The King of Swords and the Rejected Stone
Lectarot Divina, Thought 1
Hello Friend,
Welcome to 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 21:33-46 (← click the link to read the passage in the NIV)
Tarot Card (pulled at random): King of Swords
There comes a time in everyone’s life where they must decide to follow their gut, to follow the deep inner voice that steers them and directs them and tells them what to do.
(We’ll come back to that in a moment.)