October 28: If a fallen leaf decays you can clearly see its veins. They
form a dense network which has kept the leaf alive. What intricate network
keeps me alive?
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| Earth magic oracle cards |
Water appears to become a theme in my daily
draws. From lake, to Sea storm and now with Ebb and flow from the Earth Magic
Oracle cards by Steven Farmer.
He writes the following in his guidebook: "An important
aspect in the art of living is to move with the ebb and flow of your emotions, joining their
fluidity but not being captured by it. It is also not necessary to become
obsessed with any particular fluctuation in mood or feeling. They are simply
emotions, often activated in ways that are completely beyond your
understanding. When you neither minimize nor exaggerate the intensity and
importance of your emotions, you then have a greater sense of when and how to
express them." (If) "You have been fighting the ebb and flow of your
own feelings -- denying your hurt, anger, or sorrow -- by either attaching
yourself to one or the other and nurturing it as if it were a nursing child, or
else smoothing over your feelings with practiced responses that deny and hide
what is going on beneath the surface of your expression. When you attempt to
constrict yourself from experiencing your emotions, it is much like trying to
stem the tides that grow even more forceful with every attempt humans make to
try and control them. Allow yourself to swim with these variations rather than
resisting them." "Earth Magic Oracle Cards" by ©Steven D. Farmer
What can this card
tell me about the intricate web that keeps me alive? For me this card is all
about how you feel about yourself and the life you are living. Feelings and emotions can be
a so confusing and entangled. But they're also making life beautiful and colourful.
Without our emotions our life would be dull and plain. Since their ebb and flow are
inherent to life, it’s up to us how we ride the waves. We have to trust the
tides of our feelings; ebb is always followed by flow. Like breathing in is
always followed by breathing out. Again this card is a reminder to stay close to
my inner self: To really feel what is going on in the undercurrent and what is
causing the spring tides.J
This
cards also remind me of my youth when I lived near the beach. Whenever I my
feelings where heightened, whether sad of happy, I would go there and stand at the
seaside sharing my feeling with the waves.
Sometimes when my emotions are intense, I forget that they are as transitory as mist. They ebb and flow, but they don't have to "unground" me unless I see them as set in stone, never changing. I am really impressed by this deck so far!
ReplyDeleteAn emotion doesn't last very long. But we keep thinking about it over and over again which makes it hard and solid
DeleteYes it is indeed a beautiful deck. I am so happy I've "discovered "it again :)
I think large bodies of water, especially the ocean, are amazing places for healing and balancing out our feelings about things. Even when I'm feeling okay, a trip to the ocean feels so centering :)
ReplyDeleteIt is wonderful to leave nearby an ocean. I like lakes and such, but nothing compares to the energy of the ocean.
DeleteWe used to live about ten minutes from it but now it is nearly a two hours drive
This is gorgeous! I love these cards. Water is such a great metaphor for so many things. Boy, emotions can be really challenging! I'm an emotional person and even though it really makes a person who they are...well, it can be tiring. Beautiful post. xx
ReplyDeleteHi MM Thank you
DeleteMost of the cards in this deck are really stunning.
Emotions can be tiring but at the same time they can be great teachers :)
It's funny, I would have read this card so differently! In the sea, I see the people who surround us as an emotional network. They come and go in our lives, more present or more distant, and yet as a whole they create the web of friendship and emotion that keeps us connected :) Lovely to read such a different interpretation, that you have to stay close to your inner self despite the ebb and flow around you!
ReplyDeleteThanks Kerry. I like your interpretation very much. Perhaps because I am a more solitary person it's not in my nature to rely on the help and support of my friends and family. For me it's sometimes more difficult to ask for help then to do things on my own
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