Cam and I have been having some really weird dreams over the last few nights. When we talk about them, they've been turning out to be quite similar. We've decided that our baby has crossed over a threshold and is trying to communicate with us and is scanning our memory banks to feed his own brain and help us revisit issues we haven't even thought about in years. For me, I figured that the next logical step would be to try and communicate back and gain some understanding through Zen Tarot.
I did a simple "relating" layout that examines a relationship between two people. In this case, it is my relationship with my son, Daniel Lorenzo. It looks like this:
Since this is a reading meant for my relationship with my son, I will leave out my personal interpretation to keep it sacred, avoid skewing other perspectives and maintain the level of privacy that Tarot requires. The following, are the representations and meanings from the book behind each card in this layout.
I want to share the cards and their general meanings because they hold great beauty and power and can be used to bring out things in the mind that we already collectively know. Its perfectly fine to interpret these how you want. Whatever insight and understanding of your own you get is a gift for you to reflect upon and enjoy!
Card 1: Me and what I am contributing to the relationship...
UNDERSTANDING: "The bird pictured on this card is looking out from what seems to be a cage. There is no door, and actually the bars are disappearing. The bars were an illusion, and this small bird is being summoned by the grace and freedom and encouragement of the others. It is spreading its wings, ready to take flight for the very first time. The dawn of a new understanding - that the cage has always been open, and the sky has always been there for us to explore - can make us feel a little shaky at first. It's fine, and natural to be shaky, but don't let it overshadow the opportunity to experience the light-heartedness and adventure on offer, right there alongside the shakiness. Move with the sweetness and gentleness of this time. Feel the fluttering within. Spread your wings and be free."
Card 2: Daniel Lorenzo and his input to the relationship...
REBIRTH: "This card depicts the evolution of consciousness as it is described by Friedrich Nietzsche in his book, Thus Spake Zarathustra. He speaks of the three levels of Camel, Lion and Child. The camel is sleepy, dull, self-satisfied. He lives in delusion, thinking he's a mountain peak, but really he is so concerned with others' opinions that he hardly has any energy of his own. Emerging from the camel is the lion. When we realize we've been missing life, we start saying no to the demands of others. We move out of the crowd, alone and proud, roaring our truth. But this is not the end. Finally the child emerges, neither acquiescent nor rebellious, but innocent and spontaneous and true to his own being. Whatever the space you're in right now - sleepy and depressed, or roaring and rebellious - be aware that it will evolve into something new if you allow it. It is a time of growth and change."
Card 3: The composite energies or what the energies create when they come together...
THE MISER: "This woman has created a fortress around herself, and she is clinging to all the possessions she thinks are her treasures. In fact she has accumulated so much stuff with which to adorn herself - including the feathers and furs of living creatures - that she has made herself ugly in the effort. This card challenges us to look at what we are clinging to and what we feel we possess that is so valuable that it needs to be protected by a fortress. It needn't be a big bank balance or a box full of jewels - it could be something as simple as sharing our time with a friend, or taking the risk of expressing our love to another. Like a well that is sealed up and becomes stagnant from disuse, our treasures become tarnished and worthless if we refuse to share them. Whatever you're holding on to, remember that you can't take it with you. Loosen your grip and feel the freedom and expansiveness sharing can bring."
Card 4: The insight... what I can learn from this relationship...
MORALITY: "Morality has restricted all the juice and energy of life to the narrow confines of her mind. It can't flow there, so she really has become a "dried up old prune." Her whole manner is very proper and stiff and severe, and she is always ready to see every situation as black and white, like the jewel she wears around her neck. The Queen of Clouds lurks in the minds of all of us who have been brought up with rigid ideas of good and bad, sinful and virtuous, acceptable and unacceptable, moral and immoral. It's important to remember that all these judgments of the mind are just products of our conditioning. And whether our judgments are applied to ourselves or others, they keep us from experiencing the beauty and godliness that lies within. Only when we break through the cage of our conditioning and reach the truth of our own hearts can we begin to see life as it really is."
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