I used to read Tarot cards. I learned that peoples’ questions revolved around 3 basic things – relationships, money, and health. Sometimes their questions would be about death or birth – wanting to know if someone was going to die, or how many children they might expect to have. What I have realized is that all of these questions come down to the first question – that of relationships. We are all connected to the one Source of life, call it what you will. We are connected to everyone and everything; we are connected to animals, plants, fungi – literally every thing.
Some of the similarities are uncanny. For instance, the rings of lines in our thumb print resemble the rings in the cross section of a tree trunk. The network of mycorrhizae in the soil is like our own nervous system. There is a study that shows how foods we eat benefit the organ or body part that they resemble. For example, walnuts look like and are good for our brain. Clusters of grapes and pomegranates look like and are beneficial for our lungs. The cross section of a carrot looks like the iris in our eyes and eating carrots is good for our eyes. Similarly, eating celery for our bones and tomatoes for our hearts is recommended due to their resemblance to the body part that they benefit.
For centuries, mostly due to Christianity, humans have thought of themselves as separate from and more evolved than other living things. Science is now proving the falsehood of that thinking. Life is all about relationship. If we ask the Tarot a question we have concerning our money or our job, it is really about our relationship to money or the people we work with. If we have a concern about our health, it is really about our relationship to our body, our beliefs about it, and the way in which we treat it. This was clarified in the late Louise Hay’s book, You Can Heal Your Life.
Whenever things are not working in our lives, it is because of our relationships we have with those things. It is about our relationship to life itself. If we align ourselves with our Source so that the numerous strands of our life are able to move freely and harmoniously, we will know peace. It is when we allow our ego to steer us off course that our lives become tangled and messy. Sometimes, the more we try to “fix” our problems, the more entangled and knotted they become. When we make time to establish and nurture that relationship with ourselves – our inner, higher Self – we make it possible to maintain healthy relationships with all things – with people, money, food, our bodies, and the world we live in.
