{"id":68293,"date":"2013-06-30T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=68293"},"modified":"2013-07-08T10:22:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T14:22:32","slug":"the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-june-30-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/reading-tarot\/the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-june-30-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Tarot Reading — Sunday, June 30, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

A different timbre of reading this week; the cards are out of the realm of swords that seem to have held us in a grip here for so long in the Weekend Tarot Reading, and into the realm of matter, and a period of deep transformation that is just beginning to sound its call.<\/p>\n

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Page of Pentacles, Judgement, Nine of Pentacles 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

We start with the Page of Pentacles — a child of wonder, standing in fertile meadows, small flowers at his feet, the sky awash with sun-yellow. Know the Page in your body-awareness. He is a child of nature; he has something to tell you about yourself and your place in the world. He shows you something about what it is to be conscious of yourself as a physical being, open to the gifts that life brings. He holds those gifts gently — not grasping or clinging, but with tenderness. They are the potential that is bestowed by grace, and the Page is learning to co-exist with it and let it unfold to him.<\/p>\n

What is coming up is Judgement. Although the card’s imagery has strong biblical overtones, what it really describes is resurrection and redemption. What needed to die has made room for new life, and the angel above is calling the figures below to a sense of their destiny. There is a uniting under the blast of a trumpet\u00a0 — a divine resonance — whose waves ripple into the body and the soul.<\/p>\n

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You no longer need to restrict yourself to a space that has confined you.<\/p>\n

There is an opening through which you can raise yourself to see a larger picture. You can see others; you can see the world around you. You can stretch your body towards an energy that revivifies you. You can live. The seed of potential that has just started to bloom is one that is now being called into action by a power that lies within you and yet transcends you and everything and everyone else.<\/p>\n

The final card is one that comes up regularly in the Weekend Tarot Reading. Its message is clear, especially in light of the first Pentacle card lying on the other side of Judgement. There is a wealth available to you — whether that wealth is material, physical or experiential. To make the most of what has been liberated in Judgement, the Page that you have embodied serves as a reminder: hold to what has been bestowed upon you lightly — not because it needs to disappear, but because holding it lightly is what creates the flow of its bounty through your life.<\/p>\n

As the figure of the woman in the Nine of Pentacles, you can choose to feel secure by making sure that nothing can get away. You can keep what you have close to you; you can constrain your wilder nature. The paradox is that you, yourself, will be equally constrained. All dressed up and nowhere to go. The yellow of the sun becomes cloying; the sumptuous robes, beautiful as they are, become heavy and impractical for flexible, intuitive movement.<\/p>\n

As the woman looks to the bird and remembers the call of the wild, her left hand mirrors the hands of the youthful Page. In that moment, perhaps she can be reminded of her own inner child, whose presence exhorts her both to value what she has, but not to be owned by it. That way, when the trumpet of a new way of being sounds, she can expand her sense of what is possible and set herself free.<\/p>\n

Sometimes freedom means considering a path that lies beyond what you have so far imagined. Sometimes — very important — freedom means honouring the path of the smallest creature in the Nine of Pentacles: the snail. It might move more slowly than a falcon released to the skies, but it is no less free, and it carries with it everything it needs. Sometimes the path calls you to embody one or the other at different times. If you are grounded in your sense of self, trusting in the wisdom of your body — the body that we inhabit so much more naturally as children before we are taught to detach from it — then you will know which one to assume, and when.<\/p>\n

Astrology\/Elemental correspondences:<\/strong>\u00a0Page of Pentacles (the earthy aspect of earth), Judgement (Pluto), Nine of Pentacles (Venus in Virgo)<\/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":"

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