Original Medicine: Love with Wisdom
Ancient symbol systems like the Tarot can help identify our Original Medicine, our true natures and our inborn gifts and talents. With lifetime symbols of The Empress III and The World XXI, I’m here to embody Love with Wisdom and to seek Individuation and Wholeness. So fitting for a healing practitioner, artist, and writer.*
Love with Wisdom comes from Source, so it’s a clear and firm love with healthy boundaries, deeply nourishing and abundant. Reclaiming The Empress archetype is a great antidote to the romantic fantasy of being rescued by another’s personal love or losing oneself by merging with another.
What we deeply long for is to feel loved, accepted, seen, and honored for who we truly are. That’s unrealistic to expect from another person if we have withheld that Love with Wisdom from ourselves.
A good daily practice to cultivate Love with Wisdom:
Name 7 good qualities, big or small, that you honestly love about yourself
Name 7 good things, big or small, that you love about the life you’ve made
Name 7 people you love and are loved by, or 7 people with whom you’d like to build a more loving relationship.
Another practice is to exchange with a trusted friend. Ask each other:
Which relationships make it easy for you to embody Love with Wisdom?
Which relationships challenge you to hold healthy boundaries and not lose yourself?
Where do you withhold Love with Wisdom from yourself?
The more we can see ourselves with this firm and clear love, the more that we feel deserving of it. We can magnetize the people in our lives – lovers and friends and family and colleagues – to share in that Love with Wisdom.
*To find your personality and soul archetypes from your birth date, see Angeles Arrien’s The Tarot Handbook, pages 231-232. Or just send me a note with your birthdate, and I’ll look it up for you.
