Dancing Lessons

The card drawn from the Margarete Petersen Tarot this morning is one of the major arcana, the World:

In the middle of a whirling pool of movement is a dancing figure, whose body has a spiral painted on it.  Seen only in two-dimensions, the spiral just seems to repeat itself.  But a three-dimensional view, such as can be seen in a shell or pinecone gives another meaning altogether.  Here the spiral represents an evolution as well as circular revolutions.  Birth, growth and change/death occur on different learning levels, allowing me to incorporate them in my life before moving on to the level of the next cycle.  On one hand it is a sense of completion (the cycle), but on another I know there is still much to discover and understand (the progression of the 3-D spiral).  Anyone care to dance?

     The card pulled from the Heart of Faeries deck today is "Lady of Sorrows:"

Why is this woman known as the Lady of Sorrows?  Because she collects all the hurts and wrongs done to her like a miser.  She has used her righteous indignation to build a thick wall around her, not allowing anyone to touch her heart.  She would rather be right than be happy, which would require forgiveness.  As the Frouds state, such a life allows one "to live, perhaps, but never to thrive."  She reminds me to take a few bricks out of my wall, and allow my heart to be open with compassion rather than judgment.