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 22, 2018

Wake Up Laughing

This week I'll be using the Shadowscapes book and deck set published by Llewellyn. The artwork is done by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law and the book is written by Barbara Moore. I'll also be drawing from the Arthur Rackham Oracle, created and self-published by Doug Thornsjo (Duck Soup). Today's cards are Judgment and 'Devilment:'
          This angel's horn wakes the flowers and butterflies, heralding the end of winter and beginning of spring. Outside (for those in the Northern Hemisphere) there are signs that the season of renewal is here. Yet her call is also for the human folk to wake from complacency or apathy and see with clear eyes and an open heart. What needs to be transformed in your life or in the place you live? Being set in our ways, it can be hard to get off our comfy couches and chairs and do something different. Yet Puck (A Midsummer's Night Dream) shows up to prod us. Puck, who was a jester to the fairy king, loved to tangle things up. When chaos ensued, he had a good laugh, yet he would set things right eventually. His purpose was not to be mean but to grab folk's attention. Our family has its own little Puck in the form of a kitten that showed up at the library where my daughter works. Life has not been boring since she arrived!
Lia
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
~ Victor Hugo
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7 comments:

  1. Sharyn Mallow WoerzApril 22, 2018 at 10:48 AM

    still no furniture in my front room. Just can't seem to want to even be in there

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  2. Carolyn TindorApril 22, 2018 at 11:16 AM

    cute kitty. They can be very entertaining.

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  3. UnknownApril 23, 2018 at 9:24 AM

    Your mention of apathy reminded me of something Payam Akhavan the human rights activist says. "Where there is empathy there is always a solution, where there is apathy there is always an excuse."

    Lia she's so pretty. I'm a cat person in a major way. I have several, and yes I'm the proverbial 'cat lady'.

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    1. thesycamoretreeApril 23, 2018 at 10:34 AM

      Apathy is worse than hatred in some ways, because its indifference robs us of caring at all. We already had two older cats (rescues), and I didn't plan on adding any more, but she's brought a lot of joy to all of us.

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    2. UnknownApril 23, 2018 at 11:03 AM

      So so very true Bev! Elie Wiesal said,

      “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.

      I have a rescue cats too they are the best!

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