Where's Your Head?

The card drawn from the Sheridan-Douglas Tarot this morning is the Tower:

Lightning destroys what appeared to be a sturdy tower, as the occupants fall head-first to the ground.  The small "sparks" raining down are actually yuds, a letter in the Hebrew alphabet that can be translated "hand" or "to thrust."  These "hands" are what have pushed these people out of their complacency and woken them up.  The fact that they are in a head-down position tells me they need to see and understand from a new perspective.  Alfred Douglas, in his companion book The Tarot writes, "Its enclosing walls of dogmatic opinion become unable to adapt to changing circumstances, and if faced with a major challenge of ideas it can only collapse, leaving the bewildered mind within to cope as best it may with the apparent chaos that surrounds it."  My ideas need to be malleable enough to evolve; life is in a constant flux, and I must be able to flow with the changes.  As a side note, we had a fire next door to us last night.  A two-story building caught fire, but thankfully the fire department was able to put it out before it spread or before anyone was hurt.  Indeed, life is full of the unexpected...

     The card chosen from the Pages of Shustah deck this morning is the "Pregnant Mouse:"

In a stark environment of sand and cacti, a pregnant mouse and her mate search for shelter and food.  The companion book calls this the "card of poverty," but not necessarily of the material sort.  It points to emotional distress and mental restriction that has resulted from negative, limited thinking.  I have been feeling isolated and without purpose lately, and I'm sure these feelings are spilling over into all other areas of my life.  The green cards in this deck deal with growth and progress, and so this image encourages me to continue making an effort and to focus on the good.  Patience and progress go hand in hand...