{"id":72636,"date":"2013-12-15T14:01:29","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T19:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=72636"},"modified":"2013-12-15T15:25:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T20:25:45","slug":"the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-december-15-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/reading-tarot\/the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-december-15-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Tarot Reading — Sunday, December 15, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

What are you still holding on to?<\/i><\/p>\n

The Four of Pentacles’ second week at the centre of the reading gives us two points to consider: first, that the work of letting go of what is holding us prisoner is still in process. Second, a reminder to look for what we might still be unaware of — whether through unconsciousness or willful ignorance — that is asking to be released.<\/p>\n

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Page of Swords, Four of Pentacles, The Hanged Man 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 king in the Four of Pentacles didn’t get where he is now without tenacity. It takes effort and sacrifice to hold all the pentacles as close to him as he can. But just what is he sacrificing? And why? Does the reason even have meaning anymore, save for the one he gives it simply by hanging on for dear life?<\/p>\n

Assistance is at hand in the form of the Page of Swords, who feels like a temporary archetypal energy available that is able to sever the strands that remain and which hold the king in bondage to his ‘stuff’.<\/p>\n

The Page of Swords stands on no ceremony. This is a youth who has not yet learned the courtly art of diplomacy. He and his sword come in with an uncensored quality. Out of the mouths — and from the blades — of babes. He sweeps clean. What he might work well with is a certain gravitas that still exists in the king, if he were to drop his weary possessiveness and remember why he ascended to the throne in the first place. Otherwise, the aftermath of the Page’s visit could resemble the result of a trip to an over-enthusiastic hairdresser. I think we’ve all been through one of those.<\/p>\n

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The Page expresses the ability to cut away in a clean, decisive motion. He also feels like a gate-keeper of sorts — a guardian standing between the threshold of where you have just come from, and where you are right now. There is an assistance to divest you of anything that is no longer a valid part of your onward journey — baggage, illusions, outdated beliefs about who you are.<\/p>\n

Last week, the final card was Justice, denoting a sense of that same blade of truth coming down dispassionately and objectively on one side or the other. This week, the blade seems to be more personal, and one that is working in your favour, if only to further your own evolution rather than to fight your battles for you.<\/p>\n

After Justice (XI) comes The Hanged Man (XII). The verdict has been given, and there is a moment of suspension where you could feel you are at the mercy of forces that seem to act on you from outside. However, what The Hanged Man offers you<\/a> is something far more than this: a change of perspective. You are essentially ‘strung up’ by circumstances, and turned upside-down, and the result is that everything is turned on its head. You are in a moment of descent, pointing downwards, into a terrain that feels both familiar and unfamiliar, so that you can emerge with a new understanding.<\/p>\n

From there, you are offered the opportunity to see what it was that you were in thrall to; and from there, you might also see the poetic justice of an archetype that pays no heed to bargaining or wealth, but simply to the righting of an imbalance.<\/p>\n

Astrology\/Elemental correspondences:<\/strong>\u00a0Page of Swords (the earthy aspect of air), Four of Pentacles (Sun in Capricorn), The Hanged Man (Uranus)<\/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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