Friday, September 26, 2014

The World: Farewell - Hello

Today’s card is the World from the Druidcraft Tarot. This is one of the decks I love to use when Autumn is here without a doubt. It is raining and windy and windswept leaves piling up in my garden. I am enjoying my coffee with a big “speculaas”. (Dutch spiced biscuits )
Back to the tarot: the World is the last card of the Major Arcana and represents completion and fulfillment; the end of one cycle and the beginning of something new. Although the figure in this card has gained complete mastery over the elements and both male and female qualities, he/she is about to jump through the vulva like shape of the vesica pisces in a Celtic knotwork design, into a new challenge; the beginning of a new phase in his life
This card can be about larger periods in  your life but also and quite often it is more about the smaller ones, the ones you almost can’t notice or are happening so fast and abruptly you can hardly keep up with them. Sometimes new things are already approaching before the old has been laid down to rest. The old and the new, organically intertwining in the fabric of our lives. Maybe if we could learn to approach life as open an vulnerable as this Star like naked figure, we could more easily deal with the flowing and blending colors of life
We are heading into a new period; one without Tara but probable with a new puppy. It is hard and it seems so wrong sometimes but at the same time it feels like a soft balm for my heart. So no clean and razor-sharp endings and beginnings but more a daily, sometimes hourly moving back and forth between saying goodbye to Tara and making room for …….who knows

8 comments:

  1. This post touched me deeply. You are so right Ellen; on a timeline there may be razor-sharp endings and beginnings, but never in the human heart. :)

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    1. I am happy you've gained something out of it

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  2. Hi my dear friend!!! I'm glad you are back. I tell you I was thinking of you, I was a bit worried about you. Now I know you are ok and blogging with positive energy as always you do :) A big kiss and the more brighter Muchas Estrellas guiding you!

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    1. Thank you, it is so good to bee back. Picking up my daily a routine is very helpful as is of course reconnecting with you all. It is so sweet of you to worry about me. :)
      Big Hug and many bright stars for you too

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  3. This post moved me deeply, Ellen! That acknowledging of the flow between old and new, ending and beginning: how it is painful, yet organic, hard to trust, and yet necessary. Warm hugs to you, and may you find the way to flow with the emotions that are still so present and changeable.

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    1. Again thank you for you kind words and encouragement and also for being there when change hurts

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  4. Dear Ellen,

    A very deep thoughtful post Ellen.
    I know it hurts to be tender hearted, but to be hard harded is not living. My heart goes out to you. I am glad to see you are back.
    The World is a beautiful card with such a good message of the great cycle of the Major Arcana ending were it begins, completing the circle.

    Blessings to you <3

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    1. I am glad we can be tender hearted and have found here like minded friends who feel just as deeply and can understand how ups and downs can take turns rapidly
      It feel so good to be back
      Gentle and tender hugs

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