Category: Oracle
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Oracle: Tantric Tarot Today
The thief = DISPOSSESSED “What have you stolen?” Thieves are always with us. In the Garden, even Time can be a Thief. Although we care so lovingly for the plants and fixtures, obsessively training them in the way we want them to go, do they really “belong” to us? Can they ever? Thieves “break in”…
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Oracle: Tantric Tarot Today
Chrysanthemum = HEALING RITUALS “Magic. Music. Mystery. Miracles.” In the Garden, just as the light begins to fail, we observe Tea Ceremony. For the last three thousand years, an infusion of yellow Chrysanthemum, wolfberry, honey and hot water clears anger and stress and quiets heart and brain. The tea is drunk from translucent porcelain cups…
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Oracle: Tantric Tarot Today
The thistle = RESISTANCE “Do we really want love? Can we even tolerate togetherness?” The Thistle both attracts and repels; only the hardiest animals can turn a thistle into food. Some gardeners won’t have a thistle anywhere near their garden; but thistles have a tendency to grow wherever they want, so it is smarter to…
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Oracle: Tantric Tarot Today
The Statue = LAW “Vows” In the garden, something watches us with human eyes. Man-made, it is very different from the urns, hoops and triangles that ornament the paths. It is also different from the stone bullfrog that guards the edge of the pool. The Statue is disturbingly life-like. What has happened to this man…
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Oracle: Tantric Tarot Today
Columbine = ADDICTION “Just when things are going so well -” This flower is named for an eagle’s claw because of its unusually spurred flower. The Columbine was treasured by Shakespeare and American Indians as both a funeral adornment and a delicious condiment; but owing to its cousinhood to Deadly Nightshade its leaves and root…
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Oracle: Tantric Tarot Today
The pond = JUDGEMENT “Does truth ever come out?” As we look into the mirror, is the mirror looking into us? The Pond is a world within world within world. A bubble within a bubble floating in…a bubble. We dip beneath it surface and gaze back at the universe – blurry now – where once…
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Oracle: Tantric Tarot Today
The tulip = ILLUSION “Seeing what isn’t there” There are so many different varieties and colors of the gorgeous Tulip, anyone can find a favorite. In fact, once upon a time, even the unloveliest bulbs of the beautiful Tulip became currency as they were bought, sold, traded and hoarded, until, inevitably, the bottom dropped out…
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Oracle: Tantric Tarot Today
The poppy = SUCCESS “Successful in whose eyes?” The Poppy has long represented eternal sleep. Greeks and Romans used these orange and red flowers as offerings to the dead – Westerners emblazon them on tombstones. A gift of poppies from a loved one is unsettling. Does it ask, “Lose consciousness?” We know The Poppy as…
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Oracle: Tantric Tarot Today
The daffodil = ENLIGHTENMENT “You can if you think you can” The Daffodil shares the just born freshness of babies, kittens and lambs. A daffodil is hope. They insist on coming up just when we are so sick of winter we don’t think we can ever go outdoors again; and there they are, waving bravely…
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Oracle: Tantric Tarot Today
The Rose = VULNERABILITY “Vulnerability: shaming flaw, character fault or superpower?” The Rose is begging to be touched; it attracts our lustful gaze with its hypnotic beauty. Its pouting petals spiral toward a dark heart which holds the promise of revelation and release. Roses need care; they respond to love. Rosarians willingly spend their lives…
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