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By Dove, www.TarotwithLove.com  I did this pic a few days ago, but I didn’t post it because I wasn’t sure what it wanted to be called.  What I learned from it was a good lesson as to how nothing is really “bad” or “negative,” that something “good” seems to grow from everything. 

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“Righteous Rends” by Dove, October 2007 

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I’ve said it before, if we always made the supposed “right” decisions and everything was always “positive” and hunky-dory (lol), would we really be getting anything from that?  Aren’t we drawing much joy from the growth via our rocky times?  It just seems we’d have no depth without those rocky times.  How could we ever truly know and enjoy the “good” if we’d never known the “bad.”  Look at Paris Hilton, the girl is fluff, she doesn’t have a clue…even after her harrowing stint in jail, lol ;)  Ya’ can’t help but feel sorry for the girl, because she “has it all” and yet she has nothing, she hasn’t a clue…she’s blind to the blessings of prosperity…because she’s known nothing else.  And so she actually doesn’t truly have it, it doesn’t reach her, it doesn’t bless her with an abundance of gratitude… 

Anyway, a bit of rocky-ness at work the other day spurred me to create this image above.  I’m seeing that the images that come through me when I’m mega-angry are, oddly enough, the best ones in my opinion.  I like them all, but the ones that come from that fresh and raw anger, seem to really grab me, I love them :)  And think about artists who have and do create the most wonderful artworks and songs from those so-called “negative” emotions, depression, deep sadness, anger…  If such beauty can come from these things, how can we feel they are of no value, and be so ready to dispose of them — deny and dishonor them?

Again, I had a hard time coming up with the name for this image that came from my recent anger – a lot of things came to me, but I didn’t feel sure.  I did some Google searches on the “X” and other things I see in it, drew some Tarot cards on it…  Some of the things that came up with this were referencing this image as  Tic-Tac-Toe, and “The Game of Life.”  I saw strategy and love in the x’s (a recent blog elaborating on love symbols and referenced the rune “X” as one of them).  The tear in the middle seems to have been brought about by the spiral, given that it seems “active,” right in the center, and right there by the jagged opening.  I saw that as a spiritual/emotional thing. 

The spiral can represent the female form of “God” or “Goddess.”  It can represent the unending journey of life, growth and development.  The spiral seems to be a potent symbol for me, I find it in many of my creations, and have seen it in visions and dreams…

I kinda feel this pic is saying these “rends” in life are a good thing, we grow and learn from them.  All I know is what came from my “righteous anger” created good things at my job, the end of a situation where I was allowing someone to treat me in an unacceptable way… something I’d been “swallowing” for a year.  And something that “being nice” simply fueled.  But the outcome of this situation, of me allowing my anger to be, of not fearing it, of honoring it — by not destroying someone with it, but showing them my “power” in it…it showed me that I can face my fear, walk through the fire of it, and still be okay — and even better — on the other side of it.  I love my anger and all my other precious emotions.  I have them for a reason, and I am very grateful for them, for all that I am :)

Both health issues (directly attributed to anger by those in-the-know on the correlation between health issues and dis-ease) and life issues have begun to rectify themselves in my life because I have begun to allow my anger, to honor it, as it should be.  It is not a wicked thing, it is part of this amazing human-spiritual experience. 

I feel compelled to interject that I am not advocating going around being angry all the time.  In fact, quite the opposite.  Ironically, people who are always talking about how bad these “negative” emotions are, are actually holding onto to them in their denying/hating them, in their futile efforts to MAKE themselves be happy, lol  It doesn’t work that way.  We aren’t all “sweetness and light” no matter how much we try to FORCE ourselves to be. The genuine “happy” comes from allowing all of our emotions to be, feeling them, honoring them, appreciating/loving them, and then letting them pass.  You will know you are not fully or properly doing this if you tend to have a lot of aches and pains … and assorted other health issues.  For example, backaches often represent worrying about money.  Yes, we need to replace that fear with “faith” and positive thoughts about our money situation, but first we have to face the fear, allow it to be, honor it, release it and then begin to think/feel that wonderful “faith,” that “knowing” that all will turn out well.

Above all, let it be okay that you are human, love your “human-ness” and all that you are.  That’s a good thing :)

Peace, 
Dove

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