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14. What Is This Life If, Full Of Care, We Have No Time To Stand And Stare? (The Sun Card Tarot Cure)
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13 minutes 28 seconds
4 years ago
14. What Is This Life If, Full Of Care, We Have No Time To Stand And Stare? (The Sun Card Tarot Cure)
A exploration of the The Sun archetype with a nod to these two poems:
LEISURE
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?-
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows:
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass:
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night:
No time to turn at Beauty’s dance,
And watch her feet come alive to our glance:
A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
-William Henry Davies
DON'T HESITATE
If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy,
don't hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty
of lives and whole towns destroyed or about
to be. We are not wise, and not very often
kind. And much can never be redeemed.
Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this
is its way of fighting back, that sometimes
something happens better than all the riches
or power in the world. It could be anything,
but very likely you notice it in the instant
when wonder begins. Anyway, that's often the
case. Anyway, whatever it is, don't be afraid
of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.
-Mary Oliver
The quote at the top of the episode is from Phillip Roth's The Facts.
The Beatles cover is sung by Nicole Milik. You can find her YouTube channel here.
Thanks to Sophie for her FFA (Free Free-Association) of this card. Each FFA involves Sophie, freely-associating around the episode card which until that moment she had never set eyes on before. I see the FFAs as buckets of cool spring water from The Well of The Collective Unconscious.