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, April 3, 2017

A Cure for Sadness

From the Badgers Forest Tarot, the Kit of Foxes (Page of Cups); from the Gemstone Oracle, Sunstone:
          Is the little kit watching a flight of birds, or is he watching the changing shape of clouds? If you begin to talk about how you feel, this Page will search your face in the same way he attends to the changing sky-scape. He looks for clues to what you don't say, and his intuitive empathy allows him to pick up on what churns beneath the surface. His sweet sensitivity is sincere; he is only interested in making you feel better. The Sunstone's quote comes from Michael Dolan:
Anticipate the day as if it was your birthday, and you are turning six again.
This quote suggests that beginning the day with a positive attitude and an open mind can be immensely helpful. "Come stand on my hill," the kit begs, "and see all that is beautiful and wonderful around you. Look with fresh eyes at what is good." Being a poetry lover, he quotes a few lines from Mirabai:
I know a cure for sadness:
Let you hands touch something that makes your eyes smile.
I bet there are a hundred objects close by
that can do that.
Look at beauty's gift to us -
her power is so great she enlivens the earth, the sky, our soul.


8 comments:

  1. what a wonderful daily draw to wake up to.
    Right now I going to play with my original RW deck. That always makes me happy I love how it feels, looks and smells. It even whispers in my ear. And before you ask... no, I don't lick my cards :)

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    1. I'm the same way with my senses - it is very easy to change my mood depending on what I am looking at, listening to or smelling! :D

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  2. I really like that Page of Cups. I want to hike up to the top of hill and lay down next to the fox and spend my day cloud watching or just to enjoy whatever passes by overhead.

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    1. If I were to do that, I'd get drenched. :D But I can still sit on the back porch and enjoy the sound of the rain!

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  3. current smile. my littlest little has taken to running down to the goat barn and laying her little egg in the manger. I found Freckles the goat yesterday with his hooves over his eyes..."make it stop, please make it stop".

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    1. Thanks for that visual - another smile (and chuckle) added to today's treasure. :D

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  4. I started to chuckle, like being at a play or concert and getting the giggles, because I saw the fox, I saw the sunstone and I thought of a big rock falling out of the sky onto the fox like Chicken Little.

    Maybe a nod to the immaturity of the Page(and others of course but we won't emphasize that.)

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  5. I like this deck...interesting to see foxes in the suit of cups...

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