In Tarot, the second card in the deck is The Magician, coming right after The Fool. The Fool enters life without any assumptions and dives into the adventure that awaits him without any hesitation. Then he becomes The Magician with tools in front of him: his mental faculties (the sword), his feelings and emotions (the cup), his inspiration, courage, and life spark (the wand), and the physical abilities and resources that life presents him (the pentacle). He now has to take all of these and create magic with them.

How does he do it? How does he create magic? He has his right hand towards the sky, the Divine, the quantum realm with an added staff to make sure he doesn’t miss any goodness coming his way. This is his intuitive antenna that he knows how to wield. His left hand reaches down with his index finger pointed down like God in the painting of Michelangelo. There’s no point in receiving all that cosmic goodness if you don’t transmit it down towards the Earth for everyone to benefit from. This way he becomes the receiver and the giver, as well as the transmuter and alchaemizer, using all that he has at his disposal (Divine juju and the Elements of Earth, Fire, Air, and Water).

I had the good fortune of watching Whirling Dervishes live when I lived in Istanbul, Turkey. Whirling Dervishes carry on the tradition of ecstatic dance (Sema) started by Rumi in the 13th century in Turkey. These dancers wear a long skirt and dance to the traditional music of the Mesnevi, spinning, spinning, and spinning without an end. Their spin is a representation of the rotation of the planets and the particles, the cycles of life, and the continuous change we all live in. They start the Sema with both arms folded over their heart, creating the number one with their bodies, which represents the oneness of all beings. The number of The Magician in the Tarot deck is one (The Fool is zero). While they turn, just like The Magician, they point their right hand up and left hand down to indicate being a conduit between heaven and Earth.

What does all this mean for your healing journey? It means that you get to be a Magician too. You get to dance with what life throws at you like a Whirling Dervish, ecstatic from the beauty of it all. You get to take what life has given you, all of it, and make something with it. You can make a new thought, a new conversation, a new dress, a new meal, a new connection, a new you, and whatever else your heart can imagine. It means that you are not helpless. There is a divine spark of opportunities, resources, love, connection, and joy wanting to reach you if you just open your receiving antenna and reach out your hand. You are surrounded by resources (just like the ones on the table for The Magician). You also have inner resources: your healing story is one of them and what you have already learned transmuting into goodness is another. You are not a helpless creature, you never were. You are simply learning the magic of your life in all its colors, shapes, feelings, sensations, emotions, music, and dramatic beauty.

Take this in, breathe with this truth, and today, start creating some magic.

If you would like to experience your own private Tarot reading and healing, reach out to me.

With love and light,

Damla

P. S. 1 The Magician card picture is from the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot Deck created in 1909. It is considered the most traditional Tarot deck.

P. S. 2 Below is a feminine representation of The Magician from The Muse Tarot. Can you see the traditional elements in this new rendition?

P. S. 3 Here’s the story of my Grandmother and how she practiced magic and created beauty with her very limited resources.

How many times have you felt disappointed and not appreciated, loved, and understood by the people around you? How many times have you found yourself in a conversation where you felt you aren’t getting what you need or you aren’t being heard? How many days and nights have you spent overthinking, overanalyzing, and over-ruminating about your conversations, relationships, and encounters with others?

Here’s what comes to my mind when I think about this. My daughter had a picture book when she was a toddler. There’s a lost duckling looking for her mom. She keeps asking everyone and everything she meets (including a dog, a chicken, and a bulldozer) the same question: “Are you my mother?”. Isn’t this what you are doing when you ask someone for compassion, love, understanding, and connection?

Here’s the difficult part: someone who is malnourished and not compassionate with themselves cannot nourish you or be compassionate with you. Talking to someone who hasn’t given themselves the nourishment and care that they need is like talking to a wall and hoping that they will see, hear, appreciate, and love you.

We all have a responsibility to meet our energetic needs and heal our wounds with or without help. This is your basic and most human responsibility. When you do meet your needs and take time to nourish yourself, you become the mom you have been looking for and no longer need to keep looking for love where there isn’t.

Let’s chat to figure out your next nourishing and healing steps.

With love, light, and compassion,

Damla

We all wish it, we wish that we could be free from uncertainty. We wish that when we go for something, things could unfold exactly as we envisioned and expected. And that life could follow a pattern we approve of. Yet it isn’t so. Life can treat us in a million unexpected ways.

Freedom from uncertainty means that you allow, accept, and roll with it all. You don’t escape from the randomness, you celebrate it. You get deeply involved in it. You decide to treat everything as a gift and in turn, everything becomes a gift.

You realize that even when things feel like they are out of control, there is one thing that keeps you anchored to what matters, it is your attention. Your loving and allowing gaze can shift and transform everything into a blissful adventure. That is what I call healing.

With love, light, and gratitude,

Damla