In recent weeks, we have seen how the Covid-19 pandemic can have damaging effects on our economy. What has also been seen is how not participating in that economy is actually helping the environment. I can’t help but think that this card is here to confirm that we must find a better way through life than mass consumption of goods.
As Beltaine nears this week, we will celebrate the beauty of spring and the fertility of the earth. Perhaps we should also take time to consider/meditate on how we can build a better world, one person at a time. While people always say, “Save the Earth,” the fact is that it is ourselves and other living creatures we are saving, not her. She will go on without us.
Blessings!
SIX OF STONES – EXPLOITATION
MEANING: Selfish or foolish overuse of non-sustainable resources implies imbalance in work and business that is damaging to yourself or the environment.
DESCRIPTION: Two ragged and distraught figures, and old man and a girl, stand by a row of damaged and abandoned beehives holding empty bowls. Broken and unused farming tools lie on the ground nearby. Through the leafless trees, we see the surrounding fields, barren and desolate. In the distance, smoke rises from burning piles of spoiled crops.
READING POINTS: The human race’s capacity to exploit planetary resources to our own detriment is motivated by a flawed belief that we have the right to do so. As we begin to come to terms with the profound effects of global climate change and the irreversible effects this will have on our children’s lives, the human race still struggles to deal with the unresolved issues of how to feed the billions of new human beings born every year. How we will resource the education, health, and social service requirements of entire generations to come seems like a question too painful even to think about. With world financial systems and safeguards breaking down and faith in any government’s ability to tell the truth and act with integrity severely damaged, our social moral codes and once-familiar cultural “norms” appear under enormous strain. We all need to be aware of the price our children will pay for our exploitation of the planet’s resources.
The Wildwood Tarot by authors Mark Ryan and John Matthews and artist Will Worthington
Parting the Mists 
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