This image is called "passion" - not the image that comes with this phrase, but I'm having trouble locating it.
Call a friend WHO LOVES YOU - when you're mirrored with love you see yourself clearly.
Calling a friend who has only their interests at heart may reflect something completely different and only serve to muddle your image.
Friendship is complicated. I've never thought that before... and now I find myself surrounded with "friends" who are making it incredibly difficult to love them OR myself.
Clearly, these are not the kinds of friends I want to have. YES, friendship should be "complicated" only in that you are to be taking someone else's interests under advisement. But does friendship mean losing yourself in the process? And if someone asks you to do things that go against what you feel is appropriate, are you supposed to dismiss them as selfish or open your heart to the possibility that they are correct and everything you've ever known is a lie.
Aren't friends supposed to be the people who love and support you? If friendship is "painful" can it be friendship? Are your friends supposed to hurt you?
I don't think so.
This card brings one person to mind - one honest, loving, busy person who I believe in more than anyone else, maybe even more than myself. I call you to remind myself that we're out there and looking for others of our kind.... those we can build a life with - not ON. You make me want to be the best possible version of myself. You make me want to be better, to continue to move forward. Now I look to find these things within myself and I realize I have been distancing myself as a result. Though, it takes two to drift apart. Sometimes Three... though I'm glad your heart is open.
Truth. People love and support one another best when their friends are happy, and their general life principles are in synch. People drift apart when their views begin to differ, their priorities shift... maybe they shift. Move. Change physical or emotional location.
It's not that they love each other less... but someone starts to love their self more - to put distance between them and what causes them suffering of an kind - to put themselves above the emotional pain of the new situation. Not always a conscious choice, although it can be... they move them to the periphery. They choose something different - that is their prerogative, and it is not about US. It is a choice made outside of us.
Some people move in and out of our inner circle based on convenience.
Some people move in and impact us so greatly that we will never be the same.
May those who love us, love us. And for those who don't love us - may god turn their hearts. And if he cannot turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles so that we may know them by their limping.
Show me... TEACH me.
M
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