Skip to main content

Two Minutes: A Death (1)


Every life consists of many deaths and rebirths- some of them are choices, others are conditions. 

The death of the child- often killed and relegated to fond memory, making way for a more practical evolution. Learn to suffocate that child, put it in a coffin and carry its weight on your back. Its ghost will haunt you for the rest of this life, but don't worry- you will die too, and it will return. And then, you may find yourself happy. 


Death Tarot Story

Having left the tree from where he hung, the Fool moves carefully through a fallow field, 
head still clearing from visions. The air is cold and wintry, the trees bare. He knows he has 
started on his spiritual journey in earnest, but feels strangely empty and profoundly sad, as 
if he has lost something. 
Before him he sees, rising with the sun, a skeleton in black armor mounted on a white horse. 
He recognizes it as Death. As it stops before him, he humbly asks, "Have I died?" And the 
Skeleton answers, "Yes, in a way. You sacrificed your old world, your old self. Both are gone, 
dead." 
The Fool cannot keep from weeping. "Forgive me," he says, embarrassed by his tears.
"There is nothing to forgive," Death replies. "Mourning is natural and you must deal with 
your loss before you can accept anything new. Keep in mind, however, that old leaves must 
wither and fly away from a tree's branches, leaving them bare, before new green leaves can 
appear." 
As Death rides away, the Fool sees the truth in those words. He, too, feels like a skeleton, all 
that he was stripped away. This, he understands, is how all great transformations start, by 
removing everything down to bare bone or soil so that something new has room to grow.

From here

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

IGAF: Utopia- Les Jours Meilleurs

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote this post, titled Dystopia , containing a dark version of the future, a look at the negative outcomes that might crawl out of the COVID-19 crisis. It has, by now been described as "9/11 in slow motion". Someone else broke a golden editorial rule to describe it as "2008  on crack". Media outlets, including Youtube, have warned of the long-term effects of this, on civil rights, labour and employment, surveillance and press freedom. And some, most notably Mr Orban of Hungary, have used this excellent opportunity to pass new, restrictive legislation that concentrates power in their hands. There have been calls for the elusive COVID cure not to be patented. And yet… And yet… It's easy to lose yourself in a media bubble, following the news and media 24/7, following, queuing in line to get into expensive shops, just walking into discount stores and the constant desire for many drinks (preferably with 10 friends or more, in a park...

The Books of Faragh 4: Of Lines

This time, it's really all about lines ;) Below: Book of Faragh 4: of Lines (May 2020) Faragh/فراغ (Ar): emptiness, vacuum, a free space http://caramk.net/faragh/faragh.html

IGAF: Disappearing the inconvenient.

This IGAF (Is Goodness a Fashion) series explores, from a non-expert point of view, the social, economic and narrative ramifications I see developing from the COVID-19 crisis, worries, but also hopes for a future that the current shock to the system may result in. It's a pity that random things happen when random people interact. That a person might be exposed to unexpected, or unpleasant sights when they leave the house. That we might see trash, homeless people, the effects of gentrification, closed stores in polluted streets, trees withered by mercurial weather, people in environmental suits, afraid of the diseases lurking within the safe confines of those suits. The world divided into those who have to face the streets, the Outside, and those who are safe Inside. It's a pity that these still interact. Our measure as a species that claims moral, ethical and intellectual hegemony over this planet will be two-fold as we deal with the COVID-19 crisis: On the one hand, socie...