The 7♠️ invites back to our original home, to sit in the lap of our great mother, our earth.

Science now tells us what we have known in our bodies for Millenia, that spending time in natural environments is good for us, reducing stress, promoting relaxation, balancing our mood and improving our thinking. One of the main illusions of the modern world is that we are separate from nature. See the 4♣️. This is 'power over' thinking and acting which leads us to seeing nature as an object - an 'it' for our consumption. Once under this thinking-spell, we might believe we can control 'it' or have a somewhat disconnected relationship with 'it', visiting 'it' from time to time but not recognising we are 'it'.

So take a walk, spend time looking, listening and opening to the silence and the roar of the natural world. What do you see? What do you hear? What can you smell? What can you touch? What can you taste? What do you feel and where do you feel it? What can we learn when we tune in?

The physicist, Fritijof Capra encourages us to become 'ecoliterate' as we are entangled with nature and so we need to learn about life from Life, from Nature. We are living in the time of the Anthropocene, where we have had such an impact on the natural world with our tendency to consume more than we replenish, that we are changing our environment dramatically. This realisation can be scary so we know if we look at our Explainers that when we're scared and threats come along, it is easy to be thrown off course. We might want to fight, or be consumed with fear. We might freeze or want to play-dead, distract ourselves or just fiddle about, pretending everything is going to be all right. But now is the time to become our larger selves, our larger Us. if we use our imaginations, work together remembering we are all part of the network, that we have all that we need right here, and orientate ourselves to what is possible without attachment to the outcome, we might start to regenerate.

Janine Beynus has coined the term biomimicry which is the principle of imitating nature in the design of our technology and the structure of our organisations. The clues are all out there, nature has been researching and designing since the beginning of time. Indigenous peoples are those who have not severed their intelligence from the earth's wisdom. Out of our world population, only around 5% of humans belong to indigenous communities, however, the land they live on supports 80% of our global diversity. We need 10♣️. The Native American Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Great Law of Peace is also known as the seventh-generation principle: we should make our decisions about how we live today based on how this will impact on the next seven generations. Thinking in deep time.

At this critical human-time in our planetary history, how can we once again become part of the network, honour the mutuality of our relationships and become good ancestors?

All the cards have a role to play in this life-work. Can you work out how?

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