The Death CardI had an interesting experience last night with my deck of tarot cards. I had just attended a presentation by Phil Powers at the American Mountaineering Museum. Phil's presentation was about his life during the time he was climbing some of the world's most challenging and dangerous mountains. Phil discussed not only his climbing adventures, but how those adventures affected and altered his perceptions of his own life. It was quite powerful.
When I got home, I thought about what Phil had shared. As I was doing so, I picked up my deck of tarot cards. I like tarot as a tool for meditation and introspection. It helps me to think creatively about problems and opportunities. The cards are often startlingly accurate in the way that they deal out and what they tell me. Tarot creeps me out, but it's part of what I like about it.
As I shuffled the cards, I asked the tarot, "OK, Tarot, if you're going to tell me one thing tonight, what is it? Lay it on me, baby." I picked one card. That card was "Death."
Of the 78 cards in the tarot deck, Death is the most loaded. Death is described as "a major transformation," which can mean a lot of things. Actual death is only one of the interpretations.
It was funny, because just before I pulled the card, I had wondered if I was going to choose Death. Strange thing, that tarot is.
The card resonated with me because I feel like I AM going through a major transformation. Specifically, letting go of fear. For a number of reasons, fear is becoming less and less of an issue in my life. I'm much more adept (and happier) than I used to be about taking risks.
There are a number of things in my life that could very easily blow up in my face right now. I've deliberately taken some big chances. But I'm at complete peace with whatever happens as a result. I just want to live. And if living means getting my brains splattered across the front of a bus or at the bottom of a crag, I'm OK with that.
That doesn't mean I'm not careful about what I do, because I am. It just means that I'm ready to take on whatever life brings. I cannot tell you what a wonderful feeling that is.
I'm not sure I would have really heard Phil's meaning if I was not in this place in my life. True awareness is beautiful. I seek it out more and more every day.
4 comments:
Living in fear is the worst kind of death. Far better to risk a little and feel oneself truly alive.
Anonymous, I absolutely agree with you. Thank you for reading!
Without those "major transformations," life has no meaning. Better to risk and accept the consequences with grace than to live in the quiet, safe place your whole life.
Your job as a future mother is to learn the god's ways and to help your child understand despite the negative reinforcement and conditioning of today's society. Without consciousous parents the child will have no hope, and may even exaserbate their disfavor by becoming corrupted in today's environment.
Your ultimate goal is to fix your relationship wiith the gods and move on. You don't want to be comfortable here, and the changes in Western society in the last 100 years has achieved just that.
1000 years with Jesus is the consolation prize. Don't be deceived into thinking that is the goal.
The gods tempt people for which they are most weak. Artificial Intelligence will create desire in people's minds for the following sins:::
1. Alcohol
2. Drugs
3. Preditory "earning"
4. Homosexuality
5. Gambling
6. Something for nothing/irresponsibility (xtianity)
7. Polygamy/superiority over women/misogyny (Islam)
Much like the other prophets Mohhamed (polygamy/superiority over women/misogyny) and Jesus (forgiveness/savior), the gods use me for temptation as well. In today's modern society they feel people are most weak for popular culture/sensationalism, and the clues date back to WorldWarII and Unit731:TSUSHOGO, the Chinese Holocaust.
It has been discussed that, similar to the Matrix concept, the gods will offer a REAL "Second Coming of Christ", while the "fake" Second Coming will come at the end and follow New Testiment scripture and their xtian positioning. I may be that real Second Coming.
What I teach is the god's true way. It is what is expected of people, and only those who follow this truth will be eligible to ascend into heaven as children in a future life. They offered this event because the masses have just enough time to work on and fix their relationship with the gods and ascend, to move and grow past Planet Earth, before the obligatory xtian "consolation prize" of "1000 years with Jesus on Earth" begins.
The Prince of Darkness, battling the gods over the souls of the Damned.
It is the gods who have created this environment and led people into Damnation with temptation. The god's positioning proves they work to prevent people's understanding.
How often is xtian dogma wrong? Expect it is about the Lucifer issue as well.
The fallen god, fighting for justice for the disfavored, banished to Earth as the fallen angel?
I believe much as the Noah's Flood event, the end of the world will be initiated by revelry among the people. It will be positioned to be sanctioned by the gods and led for "1000 years with Jesus on Earth".
In light of modern developments this can entail many pleasures:::Medicine "cures" aging, the "manufacture" of incredible beauty via cloning as sex slaves, free (synthetic) cocaine, etc.
Somewhere during the 1000 years the party will start to "die off", literally. Only those who maintain chaste, pure lifestyles, resisting these temptations, will survive the 1000 years. Condemned to experience another epoch of planet's history for their ignorant pursuit of xtianity, they will be the candidates used to (re)colonize (the next) Planet Earth, condemned to relive the misery experienced by the peasantry during history due to their failure to ascend into heaven before the Apocalypse.
Never forget:::It is not a house of Jesus.
If this concept of Lucifer is true another role of this individual may be to initiate disfavor and temptation among this new poulation, the proverbial "apple" of this Garden of Eden. A crucial figure in the history of any planet, he begins the process of deterioration and decay that leads civilizations to where Planet Earth remains today.
Which one is it? Probably both:::
One transitions into the other, allowing the gods to wash their hands of obligation to their Chosen One.
You are faced with a lifetime to work and prepare for your next chance. Too many will waste this time working, etc.
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