By Sarah Taylor
Sometimes, after drawing the cards for a Weekend Tarot Reading and before starting to write, I’ll enter a few keywords about the layout into the search engine box in WordPress. This doesn’t happen often; keywords tend to emerge from the form of the writing, once the article is completed, and not the other way around — usually necessitating some mild mental gymnastics to encapsulate the reading’s meaning in searchable terms.
This afternoon, though — the cards newly laid out in front of me — the keywords practically wrote themselves, they came out so quickly. No thinking required. So I’m going to do things a little differently, based on this: I’m going to list the keywords, and use them as the structure for today’s reading. They reflect the order in which the cards presented themselves, from left to right.
Keywords:
graduation, learning, rest, regrouping, meditation, preparation, divided allegiances, love triangle, pain, suffering, community, celebration, inclusion, integrity
This means that the reading has a linear quality to it, even though I write with the understanding that everything is brought together to inform how we are, and what we do, in the present moment.
Graduation, learning — Six of Wands
Something has been achieved — this is true no matter whether it is obvious, feels inconsequential, or our perceptions of what has been going on are muddied to the point where we feel unable to take a step back and see things with perspective. The Six of Wands represents a moment of graduation in life, where we have emerged from a time of learning into some light of recognition. The message here is that this recognition is deserved. We are not frauds; we might not feel like the applause is justified — but it is. In some arena, we have acquitted ourselves well. Perhaps it is time to recognise it in ourselves too.