#inner flora

Inner Flora. Art by Jackson Nathan, from the Etherea Illumination Deck.

#43: INNER FLORA Sign: Scorpio Gift: Vitality Shadow: Deafness

Gift: Vitality The Truth of the gift cannot be harnessed by the survival strategies of the shadow. As long as you attempt to live by the conditioning tactics or rules of society, fulfillment will always elude you. The mystical, otherworldly nature of this existence does not fit within the bounds of artificial security. When you ignite your own awakened uprising, the gift opens itself to you and all of its magical bounty is yours for the taking. Your inner flora become a garden within you. Trust in the process and allow solitude and your inner guidance system to make space for spontaneous waves of inspiration. Your Truth requires free do m and vitality beyond the status quo.

Shadow: Deafness As a species, we have faced the fear of our own extinction by creating systems, order, and structures to maintain our place on this physical plane and manufacture a state of security; this fear is both embedded in the collective and in us as individuals within it. We cannot bypass our instinct to survive, but we can accept it and move through it. Inherent within this shadow and gift is a drive to find fulfillment. In the lower frequency shadow state, you get caught up in the noise of the external world, and your quest for satisfaction and happiness never blooms, because you're relentlessly focused on some elusive future potential (i.e. the perfect mate, an ideal career, socially constructed milestones) instead of the immaculate present. You find yourself in an endless corridor of chatter, and you mistakenly attempt to silence the noise by adding to it: doing, trying, thinking, seeking, striving. (Or becoming deaf to it.) It is only when you're left with more of the same that you are able to witness yourself, enter the void, and dive right in.