Parting the Mists

Hmmm, here’s an interesting card as we head into the weekend.

Cat – Guardianship, Detachment, Sensuality

Meaning: Cat bring us the ability to observe situations quietly without judgement, before making decisions. Apparently asleep, but really listening, a cat can sit for hours until it acts with decisiveness. Remember the saying, “A cat may look at a king.” You have a right to know and to judge important issues for yourself in your own time.

The cat unites an awareness of the spirit-world with a highly developed sensuality. Theses two attributes are not polar opposites as dualist spiritual teachings would have us believe, but are facets of one continuum of awareness and sensitivity. Working toward wholeness involves enhancing our appreciation of both the physical and non-physical worlds.

This card may also indicate that you must be wary of becoming an axen-cat, an old term which means a fireside cat, too lazy to bother much about the world. An indolent and self-absorbed sensuality, rather than an opening of the self to the magic of the physical world, is usually a means of escaping from reality. The cat is easily able to travel in her spirit form in the Otherworld, but it is imprint for you to be strongly earthed in everyday physical reality. An interest in the mysterious and the cult can sometimes be inappropriate, especially if it is used as a defense against the pain and difficulty of being in the world.

Druid Animal Oracle by authors Philip and Stephanie Carr-Gomm and artist Will Worthington