The Rose – Vulnerabilities – You Know You Have Them

Should We Warriors Protect our Tender Places? Completely hardened is inhuman. You drew this card today because it’s time to thank and cherish your softer side.

DREAMS – Do you have nightmares? Are you helpless in your dreams? Do you dream of children, of your own childhood? In Warrior Tarot, the rose represents the tender evanescence of youth when the merest thumbprint of emphasis leaves eternal impressions. As the emblem of beauty, the Rose warns us that this quivering, temporary vulnerability may be the very definition of loveliness.

We Remember – You well recollect how you were molded. Is it a pleasant nostalgic vision or a horror story? Do you resent all the other actors in this drama? Remember, resentment Is a poison we consume – we are the only ones it harms.

Challenge – Warriors protect something. It is up to us ton decide what that is. Can you turn the building blocks of your own past into a constructive, hopeful framework for the future? Can you mentally accept and explore the beauty of maturity?

Danger – The philosophy of “ruin” Is a psychic snare. Terrible things happen to ordinary people and they are changed forever. We may wish those things hadn’t happened but we can’t let regret overwhelm us. It prevents us from focusing on reality. Don’t regret lost innocence. It is failure to mature that is the real tragedy here. We need to understand the world we’re in and map it for those who follow after. History and literature explore the coping mechanisms around disaster and the strong people it produces.

Opportunity – Resilience is the art we treasure. We soon realize resilience has its own beauty. We do not prune because the rose is dead, but to nourish an outpouring of constant lifegiving – eternal roses. That Is true beauty.

#Haiku: On the Vulnerability of Poets

Dis –
Composing
To re-see;
Melting to
Re-form;
Masking to un –
Mask.