I has gone for walkies!

2010-10-05T16:09:00.003+02:00

Today I has been alone for a loooong time. Think it was at least days. Well...maybe I was not alone, since cleaning lady was here. And maybe it was only a morning, but for Lady that was a looooong time!

Then the bosslady came back from work and we went for walkies in the forest! Lady will show you what happened during the walkies!

It was really neat, first I did a biiiig peee.
Honestly it was like a lake so big!

It was such a big pee, I had to be careful not to drown in it!

Then I found a stick. Looky stiiiick!

The stick was so big I almost fell over!

And then we found another doggie.
Lady wanted to make friends, and I wagged my tail as hard as I could!

But bosslady was scared for some odd reason that the big doggy would crush me.
So Lady had to stay with bosslady a bit. Maybe the doggy was a bit enthousiastic anyways.

And then we wents home and I slept loads.

Shy's Personality Card

2010-10-05T10:18:00.037+02:00

During our holiday in France I picked up a Tarot Deck. In the past I've been eying those decks more often. On the one hand I always though they were gorgeous and on the other hand the mystical side of it has always been attractive to me.

So when I saw this deck I picked it up and just had to bring it with me. In the pack itself there was a very meager explanation of the different cards so once I got home I went and picked up a book with more information on Tarot.

I have now started with doing some basic card patterns, and I hope I'll be posting regularly about my findings and discoveries. This first post I will be talking about the Personality Card.

The Personality Card is based on your date of birth and is calculated like this:

17 December 1979 (my date of birth)
17 + 12 + 1979 = 2008
2 + 0 + 0 + 8 = 10

So the 10th card of the major arcana. I think they're called trump cards in English, but I like arcana better. Arcana is secret, so one of the major secret cards.

The 10th card is the Wheel of Fortune.

In the quote below you can find a basic explanation of this card that I found on the web on this site.

Basic Tarot Story

From out of hiding comes the Fool, into the sunlight, as if being pulled up from some low, dark point on a wheel. It is time for a change. Staff in hand, he heads back out into the world, expecting nothing. But, strangely, things seem to happen to him as the hours go by, good things. Wandering by a water wheel a woman offers him a drink in a golden chalice, and then urges him to keep the cup, just because she likes him; as he wanders by a windmill, he stops to watch a young man swinging a sword; when he expresses his admiration of the weapon, the young man presses it into his hand, insisting that he take it.

And finally, when he comes upon a rich merchant sitting in a wagon, right over one of the wheels, the man hands him a bag of money. "I like giving away money," explains the Merchant, "and I decided, just randomly, that the tenth person who walked past me today would get this money. You're the tenth." The Fool hardly thought he could still be surprised, but he is. It is as if everything good that he ever did in his life is being paid back to him, three-fold. All luck this day is his.

Basic Tarot Meaning

With Jupiter as its ruling planet, the Wheel of Fortune is all about big things, luck, change, and fortune. Almost always good fortune. Almost every definition of this card indicates abundance, happiness, elevation, or luck; a change that just happens, and brings with it great joy.

Thirteen's Observations

As much as the Tarot is about what a Querent can do to change their life or self, there are cards that admit that sometimes you just get lucky. This card can mean movement, change and evolution, but its primary meaning always seems to say that such changes will seem to come out of the blue, a stroke of good, unexpected fortune. The person you're reading for is going to get that money, that job, that promotion, that special person, that break they've been waiting for. Call it karmic payback for all the good things they've done in life - destiny or just luck - but whatever lotteries are out there, large or small, they've just won one.

So what does this card really tell me about me?

I think it may tell me that throughout my life the big changes have always depended on randomness. a nice story as an example.

When I finished my first bachelor (real estate) I got my first job in a completely random way for example. I went for the interview to become an evaluator. This job encompassed to evaluate houses for tax purposes. So I arrived at the interview and we started talking a little. Turned out that the man I had the interview with knew my dad.

It also turned out that they though I was coming for a completely different function. Confusion all over, and they confessed that they didn't have an opening for evaluator at that office. So I went home, not too disappointed, it had been a good interview, and oh well I would find something else.

A week later I got a call if I would be so kind to apply for their other office with the underlying message that the applying was sort of a formality.

If this is how you get your first real job...well the Wheel of Fortune is definitely stirring it seems.

My future me

With regards to my future...well the above story was not the only time that these sort of things have happened. I won't tell all of the situations in this post (maybe they'll come up sometime in the future), but there have been many.

And if you've been surprised by the Wheel so many times you sort of start to keep it in mind with every plan you make since none of the plans ever seem to turn out the way they were planned anyways.

Things seem to have a way of working out for me in the end, and although it sometimes seems to go horribly wrong, often afterwards when I look back I see that it couldn't have been any other way.

Though that bag of gold that the Fool was handed? I'm still waiting for it.

Like to know your card?

Let me know what your date of birth is and I'll do the calculation for you!

(B)Logging in to Real Life

I has gone for walkies!

Shy's Personality Card