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

Friday, February 24, 2017

Flea Powder

From the Victorian Romantic Tarot, Strength; from the Dreaming in Color Deck, Pettiness:
          This particular woman of Strength obviously has a special relationship with all her inner lions. She knows their personalities intimately, including what triggers them to lash out. Impatience, frustration, anger, indignation and fear are always on her radar; she notices when one is out of balance and tends to it with calm awareness before things get out of hand. Yet there is a bloodsucking pest that can bite those beasts and send them into madness: pettiness. Pettiness takes a fine-tooth comb and goes over everything, ignoring what is good as it solely focuses on any tiny mistake or grievance. Pettiness is a miserable cuss whose only pleasure is adding to her circle of misery. The flea powder that will drive this pest away is to take the long view and a wide perspective of all that is going on. Nothing lasts forever, and joy can be found even in sorrow. Shake, shake...  

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  1. Indignation. Get popcorn, there will be a show :)

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    1. I imagine if we were forced to watch the reality show of our lives every evening, we would choose our actions more carefully. :D

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  2. ahh, pettiness. I truly can bring out the beast in each of us.

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    1. It sounds so unworthy of attention yet can cause such chaos.

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  3. Pettiness does squeeze the joy out of life. It looks like this lady is having a really good time with her "cats" Cat-whisperer?

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    1. Cat Whisperer would be quite the accomplishment, regardless the size of the feline. :D

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  4. Is that a flea picking monkey to the right of the maddened lion? I've been staring at this for a half hour now. Feel free to shake pest powder on pedantry as well as pettiness...

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    1. Okay, now that I've enlarged the card, that is a weird thing that I can't identify!

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