Staying Awake

This week I'll be using the Tarot of the Cat People, created by Karen Kuykendall and published by U.S. Games. I'll also be drawing from the Sacred Geometry Oracle, a deck and book set created by John Michael Greer and published by Llewellyn. Today's cards are the World and Spiral:

The only thing truly within our power, may be whether or not we will behave in each moment with arrogance or reverence. —Lawrence Kushner

          Rather than someone dancing inside an opening, Kuykendall's card shows a dancer balancing the Earth on her fingertips. There are encounters and ordeals we go through that force us to see beyond our pet opinions and narrow perspectives. These experiences can briefly take us out of our self-centeredness so that we see how even small actions can affect the whole. As a result, our outlook and response to life may be transformed. Yet the Spiral indicates that the clarity and understanding that shines brightly will gradually fade. The daily trudge can dim what inspired us unless we make a conscious effort not to forget. The trick is to keep paying attention with an open mind rather than walking around in our sleep.

We lose something very vital in our life when it’s more important to us to be one who knows than it is to be awake to what’s happening. —Zenkei Blanche Hartman