Ah Rosie Lee... How many of you thought I was off down the track of old school psychic characters sat at the end of the pier, all headscarves, dangly earrings and eerily enunciated vagaries? Come on you should know me better than that, I was simply referring to cockney rhyming slang for a good old CUP OF TEA. 
'Right said Fred, have a cup of tea, up diddley up up diddle diddle dee.' Okay that bit was for the full Pisces moon in the early hours of this morning. Why? because I'm feeling slightly barking after being woken up in the middle of the night by two foxes knocking ten bells out of each other and then yapping for an hour. If you imaging cats fighting and then add a pinch of Hades into the mix that's what they sound like. so what do I do? no I don't look for the horse and hounds, I work with people and patterns and my subconscious reminds me that I had been awoken by the same noise some months before. As a result I looked back through my 'morning pages' and there in the early hours of Sunday the 20th April - the Scorpio full moon - The same noise of foxes fighting and yapping. For me absolutely no such thing as co-incidence, but even for the Skeptic, it should stimulate thought of our own habits, patterns and subconscious responses.
We are all connected and the outside world is a reflection of our inner. So, back to the cup of tea, sometimes emotional honesty with ourselves can be difficult so a good tool is to look at one of your external habits - shopping / reading magazines / watching tv / playing games / exercising and eating and drinking. Then to break down the times of day you involve yourself in them and especially how you are feeling around that time, who you have interacted with, what thoughts you are having etc... Some will be non emotional habits, others - the must have / do - may well start to show a habit of distracting yourself from or suppressing an 'uncomfortable feeling.'
Cigarettes are a classic example, but the rhyming slang and psychic connotations weren't as good ;-0. There will be the non emotional habitual cigarettes, like those with a glass of wine of being offered one and there will be the emotionally triggered ones - the boss ignored you, someone is sharing a drama and you cant' help, an unexpected bill arrives, and a million other scenarios where on an emotional subconscious level you feel out of control in some capacity.
The way we involve in these habits can be very insightful too. It's worth looking at where you usually drink your cup of tea - at the computer, whilst ironing, doing the kids homework, only at service stations on long lonely journeys... after sex, sorry that was probably the cigarette. Or a thousand other ways. At the other end of the scale is the Japanese tea ceremony, done as a meditative event to still the mind, to bring our intentions back to the present moment, to remind ourselves of the daily beauty in the small things, to put love into something for ourselves and to share with others... you get the picture.
I'm all for practicality, so I'm not suggesting you don the Kimono, warm the iron pot full of hand picked leaves over a wood burning fire in between your sales calls... but, and here's the but, rather than chucking a PG tip into a dirty mug, sloshing in some out of date milk and gulping it down on the way to your next 'chore' how about; choosing a special tea you really like, using a special mug only you drink out of and that's always kept clean, thinking positive loving thoughts whilst you make it and taking 5 minutes to sit quietly somewhere with a view other than your computer to drink it... That will remind your subconscious you value yourself just for starters.
On a final note considering I love words - TEA could be viewed as reflecting Thoughts Emotions and Actions, so pretty much on the same wavelength as today's blog, and maybe Rosie Lee was onto something divining in those leaves at the bottom of the cup. She actually was, it's much quicker just to 'ask upstairs', but sometimes a bit of ceremony is serving other purposes on other levels.
Jules x