{"id":70741,"date":"2013-10-06T14:01:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T18:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=70741"},"modified":"2013-10-06T14:58:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T18:58:19","slug":"the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-october-6-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/reading-tarot\/the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-october-6-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Tarot Reading — Sunday, October 6, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

A Knight rides out from the desert, searching. The ground behind him is dry, parched, ungiving; the air above him is clear, blue, no sign of rain. Sweat has been precious in this country. Tears have been precious. Resisting both has meant that he could continue on his quest that little bit longer.<\/p>\n

\"Knight<\/a>
Knight of Cups, Four of Pentacles, Seven 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

Knights are adventurers, just as we play the role of adventurer when we feel that our sense of incompleteness can be filled by something we simply have to look for.<\/p>\n

That Knights are partnered with a horse is telling: they need the power and stamina of that beast to carry them over vast tracts of land, to find what they are seeking that much faster, to help them beat a quick retreat if that’s what is called for. When we are Knights, our horse is our instinct<\/i>: it follows the scent to where we need to be, and it does its best to keep us out of trouble.<\/p>\n

The Knight of Cups is on a quest for Love. But isn’t it so often the case that the very thing we seek out is what we have had all along? Because the Knight of Cups has the source of all Love: it is his heart, which, here, he carries at the end of his armoured sleeve.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the reason that the Knight does not recognise his own heart is implied in the elements that shape him: he is the airy aspect of water. Air is intellect, water is heart. In that description lies the limitation that the Knight finds himself riding up against: the Knight thinks<\/i> about how he feels. His mind is engaged in trying to understand something that doesn’t require mind at all. He is on The Hero’s Journey, and what he comes back with — his “boon” in the words of mythologist Joseph Campbell as he reaches the river in the desert — is something that he can then integrate. This, to me, seems like the act that he is engaging in with the next card, the Four of Pentacles.<\/p>\n

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The figure in the Four of Pentacles sits within the paradox of the physical world that we are fortunate enough to experience: the fear of its loss that wealth, in whatever form, brings us. He epitomises scarcity thinking. In this reading specifically, his fear of losing what he has is so great that he is unable to accept what is being offered to him by the Knight. He looks away; his hands are not free; he is not free. More than that: he might live among people, but his predicament separates him from them. He is obliged to stay rigid, open to nothing and no-one. What lies over his heart like a vault door is the pentacle that he clasps to his chest. His eyes look tired.<\/p>\n

He looks at us as we look at him. What is he thinking? What would he say to us if he could speak? Does he want to speak at all? Is it that, if he speaks, he will lose the painstaking control that he has constructed?<\/p>\n

That is what I intuit: that by letting go to take the Cup, he is swiftly ushered into the world of the Seven of Wands — a far cry from where he is now.\u00a0From a world of control to one of apparent conflict; from a state of solidification of physical experience to the fluid, fiery world of Wands, which in the Seven reflects the emergence of the creative fires from below. The Seven of Wands is making yet another appearance in this column, again suggesting a further release of unconscious energy into consciousness.<\/p>\n

Currently, the figure in the Seven is resisting that which is coming up — but he is still further into the process than the figure in the Four of Pentacles. Here, he is standing, arms and legs free, unencumbered by what he was holding on to. Yes, he is pitting himself against the six other wands, but it is nothing more than each of us does every day when we refuse to listen to the call of our deepest truths, the ones that we have buried away even from ourselves — especially<\/i> from ourselves.<\/p>\n

What we resist in ourselves is what calls upon us to change. And change, to the ego, can feel like death. Thus we fight. What we are fighting, in this case, is the death of something that needs to fall away if we are to access what lies at the heart of us. We have been miners, whether we knew it or not. We have quested into the barren hinterlands of our psyches to find sustenance. Now that we have it, though, there is a part of us that has been so conditioned to maintain the status quo that it is clinging on to pennies for dear life, when what is offered is the Grail itself, held in the hand of the Knight.<\/p>\n

When we let go, what feels like chaos is actually the rearrangement that allows us to accommodate what’s new. Sometimes that asks for a small adjustment; sometimes it feels like we’re having to throw everything out. We are not — or we’re not throwing out anything of value. We give up our pennies to find gold.<\/p>\n

Finally, we have another reading that is balanced among three suits, with the fourth — Swords, the intellect — present by its absence. We are left with another paradox: in order to release ourselves to the gifts of Heart, which in turn releases the unconscious into the conscious in a surge of Eros, we have to catch ourselves in the act of thinking. That requires a form of mind that perceives without judgement.<\/p>\n

We observe our thoughts and, in their observing, discover they are simply a layer of distraction — some of it compelling — that encloses the simplest of truths: we are enough, and we have been all along. Our journey brings us back to ourselves.<\/p>\n

Astrology\/Elemental correspondences:<\/strong>\u00a0Knight of Cups (the airy aspect of water), Four of Pentacles (Sun in Capricorn), Seven of Wands (Mars in Leo)<\/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 A Knight rides out from the desert, searching. The ground behind him is dry, parched, ungiving; the air above him is clear, blue, no sign of rain. Sweat has been precious in this country. Tears have been precious. Resisting both has meant that he could continue on his quest that little bit longer. … 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\/70741"}],"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=70741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}