Gaian Tarot Reading 7-1-11: Part 3 of 7

Card 2 - Challenge: 10 Explorer of Air
Identifying all the elements of what's going on (suggested by all the kinds of birds [on the card])? Identifying a focus from among the many possibilities? Feeling ungrounded?
This card isn't clear to me on first inspection. From book: "Climb high to get perspective and focus, mental clarity. Intelligence and wit can be used arrogantly and hurtfully when desire to be right holds sway."

This is fascinating commentary in several ways. First of all, one of the things I've been thinking about a lot is the many potential possibilities to choose from, all related to the same underlying issue--physical health, energy, and wellbeing. That is a decision I need to make with respect to the cookbook I'm working on (what specific focus should I use to define the purpose of the book). It is also a decision I need to make with respect to my career. Do I want to stay with the locavore subject or broaden into the more general subject of health as it relates to food? Include or exclude exercise?

Secondly, there are inner elements relating to my personal health that I have been exploring. Emotional issues, family and childhood issues, current stressors, etc.--I've been gaining insights from exploring all these areas of my life.

The advice to "[c]limb high to get perspective and focus, mental clarity" is brilliant when I think of my recently set goal to hike the Washington state portion of the Pacific Crest Trail in August 2014. Accomplishing this goal will require me to solve many of my health issues, including energy vs. depletion, and backpacking has always been a source of gaining perspective and clarity on my life, perhaps because it pares life down to the most basic essentials (water, food, shelter, awareness). If I wanted to "climb high" around here, I can't get any higher than the Pacific Crest are in the Cascade Mountains! As a result, I am also feeling a confirmation that this is, indeed, an appropriate goal for the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual tasks at hand ("liquifying" and coming out of my cocoon completely transformed).

I can't express how excited that makes me feel! Complete transformation! Woohoo!

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