{"id":34973,"date":"2011-02-27T12:10:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T17:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=34973"},"modified":"2011-02-28T01:18:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T06:18:56","slug":"the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-feb-27-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/reading-tarot\/the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-feb-27-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Tarot Reading – Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor’s Note: If you want to experiment with tarot cards and don’t have any, we provide a free\u00a0tarot spread generator<\/a> using the Celtic Wings spread, which is based on the traditional Celtic Cross spread.\u00a0This article<\/a> tells you how to use the spread. You can\u00a0visit Sarah’s website here<\/a>. –efc<\/em><\/p>\n

By\u00a0Sarah Taylor<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

You’ve achieved a level of fulfillment. Now it’s time to step out of your comfort zone; careful as you go.<\/em><\/p>\n

This week’s reading is about a culmination of some form of activity, or of an aspect of life. The Tens in tarot embody that sense of culmination, and the Ten of Pentacles represents a material accomplishment — something that has been achieved in the physical world. It might not be monetary, although that is one of the more obvious interpretations. But whatever it is, it is noteworthy.<\/p>\n

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10 of Pentacles, The Fool, Knight of Wands from the Rider-Waite Smith Tarot deck. Click on the image for a larger version.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An elderly man, dressed in elaborate robes, sits with his back to us, his attention drawn to a white dog at his feet, which he is stroking tenderly. In front of him is an archway, and through it there is what I take to be either a young family — man, woman and child — or two women conversing, a child peeping around the skirts of the one who is facing us. The image is imbued with a sense of ease. The old man is free to devote his attention to more leisurely pursuits; the child is inquisitive and playful, grabbing the tail of a second dog that stands behind the first.<\/p>\n

There is a playing with perspective here. At first, the man seems quite separate from the group of three, with the archway between them. But when you look at the dogs — one of which is with the man, the other with the group — they are standing close together. In fact it seems as if the man’s hand, and the boy’s, are visually connected through the dogs, as if they are reaching out towards each other. There is a handing over of the reins, implied rather than explicit. A transition from something old to something, or someone, younger and as yet untested.<\/p>\n

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Look carefully at the first card. Just to the left of centre, it is apparent that the figure in orange and blue who is facing away from us is holding a staff. It seems to be decorative in nature here: there is no immediate use for it. The staff then appears in the next card — The Fool — as a means to hold the youth’s possessions. Finally, it has become a symbol of fiery energy and power in the Knight of Wands — libido in full flight.<\/p>\n

The dogs are interesting in their own right, too. In the Ten of Pentacles, they are mature, sedate — much like the seated patriarch. In The Fool, there is also a white dog, but this time it is animated, excited. It seems young. It has the carefree nature of its master, who is setting out into the unknown with little to call his own.<\/p>\n

For once that culmination has been reached in the Ten of Pentacles, it is time to step out again into a world that is unfamiliar; to embrace a sense of adventure, our ignorance a buffer between our enthusiasm and the obstacles and adversities that will test us and shape us. The Fool is not a figure to be derided. If we really knew what lay ahead of us on our path, how many of us would be bold enough to take the first step? The Fool, being The Fool, can, and he does; and so another leg of the journey through life is embarked upon.<\/p>\n

His dog, his sleeves, the mountaintops in the distance, the flower that he carries daintily in his left hand and the sun at his back are all white. There is purity here, not only of motive — he seems to have none but the desire to discover — but also of character. He is a tabula rasa<\/em>: a blank slate.<\/p>\n

But there is a hint of what he will become: the inside of his sleeves reflect the flames that lick off the Knight of Wands’ armour and helmet. Soon he will be ignited by the zeal that drives the Knight. He will discover passion; he will have a cause.<\/p>\n

Dogs have now given way to a horse. Faster, more powerful, built for purpose. There is a directedness that the man in retirement didn’t need, and The Fool wasn’t yet equipped to handle.<\/p>\n

The Knight is the worldly Fool. He is a particular evolution of spirit. This is a wholly different experience from the calm, secure, material aspects of the Ten of Pentacles. It is volatile, vibrant; its antithesis.<\/p>\n

This reading speaks of considerable change after a period of consolidation and completion — a reinvention of oneself, or of one’s circumstances. There is an unpredictability about it, but it won’t be boring. Is the Knight able to hold and channel his creative passions? That’s the point that we are brought to with this reading. Perhaps, like The Fool, it is the unknowing that we must hold now as we witness this new venture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor’s Note: If you want to experiment with tarot cards and don’t have any, we provide a free\u00a0tarot spread generator using the Celtic Wings spread, which is based on the traditional Celtic Cross spread.\u00a0This article tells you how to use the spread. You can\u00a0visit Sarah’s website here. –efc By\u00a0Sarah Taylor You’ve achieved a level of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}