From the Enchanted Forest Tarot, the Green Mother (Empress); from the Mystic Mushrooms, Dotted Stem Bolete:
The Green Mother/Empress is a creative force; her focus is on developing, growing and nurturing (unlike her husband who focuses on limiting, protecting and guiding). She knows that what we attend to is what we will come to love and nourish. To borrow the words of Dr. Daniel Siegel, "Where attention goes, neural firing flows, and neural connection grows." The Green Mother asks us to consider where all of our energy is flowing and what we are nurturing. The chunky bolete mushrooms seem made by a child out of clay (the Greek
bolos, in fact, means 'lump of clay'). Rather than having gills, they have
tubes with pores beneath their caps that release their spores. The Dotted Stem Bolete has yellow pores when young that become red as it matures. The fleshy solidity of this mushroom reminds me that whatever I aspire to create needs something more than fleeting attention and half-hearted action. It needs the commitment of a good mother.
