the places you could go! The things you could create! The help you could provide! How exciting would that be? And I’m not just talking Romantic Love here, to another, or towards you from another. Although it could be. But it could be Love of Yourself. Love of an Idea. Love of A Cause. Don’t limit your thinking around the Love you could attract “into“ your life. Giving and Receiving it. Jade also encourages you to become who you really are and awakens hidden knowledge (still on that theme!). Combining Jade with the full moon just past, this oracle, here and now, has energies that are ideal for pouring your love into projects near and dear to your heart, ones you’ve begun, or have been holding and turning over and over and are ready to begin. Ones that are not ‘new’ to you at all - they’ve been done to death in your head. Now get them out into the world! Act on your ideas, now that Jade’s assistance has helped remove the complexity and given you something that can be acted upon immediately. Jade is reassuring you that if you trust your instincts about who you are and what you need to do, then love and money will follow. You’ve had the Fool’s encouragement to step out, and Jade’s offer of protection to soothe your niggling doubts - so go on, what’s stopping you?

Well, we are on a roll! Today’s oracle is the Fool, a Tarot character. The Fool’s strength lies in his (or her!) ability to make a leap of Faith and create a fresh start in something. Faith that comes not from knowing the Outcome is assured, or knowing How it will be achieved. Not overburdening himself with Too Much ‘Knowledge’. No. Faith in himself and his ability to survive, respond, renew, rebuild, in spite of whatever happens. The ability to laugh at life and himself, the twists and turns. Faith in his own resilience and brilliance! There’s a great Mantra: I Am Resilient and Brilliant! And the magic happens when, in this innocent ‘stepping out’, we discover talents and abilities that we didn’t know we had - that can only be discovered in this manner. The Action itself calls on the hidden talents - by having to draw them to the surface in a time of actual need for them. Think about it. When you don’t need Courage, Courage doesn’t come forth. You might like to Think you have it, but you never really KNOW... until the Action is needed, and it’s there. Or Not.  Same with Creativity. Compassion. A whole bunch of other qualities. Don’t get the wrong message here, though. It doesn’t endorse blindly rushing in. Not at all. We can still be sensible and take appropriate preparation and precautions, even as we step out into the unknown. But this oracle is certainly encouraging you to take a leap of faith and do the Something that you don’t quite believe you can do... Leave Something. Finish Something. Start Something. Create Something.  Love yourself, and Do It :)

Wow! After yesterday’s oracle being focused on the amazing beauty in people, many of whom didn’t even know and still can’t believe they possess it (in spite of 4 judges and a room of thousands of people standing and applauding!!! C‘mon!) this is a real message to me (and You!): we are not recognising a Beautiful Truth that we possess. We are so bewitched by our shortcomings, that we can’t be enchanted by our gifts! Hmmm. I’m sitting here so worried about my fat backside, and stewing over my singledom, and preoccupied with dreams I haven’t achieved, that I barely give a passing thought to even one tiny thing that I find awesome about myself! Are you doing this too? Stop it! I think we both need a good hug. Hey! That’s an awesome tiny thing about me - I give terrific hugs! :) ...I make people feel comfortable and accepted... I’m smart and creative and funny and adventurous... I’m great at my ‘day job’... I’m a good cook! This is a good start. But we need to think bigger than this: What’s our Terrifying Beauty? The thing we hardly dare believe is True about ourselves? I’ll be honest here and say, for me, it’s This Oracle: whether it’s worthwhile, and useful enough to share with others. Well? ‘Fess up to yourself: What’s YOURS? Repeat after me: O God, help me to believe...

I have created this oracle on Pinterest too, for those who respond to visual cues:

If you’re new to This Is Indexed (thisisindexed.com) then you’re in for a treat! Go and take a look. On this particular card, the area where ‘Staring Out The Window’ overlaps with ‘Free Time’ is called ‘Inviting Inspiration To Strike’. I love it! I wouldn’t just say that it’s a place that is inviting it to strike, hoping it does. I’d say it is a place that is EXACTLY where inspiration strikes! Every Time! well, it’s certainly the case for Me! I have a huge tree outside my window and I stare at it every moment I can :) Today I’m going to ask you: what is Your formula?  Which things, when they overlap in your life, invite, nay, ENSURE that Inspiration will strike for you? Coffee and a View of the Water? Comfy Shoes and a Long Walk? Friends and Laughter? Sunshine and a Journal? A Long and Hot shower? When’s the last time you allowed yourself to bring together the conditions that work for you? Get to it! You have no idea which Inspiration is fidgeting at the sidelines, ready to rush in, if you’d Just. Allow. It. To.

The funniest thing caught my eye yesterday: in the stationery cupboard was a rubber (as we say here in OZ, or an ‘eraser’ as they’d say in the northern hemisphere!) clearly packaged and labelled “Staples”. With the ‘real’ Staples sitting right beside it! So ok, it was the company Brand name, but fancy putting the name of one stationery item on another! Pencils labelled “Ruler”, Postits labelled “Pens”. Downright misleading. False, even! Anarchy! It started me thinking about the labels we wear, that are at total odds with what’s inside. The Eraser is soft and flexible, easy to take a chunk out of; but as “Staples” it proclaims itself to be hard, pointy, unyielding: “Don’t f*ck with me!” Try getting a staple in your thumb sometime! Ow!! Do you proclaim yourself to be tougher than you are, to protect your soft underbelly, your sensitive heart? We’ve all known someone who was gruff on the outside and then with the right words or gesture turned out to be a pussycat! We say “don’t judge a book by it’s cover” and yet We All DO! It’s why you take so much time with ‘the cover’ - hair, makeup, clothing - it’s who you want people to think you are. And sometimes it’s not even the forgivable sin of being afraid to show your true self: sometimes it’s deliberate False Advertising! What are you up to today? Are you projecting who you’d like to be, hoping that you’ll catch up one day?! That can work! :) Are you being False about who you are? To be fair, sometimes we Need to put on a different Package to get the job done, like at a job interview, and the packaging only represents one aspect of ourselves not the whole interior.  In some cases your packaging has to reflect the environment, such as in a corporate office, rather than you the individual and your unique self-expression and style. But we all get weekends to be ourselves! How Authentic is Your Packaging?

The Walled Garden represents “Nature, Innocence, Order” according to the good Mr Pullman. What does it represent to you? On the alethiometer it is a potted plant. When I read “walled garden” i think of English manor houses and Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Secret Garden, a fantastic place for magical thinking and bringing things back to life. This is definitely where innocence comes in - believing that everything Can be brought back to life. And what about imposing order and constraint on nature - birds in cages, plants in pots, all for our amusement and enjoyment. Do you approve? Do you think it protects nature or imprisons it? Are there degrees? I have a plant in a pot but wouldn’t put a bird in a cage. Your visceral reaction to this question speaks volumes about how you see Life: whether it is an essentially friendly, or essentially unfriendly, place. Protecting you or imprisoning you. The answer is definitely not either/or, black or white. The situation you have in mind, the one that you wanted the oracle to provide some perspective on, does it feel like it encircles and protects you, allowing you to thrive and grow as the most fabulous expression of your unique self that could possibly exist? Yay! Or does it feel like it imprisons you? Imposes someone else’s sense of ‘order’ on you?

There is a bird I hear every day at dusk, an unusual call, and I find it so comforting. It reminds me, every time, of being called in to dinner. Of being out playing, and hearing my mother or father call my name and sing out “Dinner’s ready! Come inside!”. Something so nice about being called in to Home. What rituals do you need to create in your now adult life that call You home every day? That say “say goodbye to your friends (Work), put down your toys (iPhone), wash your hands (Be Present) and sit down for dinner.” I think there’s a lot to be said for that old ritual of putting the world to rest for the day and bringing your attention to this moment, this table, this plate of food - whether you eat alone or with others. For all that’s happened today, it is a day that will not come again. That can not come again. This can be a good thing! :) We’ve all had THOSE kind of days! And this ritual acknowledges that the day is Done. Finito. So come inside and wash your hands, and sit down with me and eat...tell me what you’ve been up to today. xx 

Today you are being nudged to embrace the inner world and outer material world, masculine and feminine, body and mind. Not to sit in one extreme or the other. Not to balance yourself out and become neutral. But to embrace it All and become Whole.

Howlite is all about calming an overactive mind. It helps to release the connection between old (this life or past life) emotions and present-life triggers. When kept in the pocket it can absorb negativity, including that against yourself such as being self-critical . Blue Howlite is a dyed stone that is a lovely turquoise type of blue. The colour blue is all about communication., and turquoise blue is about communicating feeling from the heart. I believe the fact that the addition of colour to Howlite enhances the stone and it’s meaning as an oracle. Bringing this together, I sense a message of “calm, positive and heartfelt communication”, of communication unburdened by “old stuff”, baggage. It is about bringing awareness to what needs to be said, and saying it in a loving and caring way. This can seem vulnerable, but don’t ever underestimate your own strength. This kind of communication is the very best kind! I also sense communication From You To You, in the form of insights and messages from dreams that allow you to receive the Wisdom from your experiences - you lovingly and caringly communicating to You! 

Ok, now we’re getting somewhere! Today I was drawn to Aura Soma, and Bottle 40 presented itself to me. It represents “expansive activity” and “the energy to find self-knowledge”. Alright! Clearly yesterday’s oracle made it’s impact :) That’s the point of recognising and accepting the signs that life gives you: you can’t unknow what you know, and it changes you. The change is a given, and how you direct it is a choice. So in having it suggested to you that a see-sawing may have been happening, and you looked that right in the face, then something shifted in you and now expansion can occur. This bottle resonates Positive Energy and is called, each has a Number and a Name in the Aura Soma world, “I Am”. Careful how you finish that sentence, because your words create your feelings, which create your experience of life. “I Am...” I am moving forward. I am resolving this. I am creating a positive outcome by (doing what?). I am going to do something different today! I am going to get what I want by...(speaking up? doing the thing that needs to be done? Exercising? {God, no, not that one! ;) } .” 

Can you relate to this?

Traditionally, this oracle depicted as a journey across water. In all tarot illustration, the six swords in the boat act as protection and balance. Sixes represent successful completion, which is terrific! Wherever the boat lands, it will be a positive journey :) So it could be physical, journeying to another place. But you know a Suburban Psychic looks within themselves: so look and ask and see where a journey needs to take place within. The most encouraging aspect of this sign is that it represents “potential for and progress towards growth” (The Heart of Tarot, Thomson/Mueller/Echols). Whatever situation you had in mind when you consulted this oracle today, be assured that there is a strong possibility of resolution - take that thought to heart and Act towards the resolution you Want. On a pragmatic level, maybe you simply need some distance from something, before you can move forward? Do you need to step away from something briefly? Take a holiday? Where can the situation you had in mind benefit from either a journey towards an outcome (destination) or just some distance? You are being encouraged to give this some thought.

Do you need to be needed? Is your sense of purpose all wrapped up in how you take care of others? If this Chakra has come up for you in an oracle, or in health issues (blood pressure, heart problems, asthma, lots of colds/flu’s, sore shoulders) you are lovingly being encouraged to bring some attention back to You. Love yourself. Allow yourself to truly Be yourself. Identify and Express your inner passion that needs to be released. Know where you end, and those you love begin - let “their stuff” be Theirs. And stop playing small to avoid Heartache - in love, or in expressing your passion/hobby/creativity. We can’t avoid heartache, disappointment or loss; but we all have a heart big enough to take risks and love again :)

First and foremost – a symbol’s strength is in what it means To You. The symbol is trying to catch Your eye, not anyone else’s. So for me, when I saw a blue dog suddenly flash into my mind’s eye today I felt happy. I love dogs! Dogs represent unconditional love to me. A cat can take you or leave you, but a dog always comes rushing up to love you.  I had a friend once who was afraid of all dogs, they spelled “danger” to her. I also had a girl live with me for a few months, visiting from an Arab state, and in her home town they spelled “unclean” to her. But this was My symbol, and to me dogs mean love and affection and unconditional companionship. Now, the fact that the dog was blue added an interesting twist to the oracle. Blue is about communication. Communication inward with ourselves, outward with others, and ‘upward’ with our spiritual source. As a combined symbol, I could see how this intuitive hit was about my ability to have open, approachable, unconditional love in my communications. And to receive it too. Throughout the day, after seeing this symbol, my mantra was “open friendly communication”…