I use tarot and oracle cards as tools for reflection and contemplation. Rather than divining the future, they are a way for me to look more deeply at the "now."
"The goal isn't to arrive, but to meander, to saunter, to make your life a holy wandering." ~ Rami Shapiro

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Play with a Full Set

From the Via Tarot, the King of Wands; from the Nature's Pharmacy Deck, Comfrey:
          This King is literally and metaphorically fired up, with lightning above his head and flames at his feet. The chessboard at ground level reveals he has a plan he's about to put into motion, and this project is what's got him pumped up and excited. But what concerns me is the battle armor he wears, which is great if you're in an actual fight with swords and lances. When someone is so full of enthusiasm (able to see the 'promised land' in his mind's eye), he can have the tendency to become dogmatic and testy when questioned about his approach. He may be snappy or condescending to those folks whose help he is going to need. It's impossible to play chess with just a king; the other pieces are just as important. The Pharmacy Deck produces Comfrey in response, an herb also known as "bone-knit." It's properties were so highly thought of, Nicholas Culpeper (an herbalist of the 1600s) declared it would cause pieces of meat in the cooking pot to bind themselves back together. Obviously, this herb symbolizes mending what is broken, which the fiery King would do well to heed. As Yehuda Berg reminds, "Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble."

6 comments:

  1. A very good reminder to choose our words carefully. When I am fired up like him I might reget what I'll say in the heat of the battle. these temperatures are making it not so easy either! ☺☀

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    1. Since hurricane Hermine blew through, we have been getting slightly cooler temperatures. Still muggy, but a least not in the high nineties as before. I beginning to believe autumn is almost here! :)

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  2. Oh that truth meter. Perhaps Culpeper believed it. But didn't test it. because mob mentality wishes to believe, with no effort involved.

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    1. Too bad they didn't have Google back in the 1600s! :)

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  3. If you don't have nothing to say then don't say anything at all, was a discipline that was a suggested practice. But not saying anything says volumes in itself.

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    1. Very true - it might be considered "the silent treatment."

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