From the Vision Quest Tarot, Temperance; from the Bird Cards/Ascension to Paradise decks, Tanager:
We are often so identified with who we think we are that it not only determines how we live, but it limits how we can be. ―Lama Surya Das
Our labels often define us in ways we don't realize. Yet this world is relative and always in process; anything that refuses to change or adapt eventually won't fit well with reality. Go back several decades and the term 'working mother' didn't exist - either you did one or the other. Does our religious, political or cultural identity mean we can only think from within one box? How limiting and extreme that would be. Tanagers are often brightly colored and feed on fruits and insects in the upper canopy of the forest. They are regularly found foraging in mixed groups of other birds. Their message is that life is too rich and beautiful to constrict our experience of it. Who would want a black and white rainbow?
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