In Silent Meditation

In my Wiccan/Pagan past, I read tarot cards for friends, and at one time was even a "Telephone Psychic" using the Mythic Tarot deck to answer people's questions. Earlier this year, at the beginning of Lent, I began to think of The Tower.  You see, the symbolism of the card is about life changing: breaking down old ways of seeing things and interpreting events.  It's about realizing that something drastic has to happen sometimes before we can move on.  I think that the time people spend in prayer at Lent is about that very thing.  As we look into ourselves and see how we can actually change the way we respond to the world physiologically because of the way we respond psychically (or emotionally or mentally or whatever other non-physical word you feel most comfortable with), we tear down our old walls.  We allow ourselves to flow out of the tumbling bricks.  The Tower is surrounded by a moat of stagnant waters.  When the bricks fall and the gate crashes down, the moat cracks and the waters return to the greater waters, becoming something alive again.  We are all finding new ways of being alive.

As I write this, I can't help but think of its appropriateness for Lent.  It matters not that most "Christians" don't think the Tarot is "appropriate."  This card is all about Lent.  It's all about sacrifice and resurrection.  And each of us, as we seek to learn about ourselves and how we can help others with the things that we learn here are undergoing a time of sacrifice, splaying open our hearts and laying them out for all to see.  After that, what can there be, but resurrection?