Dreth
that is very true and it makes me think about what it is that makes us human.
And perhaps too on La Roue de Fortune...Helvetica said:It's occurred to me that the Tarot shows dogs in two cards:
The Fool and The Moon.
firemaiden said:isn't it because the dog, like many predators, knows you attack the one who is already down? The tear in the pants is the tear in the protective covering, a symbolic psychic wound. It is both wound and opening - someone who has suffered a great blow, like the loss of a loved one, will feel "ripped open" in spirit and psyche for a while.
jmd said:Only this evening, we were discussing some journeys of a young man across a three hour desert as he was followed by two snarling dogs - which at no instance caused him actual harm (apart from fear), and yet were fierce and attacking to others once this young man reached his port destination.
Paul Foster Case from his book The Tarot said:The little white dog is a descendant of wolves and jackals. Thus he is a human adaptation, whereby something given in a wild and dangerous state by the unmodified processes of nature has been changed into a friend, helper and companion of man. He also indicates the truth that all subhuman forms of the Life-power are elevated and improved by the advance of human consciousness. Finally, ... he is a symbol of intellect, subordinate to superconsciousness.
Hopping and howling with pain...wouldn't you?Rosanne said:Man below wants to know where he is in the Universe.
Rosanne said:All that has been said is wonderful and true. Still I am left with the thought- A simplistic one at that! Sirius rising and grasping Orion by his....... Al Jabbah are you real? Man below wants to know where he is in the Universe. ~Rosanne
Yes....often the weak ones, the sick ones are the ones open to the predators...they can't "keep up." And, yes, too....when we have been "ripped open" in spirit and wounded deeply emotionally, we are more likely to feel "bitten" by what life sends our way.
Sometimes innocent comments by others, can wound, because of our vulnerability.
This makes me think, too, of how a mother dog, for example, will often not nurse the pup who is weak or who might not make it....Sometimes only external halp (dog's owner, vet) will "save" the pup that would otherwise be killed or shunned and, therefore allowed to die.
Again, the dog symbolizing vulnerability.
We have a saying in our house:
"Remember Buscaglia!" Leo Buscaglia (did I spell that correctly?) tells a story of a young person driving at breakneck speed in an effort to come to the aid of an ailing or dying family member, and, as a result of rushing headlong toward trying to help another or be with another, the person is in a fatal accident.
So..."foolish" disregard for our own well-being when life is dealing us lemons, can seem to be "the dog biting the man with the torn pants."
Remember Buscaglia...when we say it...we mean, take care...this is a time when you are open to more trouble as you worry about someone else's difficulty.
terri