Thursday, October 29, 2015
A Sticky Subject
From the Prairie Tarot, the Empress; from the Medicine Cards, "Horse:"
A woman with needlework in her hand watches a mother hen, who in turn watches over her chicks. What the Empress creates, she also protects and nourishes. While she's well aware of the natural cycle of life, she also has a lot of emotional energy invested in what she loves. Horse on the other hand represents both power and freedom. There's a reason his head is turned away from the Empress; he knows those emotional ties can bind. Those ropes are responsibilities and the reason one's choices become fewer and far between. Ask the mother of a newborn, the child of a parent with dementia or the spouse whose husband has Parkinson's disease, and they will tell you about their loss of freedom. Yet I can hear the Empress rage about unselfish love, about being willing to take the hard road rather than the easy one. Is there a middle way between the stickiness of emotions and the desire to be completely free of such entanglements? I suppose even Horse would have to agree with the Empress that nothing lasts forever.
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Walking the middle road was a hard choice for me.Guilt is so difficult to get rid of. It feel like your Empress can always find a reason to blame me.. but I know it is my own insecurity that won't shut up
ReplyDeleteFreedom can also be found in the little things; the seemingly insignificant choices. As long as you are aware of the option of choice.
I think you're on to something, Ellen; remembering we always have a choice. :)
DeleteThere is a middle way, erase and shun. It is unbelievable how much applied effort it takes. :)
ReplyDeleteMight be harder than either of the other two ways.
DeleteAnd yet emotions live in the loyal body, patiently bearing all. Like the horse carrying its rider when the relationship is responsive it's a thing of beauty.
ReplyDeleteThe body can be like a scrapbook, holding the treasures and traumas of one's life.
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