Expanding Worldview

From the Bonefire Tarot, the World; from the Day of the Dead Lenormand, Child:

          The young woman who sits comfortably in a thicket reminds me of the tale of Br'er Rabbit who begs Br'er Fox not to throw him in the brierpatch. When Fox does, the wiley Rabbit is able to escape and calls out, "I was bred and born in the brierpatch!" In the little booklet that comes with her deck, Gabi describes the World card as "knowing who you really are, not what you have been led to believe." We all have labels others have applied to us, as well as categories we've put our own self in. What happens when those labels are stripped away? Do we see all the potential we hold instead of just the limitations? The funny thing is, once we recognize it in us, we see it in other people too. William Blake wrote, "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern." The Child appears from the Lenormand deck and suggests that we hold on to that thought as we go explore without stamping a classification on all that we see. In the words of Yeats, "The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."