I use tarot and oracle cards as tools for reflection and contemplation. Rather than divining the future, they are a way for me to look more deeply at the "now."
"The goal isn't to arrive, but to meander, to saunter, to make your life a holy wandering." ~ Rami Shapiro

Thursday, March 31, 2022

Mimic Water's Movement

From The Classic Tarot, the Fool; from the Constellations Deck, Hydrus:


Unlike the RWS, this Fool is not a jester but a homeless wanderer. With his strange clothes (and missing a shoe), people were afraid of his eccentricity - enough to send a dog to chase him off. But on another level they envied his ability to travel life lightly, both in terms of material possessions and emotional contentment. He doesn't grasp at outer things to create his happiness; his wonder and enjoyment of life does that for him. The Fool's card is without a number, suggesting freedom and unlimited potential. Hydrus is named for a water snake, a group of snakes that spend a significant time in or near fresh water. I recently had an encounter with a red-bellied juvenile on my backporch (likely washed up from the storm drain); I used a pine cone gripper to relocate him elsewhere. Whether on land or in water, the snake's undulating movements mimic the movement of water. Both these cards offer the advice that we can glide through life happily if we don't get stuck by our demands for life to be a certain way.

Most emotions do not arise out of the immediate moment, but are generated by our self-centered demands that life be the way we want it to be. 
— Charlotte Joko Beck

3 comments:

  1. pine cone gripper??????? You have a tool I've never heard of. I'd also never look at the sky and see that as a snake ;)

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    1. I think most people call them a grabber and use them to reach things around the house. :D We pick up close to a 1000 cones a year, so we have repurposed them.
      The Dutch explorer who named the constellation long ago had just come across a water snake.

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  2. I have a 'grabber' a handy tool to have.

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