Card: Strength In Vulnerability

Landscape: Spirit/Intuition

Title of Painting: River Samsara

Interpretation: Your strength comes directly from your ability to be truly vulnerable. The woman depicted here stands in a river of grief and experience. A cool, green lotus flower rises from the waters and is engulfed in flames. The delicate petals hold up against the heat. The papers on which you’ve written your past agonies and ecstasies are now in flames. Ashes to ash, dust to dust. Make your life combustible so that it may transform. This process will strip you of your armor and become the fuel that propels you into the center of your divine purpose. This is true strength.

Deeper Resonance: Samsara is a Sanskrit word that refers to an endless cycle of birth and death. The literal translation of Samsara would be “a wandering through” — the way in which everyone passes through a number of lives and states.