Only Borrowed

This week I'll be using the Herbcrafter's Tarot, created through the combined efforts of Joanna Powell Colbert and Latisha Guthrie. The set is published by U.S. Games. Paired with it will be the Green Wheel Oracle, created and self-published by Danielle Barlow. Today's draws are the Ten of Earth (Horsetail) and Snake:

We have not inherited this earth from our parents to do with it what we will. We have borrowed it from our children, and we must be careful to use it in their interests as well as our own. 

—Moses Henry Cass

Horsetail (Equisetum arvense) is a plant related to ferns and has been used in traditional medicine for centuries. This herb contains silicon, which helps strengthen bone. For that reason, some modern practitioners recommend horsetail as a treatment for osteoporosis. The Ten of Earth represents solid and secure foundations that are often seen as an inheritance to pass on to others. But we have a responsibility to later generations not just for the money and material things we leave them, but for the condition we leave our planet that they will inhabit. Snake calls for sacrifice and shedding habits that are causing our 'foundation' to falter. As Lyndon B. Johnson stated, "If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it."