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By Sarah Taylor
Love is asking us to work with it — this is this week’s message, clear and simple as it is. It is offered to us, so that we can align with it and bring it into this world, with the understanding that everything has its season, but that true love is unchanging and limitless.
The first thing that I feel when looking at this reading is that it is a very feminine spread. It also feels important to keep in mind from the outset that the idea of feminine is something that everyone holds within them, no matter their gender. There is nothing exclusive about this reading. On the contrary, it is inclusive, expansive, expressive.
The first card we come to, moving from left to right, is The Empress. She is the counterpart to The Emperor — the yin to his yang, if you will — who consorts with him to create balance. Whereas the world of The Emperor is the world of action, battle and single-mindedness, the world that The Empress inhabits is one of receptivity, and it is cyclical. The Empress understands that the rules of engagement that we have with the world and with each other can only carry us so far, and that there comes a time when we learn that letting go and moving with a greater understanding of the underlying rhythm of life can open us up to mysteries far beyond what we know with our five senses.