{"id":39267,"date":"2011-05-29T13:36:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T17:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=39267"},"modified":"2011-05-29T13:36:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T17:36:55","slug":"the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-may-29-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/reading-tarot\/the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-may-29-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Tarot Reading — Sunday, May 29, 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> explains 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 a period of challenge, a moment of grace opens the way to a greater sense of ease, support and nourishment.<\/em><\/p>\n

Where some three-card readings develop an idea or theme in a progression from left to right, this week’s reading starts with the two outside cards, and unites them in the card at the centre — The Star.<\/p>\n

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10 of Wands, The Star, 5 of Pentacles from the Rider-Waite Smith Tarot deck. Click on the image for a larger version.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Both outer cards deal with challenge. The Ten of Wands — also known as “oppression” — depicts a man labouring under the weight of his load of ten wands. Not only do they seem heavy, but unwieldy: it’s all he can do to keep them in his grip, while they fan out before him, blocking his view of what lies ahead of him. A demanding bunch of wands indeed. However, although he has his work cut out for him, there is the implicit presence of choice. He is choosing to carry them; no one is behind him, forcing or cajoling him. There must be something that he gains from this, a purpose to his actions.<\/p>\n

In the Five of Pentacles, a man and a woman pass underneath the stained glass window of a church. It is snowing, and the woman seems cold, pulling her threadbare shawl around her neck and shoulders. The man is on crutches, his lower right leg in bandages. Both seem absorbed in their respective plights, the man looking at us as if silently asking us to acknowledge his predicament or to offer assistance. In contrast to the Ten of Wands, there seems to be less choice afforded the figures in the Five of Pentacles, their situation more immediately precarious. They seem to have missed the option of seeking refuge and sustenance in the church behind them, focussed as they are on us and on the way ahead of them.<\/p>\n

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Be that as it may, the images are united by a stark sense of isolation, where the figures are left to bear the burdens of their conditions alone. Humanity seems out of reach.<\/p>\n

My eye is drawn to the brown-red of the man’s tunic in the Ten of Wands, and the blue of the man’s tunic and the brown-red of the woman’s shawl in the Five of Pentacles. I look at The Star, where these colours reappear as the urns that the figure of The Star carries in her hands, and the water that flows from them. The burdens of isolation and deprivation are transmuted in The Star in a moment of grace.<\/p>\n

This, to me, feels, if not the same, then related to the idea of Temperance that I wrote about last week. In this reading, the human condition is touched by and becomes part of the divine. We are both matter and spirit. We toil and struggle because that is what we feel we are called to do. We are thrown out into the cold, our wounds and ailments raw, our protection against the elements scant. We are unable to look up and see the support that is coming towards us (the town in the Ten of Wands); we don’t look around us and see the glowing window.<\/p>\n

And then The Star takes centre stage. The Star transcends humanity, and in so doing unites it. We move beyond our pain and suffering. We are administered a healing balm. We are brought back to ourselves, which opens the way to coming together with others. The town draws closer; the church throws open its doors. Our burden is relieved and our wounds are attended to — what is delivered from above is given to us on Earth.<\/p>\n

After a period of being so caught up in toils and trials that you have been able to see little else, this is the indication of the potential for something new. It might have been a rough ride, but I’d like to suggest that there is a metamorphosis here that wouldn’t have been possible if it weren’t for the experiences in the Ten of Wands and the Five of Pentacles. What seemed meaningless at the time might have brought you to this very point of transition. The next step is yours. Where are you going to go?<\/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 explains how to use the spread. You can\u00a0visit Sarah’s website here. –efc By\u00a0Sarah Taylor After a period of challenge, 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\/39267"}],"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=39267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}