the friendliness card

one of the last days in sf, my partner pulled the friendliness card from our osho tarot deck, and i thought i'd share it with you.

"first meditate, be blissful, then much love will happen of its own accord. then being with others is beautiful and being alone is also beautiful. then it is simple, too. you don't depend on others and you don't make others dependent on you. then it is always a friendship, a friendliness. it never becomes a relationship, it is always a relatedness.
you relate, but you don't create a marriage. marriage is out of fear, relatedness is out of love. you relate; as long as things are moving beautifully, you share. and if you see that the moment has come to depart because your paths separate at this crossroad, you say goodbye with great gratitude for all that the other has been to you, for all the joys and all the pleasures and all the beautiful moments that you have shared with the other. with no misery, with no pain, you simply separate." -osho

notes on the actual card itself which depicts two flowering trees with their ranches mingling in the wind:
"the branches of these two flowering trees are intertwined and their fallen petals blend together on the ground in their beautiful colors. it is as if heaven and earth are bridged by love. but they stand individually, each rooted in the soil in their own connection with the earth. it this way they represent the essence of true friends, mature, easy with each other, natural. there is no urgency about their
connection, no neediness, no desire to change the other into something else.
this card indicates a readiness to enter this quality of friendliness. in the passage, you may notice that you are no longer interested in all kinds of dramas and romances that other people are engaged in. it is not a loss. it is the birth of a higher more loving quality born of the fullness of experience. it is the birth of a love that is truly unconditional, without expectations or demands."

i am grateful for the love, respect, and support my tribe has unconditionally offered to me. my family is in my heart always, and i will walk this earth in search of you, to inspire you, to learn from you, and to find new ways to serve this evolving tribe. in the name of the light, i am your warrior.