We all have parts of us that are light, that we are happy to share with everyone around us, and we also have parts of us that we consider dark, that we aren’t so eager to share, that we aren’t so proud of.
In this card the figure here has been battling with his own darkness. As he did so, even his sleeves and trousers and boots became blackened in the battle. His companion protectors, the swans, who would normally be white, did as well.
It’s not easy to do battle with our own darkness. It’s very messy and dirty work. It can be hard to face that there are things about us that aren’t acceptable to our own belief system. This is a day to become aware of the inner turmoil we go through because of our own dark aspects.
When we want to change something, the first step in the process is to acknowledge that that something actually exists. It’s the same with our dark aspects. To begin the process of turning those dark places inside ourselves to light, we first have to look at them and say to ourselves: “I see you there. I know you are not of the light. And I accept that this is the way I am right now, and that there is a reason that I am this way."
The next step is to figure out why we are the way we are in that area, and begin to really pull that reasoning which founded the dark aspect of us apart. Ask some questions. Did the reasoning make sense at one time? Does it still make sense now? Does this dark aspect still serve us well now, if it ever did? Why or why not?
What ends up happening is one of two things: We either make peace with this dark part of ourselves, or we decide that we are making modifications within ourselves so that we can transform that dark part of us into a light part. Either way, once we do the work it takes to understand that dark part of us, we are much happier than we were before we put out that effort.
Peace,
Amista
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