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, November 23, 2019

Everything Depends

From the Tarot of the Hidden Realm, the Hanged Man; from the Heart of Faerie Oracle, the Queen of Owls:
 In this treacherous world
Nothing is the truth nor a lie.
Everything depends on the color
Of the crystal through which one sees it.

– Pedro Calderon de la Barca

          This young fairy hit a brick wall, trying to force, manipulate or at least pretend something is as he wants it to be. But he has finally had an epiphany; the world won't change for him, but he can change his perspective of it. The Queen of Owls is known for healing. Anyone who's been in physical pain long enough or had chronic health issues knows how it washes over every part of one's life. Yet there is primary pain and secondary pain; the first has organic causes and the second a mental origin that refuses to accept, magnifies fear and rages that life is unfair. It is the secondary pain we have a choice in through mindfulness and mind training. Life is hard, but we don't have to make it any harder than it already is.

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