One hundred and thirty seven years ago today Margret Williams was born.  Forty one years later she wrote her famous book The Velveteen Rabbit.  Most of her children’s books center around toys coming to life and conveying human emotions.  She wasn’t the first to do this; there was Steadfast Toy Solider by Hans Christian(1838) Anderson or a couple years earlier than her book the Raggedy Ann(1922) stories by Johnny Gruelle.

It is interesting that Margret’s and Hans’ stories are the ones that have held up through time.  Their commonality is that they are sentimental but sad stories.  Both toys are forgotten, thrown out, and die.  However through the alchemy of love are transformed into something else.  It is interesting that both these authors chose inanimate objects to tell this story instead of their living counterparts.  Maybe these tales and ones like them ask a deeper question – what makes us real?

My favorite part of her story is the exchange between the Velveteen Bunny and the Skin Horse.  You can read the entire exchange as you read down the forecasts. I have added its parts sequentially at the end of each forecast – for fun and contemplation.  They may or may not add to your reality.  😉

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Aries – Ten of Rods

The Ten of Rods say you are carrying too much at one time.  Sometimes we take on more than we should because we think or believe we should handle more.  Whether that choice is to prove something to yourself or old mental baggage that someone has loaded on you, you do not at this time need to take on so much responsibility.    The Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others. He was so old that his brown coat was bald in patches and showed the seams underneath, and most of the hairs in his tail had been pulled out to string bead necklaces.

*Taurus – Hermit

Last week the Star challenge you  to not hide the suffering and sorrow of the world when, so in the Star’s simplest form asked you to stand and say “you are not alone” or in its complex form to help find positive solutions. This week you pulled the Hermit card that still continues the theme of healing.  The Hermit advises you need some alone time. Your mind needs solitude to heal your own wounds before going out in the world.  However, you are also challenged when you are with people who you are bringing that healing message to others.  He was wise, for he had seen a long succession of mechanical toys arrive to boast and swagger, and by-and-by break their mainsprings and pass away, and he knew that they were only toys, and would never turn into anything else.
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