True Love

From the Norse Tarot, the Ace of Cups; from the Wolf Pack, Rejoice:

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

~Erich Fromm

To draw the Ace of Cups (a card of joyful relationship) and the card Rejoice seems a lovely coincidence as today my husband and I celebrate our 33rd anniversary. While our hair is much grayer and our bodies achier, I have to agree with Henry Ward Beecher about older love:

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

Before I got married, a friend told me she was at first concerned because my husband-to-be was sort of a strange and unusual fellow. But then she said since I was pretty weird too,  she thought we'd probably be okay. So I had to laugh when I came across the quote by Robert Fulghum:

We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.

Emotional Awareness

This week I’ll be using the Norse Tarot book and deck, created by Clive Barrett and published by Aquarian. The other deck I’ll be drawing from is the Wolf Pack, created by Robert Petro and published by Windspirit Productions. Today’s cards are the Princess (Page) of Cups and Rejoice:

          The Princess of Cups is warm and compassionate; she places a high value on harmony and will not confront others or cross lines if it means a disruption among relationships. Yet as she matures, she will see that hard conversations tempered by love can be healing; that sometimes to protect the unprotected, we have to cross boundaries to find justice. Right now she stands at the edge of the water without immersing herself, listening to her intuition and observing others. The Rejoice card shows what she will learn if she continues to pay attention - that emotions are to be respected without giving them too much authority.

We think we know our own life, but what we know is only an edited version, colored by our emotions and narrow vision. How close can we come to the original draft?

—Gregg Krech