rise and shine wild ones it's bernadette i'm here with your pick a card tarot reading for
monday the 1st of march 2021 and the hits from the animal spirit guides just keep rolling
in today you're listening to woodpecker eight of swords inverted and you you just cannot
make this so on uh if you saw saturday's reading then you'll know that uh galapagos turtle
tortoise took me on a grand adventure um to the stars to the two up in the universe and
if i didn't make it clear on saturday because i was still like in trance state um that i
i get asked a lot if i really truly have visions and i always get asked that by people who
either think i'm a whack job uh of which there are a lot including myself sometimes uh or
people who have them also and are just so terrified they think they're losing it or
they've gone crazy um you know and or they they need to know if they really need to believe
so for me the visions are very real as evidenced by the um uh the the when i'm doing a reading
and i get that information for somebody and then they affirm that the information that
i gave them is true uh true for them that that is an affirmation um of that vision so
for you you might want to start looking for that because you very well may be crazy but
it's probably not because you're having visions so anyway um i uh i bring all of that up because
with with the woodpecker and the eight of swords coming for you all inverted today i'm
it was told to me in that reading um that the whole point of it was so that you could
dream new dreams but from a really large perspective and you could let go of old outmoded things
that just were no longer serving you and reach for the stars and uh you know sounds great
and you you are called to do a ceremony a ritual a spell casting or you know affirmations
manifestations whatever this is that you do but that that that may very well and gosh
i hope it did work for everybody but if you knew what your blocks were if you knew what
your fears were um you i gotta believe you would have already worked to move past them
right or if you already know what they are but you're having a really a real challenge
getting past them uh you know me in my never-ending fight to just eschew myself you know not eschew
but just rid myself of my sugar cravings and believe me i've read it all i've tried it
all i just you know triple chocolate cake it's what can i say so this today is such
a dovetail into saturday
because when you take a look at the traditional tarot card meanings of the eight of swords
you know you see this poor old gal she's all you know she's got blindfolds on and she's
like ah she's all tied up and she's you know standing with all these swords around her
and it looks pretty pretty awful however she's in a self-imposed prison you know it's like
we say there's an old like an old parable kind of thing we say in the south about somebody
who's you know trapped in a jail cell and it's just and you know finally says something
i don't remember the whole thing says something to the jailer and the jailer goes look you
never even bothered to push the door open we hadn't had a lock for that thing in 25
years or we we haven't had a key to that lock in 25 years it's all it's always open and
you know this person has been in there for a year or two years and just you know cry
cry cry and never once tried to get out never just cried about it so i'm not saying you
just cry about it i'm not saying that and i'm not saying that your fears aren't real
and i'm not saying that your blocks aren't real again sugar addiction sugar addiction
sugar addiction so what i am saying though is when you start to add up the galapagos
turtle from saturday and now you take a look at this old gal who you know even if you look
at the eight of swords tarot card and its meanings when it's upright you'll notice she
those those blinders aren't on you know they're loose everything is loose she could just open
anything at any time and that's the whole point of the symbolism of that particular
card now you talk about turning that old gallop on side of her head upside down and what you've
got is literally the blinders coming off the the the shackles coming off that said um that's
because you you know you've been honest with yourself or you're about to you're about to
be so like for so long and you're going to be like i've had enough and you're just going
to be like a you know a comic book hero and everything comes off and all the music starts
and you know that's what you're fixing to be yes fixing to be it's a real thing so
when when you take a look at woodpecker okay and the reason woodpecker wanted to be the
eight of swords is it's because about repeating the same patterns and wonking your head upside
a brick wall
and a lot of times they get to where they want to be they want to you know make their
nests and they want to get food but i i got news i had a i had a office for a long time
here in gainesville in a red brick building on the second floor and for several weeks
this poor woodpecker i'm i've never observed an animal in the animal kingdom like this
because this old gal or boy or whatever came to came i don't even know how they put their
little claws on the side of the building but they just took to pecking the red brick you
know over and over and over and i used to sit there and think is there something you
know is there something wrong with him his poor little pee picking heart what can i do
because i'm like god you gotta be wearing down your beak at some point brother because
you know i mean this went on for a couple weeks and then i never saw him again or her
again right
but today is root chakra day i'm wearing the red today is monday it's the start of a new
month um the spring equinox is coming up that's all about new beginnings and beautiful new
energy to grow things and today is the moon right your ruling planet is the moon so you
start connecting the dots connecting the dots connecting the dots right and um which is
what ladybug taught us way early on in the year and i really again i'm going to say i
believe it's a theme that's going to go on our whole year we've got to connect the dots
and so when you take a look at all of that and you you take a look at woodpecker upside
down now some really amazing traits or symbolic meaning of a woodpecker as a spirit totem
or power animal is that they they can they can be relentless and that can serve you in
great stead and when they're relentless their um their beaks are uh specifically designed
so that the beaks don't wear down they can go they go with those trees or brick buildings
at 23 miles per hour and it's just repetitive repetitive repetitive repetitive but their
their physiology is such that they've got a tongue that actually wraps around their
brain and it's this crazy stuff look it up i you know me i'm such a geek i would sit
here and talk about that for 45 minutes because every every lick of that stuff correlates
to the symbolism of a woodpecker and definitely to the eight of swords so in one capacity
it's asking you if it was an upright position whatever this is that you want to do that
you're trying to figure out a love relationship career yourself finances pets you know whatever
you're trying to figure out if it was an upright it'd be telling you keep at it keep at it
keep at it you're going to be okay you're going to be okay and then it would also tell
you you know especially based on the red headed woodpecker that you know you want to feel
that way down in your root chakra to stay committed to something because it's going
to be okay when it's inverted now the the eight of swords you know her blinders fall
off you know that falls off but when when a woodpecker is is inverted it doesn't mean
don't it doesn't mean you're not protected you are always protected by your animal spirit
uh guides you are always supported by your animal spirit guides right um but it doesn't
mean don't be relentless what it means is that you don't have to work so hard you don't
have to you don't have to come at something like a jackhammer you don't have to do that
because once you see what's really going on once you see the truth of a thing of a person
of a whatever you're like oh okay well that's what i'm dealing with maybe this card today
it's really kind of kooky that it came out because just this past week i had a conversation
with someone and you know listen does anybody not have caller id on the earth does anybody
not have caller id at this point and this person called nine times in a row like successively
in a row called didn't get an answer called back call didn't get an answer called back
call didn't get an answer called back call and so by the tenth time i picked up the phone
and i said hello and they launched into something they were so unhappy about yeah and i went
listen stop stop stop stop and finally went stop and they stopped and i said look let
me let me explain something to you i'm in your corner i want to help you that's why
i do what i do i want to help people i want to help myself i want to help the world i
like to help i'm a helper what can i tell you i said but that's all i got out of my
mouth
that's what i was thinking there is this person is a gatling gun i don't a gatling gun i'm
not interested i'm southern we don't like gatling guns so i took it for about another
10 seconds and i said stop stop stop and i said i can see i can hear i can feel that
you are completely invested in being right i am not the psychic medium for you i am not
the shamanic practitioner for you i am not because you're mowing me over you're mowing
me over and i'm a hard person to mow over i said i would really suggest and i gave him
i i was like here let me let me try to give you a suggestion for this
so for the third and final time i said i'm done with this conversation i am finished
with this conversation i'm hanging up now and i did click click you know why i did click
because that person was the worst possible version of a woodpecker that there is maybe
not the worst but i wouldn't i wouldn't having it that day right i wouldn't have it and in
in all honesty it i don't believe it would have done that person any good had i sat and
listened to them because that doesn't help them they go out into the world and they mow
everybody in their path over with their story they suck the air right out of a room
just another ear listening to them being bullied by them being mowed over by them how how's
that going to help them out that wasn't the day and i wasn't the one now why i go into
that story is when you get an upside down woodpecker when you get the eight of swords
reversed okay that tarot card reversed bernadette thinks is one of the most powerfully healing
powerfully just fantastic cards there is because once the blindfolds are gone once the shackles
are gone the one especially the ones you put on yourself what what does it always say stay
wild how the heck can you stay wild if you don't have freedom and i say that even if
you're in a family that seemingly doesn't give you freedom you might be in prison you
might be in jail you you you you might be anywhere watching this video you are still
free you're still free no one can take what's inside of you unless you allow it and i know
you're not going to allow it so you don't have to keep beating your head up against
a brick wall or a tree for that matter you can tap tap tap once you know make yourself
your little cave get your little worms whatever those are and be on about your merry way right
you don't have to keep at it forever and the reason you don't is because once your blindfolds
are off once the eight of swords once you dump that old gal on her head and all that
stuff falls out and by the way an upright sword which these swords are upright when
you turn an eight of cards or eight of swords tarot card inverted they're pointing up they're
not down anymore and that's always a great omen right
first then you look at the number eight okay the eight that's the number of infinity so
you can either spend longer than you need because infinity's way longer than you need
to stay blinded and stay trapped and and bound or you can spend infinity you know seeing
the light like i have seen a lot that kind of thing and go on about your merry business
in a in a way that will make you you know listen and understand i'm not preaching at
you i'm not and i'm not admonishing you in any way i'm not scolding you what i'm telling
you is can you imagine how hard-headed a triple scorpio can be come on now i listen i've had
my fair share of bomp bomp bomp and i still have it today sugar the sugar inside you know
like people are calling covered the covid i'm calling it the sugar so um uh i i know
what you're going through i do and i and i feel for you i do but i can i can say having
read for what 65,000 people now haven't listened listen to their healing stories and and talk
to other healers and this and that i can tell you that when you get those blindfolds off
and you get those shackles off the only negative thing you're gonna think is what was i thinking
like you're gonna think what was i thinking because you're gonna wonder why it took you
so long that's what everybody says every single person i've ever talked to so get it gone
right that's what we say in the south get it gone get it gone and get those shackles
off and get those blindfolds off and move move to your new most fantastic life that
you're gonna journey with the galapagos turtle into the heavens into the universe and you're
gonna wish upon a star and that's it everything's gonna be you're just gonna be enjoyed that's
it every single solitary minute of every single solitary day is gonna be joyous so there you
go get with program all right i love you guys um happy monday happy root chakra day happy
moon day it's all about the feelings and uh man i sure hope this was helpful as always
do good for animals and stay wild