From the Tarot of the Crone, the Six of Cups; from the Transforming Dragons Deck, Menoros:
Three robed beings pour bowls of water into a reflecting pool, a symbolic gesture of pouring the present into the past. It's good to remember the past at times, such as when we reflect on mistakes so we don't repeat them again or when we relive delightful days that brought us joy and contentment. But the past can also be a place where we lose our traction to act sanely and wisely in the present if we are trying to rewrite history. Menoros is a dragon who lives in the illusion that he can control people and his environment to behave as he wants so that he can be happy. Of course what happens is that things implode and turn out badly, creating more problems. Hopefully he will learn that he can't change the past or control the future, that in fact, he has very little influence over anything except himself. Then he can begin to work with what is internal rather than external.
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
― George Bernard Shaw
Approximately eighty percent of what we do daily is a repetition of yesterdays. We live so much of our lives dragging the yesterdays with us.
ReplyDeleteYes we do. The past can get really heavy.
DeleteOne of the things I'm working on is reversing the pattern of pouring my past into my present.
ReplyDeleteIt's easy to drown in that place, for me.
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