Post by Kivawolfspeaker on Jul 1, 2006 21:54:20 GMT -5
Feel free to take what fits and leave the rest.
Card 1: The Issue: Slowing Down: Knight of Rainbows
The Knight of Rainbows is a reminder that just like the tortoise, we carry our home with us wherever we go. There is no need to hurry, no need to seek shelter elsewhere. Even as we move into the depths of the emotional waters, we can remain self-contained and free from attachments. It is a time when you are ready to let go of any expactations you have had about yourself or other people, and to take responsibility for any illusions you might have been carrying. There is no need to do anything but rest in the fullness of who you are right now. If desires, hopes, and dreams are fading away, so much the better. Their disappearance is making space for a new quality of stillness and acceptance in a way and you are able to welcome this development in a way you have never been able to before. Savor this qualitty of slowing down, of coming to rest and recognizing that you are already home.
Card 2: Diminishing/enhancing or clarifying/obscuring the issue: The Rebel
The powerful and authoritative figure in this card is clearly the master of his own destiny. On his shoulder is an emblem of the sun, and the torch he holds in his right hnand symbolizes the light of his own hard-won truth. Whether he is wealthy or poor, the Rebel is really an emperor because he had broken the chains of society;s repressive conditioning and opinions. He has formed himself by embacing all the colors of the rainbow, emerging from the dark and formless roots of his unconscious past and growing wings to fly into the sky. His very way of being is rebeelious, not because he is fighting against anybody or anything, but because he has discovered his own true nature and is determined to live in accordance with it. The eagle is his spirit animal, a messenger betwwen eath and sky. The Rebel challenges us to be courageous enough to take responsibility for who we are and to live our truth
Card 3: Unconscious Influences: 10 of Clouds: Rebirth
In Zen you are coming from nowhere and you are going to nowhere. You are just now, here, neither coming nor going. Everything passes by you, your consciousness reflects it but it does not get identified. When a lion roars in front of a mirror, do ou think the mirror roars? Or when the lion is gone and a child comes dancing, the mirror completely forgets about the lion and starts dancing with the child - do you think the mirror dances with the child? The mirror does nothing, it simply reflects. Your consciousness is only a mirror Neither do you come, nor do you go. Things come and go. You became young, you became old, you are alive, you are dead. All these states are simply reflections in an eternal pool of consciousness
Card 4: Conscious Influences: King of Fire: The Creator
The Zen master is this card has harnessed the energy of fire and is able to use it for creation rather than destruction. He invites us t orecongnize and participate with hime in the understanding that belongs to those whoe have mastered the fires of passion, without repressing them or allowing them to get destructive and out of balance. He is so integrated that there is no longer any difference between who he is inside and who he is in the world outside. He offers this gift of understanding and integration to all those who come to him, the gift of crative light that come from the center of his beinvg. The King of Fire tells us that anything that we undertake now, with the understanding that comes from maturity, will bring enrichment to our own lives and to the lives of other. Using whatever skills you have, whatever you have laerned from your own life experience, it is time to express yourself
Card 5: Old Ways: 9 of Water: Laziness
When you are lazy, it is a negative taste, you simply feel that you have no energy, you simply feel dull, you simply feel sleepy, you simply feel dead. When you are in a state of non-doing then you are full of energy - it is a very positive taste. You are radiant, bubbling, vbration, YOu are not sleepy, you are perfectly aware. You are not dead - you are tremendoulsy alive . . . There is a possibililty the mind can deceive you: It can rationalize laziness as non-doing. It can say, "I have become a Zen master," or "I believe in Tao" - but you are not deceiving anybody else. You will be deceiving only yourself. So be alert.
Card 1: The Issue: Slowing Down: Knight of Rainbows
The Knight of Rainbows is a reminder that just like the tortoise, we carry our home with us wherever we go. There is no need to hurry, no need to seek shelter elsewhere. Even as we move into the depths of the emotional waters, we can remain self-contained and free from attachments. It is a time when you are ready to let go of any expactations you have had about yourself or other people, and to take responsibility for any illusions you might have been carrying. There is no need to do anything but rest in the fullness of who you are right now. If desires, hopes, and dreams are fading away, so much the better. Their disappearance is making space for a new quality of stillness and acceptance in a way and you are able to welcome this development in a way you have never been able to before. Savor this qualitty of slowing down, of coming to rest and recognizing that you are already home.
Card 2: Diminishing/enhancing or clarifying/obscuring the issue: The Rebel
The powerful and authoritative figure in this card is clearly the master of his own destiny. On his shoulder is an emblem of the sun, and the torch he holds in his right hnand symbolizes the light of his own hard-won truth. Whether he is wealthy or poor, the Rebel is really an emperor because he had broken the chains of society;s repressive conditioning and opinions. He has formed himself by embacing all the colors of the rainbow, emerging from the dark and formless roots of his unconscious past and growing wings to fly into the sky. His very way of being is rebeelious, not because he is fighting against anybody or anything, but because he has discovered his own true nature and is determined to live in accordance with it. The eagle is his spirit animal, a messenger betwwen eath and sky. The Rebel challenges us to be courageous enough to take responsibility for who we are and to live our truth
Card 3: Unconscious Influences: 10 of Clouds: Rebirth
In Zen you are coming from nowhere and you are going to nowhere. You are just now, here, neither coming nor going. Everything passes by you, your consciousness reflects it but it does not get identified. When a lion roars in front of a mirror, do ou think the mirror roars? Or when the lion is gone and a child comes dancing, the mirror completely forgets about the lion and starts dancing with the child - do you think the mirror dances with the child? The mirror does nothing, it simply reflects. Your consciousness is only a mirror Neither do you come, nor do you go. Things come and go. You became young, you became old, you are alive, you are dead. All these states are simply reflections in an eternal pool of consciousness
Card 4: Conscious Influences: King of Fire: The Creator
The Zen master is this card has harnessed the energy of fire and is able to use it for creation rather than destruction. He invites us t orecongnize and participate with hime in the understanding that belongs to those whoe have mastered the fires of passion, without repressing them or allowing them to get destructive and out of balance. He is so integrated that there is no longer any difference between who he is inside and who he is in the world outside. He offers this gift of understanding and integration to all those who come to him, the gift of crative light that come from the center of his beinvg. The King of Fire tells us that anything that we undertake now, with the understanding that comes from maturity, will bring enrichment to our own lives and to the lives of other. Using whatever skills you have, whatever you have laerned from your own life experience, it is time to express yourself
Card 5: Old Ways: 9 of Water: Laziness
When you are lazy, it is a negative taste, you simply feel that you have no energy, you simply feel dull, you simply feel sleepy, you simply feel dead. When you are in a state of non-doing then you are full of energy - it is a very positive taste. You are radiant, bubbling, vbration, YOu are not sleepy, you are perfectly aware. You are not dead - you are tremendoulsy alive . . . There is a possibililty the mind can deceive you: It can rationalize laziness as non-doing. It can say, "I have become a Zen master," or "I believe in Tao" - but you are not deceiving anybody else. You will be deceiving only yourself. So be alert.