I am convinced that a King of Cups person came up with the saying "Keep Calm and Carry On." If you asked this King how someone is supposed to do that when it feels like life is skidding sideways, he'd point to the nautilus shell on his head as an explanation. "When we self-identify with emotions and events, our world feels as constricted as the center of the spiral. But when we realize this is just a moment or a brief experience in time, our heart and mind can expand into spaciousness. We realize it is just a small part of our life, not the whole of it." The Lionhearted card cautions against shutting down our compassion in an effort to protect ourselves. We can be caring and sensitive without being controlling and codependent.
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure.
~Shunryu Suzuki
That King is definitely in is element.
ReplyDeleteEspecially with that crown and those earrings! :)
DeleteIn one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies there is a Davy Jones sailor with a shell head, always makes me laugh when he loses it!
ReplyDeleteI think I remember that! :)
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