Darkness, Weeping, Gnashing Teeth, and The Chariot
Lectarot Divina, Thought 2
Hello Friend,
Welcome to another week of Lectarot Divina - a space where I’m sharing some of my spiritual practice with you, showing how my lifelong love for the stories of Jesus is making space for my newfound love for Tarot.
Can these 2 things (that many of of us have been told are OPPOSITES) actually get along?
Can they make space for each other?
Play nice together?
Dance with each other?
Inform each other?
… I think so; and so a few mornings a week I read from my Bible and pull a Tarot Card and am amazed (almost every time!) how each of them informs the other, inviting me to eavesdrop on their beautiful conversations that leave me inspired, bewildered, and amazed.
In this series of essays or thoughts or posts or whatever we want to call them, I want to begin writing out some of the ideas that erupt from these stories and card pulls because although I jot things down in a journal, sometimes I feel like I have more to get out of me and so this felt like a good space to do that in … a space that may or may not one day turn into a book of sorts.
Anyways, each entry in this collection will look at the Gospel story from that week’s Lectionary reading along with a Tarot Card that I will pull at random and then we’ll spend the post exploring each and wondering how they might be working together to deepen our insight into the Divine.
Ready?
Here we go …
This week’s Lectionary Gospel: Matthew 22:1-14 (← click the link to read the passage in the NIV)
Tarot Card (pulled at random): The Chariot
In this week's gospel story Jesus says that the Kingdom of God is like a guy who throws a wedding for his kid and gets a bit insulted when (on the day of the wedding) the people he invited don't want to come.
Can you imagine?
A King throws a massive party and invites a bunch of people and they're like, "eh. Thanks, but no thanks."