Comments on: Tarot Card of the Week: March 8-14, 2010

By: Beth

Beth — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:56:48 +0000

Oh, Donna! This is so tragic! I am so dreadfully sorry to hear it. Sending you, your sister, and her beloved — and everyone involved — all the love and healing possible.

By: Donna

Donna — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:11:42 +0000

I came to your site today specifically to look at the Tarot card of the week because of some distressing news my family received. My sister’s fiance has been diagnosed with cancer of the brain stem and is most likely not going to live to see their wedding day. Thank you for this post and I am sorry to hear about your loss.

By: Joanna

Joanna — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:51:12 +0000

I just read this piece more fully. Thank you, thank you, for the teachings about the three: joy, sorrow and peace.

By: Joanna

Joanna — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:14:15 +0000

I’m so sorry to hear of your friend’s death, sweet sister. Sending love & peace your way and to all who are touched by this passing.

By: Arie

Arie — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:23:14 +0000

May the Divine Light guide your friend.
To return in Love and Peace.
Arie

By: Madeline

Madeline — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:54:32 +0000

Many posts about loss, including yours, Beth. Much empathy and prayers to all of you suffering losses right now.. May the Light peep through soon..

By: catherine

catherine — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:24:16 +0000

sending thoughts of sympathy to you and Rick…blessings on all the beauty your love ones brought your lives….. catherine

By: denise

denise — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:34:05 +0000

To all who have suffered the loss of loved ones and of dreams these past few weeks, my heartfelt condolences and mental hugs to all. ~*~

Beth, your post is beautiful and gave me a “welcome home” feeling as I read it…perhaps because my maiden name is Cowan!
This has given me a new perspective of the 3 of Swords; thank you!

Dr. Rick: a very splendid song! I hope you have been able to put it to music.

By: Maria

Maria — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:26:45 +0000

I’m so sorry to read of the loss of your friend. This is a wonderful post, and very timely for me, as usual. I am, thankfully, not dealing with losses such as you and others here have spoken about. What I am dealing with is inertia stemming from a fear of making changes that might ultimately lead to pain – and my lack of trust in myself to handle it if it does.

By: Rick Loftus, M.D.

Rick Loftus, M.D. — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:43:35 +0000

Beth, I love this observation about peace being braided between sorrow and joy, and it reminds me of the “Middle Way” between aversion and attraction that is spoken of in Buddhist traditions.

I, too, am grieving a loss; a week ago we announced the closure of my medical practice–it didn’t survive the Great Recession (hmm, what’s so “great” about it, right?).

A couple of years ago I wrote a song about this idea of being beyond both joy and grief, in a place of accepting what is, and of peace, called “The Oak Does Not Complain”:

Come with me beyond despair, beyond hope.
We won’t guess, we won’t try, we’ll just cope.
You cannot bring your burden into my boughs:
Lay it down, lay it down, lay it down.
Where there is strength beyond dimension
Is the oaken’s path’s ascension.
All we’d say is spoken,
There is nothing here that’s broken.
For the Oak does not complain.
It solace lies beyond all loss and all gain.

Peace to you in the passing of your friend, and to everyone dealing with all the loss of the past couple of years.