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

Monday, February 26, 2024

Ain't Gonna Study War No More

From the Tarot of Restored Order, the King of Pentacles; from the Oracle of Kabbalah, Mem:

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
— John F. Kennedy

With his strong jawline (reminding me of wrestler John Cena) and the armor peeking out from the bottom of his robe, there's little doubt this King will fight to keep what he's created. He seems a little ill at ease in his new role of ruler rather than warrior, perhaps looking for someone to bonk with that scepter. But from the grapes and other lush vegetation growing around him, it looks like the worst problem he might have right now is kudzu. He would do well to heed the words of Yehudi Menuhin: "Peace may sound simple – one beautiful word – but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal." Mem means 'water' and its numerical association is forty. Forty is the number of days it rained in the story of the Flood, and it is the number of days the Jews wandered in the desert. Mem represents a cleansing transformation, one that allows us to live at ease and at peace. As this King has learned, it doesn't happen overnight.

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