Picture the Pain Spread: Card 5

[ladyofthemoor]

It is already a long time ago that I started doing “Picture the Pain” spread by Christine Jette. For some time I posted one card a day. Then Pentecost came and the full moon, and I was distracted from my goal. I still have to post the last card, card five. The card represents a turning point. It shows what is needed for healing. The card that I

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[tarotbydiana]

Sometimes when cards or themes come back repeatedly, the kind we might not want to see, I try to look at the card with humor to take the power out of it. I don't have this deck yet and I haven't read the essay but I will go with my feelings in looking at the card.

If one of your inner children is a meanie, how would you handle it as an adult if you saw a child acting that way in public to another child? Could you handle the inner bully in the same way? I feel the depiction on the card is part of the turning point by making the characters children and in a sense their behavior is called out more clearly and literally they are smaller.

[ladyofthemoor]

Thanks, you're right, their behavior is more pronounced because they are children and smaller!

Thing is to stop the inner bully in a friendly way, otherwise I bully myself twice (I have done that in the past). It is an important card this one.