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

Showing posts with label dove. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dove. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Crashing Complacency

From the Jolanda Tarot, the Tower; from the Bird Signs deck, the "Dove:"
This Tower card looks like a combination of every disaster movie ever made - a full eclipse of the sun, lightning and fires, and a woman that is half spider and half anaconda. "Get ready to have your complacency pulled from under your feet," the mutant woman tells me. What have I locked away (trying to protect) in that tower? It feels scary, but the woman assures me she is my liberator not an assassin.
The Dove card is comforting and gives me confidence that these changes are not the end of the world. But it does point to being receptive rather than fighting reality. It makes me think of the Serenity Prayer: "Grant me the serenity to accept the things I can't change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."