Smug Security?

From the Tabula Mundi Tarot, the Queen of Wands; from the Universe Cards, 'Brown Dwarf:'

          This Queen knows what she wants and goes after it with great dedication. Like all the queens, she is a nurturer, but her energy is put toward driving and maintaining steady progress. Yet Meleen's Queen of Wands seems to be taking a nap. It could be that she knows the importance of rest and delegation when it comes to having multiple irons in the fire. But even those who serve and want to please her need occasional guidance and support, so she best not get too comfortable on that throne. Her leopard may watch, claw and bite those who get out of line, but people need encouragement more than anything.
          The Brown Dwarf is larger than a planet and smaller than a star. They give off very dim light that doesn't originate from inner nuclear fires but from the leftover energy of gravitational collapse. Because their lukewarm light isn't self-produced, scientists often call them failed stars. A wise business person will tell you that you can't be successful running on complacency. Smug security is what will ultimately crumble the foundation. As Alex and Brett Harris warn, "Complacency is a blight that saps energy, dulls attitudes, and causes a drain in the brain. The first symptom is satisfaction with things as they are. The second is rejection of things it as they might be."

Pull of the Mystical

    From the Quantum Tarot today comes the Lovers:

Thanks first to Newton, and later to Einstein and other scientists, we know that gravity (the idea associated with this card) is the force that pulls together all matter.  The more massive something is (meaning the more matter in it), the greater the gravitational pull.  I took part in a medicine wheel ceremony last night with five other women.  On the outside, we look very different, and I'm sure our personalities and opinions run quite the gamut.  But we are all on parallel spiritual paths, and this is what pulls us together in a unified whole.  As I age, I find the greatest "mass" that pulls me to others tends to be their interest in the mystical and sacred.  These folks are the ones I want to orbit and learn from.

     The draw from the Universe Cards this morning is the "Brown Dwarf - failure:"

Brown dwarfs are stars that fail to achieve nuclear fusion, the means by which a star can shine.  They do not accumulate enough mass, and therefore they cannot generate enough heat to maintain the fusion process.  I have crossed the path of many people who live a sacred life; we share with each other what we've experienced so that we can support each other as we try to grow and mature spiritually.  But there are also those who seem to only want something from me and others, as if through intellectual osmosis they can attain spiritual heights.  They do not desire to do the work required, so they have no "mass" to build on or share.  They seem to suck the heat out of me, and I've learned the hard way to avoid them if possible.