Honor Your Mind
A short message, but a good one. In the New Orleans Oracle, I always relate the element of this deck to water. Water as a symbolic act of learning is easily explained by its movement.
Stagnation is stalemated and stuck like brain fog. A calm, steady stream is balanced and knows exactly where it’s headed. Lakes and ponds are inspired by its environment and pools are distracted by it. Waters that look still on the surface with strong currents beneath it are like the Hermit in waiting after a long lesson. There’s plenty to attribute to the works of water’s symbolism and here, these cards are no different.
Where Focus intends to direct me like the waters with freeing currents beneath, Spiritual Knowledge intends to gather like the lakes and ponds inspired by its environment. Together, the goal today is to become the calm, stead stream that even the birds can stop to splash onto their feathers or deer could stop to drink from it or maybe someone could rest beside it.
As I go about my day today, I’ll continue to keep my eyes open for the subtle visitations and the occasional bird paying a visit. I’ll keep an open mind to what I come across as I read and research or work today, too. The balance of focus and spiritual knowledge is as beautiful as we make it to be, even when we’re knee deep in muddy waters; as it is us that stirs the soil beneath and uncovers the vegetation that more life can eat from.
