From the Cosmic Tarot, the Five of Cups; from the L'Oeil de Lotus, Bewitchment:
Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next, decide if we’re heading toward an unhealthy path, and if so, let go and change directions.
—Sharon Salzberg
A woman, looking older than her years, stares at a withered rose. What she loved has been lost, but worse, her pain has created blinders. All she can see is her loss, not the other people who care about her or any resources or tools close at hand. The Bewitchment card shows the self-created prison that happens when we don't question the false beliefs we hold and instead mentally feed our feelings of despair. Yet if we can pull our gaze outward, we might see that life is full of change; what we feel so intensely at the moment will eventually ebb. Especially if we begin to change the directions of our thoughts.
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