16 May 2021
Cold Context
The weather has suddenly turned cold with it comes either a cold, flu or both. In today’s world, a sniffle means going to get a COVID test. How can you tell it’s not just the chill in the air? The advice is to go and get tested or at least isolate or wear a mask. Once inoculations against the worst symptoms of COVID have taken place, life may get back to some normality. My guess is as long as Australia is getting visitors, we will still need to have some testing.
Nonetheless, what are the typical symptoms of whether you have a cold or flu? According to The Herbal Drugstore (White, p.176), which provides a lovely concise table – pictured below -making it easy to tell the difference. The intro to the table says: “Cold symptoms restrict themselves to the upper respiratory passages, in other words, from the shoulders down, you feel pretty good. The flu comes on quickly and produces an all-over sick feeling.”.
Image of Cold and Flu Symptoms
Below is a COVID updated one modified from the World Health Organisation’s site and circulated by Priceline Pharmacy (March 2020).
Cold & Flu Updated for Coronavirus
Maybe I have got a cold coming on, or perhaps my runny nose is simply the weather changing. The nose running makes it hard to type more than a few words without putting a tissue to it. 🤧 For my sanity, this is where I stop writing and simply finish off with the analysis.
Let’s see what the cards say.
Performance
Data
Today's Cards
The Cards - Analysis
Carry Over Cards
There were no carry over cards from yesterday.
Cross
The Creator is in the Now influenced by Ice-olation. The cards make sense considering my physical state. Beginning to come down with something hasn’t affected my ability to be me; it forces me to reflect on myself and my mood. It makes me take stock of what I have going on in my life. In any case, it’s about all I can do since I’ve started distancing myself from my husband (isolation) – one of us has to work!
Friendliness is in the Goal position and marks a worthwhile Goal – perhaps it’s a withdrawal from Friendliness which was the Goal.
We are the World forms the foundations of the Distant Past, where working together with others has led to me becoming The Creator. In Osho’s book, The Creator “works on himself” (p.49), working on the subject, not on an object.
In the Recent Past is Innocence. Getting back to Innocence is described by Osho (p.41) as dropping all the things about others, and you think about you. Letting them go and simply being – a phrase often used in my head is “what does it matter” or “storm in a teacup” or “don’t sweat the small stuff” or “let it go”.
The card of Sorrow having Gautam Buddha’s friend, Ananda, weeping makes me think of myself today, feeling sorry for myself. Is this a prediction of my Future Energy? In a nutshell, it is a cold not, just a runny nose due to weather changes?
Base
My Feelings/ Immediate Future position has The Outsider, and this card echoes the influence card of Ice-olation. Today it makes sense since being The Outsider and keeping my distance is self-inflicted isolation.
Others’ Views is that I’m playing Politics and perhaps this is true. Again, today’s social pool has been my husband, and maybe he thinks I’m two-faced or hypocritical about something, but he’s not around to ask; take a deep breath, let it go.
Transformation is in the Hopes & Fears position. Sometimes when I see the Transformation card, I think, “what now?” with a sense of trepidation. The fear of what’s going to change, knowing full well that I’ve been the instigator of the change. On the upside, I can also be quite excited by the prospect of things changing. Colds are usually a sign that I’m overcommitting.
The Outcome position has me listening to my Inner Voice, and since I flicked open to Osho’s book for Inner Voice, I’m going to use his last phrase, “a ray of light coming from the beyond into the darkness of our world”. It’s beautiful 🌦🌈.
References
- Osho, Osho Zen Tarot – The Transcendental Game of Zen, St Martin’s Press, ISBN 0-312-11733-7
White, Linda (M.D.) & Foster, Stephen 2000, The Herbal Drugstore, Rodale Inc. United States, ISBN 1-5954-134-8
Priceline Pharmacy 2020, An update from Priceline Pharmacy – Coronavirus (COVID-19) – your questions answered, Priceline Pharmacy, Australia. Data modified by Priceline Pharmacy from the World Health Organization
