{"id":44690,"date":"2011-08-28T13:41:17","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T17:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=44690"},"modified":"2011-08-28T13:41:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T17:41:17","slug":"the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-august-28-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/reading-tarot\/the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-august-28-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Tarot Reading — Sunday, August 28, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

Two things are calling for your attention, your energy, your commitment. One of them feels settled, apparently undemanding — offered up as it is to you — and immediate; the other involves risk, hard work, careful nurturing, with no guarantees. It is time to use your heart.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Knight of Pentacles, Three of Swords, Seven of Pentacles from the Rider-Waite Smith Tarot deck. Click on the image for a larger version.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This week’s reading is about what is manifesting in your physical world, and how you are reacting to that. In it, two Pentacles cards — the Knight and the Seven — sit either side of the Three of Swords, and instead of working with the cards in linear fashion, I feel compelled to start at the centre and move outwards to each flanking card, and then to move back from them to the centre. This is a process of moving away from intellectual analysis and into a place of intuitive enquiry; it isn’t the swords that I see as dominant in the Three of Swords, but the heart. <\/p>\n

Your heart is the heart in the middle, feeling torn by options that seem to put you in a state of conflict with yourself: the sword on the left (the Knight of Pentacles) crosses the sword on the right (the Seven of Pentacles), and both are met by the sword in the centre — you in the midst of it all. <\/p>\n

The Knight seems to be offering you something that simply requires you to reach out and accept it. Either that, or he is putting something on show for your perusal. It seems like a straightforward transaction, and it seems safe. But I am drawn to the armour of the Knight himself, and particularly the spur on the Knight’s heel. Why is he so heavily fortified? Does the offering come with a condition, or a price? More importantly for me: who does it really belong to? What is yours? What is someone else’s?<\/p>\n

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The Seven of Pentacles has come up a lot in recent tarot readings. What it tells me here is this: you have done so much; you have put in so much. It might not look like it, but something is beginning to bear fruit. What’s more: it has been done by your own sweat and toil. As you stand back to survey it, this is your work you can see growing before you. The figure is not nearly as richly attired as the Knight, and yet the ground is producing more than it does in the Knight of Pentacles. Indeed, fragile thought it may be, you have nurtured something to life through effort and dedication. What I notice as well is that the figure, too, has his own pentacle — one that is ready to be taken just like the one being offered by the Knight. But he doesn’t seem to be aware of it. Is he perhaps closer to the achievement, or attainment, of something than he is currently aware of? And what stops him from picking it up and taking it as his own?<\/p>\n

And back to the Three of Hearts at centre. Swords are thoughts, but it isn’t thought that is going to get you through this. It is the heart. Your<\/em> heart. This is an invitation to remove the influence of analytical thinking for a moment, if you can, so that you can access something that beats with its own vitality and wisdom. Once you do that, you will know which way your heart is asking you to go.
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Editor’s Note: If you want to experiment with tarot cards and don’t have any, we provide a free tarot spread generator using the Celtic Wings spread, which is based on the traditional Celtic Cross spread. This article explains how to use the spread. You can visit Sarah’s website here. –efc By Sarah Taylor Two things … 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\/44690"}],"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=44690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}