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By Sarah Taylor
Having visited your inner underworld, where you came face-to-face with an aspect of yourself that you were previously unable, or unwilling, to see, you emerge into the light of consciousness, worthy of recognition. Now you bring that experience on a journey that is emotional in nature, which calls you to assume authority over an aspect of your feelings. You have both the support and the tools to achieve this.
Looking at the cards today, there is little doubt in my mind that this reading is connected to the Weekend Tarot Reading last Sunday. Last weekend, we had The Lovers, The Devil and the Page of Cups; this weekend, we have the Six of Wands, The Lovers and the King of Cups.
My first reaction is that the Page of Cups from the reading on June 19 has matured, and that, to me, points to some form of integration of The Lovers and The Devil. To elucidate: I believe that the whole point of the tarot is that we embody all of the archetypes that the cards describe — it is just that some become more apparent than others at certain times in our lives, and at certain points along our journey, while others hold back or remain hidden.
To this end, The Devil is not a card to be avoided, but rather to be acknowledged and experienced as a part of oneself as much as anything else in the tarot deck. It is how we choose to experience it that is key to whether we can roll with the changes and maintain a balance, or shoot off on a trajectory that takes us to an extreme. We can either invite it in as a part of us, or we can deny and repress it — in which case it will express itself in ways that might take us by surprise and which run at odds with how we want, or tend, to see ourselves.