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 tells you how to use the spread. You can visit Sarah’s website here. –efc
By Sarah Taylor
This weekend’s reading feels like a significant, if not major, initiation into something, and the caution of what can happen when that initiation is squandered through misuse or abuse.
Wow! Two Aces. What a pairing. An Ace symbolises an offering that is the epitome of the quality of its suit; a gift that, when used effectively, has the power to embody that quality in its purest form. Two Aces is not simply a two-fold offering: it can be substantially more than, because the potential of both Aces can play off each other, creating ‘alchemical reactions’ that they would not be able to do in isolation.
The Ace of Swords is about initiation into the power of thought. It is an idea, a plan, a moment of cutting insight and clarity. It is divinely inspired, coming as it does from a higher organising principle. (In the Aces, the symbol of each suit is presented to us, held in the palm of a disembodied hand coming out of a cloud. The hand, in its most literal sense, is the hand of God. It is the creator’s gift to its creation.) I wrote this about the Ace of Swords in an earlier article:
There is the intimation that truth is reached alone, and that it can often rise up from those parts of us that are not altogether knowable. It can be harsh medicine that asks to be treated with the utmost respect (yew), or it can heal (kelp, for instance). Either way, when wielded in service to a higher authority (the crown), its inspiration is empowering and liberating.