Deep Reads: Emergence

Something new wants to rise—but emergence is not eruption. It is slow, patient, sometimes painful. This card speaks to the moment between inner knowing and outer form.

“The name that can be named is not the eternal name.” Lao Tzu says in the Tao Te Ching. It is the Tao itself he is speaking of, of course. The breath held at the edge. That from which emerges the ten thousand things.

In Between Worlds, Emergence exists without name or placement on the included map. It is instead the center itself—represented by the skele…