Happy New Year everyone

For anyone who is not feeling it….Happy that is…..I have news for you, I’m not surprised, the card I pulled was the Tower……

You just have to take a look at the card to think OMG people falling out of a burning building…disaster!  Indeed that was my initial response but then came a flash of recognition that the Tower was perfectly reflecting how many of us were feeling on New Year’s day.  The whole foundation of our lives as we know it has indeed come crashing down. 

The Tower is the major arcana card that comes just before The Star (bright hope and new prospects) so receiving it powerfully suggests, that before we can start hoping for bright new prospects, we need to deal with the shock waves and build new foundations.  In fact I would say the card is saying start with the foundations.

Except if you are anything like me, feeling rather exhausted by it all, I’m not sure I have the energy to start building foundations. I can hardly begin to imagine the future, we’ve lost so much, time, fun, smiling faces, lively conversations around a table of friends.  I miss it, I don’t even pick up the phone the way I used to for a general chit chat.  

So yesterday, Jan 3rd I pulled another card as an advice card to go with the Tower, and I got the 6 of pentacles.  Again I had to smile at the perfectness of the card.   The card of karma. What goes round, comes round.  The card of reciprocity.  What we give so we receive.  What we sow so we reap.  The cycle of giving and receiving that makes the world go around.  Kindness. Generosity. Sharing. 

So one step at a time, I’m going to start by picking up the phone and having these conversations, seeing how people are, listening, smiling in the street.  It’ll cheer me up I think and I can’t help feeling we are all on the same path wanting to come together to rebuild our foundations for our future, our society and for Mother Earth.