Parting the Mists

In the busy world we live in, one that encourages division, it is good to remember that love is the most powerful force we have – and that we need to cultivate the loving mindset. Loving doesn’t mean accepting bad behavior, but it does mean forgiveness and not holding on to petty differences.

This is also a good reminder at this time of year when many of us are remembering those who have passed. Grief is often described as love that doesn’t know where to go. When we lose someone we care about, we can remember and honor them. One way to do this is to eventually turn that love toward someone or something else. Keep putting that out into the world.

Blessings,

Thistle

ETERNAL LOVE –– Love is love is love and it transcends physical death

When the body leaves us
And our souls are above
Our possessions no longer 
Nothing remains
but the intertwining of love

All of us are the product of millennia of love. Our parent’s parent’s parents, our ancestors by blood and ritual all have in some way created the DNA that waves throughout our bodies. Love, in fact, powers life and death.

When most of us first encounter death in our lives, we experience grieving and in some ways that feeling could be described as an absence of love and the absence of that person or being. But the kind of love that is often shared between family members, friends, and lovers, separated only by physical death, is the kind that poets wax lyrical about, that is truly eternal and transcends death.

Should you choose this card, you are being reminded that love is the most power force in the universe. It is more powerful than death itself. Love lingers. It leaves its own legacy and we should be aware of this every day that we live. For those that are ready for and desiring of a partner, it also indicates that a significant love is close at hand and to be ready to open up to this new experience.

The Halloween Oracle by author Stacey Demarco and artist Jimmy Manton