By Sarah Taylor
The Ace of Wands, Ace of Swords, Ace of Pentacles. Three of the Ace cards, in order of their appearance in manifest reality, from left to right. An evolution; a choice to use them, or not to use them. But they are being offered to us, as a gift. They are there for the taking, if we choose to take them.
Everything, and nothing. It is up to us.
When I drew these three cards for today’s reading, I drew them in this order: centre, left, then right. The Ace of Swords is the fulcrum — the focal point, in a reading where there is a tremendous amount of potential from which to choose.
The Ace of Swords, as the pure potential of air — thought — is asking us to exercise discernment and insight over our focus: it asks us to be wise in how we ask for the energies of each card to be manifested in our lives, how we choose to work with them.
Most important, what we choose, knowing that our relationship with them is never a one-way street.
The Aces, by sheer virtue of their presence, are being activated in our lives; and they work through us too. How do we want to offer ourselves up to what they have to give us? How will we open to their gifts, knowing that they are ours to ask for, and, once we do, that they will partner with us in ways that will be both conscious and unconscious? We have a considerable degree of power over our intentions to harness their energy, but when we do so, we are also creating space for the unexpected — to what we cannot see, to the wisdom of divine intervention, to the opening of ourselves to the magic of the cosmos.