Weight of Responsibility

From the Tarot of the Crone, Justice; from Transforming Dragons, Nervoc:

While you live you walk my Web.

          Even Nature seems to prefer balance. An orb weaver begins its web with two strands, a tight one and a loose one below it. Once the framing and radial lines are attached, it adds two spirals, a non-sticky one that travels outward and a sticky one that moves inward. The kabbalist's Tree of Life also shows this preference; it contains three pillars - Mercy and Severity on the outer sides and Mildness in the middle. Likewise, Justice is a push to make adjustments to bring things from an extreme point to a more centered harmony. John Michael Greer calls this a "dance of constant adjustment" and explains it "is not found by going to one extreme or the other or by remaining fixed at a static point; it is created by self-correcting movements to either side of a midpoint." But first we have to realize what that midpoint is.

          Nervoc is a dragon personification of imprudence and carelessness. His motto is "Responsibility is a heavy weight on the back of fools." This is the guy who ignores all warnings, does something stupid (he'd call it exciting), then wants to sue when things go awry. But as Greer warns, "Deliberately push a balanced system one way, and you will make it swing back the other way with redoubled force." Rights and privileges require responsibilities, and freedom demands some kind of sacrifice; it's as simple as that.