May 24th, 2013 - Friday - Ace of Cups

May 24th, 2013 - Friday - Ace of Cups

There is something interesting I’ve noticed as I’ve gotten older.  I take more time to get going than I used to.  In the past I could just jump right into something and ‘bam’ I was off and running.  Sure… I’m an Aries so that moving quickly stuff comes easily.  But now I need a lot more warm up time.  If I put the time in… I get much better results.

What do I really mean, specifically?  If I wake up in the morning and do my meditations I feel better.  For me that is just sitting outside and feeling the sun on my face, standing in Tadasana. 

Or sitting with a cup of coffee and writing a bit.  Taking the time to walk the street doing my breath practice… taking the time to smile at my organs… paying attention to my posture.

Another thing is getting right up and writing this blog.  Thousands of people depend on this blog for daily insight and sometimes I put it off (like yesterday) and don’t even get to it.  I have a responsibility… and doing all my base foundational work before I get going makes a big difference to the rest of the day.

When I play football… I need to stretch. I need to exercise regularly.

It seems… a great deal of my day is preparing to do my day…

The Ace of Cups came up this Friday reversed.  Something we’ve idealized in our life is not actually panning out.  This is generally considered a new romantic thing, but it can apply to damn near anything.  Your life is in a way idealized. You have a way you think your life is going to turn out… And that is definitely not the way it will.  It might turn out better, it might turn out worse, but our ‘vision’ of things is rarely perfectly correct.

We always preach opening in love.  Breathing your heart open.  No matter what happens, we practice, we preach, we live it.  Open in love.  If some part of your life is revealed to be idealized today, and you feel disappointment… either in a person or thing… open in love.

Today you have a great opportunity and advantage.  The card is telling you that some part or person in your life is not what they seem… they might not love you as much as you love them… and so you are ready for that today.  It won’t be a shock. You won’t be laid out.

As we integrate the four core practices:  Seeing the Truth, Witnessing, Death Awareness, and Purity of Intent, we open to what IS.  And that’s what it’s all about on any spiritual path.  I should say that differently.  That is what it’s about on any TRUE spiritual path.  Today’s common spirituality is less about truth and much more about community and feeling good.   Which is fine.  We all like community.  But community is not where you find truth. 

Truth is found in the trenches, on your own, in a bloody battle of the soul.  No one can help you.

Some questions to ask today:

·         Do you love someone more than they love you?  The love you feel for someone might be one sided.  You might love someone more than they love you.  Take a look at that relationship dynamic.

·         Have you idealized someone?  Not seen their true self, but covered up their faults because you are emotionally attached?

Those are the two specific facets of this new love:  You are loving someone more than they love you, or you are idealizing the person or situation and not seeing the truth.

And today… in the trenches… you are ready to get bloody and find the truth.  Wouldn’t you rather know the truth than live in idealized blindness?  I am guessing if you are reading this blog you aren’t a stranger to bloody battles and aren’t afraid of them either.  You don’t come to the A Day in the Life of Tarot for comforting loving fluffy words.  You come for penetrating bloody truth.

So put the time in today, this morning and take a good long look at truth.  Do the work.  Breathe. Prepare.  The truth of love will find you if you take the time to see clearly.