{"id":69993,"date":"2013-09-08T14:06:41","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T18:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=69993"},"modified":"2013-09-08T20:05:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T00:05:37","slug":"the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-september-8-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/reading-tarot\/the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-september-8-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Tarot Reading — Sunday, September 8, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

After a period of hard, often thankless, work, there is a time to take stock and see what’s next; it brings you into a sense of divided allegiances; the possibility exists for a courageously creative solution.<\/i><\/p>\n

This week’s tarot reading comprises three minor arcana cards: the Seven of Pentacles, the Three of Swords, and the Knight of Wands.<\/p>\n

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Seven of Pentacles, Three of Swords, Knight of Wands 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

First, this indicates that the prevailing flavour is one that is focussed on practicalities — the minutiae of life rather than larger archetypal themes that are more personality- and character-driven. Here, we have expression through experience and action.<\/p>\n

Second, we have a balanced reading in terms of the qualities that you are able to bring to the experience and action: each of the cards comes from one of the four suits. This means that it evokes physical reality (Pentacles), mental activity (Swords), and creativity (Wands). It also means that what is absent — Cups, emotions — are being asked to be acknowledged consciously. It is up to you to actively bring Heart into the events unfolding in and around you.<\/p>\n

Looking at each card more closely, from left to right, the Seven of Pentacles is associated with that point in a time of toil where it is useful — perhaps even essential — to step back and look at what has been accomplished if you are going to be informed enough to take the next step. The Seven acknowledges that what you have gained has been against the odds. The figure is resting for a moment in a landscape devoid of greenery, save for the leaves on the vine he is tending, which seem to be holding on by the barest of margins. What nurtures them is the devotion of the figure — you — alone. <\/p>\n


\nIt has probably seemed thankless at times; it may be that you have wondered why you have persevered — to what end? This card always reminds me of the vineyards that are planted in the more arid regions of our planet: the risk is high, the rewards are great. Resources such as water are scarce, the weather can be a fickle partner, turning its back when its blessings are needed the most.<\/p>\n

And yet, here the figure is — here you are — looking at the fruits of your labour. Perhaps you’re looking at them wondering whether it has been worth it. Perhaps you are ignoring the single pentacle at your feet. You have the Ace. It’s right there. Are you going to pick it up and take responsibility for it — to own your achievement and to move forward with it?<\/p>\n

The complexity added to this is the Three of Swords, which seems to be about matters of the heart, but is really about an idea that causes conflict. There is a belief that is being activated that seems to want to pull you in two or more seemingly opposing directions. The Three of Swords is traditionally a card of divided allegiances in relationships, but my invitation to you is to see relationships in a wider context, which includes — nay, starts<\/i> — with the one that you have with yourself.<\/p>\n

Where do you feel divided? Where is it that you feel that the tension is so strong that something’s got to give? Where is it that your ideas put limits on your mental flexibility? Where is it that you punish yourself with your thoughts — the ones that say ‘should’ and ‘need’ and ‘must’, or ‘shouldn’t’, ‘cannot’, ‘must not’?<\/p>\n

Where is it that you can withdraw those self-inflicted daggers with compassion, undoing what it is that they have created, so that the wounds heal behind them? Here, it is your thoughts that determine the state of your heart, and not the other way around. To see this as an emotional issue is to miss the idea that it is your belief about something that is placing restrictions on your capacity to move freely — either in an outer expression or an inner experiencing of yourself. If you can unfetter yourself from any further wounding, there is the capacity to experience a sense of wholeness — a harmonising and an alignment of how you think about yourself, about others, about life.<\/p>\n

The key lies in the final card. It seems like the Knight of Wands is charging to the rescue: his horse is pointing towards the first two cards; he is fiery enthusiasm incarnate; his wand is raised before him, expressing self-confidence and a crusading spirit.<\/p>\n

Wands are erotic energy. This is the creative drive that is sparked deep within and which licks to the surface. We either bring it into awareness and channel it — whether through sex, art, procreation, any form of self-definition — or we deny or suppress it, in which case it makes itself known in ways that often take us by surprise.<\/p>\n

The Knight’s presence in this reading is suggesting that the solution to a sense of stuckness and frustration with something that has been so hard-won is to adopt a creative spirit. This spirit is prepared to act rather than to wait; it is youthful and therefore prone to hot-headedness — which is useful to keep in mind — but it is also enthusiastic, sexy, vital and emanates from your creative core. It reinvigorates what you have felt has been depleted in the struggle simply to keep going.<\/p>\n

What is likely to stymie the Knight is the Three of Swords: what you tell yourself, how you perceive limitations in the form of opposing thoughts or beliefs, of conflicts over real-estate. The Knight’s path is cleared through the harmonising that I wrote about further up. Withdraw those swords, and he can get to where he is needed: that of demonstrating that the game is not over, that you have more than you think, that it is time to take it and to move forward.<\/p>\n

Astrology\/Elemental correspondences:<\/strong>\u00a0Seven of Pentacles (Saturn in Taurus), Three of Swords (Saturn in Libra), Knight of Wands (the airy element of fire)<\/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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