{"id":75375,"date":"2014-03-30T14:23:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T18:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=75375"},"modified":"2014-03-30T14:27:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T18:27:57","slug":"the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-march-30-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/reading-tarot\/the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-march-30-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Tarot Reading — Sunday, March 30, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

That there are two major arcana cards this week speaks to a development that transcends the day-to-day, and which focuses on the larger, soul-based themes that direct the flow of life. Your life, to be exact.<\/p>\n

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The Lovers, Temperance, Three of Swords from the Rohrig Tarot deck, created by Carl -W. Rohrig. Click on the image for a larger version.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To use a rough metaphor, the major arcana are differentiated from the minor arcana in that they are the colours with which you paint your canvas; the minor arcana are the strokes that you use — the detail through which the major arcana show up. Here, there is a particular spectrum to life that is starting to take shape, and this is concerned with a coming together and the choices, and balancing of those choices, that emanate from that.<\/p>\n

And, again, we have a Swords card, which over the weeks have created a leitmotif<\/i> — or recurring sub-theme — which provides a sense of contrast, a throwing into relief of the bigger picture.<\/p>\n

The Lovers is described as follows in the cursive writing to the right of the entwined figures: “Twin; Love; Attraction; Approach; Connection; Uniting of Differences.” The card is the first card in the major arcana to have two figures on it. After the evolution from The Fool to The Hierophant — all powerful, single archetypes — The Lovers refers to the manifestation of archetypal experience in human form. It is the first card that is concerned with duality. This is encapsulated in the final phrase, above: “Uniting of Differences.” The differences are the two polarities; The Lovers holds and brings together both, in feminine and masculine form.<\/p>\n

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The Lovers is also about choice, because when you operate within a dualistic paradigm, you have decisions to make: about who you are, what you do, how you relate.\u00a0This is the case when the Three of Swords is juxtaposed with The Lovers; in many respects the cards can be seen in opposition to each other.<\/p>\n

Traditionally, the Three of Swords refers to the conflict that emerges when ‘two’ becomes ‘three’. You have moved out of the world of duality as a concept and put it into practice, where your choices are multiple, and often at odds with each other. In the Rider-Waite Smith deck in particular, the Three of Swords focuses on the thoughts that seek to ‘carve up’ love — where the heart becomes a piece of emotional real-estate that is subject to divisions. And it is the assertion of those divisions that wield the most potential to damage it. If you view love as something to carve up, you have already lost the truth of love. We cannot intellectualise love (Swords are the ‘thought’ cards); we can only feel it.<\/p>\n

When this happens — when mental conflict arises within us — we lose the clarity and ‘passage through’ that was created last week by the appearance of the Two of Swords<\/a>. As you can see, the two swords running from left to right at the top of the card are now countered by a third sword running right to left between them. There is a dissonance when it comes to direction, and so, as written on the card, we meet with words such as “doubt,” “not clear,” and “sorrow.” Access to the open landscape is obstructed by a door.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, there is a way out of the conflict of your thinking. The obstacle, after all, is a door, and it can be opened again. What opens it is the card at centre: Temperance.<\/p>\n

There is a very similar phrase on Temperance to the one on The Lovers. From “Uniting of Differences” in The Lovers, in Temperance we move to “uniting the opposites.” This lies at the heart of Temperance. It describes an alchemical process whereby two seemingly contrasted forms, or ideas, are brought together — not so that they lose each other, but so as to create something new.<\/p>\n

If you look at Temperance, you will see two streams from two bowls at the outer edges of the card, directed by the figure who stands between them. The streams don’t mix, but they come together. In fact, I would suggest that it is the figure herself who is created by their contact. She is naked, save for a feather, which is indicative of flight, lightness, freedom. She is without guile, a beautiful balance of opposed qualities. Yet she looks to The Lovers and away from the Three of Swords. Another paradox. She needs both in order to choose one.<\/p>\n

Without the Three of Swords, there would be no possibility of understanding that there are alternatives to its experience. There is no doorway without something being there on the other side. There is no experience of separation without knowing connection. Holding the paradox of both is the key to holding both, while making your choice.<\/p>\n

Astrology\/Elemental correspondences:<\/strong>\u00a0The Lovers (Gemini), Temperance (Sagittarius), Three of Swords (Saturn in Libra)<\/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

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