By Sarah Taylor
From a period of being out in the cold and locked away from the light of connection and community, the picture has changed and a new set of circumstances have emerged or are in the process of emerging.
The Five of Pentacles speaks to the past. This is the card that describes that separation I referred to in the previous paragraph. It is the foundation, and it is worth looking at it and understanding it as it brings you into the present.
You could perhaps take a moment to feel what it has been like to embody the two people making their way through the snow. You could feel what it has been like to be ostracised — whether by others or self — to the point where it is hard to notice a place of warmth, support and union that remains unwavering despite outer circumstances. And those circumstances may have felt particularly unsupportive — hostile, even.
That is a resonance from the past; now to what is here.
The Eight of Swords is in the same position it was in two weeks ago, albeit the tarot decks have changed. The card describes a state of mind that renders the thinker seemingly powerless. Seemingly. But also compellingly. Swords may represent the mind, our thoughts and beliefs, but they lie at the basis of our tangible reality. We believe something, we tend to see the world through that filter, and then the world, in turn, reinforces that belief for us. Or in other words, we see what we choose to see, and ignore what we choose to ignore.