MS-0004 · The Cross · card 4 of 7
The Conduit
Catching the lightning was the easy part; the work was slowing it enough to land.
- Element
- Fire
- Tense
- Past / testimony
- The hand
- That gave without looking back
The card
Lightning enters the crown of his head and he does not flinch, because he has learned that receiving is the easy part. It travels down through him, steadying as it descends, and disperses at his bare feet into a spreading web of roots beneath the earth. Above him is violence; below him is stillness; his body is the boundary and the discipline. This is the deck's practice card — the current is worthless until it is grounded, and the work is not in catching it but in slowing it enough to land.
To sit with
What have you received that still hasn't reached the ground?
What would change in your ordinary days if it finally landed?
Related cards
Silver TonguedThe card before.He spoke the truth as it came and again as they could bear it, and neither was the lie.
AmanuensisThe next card.He wrote down everything that came, and understood almost none of it yet.
The MotherThe section's first card.What she carried through the dark is finally out, and it is not finished — only born.