Turtle
Coming back to where you were born, magnetic homing, carrying your shelter with you
- Card
- 10 of 52
- Suit
- Water
- Station
- completion
- Kingdom
- Reptile
- Tradition
- Native American, Asian
In Nature
Sea turtles imprint on the magnetic signature of their birth beach and return there to lay eggs decades later, navigating thousands of kilometres of open ocean by Earth's magnetic field.
The Medicine
The sea turtle hatches on one small beach, vanishes into the open ocean, and thirty years later returns to that exact strip of sand to lay her eggs — navigating thousands of kilometres by a magnetic map she recorded as a newborn. All the while she carries her home on her back. You are never as far from your origin as you think. The coordinates are written in your body. Something ancient is calling you back to the place where your life began, to lay down what you have been carrying all these years. Answer it.
The Number
As card 10, completion, the Turtle carries magnetic homing, the shelter you carry.
Shadow
Retreating into the shell as the only strategy, mistaking the map for the journey.
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