{"id":60975,"date":"2012-09-02T14:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T18:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=60975"},"modified":"2012-09-02T13:59:06","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T17:59:06","slug":"the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-september-2-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/reading-tarot\/the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-september-2-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Tarot Reading — Sunday, September 2, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Disappointment. Strength. Re\/Birth.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is the pattern of the tale that is being woven in this week’s tarot reading. It feels like a timeline to me — a story of the emptying out of something, an emotional reckoning (Cups), and then the revivifying fire of Wands energy that gives you the opportunity to revisit something in a different way. If you do this, you move into the landscape of The Empress, Venus, fecundity, sensuality, the consort. She is the gateway to cleared, fertile ground ready for sowing. At its most literal, this is a card of pregnancy and motherhood, although ‘pregnancy’ can mean the birthing of ideas, projects, love, and sexual union.<\/p>\n

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Five of Cups, Nine of Wands, The Empress from the Thoth Tarot deck, created by Aleister Crowley and painted by Lady Frieda Harris. Click on the image for a larger version.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But let’s go back a step. There’s a change in the feel of the cards as they progress from left to right which is worth exploring a little.<\/p>\n

On the left, the Five of Cups feels dry, hard, metallic. The lotus flowers have nothing to feed them. The five cups, joined by a filigree pentacle, are separated from the water beneath them, and both plants and water are poorer for that separation: vitality wilts in a hardened atmosphere; emotional depths shrink, feeding nothing. The picture has the capacity to be beautiful, but it has become a nightmare of barrenness. There is no presence of the initiating force of divine love: the single cup at the bottom of the picture represents the Ace, but in the physical world it has stopped flowing.<\/p>\n

In the Five of Cups, you face the disappointment that comes with having forgotten who you really are, and by extension what you are capable of bringing down from the gods and making manifest.<\/p>\n

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And so on to the Nine of Wands — Strength. This is what Gerd Ziegler has to say of the Nine:<\/p>\n

The strong wand in the center connects the sun and moon. Hidden unconscious powers (Moon) become visible through the radiant light of the conscious (Sun).<\/p>\n

When the unconscious becomes visible, we are faced with many things we have covered up in order to avoid looking at them. This can produce fear of some sort, the fear of feeling painful wounds we’ve covered up and hoped to forget. …<\/p>\n

This budding self-realization allows no return to the familiar situation of weakness or ignorance. [Tarot: Mirror of the Soul]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the Rider-Waite Smith version<\/a> of the Nine of Wands, a bandaged figure holding a wand looks suspiciously at the eight wands lined up behind him. He’s been here before, he knows what happened last time, and he’s wondering what’s going to happen next. What he could do — what might not be occurring to him — is to stop fighting and put his wand in formation with the other eight, thereby enacting a moment of integration.<\/p>\n

You change patterns by being conscious of what was once hidden and then acting on that new information in a different way. Possibilities open up to you. Conflict can be avoided by seeing your situation in another light: not a battleground but a place where there can be alignment with something that releases new reserves of energy, feeds, restores, re-establishes the flow of life and feelings.<\/p>\n

The Empress understands that every rebirth follows on the heels of an ending. What you are being invited to consider is the ending of a form of Disappointment that came into being when you chose to cut yourself off from the flow of your emotions, and in the process to separate yourself from love in its highest incarnation. You are being transformed in the fires of the Nine of Wands. It is time to face the fear that led you to empty yourself out — where you ran dry — and see what lies past the cycle of withholding and withdrawing, of hardened shine without the depth and which feeds nothing.<\/p>\n

Take a closer look at The Empress. The colours lie in stark contrast to the Five. The textures are soft and rounded. Hers is a different world entirely. Like The Empress herself who faces away from the Five of Cups, you, too, can turn towards a different story. If you are feeling fear, remind yourself that fear is one of the signposts at a turning point — if you choose to take it. Gather whatever help you need, ask for directions if necessary, equip yourself with an open and unguarded heart and mind, and prepare yourself to step into a new land.<\/p>\n

If 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>\u00a0explains how to use the spread.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Sarah Taylor Disappointment. Strength. Re\/Birth. This is the pattern of the tale that is being woven in this week’s tarot reading. It feels like a timeline to me — a story of the emptying out of something, an emotional reckoning (Cups), and then the revivifying fire of Wands energy that gives you the opportunity to … 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\/60975"}],"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=60975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}