Ten of Rainbows, Osho Zen Tarot Deck
Humanity is depicted as a rainbow of beings, dancing around the mandala of the earth. They are joined together in joy and gratitude for the gift of life. This card represents a time of communication; of sharing the riches that each of us brings to the whole. There is no clinging here, no grasping. It is a circle without fear of feelings of inferiority or superiority; all beings are equal. Recognizing the common source of our humanity, the common origins of our dreams our longings, our hopes, and our fears, we see that we are joined together in a great miracle--the miracle of existence. When we combine our tremendous inner wealth of love and wisdom, we come to understand that we are linked together in an exquisite archetypal pattern of existence.
When thousands and thousands of people around the earth are celebrating, singing, dancing, ecstatic, drunk with the Divine, there is no possibility of any global suicide. With such festivity and with such laughter, with such sanity and health, with such naturalness and spontaneity, how can there be a war?
Life is given to you to create, to rejoice, and to celebrate. When you cry and weep, when you are miserable, you are alone. When you celebrate, the whole existence participates with you.
Only in celebration do we go beyond the circle of birth and death.
Traditionally, the ten of rainbows (or pentacles) is the archetype of living fully. It is about the ability to manifest abundance, security, good friends and to be satisfied that one has built something for future generations.
As sperm penetrates ovum, a soft whisper perturbs the eternal background hum of the Spiritual Ground. A new being has formed within its Essence.
As the cells of the tiny embryo multiply, they create a receptive vortex, neither in space, nor in time, but in consciousness. For these nascent cells are of life itself. Their inescapable nature is to partake of the Ground, to draw it in to themselves in a way that is unique in all the cosmos. The rudimentary awareness of the Muladhara chakra now begins to condense within a fledgling soul.
The consciousness of the first chakra is the cornerstone of human life. During the three-year span from conception to transition into the second chakra, the foundations of selfhood form within an unbounded field of consciousness.
Excerpted from Healing the Split: Integrating Spirit into our understanding of the mentally ill by John E. Nelson, M.D., Forward by Ken Wilbur and Preface
by Michael Washburn. |
Editor's Notes
Toni -
I've been having quite an email exchange with Alison Cross from the Tarot Association of the British Isles (TABI). She's writing an article on tarot and therapy based on a questionnaire she's devised. I recommend she contact you.
Based on our discussions I've asked Solandia at Aeclectic tarotforum - the biggest and best run on the net - to add a discussion section on Tarot and either therapy or psychology. She says she'll do it. As with all their sections it will be well-monitored. My thought is to invite people to be part of this, so that we can focus on really serious, quality professional-level discussions.
Also, I wanted to tell you about my new Tarot Blog, where the latest post includes information on an article about tarot being used in market research involving doctors and their decision-making processes. It's quite an inspiration. http://marygreer.wordpress.com/
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Mary K. Greer, author of many books on Tarot including 21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card
Hi Toni,
The courage card [issue 16] reminds me of a poem by my favorite poet, the late Tupac Shakur (of Rap Music infamy).
He always associated the image with tenacity. I learned that word from him and it has a lot of meaning for me.
The Rose that Grew from Concrete - Tupac Shakur |
Did you hear about the rose that grew
from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it
learned to walk without having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams,
it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete
when no one else ever cared. |
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Eric Dalkenburg, Jefferson, Oregon
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