There are spaces and places within the world of the Kitsune that can be found within the human world, too. One of the most magickal places of all is a place where we can connect with moonlight, in a world that is no longer lit brightly, but gleaming with silver, the same as it is during our waking hours, yet entirely different because of the gift of moonlight. When this card appears, you are being asked to look at a situation, person, or concern from a very different perspective, and to allow yourself the space to contemplate it as a quiet time in solitude, under the silver light of the moon.
Within this space there will imaginative new ways to approach any difficulties, and your inventiveness and ability to dream into being a new approach will be of great help during the daylight hours, which so often belong to the world of work, of family, of others. In these in between times, guarded by moonlight, you will not only be able to solve the problem before you, but you will have time alone to rediscover aspects of your soul that cannot seem to be fully expressed at this time during the day. At night, there is another you, another part of your identity which can be explored and in time, allowed to flourish. For you are the gardener of your own soul, and you will tend to what needs to grow within the moonlit hours, and allow it time, to come forth into the light of day, and become more integrated into the everyday aspects of your world. For now, find this space and place, and be illuminated with the silver light of imagination and of infinite possibility. Let your imagination, creativity, dreams and wonder all feed into your waking life’s projects. Let the moonlight and sunlight intertwine and create magic.
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There are times to be active and to walk into the day and be present and a part of all that is. But this is not that time. For coming to you now is the Dragon of the Night, the one who shares the energy of rest and recuperation with all the denizens of the Kitsune realm. For although there are Kitsune who walk by night, who intertwine with your dreams to teach and explore, there are those who must truly allow themselves to be at rest, without resistance, once the start reach their highest point. And this time is here for you now. Take a step back and consider ways in which to restore your energy levels. Create a sleeping space which is designed to maximize a truly nourishing sleep experience. Reduce the light – even the moonlight – which can enter and give yourself over to the darkness as your blessed eyes close and the sun’s eye dims for a time.
In this way you will feel stronger, calmer, more alive and ready for all that the waking hours bring. Without this rest, you will feel stretched and thin of aspect and temper, fraying around the edges, until such a time as you can rest once again. Take time to establish a routine, exclude the light from radiant devices from your space, establish a prayerful, soulful ritual that will slowly ease you into the in-between world of sleep. Within your waking life, too, take a moment to step back and see how you can create a restful approach to all that takes place. This is not a time for effort, for reaching, but for cultivation of calm and creative space within your life. Force nothing, allow space for doing barely a thing at all, except creating energy and experiences which feed every cell, your every living moment.
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For now, dear seeker, even while you are on this adventure, the Kitsune ask you to consider that it is time to be still awhile. You have traveled far and experienced a great deal. Now, these wise foxes say it is time to rest and recuperate and be still, still as the earth beneath the snow, quiet as the seed beneath the soil, and allow the energy about you to be rewoven and reweaved and the energy within you to be restored and received.
This is a time to pause and to breathe, and to take deep space and time for yourself. In a world that encourages an endless doingness, this time of nothingness will seem difficult and strange at times, even frustrating. Yet there is a purpose, and there is so much that needs to be done in the stillness. Nature is not always in the process of growth – she moves and dances in a cycle of seasons, and the season for you now is winter, a season to be soft, and quiet as snow, to rest as the trees do, and to prepare silently, with patience, for the gateways and the tests that lie ahead. You will move forward again, but for now, dear one, rest awhile in this space with the Kitsune of Inari, and know you will be all the better for this time of graceful, soft, and peaceful pause.
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