Evolver Summit Sporecast

I was flipping through my Tarot deck, as we made our way back to Union Square from our very first Evolver summit, when someone asked if we'd done a draw for Evolver in general...the big picture.

I had been using them personally, and they were an interesting guide through the weekend, so I obliged. While others dozed, sporganizers from Atlanta, Long Beach, and Los Angeles decided what we wanted the cards to represent, as I made the initial shuffle. We decided that these questions would give a full perspective:

1) What are we now?
2) What is the future like for us?
3) What should we watch out for?
4) What should be bring in?
5) What is inevitable?

There were six people awake, so we divvied up the draw and each person spent some time with the deck and drew their card.

For the first card, what we are now, we drew "The Magician."

Certainly, one of the clearest revelations to us this past weekend was how magical our journey with Evolver has been, things coming together in almost impossibly synchronistic ways. Plus, we make do with what we have in our environment--we're makeshift, but are also coming into an understanding of our inherent power to create.

Second, for an expression of the future, we drew the Six of Wands

This card represents victory, triumph, carrying the banner. We are bound to see great public acclaim gained through hard work and effort in the future.

So, what do we need to watch out for? The third card we drew was the 7 of Swords: "The Lord of Unstable Effort," who may take on too much--thus the seven swords tucked into his cloak in the Robin Wood deck. In this deck, he also looks like quite a shady character, while in others he looks aloof. In any case, he can also have a reluctance to follow through.

For "what we should bring in," we drew the King of Cups.
Another site, Tarot Teachings, gives a list of attributes that could fit an outside helper bringing us much stability amidst the flow of transition. It describes a scrupulous, charismatic ambassador; a philanthropic, humanitarian, understanding nobleman. Richard Branson, anyone?

So, what is inevitable?
The 3 of Pentacles.

This card signifies a new project and the help of a businessperson. Fitting since we discussed the idea of an Evolver Exchange network, a platform for exchange of goods across the network. This might be inevitable. As much as we like to fight the merging of spirit and matter in this way be being resistant to business models, we may need to accept that it's fundamental to our survival and abundance. In the deck we used, the card also signifies that there is much building and hard work to be done to build this scaffolding.