From the Greenwood Tarot, the Guardian (Devil); from the Rune Cards, Sun/Sigel:
Potter's Devil shows the skeleton of an animated cave bear, a prehistoric species that became extinct about 24,000 years ago. He represents a guardian of the past and an initiator into its memories. He naturally elicits fear, but befriending him can help us face our past and heal. We all have 'skeletons' in our closet that we hide in shame, worrying that someone will discover them. But when we open that door and introduce them to someone trustworthy, we might find out that others have very similar beings dwelling in their closet. The Anglo-Saxon rune poem for Sigel (Sun) describes how welcome the sun is as seafarers make their way back to land. It represented both the clarity of light and well-being. It seems to emphasize that bringing our past to light (which often is an unconscious trigger for present day behavior) can help us be free of the chains that bind us.
On our journey of opening, we come to the boundaries of what is familiar or what is comfortable. It’s precisely at these boundaries that the deeply conditioned pattern of fear begins to emerge.That’s exactly the place we want to be, a place of further acceptance and opening. We need to learn how to work with this fear. Otherwise, our lives become fragmented; we split off from parts of ourselves, from parts of what is true in experience. ~Joseph Goldstein
I was thinking this morning of the recent spate of bears coming into homes, pools, cars...as they trying to communicate with us? If so, it is far too late.
ReplyDeleteI saw the earth is rotating faster than it used to. Maybe it is trying to sling off the humans. :D
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