Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Eight of Wands - Keep your calm in a chaotic world

Today’s card is the Eight of Wands from the Llewellyn tarot. We see the familiar eight Wands in the air, although today it doesn’t feel like they are all going in the same direction. Some seem to go upwards and some seem to fall from the sky. What also stands out is the calmness of the grazing deer. Some are eating and some are watchful but they are all convinced there is no need to fight or run to a safer place.
Often when a lot of Wands are flying over our head we tend to jump up, decide, act, again and again until each Wand is taken care of. We don’t like to allow those Wands to pass freely without our interference and to watch how life unfolds. To be able to do this demands a great amount of trust and confidence in our inner strength and in our resilience when something isn’t going as we hoped it would.
There is a lot happening in my life but I have to take a step back from most things, instead of jumping in, to “help” and  “fix it all. This card teaches me perfectly how to live in a chaotic world.
Time for lunch J

"Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset." Saint Francis de Sales

12 comments:

  1. Beautifully put. I needed this today thank you :)

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  2. What a great post! I can just imagine the deer thinking, "Yep, we've seen this before." With those wands in the air already, there's nothing to do but let them fly until they come back to earth. You are so right - we don't have to do something about everything. :)

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    1. Thanks Bev! Fixing, helping etc: these things are so ingrained in who we are, that this reminder is more that welcome I guess :)

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  3. Do you have the children's story of the sky is falling?
    I'm working hard to remain calm, but I think our president is really going to make the sky fall. So many wands so little time

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    1. Eventhough he isn´t my president he does scare me too. Will he make the sky fall? I doubt it. Perhaps his connections with Russia will be the end of him soon

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  4. This is such a beautiful image. I love the grazing deer! Wonderful job with the interpretation :)

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    1. Thank you! This deck has a lot of beautiful renditions of the traditional Rider Waite imagery

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  5. You post is very thought provoking. The wands do look like they are coming and going. The very carousel of our thoughts.

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    1. "The very carousel of our thoughts".That is beautifully put Carolyn! Thanks

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  6. Some wands going up, some going down, it all evens out in the end. Perhaps that is why the deer are so calm, they trust in life, that things will work out. I hope that all evens out for you, too, Ellen :)

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    1. Trust is my word for the year so let's practice it a bit more :)

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