Tarot Sydney

15/05/2023

Omphalotus nidiformis, or ghost fungus, is a gilled basidiomycete mushroom most notable for its bioluminescent properties. It is known to be found primarily in southern Australia and Tasmania, but was reported from India in 2012 and 2018.

31/01/2023

13/10/2022

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26/05/2022

Try as we might, there is no inoculation against shadow. No matter how dedicated we are to piety, good health or selfless service, we cannot distance ourselves from the grit and grime of being alive. The shadow will always find a way to enter our lives, but the artfulness is in how we dance with it,...

08/02/2022

27/01/2022

ON SELF-CARE

"Most people won't give up on trying to force others to take care of them because they won't forgive their early caretakers for not having done a perfect job. Forgiveness is critical to physical and psychological health. When people can spend more time in the pleasant and lighter experiential continuum than in the miserable semi-darkness of the mind, they are healthier. The primary, fundamental, essential, baseline, critical, lowest-level minimum requirement for happiness, without which there is no other hope, is a willingness to take care of oneself.

The trouble is, people are generally willing to take care of almost anyone or anything else but themselves. They will take care of a car, house, child, job, pet, boss, deadline, spouse, stranger, or any number of people and things on an endless list before they take care of themselves. Repeated observation of this phenomenon has led me to the conclusion that there is a particular unlearning required for human growth to continue beyond adolescence, and most people don't unlearn it. What must be unlearned is the habit of being lost in value judgments that override experience. My teen-aged nephew would rather look cool, while freezing to death waiting for the school bus, than wear a warm jacket that is not as 'in' as the shirt he is wearing. Most people don't grow beyond such adolescent tricks with or without therapy.

Many people are trapped at a certain stage of development, cut off from an essential feedback system that would naturally allow them, to take care of themselves. The feedback system is built into all of us, but we have dissociated ourselves from it. The system requires that we pay attention to excitement in the body, rather than concepts in the mind. We all have the capacity to be aware of various forms of excitement in our bodies, but we don't pay much attention to that because we are too busy thinking and 'shoulding' on ourselves.

For many of us, the older we get, the worse we are at taking care of ourselves. This is partly because we have learned too much about what we should do, and it blocks our ability to live based on what we notice. Rather than attending to what we know we should do, we can pay attention to our bodies—our ongoing bio-feedback system—and operate according to that, rather than our memories of what we learned before."

- Brad Blanton: Radical Honesty

14/01/2022

‘She sat at the back and they said she was shy,
She led from the front and they hated her pride,
They asked her advice and then questioned her guidance,
They branded her loud, then were shocked by her silence,
When she shared no ambition they said it was sad,
So she told them her dreams and they said she was mad,
They told her they'd listen, then covered their ears,
And gave her a hug while they laughed at her fears,
And she listened to all of it thinking she should,
Be the girl they told her to be best as she could,
But one day she asked what was best for herself,
Instead of trying to please everyone else,
So she walked to the forest and stood with the trees,
She heard the wind whisper and dance with the leaves,
She spoke to the willow, the elm and the pine,
And she told them what she'd been told time after time,
She told them she felt she was never enough,
She was either too little or far far too much,
Too loud or too quiet, too fierce or too weak,
Too wise or too foolish, too bold or too meek,
Then she found a small clearing surrounded by firs,
And she stopped...and she heard what the trees said to her,
And she sat there for hours not wanting to leave,
For the forest said nothing, it just let her breathe.'

Author : Becky Hemsley - Talking to the Wild