Day 13
What does life want from me? What do I want from life?
Aren’t these essentially the same question?
As life and I are becoming more and more intimate… we communicate… and we learn from one another…
Life and I are two or are one? Or both?
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I remember that Woody Allen said, “Nature and I are two.” I read that quote in Jay Griffith’s book A Sideways Look at Time which I read more than a decade ago, after having read her book Wild: An Elemental Journey.
There is absolutely no way that nature and I, or Woody Allen and nature, or Woody Allen and I can be two. And yet we are two, and we are three, and we are so many.
Nature holds us, holds both Woody Allen and me. In that sense, Nature is larger. Nature is held too, by an even larger whole. The Tao contains it all and is contained by it all.
What do I want now? I ask life to offer me some suggestions. Or… I ask the Tarot, an intermediary.
I draw Limperatrice. A card of springtime on this winter day, of aliveness and creativity without aim. What does she desire now? How may I be of service to her?
I’ll contemplate her and maybe I will see what she wants.
