Today’s card is a bit gruesome in some ways. It reminds me of something I wrote last night. Just a few lines about the mermaid’s choice. If you’ve read the original Little Mermaid, it is not a happy tail. In order to love the prince as a human girl, the little mermaid’s tail is split in two. Every step she takes is painful. She still likes to eat fish–raw. She’s seen as weird because of her tendencies to lie by the pool in the garden.
Her love caused her to make a hard choice. Eventually she is thrown back in the sea. Was it too late? You’ll have to read the story to learn that.
I think we have all had those uncomfortable loves where we made choices to not be ourselves. Where we lived with the pain of leaving huge pieces of our self unrealized so we could have someone else’s love.
Only to lose that love in one way or another.
How much better it is to find someone who loves us for us. Who loves us as we are. Who doesn’t cause us to feel apart from ourselves. And how much better when that person is our self.
It’s true. If we can’t love ourselves, we make poor partners in this world. So, for the sake of love and your loves, embrace who you are. Stop tearing yourself down. Celebrate your beauty.
See that you can grow your own way while your love grows there. The roots you put down will support the branching away. You will not lose them. As you allow yourself to grow, allow them.
Love. It’s a funny thing, y’all. Start with yourself for optimum results.
I tell people I love them all the time. I’ve had people tell me that it makes them feel I don’t value the word. Far from it. I value the word, the concept,the feeling enough to want to share it with everyone. Love, for me, is not finite. It is infinite.
Who said the more you love, the more you love? Probably no one since I don’t think that’s the right quote, but you catch my drift. Sharing is caring and you aren’t weak for loving others. We aren’t lessening the power of love.
No, we are increasing the power by immeasurable amounts. So I love you. And you. Yes, you too.
Seek joy, y’all. Pass it on.
2 of Cups, Shadowscapes Tarot, Llewellyn 2010