the REALM of ABUNDANCE

But what is Abundance?
                                                Ideas of Abundance are always relative - this is clearly a complex question of definitions and multiple points of view, inescapable from the vested interests of the merchants and even governments that seem to encourage or demand a blinkered awareness of the realities now facing us all. Inescapable also from the impact these blinkers are having on the health of Planet Earth and upon the psychological wellbeing of her children. Agreements and disagreements about Abundance are not really the issue perhaps. The energy of Abundance may be easier to achieve through strategic downsizing than through greater acquisition. All things are relative but if one person's abundance brings another's loss of life perhaps it isn't abundance. Here is a random, nomadic Dreamer's opinion.

    When we work with energy, it becomes obvious that we can achieve very little through negativity. If we focus on loss or an absence of wealth, love or happiness, the lack may be all that we are able experience - and then that is what we may invite more of.

    To achieve any kind of freedom it is a necessary task to create the conditions of our own lives. This is an active, positive energy for which there is really no substitute. Any sense of hopelessness is a loss of energy - if it becomes all encompassing, it will be reflected in everything we may create.

    If we accept that the present age is one of excess, impossible disparities between plenty and poverty, and only meagre compassion if any for others or, ultimately, for the self, is it surprising that we may have developed a skewed vision of abundance, perhaps confusing it with surplus?

    In a time of uncertainty, this is not so difficult to understand. We are psychologically programmed to hoard against uncertainty - a natural emotional response which shows up as 'shopping therapy' for example. But we do not perhaps wish to accept that our actions always have consequences. We create ghettos of wealth, class or almost anything else that makes us feel more comfortable or secure but which always serves to separate one magical, potentially amazing human being from another.    

    Most of us who do see this cannot conceive that our futures, either individually or collectively, are sufficiently robust to withstand equality. This is surely a terrible admission of weakness. It creates a viscious circle in which the 'accelerating and affluent' escalate the protection of their assets while an increasingly outraged 'underclass', suffering the double slap of poverty and social disadvantage, become a danger to society. Historically it has always been so, the history of tribal and indigenous people everywhere in the world carries this story.

    Curiously, through debt and pay strategies and the manipulation of law and order legislation, political societies whose stated mission and raison d'etre is to protect the population from abuse, more often than not are keen to encourage us to act in this way, despite the possibility it has never been in our best interests to do so. "Well, it's a free world" they say, ironically.

    There is a deadly worst-case scenario. Seeing the whole-world picture begs a question. It appears that the uncertainty, an assumed-to-be-normal disatisfaction with present personal circumstances, a global explosion of clever and surreptitious psychographic advertising techniques and a gullible, happy-to-be-blind population of innocent takers have joined a mafia of commercial interests and are raping this beautiful Planet, both of its terminal resources and of its ability to protect itself from the action of the Sun. We seem to have decided that hedonism is ok and we can deny our own future off-spring any viability. The question is - Who in this world would ever choose to become such a bad Ancestor?

    The other cards in the Realm of Abundance share a searching energy, seeking a truth by reading between the lines, the assumptions and the habitual ways of thinking we may have grown into. The Realm is an abundance of complexities and subtle suggestions but the Consciousness card brings clarity and relief.

    The action and passion of Abundance for example, is given to 'Give & Take'. This Fire card, which like 'Monkey', often has quite a defined role within the Nomadic Oracle, speaks of the delights and the risks of adopting 'fair exchange' as a foundation principle - a place perhaps from which other realities may be judged. As a consequence the card often helps with guidance about holding the space for others, our friends and lovers, and our enemies also, so that they may create their own situations without undue interference. The Oracle does not parody the Book of Changes in suggesting that interference is invariably unwise. Such a position rejects compassion as a weakness at all levels of awareness. The Oracle suggests that this is a mistaken and fearful view of a powerful, if complicated, aid to evolution.

    The Consciousness card 'Abundance' will invariably bring a sense of 'great good fortune' and of sufficiency without undue surplus. This may refer to wealth, friendship, clarity or love or a host of other bounty depending on the situation or the question. It may be a question of receiving from or donating to the generosity, love or commitment of others. Ultimately each person must decide for themselves the intention which resides behind the word 'Abundance'












The Twins of Gaia


    Did Mother Earth not swell the fabric of space and time and form a crack? Did the Cosmic Egg not split apart to deliver into the gap the infinite spark of Consciousness? Has this secret been so easily forgotten in this mad stampede, running backwards in a comedy of errors towards instantly retreating gratification? Isn't the Oath of Abundance to fight oppression and willful ignorance?

    It was fitting that it would be in the Realm of Abundance that the mysterious process which brought the Oracle into being would deliver twins.

    The cards, the Forest and the Cauldron, form the twin hearts of Gaia, the Love of Life on one hand, and the Process, the magical internal forces of the Planet and all that belongs to it, on the other.

The empowerments offered by the Nomadic Oracle are aided by the fine distinctions it is able to make. The twist between these two cards is that 'the Forest' may point out the delights of nourishing an appreciation of the energy of love which the Planet offers its Children whereas 'the Cauldron' may offer the observation that there are times when the Process may be toxic, dangerous and must be endured. The Forest may suggest guarding against over-exuberence, the Cauldron may suggest developing a sense of humour.

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