TAROT INSIGHT: sometimes we feel that people we love betray us or turn against us and it can feel crushing. From a Buddhist perspective this can be a problem of self-cherishing and also attachment to particular expectations of people. In both cases, life gives us what we need to course correct–painful and disappointing as it may be. I thought to ask the Tarot to give some guidance or insight about these types of emotional gottcha’s.
First though whether people have actually betrayed us or not (sometimes they do unknowingly or sometimes, yeah, it’s intentional) but either way we still have our own emotional feeling to deal with as the residual. I’m asking for guidance or insight from the tarot about how to deal with the emotion. Ha! sometimes I have to laugh at the divination process and how literal it can be!
What card did I draw to pull insight from? PAN or in some decks the card of THE DEVIL. Instantly one thinks of being caught in the hell realms, chained to a person or an idea. In any case, the card is an indication of being out of harmony with natural law and relates to the need to break old patterns.
Past lives comes right along with the word patterns in my way of seeing things.
They did it in the past–the betrayal. Maybe not that person or that group of persons but it’s some old wound we’re still carrying around more than likely. Pan is thought to be the nature god and the world “panic” comes from this source word “pan”.
Pan suggests we laugh at our selves and our life-predicaments instead of falling back into addictive behaviors, unconscious attachments and self-imposed limitations. Pan says to laugh and be joyful about our lives.
What type of insight does this card offer? To lighten up, not take one’s self so seriously, let goes of cares and worries and play more. Divination rocks! Especially if you can follow the advice.
Go out and play in nature and try to lighten up–it’s hard (I know) but try to find some humor. And if all else fails: Valerian!
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