Try a Little Tenderness

From the DaVinci Enigma Tarot, the Empress; from the Insectorum Divinorum, the Housefly:

Dimmi: How do you take up your unique place as a living being?

Where can you guide others with love and kindness in this matter?

          This study of St. Anne (Mary's mother) shows a look of tenderness wished for by Leonardo, who had been an illegitimate child abandoned by his mother. The question posed by this card asks how we nurture and support others. Some of us connect through empathy, some by offering reason and guidance, some through physical or material support, and others through helping people find their passions and following them. The Fly card suggests a duality, as this insect can be both an important pollinator and a pathogen carrier. How do we relate to humankind - with tenderness or sanctimoniousness? 

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

~Rollo May