Tarot: Do you believe in it?

Have you read your horoscope lately? I haven't, but I used to read them regularly. They are fascinating, though not necessarily entirely true. You can choose to believe them, if you want. Like everything else in my life, I take them with a grain of salt. They are guidelines to what could happen, but, in the end, you are the master of your fate and all that.

Today I received a free Tarot reading by email. Apparently, based on my birth date, my Life Symbol card is the Tarot Trump. Now, I don't know anything about Tarot cards except they represent something in your life. But I do like the way they put it...that this is my Personality Motivator Card.

So here it is...

Like your Astrological Sign, you have a Tarot Trump (Major Arcana) card that is assigned to you for life according to your birth date. This life card describes who you are to the outside world, your tendencies, personality type, potential, challenges, motivations, expectations, or how others may see you. We refer to it as your Personality Motivator Card (PMC).

(Upright) 

You are a person of strong conviction, persuasion, determination, and great courage, and you may thrive on, or be confronted with an inordinate amount of challenges or tests of character. You've been there and done that, and you understand that setbacks, suffering, or loss can either make you or break you, and you aren't going to let anything hold you down or cause you to give up. Having more responsibility, dignity, willpower, or obligations than many, you are an example of inspiration or perseverance, and you may have little tolerance for those who don't take responsibility for their lives, blame bad luck, make excuses, or have a victim mentality. Remember that compassion, especially when you think you're the only one going through difficulties, will be the greatest show of strength.

(Reversed) 

Jealousy, bad luck, shame, blame, insecurity, or a victim mentality could reflect an inability to accept responsibility for your own choices or decisions. When things don't go your way, you may resort to threats, violence, retaliation, revenge, or strong-armed tactics of manipulation in order to get your point across or get even. Being too controlling, getting in other people's faces, talking over others, or going "off" on them, only pushes them away or demonstrates a lack of self-control or willpower. Playing to the crowd not only turns the situation into a circus, but can cause others to question your self-respect. It only takes one act of true courage to inspire transformation of character.

Vegas Trip

Vegas...the city that never sleeps.

I just recently got back from a trip to Vegas. Too bad it wasn't for leisure this time. The weather was scorching hot, so I mostly stayed indoors and took these pictures from the car.

The new City Center

Caesar's Palace

It's THE Hotel

Statue of Liberty...in suburban Vegas

The big 3: Trump Tower, Encore, Wynn

New York, New York - Las Vegas

Room with a view

A view of Encore from my grimy window :)

Common Courtesy

Common courtesy is an almost extinct concept nowadays. You hardly see it anymore. At least, that's my opinion and experience. Will it ever be revived? I doubt it. Especially with the explosion of social networking sites online, courtesy (and discretion, I might add) has become so foreign. Well, I just thought I'd share what I felt on the matter...


Now here are some quotes I gathered about common courtesy.

"Life is not so short but there is always time for courtesy." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit." - Fran Lebowitz



"No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy." -Unknown


"When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible." - Mohandas Gandhi


"There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also." - Melissa Etheridge
 

A Friend of the Truest Kind

I've been rummaging through my stuff lately (a very belated Spring cleaning :) )...and found this little book that a very dear friend gave to me a few years back. The Treasure of a Friend by John C. Maxwell is brimming with heartwarming stories, poignant poems and unforgettable quotes about friendship.

I found this piece, and I thought, "I wish I had more friends like this." LOL! Hope you enjoy it, too.

A Friend of the Truest Kind

A friend...

...is someone who keeps your secrets and never divulges them, even if tortured--or worse, tempted with chocolate.

...is someone who quietly destroys the photograph that makes you look like a beached whale.

...is someone who knows you don't know what you're talking about, but allows you to reach that conclusion on your own. 

...is someone who goes with you on a diet--and off it too.

...is someone who doesn't say, "I told you so," no matter how tempting it might be.

A friend of the truest kind is kind and true to you.

"In prosperity our friends know us.
In adversity we know our friends."

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