May 2020 | 10 of Cups - Let the Light In
affirm: I let the light in. I am free. I let the light in. It allows me to be free.
Right now we are being called to transform.
To assess our inner worlds, which at times feel like an underworld where fear, darkness, and malice lie. Don’t get distracted by these shiny baubles of worry and trickery. They are patterns wired in our minds by ego to protect us from experiences, trauma, and things we’ve faced and wish to never see again. They stand as traps to the gates of peace just beyond what we can see. They act as an army right before the threshold of pearlescent beauty that is the heart space, our inner light. Avoid this distraction. These worrisome thoughts. As your ego says turn back and trust only what you can see, your Self, the truest you there is, eggs you on. Encouraging you to forge through the dark, eerie thought trails right to where freedom lives. Transformation is not the blue and orange butterfly flitting about the sky. Transformation is that tight, claustrophobic cocoon where the light can’t quite seep in and all you want to do it get out. Freedom is the butterfly.
May’s cards take us on a journey. With a glimpse of hope we are given the rainbow laden skies of the 10 of Cups, but with all things, the Universe convinces us not to get distracted by the eventual outcome but to become aware of the path that lies to get there. With this, we are given the Hermit, ruled by Virgo, this card calls back our inner light from the far out places it may be overextending to. We need a good spring cleaning. Call this light back. Call it within. Follow it to where it emanates from inside your heart space and get quiet. Oh so quiet. Hear only the primordial sounds of the Universe echoing inside your body a song unique to you and only you. Once within this profound stillness we are shown the Death card. A metaphorical symbol of rebirth. The transformation not to but of the butterfly. You possess all the nutrients, the perfect conditions, every single thing you need to transform into this next phase. Inside the cocoon, we’d see nothing remotely similar to a butterfly but yet a butterfly is born. This is you. You are the butterfly. Sitting in stillness inside your heart space with visions of attainable grandeur, rainbows and socially connected days, certainty and groundedness, gratitude and abundance. You would not be here if this was not your birthright. What if we collectively took the new reality we were being offered and accepted it with a thank you instead of listing all the reasons it can and will never work. Truth is: it is our only option. We’re not being given another one. Why would we? The Universe is perfectly organized chaos with rhyme and reason in spades. Opportunities for community are being granted now more than ever. And yet, we sit inside more isolated than ever with curtains drawn, behind closed doors and glass screens seeking connection to ourselves and those we’ve decided we’d be safer not to see. Are we sitting inside the cocoon deceitfully safe in its tight and restricting ways? Or are we transforming person by person, community by community to a new world as a whole?
Together we can find the blue skies and brighter days arriving here and now with summer fast approaching. This process will require rinsing and repeating: seeing hope, going within, doing the work and bit by bit bringing more and more light to the surface until the whole world as one can sit together in freedom.
affirm: I let the light in. I am free. I let the light in. It allows me to be free.
x emma
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