I use tarot and oracle cards as tools for reflection and contemplation. Rather than divining the future, they are a way for me to look more deeply at the "now."
"The goal isn't to arrive, but to meander, to saunter, to make your life a holy wandering." ~ Rami Shapiro

Monday, September 5, 2016

Expanding Worldview

From the Bonefire Tarot, the World; from the Day of the Dead Lenormand, Child:
          The young woman who sits comfortably in a thicket reminds me of the tale of Br'er Rabbit who begs Br'er Fox not to throw him in the brierpatch. When Fox does, the wiley Rabbit is able to escape and calls out, "I was bred and born in the brierpatch!" In the little booklet that comes with her deck, Gabi describes the World card as "knowing who you really are, not what you have been led to believe." We all have labels others have applied to us, as well as categories we've put our own self in. What happens when those labels are stripped away? Do we see all the potential we hold instead of just the limitations? The funny thing is, once we recognize it in us, we see it in other people too. William Blake wrote, "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern." The Child appears from the Lenormand deck and suggests that we hold on to that thought as we go explore without stamping a classification on all that we see. In the words of Yeats, "The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."

6 comments:

  1. As much work as I have done with myself, I still hear the same old records I had to listen to as a child. I know that I am not that child and not what my parents and other learned people said I was, but it still plays in the recesses of my mind. "Knowing who I really am"... is the journey. I like that William Blake quote.

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    1. I think we all have those old tapes that play in the background of our mind. But once we realize they are playing, we can choose to rethink them. :)

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  2. "knowing who you really are, not what you have been led to believe." I agree with Carolyn. it is hard to let go of those old beliefs but I am sure we will succeed in the end.

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    1. I think just by being aware of them, we have taken the first step to replacing them. :)

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  3. I like the combination of the World and the Child - bringing playful joy to finding who you are, and what the world holds in this moment :) Fits very well with my day, too: essay completed, I can refind my playfulness!

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    1. Yea for completion! (That's always a good feeling). Now the adult can indulge the inner child a bit! :)

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