This card has cropped up quite a bit in the morning spreads, and has been the featured card at least twice this season. Though this speaks to me personally for things happening over the past year, it does feel like it applies to society overall.
There is a lot of bad in our view on a daily basis. Let’s stop burning each other down and start recreating a more coexist-ful world from the ashes. Compromise. Doing what’s right for the Earth and not just ourselves. Looking after one another. We can do it, really we can. And it can be beautiful.
Blessings!
SKULL OF FLOWERS – Creating through the ashes
The work must be done
Through the fire and ashes
Our fortune it comesBefore flowers are born, they are sweet buds on a plant that came from a smaller form like a seed or a bulb. The seed needs prepared, nourishing soil to grow to its potential. Some plants and trees only seed after fire or a period of extreme adversity like drought or flood.
Sometimes we wish for a life different from the one that we have and that can mean radical change. Sometimes to have that new life, everything falls apart to make it so – and that can be uncomfortable. We may lose our relationships or they may change. We might lose a job, have to move house or become ill – all big events that lead to a reassessment of the “how” of our lives.
The Skull of Flowers illustrates that there is a sureness and yet a rawness to creating again, to starting afresh. Sometimes the universe gives us a blank slate to work from, so we can build what we really want, rather than just settling for less. The Skull of Flowers celebrates not just a kind of phoenix energy but also an energy of success and full bloom through adversity.
The Halloween Oracle by Stacey Demarco, art by Jimmy Manton
Parting the Mists 
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