Dispatch from the Wild Interior: October 31, 2020

Page of Pentacles / Ace of Swords / King of Swords

Here’s what we’re looking at: the possibility that armed uprising, war, as a means to evolution is the equivalent of bathing in the water you just showered in. Do we not end up covered in what we just tried to get rid of? Is there a way to sink the sword point down in the ground and move into a striving era where we call back past our colonializing, dehumanizing, capitalistic ways of knowing and being into indigenous, interconnected ways that while imperfect (as humans are imperfect) simultaneously value all humans and move people out of the center of the equation? Can we do this while acknowledging the ways we have NOT done it and engage in reconciliation, reparation by those who have benefited, and rebuilding toward something altogether new drawing powerfully on something altogether old? A way of being that allows us the fullness of ourselves and reconnection with the full spectrum of the more-than-human?   And might we in this way save ourselves and be a selves worth saving?