Today’s tarot article is brought to you by tarot reader, teacher and counselor, Emma Sunerton-Burl. You can find Emma’s website here.
In this article, I will be journeying into a card from the Sacred Circle Tarot deck which was created by Anna Franklin and Paul Mason and Published by Llewellyn. To undertake the journey, I approached it with the intention that I would gain information about the card as a whole, as well as the personal message that it held for me. To help achieve this, I used the visualisation of light and a stairway to take me into the higher realms before walking into the card.
Journeying into a tarot card is a good technique to use to understand a deck better and to gain a personal working relationship with it. I am compiling my own journeys into the Sacred Circle into a book, using them to bring together meanings for each card and questions and affirmations that you can also ask yourselves. At the end of this article I have included the meanings I discovered for the specific card we are working with today, namely the Queen of Wands. When choosing which card to use, I elected to let the deck decide and picked a card that would be of most use to all those who would read this article — so hopefully something in this journey will speak to you.
I share my journey with you below.
I look at the card and see the sunrise shining over the landscape; it looks very pure and wholesome. The queen looks young and has a gentleness about her. It seems as if she stands guard over the realm.
I walk into the card.
“After the blackness comes the light and all becomes clear: There is a meaning to the world and the layout can be seen clearly. I am the goddess of the dawning of the day. I bring freshness and renewal. Come to me for renewal of yourself. I have energy and enthusiasm; I will help impart these qualities to you. My youthful spirit and look is not to be confused with naivety. I travel through the night time — the darkness of the soul — to show you it is possible and to give you the illumination that you need in your life.
“When darkness is experienced, then your world is viewed with new eyes in the dawn of a new day and you can begin again — afresh with experience and strength from what you have been though, facing your fears and your inner difficulties, trusting only to your inner senses to know the way to go. I am the guardian of inner knowledge too: I light the fires of passion and joy — you can only know the true you and experience your true passion for life after you have been through the shadow of yourself and reclaimed the wealth and gold you stored there with the hard difficult parts of yourself.”