Today’s
card is the Child of Earth from the Gaian Tarot. After a two well deserved Four
of Air days, it is time to start engaging with the world again. Last weekend I was away to attend a family weekend for my mother’s birthday and you all know how straining these social events can be for
me. I always need some time to replenish afterwards but today I almost feel like
my old self again. This child’s energy is definitely helping me. The first things that came to mind when I drew this card were:
knitting (green sweater), cuddling with Jofee (little rabbit), eating fresh
fruit (apple) and spending more time outside. After some longer consideration this
card also reminded me of being mindful and experiencing the outside world with our
senses. Life can be felt, seen, tasted, heard and smelled. This give us such an
more balanced understanding of life than by only thinking about it. The Child of
Earth invites us to embrace our beginners mind and approach our day with an attitude
of eagerness and openness and without preconceptions.
As you all
know by now I am crocheting and knitting a lot lately. I have to say I can do
both things very rapidly but and one thing that helps me to really be present is
to watch closely how I knit very slowly, stitch by stitch, and how my fingers
lead the yarn and how very gradually my knitting grows larger. This is such a sensory
activity. I smell and feel the yarn (whool), I see what I do and I hear the
ticking of my needles and no, I don’t
taste it; that part is taken care of by my coffee and biscuits.
"In
the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are
few."
