The Key is Compassion

From the Restored Order Tarot, the Two of Cups:

Many readers see this card as a romantic encounter, but because of what is going on in my life right now, my focus is on the caduceus between these two people.  Today I choose to see it as a battle within myself that needs to be reconciled.  My inbox had this tongue-in-cheek (but timely) message from tut.com this morning:

One of the most stringent conditions all angels must meet, other than double-advanced harp playing and skydiving abilities (not necessarily at the same time), is that they must not allow themselves to feel hurt or rejected by the choices made by others, no matter how much they've done for them nor how great their love.

And therein lies the difficulty - to learn to allow people to make their own choices and their own mistakes without feeling guilt or resentment.  And not only that, but to love them in spite of it all.

     From the Oracle of the Kabbalah today comes the letter "Pei:"

Pei means "mouth," and its form is said to be a mouth with teeth.  In explaining this letter, Rabbi Ginsburgh said, "Expression of wisdom proceeds from the inner eye of the heart to the mouth."  In other words, if I want my speech to be creative rather than destructive, it needs to come from a compassionate place.  Robert Aitken, a Zen teacher and one of the founders of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, wrote: "Noble, upright speech arises from clear understanding that none of us will be here very long and it behooves us to be kind to one another while we can."  Aitken was an activist who advocated social justice for gays, women and native Hawaiians his entire life.  He was a living example of speaking out, but doing it "from the inner eye of the heart to the mouth."