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My cards for Monday were 4 of Swords, The Tower and The Fool. My first thought was panic, could it be that while I was sleeping my house would collapse and I'd have to become a vagrant. Luckily it was nothing so drastic, in fact my day took a very surreal turn.
Yes, Monday held one of those moments. It was a moment that, afterwards, gave me such a good vibe, I could feel the positive energy just oozing from me.
I decided to join my daughter whilst she walked her unexhaustable dog Elphie through some local woods, as it was a beautiful day, sunny with a slight breeze, and far too nice to spend in the house. I just felt the need to recharge my batteries with some earth energy and the woods was just the right place to go.
Now Elphie is a 5 month old Border Collie from farm stock, she is obedient, fast and tireless so a good walk was needed to burn some excess energy, because walking for miles through the Yorkshire countryside the day previous just hadn't cut the mustard with her.
After slipping her leash in the woods, Elphie found a pug who seemed more than happy to play, and as we walked a conversation between the pug's owner and ourselves started. There was an energy coming from him that seemed to click with me immediately, however my daughter thought I'd lost all reasoning, as I am usually very guarded around strangers.
However, this man was interesting, articulate, quirky even, and the conversation felt easy and refreshing. As we meandered along the track, the pug's owner asked if we knew what the building on the river bank opposite was. When I looked through the trees, I was so taken aback, as the building was actually the farm where Elphie, the dog, was born, her birth home.
Not realising that we had walked so far from our usual path, this lovely man kept us talking, he asked about our jobs, our family and about Elphie. But surprisingly it didn't feel odd, it was a comfortable conversation, there was a familiarity about him, but I could not recall from where.
He took us walking on paths and tracks we had never been on before, showed us some of the best views of the woods and before we knew it we had been walking for almost an hour and a half. Both dogs still going strong.
When we eventually returned to the car park, we were re-leashing the dogs, when this gent, eventually introduced himself. And then the penny dropped, he is a stand up comic, well known, and just back from the Edinburgh Festival.
I couldn't believe we had spent nearly 2 hours with him, rambling and chatting about life in general, laughing at the intricacies of life and had totally failed to notice who he was. But he was a pleasure to talk to, down to earth and engaging. He had shared things about his personal life, his family and the love for his dog. We talked about toddler tantrums, our rather more comical parenting fails, and our jobs-we-hate-but-have-no-choice-but-to-do.
And the nicest thing, the thing that really lifted me, was the way he thanked my daughter and I for making his walk a joy and sharing our day with him. He thanked Elphie as well for keeping his dog company too.
But here was a man, with tv appearances under his belt, a venue at the Edinburgh Festival and who does nationwide comedy tours, thanking us for making his day. It certainly made me feel, somehow humble, that my company (and my daughters) in a rather bizarre situation would be seen as something special.
It definitely instills my belief that, being true to who you really are, being honest and open and accepting of others, brings a certain energy that can be seen and felt by others. Of all the dog walkers in those woods, how had it been us who clicked? The strangest thing is this man's dog doesn't usually enjoy the company of other dogs, Elphie is usually very submissive to other dogs, and yet they played chase, hide and seek like old friends, but never went far from us or each other.
Maybe these dogs sensed the energy flow, maybe it was their energy that drew us humans together. I will probably never know, all I know is, out of the many bizarre days I have had in my life (and oh boy! there have been many), this one stands out on top. I mean how many times in your life do you ramble through the woods with a celebrity and his dog in tow and to be thanked for your company, for being entertaining, interesting and 'real'.
For me, I feel that never would I have seen any of this when I pulled my cards that morning, but looking back, it made perfect sense, in a surreal kind of way.
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