Hi M.

Last week I pulled the "fear" card from the Voyageur tarot deck in my astrology planetary archetypes/base chakra course. When I returned home that night, I realized that I had scooped the card up along with my papers. There it was staring me in the face. It belongs to my astrology teacher! She says no-one has ever taken one of her cards home before. What a powerful message for me. So these days, I am welcoming fear most often related to the collapse of industrial civilization and its impact on my children and all children of the world. Being a highly sensitive empath, I pick up fear from the surrounding energy field. Then there's my own. It feels overwhelming at times. All in all, lots to process.

I'm being given lots of opportunities these days to share the Openhand approach with local groups of people in various settings. It was interesting to observe the response of the other participants when I pulled the "fear" card in my astrology class. There was a sympathetic hush in the room and looks of concern. I could feel their fear. So it was a perfect opportunity to explain that I welcomed the card and did not consider it to be either good or bad but simply a reflection of what I'm feeling so I can self-realize through it.

I can see how empowering oneself immediately in the moment of dis-empowerment would feel as though they are one and the same. Poof! What is really real? Everything and nothing. Say what?!

C. (sea)