A New Framework

From the Tarot Lukumi, the Six of Swords; from the Diloggun Cards, Oyeku (two mouths):

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

—Doug Larson

The Six of Swords is about a transition, a radical change in ideas and attitudes, in order bring calm and harmony to our mind and life. Imagine being possessed (as this priest), and suddenly experiencing everything from another's perspective. It's so hard to get past our habitual ways of viewing things and glimpse another viewpoint. But in this case, peace comes with a price - letting go of our usual frame of reference. The prophecy and proverb for Two Mouths are:

Ifa: The prevalence of temper outbursts and cursing are the causes of difficulty in one’s life.

Proverb: Ashes fly back in the face of he who throws them.

Anger and resentment are perhaps the two biggest obstacles to adopting a new frame of reference. But if we become miserable enough, perhaps we might be willing.

No Other Life

From the Lukumi Tarot, the Six of Cups; from the Diloggun Oracle, Oyeku (two mouths):

          Six orishas party happily together; not even the Greek gods and goddesses of Mt. Olympus managed such a feat. They seem content with the power they have rather than wanting what another has. People who look back at their lives and angrily feel like they deserve better and more generally are a miserable breed. They spend so much time in the past that they fail to seize the joy at hand. Oyeku's ethic and proverb read:

Ifa: The prevalence of temper outbursts and cursing are the causes of difficulty in one’s life.

Proverb: Ashes fly back in the face of he who throws them.

When we regurgitate the painful past we find ourselves with emotional reflux, a constant feeling of bitterness and unhappiness. We would do well instead to take Henry David Thoreau's words to heart:

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”