Lately I've
been meditating more regularly again. My practice was buried under too much
worrying and feeling restless and so forth. Working with the last Embrace card “No-Thingness”
has been very revealing to me. I've discovered
the more anxious and stressed out I am the less I do the things which could be
healing for me, like prayer, meditation or just sit and do nothing. So now I've picked up my meditation practice (again) and so far so good. Before I start with
the actual meditation I like to visualize a circle with elemental symbolism like colors, forces of nature, animals, goddesses, seasons etc. (not all at once of course J). This separates me from my daily hustle.
Any way
after my meditation instead of picking up my The Osho Zen Tarot as usual I've
pulled my Release and Embrace card for the coming lunation from The Tao Oracle by the same artist: Ma Deva
Padma.
Release: Work on what has been spoiled
Embrace; Opposition
At first I
was bit confused because It seemed as if the two cards had to be drawn just the
other way around: to release oppositions and misunderstandings and to embrace
healing and restoring the balance But
then I realized this is exactly what the cards are telling me. My first
automatic response to a situation is to try to make things right for everybody.
To restore the balance, to clean up the mess so we can move one like nothing
has happened. Everything for the sake of peace. Often I feel very uncomfortable if there is a conflict,
a tension or even a difference in opinion. So this will be my challenge for this
lunation: to let things be as they are for a while and let others work out their
own issues without me coming to the rescue. And perhaps even more to be able to
have and to keep my own viewpoints without letting myself be talked over by
everybody else for the sake of harmony and balance.
