Editor’s Note: If you want to experiment with tarot cards and don’t have any, we provide a free tarot spread generator using the Celtic Wings spread, which is based on the traditional Celtic Cross spread. This article explains how to use the spread. You can visit Sarah’s website here. –efc
By Sarah Taylor
There is something that is asking for your attention that is rising up from beneath; there is resistance to meeting with it, and yet it has the potential to create a powerful sense of inner and outer harmony. There is nothing to fear here — apart from the unknown, that is — and most of us know what a formidable opponent the unknown can seem to be. But is the unknown what it seems? Is it ever exactly like what it seems, when we are on the outside, trying to look in?
In the first card, we have The Moon — cast in shadow, where we are invited to move deeper to hear those whisperings of the soul that I referred to in the mid-week article. The Moon speaks to us of a time when sharpness of eye and intellect are of little use to us. When it is dark around us save for the milky glow of Luna, relying solely on our vision to navigate can limit us significantly. Rather, we can employ the other senses at our disposal. We can smell, taste, feel and hear our way to a better understanding of the landscape we are navigating — using them inwardly as well as outwardly. We become alert to the as-yet-undiscovered. Most importantly, we can use our intuition, which is the language of the soul. Here, in the light of The Moon, intuition can be a phenomenally effective mode of navigation.
Intuition helps us meet those things that we find difficult to name. Like the crustacean crawling out of the water, they rise from a place that lies on the outer edges of our everyday lives. They are ancient, they bypass our intellect, they seem to want to communicate to us differently. In fact, when we apply intellect, a by-product of our analysis is often fear. And so we can react by trying to push what is surfacing back down whence it came.