Your Kite

What is your kite? Do you know what it looks like and how it feels to fly one?

“I have never tried this sort of… fortune-telling.” She said, apprehensively. When I almost forced her to help with my training by joining a trial session.
I told her to shuffle the Mana Cards, while thinking of her question in mind.


Two cards came out.

One was #10, La’amaomao, the goddess of wind, who looks as if she is about to fly far far away with the kite in the blue sky.
Another was was #11. Ka Wai A Ka Pililiko. Alii, the wisdom lady, is looking into the clear lake water.

Her question was “I feel overwhelmed with things I have to do in my lifetime. I need to clear up the houses, which are clattered with objects left from my mother and other family members. I know I have to do it, but I can’t bring myself to it. and I feel bad each time. How shall I deal with my nagging feeling?”

The answer from the cards, as I read it: this calm lake water, despite the turbulent water around it, reflects your thoughts and emotions well. If you look deep into it, you know what your answer is. The goddess of wind is now finally ready to fly her kite, without worrying about how the wind blows. It’s your time to focus on what you like to do, and not others. You’ve taken care of your mother, sister and father for so long. It’s your time to embrace your wish and let it fly high.

“Ah, it clicked me.” She said. “I’ve always had cars with low seatings, so the passenger has little difficulty getting in. It was necessary to drive my mother to a hospital, etc. But with the latest car I bought, Toyota Yaris Cross, the seats are so high that we have to climb. But that’s the car I bought for myself, for the first time. I asked myself if I needed a new car at the age of 80, but I did. To me this kite is my car.”

She allowed herself to go for what she wanted; she was finally at the stage of life where she could be selfish for the first time. She looks damn good in that brand-new Toyota, too.



This got me thinking… What is my kite?

It happened when I was tapping into Hawaiian wisdom in 2024, at the Mana Card Readers advanced course hosted by Tomoko Arai. The translator of the book “MANA CARDS: The Power of Hawaiian Wisdom” navigated me into the deep world of Hawaiian wisdom and Mana cards.

Each beautiful card depicts Hawaiian history, mythology, handicrafts and life. Learning about these motifs is precisely about getting in touch with the Hawaiian native wisdom, which is about living in harmony with the nature, surroundings and self. It did not feel too far away from the Japanese wisdom I’ve been exploring in past years, at all.

I kept records of words of wisdom which randomly dropped during the sessions. Hope you enjoy them too!

Me: “Shall I read this card as in the present, or something to expect in future?”
Tomoko: “Well… we’re made to think time exists, but not really.”

Me: “It’s hard to offer kindness or to even express compassion, when I’m not sure it’ll be appreciated by the receiver.”
Tomoko: “To express love is the joy of life!”

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Tomoko Arai

Using Mana cards as a tool, I was able to touch on some powerful, inspirational life stories of many, like the one I just shared.

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