Archive for August, 2008
DOGS – Fauna – Green Wisdom Cards
“The tail reveals”
Wag your tail and show your love. Reveal your true feelings for your beloved. You are a sincere enjoyer of others. With great happiness, you bring smiles and laughter all around.
You are noted for your loyalty. Be the ultimate friend and companion. Unconditional in your respect, appreciation and love, you can be counted upon for your heartfelt emotions. In this way, you heal the troubled soul of others.
And don’t get kicked around. Stay true and obedient to your provider but show your dismay when you are treated badly. Bark, whimper, snarl and run when you are leashed and cannot be who you are.
Know that you have the dog in you and that sometimes you can be rude, rowdy and raucous. Be respectful and please don’t defecate on others and piss on their pride.
What’s your breeding? Know yourself. Maybe you are a mutt from the streets, full of practical smarts. Or perhaps well-healed and well-taught, and expect to be pampered and groomed. Are you a hunter, a fetcher, a sleeper, a beauty, or a nervous kind of dog?
Take care of your social skills. You like to be with others. A one- person type or one who runs with the pack, just know that you are a people person who loves action, noise, life.
Express your feelings. Move and sound out what’s going on inside of you. Don’t hold back your emotions. Let them out with no deception and no withholding. Then you can be trusted.
You are a natural empath
a mirror of others
and know how they feel.
You are there to sympathize
to contain the feelings of others
without judgment.
And uplift their spirits when
you can.
You can be counted upon
Reliable you are
Always with joy!
Watch dog that you are
Guard and protect you
and yours.
Maintain your territory
and keep the boundary.
Curb your aggressiveness
but defend.
Fighting is not the way.
With your words
be friendly
but firm.
Count on your nose
to sniff out the truth.
Look in the eyes, hear the tone,
feel the emotion
and know the situation
for how to be healer, ally, friend
player, child, pet.
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Are you loyal?
What rules do you follow?
Who is your master?
How do you befriend and play?
Do you express your feelings?
Do you pay attention to how you mirror others?
Are you your social conditioning and breeding?
ENERGY – Elements – Green Wisdom Cards
“Everything in nature is fuel for life”
You are fueled with physical energy and inner chi, and you need more, again and again to move and sustain. From food to coal to oil to solar, you must consume to resume. With the life force of chi – angel of energy – you possess the infinitely renewable source. Driven by your heart’s desire and spirited inspiration, you are put into motion and kept in motion by emotion.
Recharge and renewal is your challenge and opportunity in today’s demanding world to go and keep going. To return and repeat without breakdown and burnout requires that you become an energizer – an energy specialist. Don’t deplete and pollute. Eat less and better. Drink clean and natural. Breathe strong and long. Go outside into the light. Become light. Keep your mind positive. Act on your intuition. Move your body. Follow passion. Have a spiritual practice. Release toxic relationships. Do work that is play. Know how to rest. Maintain balance. Stay open and diversified. Keep changing. Find your place on the planet.
What gives you energy?
What depletes you?
What fuels your body?
What turns on your heart, mind and spirit?
How do you expend energy?
How do you conserve energy?
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Black gold -
your inner guts
of heart and soul -
gives you the gas
to go the distance
for the long run.
Turned on
by the rising heat
of your inner fire,
expend, expand, express.
In the exiting,
you create a new opening.
Fire up!
Ignite the charge.
It only takes a spark.
GREEN TRAIL – Elements – Green Wisdom Cards
“Green will keep you renewed”
Green is the color of life on this planet. Sprouts are green. New leaves are green. Spring is green. To be fully alive, not half alive, follow the green trail. When you have a decision to make about which way to go in life, do what makes you feel green – fresh, motivated, creative, energized, excited, alive!
Follow the green way. Ask yourself, does this choice give me energy? Is it something that is renewing for me and will keep me renewed again and again?
When you live green, you are renewable. You don’t deplete and you don’t pollute yourself and your environment. You will live healthy and whole, and then be happy, wealthy and holy – sustainable.
On the green path, you have the life force on your side. You have the primal and primordial energy to succeed at anything. Don’t think and analyze so much. Simply, follow the green feeling in you. Feel it, and with that impulse, do it!
The originating, prime mover of life that may be called spirit or god or mystery, which is embodied in every detail of earth, has all the answers you need to know and follow. Mother nature and her green ways is the living proof of living in this wisdom. Look to earth for guidance. What to know how to be healthy, succeed in business, in relationships and live a long life of love, peace and prosperity? Look to nature and be natural. Get into nature.
Are you fully alive?
Do you do what gives you energy and zest for life?
Are you able to renew yourself?
How do you deplete and pollute yourself?
Are you green with your environment?
Are you spontaneous?
Can you feel the green way?
Do you look to nature for guidance?
Do you go into nature?
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Who are you?
the sign of green
is everywhere around you.
Look outside and see what you are
Look outside and see why you are
Look outside and see how to be.
You are the tree, branch out
You are the mountain, stand up
You are the lake, go deep
You are the rainbow, make magic!
Created of this earth
it’s nature is yours
to be
to steward.
Live green
Sustain yourself.
Green yourself
Repeat without deplete.
Green it
Not Grey it.
Get into nature
Green light
Go forth.
HEART – Human – Green Wisdom Cards
“We move to the beat”
The motor that keeps you going is the beat of your heart. Take care of it, or die. Feed it healthy food and liquids. Stop stressing and fretting. Work it out with exercise.
Did you know that the earth has a beat that pulses approximately every two and a half seconds? The implication is to take care of this planet, or we die.
As Saint Exupery, author of The Little Prince, wrote, “It is with the heart that one sees rightly.” Listen, literally, to your heart and it will tell you the right course. If you cannot feel it, you are not in touch with yourself, life, and with others empathically.
An emotionally broken heart will literally kill your heart. But our heart is resilient. Though we’ve all been wounded, the heart wants to recover. Your heart wants to live, wants to pound, wants to work. Encouragement kick-starts the physical and metaphorical “heart of the lion” within. The heart responds and rejuvenates new life.
How do you take care of your heart?
Do you live with heart?
Are you a heartfelt person?
Can you feel your heart and do you listen to it?
How do your heal emotional wounds?
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Move to the beat.
Dance to the pulse
Quicken the heart
and you’ll Live Long.
Let your heart do the thinking
And let your mind do the working.
Follow the feeling
don’t be slave to an idea
and servant to thinking.
Champion life
have a heart
Compassion, Love, Gratitude.
Trust the impulse
let the life force move you forth.
Medicine for the heart -
Passion
Desire
Excitement
Enthusiasm
Inspiration.
TUNDRA – Elements – Green Wisdom Cards
“There are places and times that strengthen survival skills”
There are places that we don’t want to be – too cold, too hot -uncomfortable, immoderate, extreme. Learn to survive those occasions of fire and ice. No pain, no gain. Survivor skills give you sustain abilities.
Other times, stoke the fires, heat up life, or chill out and freeze out. Know how to manage your on and off buttons without destruction and devastation. Doses of the extreme catalyze, change and create.
There are moments when we feel alone, perhaps even deserted. It’s a test of your resilience – time to go within yourself to tap the wealth of inner resources, just as tundras and deserts hold within minerals like oil and uranium. You have to be optimistic for you are energy rich. Be resourceful. Go deep, it’s there.
We all go through periods of feeling barren and dry. It’s ok, just don’t make it a habit. In this void of inspiration, joy and creation, do nothing. In this empty quarter, let the old patterns in your own sand of time die. Know that because of this death valley there are fertile gardens which exist dependant upon this natural dearth. New and abundant life awaits, so don’t lose hope. And walk to life.
“Inhospitable” regions are there for a reason. Take care of these. Without them, you don’t have what you have, you cannot be who you are, and you won’t grow into your destiny.
How do you handle the extremes of life?
Can you turn on your hot passion for life and your chilly isolation?
What are your inner resources to sustain and survive difficulties?
How resilient are you?
How do you die to your old identities and patterns?
Do you value these inconvenient and challenging spaces?
What are you doing to prevent global warming?
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In this time of testing
Persevere.
This is only a phase
Only a period
Only a place.
Get stronger inside
Bringing out determination
Visions that are not mirages and hallucinations.
Relish
this hermit’s refuge
to rest and restore.
But there is urgency
in these short growing seasons
of killing extremity.
Accept but don’t linger
Receive but don’t regress.
In this cauldron
of hot and cold
your destiny is forged.
a rite of passage is presented
such a gift.
Honor these inner and outer ecologies
Respect their value
because polluting life
with only things and artifice
so that it’s always just right
and shiny and comfortable
will destroy this earth soil
and your life soul.
Poisonous warming brings
Carbon dioxide
Death.
YELLOW – Elements – Green Wisdom Cards
“Brightness attracts and achieves”
You are yellow bright, so don’t be afraid to get attention. You have the power of attraction. Be seen, be noticed and receive what you desire. Show who you are and what you want. Go for it!
Be sunny – positive and proactive. Use your bright mind, radiate a happy heart and be of an optimistic spirit. You cannot be denied.
Rule your life as if you are king, a sun, dynamic and magnetic. Tap your resources, for they are golden. Take the lead. Don’t hold back.
You can light up the room with your energetic, effervescent, bubbly, friendly personality. You make things happen, and like a social butterfly bring a group together. You have the charisma to sell and to influence. Do it.
Reward yourself, for you have shown up. Like the summer season, play, have fun. Let the child come out with uncontained enthusiasm and joy.
You are the flower
and flowering.
Time to bloom,
Self-confident
Conspicuous.
Nothing cowardly
Courage.
Blossom now
Optimum
stage of development
to have it all.
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What do you want to attract to you?
What do you want to lead and influence?
How do you want to be noticed?
How do you express your personality?
What are you making happen?
Are you social?
Are you having fun?
BABIES – Human – Green Wisdom Cards
“Neoteny brings adaptability and sustainability”
You’ve been a baby and now this may sound strange, but your never lose your babyness,. You still have a baby within you, your inner baby to access for living a miraculous life, a life of growth and development of your consciousness. Why is it that most small children have genius creativity, but by the time they are teen-agers, they have that magic adulterated by assuming the ways of adulthood.
There is a way to reclaim the wisdom of the baby and child. Do what they do. Live in complete trust and follow nature’s plan without judgmental interference. Know that everything in you and in the world is perfectly there for you.
Cultivate an open, un-preconceived, non-judging state of mind. See everything as new and fresh, as something wonderful and miraculous. Laugh 500 times a day. Wiggle about. Express feelings. Get down on the floor.
Your path is the “way of neoteny” – growing young by doing young things with a young attitude and heart allows you to change with wisdom, adapt with swiftness, survive and sustain.
Nature has thrived for billions of years.
You are born from this earth of success.
Success is your inheritance.
Success is your birthright.
You embody success
in your nature
In every moment, mood, action,
when you believe.
As a child of the universe
Your are born to be like it,
To create and re-create
To grow and grow young again
when you allow it.
As babes held in the heart and hearth
of mother earth,
Trust in her ways.
Offer the crown of your head to her inspiration
Act on the curiosity of her mysteries.
In trust,
Invest in the eons of Gaia’s goodness and greatness.
Entrusted with all the powers of creation,
Release your fears of inadequacy
Relinquish the insecurity of ego
Relax your tight hold of control
Smile.
With a beginner’s mind
Be an apprentice forever
Learning.
Everyday is a birthday
a day older and wiser
for a day younger and unknowing
Oh, wild child
Opened seed of original creation
You are wondrous
Beyond words.
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Do you trust your natural instincts and intuitions?
How have you lost the magical child within?
Do you look at the wow! of life?
Do you laugh and cry?
Do you move your body like a child?
How are you growing and creating and evolving?
Are you growing younger or getting older?