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