I’ve been writing a lot about faith lately. That may not seem odd to many of you, but it is for me, if I think about it much. Having left my family’s religion on less than endearing terms, anything that smelled of religious dogma was a big turnoff to me for years. I simply couldn’t be around it without feeling sick. I  didn’t mind individual spirituality, on somebody else that is, as long as they kept to themselves. Don’t get any on me!

Today’s tarot is Trust, the Page of Water/cups. One look at this picture, the phrase “leap of faith” is obvious. In traditional decks, page energy has a youthfulness and newness about it. Trust is very much like that, requiring open-heart, much like a child, a belief without requirement to understand beforehand.

At one time concepts like faith, trust, belief in anything other than what you could prove just annoyed me. I considered organized religion a Machiavellian technique to control the masses.  That doesn’t sound very nice, I know. I didn’t think ill of those who believed. I thought it was how people were taught, combined with some powerful wishful thinking. Well-meaning but deluded. That was consistent with my experiences.

I guess like many big changes in perspective, faith crept into my life a little bit of time. I gradually learned I got what I needed. When I needed it. I started looking for ways to be happier, and discovered that letting go of outcomes didn’t create disaster. Over the years, I began realizing how much I’ve benefited from experiences that I would not necessarily have consciously chosen. No matter what part of the picture I can see, there’s always a bigger part if I can expand my perception enough to find it. I saw serendipity, magic, and transformations I couldn’t explain. I discovered how much better my life works, how much more joy in life there is, when I can just let go and trust. The bigger the leap, the bigger the payoff seemed to be. I learned to trust as I saw the benefits of it.

Here, now, requires a different kind of faith for me, a new level of trust. The more public about my beliefs than I ever was. I ask for guidance regularly, in tarot readings, and for what I write here, to bring useful, helpful information, for the highest good of all concerned. That’s a huge responsibility–I want to always do my best. I know that being more open will let me connect, but will also have it’s costs. It always does. I’m taking the leap of faith anyway, because I have absolute trust the benefits—to myself and, I hope, to others!—will heartily outweigh any other considerations. In fact, I know it will.

Trust reminds me that even if things don’t work out the way I expect, they still work out. Our time here is transitory. I intend to use mine to the fullest extent of my capability, being as joyful and spreading as much love light as I can possibly manage. I do this through being open to whatever lessons, insights, and experiences cross my path, processing and sharing them with others, to amplify the light. I’m trusting I’ll do well enough.

How are you with leaps of faith?

Osho Zen Tarot by Osho

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