”10″ is the number where ‘1’ and ”0′ meet each other again; ‘”1″ as the number of potential and ‘”0″ as the number of eternity.
The number 10 might well be the ultimate number to use in a midwinter solstice contemplation, as it is both a number that asks you to summarise your previous impressions and experiences of the year that passed, as well as to give closure to anything that needs to be given closure to,in order to make space for experiences and impressions in the year to come.
What comes to mind when contemplating on the year that was? Is there someone or something you overlooked? Have you made peace with your own perhaps less fortunate happenings and given yourself credit for the changes that did work?
The suit of Gifts, are about one’s personal holy grail, the things we set out to do in life to fullfill our life-mission. A vision quest on what matters to you.
We tend to think of ‘Forgiveness’ as reserved for things we did to others. Making amends with yourself on why you did what you did, might yet be a bigger accomplishment and creates the freedom for new beginnings
to read more on the practice of the winter solstice contemplation ritual click here.
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Draw your own card on the right side of this blog and see what it summons up from your inner imaginings.