I use tarot and oracle cards as tools for reflection and contemplation. Rather than divining the future, they are a way for me to look more deeply at the "now."
"The goal isn't to arrive, but to meander, to saunter, to make your life a holy wandering." ~ Rami Shapiro

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Change, Repeating Patterns

The card chosen today from the Millennium 2000 Tarot is the Wheel of Fortune:
German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was selected by Folchi to represent this card.  Nietzsche believed that religions want to protect their moral codes against change, even though this attitude was not in the best interests of humanity's well-being.  He thought that reality was in a constant flux, thus the fixed truths in morality and religions were an illusion.  Nietzsche claimed the exemplary human being should craft his own identity through self-realization and do so without relying on myths.  I have met many people who use religious faith as a lucky rabbit's foot, thinking it will protect them from all harm.  But life doles out good and bad to everyone, regardless of religious affiliation.  The past few days have taught me well how quickly life can change, and often the only control I have over some things is my attitude and acceptance of them.  But life is about movement; I trust that "this too will pass."

       The card from the Post Psychedelic Cyberpunk deck today is "The Fractal:"
A fractal is a pattern that is repeated at ever smaller scales to produce irregular shapes and surfaces that cannot be represented by classical geometry.  However close you zoom into it, you'll always see roughly the same pattern.  For instance, a tree's branches are similar to the shape of the tree itself.  Falkov explains that this phenomenon links us to the larger universe - the inner mirrors the outer, the minor reflects the major.  It reminds me of this quote by the Dalai Lama: "We can never obtain peace in the world if we neglect the inner world and don't make peace with ourselves.  World peace must develop out of inner peace."

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