☀️ Consciousness — The Art of Seeing Differently
What if the sky is really the ground?
Back in 2008,
I wrote a poem contemplating that very question.
I was fascinated by the way cameras and our eyes receive images.
Light passes through a lens,
forming an inverted image,
yet we experience the world as right-side up.
That made me wonder how much of what we see is reality,
and how much is interpretation.
Today,
while exploring Spider Grandmother
and the tarot,
that question returned.
In one of my favorite decks,
Spider Woman represents The Hanged Woman.
At first,
I thought she belonged with The Empress,
the creator of life.
Then I started thinking about spider vision.
Eight eyes.
Different fields of awareness.
Some spiders can even move their retinas to examine their surroundings.
And suddenly The Hanged Woman made perfect sense.
I’ve always understood this tarot card as expansion of consciousness
through a different perspective.
Sometimes that expansion feels uncomfortable,
as though our entire world has been turned upside down.
But a spider suspended beneath her web
isn’t upside down in her own experience.
She simply inhabits the world differently.
Perhaps expanding consciousness isn’t about finding a new world.
Perhaps it’s about discovering how many ways there are to see
the one we’re already experiencing.
🩵 What if being upside down
is simply another way of being right-side up?
👀 A Different Perspective
Sometimes all it takes is a different view
to recognize something we’ve been overlooking.
Tarot offers a visual language of symbols,
archetypes,
nd possibilities
a way to step outside familiar patterns
and explore a question from another perspective.
What might you discover when you look again?
🔮 Explore a Personal Tarot Reading
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🌀 The Spiral of Becoming
Explore cycles, movement, and expanding possibilities.
☀️ When the Mask Comes Off
Continue to the third reflection on perception and revelation.
👀 Look Again
Explore another perspective on seeing and understanding.
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