Inner Voice
The Inner Voice speaks not in words but in the wordless language of the heart. It is like an oracle who only speaks the truth. If it had a face, it would be like the face at the center of this card - alert, watchful, and able to accept both the dark and the light, symbolized by the two hands holding the crystal. The crystal itself represents the clarity that comes from transcending all dualities. the Inner Vice can also be playful, as it dives deep into the emotions and emerges again to soar towards the sky, like two dolphins dancing in the waters of life. It is connected with the cosmos, through the crescent-moon crown, and the earth, as represented by the green leaves on the figure's kimono. There are times in our lives when too many voices seem to be pulling us this way and that. Our very confusion in such situations is a reminder to seek silence and centering within. Only then are we able to hear our own truth.

Osho's commentary: Inner Voice
"If you have found your truth within yourself there is nothing more in this whole existence to find. Truth is functioning through you. When you open your eyes, it is truth opening his eyes. When you close your eyes, it is truth, who is closing its eyes. This is tremendous meditation. If you can simply understand the device, you don't have to do anything; whatever you are doing is being done by truth. You are walking, it is truth; you are sleeping, it is truth resting; you are speaking, it is truth speaking; you are silent, it is truth that is silent. This is one of the most simple meditation techniques. Slowly, slowly everything settles by this simple formula, and then thee is no need for the technique. When you are cured, you throw away the meditation, you throw away the medicine. Then you live as truth - alive, radiant, contented, blissful, a song unto yourself. Your whole life becomes a prayer without any words, or better to say a prayerfulness, a grace, a beauty which does not belong to our mundane world, a ray of light coming from the beyond into darkness of our world."

I have a hard time understanding this card, particularly in the light of Osho commentaries - which seem to me somewhat *religious in tone - a reaching to the 'beyond' rather than "'As above, so below" - and I find that irritating. To me 'Truth 'is a relative thing, an on-going process of awareness, rather than an ''ultimate' place. Further, "light coming from the beyond into the darkness of our world' makes no sense to me. If the 'light', or our own truth is within, then why speak of it as being 'beyond'?

But I like the visuals of this card. The dolphins particularly intrigue me. The water, the moon, the dolphins, all speak to me of emotional absorbtion and balancing within. Interestingly, this week I read about a woman (Joanne Ocean, a psychologist) who uses live dolphins for therapy. It's a fascinating article, and I connect her thoughts so much to the meaning in this particular card, Inner Voice (balancing and inner truth)- that I am including an excerpt from the article below.

Nishta
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