This oracle card is more a prayer than a declaration.

A thread I hold in the darkest moments, a tether back to a world I often lose touch with, even forget.

There are moments when I believe the world is a terrible place.

And honestly, I can't argue that.

But it's not *only* a terrible place.

There's more.

And this card, to me, is that feeling of more.

The beauty I see and seek in the world is hard-won, existing alongside the jagged ugliness I know far more intimately than I'd like.

It's also a beauty that doesn't ask me to turn away to find it – but to see it right here, untarnished + undiminished by the unbearable.

The world is beautiful, and the world is ugly.

Being all the way here and all the way alive asks us to hold that bothness.

May the beauty of your world always shine through the rest.