A simple seeker had randomly chosen and was now studying her daily, personal relationship Tarot card, The King of Wands. This authority figure presented as having a firm grip on power.
“Is it possible?”
“Is what possible?”
“To possess a firm grip on authority.”
“He seems ready to do battle to maintain it. Beneath his royal robes he wears a body suit of armour.”
“Then he rules with an iron grip?”
“Wands are wood, and yet he does seem prepared, and yet ..”
“And yet?”
“Something in his posture and facial expression suggests a willingness to listen to reason.”
“Does he remind you of me?”
“Not at all.”
“Why?”
“Wands express action.”
“And teachers don’t?”
“Not in a physical sense.”
“Intellectual development has physical results.”
“How?”
“Everything you do, say, or think is an expression of intellectual development.”
“Wow!”
“Does that mean you agree?”
“No.”
“Then, what?”
“It means that I’m impressed with your self-confidence.”
“Yes, but do you disagree?”
“No.”
“Why not?”
“Self-directed actions must be based on thoughts blended with emotions. And our thoughts are influenced by those whom we have chosen, or who have ben chosen for us, to develop and guide our thinking.”
“Do I guide your thinking.?”
“Yes. You certainly have had a powerful effect on my thinking.”
“In what way?”
“You have continuously, or so it seems, challenged me to defend or question my own thinking.”
“And the effects of earlier teachers and social-conditioning on your thinking?”
“Yes.”
“Now, back to the King of Action.”
“What about him?”
“Ill ask you again, do teachers possess power to influence their students’ actions, what they say and do?”
“Yes, both now and in the future. I now understand the power of what we know, or think we know.”
“Yes, we have learned from whomever we have allowed to teach us whatever.”
“Is free-will involved?”
“Yes. For those of us who have developed awareness of being influenced by some others, we’re each personally responsible for what we choose to learn from them.”
“What about emotions?”
“Have I taught you any?”
“How can anyone learn or teach emotions?”
“Nothing we can say, think, or do is, or can be, emotion-free.”
“How can we learn to recognize which emotion is embedded in whatever particular thought, word, or action?”
“Self-awareness.”
“How to develop self-awareness?”
“Self-reflection and meditation, in some form.”
“How does self-awareness relate to the symbolic form of the King of Action?”
“His seeming sense of power is as a reflection of his self-awareness. He’s aware of his own personal strength, his personal power. Are you of yours?”
“No.”
“Yes.”
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A simple seeker’s note to herself
I wonder if Spirit was speaking of me when he said that “We’ve learned from whomever we’ve allowed to teach us whatever.”
“You chose to listen to me. Why?”
“I seemed to intuitively know that I’d be wiser for listening to you.”
“With intent to learn whatever I might teach you.”
“No.”
“Then, what?”
“With intent to seriously consider whatever you might choose to share with me.”
“Yes, and that’s why I choose to share with you, what I do.”
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Simple Seekers 