{"id":59044,"date":"2012-07-08T14:15:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T18:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=59044"},"modified":"2012-07-08T14:35:20","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T18:35:20","slug":"the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-july-8-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/reading-tarot\/the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-july-8-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Tarot Reading — Sunday, July 8, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

For a couple of weeks now, I have had the Thoth Tarot gently but insistently calling my name. I thought that, given I have been doing a weekly reading with the Rider-Waite Smith deck for near-on two years, it might be time to try something different and see what comes of it.<\/p>\n

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Knight of Disks, The Fool, Knight of Swords from the Thoth Tarot deck. The Knights in the Thoth are the equivalent of the Kings in the Rider-Waite Smith deck. Click on the image for a larger version.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today’s three cards speak of a balancing of two approaches — or, perhaps, a choice between two different people, situations or qualities — as represented by the Knight of Disks and the Knight of Swords.<\/p>\n

In the Thoth Tarot, the Knights are the equivalent of the Rider-Waite Smith’s Kings. They are the masculine rulers of the court, counterparts to the Queens who embody the feminine. While Aces represent the limitless potential of the qualities of their suit, this limitlessness is not possible in the physical world, which is subject to the ebb and flow of constant change, and where the dual nature of existence prevents something from existing in pure form for any significant length of time: life is a series of cycles where nothing stands still and everything strives for balance.<\/p>\n

Both the Kings and the Queens hold the highest potential that we can be as people; their positive qualities are what we exhibit when we are willing to become fully ourselves, accepting responsibility for our lives, understanding that we are unique and have a right to express ourselves as such, and yet also understanding that we are connected with everyone and everything else. Everything we feel, think, say, and do has both seen and unseen consequences. The shadow aspects of the court cards come into play when we resist the call to step into our lives as adults. When this happens, what we have learned along the way can become tools for (self-)deception, manipulation and control — which is just another way of saying that we choose power over wisdom.<\/p>\n

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In this reading, the Knights of Disks and Swords flank The Fool in the centre. There is a sense of moving from the safety of a known routine or a familiar situation and stepping into the unknown. The Fool is what we are when we embark on something, but with little or no cognizance of the journey or the outcome. It requires taking a risk, and it is only by drawing on the childlike wonder and care-freeness of The Fool that we are able to do this — to step out into a new environment and start putting one foot in front of the other. And yet there are resources that The Fool can draw from. He might be inexperienced in the ways of this particular brave new world, but he is not without equipment: what the Knights bring to the reading.<\/p>\n

The Knight of Disks, when in his light aspect, is solid, stable and grounded — earthy too, which prevents him from becoming a stick-in-the-mud. Beneath the air of repose, he exudes a sensuality that radiates off his shield like the rays of the Sun. The Knight of Disks rules the physical world. In this way, he is a master manifestor, able to put into action things that might otherwise remain passing impulses, feelings, thoughts.<\/p>\n

The Knight of Swords is an ideas man. His rapier-like thought processes make him airy; his is a realm of flight, of swift changes of direction, of Mercurial energy. If the Knight of Disks is a master manifestor, the Knight of Swords is a master intellect. And yet, when in his light aspect, this skill is exercised with diligence: no-one is side-swiped unjustifiably by his sword of reasoning.<\/p>\n

Together, the Knights form what I would see as a formidable partnership: the physical and the mental. One possible interpretation of their presence together in this reading is that we cannot rely on theory alone; ideas need to be translated into action. When we step out onto the road of the Fool’s Journey, we can benefit from this partnership in myriad ways. Take Professor Higgs, for example. He theorised with others the existence of the Higgs boson<\/a> — a ‘boson’ being a type of sub-atomic particle named after physicist Satyendra Nath Bose, and the Higgs boson being the ‘God Particle’ that can potentially explain the content of dark matter. It took them nearly 50 years to derive tangible results from that theory, but this week saw the announcement that the Higgs boson has been found at the CERN laboratory. A Fool’s Journey incorporating the practical application of an idea if ever there were one.<\/p>\n

If, however, what you are facing is more akin to a choice between the qualities that the two Knights represent than a synthesis of the two, then know that, either way, an adventure of the spirit beckons. Both have their light and shadow aspects, both are equals in terms of rank and experience. Each offers something different, and they offer two paths that are transformative in their own ways. Therefore, if you have to choose, remember that you have access to two additional resources embodied by the two Knights that are not<\/em> present here, which offer a greater degree of objectivity (because you are not directly involved with them). These are your intuition (Wands), and your heart (Cups). Listen to the promptings and messages from both, and you will know what to do when the time comes.<\/p>\n

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.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Sarah Taylor For a couple of weeks now, I have had the Thoth Tarot gently but insistently calling my name. I thought that, given I have been doing a weekly reading with the Rider-Waite Smith deck for near-on two years, it might be time to try something different and see what comes of it. Today’s … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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\/59044"}],"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=59044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}