Joyful Randomness

Joyful Randomness

This is an uncertain time for all of us; no one needs to really be reminded of this, including me. It is one thing to have an area or two fall into the “uncertainty card file”, but when six or seven domains fall unexpectedly into that category, it brings many things into high relief.

All of that as a brief and clumsy segue into the rediscovery that has been in the background for most of my life, and probably wouldn’t have forced its way up if the external circumstances in my life weren’t moving at such a terrifying and exhilarating pace.

A Book In The Mail

A close friend decided that he would mail a book to me, one that was important to him and felt that it would help me in my present circumstances. Have no idea who the author is or what the subject might be, which no doubt let me focus later on my reaction and subsequently share it with you.

I love getting a book in the mail. More specifically, I love the expectation of getting a book in the mail, even if it turns out later that the book itself is not something I enjoy or even find useful. Kind of like the opening of Christmas presents doesn’t equal the anticipation cultivated by the packages or Friday night after work actually being the best part of the weekend.

And of course, when the high point of your day is a trip to the post office, looking forward to their being something besides a bill adds a bit of magic in an otherwise anxious existence.

I will actually be thrilled and disappointed simultaneously when the book arrives because I will no longer we waiting for it. This is also what I love about ordering from Barnes and Noble.

Intentionally Surprised

Moving further behind the scenes, I realize that it is not the content of the book, what makes me excited is that it is contact from a friend, which ironically will probably make me love the material even if normally it is not something I would pick off of the shelf for myself. Oh come on, you know that is the way it is. When your favorite author starts writing duds, don’t you give his/her latest flop way more attention than you would someone you don’t have that connection with?  What is important is that someone felt that they could offer soothing, sent the intention out in a way that also includes randomness (which is the most important factor in the high art of play) and offered the book as an external manifestation of his intent. The book itself is unimportant.

Which of Course Leads To the Tarot

Nothing that I can think of us displays the randomness of our external events better than the Tarot, and much of the time because of how we are trained, we use the display to try and take the randomness out of it, which may not be the most important use of it for ourselves anyway. It is obvious to me how much we need chance, play, and something in our lives that we cannot control, but much of the time seek and struggle to avoid that randomness in our never-ending quest for surety in all of the wrong places. What we need more of is release from what we think our lives have to look like to provide life energy, when the single greatest source of life energy seems to come up again and again when you let go and let things flow your way. It also seems to come in the same way when we send surprise intentions out to each other in random acts of play.

How this relates specifically to the appearance of the Aces in your daily spread is the subject of an up and coming blog. Thank you for dropping in, if your life is dismally free of surprises and play right now, please do yourself a favor and arrange to let go so that some may come your way. And if you have a similar story I would love to hear it.

Jeff