{"id":66302,"date":"2013-04-21T14:45:13","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T18:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=66302"},"modified":"2013-04-21T21:45:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T01:45:41","slug":"the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-april-21-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/reading-tarot\/the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-april-21-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Tarot Reading — Sunday, April 21, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see.
\n— A Course in Miracles<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The reading this week is a short and simple one. If you are looking for liberation from a struggle that, in its current form, will only lead to defeat, then it is time to step on the path of The Fool.<\/p>\n

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The Fool, Five of Wands, Ten of Swords from the Rider-Waite Smith Tarot deck, created by A E Waite and illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith. Click on the image for a larger version.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Five of Wands sits at the centre of the reading, an effective illustration of where a plan made with the best of intentions is experiencing interference for one reason or another.<\/p>\n

If you look at the configuration of the wands, it looks like they are coming together to form a pentacle. However, there is strife — a lack of organisation, a lack of clear direction from a single source. All five protagonists are at cross-purposes; there is no meaningful, reasoned collaboration.<\/p>\n

What is behind this is hinted at in the Ten of Swords: a thought process, or a belief, or both. At the point of the Ten, this has concretised to such an extent that the pressure it has created has nowhere to go. The figure has no choice other than to surrender to it — or to be surrendered.<\/p>\n

The Ten of Swords is a dark night of the soul created by sanskaras<\/em>, the term in Hinduism for \u201cthe imprints left on the subconscious mind by experience in this or previous lives, which then colour all of life, one\u2019s nature, responses, states of mind, etc.\u201d (This is from the Wikipedia entry on “Sanskara”<\/a>.)\u00a0Changing our thoughts as a means of changing our experience lies at the heart of many philosophies and spiritual and religious practices, a case in point being the quote from A Course in Miracles<\/em> that introduces today\u2019s reading.<\/p>\n

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When we find ourselves stuck in a sanskara, our energy is wasted, and even the noblest causes will suffer. We undo something as we try to create it. Sometimes the only way out of such a pattern is by seeing it through to the bitter end, our field of vision so limited that we\u00a0aren’t\u00a0able to identify a way of breaking through. When the Ten of Swords becomes apparent in life, we can at least know that the worst has already happened, and the sky towards which the figure faces is clearing, the mountains indicating new adventures.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, however, we are thrown a lifeline. In this reading it comes in the form of The Fool who, as the Joker in a normal pack of playing cards, is just as at home among the minor arcana as he is in the major. He belongs everywhere and nowhere at the same time. As an archetype, he exists free from limitations, his number ‘zero’, his playground the field of potential.<\/p>\n

If anyone can break us out of sanskara before we feel the swords of surrender in our backs, The Fool can. His surroundings are echoed in the mountains in the distance in the Ten, and in the colour of the skies above them. He is the quantum leap available to jump out of a groove.<\/p>\n

Time to invoke The Fool. To do this, we must step into the unknown. So simple in theory, and not so easy in practice. Sanskaras sometimes drive us so deep that it is hard to see anything else, walled in as we are by our minds. The hint is in the name of the inhabitant of card zero. The Fool, by definition, is mindless<\/em>. This calls for an approach that bypasses the mind in order to expand our field of vision. Meditation, bodywork, something practical, beautiful and engrossing. Something that appeals to the playful aspect of the inner animal — the instinct — rather than the reasoned, reasoning, reasonable thinker. Or it might be an encounter or event that seems to puncture the space-time continuum. Equally important: it is there for us to ask for it, to demand it with gratitude.<\/p>\n

Play The Fool; take a risk; walk away from the strife; strike out in another direction.<\/p>\n

Astrology\/Elemental correspondences:\u00a0<\/strong>The Fool (Uranus), Five of Wands (Saturn in Leo), Ten of Swords (Sun in Gemini)<\/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 Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see. — A Course in Miracles The reading this week is a short and simple one. If you are looking … 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\/66302"}],"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=66302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}