The Undercard

No, I Didn't Forget...

Sunset - 17 November 2024; Photo: L. Weikel

I realize I may have left some of you ‘hanging’ by never revealing the card that was on the bottom of the deck when I stopped shuffling my Mystic Art Medicine Oracle Cards* and chose the primary message to us that I reported in my post two days following the election. When choosing a card from a tarot or oracle deck, I give major deference to the card I either draw from the top or which pops out from within the deck. But I also like to at least pay attention to the card that’s on the bottom of the deck.

In my experience, the bottom or undercard can often bring nuance to the meaning or application of the top card’s message. Or it can represent the foundation upon which the top card can best be understood. And sometimes, the bottom card just adds a hard-to-describe flavor or spice to the top card’s message that enhances my overall understanding of the guidance.

Regardless, I failed to write my follow up post, which I honestly thought I would write the very next day. As I should have. Hopefully, ‘lesson learned.’ Because as each day ticked by and the winner of the election began announcing intended nominations for major posts in his administration, each one seemingly more egregiously in our faces than the next, the more I found myself resisting the message of the undercard.

Rebirth Is One Thing…

I loved the message that the Rebirth card brought to us. Granted, in order to be reborn, a death must first occur, which is almost always a scary thing. We humans don’t tend to embrace the idea of death willingly, much less enthusiastically, so the dying aspect of getting to rebirth can be…fraught.

So when I saw the card serving as support or a foundation for that Rebirth, I was initially filled with a sense of affirmation. On some level, it felt like an exhortation to my higher self, a voice in my ear that whispered, “Yes, this is what we must embrace and how we are to move forward in supporting the rebirth of our nation.” My undercard was:

“Grace”

“Yemenya”

“Goddess of the oceans and the moon.

Hear the Siren sing her mystic’s tune.

Sea and shells adorn her crown.

Don’t let the darkness take you down.

Sit with Grace on your mermaid throne.

Many paths on the journey home,

All is perception, to each his own…” - Cher Lyn

(…)

“Grace occupies an abundant flow in, and swaying out like the currents under the sea. Humanity is awakening, and reconnecting to our inner feminine wisdom of receptivity and Grace, which transforms the harsh aggressiveness we have chosen in the past.

Whether you are male or female, in order to authentically embody the true feminine aspect of yourself, allowing Grace to be fully actualized, you need to be able to be open to receive. Some people tend to only give, eventually depleting themselves and feeling resentful. Find a balance in receiving gracefully so you can be replenished.

The message for you here is to open, soften, give, and receive elegantly. Pretend you are Grace even if you don’t believe it. First be in the willingness to let go of hardened ideas that don’t feel good. Recognize patterns of feeling you are alone, or that you’re higher or lower than another. Grace is about saying yes to receptivity because you honor and love yourself. In saying yes to this medicine, you have the choice to awaken into a more graceful you.”

My Take

Ha! My take is that I need to knock off my indulgence and simply honor the process Spirit has come to expect of me: to relay the message accurately and in a timely fashion.

I got caught up in the seeming outrageousness of everything that continues to unspool before our eyes and essentially censored the rest of the message from Spirit. I lost sight of my purpose (and more importantly, my responsibility) as a message carrier and, once I procrastinated, I started second-guessing.

Honest to goodness, I thought of all of you every single day over the past 13 days: “I alluded to the undercard, but never delivered.” And then I would lapse into internal excuses for why it all seemed like bullshit, because how could anyone hear a message that we should embrace Grace and not feel…deluded?

 But you know what? That’s not for me to decide one way or another. This was the message: REBIRTH, with GRACE as our foundation and support. We’re all free to ponder what that means for ourselves.

Notice What Resonates For You

In re-reading Cher Lyn’s words as I type them here, some words and sentiments call out and demand my reflection. Notice if any do to you, too. I’m sure some will.

Over the past two weeks, I’ve increasingly wanted that undercard to have been akin to a call to arms. The fact that it was Grace felt concomitantly out of sync and discordant with my baser instincts and desires, and so I resisted conveying it to all of you. Each day that went by, the Grace part felt less and less right and relevant. I was sinking to a different level than I want to be. Most importantly, however, I was letting all of you down by withholding, second-guessing, and not trusting the message itself.

This is my attempt to make things right: clinging to the adage: ‘better late than never.’ I hope you’ll forgive me.

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