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, August 3, 2023

Cloak of Protection?

From the Mary-El Tarot, the Five of Swords; from the OH Cards, Impatience/Change:

When death, the great Reconciler, has come,
it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
― George Eliot

White uses Eve in this painting of her Five of Swords; she holds the hand of Adam who is off to the side. All those feathers symbolize ideas, beliefs and opinions that we hold close to us as a protective shield. And the babe in Eve's arms represents those we influence or try to convert to our perception of the world. But do our views (and the actions that follow from them) create in us joy, healing and growth, or do they shape us into fatalistic, contentious, stagnant people? The Impatience/Change cards point to the characteristics of those in the latter group. We often demand that people live and think on our terms; we have no tolerance for them otherwise. Yet the owls suggest we peer beneath our protection and see if our fears in the darkness are real or just a figment of an anxious imagination.

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