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

Friday, November 3, 2023

Respect Runs Both Ways

From the Margarete Petersen Tarot, the Empress; from the Elemental Dice, Earthquake (Darkness + Earth):

Devotion and creativity 
Are born in the center of the heart.
―Margarete Petersen

The Empress, with her split pomegranate and exposed flower's throat, personifies receptivity, deep emotion, and creativity. She brings warmth and beauty, love and acceptance, sensuality and connection to whatever she touches. Nature is her reflection. Unlike the Emperor, she has no filter on her devotion; she willingly breaks open her heart without considering any consequences. Earthquake suggests that energy has been building and will shake our foundations. It asks if we have been complacently disregarding our part in a situation in which we need wake up and be mindfully aware. Boundaries don't just help keep us sane and healthy, they help others become accountable and develop responsibility too. 

If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.
―F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

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