It seems like this month I need to explore what lightning means. Literally and metaphorically.
Lightning was the card from the Gaian Tarot that came up for my birth month, November. My last month of 34, the last month living in the house we lived in for 8 years, the month I turn 35 and I prepare to move {back} to the mountains.
16 ~ Lightning
Lightning strikes a healthy looking tree and sets it on fire. The sky is deep red filled with thick clouds. Three figures fall down from the sky, or from the lightning?
That’s how I start my card readings, by asking you to describe the cards with no meaning or interpretation so you can familiarize yourself with the images and create a story. It’s much easier when I do readings for other people. When I do them for myself, I have a hard time letting go of everything I know about each card and open myself to see new things.
But isn’t this what happens to us everytime we enter something new in our lives? We stand at the threshold of new opportunities carrying the weight of past beliefs in our backpack.
In this case I can’t forget that Lightning is the equivalent to the Tower card in traditional Tarot decks. The Tower card is one of those drastic cards of sudden change when life as you know it ends.
I try to be my own client and let everything I know about Tarot go. So I ask myself, what is the first feeling this card evokes?
My first reaction is fear and overwhelm. But I can also see renewal and light.
The next step is to describe the card with meaning and interpretation, put myself in the picture, create a story.
The red sky makes it look very apocalyptic. The lightning is white and bright and it also looks like roots. Three figures fall down, I wonder where they come from…
If I put myself in the picture I think I’m one of the figures falling. I’m falling out what I thought life would be by now, of all the ideas and plans I’ve had. I’m free falling, I don’t think I’m conscious, if I was I’d probably be freaking out… I’m in total surrender. Lightning is striking to burn the old, the dead, the false structures of comfort.
And then the a-ha! moment appears, like it always does in my readings when I look at my client’s eyes and I see she sees it. The moment when I feel in my whole body the truth of what’s happening. In that moment everything I know and don’t know merges, I cross the bridge between the visible and invisible worlds and I see the weave. The tiny threads of life moments, relationships and connections that brought me here, where I am today. As I stand in this threshold, about to cross to the other side and start a new chapter I realize everything it’s where it needs to be in this moment. Even when the lighting is hitting hard and the sky looks like it’s going to explode.
Lightning was the card from the Gaian Tarot that came up for my birth month, November. My last month of 34, the last month living in the house we lived in for 8 years, the month I turn 35 and I prepare to move {back} to the mountains.
16 ~ Lightning
Lightning strikes a healthy looking tree and sets it on fire. The sky is deep red filled with thick clouds. Three figures fall down from the sky, or from the lightning?
That’s how I start my card readings, by asking you to describe the cards with no meaning or interpretation so you can familiarize yourself with the images and create a story. It’s much easier when I do readings for other people. When I do them for myself, I have a hard time letting go of everything I know about each card and open myself to see new things.
But isn’t this what happens to us everytime we enter something new in our lives? We stand at the threshold of new opportunities carrying the weight of past beliefs in our backpack.
In this case I can’t forget that Lightning is the equivalent to the Tower card in traditional Tarot decks. The Tower card is one of those drastic cards of sudden change when life as you know it ends.
I try to be my own client and let everything I know about Tarot go. So I ask myself, what is the first feeling this card evokes?
My first reaction is fear and overwhelm. But I can also see renewal and light.
The next step is to describe the card with meaning and interpretation, put myself in the picture, create a story.
The red sky makes it look very apocalyptic. The lightning is white and bright and it also looks like roots. Three figures fall down, I wonder where they come from…
If I put myself in the picture I think I’m one of the figures falling. I’m falling out what I thought life would be by now, of all the ideas and plans I’ve had. I’m free falling, I don’t think I’m conscious, if I was I’d probably be freaking out… I’m in total surrender. Lightning is striking to burn the old, the dead, the false structures of comfort.
And then the a-ha! moment appears, like it always does in my readings when I look at my client’s eyes and I see she sees it. The moment when I feel in my whole body the truth of what’s happening. In that moment everything I know and don’t know merges, I cross the bridge between the visible and invisible worlds and I see the weave. The tiny threads of life moments, relationships and connections that brought me here, where I am today. As I stand in this threshold, about to cross to the other side and start a new chapter I realize everything it’s where it needs to be in this moment. Even when the lighting is hitting hard and the sky looks like it’s going to explode.
"If you ever want your soul to dance in the clouds, you will at some point have to juggle lightning and taste the thunder”
~Christopher Poindexter
~Christopher Poindexter
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