{"id":36211,"date":"2011-03-27T10:50:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T15:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=36211"},"modified":"2011-03-27T10:50:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T15:50:37","slug":"the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-march-27-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/reading-tarot\/the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-march-27-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Tarot Reading — Sunday, March 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

After victory, there is a call to order and a reminder of where you stand in the greater scheme of things. It might help to keep this in mind when the potential for conflict — with yourself as much as others — arises.<\/em><\/p>\n

The cards are set on pointing something out to us right now. Three weeks ago, we had the Six of Wands in the central position<\/a>; two weeks ago, we had the Seven of Wands and The Empress in positions two and three respectively<\/a>; and last week, the Six of Wands was drawn in the third position<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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6 of Wands, The Empress, 7 of Wands from the Rider-Waite Smith Tarot deck. Click on the image for a larger version.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

First, let’s focus briefly on the idea of Wands generally. Something is in the process of being shaped here — forged in the creative fires. It wants to be brought forward. Wands are manifestation, visually expressed. This energy is mercurial at times. Unlike Pentacles, which, as representatives of the physical world, are solid in nature and slower to move and evolve, Wands — prefiguring even thought — are light and agile. Like the element fire that they represent, they are dynamic and constantly moving, but not so easily containable. They are mutable. To work effectively and efficiently with Wands energy requires care, attention and discipline.<\/p>\n

If we work on the theory (and it is only a theory, one of many) that the readings over the weeks are interlinked to the point where they are telling a story to us about ourselves, then it feels like we are revisiting and refining — perhaps redefining — a process of working with our own creative natures.<\/p>\n

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We pick up this week with the third card in last week’s reading — the Six of Wands — which feels to me like an indication that there has been some kind of achievement that should be celebrated… but that the work hasn’t yet stopped. The re-emergence of The Empress serves as a reminder that there are cycles over which we have little or no control. Just as every dog must have its day, every day demands its dog. In other words, creativity works both ways: beginnings are endings, endings are beginnings.<\/p>\n

When we partner with that creative fire known as the will, then we also, wittingly or unwittingly, partner with the experience that it can take us places that are not always easy to sit with. The Seven of Wands shows us that which is thrown up from beneath that we must then contend with. There is no other figure in the card: perhaps this is a battle that we fight alone. Perhaps it is a fight that we have with ourselves. Perhaps that ‘beneath’ is what rises from what had not been conscious until now.<\/p>\n

We have our cycles — the times that we feel that we are on top of the world, and the times when we feel that our world is bearing down upon us. But the indication is that the second experience is not independent of the first: they are interdependent. The Wands held aloft in the Six now rise to meet us in the Seven. The Empress knows this, sitting, as she does, as the intermediary and overseer. She sees that one follows the other as harvest does planting. There is a pattern here that is worth paying attention to, and maybe she is inviting us to do that, and to hold the tension as best we can. Keep it up. You’re doing a great job.<\/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 After victory, there is a … 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\/36211"}],"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=36211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}