New! Card of the Week!

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OK , Gang!

So Sister Candelaria and I have been wracking our brains really hard on how to help clients have a bit more of a positive outlook on things. I know being positive can be difficult at times , but more and more I feel like some folks take the path of least resistance right into negativity. Its so hard to watch, because we care so much about each ane every one of you! Soooooo, this is what I came up with. Every Sunday I will get out one of my decks and ask for a card that will offer guidance to clients for the upcoming week. I will post that card here, and my interpretation. As you go thru your week, think about the card and the advice or lesson or awareness that has been presented and how you might apply it to your life. Any situation or aspect of your life is fair game…. it does not have to just relate to your case. Remember, you are *not* your case! You are soooo much more!

As your week goes by, as you see how the advice in the card has helped you or has applied to your life, and how the knowledge from the card may have helped you, please post a comment here on the blog. (see the small link at the bottom of this post that says "comment’) The client who posts the most insightful comment by the following Sunday will get a free 5 card tarot reading! The winner of the free reading will be posted when I post the next Card of the Week.

So, lets get started!

Card of the Week for March 8th:

The deck I chose was the Wisdom for Healing Cards by Carolyn Myss. You can see these cards listed in my amazon.com store if you havent seen them before. They are quite beautiful and have many wonderful insights!

Well, um, for the first card its clearly not an easy one. But remember, your conscious effort could pay off in a free reading!

The card’s name is Relinquish Control.

The back of the card says: Todays Lesson: Identify one person you feel the need to control, and think about why that power is so essential to you. What do you fear if your hold is released? Your goal: to recognise how much stress is generated in your body through the need to control someone else.

Wow. I trust there is a reason that this card has come up first for us, and I look forward to your commencts about how this card and its goal effects you in the coming week.

Light and love,

Sister Bridget

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14 responses to “New! Card of the Week!”

March 9, 2008

Alba

Sister Bridget: This is great! Thank you so much for doing this… I will pay attention to my actions and the “need” to control those around me! I’ll post my experience at the end of the week!
AB

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March 10, 2008

Brujita30

I think the person i need to have the most control over is ME. It is important for me to gain control over myself because if i cannot control myself or my emotions then others will always think that they have control over me and my actions.
Last week i had a situation at work where a few co-workers that do not like me were ganging up on me and stirring up trouble at my office. They are trying to do everything they can to get my boss to fire me and at first i was constantly reacting to everything they said or did. I allowed myself to get really upset and almost walked off the job. Once i realized that they wanted me to react in a way that would cause me to look bad in front of my boss i got ahold of myself and stopped. I realized that the more i reacted poorly and let them see me cry then they knew that they had control over me.

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March 10, 2008

Rattle Shaker

Hey there Sister Bridget,
I have been thinking about this card, and I think it has a lot of relevance to our cases and our spellwork. I think, for most of us, the person we want to control the most is our HDs. We are striving for them to do what we want, like for them to come back and be with us, and we are using as many tools as we can in order to affect that outcome to our desires.
And, in the meantime, we do a lot of stressing over what HD is doing, thinking, etc. We are afraid to relinquish the desire to control HD for fear that we will lose them to someone else.
I think this has a lot to do with what you have been trying to get across to people about spellwork for a long time. The “Set it and forget it” idea is what comes to my mind.

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March 10, 2008

Paperflwers

I also feel that the person who I need to control is me, but for a very different reason. I try very have a good outlook, be positive. To think and believe like I have already achieved my wishes. However, when I hit a road block and things seem to no longer be moving forward, or worse bump into a wall temporarily; I become my own worst enemy. I am easily frazzled, I begin to fret, and feed into any negative energy that has snuck through. I believe it is my need to have complete control over my spell work that causes me to go into a complete tailspin. I need to let go, let the LWA take their time and bring my HD to me when the time is right, not “RIGHT NOW” because that is what I want. The LWA know when the time is best for HD to return to me for keeps. I need to let go of my control over that issue in my life, and concentrate on the wonderful gifts I have been given from the LWA since meeting up with the Spellmaker family.

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March 10, 2008

happyjoi3654

Unfortunately this answer is easy for me, HD. He’s the one person I’d like to control although I also know he’s the one I can’t control, he very much does what he wants no matter how much I try to get him to do something else. The control is more about fear for me, the fear that if I let go I’ll lose him. Although when I am able to let go he has more of a tendency to act the way I want him to. And I do realize I need to let that go because I know how negatively it effects me, it physically hurts and does absolutely no good. Sometimes the best thing you can do for yourself is just relax and let whatever is supposed to happen happen, and trust that in the long run it will all work out no matter how hard it is to deal with in the short run. Plus you can never control what other people do, only your reaction to it.

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March 11, 2008

yogaangel

Interesting that this card came up.
Relinquish Control, hmmmm…. of course my thoughts immediately went to my HD, then I stopped and took a minute to see if I could expand my horizons a little bit and focus on something besides him. But I realized that I don’t really want or try to have control over any situations with other people, just institutions, like school 🙂 Why do I need to control my HD when I don;t have that need with anyone else? My instict tells me it is because I feel like he is controlling me. And that is totally backwards, isn’t it? I mean no matter what he does, it is still my choice to love him and to wait for him. If anything I am giving the control to him. There is a part of me that feels like I don’t have the choice on how I feel and that his stuff (personal growth, demons, indecivness etc…) is keeping me from total happiness. The power is essential to me because I am trying to take control of my destiny and seek out part of what fulfills me and makes me happy and at peace. My HD opened up many new worlds to me and I feel like my heart has expanded in so many ways. I was very cynical about relationships until I met him. He infused me with a sense of hope, optimism and overwhelming love. My biggest fear is loosing the dream of the possibility and that cynicism will return firmly rooted as it was validated by things not working out. Does this cause me stress? Yes, absolutely! I am not sleeping well, have been sick 4 times this winter, and eating rather unhealthy food and still loosing weight. The only way I can combat it is to delve into my yoga and meditation practice, but lately I am so wound up I can’t BE STILL 🙂 My affirmation for this week, “I am releasing the all stress and tension from my body, it is of no use to me. I am now allowing positive energy to flow and give me focus, patience compassion and unconditional love for myslef”

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March 11, 2008

Falcon

The person I need to relinquish control over is my little sister. She’s in college, 13 years younger than me, and I’ve always had this protective nature towards her. Like she was my own child. Since she began college, I stepped in and took over to help her out. I am scared to let go of that because I don’t want her to fail in anything. But I realize that I need to let go because how else will she learn? Failure is a learning process. Already this week I’ve had to step back and let her work through a difficult situation on her own, so she knows what to do should something come up in the future. It’s been very difficult to not go down and take control like I have done so often before. I do realize it does create a lot of stress for me to try to find ways to help her out, to always make sure she’s taken care of, to worry that she’s ok in these situations. I don’t want to feel that I’m letting her down. I don’t think I truly realized until reading your blog and the card how much I was doing that in regards to my little sister. I do need to let her grow up and be a grownup, to make decisions on her own, and to learn from her mistakes.

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March 12, 2008

Samantha Corfield

This is a great idea, Sister Bridget! 🙂
Thank you for doing this.
I also wanted to comment a little bit on “relinquishing control.” While this is an extremely hard thing to do for most of us, especially when it comes to spell work it is often the absolute best thing we can do. It is hard for us to admit to ourselves that sometime, somewhere, there just might be someone/something out there that knows a little bit more about what is good for us than we do! 😉
Love you! Mambo

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March 12, 2008

Sister Bridget

Wow! What great comments so far! And the week is only half over! Awesome! Keep up the great work, and thank you, MaMere, for stoppin’ by. I wish I could have you all over for coffee and cake! Light and Love, Sister Bridget

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March 14, 2008

Alba Bonato

Hi Sister Bridget! Here I am for my coffee and cake 😉
Well I have two things to say…
First, the thing that stresses me the most is controlling my two little boys in my search for being the perfect mother. I know they are little and need control, but not total control. I have to let them be…and the perfect mother just doesn’t exist! I need to understand that and relax a little.
Second, even though I control most of the things and people around me, having lack of control over some things can be very frustrating and stressing too. Right now I lack control over money and a few aspects of my store, and all that keep me awake at night some times… There are things I can do about it, and working towards gaining control over those things will help me keep positive and less depressed!
Having control over my HD is something I had clear from the start and I knew I would never have it… or want it!!!
Thank you for this Sister Bridget!
AB-

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March 14, 2008

JC

Well this one was hard for me. Mostly I seem to be bent on controlling my self but that isn’t what this card asked about. Though believe me I have been on a roller coaster for a very long time now of making sure I hid from everyone around me what I wanted most. So I suppose the person I wanted to control most was my last HD. I realized recently that he was not the one for me (though you already knew that). My fear was if I let go of trying to control him that I would lose him. The thing is when I stopped trying to control him I realized he wasn’t the one for me. In fact when I stopped he showed me who he really was and it was someone I didn’t like at all. Keeping up the trying to control was even making me someone I didn’t like. Now that I let go I have found a peace within my self I didn’t even know was there. Not that I don’t still have stress in my life just no stress from that HD now. This was a great project. I am looking forward to the next one.
Love & Light,
JC

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March 15, 2008

AB

Hi…it’s me again!
I was thinking now about this week and how hard it was but how much fun I had with my kids. Thanks to you and the card I changed a bit our routines and the things I “let” them do or not and my life has been much better and a little less stressing.
I HAVE to stop controling every step they take and stop thinking about my mistakes as a mother. I want to be perfect, I just can’t, and it’s time to accept that, not only for my well-being but for my boys’ too!
Sorry I came again, but I needed to thank you for opening my eyes and making me think about this!
AB-

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March 16, 2008

Sister Bridget

Awesome , AB! I am sooo happy this was a helpful exercise and thanks so much for taking the time to let us know 😉 Much light and love, Sister Bridget

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March 16, 2008

Falcon

Sister Bridget, I had to come back as well and say thank you so much for this excercise. My little sister learned a little responsibility, and I am proud of her for taking care of her own solutions without me. It was difficult not to run down and help out as I have done so often, but I knew I had to let her do this on her own. Thank you again!

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