A few days ago @eric_k_lerner posted the quote that inspired his XXI World card from the Radiant Spleen tarot, I didn’t have time to immediately read so I saved it. As ever synchronicity wasn’t far way when I also came across this month’s tarot challenge by @aceofquills Day1: What is the strongest belief I hold about the world? I pulled out the XXI World from the Radiant Spleen but felt the need to work with my new Musterberg Tarot so I opted to use both! The 0 Fool and the IX Hermit represent two approaches of experiencing the world. The first is unfettered, direct physical experience (extrovert) and the second is contemplative connection with the felt sense (introvert). Both seek the same transcendence through fully knowing the world. They are like two sides of the same coin. Both have abandoned the their inherited social and cultural spheres, leaving behind assumptions and beliefs. They are ready to take on all risks, sacrifice security and material comfort. Each will need to sustain scratches and bruises, even life threatening events on the way. Only their paths differ. For the Fool it is rugged and steep and for the Hermit an arid crossing of a the desert. Both accept the inevitable changes and losses that pave their way in X Wheel of Fortune to go with the flow in XIV Temperance. Here is the final letting go of a sense of self to dissolve into the communal vessel of collective karma. In Buddhism XIV would relate to Bodhisattva consciousness, where personal transcendence cannot be conceived without that of all sentient beings, ALL that exists, the XXI World in its wholeness. #the4agreementschallenge #radiantspleentarot #tarotofmusterberg #tarotchallenge #tarotreaders #tarotnerds #tarotaddict #tarotcollection #tarotcollector #tarotcardreading #spiritualtarot