Lesson 279 — Creation’s Freedom Promises My Own
I used to have a really hard time with the Christian theology underlying the Course and so I took to creating my own ideas and parables to go with each course, so it could be not religious. Then I realized that each of the courses points to the same lessons in my tarot cards.
So, I've been writing them.
The Eight of Swords — The Lesson of Self-Liberation
Today's lesson is the equivalent of the 8 of swords. The character in the story (us) believes themselves to be bound and stuck, but the ropes binding them are loose and indeed THEY are the one who holds them. They can clearly see the way to go, but they believe themselves to be stuck, and in a way refuse to see the clear path forward. This is a lesson of self-liberation.
In stepping back through the ego inception we find the illusion of captivity is erased through our simple action of aligning ourselves completely and healing the separation. Once the person recognizes that they are the creator of their own prison, there is an integration stage that we go through that brings us to our trust and independence.
Our meat suits will tell us how hard life is, and how difficult things are. This card points to the surrendering to the realization that simply erasing the separation cures all the ills and evils that we could possibly imagine.
Beyond the Eight — The Path of Integration
Of course the next lesson in the series of cards suggests what is commonly called the night of the dark soul, the mind realizing that it was us all along, and that we never really were separate. The ten becomes the release into allowing the meat suit separation to die because we commit to the meat suit in alignment thereby creating our best lives.
Personally, I recommend skipping the 9 of swords, it's totally unnecessary. As Eckert Tolle once said, "suffering is optional."
Where in your life are you still holding the ropes that keep you feeling stuck? What might happen if you simply let go?
