By Sarah Taylor
This week’s reading is about the path to The Magician. Without giving too much of it away before I’ve started, I would like to offer this observation about The Magician. As the first incarnate card in the tarot deck, The Magician has the ability to harness all the other 77 cards to perform his magic. We, too, have myriad resources available to us to be creators — and Planet Waves, for me, has been an invaluable tool of my trade in this respect.
When I started cottoning on to the idea that I was an active participant in my own experience, Planet Waves helped me take this idea and expand it.
One of things you’ll read here with unfailing regularity is the statement that “the personal is political,” and for good reason. Planet Waves emphasises the interweaving of the individual with the collective, that point of connection between ‘me’ and ‘everyone and everything else’, which forms the basis of the story of our lives if we choose to see it. When we do, we can see how our actions impact on our world; we start to see and experience cause and effect. In other words, we start to become Magicians.
The thing is, magic doesn’t happen by itself. We have to do something. At Planet Waves, there is a team of editors, contributors, IT, customer service and administrative staff, each of whom harnesses their own creativity in ways that make magic every day.
For it to work seamlessly, however, it needs your participation in terms of what you take from it, and what you bring to it. As a member of Planet Waves, what you can bring is the means by which the Planet Waves team can continue to create content that is engaging, stimulating, challenging and a catalyst for growth.