The Chariot
The Chariot energies prompt: Move forward with confidence. Be disciplined, yet flexible in your pursuits. Embody the journey.
The Chariot and the Cedar
The Chariot energy can be embodied by a man, woman or situation. This energy can positively influence your progress on the path. It may be interpreted to mean that no matter how narrow or precarious the correct path, one must continue on. Positive energies include success, talent and efficiency.
The Chariot energies manifest in Cedar.
Cedar
The Chariot and the Cedar both help life become a forward moving gift. Embark on a deeper quest, learn from ancient wisdom and forge a new path. Cedar is both a spiritual vessel used in sacred ceremony and a literal vessel when it is used for making canoes.
Like strong, flexible cedar roots finding their way through the forest, be determined and opportunistic.
Travel between worlds of heaven and earth. Bring the knowledge of spirit and soul into the body just as the cedar trunk contains the stories of the earth. Have faith in the experience. The journey is the triumph that brings mastery.
Healing With the Color Green
Green revitalizes your nervous system, heart, circulatory system and liver, lowering blood pressure and releasing frustration and anger.
Meditation and healing are enhanced by Green. It stimulates growth and is good for healing broken bones. Surround anyone who is unwell with Green. Absorb Green rays to revitalize your nervous system and heart.
Revitalization Activity
Focus on flooding your nervous system with Green rays of light. Direct the light throughout your whole spine before moving it into your heart. Then rotate this Green light around your heart until you feel your heart expand, relax, and full up with vitality. Say:
- Divine Intelligence, please release all the pressure and stress from my heart and nervous system, and fill me up with your healing, revitalizing Green light.
Affirmations and Activity
AFFIRMATIONS
Choose an affirmation and repeat several times daily, or during meditation
- Every step no matter how small, is progress.
- I celebrate my progress along the way with gratitude for what I have achieved and determination for what is to come.
- Where there is progress, there is success
ACTIVITY
Your Progress List. Pick one thing from you To Do List and break it down into tiny steps. As you complete each step cross it off or put a smiley face next to it. For an example:
- Clean the kitchen could be better broken down to throw out old food,
- unload the dishwasher,
- wash the floor,
- wipe down surfaces,
- scrub pots and pans,
- clean the microwave.
Check off each task as you accomplish it.
Crafting With the Chariot
Craft
Believe in courage in cartwheeling past your comfort zones and trying something a little bit scary every day.
- Encounter cedar discipline in the wild, ask for guidance. Carry a small leaf in your pocket for courage.
- Practice discipline and flexibility, learn to harvest cedar honorably, with ceremony and intention.
- Journey into the spiritual realms with a cedar stem or cedar smudge.
- Healing With the Color Green: Video
Mini Meditation
Meditation
Get into a relaxing position and close your eyes, make sure you are a comfortable temperature and not likely to be interrupted.
- Take three deep breaths
- Feel your tension melting away.
Imagine yourself doing one of the crafts mentioned above. Use your imagination. Make it as elaborate or as simple as you like. Have whomever you would like to be there come and share the time with you.
Imagine what it would look and feel like, as if it were really happening. Use your five senses and imagine all the sensory details as though you are really there.
Be creative and indulge in this moment.
Spend as long as you like in this visualization and feel the benefits of crafting with nature. Think about your meditation as often as you like as you go through your day. If possible, create it in reality.
The Herbcrafter
Herbcrafter
An herbcrafter is an afficianada of the botanical realm. She is in love with plants and longs to know them more deeply.
Her approach is driven by a playful, wild spirit.
The herbcrafter embraces the plant world as her teacher and friend through observation and botany, gardening and wildcrafting, medicine and kitchen craft, fiber arts and weaving, art and magic.
She recognizes herself as part of nature. She seeks reciprocity in all things. Through the relationship with the botanical world, she learns how plants and people can be of service to one another.
Move forward with confidence. Be disciplined yet flexible in your pursuits. Embody the journey.
The Herbcrafter’s Tarot