Trusting the Mystery

From the Prairie Tarot, the Page of Cups:

 This fellow is a sweet, sensitive daydreamer. In addition to these traits, the two salmon leaping out of the river signal another quality of this Page - being a lightning rod for intuition. Intuition is the direct perception of truth independent of any reasoning process. Trusting such an insight can sometimes be a problem for a person like me, who often tries to sift such ideas through a sieve of rational logic. But this cowboy's boots are firmly planted on solid rock, which encourages me to trust that these messages are substantial and important.

The draw from the Medicine Cards this morning produced the "Raven:"

I always think of crows and ravens as sentries who call out alarms from the treetops. Sams and Carson describe Raven's black color as holding "all the energy of the creative source" and being "the road of the spiritual or nonphysical." Its medicine is in learning to relax in mystery instead of trying to intellectually figure things out. Raven's teaching is parallel to the Page's above. Although I may pay attention to my intuitive thoughts, it's quite another thing for me to have the guts to act on them. Yet I suppose that's how I earn my wings...