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  • Adaptability
    The ability to cope with change.
  • Ambition
    Ambition can be for good or ill.
  • Apathy
    Apathy, unmotivated, doing nothing.
  • Armour
    Armour protects the vulnerable inside, but also hides it.
  • Autumn
    The season.
  • Balance
    Balance, harmony.
  • Beauty
    Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but there are some things which are considered universally beautiful.
  • Beauty Hidden
  • Beginning
  • Blindness
  • Captivity
    Captivity, imprisonment, trapped.
  • Change
    Change, metamorphosis, transformation.
  • Chaos
    Chaos, disharmony, disturbance, mess
  • Cheerful
    Cheerfulness, cheeriness, cheer, happiness.
  • Choice
    Choices to be made, crossroads, fork in the road, change of direction.
  • Clarity
    Clarity, transparency, understanding.
  • Cold
    Cold, in temperature, temperament, emotion.
  • Communication
  • Completion
    Completion, accomplishment, successful end, wholeness.
  • Complexity
  • Compromise
    Compromise; in the good sense, negotiation, peacemaking; in the bad sense, corruption.
  • Confusion
    Confusion, uncertainty, lack of understanding.
  • Contentment
  • Cool
    Cool, in temperature, temperament, emotions.
  • Courage
    Courage, bravery.
  • Cowardice
    Cowardice, fearfulness.
  • Creativity
    Creation, inspiration, imagination, creativity.
  • Cunning
    Cunning, cleverness.
  • Curiosity
    Curiosity killed the cat. Satisfaction brought it back.
  • Cycles
    Cycles of nature, metamorphosis, rebirth, renewal.
  • Darkness
  • Day
    Day, dawning, metaphorical or not.
  • Death
    Death, of body, of mind, of spirit; death of others, death of self, death to self.
  • Deception
    Deception, lies.
  • Despair
  • Destruction
    Destruction, dissolution.
  • Diversity
    Diversity, multiplicity.
  • Duality
    Duality: equal and opposite; two natures, which may or may not be in balance.
  • Earth
    Earthly, human, mortal.
  • End
    Ending, completion, finished.
  • Endurance
    Endurance, survival, obdurate, unmoving.
  • Energy
  • Envy
    Envy, jealousy.
  • Ephemeral
    Ephemeral, fleeting; also the idea of living in the moment.
  • Eternity
    Eternity, unending, no beginning and no end.
  • Faith
    Faith, belief, trust.
  • Faithfulness
    Faithful, trustworthy, dependable.
  • Family
    Family, by blood or otherwise.
  • Feminine
    Feminine, female.
  • Fierceness
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  • Freedom
    Freedom, liberty.
  • Friendship
    Friendship.
  • Generosity
    Generosity, open-handedness
  • Glory
    Glory, majesty, nobility.
  • Grace
  • Greed
    Greed, avarice, covetousness.
  • Guilt
  • Harmony
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  • Healing
    Healing, health.
  • Heaven
    Heaven, the dwelling of God, Paradise.
  • Hidden
  • Hive Mind
    The hive mind; the collective; conformity, groupthink.
  • Holiness
    Holy, set apart.
  • Honour
  • Hope
    Hope, optimism.
  • Hot
    Hot, whether of temperature, temperament, emotions.
  • Humanity
    Humanity, mankind, human beings, mortals, everyman.
  • Humility
    Humility, humbleness
  • Hunger
    Hunger for food, or desire for other things.
  • Hunter
    A hunter, a predator, something dangerous.
  • Imagination
    Imagine, fancy, creativity.
  • Imperfection
  • Independence
    Independence, non-conformist, self-reliant...
  • Industry
    Industry, diligence, hard work.
  • Innocence
    Innocence, untouched.
  • Introspection
    Introspection, self-knowledge, pensiveness.
  • Intuition
    Intuition; sensing things without facts, though not as strong or otherworldly as Second Sight.
  • Joy
    Joy, joyfulness, rejoicing; something higher and more heavenly than cheerfulness.
  • Judgement
    Judgement, justice.
  • Justice
  • Knowledge
    Having knowledge, whether for good or ill.
  • Knowledge Hidden
    Hidden knowledge, hidden wisdom, secrets, mysteries.
  • Lateral Thinking
    Able to look at a problem from a different angle, creative problem-solving; side-stepping.
  • Law
  • Life
    Life, living, being alive.
  • Life Eternal
    Life eternal, eternal life, immortality, divine life.
  • Light
    Light, whether physical or metaphorical.
  • Loneliness
    Lonely, solitary, alone.
  • Longevity
    Long life (but not eternal life)
  • Love
    Makes the world go around.
  • Loyalty
    Loyal, trustworthy, dependable.
  • Luck
  • Luck Bad
    Bad luck, misfortune, inauspicious.
  • Marriage
  • Masculine
  • Mourning
    Mourning, loss.
  • Night
    Night, whether physical or metaphorical.
  • Nothingness
  • Not Impossible
  • Opposites
    Opposites, complements, yin-yang.
  • Otherworld
    Second sight, insight into the Otherworld, spiritual wisdom.
  • Partnership
    Partnership, a team of two, reciprocity.
  • Passion
    Passion, zeal, enthusiasm.
  • Patience
    Patience, long-suffering.
  • Peace
  • Perception
    Perception, observation, understanding.
  • Perfection
  • Perseverance
    Perseverance, keep going, determination.
  • Physical
    The physical as opposed to the spiritual. The actual, as opposed to the possible.
  • Playfulness
  • Plenty
    Plenty, plentiful, abundant, full to satisfaction.
  • Potential
  • Pride
    Pride, confidence, arrogance.
  • Prosperity
    Prosperity, wealth.
  • Protection
    Protection, shelter.
  • Prudence
  • Purification
    Purification, cleansing, sanctification; the process of being made pure, rather than being pure already.
  • Purity
    Pure, unstained, clean, essential essence, refined.
  • Quest For Knowledge
    Seeking knowledge, rather than having it already.
  • Randomness
    Randomness, chance, unpredictability
  • Reckless
  • Renewal
    Renewal, rebirth.
  • Rescue
    Rescue; the process of being freed from captivity.
  • Rest
    Rest, sleep, respite.
  • Sacrifice
    Sacrifice, self-sacrifice, martyrdom.
  • Sadness
    Sadness, sorrow.
  • Salvation
  • Separation
    Separation, isolation, being cut off
  • Service
  • Silence
  • Simplicity
    Simplicity, clarity, uncomplicated.
  • Sin
  • Sloth
    Sloth, laziness, doing nothing.
  • Slowness
  • Something Is Wrong
    Something is WRONG: upside-down, topsy-turvy, unnatural, the opposite of what it should be; being uneasy, unsettled, uncomfortable, confused.
  • Spirit
    Spirit, spiritual, supernatural, non-physical.
  • Spring
    The season.
  • Stability
    Stability, not moving, staying put, reliable, not changing.
  • Stagnation
    Stagnation, inertia, moribund, changeless in a bad way.
  • Strength
    Strength, vigor, forceful.
  • Stubborn
    Stubbornness; wilfulness, strong-willed, determination.
  • Subtlety
    Subtle, sophisticated, astute, delicate touch.
  • Suffering
    Suffering, enduring pain.
  • Summer
    The season.
  • Swiftness
  • Sympathy
    Sympathy, empathy.
  • Talkative
  • Teamwork
    Teamwork, cooperation, working together
  • Threshold
    The threshold, the gateway between one world and the next, one state and the next.
  • Time Passing
    Time, time passing, age.
  • Tranquility
    Tranquility, calm.
  • Travel
    Travel, wandering.
  • Trials
    Trials, testing.
  • Trust
  • Truth
    Truth, veracity, surety.
  • Unfaithful
    Unfaithful, betrayal, abandonment, turning away.
  • Unique
    Unique, individual, unlike others.
  • Unity
    Unity, oneness, communion.
  • Universe
  • Vanity
    Vanity, that inward-facing self-centred beauty.
  • Victory
    Victory, overcoming difficulties, triumph.
  • War
    War, conflict.
  • Warm
    Warm, whether temperature, temperament, or emotions.
  • Weakness
  • Winter
    The Season
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Last edited Wed 21 Sep 2016 21:38:52 AEST