Card of the Day: Daughter of Wands

She’s the younger sibling of yesterday’s Son of Wands. This Daughter (Page, Lady, Student) gives us a sense of what life can feel like when we work with who we are, instead of playing project manager to our self. What if instead of troubleshooting, problem-solving, tinkering, adjusting and fixing ourselves, we settled in for a full, spacious life of accepting who we actually are?

I like to feel things deeply, especially with others. So maybe instead of being “too much,” “too emotional,” “too too too,” I loved and nurtured this part of myself and made use of it to live out my values? Sometimes I like to eat a whole box of Fire Roasted Tomato Triscuits and scroll through my twitter feed. Instead of castigating myself for this, what if I really practiced enjoying myself while I do it? What if instead of banishing and punishing my inner four-year-old when she gets activated, I invited her along on this surreal journey called life, and used my relationship with her to stir my imagination and sense of play and to nurture and develop my internal loving mother?

I was talking with a dear friend of mine yesterday, about the deep, excruciating patterns that form in our early life. Our karma is the raw material that we’ve been given in this lifetime to realize our liberation. It’s to be respected, revered and creatively worked with, combined with our natural endowments of imagination, emotion, relationship, resources, sensuality, and spirituality—because we don’t have anything else to work with. This sinuous, sexy snake-lady is whispering in our ear: “It’s enough.”