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Update: Thank you everyone that showed up for the first entry of Tarot Tuesday! As far as I can tell, it was a success, I received 4 more queries than I expected to receive, that is I was expecting no one to come in the reading room. I learned much from reading your cards and I am grateful for putting your trust on what amounts more or less to a complete stranger. The results of the lessons I learned and guidance on how to approach a reading will be made into an essay before next Tarot Tuesday, the last week of the every month starting on Tuesdays. If anyone is interested on that, stay tuned!
This Tarot Tuesday is no longer accepting new questions, if you have a situation in which you would like to know what the Astral Light is up to bring it by the end of the month. Until then!
I've been studying and practicing the Tarot for about 2 years now and having cast a few spreads for friends who found it helpful I thought I might make a deal with anyone that happens to read this.
Here is the deal, I will repost this on the last Tuesday of every month and will try to answer your query before the end of the month. Post a comment below requesting for a reading within the week of posting, depending on the number of comments and the situation I can either offer a lengthy reading or a three card reading. What I request back from you is some feedback about your situation and in case of some outcome what I got right and what I got wrong.
So, if you have a situation where you want to know what the Astral Light is up to, be it personal, general or on a broader scale, or want to know what the week or month ahead has in store for you, why then, you know what to do. I would encourage you to post it publicly below, as for others to get an idea of what I have to offer, to encourage discussion and what divination is about in general but if your situation is delicate post a comment marked NOT FOR POSTING explaining your situation and I'll consider it on a case by case basis.
That said, divination is like weather forecasting not a tablet of truth handed down from above, so take the advice I give you through the cards as such. Any unfortunate situation you get yourself into is entirely the responsibility of the querent!
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Reading
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Date: 2021-02-25 03:36 am (UTC)Ok, I’m ready.
Re: Reading
Date: 2021-02-25 05:33 am (UTC)Here is the spread:
First, the meaning of the position of the cards: The one in the center is the issue or the situation; the one on the left is internal influences of which you are not aware; the one on the right is the external influences of which you are aware; the one on the bottom is what is needed for resolution and the one on top is the outcome.
Center: The Moon is one of the Major Arcana, their element is Spirit and usually have the force of the reading. The Moon reversed means either that something is waning and coming to an end and that there is difficulty processing disturbing emotions or depression. In conjunction with the other Major Arcana in the spread, The Wheel of Fortune, it might be that things have or are changing for you, maybe in a big way, perhaps a transition and this is bringing you tension. I don’t have a clear reading whether the situation is positive or negative, it might be because it is neither, maybe just a change in general but it is definitely an important one.
Left: The Seven of Swords, we can see in the picture a man trying to sneak away. Since this is the position of the internal influences of which you are not aware it means to me that you are aware somewhat of the issue —notice how the person is looking at that central card— but you are trying to sneak away from it instead of facing it fully, perhaps making excuses to not address the situation and taking tangents. You might find comfort in thinking that you are getting away with it but this will not bring a permanent solution.
Right: The Wheel of Fortune, you might have stumbled into a lucky current or some sort of ebb and flow that relates to the thing that is waning or that disturbs you, or it might be that it is this change itself that is causing it. The Wheel of Fortune is a favorable card, but its general meaning is change, as in the seasons and you are aware of this force of change, maybe it is something that you’ve seen coming for a while and now it is here, timely as something else wanes.
Bottom: The Six of Cups is a mixed card, bringing in more of the mixed feeling of the whole spread. In its traditional meaning it could mean nostalgia about the past, but I am getting a sense that it could be about accepting and receiving help in the same way that the girl is accepting the cup with a flower in it from the boy. The suit of Cups is correspondent with the element of Water which represent the emotions so it could be about accepting the help emotionally from someone you’ve known from a long time or looking back at what made you tick before, perhaps a dream or passion of yours from the past or childhood, but the general theme is openness and acceptance of this helping force.
Top: The Page of Pentacles has a general theme of study, this being the position of the outcome it could mean leading into readiness to enter a new beginning in the manner of a student caught in wonder and passion, as if everything else was tuning out but the object of your study. With the rest of the cards it could be that the change itself, if taken with the attitude of the previous card could be this, preparing yourself to get into something that you are passionate about, getting yourself ready for a new beginning just like a fresh students that goes to college to pursue its dreams, back when colleges where a place for the pursuit of ones wonder, perhaps this new beginning has roots in the past and this change could the force for it to bare fruit.
So overall I can see that the situation is very mixed regarding how it is perceived in terms of if it is a positive or a negative situation, which makes sense with what you mention about it being a situation that touches several areas of your life but if you figure out how are you unconsciously trying to look away, procrastinating perhaps, face the change squarely and accept the help that is offered to you be it from a person or something that might be related to your past, you can use the changing currents in your favor and embark on something with passion. What I find interesting about this is that for the most part I don’t see that you have to take action about the situation personally, you just have to understand it, study it and face it and integrate it. If you know how to fetch and setup your sails and where to direct your vessel the winds and currents of change will take you to new shores.
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Date: 2021-02-25 05:55 pm (UTC)The Moon - this one was dead on, am in the midst of some big changes indeed. If I'm not mistaken my Saturn return is just beginning. Was making a living as a musician in NYC before everything shut down and all the gigs disappeared. Have since been staying with family in another state nearby. Have decided I don't want to move back to the city ever (reading our friend Mr. Greer has not been a negligible influence on that decision), but also am grappling with feelings of maybe needing to leave my life as a musician behind. This is a difficult decision as it's been something I've been doing for a long time (my entire adult life, really), yet I can't seem to escape the feeing that it's time to let it go and return to some parts of myself that had been neglected in New York. Also, after having some amazing initial experiences in practical work I have recently started down the path to initiation in a magical order. More on that in a second.
7 Swords - I have been telling myself I can continue in my new direction while still keeping the musical engagements that I value most and just get some other side job, but this seems like perhaps I may be spreading myself too thin, and, as you have pointed out, this card would suggest it is merely an attempt to procrastinate the changes I can feel coming, and not, as you have also said, a permanent solution. If I'm not mistaken, the golden dawn called this card "lord of shortened force", which would be an apt addition to what's been said already: hard to walk forward with full force when you're looking behind you.
Fortune - not very sure quite yet what the coming positive change is that this indicates, except for the joining-the-order thing I mentioned earlier. I will say that everything you said about feeling a change coming and it being here now is right on the money, gigs are starting to come back and I'm starting now to need to make a real and final decision about what I'll be doing musically in the future. On the more positive side I think it speaks probably to a future with the order or with magic in general. Could also pertain to finding a new place to live, which I have been doing as I get ready to find a place of my own somewhere. as far as pertaining to "the thing that disturbs me", it also I think has to do with the resurfacing of lots of lost elements of myself that I had sort of buried or pushed aside in order to focus on being a musician - elements that recent magical practice has brought quite strongly back into my awareness. That, in and of itself, has been a beautiful thing but also has brought up some forgotten traumas from way back. Which sort of leads to the next card
Six of Cups - "looking back at what made you tick before" - this is really hitting. Much of that has just been reading, in particular esoteric/occult literature but also just using that part of my brain more in general. Also, when I was very very young I was super interested in alchemy and I have begun to remember asking my parents for books on magic and whatnot, and in my late teens I can remember becoming extremely interested in Dante, particularly the divine comedy (and have now come to find out about all the Rosicrucian symbology in that work). Something about the way you phrased that also reminded me of what I had mentioned up above about magic bringing forth all these old feelings and interests. As far as accepting help from a person, I will have to see what comes up about that, but in terms of accepting help from the forces of childhood interest and passion etc, this is speaking to me big time.
Page of pentacles - "perhaps this new beginning has roots in the past and this change could the force for it to bare fruit" - I think I've probably already said enough about recent recovered interests and orders for this to make sense. Been feeling also that perhaps one of the reasons my "happy medium" strategy won't work is that I have to let go fully of the past in order to receive what's just up ahead.
I find it interesting that it doesn't seem that I need to take action, at first this doesn't seem quite right but that could just be internal pressure to "fix" the situation instead of, as you say, study, understand and integrate it.
I really appreciate you taking the time, also I love this spread, never encountered it before. Thanks again!!
Re: Reading
Date: 2021-02-26 12:08 am (UTC)The first time I did one I was astonished too. As far as I can tell there is no difference except that I can’t have a conversation with the person live but through writing seems to work just fine and that way people can refer back to the reading interpretation. That can be helpful as some of the important points of a reading are sometimes unconscious behavior and thus easily ignored and forgotten. Now to the reading.
Regarding the 7 of Swords, though it is true that a focused will is key in achieving anything, to me this card and The Moon are not talking exactly about a specific venture but rather a stage in your life overall, somewhat like a season. Whether music has a place in this new season depends entirely up tp you, it might not take center stage anymore or maybe it those, the important thing is that you embrace the changing tides and accommodate your life accordingly. It might be true that the 7 of Swords is halfway here and there (see how he had to leave two swords behind and he is fumbling with the rest though thinks he has gotten away with it?) but the general theme is trickiness and in this case trying to run away from seeing and accepting that one of the seasons is getting over with though he clearly knows it as he is starring that way, you might be trying to take something that belongs to the time that has already passed (See how the tents are on the side of the Moon and the man is trying to get all that he can take from them?). Take those two interpretations into consideration, not letting go and as well not recognizing and not focusing on the waning season, what it means the most to you, perhaps both, is what matters.
Pertaining the Wheel of Fortune, again, don’t see it as something specific but rather that the force of change is now here, overall. The coming of Spring affects the whole landscape, not just a section. It is an overreaching change. The wheel is turning and it has an impact in your situation. It might very well be that your magical practices have started to force you to face your unresolved issues, that is what the beginning stages of magic usually look like.
The help from the past can come as well in different shapes, it is general as well perhaps it doesn’t involve a person at all but what you mention, the only specific thing that I see on the reading is the outcome, more on that below, the rest seem to have that general quality to it. What you mention about magic been an interest of the past makes a great deal of sense in the spread definitely pay attention to it and reconnect with it be it with the order or with your own studies.
One of the things I was not sure what it meant in the begging is that the Page of Pentacles is in particular a student of Magic per the pentagram on the coins that he holds and it also connects neatly with your previous interest in the occult so definitely make it a focus point on where this change is leading you.
When I said that no action is needed for this to resolve it doesn’t mean that you don’t have to do anything and remain idle, but rather it means that you don’t have to look for the winds that will carry you, the situation is already here, just setup the sails correctly and it will take you there. Action is needed, it is just that it is more of like and internal action rather than an external its more about organizing things and making them in sync rather than looking somewhere else, if that makes sense.
I really like this spread too! It puts in perspective yourself and the situation in a compact manner, something the Tarot is really good at.
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Date: 2021-02-26 07:13 pm (UTC)That would be great, I was going to ask if you’d be open to that. I’m sure you’ll be hearing from me again
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Date: 2021-03-04 01:20 am (UTC)Hello, Yes please and thank you
Date: 2021-02-25 02:47 pm (UTC)Re: Hello, Yes please and thank you
Date: 2021-02-25 06:51 pm (UTC)Let’s do an experiment shall we? My previous reading seemed to have worked fairly well so I want to do something on top, it should be fun.
I have found out, though I need to settle it by experimentation, that a remote reading works best if we add some basic visualization. Check the time and date (we will use this later). Sit down on a chair with you back comfortably erect, legs uncrossed and feet on the ground, palms down on your thighs, relax into position. Breathe deeply and steadily for a few minutes, with a slight but comfortable pause between each in-breath and out-breathe. When you’ve done this, pray to your patron deity to bless you and help you in this matter and then imagine before you a wooden door with the time and date written on it in golden lettering. This is your personal room for this reading. In your imagination visualize yourself standing up the chair, walking into this door and getting inside the room. It is a small cozy room, with a chandelier lit with candles on top and a round table at the center draped on a red cloth and a deck of cards on top of it waiting for you. Sit down on the wooden chair next to you and pick up the deck of cards. Focus intently into your query in a general non judgmental way with the intention of bringing clarity into the matter. With the situation still in your mind, shuffle the deck of cards —feel the cards in your hands as they shuffle— and do this until you think you’ve charged them enough and then cut it. Leave the the deck of cards on the table for me to pick up, stand from the chair, get outside the room and close the door behind you making sure that is it well closed, and walk back into your original chair where you physical body is and then visualize the door dissolving into mist. Take some minutes to breathe deeply and then open your eyes.
Respond to this comment with the time and date on the door when you did this exercise and I’ll respond back with my interpretation.
Re: Hello, Yes please and thank you
Date: 2021-02-25 08:27 pm (UTC)Ok, thank you for the visualisation. I have just left the cards for you on the table and closed the door. My time stamp is 25/02/2021 20:20 (Irish time, which is also UTC).
I look forward to hearing from you. And thank you very much! :)
I should add that you have correctly understood the general thrust of my question, although my prayer to my patron deity, Brigid, is that she use this reading to grant me guidance as to the direction of study best suited to the overall project of me being a help to her healing work. That is to say, I am open to being surprised by her pointing to a third option. :)
Re: Hello, Yes please and thank you
Date: 2021-02-25 11:03 pm (UTC)Re: Hello, Yes please and thank you
Date: 2021-02-26 06:26 pm (UTC)Re: Hello, Yes please and thank you
Date: 2021-02-27 07:16 am (UTC)—————— |——Choice A —— | ———————|——Choice B——|
—————— | Challenges of A—| Brigid’s advice | Challenges for B |
—————— |—Outcome of A — | ——————— |—Outcome of B—|
I will need a little help from you in here but from what I gather this is my interpretation:
Choice A : The Star is the first card after the Fool’s Crisis that has a positive outlook. It’s energy is of optimism and healing. For you this is what acupuncture represents, it brings you a great joy to heal just as it brings joy to the woman on the card of watering and nurturing the land. This is not something selfish for you, or just a business, to you this is about healing people.
Challenges and difficulties of A: The Fool, reversed, in this case has too much energy of jumping into things, lack of planning and organization or rushing ahead as well as loosing that motivation that seems to cary young men and woman in search for adventure. To me this card indicates that you will face challenges in this quest though not without reward, more on this bellow. You might find yourself having trouble finding the intense motivation that made you to want to start in the first place as if things are not turning out the way you thought they would just like a kid might loose enjoyment and enthusiasm too fast when he realizes that what he wanted to do takes a lot of work.
Outcome of A: Two of Cups, what I find beautiful about this card in your situation is the symbol of the caduceus, a symbol long associated with doctors and healing, signaling success in your endeavors as a healer despite the difficulties of the previous card. You have overcome the difficulties of a diminishing enthusiasm and stand as a much mature person. See how he wears the same clothes as The Fool but now stands with the pride of hard work accomplished? The woman in the card is Brigid and she is holding the caduceus with you, sharing your accomplishments as a partner. Your main intention being helping her with healing, that is exactly what you will get and as a result it is possible that you will strengthen your relationship with her. Also notice the reference from cups here that also is in the Star. Water is also the symbol of healing, notice how you are reaching for Brigid’s cup, symbol that you are drawing from her healing powers.
Choice B: Eight of Wands, what this card means in your situation is a little fuzzy to me, so tell me if what I say rings true or not as well as contributing with what is your own experience of this choice, after all, Tarot works best if we both do the interpretation. To me this seems to be that there is a lot of outside influence on what you would like to pursue in esotericism and even though you might have a choice of where to proceed this doesn’t seem to be coming from yourself, it is a strong influence however.
Challenges and difficulties of B:Six of Wands, here we can see a man in success holding a wand being cheered by the crowd, this being the position of challenges however it means that perhaps pride will be on your way, maybe the choice that you made makes you feel important, but given the outside influence of the previous card it is possible that this pride will be a result of the status that pursuing such a path might bring to you instead of the success of your own efforts.
Outcome of B: Five of Pentacles, here it seems to me that the outcome of putting your energies into pursuing the occult would be ignoring the people that you want to help because of the pursuit of esoteric studies. You are inside the church in the background, well lit and protected, possibly this meaning that you are making some good progress, however you are not focused because you are aware of the people that are outside on the picture. Perhaps this will also take your attention away from your clinic, as the people that might’ve been your patients couldn’t find you, this having a financial impact on yourself.
Brigid’s advice: Six of Cups, reversed seems to me that Brigid is trying to grab your attention towards the attitude of giving. See the young children in the picture one giving a cup with a flower to a little girl? Reversed in this case means to no ignore this. She is very succinct in this and all I get are the words “Don’t forget about sharing, don’t forget about what I’ve shown you”. I don’t know if that makes sense to you.
A few questions for you, in order to clarify some aspects of the reading. Is your relationship with Brigid related to this acupuncture or healing endeavor of yours?
Is your acupuncture clinic something recent?
Re: Hello, Yes please and thank you
Date: 2021-02-27 10:46 am (UTC)For background, I have been running my clinic since 2005, and this after a long life and career in other, mainly office administration work. I would say that a "call to healing" work has always been sounding in my ear from when I was a child, and I was always the one drawn to turn TOWARDS and not AWAY from things that disgust or dismay others - bleeding, pus-filled wounds, vomit, etc - to see what could be done for the person suffering on the other side.
In my youth (I am now 60 years old) I considered, but could not afford, to study midwifery or medicine, and made my way through a great deal of work until one year, when my children were young, and I seemed to be working away from home too many hours for our happiness, I once again received an idea that acupuncture was something I could do, that the study schedule could be arranged around work, and that it would give me a trade that I could attend to from home. So I took it up. In 2004, the last year of study, my husband and myself took out a top up to our mortgage so that we could all go travelling, with the core event being one month's clinical placement in Nanjing, in China. My children were 11 and 8 at that time, and it was an excellent experience, our time away from home lasting 4 months altogether. When I came back I launched straight into opening my clinic, and the practice grew very well until austerity cut in, around 2011. Then I had to return to paid office work so that we could pay our bills, although the clinic was always alive and I practiced in whatever off hours I had, whenever anyone needed me. I would not say my enthusiasm ever waned, but sometimes my focus and attention was needed elsewhere, especially in relation to the support of my family.
Last March I finally left this office job, and once again am exclusively practicing in my clinic. I would say there is a great deal of outside influence on me, through the pleaseant company I have found through JMG's blogs and his own teachings, which incline me to other esoteric studies, but, perhaps the guidance I am receiving here is, this is not for me, not yet. (The temptation of pride, and worse, the temptation to ignore the suffering of anyone who might benefit from my work, are ones that I prefer to avoid).
One thing that has been working very well, and this only in the past year, is that I have developed a wee altar in a corner of my clinic room, as a sort of "portal" through which to interact with Brigid's healing energy. I visualise her there in a way that is not dissimilar to the Star card above. I see her drawing down healing energy from a spiritual sun which I cannot see, because it is above the clouds (these are probably the planes which *I* CAN access), and she transfers the energy of this spiritual sun to the waters which run in a sheltered pool, fed by a waterfall, and flowing outward, including towards my clinic room, and granting blessings and healings to all who enter there. I have also developed a practice of a banishing SOP in this room, too. It is funny that many people comment on the pleasant "atmosphere" in the room, but only one, so far, has noticed the altar, and that person was happy to see it. So I think it can make itself known to who it will.
My own job, it seems, is to continue to learn everything that is suited to my own role, being the physical channel to the healing that flows from the higher planes.
In relation to the Brigid card, the lesson she teaches is that generosity is a powerful mover. In the stories of the saint, it is her generosity which gets her into trouble always - while her father is visiting a local chieftain to see what can be done to get her and her generous ways off his hands, she gives his best sword to a passing beggar! :)
But if there is no give, the wheel cannot turn, and everything becomes stagnant. So I think she is reminding me that while frugality is freedom, generosity is power. It is the power that moves everything from where it is to where it is most needed. And my job is to be a mover, and so remain open to the "movement" that brings help to where it is needed.
Thank you very much. I will go back to this reading over the next few days and meditate on it further.
Be well!
Re: Hello, Yes please and thank you
Date: 2021-02-28 05:43 am (UTC)You are most welcome and thanks for sharing your story! I was fascinated by this. One thing that I’ve found out by this few reading I’ve made is how rich my experience has been interacting with all of you and how fortunate I am for you to place your trust in someone that well, is basically a stranger. For that, my gratitude goes to all. This readings might be free but to me it is only fair for so much that I’ve learned!
A few comments on the reading. First of all, the way I casted the reading was exclusively for this year for both options since that is how you phrased the situation, whether you started your clinic and practice many years and didn’t affect your enthusiasm was not under this scope but rather, if you choose to go that route (the way I understood it was to plunge into some specialized technique, teaching or method regarding healing) or taking up an occult study program rigorously.
The reason why I asked if it was a recent venture was in order to gage how much of an impact it would have in choice B, but since it is something you’ve been doing for quite a while now my interpretation remains the same.
That said then, the reversed fool can be either unexpected trouble or difficulties for which you didn’t account at the beginning or finding out that the specialization you picked was not exactly what you thought it was or something like that. It is not clear exactly what it is but the theme of “an unexpected surprise” is the key so keep an eye on that one should you choose to go that route.
Regarding Brigid, that is lovely, I didn’t know anything about her but I am touched by what you say. Generosity is indeed a powerful mover (and missing from our world) and she is definitely reminding you about that. The feeling I get from that card was about not forgetting. “Don’t forget this” is what I get so generosity and your experience from childhood towards healing are to be kept in mind. What I find fascinating is that I try not to push too much the meaning of that card to be of something reminiscent from youth but by your account it seems to be that it really does carry that meaning per the previous divination I did which also ended up being that.
That said, because of the way I phrased the reading either choice would be your main focus of your energies for this year, it wouldn’t mean you can’t keep improving on your SoP on the side or start looking for your subject of study for when you decide to take it forward, just that it wouldn’t be your priority; and yes if you make occult studies your priority it seems to me that even though you would probably make progress it would take away much of your attention from your healings as it can be quite demanding. As well, the pride or perhaps something subtler but along the same vein would be an obstacle not the outcome nor some sort of megalomaniac pride. There is something regarding the first two cards of choice B that I can’t pin point yet. If you decide to take up on esoteric studies have you decided what it would be? Or if there are many, do you have a particular one you favor?
That said, definitely meditate on it, figure out what resonates with you of what I said. Even though it is only a few cards you can follow the thread quite deeply sometimes. When you’ve done that, we can zoom-in into the situation or the reading or if you need clarification on a point I can ask by taking a few more cards out using the one you want to know more about as an anchor.
Re: Hello, Yes please and thank you
Date: 2021-02-28 06:23 pm (UTC)I would be very interested in hearing if my answers to you spurred any further insights on your part.
But, regardless, I am very pleased with this reading, and it is very helpful. Thank you!
Re: Hello, Yes please and thank you
Date: 2021-02-28 07:34 pm (UTC)I forgot to unscreen my comment so you could only read it if you were logged in, in case you didn’t. In any case, I’ve unscreened it now.
Re: Hello, Yes please and thank you
Date: 2021-02-28 10:13 pm (UTC)I do think that I am happy to follow the main suggestion here, which is to keep the healing work, and Brigid's signature of generosity, at the core and heart of everything I do. It is reassuring, and also, although I keep company with her regularly at my altar, and can feel her presence there, I do not always receive very CLEAR communications, and this reading does feel like it has been that!
As to continuing to work with the SOP and my devotional practices, they are simply part of my clinic work "day", so this is obviously not a conflict with "A". And there are several paths of study which relate to clinical work - including deeper topics in acupuncture itself, also reviews through the medical literature on different topics that come up with my patients. I have been drawn to study some older medical and herbal lore from time to time, but always following a thread that comes from one of the people who has come to see me. Probably, as long as the thread of study ties to the clinic, it will continue to be part of the work. I do need to train me to BE the point of access for the transmission of Brigid's healing energy from higher planes to the etheric and material planes, and the tools that become familiar to me through study will be the ones that I can use. (Even though they are not the ONLY tools). It is true that my own energy can sometimes be very scattered and haphazard, so I can well believe there will be unforeseen and unplanned things that may arise. The final outcome card for A (2 of cups) will be at the forefront of my mind as reassurance, should I need this. :)
As to the "B" column, when I look at it, I see the two "outcome" cards, side by side, and I certainly do not ever want to end up on the other side of the stained glass window, from where the people outside would be lost to my view and reach! That is a very strong deterrent prospect to me!
The temptation is to follow a deeper path into magic and ceremony is hard to silence entirely if I continue to read JMG's blog - he is a good example of its value. Studies such as the Tarot itself (well done, you!), the Cabala, and other such subjects, which mean nothing to me at the moment, but which are discussed there very often, all call out to be explored. But I think it is good for me to accept this is not my path in this life. To accept this is to accept the limitation within which the healing work can be honed.
But, when you say there is something about the two wand cards that you don't perceive yet, I feel this too. I wonder if you can answer me this. The B column is heavy in "Wand" cards, while the A column + Brigid card stress the "cups" cards more so. Tell me what you can say of the general difference between these two suits - the Wands and the Cups? Maybe there is something important in this.
Re: Hello, Yes please and thank you
Date: 2021-03-01 07:23 am (UTC)As for Magic studies, well yes JMG is a huge catalyzer on that aspect and has influenced my own studies very much, he is a powerful force on this front. However, remember that this divination is just for the decision you had to take right now, the Astral Light is always moving, and deciding whether ceremonial magic would be something for you on this life would take much more than a single divination! So don’t despair and definitely don’t stop reading his blog if you enjoy it! After all, the outcome of Magic for you seems positive, to me it is just perhaps a matter of how to fit it in with your healing work which seems to be very important to you. After all the caduceus is also a symbol of magical powers, and something that stood out to me from the beginning too, somehow it felt not so much of a choice but as how to approach the seemingly opposite binary. Perhaps choice A, healing being your priority will take you into some sort of esotericism or magic linked with healing, the winged lion is after all a symbol of alchemy. Magic can always take a second seat to such a noble pursuit as healing is and still be a powerful force, remember the spread was for your main focus, not exclusive stances, as well as the many parallels between the two. And if you want it and it is your will to do it, then you’ll get it. Are you aware of the Dolmen Arch volumes by JMG? As far as I know it works with the SoP and there is a healing method in it. Perhaps it could be worth considering. When you’ve meditated on all this I’ll be happy to further explore the possibilities ;-)
Yes, water traditionally mean the emotions but in this case to me it means healing energy concerning the situation as water is healing by nature; wands are fire and mean action in this case the eight of wands for example is swift action or something that moves from its own accord (since there is no people). The fact that there is a clear tendency in both sides is important in showing the characteristic of each choice. A is ,well, very clearly determined by healing energies and B by a fiery nature. I’ll look a little bit more into it and see if I can get more out of that dichotomy.
All the best!
Re: Hello, Yes please and thank you
Date: 2021-03-01 01:17 pm (UTC)It is interesting that one of the things that I "tasted" recently, was a look into the traditional Galenic medicine of the four humours, and how they are expressed in astrology (another full time study to which I have not enough hours to devote). But I did find out that my own chart is extremely fiery, and "choleric", with a small touch of the "sanguine". And, what you have said about the reversed fool - which seems to be about energy scattered here and there to no particular gain DOES express an aspect of my own natural tendencies. :)
I have purchased, but not yet entered into, the Dolmen Arch. This, it seems to me, may fall under either A or B. I think I will hold off for a bit, and maybe revisit later.
I appreciate that you are offering this work. I will wait until I have another very clear question before "taking advantage" again... ;)
This has been a lovely reading!
Re: Hello, Yes please and thank you
Date: 2021-03-02 01:16 am (UTC)It is good that you’ve also felt spoken by the cards, after all it is not me doing the speaking, it’s the Cosmos. My job is to do some catalysis here and there from my experience with the cards and reading them but the end goal is always for the querent to feel that it is speaking to them also; all readings have a special signature from the querent the only the querent can perceive. I’ve found out that is much more effective and you don’t have to blind trust me of what I say, that is the reason why I post a picture of the spread.
Fascinating about Galenic medicine! It seems to me you have started to grasp the core of the reading. Feel free to come by next Tarot Tuesday, the last Tuesday of every month for another reading, be it about some sections of the same query or a new one.
With my best, as always
Augusto
Re: Hello, Yes please and thank you
Date: 2021-03-02 10:47 am (UTC)Also, yes, I appreciate the visuals. However you do that, it works well.
Be well this month!
Scotlyn
Re: Hello, Yes please and thank you
Date: 2021-03-03 10:14 pm (UTC)You be well too!
Augusto
Re: Hello, Yes please and thank you
Date: 2021-03-03 11:43 pm (UTC)But, actually, I meant the visuals... By which I mean, the way your reading was "shown" graphically as well as described in writing. For me, of course, the description was very necessary, but the visual sight of the cards on their red background, laid out in a pattern, allowed the cards themselves to speak to me, too.
Re: Hello, Yes please and thank you
Date: 2021-03-04 12:23 am (UTC)Sometime in the far future my hosting space will run out (I've been using dreamwidth for 2 years and still have 94% available) and I will start clearing the older images so if you want to keep it for future references, perhaps to look back at it, I suggest you download a copy :-)
Re: Hello, Yes please and thank you
Date: 2021-03-04 10:01 am (UTC)Reading request
Date: 2021-02-25 09:38 pm (UTC)I'd like a single card reading, ill or well dignified. The question is "What is the outcome if I do the thing I am thinking of doing in the S/T period I've got in mind?"
Thanks!
Re: Reading request
Date: 2021-02-25 11:19 pm (UTC)That one is easily done though with a single card I can only be vague.
This is the card I got for you query:
Outcome : The Knight of Pentacles, Reversed . This card in its reversed position can mean idleness and stagnation, lack of creativity and being too shy and timid, perhaps negligence. The Knight of Pentacles usually means waiting and being wise and tempered about a situation but reversed it means too much of this energy. I think if you do what you are thinking of doing you will find yourself in a position like this. Perhaps some introspection about what is your part in this situation for it to be a just outcome is needed as well as some extra oomph. ( I like that word )
Re: Reading request
Date: 2021-02-26 03:51 am (UTC)Re: Reading request
Date: 2021-02-26 05:50 am (UTC)