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Becoming a Warrior – the Warrior Oracle by Alysse Aallyn
Read more: Becoming a Warrior – the Warrior Oracle by Alysse AallynBirdsong – Art: If This Card Chooses You – Your Soul Cries Out for Definition –Birds gotta sing. It’s who they are. Do you dream of artistic products – paintings, sculpture, film – or artistic endeavors such as performance and construction? Do you get ideas for fresh pieces and experience exciting nonconformist thinking that seem…
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Becoming a Warrior – the Warrior Oracle by Alysse Aallyn
Read more: Becoming a Warrior – the Warrior Oracle by Alysse AallynThe Field – Fate: If This Card Chooses You – You are about to go through some things. Do you dream of costume drama? Historical characters? Ancient books? Do you consult tea leaves? Are you superstitious? We are all caught in the mesh of history. The field is too large for us to see it…
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Becoming a Warrior – the Warrior Oracle
Read more: Becoming a Warrior – the Warrior OraclePassion – Courage: If This Card Chooses You – It’s Time to Release Your Power. Do you dream of fantastic feats? Sports? Circuses? Meritocratic competitions? Do you fear standing up in front of the class? Your psyche yearns to muster passion, the fuel for courage. Passion propels us forward when it would be safer to…
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Becoming a Warrior – the Warrior Oracle by Alysse Aallyn
Read more: Becoming a Warrior – the Warrior Oracle by Alysse AallynRecovery – Rebirth – If This Card Chooses You – Re-Imagine Yourself. Have you been dreaming of rebirth? Second chances? Starting over? Do you wake up in the middle of the night screaming, “Mulligan!” “The bad news is time flies – the good news is, you’re the pilot.“ Recovery is what happens we repel a…
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Becoming a Warrior – the Warrior Oracle by Alysse Aallyn
Read more: Becoming a Warrior – the Warrior Oracle by Alysse AallynAutumn – Regret IF THIS CARD CHOOSES YOU – Something’s bothering you. Do you lie awake at night recalling bad moments from the past? The Regret Warrior Oracle card says you need tackle the problem of “change” NOW. What moods flood in when you close your eyes? What would you change NOW? How do you…
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Becoming a Warrior – The Warrior Oracle by Alysse Aallyn
Read more: Becoming a Warrior – The Warrior Oracle by Alysse AallynEGO – YOU What It Means If You Choose This Card – Your ego has work to do. Jung tells us that in your dream, you are everyone. You chose the Ego card to start your day. Or did it choose you? YOU ARE A SEEKER – You are self-defining. You are on a quest.…
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Secrets of the Self – how I became a warrior by Alysse Aallyn
Read more: Secrets of the Self – how I became a warrior by Alysse AallynPassion – Courage – When I gave my stepmother a short story to read, she recommended I join a writer’s group. I laughed and said I’d belonged to COUNTLESS writer’s groups! Literally, God knows how many. She was surprised, I guess that my bumps hadn’t been smoothed out. It takes courage to share your passions.…
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Secrets of the Self – how I became a warrior by Alysse Aallyn
Read more: Secrets of the Self – how I became a warrior by Alysse AallynYouth – Resilience – Right before my husband and I moved East, I applied to the MFA program at Brooklyn College and to my surprise, was accepted and offered a “fellowship”. I was given a stipend and a class to teach. When they asked where I’d graduated college, I left the form blank. In my…
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Secrets of the Self – how I became a warrior by Alysse Aallyn
Read more: Secrets of the Self – how I became a warrior by Alysse AallynIngenuity – I loved writing, I wanted to be a writer, so it certainly seemed that I should come up with a writing solution for my financial problems. “Gothic” novels were popular when I was in my 20’s; historical romances featuring aspirational heroines from the wrong side of the tracks who catch the eye of…
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Secrets of the Self – how I became a warrior by Alysse Aallyn
Read more: Secrets of the Self – how I became a warrior by Alysse AallynMemory – After the bank took our house, we moved into one of the vacant condos in their project. My mother-in-law sued us with a federal injunction that accused us of damaging her tax credits. Throughout this horrible state of affairs my husband kept hoping his mother would come to her senses. I consulted a…