Big Elk is saying it’s time to open your eyes and delight in your own heart’s singing beauty.
Where do you find beauty?
…Is it in blooming or expansive nature?
…in the look of someone’s loving eyes?
…in the wild untamed skies?
…or in an act of kindness?
How might you more easily be touched by beauty? How can you create more beauty in this world?
This is your task right now.
Dwell In Beauty
Feed Your Soul
When you get this card, Big Elk is telling you that it’s time to enjoy a harvest, whether from your garden, or from spending time alone or with friends.
To satisfy your senses, you may need more than vegetables in order to be healthy and whole.
It’s time to smell the flowers while nourishing your body.
How can you partake in deeper levels of nourishment?
What are the parts of you that need feeding?
Where do you find nourishment?
Where is the abundance in your life?
What will truly feed your soul?
Big Elk asks you to find a new perspective. Find a new way to see things, or perhaps a new place to see from
Acknowledge our interdependence with others. Notice the ways in which others can see things from a different vantage point.
We are not alone… even if we think we are. One can always find a rock to stand on, or perhaps to lay under, if need be.
This card asks us to reimagine what we think we already know. It is inspiring us to ask others to help us in seeing from their vantage point.
Find a New Perspective
When you get this card Big Elk is directing you inwards. Look to your own heart for direction. There are many options, and many paths to take.
What direction is calling you? There are no right answers in this circumstance, only possibilities.
What direction you go depends on your own inner compass…
…Is it True North?
…or are you craving Sunshine of the South?
Follow the path that exists only on your own inner road map. Do not worry if you find yourself in the weeds, staring at the main road in the distance.
Embrace your own inner sense of direction. It's okay to laugh and get lost. If you don't know where you are, make your own map and follow that path.
Find your inner compass
Big Elk says “Go for it !” Find yourself immersed in your passion!
Do what makes you happy!
Go down the road of joy, and make no exceptions!
This is a time to find what brings you the most joy and go for it. Follow the roadmap of feelings and sensations. Follow, the Yes, and the ahas! They may be big or small.
If you were wondering about your bliss and where to find it, look to your heart.
What makes your heart light enough to fly?
Everyone's path is different. This is about finding your own path and your own bliss. You can share this, but let the path be that which makes your heart sing, not the one that you “think” will do that, but the one that actually does.
Bliss is a feeling and a sensation. Take a breath, exhale and follow that…
Follow Your Bliss
Sink In and enjoy the unknowable. Let the mystery guide you to places unimaginable …into the places least expected and most welcome. Delight in what is possible.
When you get this card, Big Elk is asking you to be OK with what is known and also with what is unknown. Big Elk is asking you to lean into that which you do not know yet.
Instead of striving for answers and trying to figure it all out, can you celebrate the great mystery of all that is yet to unfold?
Revel in the Mystey
When Big Elk starts talking about rest and shelter, it is time to pay attention and listen. Listen to the trees, …to your community, …to your own inner voices.
Where do you feel safe enough to rest?
How can you now tend to (and care for) yourself? Where does this need to happen?
Even if our outside circumstances change, we can find places within ourselves and within our community around us that offer us shelter - a place to stay out of the rain and to help one another.
We don't have to carry the load alone. Notice the resources that are around you. Reach out to manifest the replenishment and rest that you need.
Each experience of shelter is housed within a larger context. We all are living beings, and we are interconnected with all of Nature and the Universe. To truly experience deep and nourishing rest, you may need to find the safety of a trustworthy shelter.
What needs to be taken care of so that you may rest?
Do you need the solitude of being with a tree, or to be held in the nurturing embrace of Mother Earth?
How do you find deep peace in your heart?
What is the shelter you need in this wild and changing world?
Rest And Shelter
Big Elk says “place your feet on the floor and feel the ground beneath you”. Sense where you are. You have the earth’s support. It is holding you and cherishing you. Even in the midst of the unknown, you can feel the pull of the earth that is always beneath you. You can recognize it, as a familiar sensation.
How do you ground yourself in your (as of yet) unknown ventures?
How do you feel your way across these mist covered lands?
With one foot in front of the other, Big Elk says “Trust the earth below you, and you will roam free.” Find your inner connection to the earth and know that with any step you take, that this connection and freedom can’t be taken from you.
Even if the path in front of you is unclear, the ground beneath you is ever solid, and you (like Big Elk) are present.
This card suggests it may be time to venture beyond the safety of what you know, but know that in doing so you may always rely upon your inner strength and your connection to the earth and the support it brings.
Roam Free
Big Elk says “Enjoy where you are. Find your rhythm and settle into it”. The Presence of boulders inspires us to slow down, and find what is alive within the apparent stillness, even if the pace is as slow as geologic time.
Can you feel a pulse of aliveness?
Where is the hint of movement within the otherwise seeming stillness?
What is constant that lies within the center of this stillness?
What is a sustainable rhythm for you now?
Can you find it?
This is - a rhythm deep within a rhythm, the kind of rhythm that is not affected by outside forces. It is a Rhythm that persists ~ like taking a breath… This rhythm is an indisputable part of life.
It’s time to find Your Groove. Sense a little deeper.
Rock Steady
Big Elk is nudging you in a particular direction on your path.
Can you feel it?
Can you see the way forward?
Big Elk puts one foot in front of the other and follows the path laid out for Themself. Big Elk trusts the path ahead.
One foot in front of the other, there is a path laid out for You.
Are you ready to take it?
This may not be the only way forward, but it is a clear way, and Big Elk says to trust this clarity.
There may be distractions, and it may seem unclear as to where this path will lead. Trust that Big Elk will bring you to the exact place you need to be.
This card asks you to stay on the path that you are already on. The journey has begun. Follow it through and trust that you are already headed somewhere.
Stay On The Path
When Big Elk says “Take a hike!” It's time to get a move on.
Where do you need to go?
What will come with you, nourish you and support you?
What will be a burden that you may be best served by leaving behind?
Big Elk doesn't require you to go anywhere new (but you can). Big Elk simply wants you to take a look closely at what matters. If you want to get to the top of the trail it is easier if you lighten your load.
Maybe it's an idea, a relationship, or actual stuff you have been unnecessarily carrying around.
Ask yourself “what do I need right now, and what am I willing to leave behind me?”
Go for it! Put on your shoes right this minute, and go for a hike! …Even if you can’t do it physically, you can ask yourself what is getting in your way? …And where do you want to go?
Big Elk is just around the corner waiting to meet you
Take A Hike
Big Elk is asking you to stop feeling a need for everything to be so mysterious.
Let the signs that are right in front of you, guide you on your path. Trust that it can be that simple. Find your way to recognizing and trusting your guidance. The signs are everywhere.
Can you let these messages in?
It may be something you ‘see’, or it may be something you simply ‘feel’, as an answer when you ask a question.
How does your body respond, when you see the words written in ‘Bold’ across the street signs?
If they make you laugh and smile, might you take that as an indication that you’re on the right path?
Big Elk wants to guide you.
Will you allow yourself to be guided?
The signs surround us. Our culture has so much to tell us, our surroundings show us so much. Yet it can be intimidating and we may shut down and stop receiving these messages.
Big Elk is asking you to trust again, and to open up to receiving the information that is right in front of you and is laid out on the path before you.
Can you trust?
If not, then what are the obstacles that are keeping you from being able to trust?
You may not end up where you expect, but if you are trusting in the Divine, you’re likely to end up where you need to be.