From the Tarot de St. Croix, the Three of Swords; from the Archetype Cards, Goddess:
Thoughts are not a problem in themselves. Thoughts are like fish-bait. If you stop biting at the bait you won't get hooked. ―Willa Miller
The fire added to the broken heart reminds me of how anger and pain are braided together - anger over a trust that has been broken and the hurt of accepting the reality of it. A feeling of aggression can drive us to escalate the situation, thinking we're seeking resolution. Yet it appears one of the swords in this card is transforming into a needle. Perhaps the recognition is dawning that healing will only come through our own efforts to let go of the drama and move on. The Goddess archetype represents the wisdom of the feminine, seen in characteristics such as patience, compassion, acceptance, reflection and intuition. If we can embrace and hold our pain with compassion (without getting hooked by the mental story), the energy of emotion will pass. If the embers become a flame again, we repeat this practice, over and over until those coals have cooled.
When you begin to investigate, you notice, for one thing, that whenever there is pain of any kind—the pain of aggression, grieving, loss, irritation, resentment, jealousy, indigestion, physical pain—if you really look into that, you can find out for yourself that behind the pain there is always something we are attached to. There is always something we’re holding on to. The first thing the Buddha ever taught was the truth that suffering comes from attachment. That’s in the books. But when you discover it yourself, it goes a little deeper right away. ―Pema Chodron
The hurts we experience, shape us in ways, sometimes we don't even realize.
ReplyDeleteVery true. But we can choose not to maintain that shape.
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