{"id":52990,"date":"2012-02-12T14:51:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T19:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=52990"},"modified":"2012-02-16T11:45:04","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T16:45:04","slug":"the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-february-12-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/reading-tarot\/the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-february-12-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Tarot Reading — Sunday, February 12, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Sarah Taylor<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

With a terrible fixing, Inanna is nailed down. The potential of her ‘myriad offices’ and capacities is grounded; and this actualization seems to be part of what fertilizes a new spirit within her, just as limitation can evoke creativity.<\/em><\/p>\n

— <\/em>Sylvia Brinton Perera, Descent to the Goddess<\/em><\/p>\n

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

I had a strange feeling of wanting, and not wanting, to do a reading today, and had to spend a little time unpicking that before it became clear — it is often the case that insight takes a while to catch up with intuition. The realisation that presented itself is this:<\/p>\n

For those who found last weekend’s reading<\/a> meaningful, the cards seem to be asking for us to hold them in consciousness a while longer; they are needing room in which to work. Two major arcana cards (The High Priestess and The Hermit) surrounding a minor arcana card that can provoke a lot of feeling (Three of Swords) has the ability to unearth quite a bit that requires processing if it is to be integrated in a way that feels meaningful. That is the part that was calling for me to give it space, to give it time. So be it.<\/p>\n

However, having got that part of the message, there still felt like a need for a new reading today. So where does this leave us? Here’s the thing: Weekly readings tend not to be as boundaried as we might think that they are. Like the Daily Astrology reports, which flow into each other, the Weekend Tarot Readings often have an influence that lasts longer than a week. It’s just that a new idea takes over as the one in the spotlight with the arrival of a new reading.<\/p>\n

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This week seems to be subtly different. This isn’t an overlapping of readings and a changing of the guard of influences as much as two parallel ideas that are playing out in two separate areas of our lives. They might intersect at some point; they might continue to feel discrete. However, they are working together in the same way that we work when we are preparing a meal — two pots on the stove, and while the one has been our focus and is now on the back-burner while we tend to the other one, both are still very much on the boil.<\/p>\n

And so on to this week’s reading, which feels to be about work of some kind — however we choose to define that, and I would go as broad as you feel is right for you. This is about something going on in the physical world, whatever it is. It is palpable, and something you can actively work with, rather than simply feeling into it.<\/p>\n

The Three of Pentacles is the card of apprenticeship. There is an acknowledgement here that there is a situation where someone may not have all the skills they need, but there is a definite working towards mastery of some kind. We have the ability to draw on resources, ideas and direction from something or someone that can help us to hone our craft. This support is two-fold: both practical and spiritual, seen in the figures of the architect and the monk. We have mentors here in our physical worlds, and support in our connection to something larger than us. Both are working together to assist us in becoming what it is that we have the potential to be.<\/p>\n

What becomes available to us is the potential of the Ace of Pentacles. Remember: The Ace is non-incarnate. It represents the purest notion of its suit, unbounded and not subject to the restrictions of our worldly lives. That potential is coming from our preparedness to be apprentices. When we acknowledge our limitations in a particular field, but step up to the task of working with those who are both more experienced and whom we can learn from, it opens us up to the energy of the Ace of Pentacles. Our desire to be enthusiastic and attentive students expands the idea of what is possible. The Ace is a gift, given freely. What we have to do is to work towards finding the doorway, opening it — through our application — and then harnessing it in the way that we have been equipped to do so. It is a powerful card. It won’t be easy to miss when it presents itself to us. The hard work is in aligning ourselves with it so that we can make as much use of it as we can. The Three of Pentacles is that act of alignment.<\/p>\n

What comes from this is the idea of liberation in the form of the Ten of Swords — and yes, I do mean liberation. Often it is hard to see this idea when confronted with the visual of a figure being impaled by ten blades, but it is there, and it feels like the primary force of the card in this reading. This is the dark night before the clearing of the skies, where we can feel utterly helpless and pinned down by circumstances that make movement almost impossible. Almost<\/em>, but not quite. And it is in that almost<\/em> that we find our liberation.<\/p>\n

We needed to be held down, for a reason that will be specific to our circumstances. It might be that a feeling of being blocked kept us there, that we were not worthy, not up to the task, not clear about what it was that we wanted or what options were open to us. It might be that our unconscious held us there, asking for surrender while forces worked behind the scenes to bring something into awareness. It might be that external factors brought us low, demanded a time of self-sacrifice, made us wait, frustrated and agonized, as the night deepened around us.<\/p>\n

Not any more. The yellow of the Ace of Pentacles shows up in the clearing sky towards which the figure is facing. And, in spite of it all, there is a part of the figure — whether he is aware of it or not — that is remarkably zen about it all. That is the part that knows to look to the clearing sky. There is opportunity ahead. There was a reason for all of this. Surrender left us with little choice apart from the choice to fight it (which only causes the swords to sting more deeply) or to let go and wait.<\/p>\n

The Ace of Pentacles heralds the dawning of a new day. Sometimes the work that we put into something requires waiting periods and times of downright frustration and pain that can feel interminable. Then we get the go-ahead to move. And then we can get up, humbled, wiser for the experience, and carry on with something new under our belts and available to us. Move steadily and gently when this happens — the wounds are still fresh. But don’t believe that you are still being held down. You have much more freedom than you might think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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