Covered Eyes, Plugged Ears

This week I'll be using the Prairie Tarot, created and self-published by Robin Ator. Paired with it will be the Medicine Cards, a deck and book set published by St. Martin's Press and created by David Carson and Jamie Sams. Today's cards are Judgment and Opossum:

...most people do not want to change. They hold fast to their ideas of themselves, to their interpretations of how things are, to their grievances, their anxieties, their identities, and their pain. ~Mark Epstein

          In a weedy, overgrown cemetery, an angel waits to see who has heard the call to rise and live their life differently. All is still and quiet. These people do not want to shed their their pain or opinions because they fear being an empty shell with no identity. And so they 'play possum,' pretending not to hear or see the evidence around them as they trudge through life. Yet ignorance (or delusion) is not bliss. As Pema Chodron explains, "When we resist change, it’s called suffering." Come on, angel, play that trumpet just one more time.

To become a different kind of person is to experience the world in a different way. When your mind changes, the world changes. And when we respond differently to the world, the world responds differently to us. —David Loy