From the Jolanda Tarot, the Tower; from the Bird Signs deck, the "Dove:"
This Tower card looks like a combination of every disaster movie ever made - a full eclipse of the sun, lightning and fires, and a woman that is half spider and half anaconda. "Get ready to have your complacency pulled from under your feet," the mutant woman tells me. What have I locked away (trying to protect) in that tower? It feels scary, but the woman assures me she is my liberator not an assassin.
The Dove card is comforting and gives me confidence that these changes are not the end of the world. But it does point to being receptive rather than fighting reality. It makes me think of the Serenity Prayer: "Grant me the serenity to accept the things I can't change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
My first thought was"O my dear,the Tower after yesterday!!
ReplyDeleteLuckily there is that dove which eases pain. This prayer has been a wonderful guideline for me and still is. Change will come; we better breath with it
Amen. :) When change is in front of me, it looks scary. But when I look at changes in the past, I can see how often things turned out okay (and sometimes even better than they were before).
DeleteI adore that Dove painting. We have two doves who visit our garden every day around the same time, late afternoon. They sit there and look at us if we are sitting outside. It reminds me very much of them.
ReplyDeleteWe have mourning doves here, and they make the saddest, sweetest cooing sounds! This deck has several lovely cards, particularly if you're a birder. :)
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