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| Tao Oracle |
After several days using the tarot for my daily
draws, I have drawn the card for today from the Tao oracle by Ma Deva Padma (the
artist of the Osho Zen Tarot)
Well this
card is surely a wake-up call on various levels.
The man is
crouched and almost crushed by the overload on his back. When you look closely
everything is stacked neatly and there is even a tree growing on the top so I wonder
how long he has been carrying this enormous burden.
When we
keep going and keep adding to the load we all know we can go on like this for a
long time until we reach our breaking point and believe me, we will reach it. The
question is do we learn from it. Or do we recover and pick up the cause of our
burn-out and carry on as if nothing has happened.
I have to
be honest, it took me a couple of times to get it (one less urgent than the
other, but still). I also can say, I've learned a lot and I hope I
won’t get burned-out anymore. But of course there are still a lot of excesses
in my life. One of them is my obsession with secondhand tarot decks. I keep checking secondhand sites for new adds
more and more. Since I was able to quit smoking last year I think I can manage
to reduce this addiction to normal levels. This is just a minor excess and
there are more of course, but the point is, they can grow slowly without
noticing and suddenly you could be on the verge of breaking. Therefore it is so
important to really take a close look at yourself from time to time and
question your motives, your desires and
be honest about your limitations, your levels of stress and to sort out what you
really want and need to be happy without having to feel guilty or ashamed because
we’re only human.
