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

Saturday, August 27, 2022

Gain and Loss

From the Russian Lubok Tarot, the Nine of Pentacles; from the Marseille Oracle, Loss:


This pair of cards, representing both gain and loss, made me think of a quote by Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel:

How do we live a life we can’t hold on to?” How do we live with the fact that the moment we’re born we move closer to death; when we fall in love we sign up for grief? How do we reconcile that gain always ends in loss; gathering, in separation?

Perhaps by keeping an open mind and heart while realizing these are natural cycles and changes. And by keeping in mind the words of Bruce Tift:

We can never solve our lives. Life is not a thing that can be broken and then fixed. Life is a process, and we can never solve a process. We can only participate in this process, either consciously or unconsciously.

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  1. CarolynAugust 27, 2022 at 10:08 AM

    Participate or ignore the process, it goes on; Life goes on. Might as well be a part of the process, rather then end our days in regret.

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    1. thesycamoretreeAugust 27, 2022 at 10:54 AM

      Exactly! I can learn, adapt and adjust or just be miserable and complain.

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