What do you fear? Sometimes things we are taught to fear don’t make sense, and this card shows us that. There’s nothing in a graveyard to fear, but many do because it makes them consider their own mortality. Many of us fear change. We fear our neighbors. But should we? Maybe the change is for the better or the neighbor you think is so different is actually a caring person. Consider the rationale behind your fears.
Blessings!
GRAVEYARD – Unnecessary fear
The stones they mark
The eternal resting place
Yet the spirits they are walking
And they are ready for the chase!
Today’s modern graveyards are restful places – normally highly manicured and very well set out. While they can be places of profound sadness, few are the creepy gothic places of old, yet they still hold an undercurrent of fear and seem frightening places.
Due to countless stories of haunted graveyards, the thought of walking through cemeteries evokes fear in many of us – we imagine zombies and ghosts rising from the graves and bad spirits hiding out, waiting to harm an unsuspecting living person walking by. The idea of being at a graveyard after dark, or worse, at midnight, is the stuff of dares and nightmares.
But this isn’t the way with every culture. On the Mexican Day of the Dead, whole families picnic on the graves of their loved ones who have passed. Children play upon the graves, people play music, drink wine and share food all in the “company of the dead.” Graveyard dust is used as an ingredient in protective spells, not in curses.
Pull this card and know that you fear unnecessarily. Things are not as they seem and you can overcome your obstacles. The anxieties you have, although real, should be put aside before they haunt you long term. Instead, trust that you know the correct next steps and that you will act upon them.
The Halloween Oracle by author Stacey Demarco and artist by Jimmy Manton
Parting the Mists 
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