The Magic, Miracles and Joy of an Artist: APRIL

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

APRIL

April 1 ~ It was a long cold snowy Winter, but Spring is finally here!! March is always iffy when it comes to the weather ~ definitely still part of the Winter scene, so we can almost always count on a snowstorm. There is no guarantee that April won't bring snow, but let's hope not.

April brings the opening of buds and color to Winter's drab landscape of greys and browns. The grass is turning green and there are little sprouts of green throughout the woods. Soon, the earth will be graced with the colors of the rainbow with a backdrop of blue and green.

We are enjoying a beautiful 75* sunny day.

The April flower is the Daisy or the Sweet Pea.

The gemstone for April is the Diamond.

The April zodiac sign is Aries (until the 20th) and then Taurus (21st on).

I hope your 1st day of April is just as beautiful for you and that you are enjoying your day without any jokes being played on you.

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For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come!

I AM A "SEARCHER"

"I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life, hoping to uncover its ultimate secret. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We like to walk along the beach, we are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty. We like forests and mountains, deserts and hidden rivers, and the lonely cities as well. Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with one we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know - unless it be to share our laughter. We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls; that will take us for what little we have to give. We do not want to prove ourselves to another or compete for love.

For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves."

~ James Kavanaugh

I am THE LOVERS Tarot Card

Motive, power, and action, arising from Inspiration and Impulse. THE LOVERS represents intuition and inspiration. Very often a choice needs to be made. Originally, this card was just called LOVE. And that's acually more apt than "LOVERS." Love follows in this sequence of growth and maturity. And, coming after the Emperor, who is about control, it is a radical change in perspective. LOVE is a force that makes you choose and decide for reasons you often can't understand; it makes you surrender control to a higher power. And that is what this card is all about. Finding something or someone who is so much a part of yourself, so perfectly attuned to you and you to them, that you cannot, dare not resist. This card indicates that you have or will come across a person, a career, challenge, or thing that you will fall in love with. You will know instinctively that you must have this, even if it means diverging from your chosen path. No matter the difficulties, without it you will never be complete.