Rise and shine wild ones!
It's Bernadette King.
I am here with your pick a card daily tarot reading on this hump day, Wednesday, September
23rd.
It is hotter than muggier in Florida than blue blazes but I gotta tell ya, it's fall.
It's officially fall.
And so I had to go change the shirt, and change into the shirt, I was wearing something else
but had to go change especially when the quail showed up as the spirit, totem, and power
animal card for today.
So, this particular card before we get to the quail as a spirit, totem, and power animal,
this particular card is in the expansion packs for my award-winning Ark Animal Tarot and
Oracle Deck.
And that's the deck that I use to read for you guys.
It's based on Rider Waite tarot and then has all of the magical and mystical energies and
medicine of the animal allies mixed in with it.
It's super, super powerful.
Crazy stuff happens when people use this deck.
But what that means today is it's really going to be important to take, pay special attention
to your friends and family today.
And you might even have to play their protector a little bit today in some form or fashion.
And that family can extend to co-workers that you care about, that you like, and you know
just anybody you might consider family, right.
So when you take a look at quail, I love these little birds.
Look at the plumage on the top of their heads.
Don't they look like little roman soldiers, just marching around, protecting their area?
You know, this is Sparta!
And their Sparta only is about 40 acres.
Literally these, these little birds spend their entire life within 40 acres.
And trust me I grew up in the country, 40 acres ain't that much y'all.
It's like living in in a 1200 square foot house, you know, your whole life.
And never, ever getting to go outside of it.
Okay, so, but that's what they consider important and that's what they do.
And they spend a lot of their time marching around looking for danger, you know, coming
up from the grass looking around and you can always tell because their little plumes pop
up out of the grass you can see that before anything else, it's just the cutest thing
you ever saw.
But here's the thing.
You know, they're curious little birds.
They, they're, they're not necessarily so much like other birds in that they really
do like to see what's going on.
So when you're seeing quail today for yourself on this Wednesday, you know, Wednesday the
remember now the chakra for Wednesday is the solar plexus.
So that's about grounding and seeding and getting firm in, in you know, in, in the earth,
in, in whatever situation or whatever person that you want to get firm with.
And the ruling planet is Mercury, which is the messenger between the heaven and earth.
So when you take a look at Wednesday, it's the perfect day to think of it as a bridge.
Where you are bridging whatever happened at the first the week, Monday and Tuesday, and
then trying to tie it in with days you haven't even had yet, don't even really, maybe don't
exactly know what's going to happen yet.
And that takes a lot of courage.
Because it takes a lot of foresight.
And it takes a lot of investigating and curiosity.
So as you move through this Wednesday and you are trying to like make the connections,
you know make your synapses go [zapping noise] and make the connection between the first
of the week and the rest of the week that you don't even know yet, call on quail energy
and their curiosity and they're you know always roaming around.
Roman.
Ha!
Roman soldiers.
Oh my God, I crack me up.
Always roaming around to see what's going on out there in their little 40 acre world.
So, you know when we, when we also take a look at quail, you know listen they don't
play you guys.
If something, you know something wicked this way come,s they as a unit go [puff noise]
and they disperse.
I mean in a flurry of feathers and wind and whatever and this one goes this way and this,
it's a, it's a whole distraction thing to distract whatever might or might not be coming
for them.
And often, you know oftentimes it's a stick that falls in the wood.
You know they don't even really take care to see.
But, you know sometimes haste makes waste.
Sometimes you might be, you know, a little too quick to jump the gun and make a decision
to retreat.
Or to you know go nuts over something that never, ever really needed to have gone nuts
over to begin with.
But some, it it's not always a bad thing to stay in your awareness.
You know we have a thing called an amygdala which is on scan 24-7, 24-7 for danger, danger,
danger Will Robinson.
And so many people ignore that so much of the time.
It never ceases to amaze me, never, ever, ever.
But today is definitely a day you want to put on your soldier cap.
You want to think like a soldier.
You want to be hyper vigilant.
You want to be, you know, always looking around you.
Not, not just for danger but for opportunity as well.
See this goes both ways.
Everything has two sides to it, right.
Nothing is ever just one way.
So you might miss an opportunity today that you might not have otherwise seen because
maybe at first, it didn't look like an opportunity.
Maybe at first it looked a little bit like danger.
But the wise quail will sit and consider, okay maybe, maybe this ain't so great.
But how can I benefit from it?
How can I take this and what's going on and be a conduit for positive change?
Or how can I benefit from it because there's always something, there's always a nugget
of good in no matter what's going on.
Conversely there's always a nugget of not so great in great things that go on.
Things can change on a dime.
Quail teaches you to be sure that you can make that change as well.
That you can pivot just as quickly.
So, excuse me, also remember I just want to say it again, this is about friends and family
today.
So these pivots, these protections, these opportunities, these warnings ,whatever it
may end up to be, is probably going to be pretty specific in whatever circle, flock,
pod, pack whatever that you consider family.
Okay, so when we also think about quail, you know the Hopi see quail as a symbol of devotion
and life cycles.
The Cherokee have quail ritual dances.
Oh my God they're so beautiful you guys.
I had the opportunity to go out to Sedona, New Mexico and that whole area out there last
year.
And oh my gosh, the big oh gosh I'm sorry I'm forgetting the name of it but the big
dances on the pueblos happened to be that weekend that we were out there.
And, it just it, I was mesmerized I never wanted to leave.
I just all I could do was just sit and stare and feel those rhythms coming out of their
feet, coming out of their drums, coming through the earth, just coming up in me.
I've got goosebumps talking about it.
I may cry.
Can't wait to get back out there.
And you know really when you think about it that way quail are so tiny but when they're
stomping around on the ground with their little roman hat soldiers on, you know their little
roman soldier hats on.
And they're very serious.
It's very easy for somebody big like us comparatively to think oh that's so cute.
But to them it's very serious.
And and really should be honored.
Their their sense of personal power, their sense of personal pride, their willingness
to take care of their family and their friends, sometimes at all costs.
And so today is also another day to really just kind of consider that whatever foot beat
that you're making, that's going into mother earth.
Whatever drum beat your heart is beating, whatever, whatever beat is coming out of you,
it's much larger than you think.
You may not know it at the time, other people may even patronize you.
They may try to discourage you.
They may, you know, who knows but at the end of the day it's your beat.
And it's your beat alone.
And it's your drumbeat.
And it's, there's a call for you to march to the beat of your own drum today.
But the the real important part of that is to realize how big that can be.
I was in a a Jiffy Store, a 7-11 store because of my my enduring love of Coca-Cola icies.
It's so unhealthy but y'all I can't help it.
And if I, you know, if I ate meat like I did when I was a kid I would be buying Slim Jims
too.
Don't think this country girl would, this southern girl would not be busting up on the
Slim Jims.
But this gal turns around and says to me she said well hey.
And I you know I'm from the south, I said hey.
Like I knew her.
And I didn't.
And, so she said you know when you were in here a couple weeks ago, y'all I don't remember
being in the store a couple weeks ago, and she said I just wanted to thank you.
You just lit my day up.
And she told me some joke I had said or something.
And she went on to tell me this whole story about what was going on in her life and having
to drop out of school because she didn't have the money and she's a single mom and this
and that.
Y'all I don't even remember being in there.
I don't remember saying it.
It's not that she's not special, I don't remember her.
But I just don't remember.
I'm a busy person.
I go a lot of places, do a lot of things, I don't remember.
But you know I'm called to tell you that story because when you think of quail and you think
of how delicate your eensy, beansie, little feets are and you know you think that really
in the scheme of it all we're eensy, beansie, little things.
Again you think that the beat that you make is may not be powerful enough or loud enough
or whatever, you are so wrong.
So be very very diligent, very vigilant about what you say and do and even think.
Today especially.
Because again there's going to be something really important about that as you bridge
the gap between the first the week and the rest of the week.
And quail is just your next kind of sign, your your symbol, your omen, that's, that's,
that's pushing that forward that's telling you take a deep look at that.
Now, let's take a look at quail as a spirit, totem, and power animal because for today's
reading, you may need, you know quail may be showing up as your spirit animal, it may
be showing up as a reminder as your totem animal, it may be showing up to ask you to
invoke quail medicine and energy as your power animal.
And if you don't know the difference between a spirit, totem, and power animals, check
in the notes section below you'll see a link to my in-depth video about the difference.
But for now, if quail has shown up today and you feel like it is a, a spirit animal for
you, you very well may have had a lot on your part, a lot on your heart about okay well
what really is my spiritual path, how do I go about that?
It's really about devotion, right.
Devotion to a spiritual path.
A life path.
A partner.
A faith.
An action.
A business.
A something.
But quail will show up to tell you it's time to be brave.
It's time to put on that hat fluff that plumage and march out into the world and devote yourself
to whatever it is you want.
To devote yourself to even if that's just yourself.
If quail is your totem animal you are the can-do person.
I want to hire you.
I need a can-do person right now.
And so you're the person that, it's not that you don't have the big dreams, you do.
But whether you are achieving your dreams or you're helping someone else achieve their
dreams, their goal,s their whatever, you are like lists just happen in your head.
You just get everything done in an organized manner.
And my Lord can you find solutions.
Everybody else will be scratching their head for 10 days, you'll be walking in with a cup
of coffee and a doughnut hanging out of your mouth, look over the conference table and
go y'all it's right there.
Who didn't see that?
And they're turning around to you slobbing out of one side of their mouth and you're
just sitting there in the conference table drinking your coffee and eating the rest of
your donut looking at them like what?
I love you.
I want to hire you.
Okay, so if, if you really feel like you need to invoke quail as your power animal today,
lord quit hitting my neck y'all a mess today, it's it's hump day.
So if quail is your power animal, then you might need a little bit of a help getting
on a firm foothold because you, you just may not feel like you've got a plan in place.
You may not feel like you've got your battle plan ready for action.
And you, you there's something about quail you know, there's such self-contained units,
it's not like they turn around to cheetahs, well you know quail don't live your cheetahs,
but you know it's not like they turn around to other animals and say hey can I get a little
help a little help here?
They are very self-contained units.
And and they do move kind of within their, not kind of but with your own flock.
So birds of a feather flock together.
And that may be a real call for you, that for you to gain that firm foothold, it might
be time for you to stop being so independent and work more within the flock.
To ask your flock for help.
To even really just assume intuitively that it's gonna happen, that it will happen, that
they're there for you and you're there for them.
Remember this card is out of the friends and family expansion pack of the Ark Animal Tarot
and Oracle Deck, so it's all about those relationships and community.
I hope today quail is going to help you.
And I hope you found this very valuable.
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But really the most important thing of this day and every day is to what?
To stay wild!