Tag: Empowerment
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Tantric Tarot Today
Spring = HOPE “It’s always spring within” Spring means beginning, freshness, newness. It starts small – barely recognizable – the tiniest frond of green among the blackness, calling forth an answering shiver from somewhere deep inside us. We are told that very cell in our body replaces itself in seven years, so springtime is a…
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Tantric Tarot Today
Aspiration = THE FUTURE “Bucket List” Effort is the quintessence of Aspiration. Success is a different matter entirely. The struggle to achieve absorbs our attention; rest only offers us the opportunity to dream yet another Aspiration. Contemplate the construction of our bodies; the muscle mass and muscle fiber, the growing bone and sinew that power…
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Tantric Tarot Today
Persistence = COMMITMENT “Doubling Down” Persistence is about not giving up. How could we accomplish anything without it? 99% of life is “just showing up” Woody Allen advises. “I didn’t fail,” said Edison, “I found ten thousand methods that didn’t work.” In other words, “trial and error” was a life style for him, a “modus…
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Tantric Tarot Today
Passion = COURAGE “What’s the bravest you’ve ever been?” Passion is the fuel by which we live. It can warm us, it can inflame us, it can destroy us. Without it life is dry and pointless. We are born with majestic passions that seem ungovernable. Our specific passions may seem strange to other people, but…
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Tantric Tarot Today
Nurturing = GROWTH “Are you ready to care for the Beloved? Or do you just want to receive care?” Nurturing is Stewardship plus Love. It is a non-exploitative relationship many of the fruits of which the Steward may not even live to see. Nurturing requires both Sensitivity and Balance; an appropriate combination of love, modeling…
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Tantric Tarot Today
Meditation = MINDFULNESS “Understanding and accepting the moment” Meditation is the Art of Looking Deeply. It takes concentration and practice and all the gifts that makes us human – but our physical, mental and cultural “tics” – fights against our cultivation of this vital skill. We must master our physicality to engage our brain in…
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Today’s Tantric Tarot
Chrysalis = Potential “Gathering strength” The Chrysalis looks dead; that is its disguise. A simple, broken leaf, soon to be swept away by wind or rain. But in fact, it’s a puzzle box that holds the whole universe inside itself; an unbroken chain of DNA, an augury of “becoming” dating from the dawn of Life…
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Tantric Tarot Today
The waterfall = CHANGE “How and what will we transform?” Rendering a garden is to make Order out of Chaos. And yet we want Nature – in all its rude, obstreperous glory – to pour out constantly through and on our little carefully tended patch – without, hopefully, overwhelming or destroying it. The Waterfall is…
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Tantric Tarot Today
The bridge = DISCIPLINE “How to keep moving forward?” Sometimes we are stuck. Can we even envision the place where we would rather be? If everything’s chaos then life is purposeless and nothing matters. There is a yawning chasm between there and here. What we need is a Bridge but nothing is visible. Looks like…
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Tantric Tarot Today
Youth = RESILIENCE: Snap back Youth is hungry long before dinner is ready. We recall it as a rollercoaster of highs and lows, a mix of aspiration, beauty and joy as keen as a knife’s edge. Let us never forget that sense of Spring when all things were possible and we were the linchpins holding…
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