{"id":48973,"date":"2011-11-20T13:36:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T18:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=48973"},"modified":"2011-11-27T08:42:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T13:42:13","slug":"the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-november-20-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/reading-tarot\/the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-november-20-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Tarot Reading — Sunday, November 20, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor’s Note:<\/strong>\u00a0If you want to experiment with tarot cards and don’t have any, we provide a free\u00a0tarot spread generator<\/a>\u00a0using 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

Last week, we had what felt like a powerful Weekend Tarot Reading<\/a> in the three cards that presented themselves to us, namely Strength, the Knight of Cups and The Tower. A week later, certain things seem to have crystallised in my sense of it, which I want to discuss briefly here.<\/p>\n

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Ace of Wands from the Camoin-Jodorowsky Tarot, a restored version of the Marseille Tarot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

First, the reading’s prevailing theme is about self-development and the bringing together of the opposites within us in relationship. When we start becoming conscious of aspects of ourselves that we had relegated to what Jung referred to as the shadow<\/em>, there are almost certainly going to be developments in our outer world that reflect this. We acknowledge something in us; it is integrated into our consciousness; our world changes.<\/p>\n

This change might be subtle and behind-the-scenes, it might come in a flash of lightning, or somewhere between the two. What is not in doubt, however, is that a structure or institution\u00a0— in their broadest sense — has outlived its usefulness and needs to fall away. Remember: The Tower is about outdated<\/em> structures and institutions. Something recognises this and is working on our behalf and opening our eyes to what is waiting to come in. (Have a look at a longer explanation of The Tower in an article I wrote in September last year: Death and The Tower: Good? Bad? Or valuable?<\/a>)<\/p>\n

In this reading, I wrote that I felt that it was about love — how we love ourselves, and how we love others. Self- and other-relating. However we choose to view it, all parties are released through the process: Two figures fall from the tower; no-one can be left behind. In the Xultun Tarot deck — which uses Mayan imagery and mythology — The Tower is called “The Released Man.” It might be constructive to bear that in mind if we feel the earth shaking around us.<\/p>\n

And so, I have decided to hold back on a tarot reading this week for two reasons that are interlinked: First, the temptation when we draw a supposedly ‘negative’ card (and I don’t see The Tower as negative) is to cancel or mitigate it with more cards — in this case, another reading. That might help us to feel better (read ‘safer’), but it won’t change the circumstances, nor does it keep us present among them. The second reason: A reading with two strongly archetypal major arcana cards enclosing a card about questing for love asks us to give it space to work its magic in our lives. We don’t start considering rebuilding anything until the dust has settled.<\/p>\n

And so, this week, if it feels right for you, I’m inviting you to revisit last week’s reading<\/a> and sit with it for a while. What, if anything, does it mean for you? And remember: If you need support, ask for it. Most important: You have everything you need already if you look inside — as Eric wrote a few days ago, it all starts from there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor’s Note:\u00a0If you want to experiment with tarot cards and don’t have any, we provide a free\u00a0tarot spread generator\u00a0using 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 Last week, we had what felt like 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\/48973"}],"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=48973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}