When something is amiss in the emotional vibe around me, I can become laser-focus-obsessed with getting it cleared up. I am miserable and driven to take action. Kiss and make up already!
I used to think, “I just want everybody to be happy,” and you know, I meant that. There is truth. I place high value on relationships.
But if I’m being completely honest, just as much, I want ME to be happy. Having the people around me happy is vital to my own peace. Some is because I really do care a great deal, and some is because I eat other people’s emotions for lunch. What are you going to do? It’s who I am.
Today we’ve got the Eight of Wands, associated with Mercury in Sagittarius. The old-school version of this card can be mildly unsettling, with all those wands just hurling through the air. The Legacy of the Divine deck is prettier—I love me some sparkly crystals! But the meaning is the same: yes, things are not settled. No, it won’t stay this way long. Let the dust settle.
I hear what this is telling me right now: LET IT BE. Let loved ones work out their own concerns and it will resolve soon enough without my intervention. It’s fine to help when invited, but it’s not fine to just jump in there and try to patch it all up because it makes ME uncomfortable. Besides the fact I have no right, I also find it just complicates matters. Pretty much universally. But does that deter me?
Eh. Not always.
So today, Tarot reminds me that I haven’t been crowned “Supreme Holy Goddess of Peace and Harmony and Right.” My job is to speak up for my own needs—true, one of which is a harmonious environment—without dictating exactly how that goal is achieved. My place here is to have faith that ME doing something is not the only way it can be done.
What’s the Eight of Wands got to say to you?
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Legacy of the Divine Tarot
by Ciro Marchetti
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It’s there over and over again, isn’t it, Dixie? LOVED the line about eating other people’s emotions for lunch. Cracked me up!
For the past YEAR, I’ve worked really hard on not taking on other people’s energies (I did it a WHOLE lot more than I thought!)
And….disconnecting from their drama, and not trying to help unless asked.
People around me are a bit baffled – they talk and talk about stuff going on, and then realize I’m not jumping in to help. Finally, they say – are you going to say anything? And I reply…Was there a question in there?
I’ve got place to go, and things to do! I can’t do that immersed in other folks’ dramas. And speaking of which….LOVE the link about moving to Montana. Great sign this morning!
Thanks, Dixie!!
You are so articulate!! LOVE IT!!
Wow. That is so perfectly said! I could actually FEEL that antsy and tense part of myself amped up, just reading about it; how it feels when things are not settled and harmonious on my radar (like today), and how I impatiently want to “fix it” (intervene) so I can relax knowing all is well again. Damn!
“Let it be” is the perfect antidote, mantra, to feed that part of myself. Much more digestible than the unsettled stuff. Needed something to chew on and work with to get through til landing … of those swords. Thank you!!!!!!!
Hope you all who did relate to this are feeling a little more settled now! :umbrella: