Ecstasy gets shortchanged in our society – often only associated with drugs or sex. But true ecstasy is a spiritual experience and can be found in many ways. I’ve encountered it while drumming and also while dancing around a bonfire at a women’s spiritual festival. Where do you find it?
Five of Vessels – Ecstasy
Meaning: The beat of the universal drum is heard in the soul and it is healthy to surrender for a time and to join the dance. Energy is renewed by bathing in the cosmic life force of exultant and since your ecstasy.
Reading points: Many avenues are open to the wanderer to commune intimately and ecstatically with great beauty or to be intoxicated by an intensely personal connection with the divine. Music, meditation, art, love, dancing, or profound sexual experience can inspire and induce the sacred trance of enlightenment ecstasy. This powerful and euphoric awareness is utterly natural and a well-established aspect of shamanic traditions. States of ecstatic trance can sometimes be triggered by extreme physical exertion or the quiescence of the superficial consciousness, so as to gain access to a deeper and more profound comprehension of everything.
Sadly, the concept of spiritual ecstasy has been damaged by the common use of drugs that imitate for a short time the endorphin rush of an authentic and natural ecstasy. The ecstatic trance has been described as a delightful possession or a mysterious union with the timeless exuberance. The fusing of the spiritual being with a profound and loving universal mind elevates the soul to the space between spaces, where poetry breathes through you and exultation and stillness effortlessly coexist.
The Wildwood Tarot by authors Mark Ryan and John Matthews and artist Will Worthington
Parting the Mists 
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