What's Your Perspective?

  The card pulled from the Transformation Tarot this very cold morning is the Hanged Man (which he labels "Reflection"):

Ando's version of this image shows Christ on the cross on the top half and a woman being burned to death on the bottom half, with one being labeled "saint" and the other "witch."  In the middle of the card are the words "polarized view," meaning beliefs or ideas that oppose each other with no middle ground.  It reduces everything to two sides only - something is either right or wrong, good or evil.  But as can be seen by the depiction of Christ and the witch, this kind of thinking doesn't work out well for anyone, no matter what side you're on.  I do feel like the Hanged Man as I have battled the baptist church - my hands are tied and I am powerless to stop their bulldozers and their destruction (which they would choose to call progress).  And herein is the rub - neither of us wants to give an inch because we both believe we are right and the other is wrong.  The damage is already done, and the land has paid a heavy price.  Perhaps my focus should move away from right and wrong and be directed toward opening the eyes of others as to what we should not take for granted, and our role as good stewards of our resources.  That could possibly be considered a win-win outcome.

     The card pulled from the Fallen Angel Oracle today is "Seere":

Excitement and great changes - let imagination soar.

Seere is depicted as a beautiful youth riding on a winged horse, bringing and carrying new ideas that can have transforming effects.  Paired with the card above, I understand how seeing from a new perspective (whether upside down like the traditional Hanged Man or from overhead, like Seere on his winged horse) can alter circumstances.  May I be granted the wisdom to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.