Resistance is Futile

From the Gaian Tarot, the Priestess; from the Goddess Oracle, Vila:

The ego is a circular pattern of thinking.

—Adyashanti

Those who come to the Priestess for answers are told - as she splits open a pomegranate - that truth is not found in scholarly books and revered teachers but within. She points to the goddess of Malta figurine and explains that what is sought can only be discovered in stillness and quiet when we sink below our chattering mind. But before we descend into that calm spaciousness, we must heed the words of Adyashanti: "We must want the actual truth more than we want the truth that we imagine." Vila is the eastern European name for energy that moves through the earth in different forms of nature. Her shape-shifting ability calls on us to flexible with an expanded awareness rather than holding tightly to our illusions. Truth and wisdom do us no good if we resist rather than accept them.