From a Frozen to a Melted Heart

I remember the moment I realized our Wisdom of Birth Oracle & Tarot deck was an invitation into something even deeper and beyond what I'd originally even imagined. I was working with a client who's baby was breech. She was about 33 weeks pregnant, though this pregnancy was by far the longest lasting pregnancy after multiple miscarriages. She had one living, first child, born via cesarean, and she was planning this birth at home. 

When she sat down to pull a card from one of our early samples of the Wisdom of Birth deck, she open-mindedly pulled the "Ice" card. Most literally, this card offers to prepare expectant parents about how hot mothers and birthing people will get as labor progresses and how welcome of a support it can be to offer ice, and other cooling comforts. According to our Tarot correspondence, the Ice card relates to the 5 of Swords and invites the questions, "What provokes my sharpest reactions? How might I cool my chemistry through compassion?"

But for this mother, it came through as an invitation to thaw. To thaw her heart. To thaw the freeze state that had hijacked her nervous system for so long. To melt into feeling safe enough in this pregnancy to start trusting that this child was coming and she could start bonding with and loving them. The baby turned soon after and she eventually had her successful VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean) at home!

What a potent moment. And while beautiful, it is by no means exceptional. My experience has been that the cards people are pulling from this deck are reflecting something back to them that is just so perfectly needed to be received in that moment.

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