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 7, 2025

Manual Driving

From the Rohrig Tarot, the Hanged Man; from the Master Tarot (Oracle), No Clothes:


Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment. 
―G. Stanley Hall

As we become adults, we begin to develop certain proclivities in the way we think and act. Our styles may tend toward the "que sera sera" laidback type, the "pass the buck" type, or the bulldozer type. Over time, these habits become set like concrete. Unfortunately, life doesn't follow a set pattern, so when we continue to react unconsciously, it occasionally jerks us out of autopilot and demands we do things manually and mindfully. Our usual loses its usefulness. No Clothes suggests we drop our pretentious roles and simply be fully human - prone to making mistakes, but also capable of learning from them. 

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