rise and shine wild ones it's bernadette and i'm here with your pick a card tower reading for
thursday april 15 2020. first of all thank you a bajilliondee thank yous um man i'm so excited for
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make your own sigils and your own talisman and uh it's gonna be cray-cray but in the meantime
just the the depth of the messages that are coming through this week for you all is like
i know there's something big on the horizon for y'all i know there's something big bigger than i
think you even get because i you know i don't have any control over which cards come out and today
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a sweet deal so okay crazy with this message right because today is heart chakra day thursdays are
heart chakra days and um when you take a look at this card the nautilus the ace of cups inverted
i just had to sit for a minute and i had to put on a deep like a purpley i couldn't find a deep blue
shirt that i wanted to wear i don't know where it's at um probably my dog's wearing it somewhere
in the house uh as a night shirt and so i i just man i had to sit with that for a minute because
when let me just say this you're gonna have to hang with me a bit on this message
because it is it's detailed and it's really deep so let's just take a look at the traditional
tarot card meanings of the rider waite version which is what my deck is based
on which is what i read off of the um ark animal spirit ark animal tarot and oracle deck
and it follows the tradition of the rider waite deck and then of course you know
it adds and marries and integrates all the crazy energy and medicine of the animal allies and so
when when you take a look at a nautilus shell inverted that is going to mean like
what are the challenging aspects of that what are maybe some of the tougher things to know about a
nautilus and its behavior and its habits and its symbolism if it's turned upside down and then
you talk about you know a cups anything in cups being turned upside down things pour out of them
but when we when we take a look at the ace of cups just its overall meaning
it's like this is god it's just such a beautiful card it's all about true joy and real fulfillment
like fulfillment that you didn't even know that you were missing until you're fulfilled with
it how can you how could you know right until you get there and you're like i never knew i
could feel this way or i never knew something like this could feel this way right and so
when we that's divine inspiration you know you look at the hand of god coming out of the sky
handing the cup it's got the clock it's got the white dove it's got the 26 drops of water
coming out of it and it just you you've got that goofy feeling you're just like
this is so cool and you can't stop talking about it that's awesome then then we get into
okay now you're talking about a golden chalice and maybe that represents a divine communion
and then um the arms that are crossed to point to the four cardinal directions now you're bringing
in the power the of the four directions and that's a you know that can go to shamanicy kind of things
um definitely the native american medicine wheel that can be to a degree right basically symbols
are symbols and and they're going to mean many of the same things across all cultures
and then of course you dive into the water right the cups is all about water it's about
travel to the astral world and the meeting of of the spiritual and experience and there are five
streams pouring from the cup earth air fire water spirit that means that the divine inspiration that
we're going to get is going to manifest itself physically through our five senses the 26 drops
of water that's the numerical value of the hebrew word um i i don't do very well saying this word uh
which is weird because it comes from a jewish family but yud yudh god and it's a formula
that also symbolizes the process of creation and then there are of course 26 letters in the
english language and that is where you bring all the abstracts together to form words that then you
say your intentions and what's on your heart and all that kind of thing now having said that let
me just say this about the mathematical process so um before i get to the reversed card meanings
when you take a look at a nautilus shell there are a lot of people that will say that the nautilus
shell is a natural embodiment of or nature's way of um a golden spiral the fibonacci sequence if
you look into that and it's all this like highbrow mathematical stuff that just makes my head hurt
but i get i get it like i get the symbolism of it you know can i sit there and do the
pi this and this that and the this over this no i'd rather just watch it i'd rather watch
big bang theory right and pretend that i'm smart because i get all the jokes on a sitcom
that's how that's how smart i am when it comes to math y'all i gotta watch big bang
theory to feel like i even get math at all and really i'm just laughing at the jokes that the
sitcom writers wrote so all that being said um there there there is a definite mathematical
thing going on today and what that really is going to mean is that you are being called on
to dive deep into that water of the cups and start to unders why do i keep saying that word
we're not saying the we're not saying the us word anymore understand we're not saying that remember
because that subconsciously understand it means you're standing under somebody somebody has more
than you more knowledge than you as superior to you that ain't true nobody's superior to you
that ain't true oh i'm going to make that into a song yes i am i'm going to wrap it
that's what i'm going to do so it's uh it really you're being called to take a look at
patterns let me take away the word math i was just told take away the word math because
most of you just went wham and your head hit the computer at the computer what i said now patterns
in math there are patterns but in all kinds of other things there are patterns as well human
behavior um colors there's patterns okay and so when you take a look at the perfect spiral
or the near perfect spiral of a nautilus you're very much reminded of the perfect spiral of life
the the wheel of fortune the native american medicine wheel and the never ending cycle of
things is perfect because the chambers inside a nautilus shell are measured where they're almost
in perfect um mathematical like if this one's this big and then that one's that big then they go in
mathematical sequence to each other and get bigger and bigger and bigger and all in perfect uh near
perfect anyway for most of them the equations of the math so when it comes to looking for
patterns you know here in the south we're pretty simple i mean we always say if it looks like a
duck and it quacks like a duck it's probably a duck now sometimes that's not true and we've got
to be really careful not to prejudge things but you know when people show you a pattern
they're good to you all the time they're not so good to you all the time they tell the truth they
don't tell the truth they do this they do that they don't do this they don't do that that's not
saying that a leopard can't change its spots it can but there's something that you start to notice
when you see patterns now that's in people let's say that all of a sudden there was i i i am not
a fan of patterns that have jagged edges i've never cared now unless it's a star right i've
never cared for that like the chevron symbol or other oh i don't know they great me i'm you know
i'm a round person so i like round soft things i am a mandala freak of nature and always have been
you'll see the mandalas behind me um there are mandalas all over my house in various places i am
mandala crazy so that mathematical pattern suits me but it's really more the pattern that suits me
and so when there was a time in my life well there's been a number of times in my
life when i would see repeating numbers we always talk about those being angel numbers
um but i was seeing repeated jagged edge jagged edges thing and in particular the chevron symbol
was irking me because i couldn't figure out what it was well don't you know that it it's this whole
long story but it was a warning to me that i just didn't get until it happened and i was like oh
that's what the universe is trying to tell me with the chevron symbol but i was so busy being
worried preoccupied about how much that symbol i didn't like it what i didn't notice was my oh i
don't really like that symbol i can't stand that symbol and that was a precognitive psychic thing
reaction emotional reaction to what i was the the chevron symbol as a pattern was trying to tell me
but i wasn't recognizing it as that but i was reacting psychically to what was coming
because i couldn't get my head out of my you know what long enough to see what was what
and that was it it really was that it was what was up we're done here that was that and and i
don't even know that there was really anything i could do to prevent the the speeding freight
train that was coming for me um but it laid me flat it surely did and uh it hurt worse because
i i just don't like jagged edge things but and it hurt worse because i didn't get it who knows
if i could have done anything about it but the point would have been to notice the pattern and
it's even about noticing patterns in yourself um i'm going through this myself i keep talking
about my sugar thing because y'all the struggle is real i mean i've even told myself if you want
to save your life carter because that's my maiden name then you better get with the program and eat
three o'clock this morning i woke up i started thinking about something and i just reach for that
little reese's egg and without even thinking about it now i came up with a brilliant idea because
sugar really does help me think but uh man i mean the minute i was like da what a good
what a good good which of course begs the question what was that reese's egg doing in my house
um it knocked on the door it needed a home and i just can't turn away any kind of stray i
heard meep meep meep on the door my dog hops went crazy i opened the door i'm looking for somebody
and i hear this little voice excuse me ma'am and i'm like who was talking to me man down
here and i looked down there was a whole big box of reese's eggs there was a colony of them
and they had been turned out of their their home at walgreens and they need i i couldn't tell them
no anyway okay listen i got reese's eggs in my house they were half price at walgreens what
can i tell you so um and i get them there every year half price oh it's a glorious day for me
here's how i'm going with that it is um i have recognized the pattern in myself finally i'm
sure somebody else could have told me this that when i'm emotional or i don't feel this or i feel
this away or that away i reach for the sugar come on now that's like elementary nutrition 101 but
seeing a pattern doesn't necessarily mean you want to admit a pattern which is really where all of
this is going to so let me just cut to the rest of the chase um instead of making up some crazy story
about about how how poor it turned out homeless reese's eggs reese's easter eggs came to my house
but they did they needed a home and and they are getting in my tummy because of that okay listen
so here's the thing when you take a look at um the ace of cups reversed it really is asking
you to draw attention or to focus your attention or or to try to put your attention on things you
wouldn't otherwise have noticed like if you flip that cup upside down now you've got um you know
you've got the letter uh m instead of the letter w now helena blavatsky says
that that she loves this card because when you flip it upside down now you've got the balance
of m for male and w for woman and you've got the feminine divine and the masculine divine
and now you can start doing that um to look a uh kind of you can even use the energy of this card
to look in the patterns of your male female relationships then if you take an even deeper
look the w on the chalice when it's upright and the five streams that of water that come out of
the ace of cups are very a very clear reference to the 23rd psalm in particular um to the verse
of thou uh thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies thou anointest my
head with oil my cup runs over and w is the 23rd letter of the alphabet hello so it's not it's not
it uh i i i just i think it's trying to protect you i don't know what from
i don't know what you need protecting from at this moment in your life hopefully nothing
um but y'all even getting out and opening the door these days i mean
i spilled some water on the floor the other day i forgot i came whizzing into my kitchen on that
tile and i said ski whammo whammo right on the ground and thought that's what you get for not
taking two seconds and bending down and getting that water i said whammo like i was on a slip
and slide it wasn't that fun though so i really at the end of the day this card in this nautilus
oh let me just say one more thing about nautilus oh this is so important this is why it's about
this is definitely why it's about recognizing the patterns no i should have said this at very
beginning because it's the most important thing and i hope you all have hung with me through this
when you when i mean nautilus can dive deep like super deep and when we're talking about going deep
in water we're talking about the emotions but there comes a point they go too deep and they
self-implode it's horrible but they do and they're poor little nautilus so i don't know
that they recognize what's going on but they just implode which is says it's really time to protect
yourself by recognizing the patterns before you go too deep and you implode because that's what
this is really all about is that so i hope that was helpful i told you it was a deep dive into the
craziness today it's just like i don't know what this is that spirit is trying to tell you guys
ultimately but spirit is like doing the thing to get down really deep with you all this week
and me too i mean i don't do these readings in a vacuum i always come away with something for
myself obviously so uh i hope that was helpful for the third time uh pick up your copy of the
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