{"id":37716,"date":"2011-05-01T12:24:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T17:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=37716"},"modified":"2011-05-02T13:12:47","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T18:12:47","slug":"the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-may-1-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-may-1-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Tarot Reading — Sunday, May 1, 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

The light shines on to something previously hidden; change is effected; decisions appear on the horizon.<\/em><\/p>\n

But of course<\/em> we would have The Sun after it featured in this week’s tarot article<\/a>! Its rays are still reaching across the days and illuminating this weekend’s tarot reading. How beautifully apt.<\/p>\n

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

This is change — change after the light has been shed on something, after it has emerged from the shadows into clarity, finally identified if not yet fully understood.<\/p>\n

As the article on The Sun and its accompanying comments suggested, The Sun is never anything but a positive card. If we don’t fully identify with it when it is drawn for us in a reading, it is because we have in some way blinded ourselves to its influence in our lives. We might be looking the other way, willing some other source to bring us light when it is so obviously shining on us from another angle. We might have chosen, consciously or not, to block it from our awareness. It is, nevertheless, there, inviting us to come to it as the child on the back of the horse welcomes us into the picture with open arms.<\/p>\n

We might even be the horse itself: head bowed, monochrome, perhaps so preoccupied or introspective that we cannot see that the very thing that offers us light and colour — the full spectrum — is, literally, right on top of us. That, I feel, is a message to bear in mind strongly over the next few days. Where do we have immediate access to joy, so astonishingly close and yet we choose not to take it up on its offer to us? The Sun, to me, feels like a visual form of extroversion — the answer lying outside of us, or at least outside of the inner circles that we tend to travel in. “Look around you! Look around! Just what is it that you’re not seeing<\/em>?”, is its exhortation to us.<\/p>\n

And there may be good reason for us not to see if we look to the next card. The Six of Swords is about a shift — not always geographical, but a change in geography comes up often enough for it to be closely associated with the card. If illumination leads to a shift and transition, then perhaps there is a part of us that is invested in blocking out the light. After all, even if we tend to say to ourselves that we’re up for adventure in all of its forms, it is usually adventure on our own terms. We like controllable adventure.<\/p>\n

Consequently, change, when it comes knocking, doesn’t always wear the guise of ‘adventure’. Often it heralds a blurring or outright dismantling of the lines of our comfort zone that can feel like too much to take in and too much to hold. If we turn towards the light of The Sun, might we not become blinded by it? Might we not have to give up a story about ourselves that we have held for so long because at least it gave us some<\/em> structure to a life that, without it, might feel like it was falling apart? The thing is, the disintegration that we fear is actually forward motion, evidenced by the vessel in the Six of Swords moving from left to right. It is also the movement from choppy waters into calm — even if the destination is as yet unclear. There are unresolved emotions, certainly, but I feel that the message here is to be patient, to give the situation, and ourselves, time. The journey is slow and it isn’t over yet, but it is steady.<\/p>\n

The Seven of Swords is interesting here. In previous discussions, I’ve tended away from the self-serving interpretation of the card and all the judgments that can be attached to that, and towards the notion of ‘self-interest’. It is an interpretation that I’m holding to today.<\/p>\n

In the image, a man is tip-toeing away from a tournament with five swords in his arms, leaving the other two by the roadside. Why is he doing this? Why does he not take all of the swords? Why are the swords there in the first place? Most importantly, what feelings does the card bring up in us?<\/p>\n

“Self-interest” is a charged term — a bit of a moral hotspot. I think that will be apparent in many of our emotional reactions to the Seven of Swords. Most of us are brought up to distinguish right from wrong, good from bad. But what happens when the reality is less than clear-cut? What happens if it is in our own<\/em> best interests to choose a certain course of action? Taken a step further: What if being self-interested is doing the best we can with the resources we have at our disposal? What if acting ‘selfishly’ is separated from its consequences? Because who really knows what the consequences are going to be?<\/p>\n

Self-denial is self-destruction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This quote by Neale Donald Walsch from the “Conversations with God” series comes to mind here. It is provocative — as is the Seven of Swords — but it is food for thought. When the light shines and transition is in the offing, the risk is that we move into uncharted territory… and the gift is that we move into uncharted territory. Seen through this lens, everything is up for interpretation, nothing need go unquestioned. This extends to how we act in any given situation. If we carry the light of The Sun with us, and take it to heart, however, we can no longer explain our behaviour away as an unconscious act. As much as the Seven of Swords is ambiguous, our awareness around it need not be.<\/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 The light shines on to … 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":[1,183],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37716"}],"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=37716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}