alchemy cards, emotion deck, recently made with mindy tsonas' inner alchemy circle.
i am a sensitive human.
this is not new, i've always been tender and dramatic and melancholy and passionate and poetic.
but i used to fool myself into thinking i was keeping it a secret, carefully cultivating a moderately unaffected persona.
on occasion, one or more feeling might grow too powerful for containment and seep out in a big way.
big anger. big fear. big disappointment. big grief.
sometimes my empathy kicks into overdrive and i get to feel others' emotions too. (big fun.)
i learned that you can do a decent part-time job at hiding your emotions. but you cannot not feel them.
i am developing a new-found appreciation for my deep feelings and ever-evolving empathy. i am observing them coming and going, watching their habits, their rhythm. i am sitting with them and hearing their stories (which are my stories they've been trying to tell me for years and to which i stubbornly refused to listen).
so here we all are on this particular sunday morning; having coffee with me at the table is a little bit of restlessness, some disappointment, a lot of hope, compassion, courage, a mild sense of injustice. i'm trying not to pick at the scab that has grown over a recent wound to my heart. i'm letting my feelings inform my wisdom and vise-versa.
and rumi is here too:
the guest house
this being human is a guest house
every morning a new arrival.
a joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
welcome and entertain them all
even if they are a crowd of sorrows
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture.
still treat each guest honorably.
he may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
the dark thought, the shame, the malice
meet them at the door laughing
and invite them in.
be grateful for whoever comes
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
