Alright, the main card today represents exploitation, but the other two cards represent healing and wisdom. Check it out:
Given that, I feel like today’s message isn’t just a scolding about exploiting resources. It’s a reminder to engage ourselves in healing and wisdom to understand how to stop exploiting our nature world. It is something to consider as well that exploitation comes in many forms, and the current events on the world stage can be viewed as a form of exploitation. For that, what we do and don’t support sociopolitically DOES affect the exploitation of others. Never forget that even the small amount of power given to everyday people has an effect.
Blessings,
Thistle
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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