This
image is painted predominately with varying shades of indigo and black. They
seem perfect colors for the dark night of the soul, when life seems too
exhausting and hopeless to take even one more step. But against the darkness
the stars can shine their brightest. The Star gently taps me on the shoulder
and says, “Stop staring at that closed, boarded up door. There is another way,
but you’ll need to look in a new direction to find it.” Sometimes it is only the
darkness that can open my mind and heart to the light.
From the Heart of Faerie, "the Boy:"
Here
is the Peter Pan of the fairy world who refuses to grow old and live his life in
a rut. The Boy sees every challenge as an adventure rather than something to
dread. He encourages me to put on my pirate hat and tell myself that the
feeling of anxiety I’m experiencing is really only excited anticipation. This
card reminds me of the Mac Nac Feegles (wee blue men from Terry Prachett’s
creative genius) who believe they are already dead and living it up in their
version of heaven. According to Feegle philosophy, if they die again they have
to go back to a boring, real life. On
some strange level, that does make
sense.
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