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Morality has restricted all the juice and energy of life to the narrow confines of her mind. It can’t flow there, so she really has become “a dried up old prune.” Her whole manner is very proper, stiff and severe, and she is always ready to see every situation as black and white. The lower levels of the archetype of the Queen of Clouds lurks in the minds of all of us who have been brought up with rigid ideas of good and bad, sinful and virtuous, acceptable and unacceptable, moral and immoral. These judgments of the mind are products of our conditioning. And whether our judgments are applied to ourselves or to others, they keep us from experiencing the beauty and divineness of our world. Only when we break through the cage of our conditioning and reach the truth of our hearts can we begin to see and live life at the higher levels of our archetypes.
Unless a deeply felt awareness arises in you, all your morality is bogus; your way of life is simply a thin immature one dimensional layer. You see things differently as you grow and develop a morality that comes from your awareness. As you actualize into the person you want to be, you will want to respond from the higher levels of your awareness and you will want to do good in the world. The higher levels of your archetypal awareness cannot do anything that is bad. That is the beauty of higher awareness, that anything that comes out of it is simply beautiful, is simply right without any effort and without any practice. When you draw this card, it may be telling you to honor your lower levels for they are a part of our humanness and they have much to teach. We teach each other by our actions. Sometimes we teach how “not” to behave and sometime we teach how to achieve our goodness. Practice being alert to what you are teaching; be an aware and conscious soul in the world.
In traditional decks this card is the Queen of Swords and symbolizes the archetype of a person with a sharp and penetrating mind. At the lower levels she is highly critical and judges others and herself harshly. But at the higher levels she judges according to more conscious standards. It is often hard to tell what level you are in. Most importantly, be honest with your self and see into your own intentions. Your actions have a point at which you must make a choice; give your intentional choice a name and check within for how your heart feels about it. Are your actions aimed at compassionately bringing unity to a greater good or are they simply the selfish intentions of the lower levels of an archetypal vanity?
Editor's NotesToni,What a stellar issue...full of wonderful articles. It is always a gift to read something by Jean Watson...her wisdom is unending and always so appropriate to where I am in my life journey. The article on Nursing and Astrology was brilliant...and I was totally fascinated to read about the connection between astrology and Florence Nightingale. The founder of nursing was such a wise woman and the more I learn about her the more I appreciate the multidimensional way of this woman. It truly brings back the essence of the art of healing...one which we need to focus upon as we have been so pulled to the technology of healing. Thanks again for a wonderful and information packed issue.
Sonja Simpson RN MSN AHN-BC
Toni,
Noreen Frisch, PPh.D, RN, FAAN, HN-C Nurses and Physicians Welcome Libyan Court's Decision to Reverse Death Sentences GENEVA, Switzerland, 26 December 2005 - The International Council of Nurses and the World Medical Association have welcomed the decision of Libya's Supreme Court to reverse the death sentences and order a retrial for five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor, accused of deliberately infecting more than 400 children with AIDS. In May 2004 the nurses - Kristiana Malinova Valcheva, Nasya Stojcheva Nenova, Valentina Manolova Siropulo, Valya Georgieva Chervenyashka and Snezhanka Ivanova Dimitrova - and Dr Ashraf Ahmad Jum'a were sentenced to death for allegedly deliberately infecting children with the HIV virus at the al-Fateh children's hospital in Libya. Today the Supreme Court in Libya quashed the sentences and accepted the appeal against the lower court ruling on both substance and procedure. Prosecutors agreed with defense lawyers that there were "irregularities" in the arrests and interrogations of the accused. Before the recent decision of the Libyan Supreme Court expert evidence appeared to be ignored that the children's infections were probably caused by poor hygiene at the hospital. Indeed the infections were believed to have occurred before those sentenced started working at the hospital, and continued after their arrests. ICN and WMA call for a speedy retrial that will consider the evidence presented by international experts and liberate the health professionals.
Editor's Note: The International Council of Nurses (ICN) is a federation of 129 national nurses' associations representing the millions of nurses worldwide. Operated by nurses for nurses since 1899, ICN is the international voice of nursing and works to ensure quality care for all and sound health policies globally. For further information please contact:
Dr Otmar Kloiber WMA Secretary General
Nigel Duncan WMA Public Relations Consultant Linda Carrier-Walker ICN Director of Communications (+41 22) 908 0100 - +41 79 310 1488 (mobile) email: carrwalk@icn.ch website: www.icn.ch |
