Welcome back to
WiggleStick:
a playful synonym for
“divining rod”
that, today,
helps me(!)
with a question I
asked Poimandres!
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What was the lesson of this past weekend?
The Fool
Beginnings, innocence, spontaneity, a free spirit
The Chariot
Control, willpower, success, action, determination
The leap from the cliff, singing all the way down…
Falling, forever, toward bottomless ground…
The innocence earned through inaction abounds….
Reverbs of karmic cut faster than sound.Thats the success that The Chariot seeks!
Harnessing mystery, shadow, belief!
Charge toward the Now, standing firm off the seat!
Ford through the feels and you’ll find yourself free!
The lesson these cards seemed to point to was particularly apparent over the course of the last 12 hours, during which I recorded two back-to-back episodes of the Nodes in the Net podcast.
Choosing to acknowledge, but not act, on the anxious emotions that preceded sitting down with the mic bought me an innocence from karmic ripples.
I was telling my daughter about what I had been learning about Karma in this Spirit Rock retreat I’m now halfway through. That when you feel the fire begin to burn in your chest, begging to be let out your mouth with some cruel or cutting or defensive remark, you can prevent a lot of harm and unpleasantness by just noticing the urge and how the visceral sensation changes your body—where does it make you contract?—and then choosing not to follow through on the impulse to express pointless anger or fear.
She said, “That’s a nice way of telling me to ‘shut up’, thanks a lot dad.” And stormed to her room.
That’s 100% my fault. Haha.
But it really isn’t like that. When you cross through the the water in the background of The Chariot, which can be said to represent the stream of consciousness and emotion, and allow yourself to become still, drilling deeply into the Now (which is why he’s directly facing the viewer), it’s not about shutting up: it’s about allowing the “right action” to arise all on its own, as its said in the Tao Te Ching.
A good lesson for a great weekend. I got plenty of chances to employ it. Will definitely be writing more about it as a sequel to my most recent blog entry on the main Creekmason blog:
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The WiggleStick has spoken.
(Dramatic!)
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