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By Sarah Taylor
Change is here — in fact, it is taking place already. It might feel like something that grounded you to what was life as you understood it to be is now being stripped away, which itself is a form of death. But look up, and look around: something new has come in. Something that takes you closer to your true nature. You have the opportunity to integrate this, balance it, and express it through you; and in so doing, you change the world.
If you have been following the tarot readings over the past few weekends, you might be unsurprised to see The Lovers making its third appearance in three weeks. If this isn’t a sign of looking into the mirror and working with powers available to you to integrate something within, then I don’t know what is.
What this reading also focuses on is balance, which goes hand-in-hand with conscious integration. Balance is implied in The Lovers, but it comes into its own in Temperance, the third card in the reading. And this emphasis on balance — a sense of a gaze towards the other that is both deep, measured and steady — feels entirely appropriate given that we are being led towards the mirror and the invitation to look into it is by Death — herald of change that is often penetrative, and invariably unavoidable.
Like few other cards, Death has the ability to send shivers up the spine. It rarely suggests physical death — but I’m not sure that it is fear of physical death that really lies at the heart of the emotion this card brings up in so many of us. I am coming to see that often our bodies and our minds cannot distinguish emotionally between physical death and the experience of death that we feel when a part of us or our experience falls away because it no longer serves us.