From the Ellis Tarot, the High Priestess; from the Brownies Oracle, Cycles:
The problem is we have a mind that creates a past, a future, and an endless supply of story lines and judgements. ― Mark Van Buren
This High Priestess is the middle pillar between darkness and light, growth and decay, prey and predator - things we tend to segregate. Ellis calls her the Keeper of What Can't be Taught; she leads us through calm stillness to the luminous mind. Here we encounter and begin to understand that even in what appears separate there is interconnection. Like different cells in a body, there is a single reality underlying the diversity of experience. Cycles reminds us that we have no immunity from traveling both the dark and light phases as we move through life. It may at times feel like we're stuck in a 'bad' phase, but sometimes the arc is long and simply takes more time to move around to the other side.
Both these sets of cards are gorgeous! And as always, your interpretations speak directly to me.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Kate. I was so sorry to read that your dad died. Grief is a long arc, sometimes.
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