From the Alchemical Tarot Renewed, Judgment; from the Oracle of the Radiant Sun, Lust (Venus in Aries):
Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.
–Madeline L’Engle
Challenges, hardships and pain are a darkness easy to become trapped in, an absence of light that can harden hearts and minds. But for a few, it is such darkness that brings them back to the light. Touched by the philosophers' stone of insight, they emerge with a new understanding that opens minds and hearts. Yet Lust is a warning not to let go of our discernment as we embrace this new way of being. There's a big difference between welcoming life in all its shapes and colors and trying to devour it. As Shaila Catherine wrote:
Equanimity contains the complete willingness to behold the pleasant and the painful events of life equally. It points to a deep balance in which you are not pushed and pulled between the coercive energies of desire and aversion.
