By Sarah Taylor
This week, I hand you over again to Pamela Eakins, co-creator of Tarot of The Spirit and someone whom I feel embodies the idea of the wisdom of the feminine. Somehow, this excerpt communicated a message to me that lay beyond the words she writes; the words are a gateway rather than the destination itself.
In a moment that was valuable to me this morning, my therapist said that it felt important to be able to feel part of forces that are greater than us. She had responded to what I had told her about a close friend: he had looked at me in a slow-dawning incredulity, and not a little fear, when I had mentioned to him that I was aware of the potential consequences of having to sign a rental agreement during Mercury Retrograde. In that moment, I realised that my own connection to something greater than myself was so important that I was prepared to be judged as mentally unstable because of it, and that I was prepared to stand by it even if other things that I considered precious fell away.
In describing what she does below, Pamela Eakins speaks to me of the same thing. She talks of the need to find something that breathes life and meaning into what, without consciousness, feels lifeless. Tarot does this for me — as does Astrology, in a much more embryonic form. Both of them connect me to something that feeds and nourishes, but which also asks that I give it expression in order for it to exist in the particular way that I describe it. I feel this power asks all of us to do this in the way that we are best able to, and that it can be our life’s work to open ourselves to it. But that might simply be my own reaction to it. I’d be interested in hearing yours.
— Sarah
” [W]ords are but skeletons — pale, rigid, lifeless pieces of bone — while the pictures conjured up by our powers of imagination are as living flesh, elastic muscle and circulating red blood.” — Edmond Bordeaux Szekely [philologist, philosopher]
How do you walk the spiritual path? Perhaps your spiritual knowledge is a set of words intellectually assimilated via the books and teachings of the great masters. Or, perhaps your knowledge has been gained through your own deep emotional experience, learned by feeling as it were.