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

Friday, June 26, 2020

Not Always So

From the New Era Elements Tarot, the Two of Water (Cups); from the Tao Oracle, 'The Wanderer (56):

          Pieper uses seahorses to illustrate her Two of Cups, a card that reflects union and partnership. In the case of these marine fish, it is a more equal relationship than most among animals. The female meets the male in his territory, and they go through an elaborate dance of mirroring each other's movements and spiraling around objects. They may dance for several days until both are ready to mate. The female then deposits her eggs in the male's brood pouch where he will fertilize them internally and carry them until they hatch. The family Syngnathidae (pipefish, seahorses, and the leafy seadragon) is the only one in which males give birth. The Wanderer, hexagram 56, offers the advice to stay alert but make no assumptions when we're traveling or around people we don't know well. Their roles or ways of doing things may be different, but it doesn't make them wrong.

“Not always so” is a good little phrase to carry around when you’re sure. It gives you an opportunity to look again more carefully and see what other possibilities there might be in the situation.
—Zenkei Blanche Hartman

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