Augusto this is a fascinating spread, and your own narrative is very helpful, because I would not be able to pick these meanings out very easily for myself.
For background, I have been running my clinic since 2005, and this after a long life and career in other, mainly office administration work. I would say that a "call to healing" work has always been sounding in my ear from when I was a child, and I was always the one drawn to turn TOWARDS and not AWAY from things that disgust or dismay others - bleeding, pus-filled wounds, vomit, etc - to see what could be done for the person suffering on the other side.
In my youth (I am now 60 years old) I considered, but could not afford, to study midwifery or medicine, and made my way through a great deal of work until one year, when my children were young, and I seemed to be working away from home too many hours for our happiness, I once again received an idea that acupuncture was something I could do, that the study schedule could be arranged around work, and that it would give me a trade that I could attend to from home. So I took it up. In 2004, the last year of study, my husband and myself took out a top up to our mortgage so that we could all go travelling, with the core event being one month's clinical placement in Nanjing, in China. My children were 11 and 8 at that time, and it was an excellent experience, our time away from home lasting 4 months altogether. When I came back I launched straight into opening my clinic, and the practice grew very well until austerity cut in, around 2011. Then I had to return to paid office work so that we could pay our bills, although the clinic was always alive and I practiced in whatever off hours I had, whenever anyone needed me. I would not say my enthusiasm ever waned, but sometimes my focus and attention was needed elsewhere, especially in relation to the support of my family.
Last March I finally left this office job, and once again am exclusively practicing in my clinic. I would say there is a great deal of outside influence on me, through the pleaseant company I have found through JMG's blogs and his own teachings, which incline me to other esoteric studies, but, perhaps the guidance I am receiving here is, this is not for me, not yet. (The temptation of pride, and worse, the temptation to ignore the suffering of anyone who might benefit from my work, are ones that I prefer to avoid).
One thing that has been working very well, and this only in the past year, is that I have developed a wee altar in a corner of my clinic room, as a sort of "portal" through which to interact with Brigid's healing energy. I visualise her there in a way that is not dissimilar to the Star card above. I see her drawing down healing energy from a spiritual sun which I cannot see, because it is above the clouds (these are probably the planes which *I* CAN access), and she transfers the energy of this spiritual sun to the waters which run in a sheltered pool, fed by a waterfall, and flowing outward, including towards my clinic room, and granting blessings and healings to all who enter there. I have also developed a practice of a banishing SOP in this room, too. It is funny that many people comment on the pleasant "atmosphere" in the room, but only one, so far, has noticed the altar, and that person was happy to see it. So I think it can make itself known to who it will.
My own job, it seems, is to continue to learn everything that is suited to my own role, being the physical channel to the healing that flows from the higher planes.
In relation to the Brigid card, the lesson she teaches is that generosity is a powerful mover. In the stories of the saint, it is her generosity which gets her into trouble always - while her father is visiting a local chieftain to see what can be done to get her and her generous ways off his hands, she gives his best sword to a passing beggar! :)
But if there is no give, the wheel cannot turn, and everything becomes stagnant. So I think she is reminding me that while frugality is freedom, generosity is power. It is the power that moves everything from where it is to where it is most needed. And my job is to be a mover, and so remain open to the "movement" that brings help to where it is needed.
Thank you very much. I will go back to this reading over the next few days and meditate on it further.
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Re: Hello, Yes please and thank you
Date: 2021-02-27 10:46 am (UTC)For background, I have been running my clinic since 2005, and this after a long life and career in other, mainly office administration work. I would say that a "call to healing" work has always been sounding in my ear from when I was a child, and I was always the one drawn to turn TOWARDS and not AWAY from things that disgust or dismay others - bleeding, pus-filled wounds, vomit, etc - to see what could be done for the person suffering on the other side.
In my youth (I am now 60 years old) I considered, but could not afford, to study midwifery or medicine, and made my way through a great deal of work until one year, when my children were young, and I seemed to be working away from home too many hours for our happiness, I once again received an idea that acupuncture was something I could do, that the study schedule could be arranged around work, and that it would give me a trade that I could attend to from home. So I took it up. In 2004, the last year of study, my husband and myself took out a top up to our mortgage so that we could all go travelling, with the core event being one month's clinical placement in Nanjing, in China. My children were 11 and 8 at that time, and it was an excellent experience, our time away from home lasting 4 months altogether. When I came back I launched straight into opening my clinic, and the practice grew very well until austerity cut in, around 2011. Then I had to return to paid office work so that we could pay our bills, although the clinic was always alive and I practiced in whatever off hours I had, whenever anyone needed me. I would not say my enthusiasm ever waned, but sometimes my focus and attention was needed elsewhere, especially in relation to the support of my family.
Last March I finally left this office job, and once again am exclusively practicing in my clinic. I would say there is a great deal of outside influence on me, through the pleaseant company I have found through JMG's blogs and his own teachings, which incline me to other esoteric studies, but, perhaps the guidance I am receiving here is, this is not for me, not yet. (The temptation of pride, and worse, the temptation to ignore the suffering of anyone who might benefit from my work, are ones that I prefer to avoid).
One thing that has been working very well, and this only in the past year, is that I have developed a wee altar in a corner of my clinic room, as a sort of "portal" through which to interact with Brigid's healing energy. I visualise her there in a way that is not dissimilar to the Star card above. I see her drawing down healing energy from a spiritual sun which I cannot see, because it is above the clouds (these are probably the planes which *I* CAN access), and she transfers the energy of this spiritual sun to the waters which run in a sheltered pool, fed by a waterfall, and flowing outward, including towards my clinic room, and granting blessings and healings to all who enter there. I have also developed a practice of a banishing SOP in this room, too. It is funny that many people comment on the pleasant "atmosphere" in the room, but only one, so far, has noticed the altar, and that person was happy to see it. So I think it can make itself known to who it will.
My own job, it seems, is to continue to learn everything that is suited to my own role, being the physical channel to the healing that flows from the higher planes.
In relation to the Brigid card, the lesson she teaches is that generosity is a powerful mover. In the stories of the saint, it is her generosity which gets her into trouble always - while her father is visiting a local chieftain to see what can be done to get her and her generous ways off his hands, she gives his best sword to a passing beggar! :)
But if there is no give, the wheel cannot turn, and everything becomes stagnant. So I think she is reminding me that while frugality is freedom, generosity is power. It is the power that moves everything from where it is to where it is most needed. And my job is to be a mover, and so remain open to the "movement" that brings help to where it is needed.
Thank you very much. I will go back to this reading over the next few days and meditate on it further.
Be well!