Imagine the card of the Tower, bursting in flames, its proverbial lid blown off-- exposing all the lies and pretenses, and all that false strength amounting to nothing but frail egos and human weakness. Now imagine the Tower being upside down. Imagine, for a moment, if all the inequities seemed to collide into one, fairly brief period in your life in all areas--love, career, family relationships, friendships--even in health. How in God's name could this be so?
I have been reading the Magus of Strovolos, a book written by Kryiacos C Markides, and it's about the life of Daskalos, a healer from Cypress. His explanation is: karma. Not only do we have the karma that has been incurred from previous lifetimes and this one; we also have the karma that we can unconsciously take on for others. Then there are the elementals--which I call thought forms--which cycle themselves back into our lives in a rather disturbing way if we haven't been thinking correctly. And in my own experience, even the efforts to eliminate negative thoughts forms (including those of others) has them coming back to us in surprisingly unpleasant ways. You know, that "kicked-in-the-teeth" feeling? (You thought you won that battle? Think again. You haven't won the war.) Finally, have we have forgotten to pray, especially for others? That is the surest way to eliminate bad karma.
How did I come to the title for this post? Spring brings on rain, and rain erases pain--at least symbolically. Winter's ice cold as a contractive force brings on the bitter effect of sometimes unbearable pain--often the pain that comes from shame carried for others. Sometimes not of our conscious choosing.
Our souls long for righteousness. But now is not the time to judge--after all, Easter is coming, and that is what Jesus advised. The inequities are no longer stuck in the mud; blood runs downstream. Whereas the winter hides the lies frozen in the mud--which didn't budge--the rain has them exposed and washes them away (and the liars with them, we might hope!).
So instead of symbolically going through the burning, as in the Tower, the misdeeds causing our sufferings become part of The Well (see the I Ching, and see the well themes running through a previous post). The Well can absorb all poisons, gives the life force freely, and can also run dry. (I assure you, as one who has given too freely, I know what it is like for the well to run dry.) The effects can be devastating. But it is spring again, time to laugh and cry without reservations, and to no longer be shy or show too much restraint. (Just watch the poisons, okay?)
Time to start all over again, and start again clean. From a Christian perspective as well--that is the result of what Christ did for us.
And have a glass of water. Go to the spring.
Blessings.
