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

Saturday, September 15, 2018

Finding Our Way

From the Shadowscapes Tarot, the Fool; from the Cedar Runes, 'Othila:'
          A fox watches a woman as she stands on tiptoe, preparing to take a dive below. He does nothing to stop her from falling because she needs to experience life in order to learn. She will learn of joy and pain and of goodwill and aggression. She must find her way by discovering what she values as well as her purpose. It will be a life-long roller coaster ride. While the rune Othila is generally translated as 'estate,' Travers suggests that it may also refer to ancestral influences. Every human picks up traits learned from their family. And though these may be imprinted deeply in us, we still can choose how to deal with them. Hopefully, as we get older, we stop blindly accepting them and begin to question if these qualities will take us down the road we want to travel.
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


2 comments:

  1. Noticing the imprint is the first step in deciding whether or not we want to keep it, that's for sure. The beauty of the Shadowscapes always strikes me anew! And a great quotation :D

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    1. You can't go wrong with Emerson. :D
      I see so many of my traits in my family of origin, even though I distinctly remember as a teenager thinking, "I will NEVER be like you!"

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