Cartwheels

New Year's was excellent. I'm still smiling.

I think my resolution is going to be simply not to ignore my intuition anymore - and to listen to God more. Those might be the same thing; I'm not sure. I'm also going to start running more.

I've been thinking a lot about the upcoming semester. I think it's going to be a lot of fun, and be different in a lot of ways than the past two spring semesters. (Thinking back - none of my semesters have resembled each other. I think that's a good thing...lets me figure out what works for me.) I'm taking 5 classes, but it comes out to less credits than last semester (thank God...) and I don't think the classes themselves are going to be as consuming as last semester.

I've been reading "Interior Castle" by St. Theresa of Avila, and I was struck by the way that her description of progress through the Castles seems to resemble a lot of the characteristics represented by successive cards in the Major Arcana of a Tarot deck. I did a bit of research, and it turns out that Tarot cards weren't used for diviniation untill relatively recent times (18th or 19th century) and before that they were apparently used either as playing cards or as mnemonics for teaching various theological or philosopical belief systems.

Funny how it's human nature to try and take something ordinary and pragmatic and transform it into something "mystical" that allows man to reach past his actual faculties. It seems like a really sophomoric frame of mind to get into, especially when there's so much to find in "ordinary life" that usually just gets taken for granted.