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An invitation: light a candle — for them, for you, for nothing you can name. Flame has carried what words can't for ten thousand years.
The back of The candle — with the code that opens this room
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GROUND · VIII

Lesson 8 of LII · the GROUND course
The idea behind this card — The candle

An invitation: light a candle — for them, for you, for nothing you can name. Flame has carried what words can't for ten thousand years.

GROUND — The sacred ordinary — the body and the day as holy ground

…people sat with this card this month
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The practice

light one tonight, on purpose. Sit with it for one full minute before you do anything else. You don't have to say anything. The candle is already saying it.

Where this idea comes from

  • Votive and memorial flame practices across traditions

More in this deck

FEEL · VIII  ·  REMEMBER · VIII  ·  TEND · VIII

This room doesn't expire. Come back for whatever is coming up — tonight, the anniversary, years from now.

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