Temperance ~ Healing

The medicine offered in this month's collective card reading was Temperance - Healing & Renewal. In my morning practice today, I read the December 17th excerpt within The Book of Awakening by Mark Nepo. Oh, some days these hit home right in the heart! Today was one of those days. I'd like to share his reading and practice invitation.

As I sat with today's pages, I thought of the III of Swords in the Wild Unknown Tarot. To me, this is one of the cards that represents our deep wounding. How we become bound to the wounding, stuck within it. And as I went to find that card for this blog photo, many others came forth...some that represent more aspects of wounding or the process we go through discovering our wounding, (like VIII of Swords, II of Swords, IV of Cups X of Swords and others). Others cards popped out that represent our healing and the journey we embark on to heal those wounds we carry (like the Moon, the Lovers - union, Mother of Wands, Judgement & VI of Wands). Thus this photo really just serves to stir the wounds and the healing within you. — As I sat with today's pages, I thought of the III of Swords in the Wild Unknown Tarot. To me, this is one of the cards that represents our deep wounding. How we become bound to the wounding, stuck within it. And as I went to find that card for this blog photo, many others came forth...some that represent more aspects of wounding or the process we go through discovering our wounding, (like VIII of Swords, II of Swords, IV of Cups X of Swords and others). Others cards popped out that represent our healing and the journey we embark on to heal those wounds we carry (like the Moon, the Lovers - union, Mother of Wands, Judgement & VI of Wands). **Thus this photo really just serves to stir the wounds and the healing within you.**

May this excerpt from the Book of Awakening serve your awakening, healing and wholeness.

with love,

Becca

December 17th

"Healing Ourselves"

"In this world,

hate never yet dispelled hate.

Only love dispels hate.

This is the law,

ancient and inexhaustible."

-Buddha

"One of the most difficult thing about healing from being hurt by others is how to put wounds to rest when those who have hurt us will not give air to the wound, will not admit to their part in causing the pain. I have struggled with this deeply. Time and time again, I find myself confusing the want for justic with the need for a witness of the wound.

Physical wounds are hard to miss, but emotional wounds are seldom visible. This is why they must be looked at and acknowledged if we are ever to heal. Yet so often, our pain is compounded by the very human fact that we may never agree on the nature of what happened. If we do, we may never admit it to each other. Or the amends we feel we so deserve may go with the hurtful one to the grave.

As with so many other crucial negotiations of life, what's required is to honor what lives within us. We must bear witness to ourselves, for there is no power as embracing or forgiving as the authority of that portion of God that lives in each of us."

"Sit quietly until you begin to feel safe, and bring into view a wound that hasn't healed.
Breathe steadily and look directly at the wound, bearing witness to yourself and all you've been through.
Breathe fullly, and let you compassion for yourself be the air to cleanse the wound."

~Mark Nepo