Remain true to yourself. Your authenticity alone will keep you in alignment with the energy of miracles.
Colette Baron-Reid, Wisdom of the Oracle – #47 Go the Distance
A Quiet Writing deep-dive Tarot Narrative each Monday to share intuitive guidance, wisdom and insights from aligned books – for the week and anytime…
This week: endurance, going the distance with truth, patience + strength
Theme for the week beginning 26 March
The underlying theme for this week to guide our overall focus is from Lisa McLoughlin’s Life Design Cards – #47 Resist coercions of your culture.
This week is about being authentic and true to ourselves and others. It’s about the freedom of standing our ground and working from the truth of our heart.
Advice from the Guidebook is:
With a loyalty to truth, say what you see, regardless of the consequences. Stand firm when your freedom is challenged by direct coercion or insidious persuasion.
This reminds me of Brigit’s message, ‘Don’t Back Down’. Brigit is my guiding goddess for life. She sits on my desk here, as she has for quite a while, with her message of staying strong. “Stand up for what you believe is right.”
This week’s guidance is about endurance and going the distance. It’s wrapped around a core of strength in truth, authenticity and patiently pursuing our goals. How do we know what’s worth enduring for? This is a key underpinning theme this week. Staying strong for ourselves, for what matters and what we believe in is highlighted. It’s worth persevering and going the distance for what we believe is right. In this, we can resist tendencies to conform, to worry about being different and to give up when under pressure.
Tarot Narrative for the week beginning 26 March
Tarot Narrative:
You can go the distance with whatever is challenging you now. It might feel daunting or endless, but know you have the strength and endurance for the long haul. Whether it’s creative projects, relationships or other life challenges, know that this strength is about authenticity, being true to yourself, receptivity and above all, patience. Open your heart, dance and be in touch with your intuition as you make your path.
Reading notes:
Cards: Strength and Page of Water (Cups) from The Good Tarot and #47 Go the Distance from Wisdom of the Oracle.
Book notes:
Then there are times when we need Strength, which is getting what we want by standing perfectly still, by being open and by daring to be vulnerable. We want the lion to come and sit in our lap, and so we will sit very quietly and wait for it. We can’t overpower it, we can’t force it to do what we want, so we will sit here patiently, calmly until the lion feels safe enough to approach.
Jessa Crispin, The Creative Tarot (p58)
I’ve written before about the endurance of quiet strength. This sort of strength is not brute strength, it’s a patient, waiting, developing over time kind of strength.
It’s the type of endurance you need to write a book, to parent, to see a much-desired project through and to counter resistance in all of this. Battling things head-on doesn’t always work. Sometimes it’s about being receptive, knowing when to wait and being patient.
The ‘Going the Distance’ card energies were exactly mirrored in the Strength card. Note too that both the Life Design card about resisting coercions of culture and the Wisdom of the Oracle ‘Going the Distance’ card are both number 47. Such synchronicity!
So in this reading, I see connections between going the distance and being true and authentic to ourselves and what we believe in. I see connections too between endurance and a receptive kind of patience. It’s all about staying the course, finding a way through and waiting when the time is not right to move.
In my writing for long-haul projects, I have found that sometimes I just need to wait until more information comes on board. I don’t always realise at the time. But later I can see that I had to wait, go the distance, be receptive rather than act for a while. This can apply to many aspects of life as we wait for the right time.
The gifts of patient endurance
Patient endurance is inspired by the authentic truth of what we believe in. This fortifies us and gives us stamina for the journey. It enables us to sit back and gather ourselves, research, wait for information to come to us, be intuitive.
This is a yin kind of strength just like yin yoga strengthens us through holding poses quietly for a time and breathing into them. We can feel our bodies become more resilient as we stretch gently over time.
Just like this we too can become more resilient as we quietly practice endurance built around the spine of our authenticity and truth.
Keats comes to mind too with his ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’, that great poem to stillness and waiting:
Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
He reminds us at the end of this ode to quiet strength:
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Throughout this reading, the spine of truth, waiting for truth and authenticity and believing in it, breathes through. Whether it be campaigning for what we believe in, writing our truth, trying to get to the bottom of something, waiting for others or having the persistence to carry on.
Endurance through quiet strength
It’s all about finding our way to endure through patience, receptivity and quiet, resilient strength.
Reflecting on ways to build quiet strength is a valuable practice at this time. This might include:
- reading and researching more to understand
- breathing exercises and finding ways to create rhythm in our days
- yin yoga and other practices that help us with core quiet strength
- writing, journaling, morning pages – whatever we call it, to help us anchor in quiet moments
- intuitive work to sharpen our noticing and ability to make connections
- exercise to enact building endurance over time.
- allowing others space and time to come to us
- being playful and opening up to childlike innocence (Page of Water)
We are encouraged to be a bit more playful with it all when we can and dancing helps too. As Vivian Greene reminds us:
Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.
This is a great week for uncovering endurance through the authenticity of what makes you come alive and keeps you going! Regardless of what is coming at you, learn to dance in the rain of circumstance.
Love to hear your thoughts!
I’d love to hear if you are feeling these energies around endurance through quiet strength, truth, patience and authenticity.
All best wishes for this week of endurance through realising your truth. And dancing in the rain.
May the lion of quiet strength and Brigit guide you to gentle, receptive endurance whatever the weather. And let me know what you think of this post and this weekly Tarot Narrative!
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