It might be nothing.
It’s Friday. The sun is shining. It’s a nice spring day. I have the day off from work. By every outer metric things should feel as sunny as the weather.
Yet, as I thought of writing this post, I get a little niggling feeling that there is something unseen underneath it all or something vaguely looming on the horizon. The intuition doesn’t match outer appearances.
That is exactly the time when it is easiest to doubt your intuition. Which, believe it or not, is perfectly good thing to do.
After all, what is intuition? A thought. A molecule dancing between brain cells. A vague sinking sensation in the general area of those leftovers you had for lunch.
Meditation teacher Dan Harris reminds us that when anxiety sets in, it is often helpful to remember the true nature of thought. Thoughts aren’t made up of much relative to the tangible, objective world. Thinking about thoughts like this is a wonderful way to see through the everyday chatter of our minds and work with those intuitive, not-from-food gut twinges.
The Book of Secrets card from Seven Dane Asmund’s Normal Tarot deck gives the same advice – but from a slightly different angle. The card symbolizes a test of “cleverness” as the deck author puts it.
Secrets in this case hint at something unseen be it deliberately hidden by humans or hidden behind the veil of the future. Dealing with that disconnect between external reality (like our sunny day) and inner emotion takes both intuition and intellect. It takes both kinds of thinking to help us navigate anxious, uncertain, dark, obscured, secretive times. Intellect and intuition together truly are more powerful together than the sum of the parts. Synergistic is the big word for it. Intellect and intuition are synergistic, both aspects worth our attention and inclusion. Card readings are a tool of intuition. This card calls us to be clever and use our intellect. The card itself and the context points to head and heart together.
On the other hand, both still just thinking. They are the sparkling molecular consciousness of the human mind. Both are little more than a squirt of neurochemicals and a few well placed electrons, aren’t they?
Intellect and intuition are both molecules and miracles together that at the same time comprise both everything and nothing.
Or, to borrow a phrase from Blue Man Group in their song Rods and Cones, thoughts and feelings are “hellawhack shiznit that happens inside your brizzle.”
Honor your intuition when the feeling inside doesn’t match the circumstances outside. Honor your cleverness and intellect so that all the hellawhack shiznit doesn’t run away with you.
Here’s to your beautiful brizzle. Have a good weekend! See you at the next sip.
For more of Dan Harris’ excellent work: DanHarris.com
Normal Tarot by Seven Dane Asmund used with permission: Publishing Goblin
Sage Sips / TaoCraft Tarot 
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