I ask my cards Big Questions.
When I asked ‘What is the card that best represents abortion?’, I don’t know what I anticipated. I don’t feel any moral ambiguity, so I wasn’t expecting to pull something like, I dunno, the Devil, or a card that would have me questioning my whole belief system. I know that abortion is absolutely fine, and is a decision that’s made for the greater good: the good of the pregnant person, of their family-present and future, of the good of society.
And still, what I drew in response to this question was so beautiful that it really shook me. The card that best represents abortion is: The Star.
The Star is about healing, first of all. It is also a card of staying oriented towards hope. When we make a decision in Star energy, we are keeping our gaze fixed on a brighter horizon, and choosing to move toward what is in our highest and best. We are navigating by love and towards love.
It also corresponds to Aquarius, which means it’s a deeply humanitarian card; it is concerned for the future and for the well-being of those that will inhabit it. It wants what is best for all.
The Star is most often depicted as a figure pouring water from vessels into a stream or pool. The stream is widely interpreted as a symbol of our collective consciousness, and in ‘Meditations in the Tarot’ particularly, the author talks about this stream as flowing from the past to the future, and he calls the figure in the card the “mother of the future”. Now, he’s really referring to some deeply esoteric stuff that I can’t pretend to understand, but what I feel when I think about these ideas within the context of abortion is:
That universal stream of energy in this card is where we all originated and where we’ll all return. The figure in the card is pouring back into the stream what they cannot, for now, carry. Perhaps they will be a ‘mother in the future’. Or perhaps it’s for someone else, somewhere down-stream. But for now, that energy is being returned to the source, and that’s no problem.
I truly believe that Spirit speaks to us through the cards. When I pulled the Star as the card that best represents abortion, I take it as fact. It is a beautiful, beautiful response to the question; so deeply reassuring. If you’ve been struggling to find peace with your own abortion, for whatever reason, I hope you can take solace in this message. You are the figure in the Star, pouring out your blessing to the future, a future that is made possible and hopeful because of you.