tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25382877001016399952023-11-15T22:49:05.734-08:00The Rainbow Bridge Oracle by Lauren RaineThe Rainbow Bridge Oracle is an original deck of divination cards by visionary artist Lauren Raine MFA based on the Tarot.Lauren Rainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12157367890138761677noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538287700101639995.post-23609634398180555402022-11-07T15:35:00.007-08:002023-05-07T17:34:16.213-07:00Selling the Rainbow Bridge Oracle<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ7euG5klvfgSzItqjtVcNnU_senKXUAcEzm_a8V8WMNtqRXBYarvxLFqkIKgvXjvENxlKCsG9_mWNFkd9_la1YSY0OW3Mx0K8FElavPnUlBF4Ts5vxc00SdYhG_vPHjh7qe8S8u6rwabW8f3MN8OOrpjm_j7amVSCCAsTTIcYokEgcDQokixKDXic/s2625/1%20%20PerfectBoundBookDigest-FrontExteriorCover.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2625" data-original-width="1725" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ7euG5klvfgSzItqjtVcNnU_senKXUAcEzm_a8V8WMNtqRXBYarvxLFqkIKgvXjvENxlKCsG9_mWNFkd9_la1YSY0OW3Mx0K8FElavPnUlBF4Ts5vxc00SdYhG_vPHjh7qe8S8u6rwabW8f3MN8OOrpjm_j7amVSCCAsTTIcYokEgcDQokixKDXic/w420-h640/1%20%20PerfectBoundBookDigest-FrontExteriorCover.png" width="420" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">I now have a new, revised (2022) <b><i>Book</i></b> available as a high quality image wrapped book or a simple PDF from Blurb.com. </span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/9675580/6d95967070bd7cbb1b964f3fa202aa9feecdbedb" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><b>THE RAINBOW BRIDGE ORACLE </b></a><span face="arial, sans-serif"> is a beautifully illustrated limited edition artists book available from </span><a href="https://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/9675580/6d95967070bd7cbb1b964f3fa202aa9feecdbedb" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><strong>Blurb.com</strong>.</a><span face="arial, sans-serif"> The Book describes the unique meanings of each card, and offers a <b><i>13 Card Spread system.</i></b> This book is <b>only available through </b></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>BLURB.COM</b>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>And</b>.........I also now have the cards available with a <b><i>small Paperback book</i></b> as well. That limited edition set (<i>cards, book, and velvet bag for the cards</i>) is available for<b> $65.00 </b>(includes shipping) through <b>PAYPAL</b>. <b> </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>And</b>...........the cards are available separately (<i>no book</i>) for <b>$40.00. </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Currently I can only accept orders for the <b><i>deck </i></b>or the <b><i>small book and deck set </i></b> via <u><b>PAYPAL</b> to <b><a href="mailto:laurenraine9@gmail.com">laurenraine9@gmail.com</a>. </b></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Please feel free to write to me about any aspect of the RAINBOW BRIDGE ORACLE. It's a project long in the making, and always evolving. Thank you to all those who have encouraged me.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: x-large;"><b>Lauren</b></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ6uMjXZxLvn9WBDcR-q16HIs3wHmbQmgmNWZfz8t8zaMn84G_3KuL4GYWDqHosiJG9q1w64mTS2JdkPO-xwQVrtMS_Prd4ZwX__YNXE04E8G_V8SBZa8O_DlzGBYoKpNscUfrORlPK7ugG0867_eK-gKzRGSd4FdsBbS-yD_X78ICnJSBolCgoCXT/s1080/lauren%20raine%203.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ6uMjXZxLvn9WBDcR-q16HIs3wHmbQmgmNWZfz8t8zaMn84G_3KuL4GYWDqHosiJG9q1w64mTS2JdkPO-xwQVrtMS_Prd4ZwX__YNXE04E8G_V8SBZa8O_DlzGBYoKpNscUfrORlPK7ugG0867_eK-gKzRGSd4FdsBbS-yD_X78ICnJSBolCgoCXT/w400-h400/lauren%20raine%203.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG-9P5Ql-AJ_heM_WPcvamP153Ybcp-4NOON88RYPQsao0Sc8DzYYSAXXNWZLVkr7adoDBdu9roPfbtjyRXwLk4hkxA8UZoVqyZmch8FbbYL-LaC-EoYICYA-DbVdgJwyluaS1nrpjbmEM6W3DZWwjzTLmRCZuAec7eNw_2qMnZTzF85nIau6Ej90f/s2625/index%20odd%20page%20template%20(1).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2625" data-original-width="1725" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG-9P5Ql-AJ_heM_WPcvamP153Ybcp-4NOON88RYPQsao0Sc8DzYYSAXXNWZLVkr7adoDBdu9roPfbtjyRXwLk4hkxA8UZoVqyZmch8FbbYL-LaC-EoYICYA-DbVdgJwyluaS1nrpjbmEM6W3DZWwjzTLmRCZuAec7eNw_2qMnZTzF85nIau6Ej90f/w420-h640/index%20odd%20page%20template%20(1).png" width="420" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Lauren Rainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12157367890138761677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538287700101639995.post-11526684991007564642022-11-07T15:08:00.003-08:002023-05-06T20:19:47.129-07:00New Cards (and their descriptions)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8zrtVLWSMW7rMFCCL8iOsw2xanamT9XaI2uLTy4co-iyJAWhVM730imHa0rxidOsu1tXnxl4eWNPRgy46MqPMhFrdivIBU3alc1FncOiFPT11nTdJ4WYoMNe0jKvk0Qw96fjOuoytFq2FViFXfx_XBZXqbNJFPNgz2SmVsIEGo6FIGU-dvXPB54qo/s1725/earthmind%202.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1725" data-original-width="1125" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8zrtVLWSMW7rMFCCL8iOsw2xanamT9XaI2uLTy4co-iyJAWhVM730imHa0rxidOsu1tXnxl4eWNPRgy46MqPMhFrdivIBU3alc1FncOiFPT11nTdJ4WYoMNe0jKvk0Qw96fjOuoytFq2FViFXfx_XBZXqbNJFPNgz2SmVsIEGo6FIGU-dvXPB54qo/w418-h640/earthmind%202.png" width="418" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>"Speak to the earth, and it will teach you"..</b>.....Job 12:8</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"> "<b>We're living IN the Earth, not ON the Earth but IN the Earth.</b></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> And what we do to the Earth we are doing to ourselves."</span></b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> .......</i> Rachel Rosenthal</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">EARTHMIND is included in this deck because today both science and spirituality have converged in our understanding that all life on planet Earth is interdependent, a vast network of ecologies. In 1979 James Lovelock, with Lynn Margulis, developed the Gaia Hypothesis, demonstrating that the Earth is one living, self-regulating organism. They named their theory after the primal Mother Goddess of Greek mythology, Gaia.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">How would we live if we truly experienced Gaia as mother, friend, as self? We are the Earth, and it's important that we live and act sustainably, and with reverence, for the benefit of all beings of the Earth. Future generations depend on us. Thank you for your caring, and your efforts.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Reversed: </b> Without caring, effort, and work for a sustainable future, the outcome is reversed for everyone. We're all together on this one.</span></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX4yUEKUpiZD7SxJgMsP7EQmLcVB1_qzz-_CoGDL7DQcINhZep0Y3VBamiG82x6OKyVUnDg2KVluzkdkoC3buaMMKIqU51TgzjPb00lDQqxU7H1ZPfkNZFKmx96qbsBweHPXTiJBghUVfb11UdDegKIV5ipJ4rLUssvid5PMogljY5RaEokPV8ewEI/s2645/desire%202.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2645" data-original-width="1725" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX4yUEKUpiZD7SxJgMsP7EQmLcVB1_qzz-_CoGDL7DQcINhZep0Y3VBamiG82x6OKyVUnDg2KVluzkdkoC3buaMMKIqU51TgzjPb00lDQqxU7H1ZPfkNZFKmx96qbsBweHPXTiJBghUVfb11UdDegKIV5ipJ4rLUssvid5PMogljY5RaEokPV8ewEI/w418-h640/desire%202.png" width="418" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Without Desire, nothing is conceived. All that birth of new life, new possibilities, new hope begins with desire for union, for experience, for pleasure, for knowledge. Desire is the engine of creation, and profound, authentic desire is profoundly connected to the life force. But desire can be sublimated, denied, or perverted into lust or superficial acquisition, even hoarding where authentic desire has become mistrusted. What do you truly desire, deep in your soul? Real love, meaningful work, engaging creativity, beauty, travel, knowledge? This card encourages you to connect with that deep source, and like a rose opening to the sun, focus on your true desire and make it manifest in your life.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Reversed:</b> You have become far too resigned to never get what you desire or truly want. You are dangerously close to becoming an angry and disappointed person, a scrooge of the heart. Stop it right now, and re-connect to your true, and sacred, desires.</span></div></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIouz9tBaSnmtcLVz0kSkOecAEsHsSk-kYXnLxYOiYZppF-tLRJSepfC1UfDERaGDVX4b9I_iGwTC5Qn89rqpKlC9_J8SHu_0hU22e2rS14_BnDALjCOaDDw5M9Xj4HwnMWslvoFypXrAWPlSp-40T6qQa0buewD9i6oNjfxf5lq8wy5DdUVh3Zp9A/s1725/LOSS.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1725" data-original-width="1125" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIouz9tBaSnmtcLVz0kSkOecAEsHsSk-kYXnLxYOiYZppF-tLRJSepfC1UfDERaGDVX4b9I_iGwTC5Qn89rqpKlC9_J8SHu_0hU22e2rS14_BnDALjCOaDDw5M9Xj4HwnMWslvoFypXrAWPlSp-40T6qQa0buewD9i6oNjfxf5lq8wy5DdUVh3Zp9A/w418-h640/LOSS.png" width="418" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;">“Psychologists have not begun to ponder the emotional toll of the loss of our fellow life. Nor have theologians reckoned the spiritual impoverishment that extinction brings. To forget what we had is to forget what we have lost. And to forget what we have lost means never knowing what we had to begin with." </span></b></i></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <i>…… Mark Jerome Walters (1998)</i></span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This card is a litany of extinct and vanishing species, our great collective loss. Some losses cannot be healed from: all we can do is continue living with them, hopefully to learn new ways of being from them. Loss is grief. Grief can be a profound teacher, if one does not attempt to avoid it in the many ways human beings avoid pain. Grief must be passed through to heal. Ultimately, grief is praise and gratitude for that which we have loved. In this sense, the other side of loss is gain. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Reversed:</b> It is time for you to allow yourself to grieve instead of madly filling your days with overly busy activity or numbing heartache with addictions of various kinds. Allow yourself to cry, to name what has been lost. There is a light at the end of that tunnel of the heart.</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl4jZEYBqRHERJbUQ6k2y_Su-XPRkhzU8yreyzJh--h9vANckYRi-PCLJ1AaHvYKg0pSq-hZhgKXw3ngIoVCpjjxM5AlvLuvpS4pwja_GwdKvBDXSKzMIOCa4RZkp01CaUheBANYUQO1rVp84uYjQc9OjAMvTtz4XxQgTajYDV7foqGgE3HIdOZkEc/s1725/WORLD%205.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1725" data-original-width="1125" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl4jZEYBqRHERJbUQ6k2y_Su-XPRkhzU8yreyzJh--h9vANckYRi-PCLJ1AaHvYKg0pSq-hZhgKXw3ngIoVCpjjxM5AlvLuvpS4pwja_GwdKvBDXSKzMIOCa4RZkp01CaUheBANYUQO1rVp84uYjQc9OjAMvTtz4XxQgTajYDV7foqGgE3HIdOZkEc/w418-h640/WORLD%205.png" width="418" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"<i><b>The world is made of stories. And a good story you can honestly</b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> call your own is an incredible gift. These stories are part of a </span></b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> bigger story that connects us all."</span></b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b> ......</b></i>Gary Snyder</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In the traditional Tarot The World, a dancing woman, said to represent Sophia, the incarnation of Wisdom, is encircled by symbols of the Four Elements. Here Sophia represents the World Soul, Anima Mundi, whose hands bear the flower and the fruit of the World Tree. We are always turning, evolving in a spiral motion. Be that circle the union of the 4 elements that makeup the whole of life's diverse powers and experiences, or the round globe of the Earth, ultimately we return Home. Here at last the beginning place, the Fool's Journey, is fulfilled as he returns from whence he began. At Journey's end (at least, until the next cycle begins) is found the fruit of the Tree of Life - Wisdom. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The meaning of this card is <b>completion</b>. Now is the time to celebrate the "hero's return" - and part of that return is to give back to the World what has been gained, to share the stories gathered along the way.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Reversed:</b> You may feel that you are finished now, but you're not. There is something more you need to do or find to finish what you began.</span></div></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx3U9HLSjEFtlhcvJsggXTVZiCjLctQd01YCPs3tgyfL8fFDk27Qqi1xht93VctqOZ19GtPS6fsWnFVil8PTAKS97WzoRYGgooCbZlUcqVTNd0opWpjmMiqd-SZpoBrU43TuZuzNxXeQmN7w6-uiYIxfjWAnt2tAto71bAVyJb19Af87mrGt3gNEHo/s2645/SHAPESHIFTER3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2645" data-original-width="1725" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx3U9HLSjEFtlhcvJsggXTVZiCjLctQd01YCPs3tgyfL8fFDk27Qqi1xht93VctqOZ19GtPS6fsWnFVil8PTAKS97WzoRYGgooCbZlUcqVTNd0opWpjmMiqd-SZpoBrU43TuZuzNxXeQmN7w6-uiYIxfjWAnt2tAto71bAVyJb19Af87mrGt3gNEHo/w418-h640/SHAPESHIFTER3.png" width="418" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;">"Do I contradict myself?</span></b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Very well then, I contradict myself.</span></b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;">I am large, I contain multitudes."</span></b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Walt Whitman</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We're all shape-shifters. The Greek word for mask is persona, and the truth is we wear many different masks or personalities throughout our lives. Our faces are dissolving before our eyes daily, through time and space, and the "I" brought to the passing parade of our many different roles assumed in the course of being a child, parent, lover, employee, elder, artist, soldier, martyred mother, class clown........and so on. Although the mask is ever changing, some of them have a way of getting "stuck on the face". It's hard to take it off, because we've identified so strongly with it. So how can one have more fun, and be far more fluid, with the masks that are ever changing? One way is to consciously put on and take off the faces we wear to become self-aware shape-shifters. </span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Using actual masks to explore personae with others in the safe arena of improvisation can be very self-revealing. What happens when you wear the mask of the Clown, or Mouse, or the Debutante, for example? Congratulations on being so versatile!</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Reversed: </b> You are probably far too stuck in one role, to the detriment of all the other people inside just clamoring for a chance to express themselves. Time to throw a "Persona Party".</span></div></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOZRyHl4wHMbBfUZGVb6-eCGuS4wjn7FeENLcyYLtyEZxh1LHRcKhVFusCFDi-rNcMB59nqpsGwf7QRpb2gFBHPRHYddZxXPIj-gwS5uBzBQfTn6Stij6yekzLwDTtJlXooX8kd9kwOmvCuTxNO7tN_SK_QniBdZML75a0arBRK88715FD7iQnImmM/s1725/THE%20MEMORY%20KEEPER.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1725" data-original-width="1125" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOZRyHl4wHMbBfUZGVb6-eCGuS4wjn7FeENLcyYLtyEZxh1LHRcKhVFusCFDi-rNcMB59nqpsGwf7QRpb2gFBHPRHYddZxXPIj-gwS5uBzBQfTn6Stij6yekzLwDTtJlXooX8kd9kwOmvCuTxNO7tN_SK_QniBdZML75a0arBRK88715FD7iQnImmM/w418-h640/THE%20MEMORY%20KEEPER.png" width="418" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;">“They’ll need a little water from another time”</span></b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Memory Keeper resides deep within each of us and is more than what we ordinarily think of as “memory.” She is the Ancestral story that weaves through each generation. She is Instinctual Intelligence. She is the collective human wisdom that can, and often needs to be, accessed for not only survival, but as a base from which each generation can securely contribute its new innovations, innovations added to the evolutionary knowledge. Without the Memory Keeper, we are like lost children, blundering into danger or starvation. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Reversed: </b> Your instincts and internal psychic compass are badly out of touch, so that you are indiscriminately making mistakes and lacking judgement, often without realizing what you are doing. 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All things in planetary life decay, fall apart, deconstruct in one way or another. Sometimes we can delay that decomposition through care and steady efforts, and sometimes no matter what we do greater forces than our own are at work, such as war, the economy, the environment, or the choices of others that spin our lives out of control. Sometimes it is necessary and appropriate to let go and allow things to fall apart. The faceless figure in this painting, it should be noted, is pregnant. Because whenever things fall apart, something new arises. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Reversed:</b> You live with far too much Chaos – time to get organized. And in fact, you yourself may be a force of Chao</span>s.</div><p></p>Lauren Rainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12157367890138761677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538287700101639995.post-39610250121839080322022-09-28T08:39:00.010-07:002023-01-07T10:32:09.871-08:00A New, Revised Book published through Blurb.com<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfE7x-N52ejHN98w3jyuX9kbJb7SJTGMjlU_ZPu6rV_4nempvYM14By1Ojs4q4G0-E7-Kq8GFMBT4cblRRxKa5TC_xw1GZLNIeVKUL0kvxgkUa2rTlVYDkEsdS7nAJTzqSKln63-fXcRRLxqlb02zs4BvQchx0ZlONqnZOZzxtzqzl3-pFEAiITX6C/s1725/VISION1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1725" data-original-width="1125" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfE7x-N52ejHN98w3jyuX9kbJb7SJTGMjlU_ZPu6rV_4nempvYM14By1Ojs4q4G0-E7-Kq8GFMBT4cblRRxKa5TC_xw1GZLNIeVKUL0kvxgkUa2rTlVYDkEsdS7nAJTzqSKln63-fXcRRLxqlb02zs4BvQchx0ZlONqnZOZzxtzqzl3-pFEAiITX6C/w418-h640/VISION1.png" width="418" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I just finished a new, revised edition of the book for the <a href="https://www.blurb.com/books/11286635-the-rainbow-bridge-oracle"><b><i>Rainbow Bridge Oracle Deck</i></b>. </a> Since I began this Blog more than 10 years ago, the Deck has added new cards, and additionally I have expanded the meanings and interpretations of the various cards. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The book is a limited edition art book, with beautiful, full color illustrations and descriptions of each card. 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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">I regret that the Deck is currently (<i>October 2021</i>) <b>unavailable </b>as a new publication is pending.<b> </b>Please contact <u><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>laurenraine9@gmail.com</b> </span></u> if you would like to be notified when the deck becomes available. Thank you for your interest!</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: x-large;">Lauren</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-weight: bold;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ps: To View the individual </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <a href="https://rainbowbridgetarot.blogspot.com/2011/02/the-cards.html">CARDS: </a></span></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://rainbowbridgetarot.blogspot.com/2011/02/the-cards.html"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">https://rainbowbridgetarot.blogspot.com/2011/02/the-cards.html</span></span></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">or just keep scrolling.................</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #d9d2e9; clear: both; color: #990000; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #d9d2e9; clear: both; color: #990000; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://rainbowbridgeoracle.weebly.com/index.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl8vIfr_CMEbp0qgLmB-HwIYw05TfJZSWtbLF0WfOtlMoUjf4Oc2SgYZE7I7DQzj0p9N9cTQxC70wj5veTwV_sJJocHidlFnn4C9OoOFMAf5dAgRRzQYmbb84psdpzNWXY7-Mcuj17X-w/s200/Rainbow+Bridge.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div><div style="background-color: #d9d2e9; color: #990000; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: #d9d2e9; color: #990000; text-align: center;"><div style="color: black;"><a href="http://rainbowbridgeoracle.weebly.com/index.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">http://rainbowbridgeoracle.weebly.com</span></a></div><div style="color: black;"><br /></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>All artwork is<b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>copyright</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Lauren Raine MFA (2021)</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div></div><div><b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Lauren Rainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12157367890138761677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538287700101639995.post-85545704583131818352013-11-11T03:00:00.010-08:002021-10-07T12:20:11.676-07:00The Rainbow Bridge Oracle <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span><span><span always="always" conceived="conceived" i="i" of="of" rainbow="rainbow" the="the" ve="ve"><i><b><span><br /></span></b></i></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span><span><span always="always" conceived="conceived" i="i" of="of" rainbow="rainbow" the="the" ve="ve"><i><b><span>"</span>I've always thought of the Rainbow as as actually being a circle. </b></i></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span><span><i><b>Half disappears into the ground, into an underworld realm, </b></i></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span><span><i><b>hidden, but always present. " </b></i></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span><span><i><br /></i></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span><span><i> </i></span></span></span></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">Christy Salo</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">
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<div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3_igcLkoAagapOMAZSIrxywrCwSfrYy96pKOp0OmE_UopRdjGY5O7HaZWhct8ZwjB5iOnRMC6ru0s3wb7y4OUqSkZevEobskaFFgqzMJ7lf31rU2h3V8agJ923QlwRWqGXxidZT88up8/s1600/WORLD2+Large+Web+view.jpg" style="background-color: #d9d2e9; clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3_igcLkoAagapOMAZSIrxywrCwSfrYy96pKOp0OmE_UopRdjGY5O7HaZWhct8ZwjB5iOnRMC6ru0s3wb7y4OUqSkZevEobskaFFgqzMJ7lf31rU2h3V8agJ923QlwRWqGXxidZT88up8/s400/WORLD2+Large+Web+view.jpg" width="260" /></a><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>In the Tarot, the Higher Arcana is a progression through what mythologist Joseph Campbell called the "Hero’s Journey". The first card in the traditional Tarot deck is The Fool . </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">The Fool represents the utterly open innocence, and infinite possibilities, with with we incarnate into this world. The Arcana progress through different experiences, revelations, trials and initiations.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">The last card of the Journey is The World, the return Home. Although my Oracle Deck is not a Tarot, I have still used this metaphor in its creation.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">The journey is a Circle.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span>Check <b>previous posts on this blog to see a <u>reading spread</u></b><u>,</u> and to <b><u>view each card and its divinatory meanings</u></b>. <b> </b></span></span></span><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">The Deck is currently (October 2021) <b>unavailable as a new publication is pending. </b>Please contact <u><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>laurenraine9@gmail.com</b> </span></u> if you would like to be notified when the deck becomes available. Thank you for your interest!</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: x-large;">Lauren</span></i></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span><div class="separator" style="background-color: #d9d2e9; clear: both; color: #990000; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://rainbowbridgeoracle.weebly.com/index.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl8vIfr_CMEbp0qgLmB-HwIYw05TfJZSWtbLF0WfOtlMoUjf4Oc2SgYZE7I7DQzj0p9N9cTQxC70wj5veTwV_sJJocHidlFnn4C9OoOFMAf5dAgRRzQYmbb84psdpzNWXY7-Mcuj17X-w/s200/Rainbow+Bridge.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div><div style="background-color: #d9d2e9; color: #990000; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: #d9d2e9; color: #990000; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><div style="color: black;"><a href="http://rainbowbridgeoracle.weebly.com/index.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">http://rainbowbridgeoracle.weebly.com</span></a></div><div style="color: black;"><br /></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>All artwork is<b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>copyright</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Lauren Raine MFA (2021)</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span></div></div></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div></div></div>Lauren Rainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12157367890138761677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538287700101639995.post-73090957452693810682012-06-07T22:08:00.011-07:002021-10-06T21:34:39.769-07:00New Cards!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"> <i>"What might we see, how might we act, if we saw with a webbed vision? The world seen through a web of relationships….” <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">A weaver takes threads of many colors and skillfully weaves them together into a beautiful tapestry. We talk about "spinning a tale", meaning a storyteller takes "threads" of different characters and weaves them together into a good story with many inter-woven events. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The name "Penelope" originally meant "with a web on her face", a term that was probably a title for an oracle, or perhaps a Goddess of Fate. But "webbed vision" can also have a contemporary meaning as a way of seeing the world with a unitive eye, all people connected and in relationship to each other. That kind of vision enables you to be a "good weaver" in your community, family, and life. You are a person who helps others to "connect the dots" - a true instinctual networker. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Reversed:</b> You may be having a hard time seeing the connections between people and/or events in your life, partly because you feel so disconnected and isolated from others. Get back "on line" with your life, and reach out to re-connect with whatever it takes.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>"Remember that not getting what you want<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">"Be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it" is an old folk saying that has much truth to it. We have all dreamed of having great wealth, or being with the best looking boy in school, or any number of wishes. And sometimes we do get what we think we want, but in one of the great ironies of life, our happiness can soon turn to misery and disappointment. Sometimes getting what we think we want can be the worst thing that can happen to us, because what we want is concentrated on desires that are immature, addictive, vindictive, greedy, or even unconsciously self-destructive. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> The "Law of Attraction" demonstrates that we attract that which we focus upon, and consciously (or unconsciously) what we concentrate upon can manifest. Loving and generous wishes attract loving and generous results. Negativity and pessimism just manifests more negativity and pessimism, creating a self-fulfilling cycle. Bearing all of this in mind, now is an excellent time to begin to manifest!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Reversed:</b> You're not able to manifest what you want because of either a lack of belief in yourself, or you are too negative in your worldview. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> EARTHMIND is included in this deck because today both science and spirituality have converged in our understanding that all life on planet Earth is interdependent, a vast network of ecologies. In 1979 James Lovelock, with Lynn Margulis, developed the Gaia Hypothesis, demonstrating that the Earth is one living, self-regulating organism. They named their theory after the primal Mother Goddess of Greek mythology, Gaia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">How would we live if we truly experienced Gaia as mother, friend, as self? We are the Earth, and it's important that we live and act sustainably, and with reverence, for the benefit of all beings of the Earth. Future generations depend on us. Thank you for your caring, and your efforts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Reversed</b>: Without caring, effort, and work for a sustainable future, the outcome is reversed for everyone. We're all together on this one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Among the Lakota, long preparations were made for the Vision Quest. Those who sought initiation fasted, prayed, and prepared themselves to "call for vision". They then went to a special place in the wilderness. When a young man returned with a vision it was shared with the tribe, and sometimes examined to see if it had prophetic or ceremonial significance for not only the individual, but for the entire tribe. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This is a tool we have largely lost. True visionary experience is "soul language"; like dreams and synchronistic experiences, a vision has multiple layers of meaning, and transcends time as we understand it. Visions, like dreams, communicate universal and personal truths, and whether unintended or intentionally induced in some way, can catalyze a spiritual path or a life's work. You are encouraged to "call for vision" in your own way. Do it in a sacred manner, and share and discuss your vision with others of like mind. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Reversed</b>: Visions can be profoundly significant.......but sometimes there is also a fine line between spiritual revelation and highly subjective schizophrenia. Practice discernment.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u>SHAPESHIFTER</u></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEe_UC2P8ve_EZ1WIKEIiruHI93PEsVh5xIOTnccVIvVo55gwoNHXYJZ5Swqw1axyOJDYCAehXkgxMwnGyh1UlTeRKnDuTBHj90FtrcZwe8JQpX2MulM9nlO7J4EJdrufffaDKG2Xb0II/s2048/SHAPESHIFTER2.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1336" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEe_UC2P8ve_EZ1WIKEIiruHI93PEsVh5xIOTnccVIvVo55gwoNHXYJZ5Swqw1axyOJDYCAehXkgxMwnGyh1UlTeRKnDuTBHj90FtrcZwe8JQpX2MulM9nlO7J4EJdrufffaDKG2Xb0II/w263-h404/SHAPESHIFTER2.jpg" width="263" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">How many
“identities” are brought to the passing parade of roles assumed in the course
of being a child, parent, lover, employee, elder, artist, soldier........and so
on? </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">We are all “shapeshifters”.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">But masks can get "stuck on the
face", hard to take off because we've identified so strongly with it.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">So how can one be fluid with the masks that
are ever changing?</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">One way is to become
self-aware shapeshifters.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Congratulations
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You are stuck in one role, to the detriment of all the other Beings inside
just clamoring for a chance to express themselves. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Time to throw a "Persona Party".</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because</i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><i> the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round.”</i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><i>---Black El</i>k </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The great Dakota seer and Medicine Man <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Elk"><i><b>Black Elk</b></i></a> had a vision, when he was a young boy, he later called "t<i>he Hoop of the Nations"</i>. Although he saw the "hoop" of his own Lakota people broken, he also forsaw a future time, symbolized by a great Circle of interlocking hoops, when many people, from the world’s four directions, would come together to form a "great hoop". Black Elk's vision has been called by some the "Rainbow Tribe". The Rainbow, to me, represents the birth of this emerging global paradigm, which includes a multi-cultural vocabulary for the sacred. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> As mystical traditions of East and West join with the teachings of indigenous shamans, Goddess ways, New Age, contemporary psychology, Quontum Physics and modern science, and the universal language of the arts, a <i>RAINBOW BRIDGE</i> is forming to unite humanity with each other, and with other dimensions of spirit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="color: #674ea7;"><i> The Rainbow Bridge</i></b> is really an Oracle Deck, although it was inspired by my many years of reading the Tarot. In Tarot, the <b><i>Higher Arcana</i></b> is a progression through what mythologist Joseph Campbell called the "Hero’s Journey". The first card in the traditional deck is <b><i>The Fool (Innocence) </i></b>representing the openness with with we incarnate into this world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> The last card of the Journey is <b><i>The </i><i>World</i></b>, the return Home. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Like the Tarot, the <b><i>Rainbow Bridge Oracle</i></b> may be used for divination in many ways. I use a 13 card spread I created for myself, and I chose the number 13 because it was traditionally sacred to the Great Mother, as there are 13 lunations in a year. And so the 13th Question (or, the 13th Moon, the "home moon") is the Outcome. Shuffle the cards, and draw a card in response to each question, laying them out in a Circle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1. <b>What do I need? </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">(At the beginning of an endeavor or a quest, one gathers the tools and resources one will need to undertake the journey.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">(Purification before any form of prayer or ceremony was important to Native American traditions. Before any "vision quest" can begin, inner preparation is necessary.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">(This concerns the importance of recognizing the gifts you possess. Establishing a foundation of gratitude.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">(Clearly defining the Querant's intention, understanding one's essential purpose in this undertaking.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">(The growth of compassion, empathy, and skillful means in dealings with others. What practices might assist?) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">(What is necessary for me to fully engage with others - or conversely, what is unacceptable or destructive for me in my dealings with others?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">(What service can I can make to life, community, and the Earth?)</span></div>
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font-size: medium;"><a href="https://rainbowbridgetarot.blogspot.com/2011/02/fear.html">FEAR</a></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://rainbowbridgetarot.blogspot.com/2011/02/innocence-fool.html"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>THE FOOL</span></b><b><span> </span></b></span></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://rainbowbridgetarot.blogspot.com/2011/02/fragmentation.html"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>FRAGMENTATION</span></b><b><span> </span></b></span></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://rainbowbridgetarot.blogspot.com/2011/02/god.html">THE GOD</a></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://rainbowbridgetarot.blogspot.com/2011/02/goddess.html">THE GODDESS</a></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; 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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The Stars</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>are a perfect image of the constancy of Grace in our lives. To raise one's eyes to the vast azure sky at twilight, and behold the ubiquitous wonder of the stars is to find wonder, and inspiration that flows from the Source. The waters of Grace are eternal, and offer hope, healing and inspiration as they pour into the sustaining pool. The woman's nude figure further enhances this image; there is nothing to fear or to hide, no artifice in the grace that pours through her hands, cleansing and nourishing the soul, bringing hope and renewal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Reversed,</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the card could mean that you need to reacquaint yourself with your source of Grace. The light of Grace, like starlight, is eternally present for you - don't be afraid to ask. You have become perhaps too exhausted, or despairing, to remember. Or perhaps you have come to believe, erroneously and to your detriment, that you are "unworthy". This is not true. Grace is available for all. Go outside, lie beneath the stars, and ask for the Grace that is unconditionally given to everyone.</span></div>
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<b>The Magician </b>stands with his arm raised in the classic gesture of inspired invocation. He draws the white light of universal energy (the Above) through his skilled hand, his will, and then through his heart, to manifest on the physical plane (the Below). As his creative energies manifest, they are broken into the "rainbow" components of the physical world in all of it’s lovely diversity.<br />
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The Magician card urges you to remember that you are the artist - the Mage - of your life, and now is exactly the time to manifest what you desire. There are many talents and resources at your hand, and you may "invoke" your potential now through wise use of will, vision and inspiration.<br />
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The Lovers stand beneath "Axix Mundi", the World Tree, a symbol that reminds us that we are connected to the above world and the below world, the future and the past, at every moment. The man offers the woman a flame to ignite their shared passion, which she reaches for with delight. This card can be about Eros, erotic and romantic love, but it also is simply about Love, the sacred union of kindred souls and the "flame" that their union ignites in both hearts.</div>
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If this card has been chosen, you may soon have love entering your life and "lighting your fire"; you may also be encouraged by this card to bear that "flame" to the one you love, warming the connection between you to a new level of love.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">We are all divided beings, with conflicting impulses and multiple personae. To give too much emphasis to one aspect of ourselves, is to give as much power to the other, unconscious, so-called “shadow” parts, which have a way of manifesting with as much force as that with which they are denied. According to Jungian therapy, parts of the psyche that are repressed, denied, or negated too much will be projected onto others, or appear as "uncontrollable" behaviors that often seem inexplicable. Like the oriental Yin/Yang symbol, the key is to seek balance, to develop a non-dualistic appreciation of life. The poet Kalil Gibran wrote that "The well of your joy is as deep as the well of your sorrow".</span></div>
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In the traditional Tarot, this card was called <b>Temperance</b>. The androgynous angel of Balance holds two cups, dark and light, pouring water into each, representing the energy of a continual harmonious exchange of opposites. The "<i><b>rainbow bridge</b></i>" issues from this exchange, which is the practice of creating Balance. In addition to the meaning of temperance or moderation, this card can be interpreted as symbolizing the blending of opposites.</div>
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The rainbow is the visible spectrum of the whole of white light. The rainbow may also represent the "<i>rainbow bridge of the chakras</i>", which in Hindu philosophy represent the different energy and perceptive systems of the human subtle body. Balancing the Chakras is to balance the energy system, thus maintaining spiritual and physical health. If you've chosen this card, continue to develop this virtue and insight in your life. <b>Reversed</b>: You are out of balance, and must seek ways now to bring about harmony, be it physically, psychologically, or even socially.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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What is sacred?A better way to put it might be, what is sacred to you? How do you have the experience of “seeing in a sacred manner “ now, not tomorrow or yesterday or in Church, but now and here? What practices refresh your sense of reverence, even as you pursue the most mundane tasks of daily life? If you’ve drawn this card, you are infused with a delightful, and infectious, capacity to appreciate the Sacred in everything. Every where you go, you create little shrines, icons, rituals and ceremonies - to the inspiration of so many others. Or the card may be gently reminding you to refresh your daily acquaintance with the sacred dimension of your life. </div>
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In this image by artist <a href="http://www.catherinenash.com/">Catherine Nash</a> someone takes a leap of faith from a high and dangerous ledge. Hidden in the recesses, in the shadows, is another figure, a frightened soul clutching a narrow perch, too terrified to even watch as she flies. Sometimes (after doing some level-headed research) it's necessary to gather your courage, say your prayers, trust your intuition, have faith, and just do it. Take the great leap of faith into the unknown, with the confidence that the universe will support you.<br />
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If you've chosen this card, you are being encouraged to "take the plunge". The time has come to go ahead and make that great leap of faith to the next evolutionary step, the new adventure or enterprise you've been longing for.<br />
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An embryo appears beneath the ice of a snow-clad pond. Winter’s child, sleeping beneath the frozen surface. She is the yet unborn child of a spring that will come when the time is ripe. We are cyclical beings, participating in ever expanding circles of life. There are personal cycles that are unique to our own life impulses, and there are collective cycles as well. There is a time to be active, and there is an equal need for times of rest. Dormancy is a word we’re uncomfortable with in our busy lives, but slowing down, rejuvenating and becoming receptive during the dark months of the year is part of nature‘s wisdom, necessary to new growth.<br />
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If we are not continually achieving we often feel something is wrong.But the achievements of soul work do not necessarily adhere to the clock or calendar. A depression may be a wake-up call, reflecting genuine weariness or an authentic need for change. Perhaps you need to grieve for someone or something that has passed out of your life, and you‘ve never given yourself the opportunity to do so. This card can indicate the need now for you to accept the healing season of dormancy, to slow down, empty out, dream and rejuvenate.<br />
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The Fire Dancer is a perfect image of ecstasy, of the flame of joy. Consumed by the burning energy of the moment and the music and the heat of life, the dancer gives herself entirely to the dance. There is no past or present, only the ecstatic moment, and all awareness is concentrated in that brilliant, illuminated leap. Like the Fire Dancer, give yourself to the dance now, to consummate joy and immersion in the present moment. You've been working, like the dancer, for a long time. Now be ignited.</div>
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A woman sits in a "house of doors" - the walls that surround her are transparent to the vast possibilities of her imagination. Everything comes into manifestation first through the creative power of imagination. Can you also imagine that you are the artist of your life? With the power of your creative imagination, you can begin to manifest the life you desire, change habits and limitations, and improve your health and fortune. By what we imagine, collectively and individually, new worlds and futures come into being, and you are urged to use this great power wisely and fully.<br />
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This card was inspired by the traditional Tarot card "The Tower", and is about the shattering of the familiar, and the loss of stability. Things are falling apart, and now it completely necessary to not deny the fact. </div>
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Psychologist Stanislaf Grof has coined the term "Spiritual Emergency", which means times of fragmentation of the self that, although painful and frightening, are nevertheless spiritual crises. Often precipitated by outer events, these times can be breakthroughs into new lives that have previously been repressed, denied, or unripe. "Work with it" is the meaning of this image, don't run away from this dark time of fragmentation. This time of loss can also be viewed as a breakthrough time. Don't try to deny the powerful emotions, and the insights, that are now emerging. Journal. Find a counselor. Read. Talk to others. Seek spiritual and psychological guidance. See this experience as an opportunity for transformation and change. <b>Reversed,</b> the card can mean that you are overwhelmed. Seek help, find a safe place where you can heal, and seek the truth of your internal experience. </div>
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Just like Mother Earth, incubating spring beneath the roots of the surface world, you are pregnant, even if you're a man. Not necessarily with a child, but certainly pregnant with an idea, a creative project, a new life. When a mother is incubating something, its important to take very good care of herself, to be sure that everything she does is in service of nourishing herself and her growing, unborn child. She also must put her thoughts into preparing a harmonious, beautiful home and nurturing environment for the immanent birth growing within her. </div>
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If you've drawn this card, the same advice applies to you. Prepare with for the birth you are incubating. Let your instincts, and your world, nourish its joyful growth. Who knows, you may even have twins! <b>Reversed</b>: You may not be taking care of yourself, you may not be protecting and preparing your emotional, physical, or psychic "womb" for the new life that is fragile within you right now. Be careful, lest your pregnancy be stillborn.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="color: #990000; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://rainbowbridgeoracle.weebly.com/index.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl8vIfr_CMEbp0qgLmB-HwIYw05TfJZSWtbLF0WfOtlMoUjf4Oc2SgYZE7I7DQzj0p9N9cTQxC70wj5veTwV_sJJocHidlFnn4C9OoOFMAf5dAgRRzQYmbb84psdpzNWXY7-Mcuj17X-w/s200/Rainbow+Bridge.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="color: black;"><a href="http://rainbowbridgeoracle.weebly.com/index.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">http://rainbowbridgeoracle.weebly.com</span></a></div><div style="color: black;"><br /></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>All artwork is<b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>copyright</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Lauren Raine MFA (2021)</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div></div></div></div></div>
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Without Desire, <b>nothing is conceived.</b> All that birth of new life, new possibilities, new hope begins with desire the for union, for experience, for pleasure, for knowledge. Desire is the engine of creation, and profound, authentic desire is profoundly connected to the life force. But desire can be sublimated, denied or perverted into lust or superficial acquisition, even hoarding where authentic desire has become mistrusted. What do you truly desire, deep in your soul? Real love, meaningful work, engaging creativity, beauty, travel, knowledge? This card encourages you to connect with that deep source, and like a rose opening to the sun, focus on your true desire and make it manifest in your life.</div>
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<b>Reversed</b>: You have become far too resigned to never getting what you desire or truly want. You are dangerously close to becoming an angry and disappointed person, a scrooge of the heart. Stop it right now, and re-connect to your true, and sacred, desires.</div>
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Also called the "center of the world", or the "world's navel", Axis Mundi is a universal symbol that is often represented by a tree or a mountain. The World Tree symbolizes the connection between the sky and the earth, the access point between the above world and the below world in shamanic terms. Information from lower realms may ascend to higher ones and blessings from higher realms may descend to lower ones to be integrated throughout. This concept of "<i>as above, so below</i>" is expressed in many ways, but represents a profound image of the interconnection between the inner and outer selves, the unconscious, conscious and transpersonal mind - the macrocosm and the microcosm.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">What could be a greater image of Abundance than the amazing tail of a peacock? Their iridescent colors, and huge fan when the male peacock chooses to display, is almost too much color and magnificence to behold - one is left wondering at the awesome spectacle of Abundant Beauty that nature is offering to us every day. And, like the Peacock, free of charge, given and given and given. Take a cue from the dancing Peacock, and make a point of not only counting your abundant blessings, but enjoying them. And more is on the way - just be sure to count on it, and be grateful.</span></div>
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Walking between two trees, this figure holds two cups, both dark and light, in steady balance and deep contemplation as he proceeds slowly along his path. From the two cups issues the rainbow, a symbol of the beautiful union of all colors in the spectrum of life. Reiterating the meaning of Balance, this young man examines the deeper meanings of all that he encounters along his path now, seeking to understand beyond surface appearances to the essential unity and relatedness of his experiences, making wise choices for the future based upon wise and open contemplation.</div>
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<b>Reversed</b>, the card can warn against dualistic or reactive thinking, impetuous action, and a rash and possibly disastrous course undertaken without first contemplating all possibilities.</div></div>
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