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By Dove, www.TarotwithLove.com  The other day my eyes started fogging up — something was bothering my eyes.  It was a windy day and I tend to have allergies, but it’s never affected my eyes like that before.  All this icky stuff swimming around in my eyes, and making ’em itchy.  When I woke up the next day, my eyes were pasted closed.  Scary.  But it cleared up after a day or so.  I thought it must have been something that had blown into my eyes and irritated them. 

Later I realized it had cleared up after having not worn make-up for a few days, and it returned upon wearing make-up again.  So I decided to ask my Tarot about my eye make-up.  I gathered up the four main items (nearest to my eyes), two eyeshadows, eyeliner pencil and mascara.  I shuffled my cards and asked to be shown a card that would give me a hint as to which of the items was causing this problem.  I had already suspected that it was either the eye pencil or the mascara. 

I drew the Empress card.  In the Goddess Tarot, this image is a woman standing in the desert.  One of the cactuses (cacti?) caught my eye — ha, that just came to me, CACT-EYE! ;)  But that little gem didn’t occur to me in the moment that I drew the card, just the shape of the cactus…  It brought to mind the shape of the mascara…and then I was drawn to the really dark hair of the woman, color of mascara.  From that, I deduced that the cards were pointing to the mascara.  See how cool the Tarot is? :)  It stokes our own intuition with these wonderful little things.  It’s all about those things we are drawn to.  Always know there is a significant reason we are drawn to (or repelled by) things…and people. 

So, yes, it was the mascara.  Very grateful to have discovered the solution was so simple.  Tossed the mascara, no more eye infection.  I’d never had such a reaction before to eye make-up.  But I’m thinking a contributing factor, besides having used the mascara way past its prime (which I’ve always done), was that I hadn’t been outdoors in weeks.  Been very hermit-like lately…  And back to the Empress card, the picture of the woman in the desert…clearly under a very bright sun :)  Yeah, I think this was backing up my thinking that it had kinda weakened the resistance of my eyes, having not gotten enough sun in the last several weeks.  And I admit that I generally don’t get enough (even worse than most people, with our constant indoor stuff), but even worse during this recent time.  So many things we’re doing, going against Nature, it’s no wonder we’re all so ill…

And you also have to look at the symbolism of it, invariably multiple layers of meaning.  The Sun in the Tarot represents joy in a big way, that which brings us joy.  Over those same weeks, I’d been getting a lot of work done, which is a kind of joy (satisfying), but not the really joyful kinda joy…  And I know that our not getting that really joyful joy on a regular basis weakens our immune system as well.  All work and no play, makes ya’ dull and all that ;)

I’m also thinking about my eyes being pasted shut.  Ugh, not good symbolism there.  Not seeing something clearly?  Looking away from something I need to be looking at?  Oh, and I learned the coolest new thing about one of the Tarot cards.  The Two of Swords, which I generally see as a card about peace or indecision…  But one day when I was testing the eye make-up theory per the eye infection, I had not worn eye make-up to work.  My eyes were still recovering… And I drew this Tarot spread online.  It showed me as the Two of Swords.  I was stunned to see a part about the eyes in the interpretation.  I’ve read a ton of books on the Tarot, and bunches of website’s with a lot of different interpretations, but in all these years I had never seen (or noticed) anything about the eyes with this card.  It actually said this card might indicate a problem with the eyes.  How specific is that 0h-ye-skeptical ones? ;)  And this card was in a position in the spread representing me. 

And when I thought about the imagery of this card, Two of Swords, it made sense.  The image is most often an individual wearing a blindfold, hence a possible symbol for problems with the eyes, or problems with seeing.  I loved that I discovered that about this card.  When I ask myself what I’m not seeing clearly at this time, a certain individual comes to mind.  I bounce around from seeing him with my head to seeing him with my heart…and back again.  At one point (very long time ago) believing he was just the sweetest guy, to more recently believing the total opposite.  It’s rough on the heart, the body, the immune system when we aren’t allowed closure.  Really good communication (not just superficial BS) is so important in our relationships, both personal and professional…

So, the moral is…  Toss old mascara, get your daily sun, endeavor to have truly good communication with the people in our lives, and remember we can learn cool things even from the “bad” stuff, like those icky eye infections :)

Peace,
Dove

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