25 February 2021
Context
Welcome to Day 56!
It was a busy day today because it was my husband’s 50th birthday. Coronavirus restrictions late last year turned what was going to be a big event into a small event with husband’s father. There was a pleasant surprise for husband when he received a posey of Australian Natives in hessian.
Australian Natives are beautiful but not in a frilly way, to me they’ve always seemed appropriate for a masculine bouquet. The colours are slightly more dusky lending them beauty, style, and simplicity.
On the other hand, it might be because the Australian natives come with a subtle appearance of danger. Perhaps it’s the spiky leaves on the banksia with it’s almost cactus like appearance, or the velvety tarantula look of the petals of the protea, or could it be the out-of-space look of the dryandra, which lends itself to be versatile enough to be given to both sexes. I’m sure it’s the danger element. Why not? According to one author everything else in Australia is out to kill you, except a couple of sheep… oh and maybe those too? (I’ll find out the author and populate the References with it as soon as my husband wakes and I can quiz him for the details. Found out it’s Bill Bryson).
Husband, father-in-law, his wife, and me went to dinner at a traditional Italian restaurant nearby. We hadn’t been there before and since our favourite modern Italian restaurant hadn’t opened due to coronavirus restrictions, we settled for traditional instead. The meals were okay, but the salad dressing was on the unpleasantly salty side. This could be the restaurant catering to the Australian habit of adding salt to a dish before they even try it. The amount of salt added makes you wonder whether the ocean is missing some salt! Not a single person in the restaurant needed to add salt to their meal.
There’s a saying in Germany that goes: if the meal is salty the chef must be in love. Meaning the chef isn’t concentrating on cooking but thinking of their sweetheart. This chef must have really been infatuated! All up, it wasn’t a bad experience because the service was excellent, and the environment had a romantic feel with “fairy lights” all over the restaurant.
The company was also lovely. After the meal we went home and had some Belgian Chocolate cake which did not disappoint – quite the reverse!
These days my husband and I don’t typically buy each other birthday presents, mainly because anything that’s in the birthday present price category, if we want it we buy it for ourselves most of the time. Nonetheless, it’s important to mark the occasion, particularly a birthday that has a zero at the end of it.
Anyway, other activities for the day were, the issue spoken about yesterday where a piece of work landed in my lap for which I had no responsibility – it went right back. Contrary to expectations what I thought was going to be a hard sell, went back easily.
The issue of leaving project operational handover activities to find their its own home gained traction up until I bumped into the same roadblock as six months ago. Prepared this time, I devised a cunning plan to overcome said obstacles (yes, that is a Black Adder TV series reference). The plan will take a little longer but there is less chance of it biting back.
Today's Cards
The Cards - Analysis
Different reading tact today. Experiencing Existence has set about the Goal of The Lovers which is about two whole persons working together, each knowing their own boundaries, strengths as well as understanding and respecting the other’s individuality. Together the result is beneficial not just to the parties involved but also to everyone who comes in contact with them. This is Experiencing Existence with companionship.
The Distant Past shows that it hasn’t always been easy, because there has been some confusion which has led to the Suppression of self. The Suppression was necessary as it was like the cocoon state which later opens to expose the naked self. A Creativity Future Energy can assist is continuing the growth that begun in the Distant Past.
The Creativity gives way to Feelings of a Rebirth or a shedding of an old skin into a new way of being. Other People’s Views believe that I am under the spell of The Dream where the romance will end and the happy ever after only exists in fairy tales.
Dominating the Hopes and Fears is the The Miser who is afraid to give for Fear that there will be nothing left. The mindset of scarcity shrinks perception and the world becomes a little darker and suppressed. The Hope is that The Miser is not what moving forward will look like.
Activities with guests, celebrations and existence can all become wearying, when it happens in a day, and at the best of times this can lead to Exhaustion, but in a good way.
References
Osho, Osho Zen Tarot – The Transcendental Game of Zen, St Martin’s Press, ISBN 0-312-11733-7
Bryson, Bill, Downunder (In a Sunburned Country).
