Making Progress

This week I'll be using the Tarot of the Hidden Realm, created by Julia Jeffrey with Barbara Moore, and published by Llewellyn. I'll also be drawing from the Heart of Faerie Oracle created by Brian and Wendy Froud and published by Abrams. Today's cards are the King of Wands and 'The Returning:'

          This King of Wands, with his windswept hair, seems to be looking over our shoulder at something happening behind us. Though he is listening, he's more interested in what is going on; he's a 'show me' kind of guy rather than a 'tell me' one. He doesn't want to just hear about something, he wants to be able to be there himself if possible. He knows that some people may underestimate a situation while others may overdramatize it. They act as alert buttons so he knows to go and check on any potential problem and correct it before it gets too big. The Returning suggests we acknowledge that things are constantly changing. If we leave, we shouldn't expect things to be exactly the same as before when we return. When we look without the weight of the past or our assumptions about the future, we can see with clarity what is. That's the first step in making any progress.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.     

[Which might include ego's demands of what should or shouldn't be, instead of what is.]

~George Bernard Shaw