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

Sunday, April 8, 2018

Beginning Flier

This week I'll be using the Shining Tribe Tarot, a deck and book set created by Rachel Pollack and published by Llewellyn. The oracle I'll be using is a wooden set of Animal Tiles, hand pyroetched by my multi-talented friend Carole Beasley. My draws this morning are the Fool and 'Hawk:'
          This young Fool follows the bird right off the side of the mountain. There is no hesitation or question that this is her path; her ego is not strong enough to sway her from instinct. She is completely comfortable with uncertainty and even finds it exciting. Every moment is a wonder and feeds her insatiable curiosity. Though she will eventually fall to earth, literally and figuratively, hopefully she will retain some of her child-like openness. Hawk flies in to lend some clarity to the Fool's trust. It's almost a guarantee that her earthly bumps and bruises will bring some emotional clouds. Yet mistakes and challenges can be useful for her development if she sees the lessons clearly without becoming saturated by the emotions they bring.
Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance. ~Tara Brach


6 comments:

  1. I love the smell of a challenge in the morning.
    Apocalypse Now

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  2. Let your thoughts take wing. I always liked learn to fly on your way down. Need has always been the mother of invention.

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  3. Today, that Shining Tribe card makes me think of dreams of flying. Whether through dreams, or vicariously through a kite, we humans love the thought of flying. Is it the speed, the perspective, the ability to rise above our everyday concerns, or the freedom, or a combination of these and more? When we awake, do we come down with a bump, the disappointment of being tied once again to the earth? Or have we gained some of hawk's clarity through those moments of freedom from daily reality...

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    1. I think when life overwhelms us, we forget we have any options at all. Perhaps that flight allows us to see with clarity what we couldn't see or imagine before. :)

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