{"id":62561,"date":"2012-12-09T14:02:44","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T19:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=62561"},"modified":"2012-12-09T17:26:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T22:26:53","slug":"the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-december-9-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/reading-tarot\/the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-december-9-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Tarot Reading — Sunday, December 9, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Interesting that even though we are meeting a new deck for the next five weeks of the Weekend Tarot Reading, we have a sense of something continuing in the presence of The Priestess, who was also at the centre of the reading two weeks ago<\/a> using the R\u00f6hrig-Tarot. The Priestess as anchor to an experience that walks into your life on the heels of the Ten of Swords moment that came, or is emerging currently, into consciousness.<\/p>\n

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Ace of Cups, The Priestess, The Hermit from the Rosetta Tarot deck, created by M. M. Meleen. All images the property of M. M. Meleen. Click on the image for a larger version.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s transformation time now, though — or, rather, \u2018transmutation\u2019 time.<\/p>\n

My sense is that you were brought face-to-face with a Ten of Swords matter in your life in order to clear it. It is the rearing of the monster\u2019s head before it sinks beneath the ocean\u2019s surface; and if you have used ‘right action’, it hasn\u2019t disappeared out of consciousness only to resurface another time and in another form: it has become a part of the ocean itself. It has become a conscious part of you.<\/p>\n

The Ten of Swords at its very best is a process of recognition, surrender to a process of healing, and the stripping away of a layer of belief that wounded more than it assisted, that held you back more than it eased your journey. Swords can either stand in your path, or they can clear it. It might be useful to ask yourself what, if anything, the Ten of Swords has meant for you, and whether you have been able to work with it in a way that furthers your own evolution.<\/p>\n

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What I will say is this: something has shifted. Something seems to have cleared. The Priestess remains at centre, but in this card her stance is more active — it is as if she holds the two cards on either side of her. This is a holding in consciousness. It is an intuitive holding, based on an understanding of both cards\u2019 qualities and energies. The Priestess is naked, save for the veils that flow over her. A lemniscate (infinity symbol) is held over her closed eyes. She represents that part of you that meets with the Divine on the inner planes.<\/p>\n

Yet, for all of her liminality, The Priestess is also Earth-bound: the two pomegranates are blood-red against a predominantly blue card. They \u2018ground\u2019 her in something far more physical. They are evocative of a vulva.<\/p>\n

The card on the left is the Ace of Cups, also described here as Root of Water<\/em>. Like The Priestess, this is a deeply feminine card. The Ace offers us the highest potential of its suit; Cups represent our emotional natures. Here, this potential is available to you, but couched in the form of woman: emotional energy that is creative, and pro-creative. The female figures formed from the two separate streams of water that run from the outer edges of the cup seem to be dancing. They, in turn, flank a lotus flower. Two half-Moons are topped by a rainbow. A further Moon rests above that. The Ace of Cups in this deck feels more sexual than most.<\/p>\n

In this reading, we are meeting the Sacred Prostitute aspect of The Priestess.<\/p>\n

To see the Sacred Prostitute primarily in terms of sex is to misunderstand her role; to see it in terms of sex at all<\/em> is often also to misunderstand it. What comes first is what she is<\/em> rather than what she does<\/em>. She is a gateway to Divine love. The Priestess, more than any other card in the major arcana, is able to connect with spirit in order to bring it into physical reality. Here, she is connecting with spirit as love. Action follows from this, and is in service to this.<\/p>\n

And so the reading asks the question: where is it that you are being called to embody the same principles?<\/p>\n

Where are you able to meet with and demonstrate love that asks you to free yourself from the conditions that are so often placed on it? Where does \u201cI love you, because…\u201d become, simply, \u201cI love you?\u201d Where and how can you live that?<\/p>\n

Because what is being asked of you here is to walk a path that demands a quiet certainty — one that is gained through a going within that is described by the final card, The Hermit. The Hermit is not a card of isolation as much as it is of separation from the influence of the outside world. It is wisdom that is found in contemplation of one\u2019s connection to a core self.<\/p>\n

The Hermit is the Magician all grown up. He has understood that magic for its own sake becomes empty and meaningless: soul-less. What time alone to face himself has given him is the insight that life itself is magic. We step into the world of The Hermit when we see through the innumerable diversions and illusions that seem to consume us when we are wholly focussed on what happens around us rather than within us.<\/p>\n

In this case, The Hermit and The Priestess are partners working within you — the first, active, seeking to experience; the second, receptive, seeking to know. Together, they bring to Earth a form of love that has the power to transform your limited ideas of what love is, and to take this from the period of solitude and introspection that The Hermit has asked of you, and out into the world.<\/p>\n

Astrology correspondences:<\/strong>\u00a0The Ace of Cups (\u201cRules the Libra — Scorpio — Sagittarius quadrant above the North Pole, and the area of the Pacific\u201d — M. M. Meleen, The Book of Seshet<\/em>), The Priestess (Moon), The Hermit (Virgo)<\/p>\n

M. M. Meleen\u2019s website:<\/strong>\u00a0www.rosettatarot.com<\/a><\/p>\n

To purchase the Rosetta Tarot or\u00a0The Book of Seshet<\/em>:<\/strong>\u00a0http:\/\/shop.rosettatarot.com\/<\/a><\/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 Interesting that even though we are meeting a new deck for the next five weeks of the Weekend Tarot Reading, we have a sense of something continuing in the presence of The Priestess, who was also at the centre of the reading two weeks ago using the R\u00f6hrig-Tarot. The Priestess as anchor 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\/62561"}],"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=62561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}