“Death, Healing & Transformation”

We start the year with a need for tranquility and healing on an inner level, the restoration of order and beauty within. This card usually appears when someone’s been through a crisis of some kind & when there’s a desire to return to a time when everything made sense or at least had meaning to it. You may be yearning for a greater understanding of what you’ve been through but there’s a reconciliation to be made before you can attain the calmness you seek. First, you must come to terms with the deep troubling emotions you’ve have been suppressing. Bottled up emotions such as grief and anger are calling to be acknowledged, released & healed in a healthy way right now. Unrealized & unhealed emotional & psychic wounds, can keep us in a constant state of fight-or-flight, numbness & anxiety. The Shark warns it’s hard to discern real danger from your anxiety and so it’s easy to act impulsively striking out any perceived threat. Are you spinning yourself reasons to be in a persistent state of  hypervigilance? Spider cautions your imagination could then see danger everywhere. How could you come to a place of acceptance & peace when you are busy weaving reasons to feel on edge? Instead, it would serve you better to turn your attention to processing dissociated emotions from unhealed trauma & unprocessed grief, rather than be distracted by chasing shadows & being entangled in them. On this earth, no one is a stranger to sorrow or suffering but when you heal an aspect to yourself, you have the potential to heal others by showing them how it’s done. The Rattlesnake states these trials you have endured are a preparation, for you to open your heart, learn from the sorrow, gain empathy & understanding for others experiencing the same & be transformed by the experience.  Something profound can shift within you. You are no longer the same after this initiation so you are invited to let it transform you into something bigger, better- no longer naïve nor taking things for granted. A potential for transmutation that occurs through your processing & healing, that allows you to be a catalyst for change leading others to do the same.