Tarot readings here.....

[rhythm]

Originally Posted by gita

Hi rhythm and lightbeing. If either of you get a moment, may I also have a card drawn as could do with some guidance about the here and now. Much thanks. x

a card will be pulled for you asap
we will let you know when its ready
namaste rhythmmm ...

NO MORE READINGS TODAY FOLKS
TRY AGAIN TOMMOROW OK THANKS .....

[lightbeing]

REPOSTING

Hello dear Avalonians,

Just a reminder for those who are considering to request
a reading, the Osho Zen Tarot is NOT fortunetelling !

BUT,

QUOTE

"The traditional tarot is often used to satisfy
our longing to understand the past,
or to predict the future.
This Osho Zen Tarot focuses on gaining an understanding
of the here and now. It is a system based on the wisdom of Zen--
a wisdom that says events in the outer world
simply reflect our own thoughts and feelings,
even though we ourselves might be unclear about
what those thoughts and feelings are.
This tarot helps us to turn our attention away
from outside events so we find a new clarity
of understanding about what is happening in our innermost hearts. "

Please keep in mind that we (rhythm and I) are offering
A ONE CARD GENERAL READING only.

Blessings and Love
lightbeing

[Bunny]

.Could you please give me a one card tarot reading.

Thanks
Bunny

[axman]

Originally Posted by rhythm

a card will be pulled for you asap
we will let you know when its ready
namaste rhythmmm ...

NO MORE READINGS TODAY FOLKS
TRY AGAIN TOMMOROW OK THANKS .....

Just Stopped in to say thank you Rhythm and Lightbeing for such a blessing
that each of you are.

[rhythm]

Originally Posted by Bunny

.Could you please give me a one card tarot reading.

Thanks
Bunny

hi there is a backlog

so it wont be today ...

will let you now when ite done
namaste rhythmmm ...

[Traveler]

Hello every-One. This looks interesting. Traveler would like one card please. Thank you!

[lightbeing]

Hi Swanny,

rhythm pulled this card for you:




COMPARISON


COMPARISON BRINGS inferiority, superiority. When you don't compare, all inferiority, all superiority, disappear. Then you are, you are simply there. A small bush or a big high tree - it doesn't matter; you are yourself. You are needed. A grass leaf is needed as much as the biggest star. Without the grass leaf God will be less than he is. This sound of the cuckoo is needed as much as any Buddha; the world will be less, will be less rich if this cuckoo disappears.
Just look around. All is needed, and everything fits together. It is an organic unity: nobody is higher and nobody is lower, nobody superior, nobody inferior.
Everybody is incomparably unique.



COMMENTARY

Who ever told you that the bamboo is more beautiful than the oak, or the oak more valuable than the bamboo? Do you think the oak wishes it had a hollow trunk like this bamboo? Does the bamboo feel jealous of the oak because it is bigger and its leaves change color in the fall? The very idea of the two trees comparing themselves to each other seems ridiculous, but we humans seem to find this habit very hard to break.
* Let's face it, there is always going to be somebody who is more beautiful, more talented, stronger, more intelligent, or apparently happier than you are. And conversely, there will always be those who are less than you in all these ways. The way to find out who you are is not by comparing yourself with others, but by looking to see whether you are fulfilling your own potential in the best way you know how.



Swanny, Please keep in mind that
the Osho Zen Tarot is Not fortunetelling.
It is about understanding the here and now.


Blessings
lightbeing

Originally Posted by Swanny

Can you draw another card for me please?
My question is what does 2010 have in store for me??

[Phr0z3n]

Let's see what the fates have in store... Phr0z3n humbly requests a 1 card reading please. Take your time, no need to answer today.

[lightbeing]

Hi sunny D,

rhythm pulled this card for you:



AWARENESS

MIND CAN NEVER BE INTELLIGENT - only no-mind is intelligent. Only no-mind is original and radical. Only no-mind is revolutionary - revolution is action.
This mind gives you a sort of stupor. Burdened by the memories of the past, burdened by the projections of the future, you go on living - at the minimum. You don't live at the maximum. Your flame remains very dim. Once you start dropping thoughts, the dust that you have collected in the past, the flame arises - clean, clear, alive, young. Your whole life becomes a flame, and a flame without any smoke. That is what awareness is.


COMMENTARY

The veil of illusion, or maya, that has been keeping you from perceiving reality as it is, is starting to burn away. The fire is not the heated fire of passion, but the cool flames of awareness. As it burns the veil, the face of a very delicate and childlike buddha becomes visible.
* The awareness that is growing in you now is not the result of any conscious 'doing', nor do you need to struggle to make something happen. Any sense you might have had that you've been groping in the dark is dissolving now, or will be dissolving soon. Let yourself settle, and remember that deep inside you are just a witness, eternally silent, aware and unchanged. A channel is now opening from the circumference of activity to that center of witnessing. It will help you to become detached, and a new awareness will lift the veil from your eyes.



Hope this helps to answer your question.

Blessings
lightbeing

Originally Posted by sunny D

Can you draw a card for me please.....? I have a question in mind. Thanx

Sunny <3

[lightbeing]

Hi gita,

rhythm pulled this card for you:



PLAYFULNESS

THE MOMENT YOU START seeing life as non-serious, a playfulness, all the burden on your heart disappears. All the fear of death, of life, of love - everything disappears. One starts living with a very light weight or almost no weight. So weightless one becomes, one can fly in the open sky.
Zen's greatest contribution is to give you an alternative to the serious man. The serious man has made the world, the serious man has made all the religions. He has created all the philosophies, all the cultures, all the moralities; everything that exists around you is a creation of the serious man.
Zen has dropped out of the serious world. It has created a world of its own which is very playful, full of laughter, where even great masters behave like children.

COMMENTARY

Life is rarely as serious as we believe it to be, and when we recognize this fact, it responds by giving us more and more opportunities to play. The woman in this card is celebrating the joy of being alive, like a butterfly that has emerged from its chrysalis into the promise of the light. She reminds us of the time when we were children, discovering seashells on the beach or building castles in the sand without any concern that the waves might come and wash them away in the next moment. She knows that life is a game, and she's playing the part of a clown right now with no sense of embarrassment or pretense.
* When the Page of Fire enters your life, it is a sign that you are ready for the fresh and the new. Something wonderful is just on the horizon, and you have just the right quality of playful innocence and clarity to welcome it with open arms.



Hope this helps to get a better understanding
of the here and now for you.


Blessings
lightbeing

Originally Posted by gita

Hi rhythm and lightbeing. If either of you get a moment, may I also have a card drawn as could do with some guidance about the here and now. Much thanks. x

[lightbeing]

hi tpmputterman,

rhythm pulled this card for you:



BEYOND ILLUSION

THIS IS THE ONLY DISTINCTION between the dream and the real: reality allows you to doubt, and the dream does not allow you to doubt ...
To me, the capacity to doubt is one of the greatest blessings to humanity. The religions have been enemies because they have been cutting the very roots of doubt, and there is a reason why they have been doing that: because they want people to believe in certain illusions that they have been preaching ... Why have the people like Gautam Buddha been so insistent that the whole existence - except your witnessing self, except you awareness - is just ephemeral, made of the same stuff as dreams are made of? They are not saying that these trees are not there. They are not saying that these pillars are not there. Don't misunderstand because of the word 'illusion' ... It has been translated as illusion, but illusion is not the right word. Illusion does not exist. Reality exists. Maya is just in between - it almost exists. As far as day-to-day activities are concerned, it can be taken as reality. Only in the ultimate sense, from the peak of you illumination, it becomes unreal, illusory.


COMMENTARY

The butterfly in this card represents the outer, that which is constantly moving and that which is not real but an illusion. Behind the butterfly is the face of consciousness, looking inward to that which is eternal.The space between the two eyes has opened, revealing the lotus of spiritual unfoldment and the rising sun of awareness. Through the rising of the inner sun, meditation is born.
* The card reminds us not to look outside for what is real, but to look within. When we focus on externals, we too often get caught up in judgments - this is good, this is bad, I want this, I don't want that. These judgements keep us trapped in our illusions, our sleepiness, our old habits and patterns. Drop your opinionated mind, and move inside. There, you can relax into your own deepest truth, where the difference between dreams and reality is already known.



Blessings
lightbeing

Originally Posted by tpmputterman

Would like to have a card drawn.

Thanks

TPM3

[sunny D]

Originally Posted by lightbeing

Hi sunny D,

rhythm pulled this card for you:



[B][SIZE="4"]Hope this helps to answer your question.

Blessings
lightbeing

It does....Thank you so much...!

[lightbeing]

Hi Céline,

This is your card:



SLOWING DOWN


MEDITATION IS A KIND OF MEDICINE - its use is only for the time being. Once you have learned the quality, then you need not do any particular meditation, then the meditation has to spread all over your life.
Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen.
Then what will be the quality? Watchfully, alert, joyously, unmotivated, centered, loving, flowing, one walks. And the walking is sauntering. Loving, alert, watchful, one sits, unmotivated - not sitting for any thing in particular, just enjoying how beautiful just sitting doing nothing is, how relaxing, how restful ... After a long walk, you sit under a tree and the breeze comes and cools you. Each moment one has to be at ease with oneself - not trying to improve, not cultivating anything, not practicing anything.
Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen,
Talking or silent, moving, unmoving,
The essence is at ease.
The essence is at ease: That is the keyword. The essence is at ease: that is the key statement. Do whatsoever you are doing, but at the deepest core remain at ease, cool, calm, centered.


COMMENTARY

The Knight of Rainbows is a reminder that, just like this tortoise, we carry our home with us wherever we go. There is no need to hurry, no need to seek shelter elsewhere. Even as we move into the depths of the emotional waters, we can remain self-contained and free from attachments.
* It is a time when you are ready to let go of any expectations you have had about yourself or other people, and to take responsibility for any illusions you might have been carrying. There is no need to do anything but rest in the fullness of who you are right now. If desires and hopes and dreams are fading away, so much the better. Their disappearance is making space for a new quality of stillness and acceptance of what is, and you are able to welcome this development in a way you have never been able to before. Savor this quality of slowing down, of coming to rest and recognizing that you are already at home.


Hope this helps for a better understanding
of the here and now for you.


Blessings
lightbeing

Originally Posted by Céline

We all need a good compass in life..

Some days more then others..

*celine wonders what direction the cards will point her*

[Céline]

Thank you ...

Originally Posted by lightbeing

Hi Céline,

This is your card:



SLOWING DOWN


MEDITATION IS A KIND OF MEDICINE - its use is only for the time being. Once you have learned the quality, then you need not do any particular meditation, then the meditation has to spread all over your life.
Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen.
Then what will be the quality? Watchfully, alert, joyously, unmotivated, centered, loving, flowing, one walks. And the walking is sauntering. Loving, alert, watchful, one sits, unmotivated - not sitting for any thing in particular, just enjoying how beautiful just sitting doing nothing is, how relaxing, how restful ... After a long walk, you sit under a tree and the breeze comes and cools you. Each moment one has to be at ease with oneself - not trying to improve, not cultivating anything, not practicing anything.
Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen,
Talking or silent, moving, unmoving,
The essence is at ease.
The essence is at ease: That is the keyword. The essence is at ease: that is the key statement. Do whatsoever you are doing, but at the deepest core remain at ease, cool, calm, centered.


COMMENTARY

The Knight of Rainbows is a reminder that, just like this tortoise, we carry our home with us wherever we go. There is no need to hurry, no need to seek shelter elsewhere. Even as we move into the depths of the emotional waters, we can remain self-contained and free from attachments.
* It is a time when you are ready to let go of any expectations you have had about yourself or other people, and to take responsibility for any illusions you might have been carrying. There is no need to do anything but rest in the fullness of who you are right now. If desires and hopes and dreams are fading away, so much the better. Their disappearance is making space for a new quality of stillness and acceptance of what is, and you are able to welcome this development in a way you have never been able to before. Savor this quality of slowing down, of coming to rest and recognizing that you are already at home.


Hope this helps for a better understanding
of the here and now for you.


Blessings
lightbeing

[gita]

Thank you so much rhythm and lightbeing. I shall contemplate on it and look forward to the new wonderful beginning. x

[lightbeing]

You're most welcome gita.

Blessings
lightbeing

Originally Posted by gita

Thank you so much rhythm and lightbeing. I shall contemplate on it and look forward to the new wonderful beginning. x

[lightbeing]

You're most welcome! Céline

Blessings
lightbeing

Originally Posted by Céline

Thank you ...

[THE eXchanger]

HAPPY NEW YEAR,
DEAR LADY RHYTHM,
this is a brilliant, and, lovely thread
full of much to learn, and, an amasing amount of sharing

HOW ABOUT PULLING a card

one for project avalon
and,
one for project camelot
and,
one for the collective consciousness of the world

for 2010

that might be fun !!!

[rhythm]

Originally Posted by THE eXchanger

HAPPY NEW YEAR,
DEAR LADY RHYTHM,
this is a brilliant, and, lovely thread
full of much to learn, and, an amasing amount of sharing

HOW ABOUT PULLING a card

one for project avalon
and,
one for project camelot
and,
one for the collective consciousness of the world

for 2010

that might be fun !!!

Well SUSAN I WILL HAVE TO HAVE A WORD WITH
MY PARNER IN CRIME LIGHTBEING IM SURE SHE BE UP TO POSTING IF I DO THE PULLING ... why does that sound rude
not today tho we been in big demand and a girl got to have the evening off to have some fun eh!!!!!!!!!!!

[lightbeing]

Hi Bunny,

rhythm pulled this card for you:



POSTPONEMENT


POSTPONEMENT IS SIMPLY STUPID. Tomorrow you will also have to decide, so why not today? And do you think that tomorrow you will be wiser than today? Do you think that tomorrow you will be livelier than today? Do you think that tomorrow you will be younger than today, fresher than today?
Tomorrow you will be older, you courage will be less; tomorrow you will be more experienced, your cunningness will be more; tomorrow death will come closer - you will start wavering and being more afraid. Never postpone for the tomorrow. And who knows? Tomorrow may come or may not come. If you have to decide you have to decide right now.
Dr. Vogel, the dentist, finished his examination on a pretty young patient. "Miss Baseman," he said, "I'm afraid I'm going to have to pull out your wisdom teeth!"
"Oh, my!" exclaimed the girl. "I'd rather have a baby!"
"Well," said Dr. Vogel, "could you make up your mind so that I can adjust the chair?"
Make up your mind. Don't go on postponing infinitely.



COMMENTARY

The woman in this picture is living in a gray landscape, full of unreal, cut out clouds. Through the window frame she can see colors and light and aliveness, and although she would like to move through the frame - as we can see by the rainbow colors appearing in her garment - she can't quite manage to do it. There is still too much 'what-if?' activity in her mind.
* Tomorrow never comes, they say, but no matter how often it is said, it seems that most of us tend to forget the truth of it. In fact, the one and only result of postpoining things is a dull and depressing feeling of incompletion and 'stuck-ness' today. The relief and expansiveness you will feel once you put aside all the dithering thoughts that are preventing you from acting now will make you wonder why you ever waited so long.


Blessings
lightbeing

Originally Posted by Bunny

.Could you please give me a one card tarot reading.

Thanks
Bunny

[lightbeing]

Hi Traveler,

rhythm pulled this card for you:



THE CREATOR

THERE ARE TWO TYPES of creators in the world: one type of creator works with objects - a poet, a painter, they work with objects, they create things; the other type of creator, the mystic, creates himself. He doesn't work with objects, he works with the subject; he works on himself, his own being. And he is the real creator, the real poet because he makes himself into a masterpiece.
You are carrying a masterpiece hidden within you, but you are standing in the way. Just move aside, then the masterpiece will be revealed. Everyone is a masterpiece, because God never gives birth to anything less that that. Everyone carries that masterpiece hidden for many lives, not knowing who they are, and just trying on the surface to become someone.
Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you already are a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it. God has himself created you, you cannot be improved.


COMMENTARY

The Zen mater in this card has harnessed the energy of fire and is able to use it for creation rather then destruction. He invites us to recognize and participate with him in the understanding that belongs to those who have mastered the fires of passion, without repressing them or allowing them to get destructive and out of balance. He is so integrated that there is no longer any difference between who he is inside and who he is in the world outside. He offers this gift of understanding and integration to all those who come to him, the gift of creative light that comes from the center of his being.
* The King of Fire tells us that anything that we undertake now, with the understanding that comes from maturity, will bring enrichment to our own lives and to the lives of others. Using whatever skills you have, whatever you have learned from your own life experience, it is time to express yourself.



Blessings
lightbeing

Originally Posted by Traveler

Hello every-One. This looks interesting. Traveler would like one card please. Thank you!

[rhythm]

Originally Posted by rhythm

Well SUSAN I WILL HAVE TO HAVE A WORD WITH
MY PARNER IN CRIME LIGHTBEING IM SURE SHE BE UP TO POSTING IF I DO THE PULLING ... why does that sound rude
not today tho we been in big demand and a girl got to have the evening off to have some fun eh!!!!!!!!!!!

Looks like we will just pull one for
the collective , well why not eh!
check it out tommorow tho ....

[lightbeing]

Hi Phr0z3n,

rhythm has pulled this card for you:



PATIENCE

WE HAVE FORGOTTEN how to wait; it is almost an abandoned space. And it is our greatest treasure to be able to wait for the right moment. The whole existence waits for the right moment. Even trees know it - when it is time to bring the flowers and when it is time to let go of all the leaves and stand naked against the sky. They are still beautiful in that nakeness, waiting for the new foliage with a great trust that the old has gone, and the new will soon be coming, and the new leaves will start growing. We have forgotten to wait, we want everything in a hurry. It is a great loss to humanity ...
In silence and waiting something inside you goes on growing - your authentic being. And one day it jumps and becaomes a flame, and your whole personality is shattered; you are a new man. And this new man knows what ceremony is, this new man knows life's eternal juices.


COMMENTARY

There are times when the only thing to do is wait. The seed has been planted, the child is growing in the womb, the oyster is coating the grain of sand and making it into a pearl.
* This card reminds us that now is a time when all that is required is to be simply alert, patient, waiting. The woman pictured here is in just such an attitude. Contented, with no trace of anxiety, she is simply waiting. Through all the phases of the moon passing over head she remains patient, so in tune with the rhythms of the moon that she has almost become one with it. She knows it is a time to be passive, letting nature take its course. But she is neither sleepy nor indiffernt; she know it is time to be ready for something momentous. It is a time full of mystery, like the hours just before the dawn. It is a time when the only thing to do is wait.


Please keep in mind this is Not fortunetelling,
but the cards help to get a better understanding
about the here and now!


Blessings
lightbeing

Originally Posted by Phr0z3n

Let's see what the fates have in store... Phr0z3n humbly requests a 1 card reading please. Take your time, no need to answer today.

[G9211]

OH! pick me, pick me!

or, I'll check back tomorrow....

[Swanny]

Thx for my card
I already think that we are all equal, even those that think they are better than us.
(Indigos )