{"id":76116,"date":"2014-04-27T14:01:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T18:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=76116"},"modified":"2014-04-27T15:00:49","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T19:00:49","slug":"the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-april-27-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/reading-tarot\/the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-april-27-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Tarot Reading — Sunday, April 27, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

There is, or has been, a sense of loss that might have carried with it some considerable pain. But what has fallen away has created a clearing — the rubble indicative of structures that may have felt safe, but which were standing in the way of clarity and insight.<\/p>\n

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Five of Swords, Ace of Swords, Knight of Disks from the Rohrig Tarot deck, created by Carl -W. Rohrig. Click on the image for a larger version.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the first card, the Five of Swords, if you’re able to look close enough, you’ll see that the German writing speaks of ‘anxiousness over defeat or loss’. The card isn’t about defeat or loss — it is about the anxiousness <\/i>associated with defeat or loss. That’s an important distinction, and it may bear fruit to analyse it:<\/p>\n

Are you mourning what was lost? Or are you focussed on the sensation of loss for its own sake?<\/p>\n

It might be that you are no stranger to loss; it might be that what you have lost in the past has been significant, and a source of deep and legitimate grief. Is what you are facing now the same thing? Or is it an echo from some distant, perhaps buried, memory? No-one can know this apart from you, but to know the difference viscerally — in your body — is akin to experiencing the clarity that the figure has access to as he stands on the site of (his own) defeat.<\/p>\n

Once bitten, twice shy. And he has been bitten for sure — look at the destruction around him. However, I find the structure beneath him to be dense and unyielding; lifeless. This isn’t a particularly attractive scene at all. It is a wasteland — it has the feeling of a derelict city after a battle, but one that wasn’t in tune with its surroundings. A concrete jungle, if you will. He has my empathy. There is loss and he is in a landscape that will no longer shelter him.<\/p>\n

Yet there is the presence of two things. The first is the next card in the Swords suit, which isn’t in the reading, but which is implied: the Six of Swords, which marks a transition away from strife and towards new lands.<\/p>\n

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The second, is the light that shines around him like a corona, towards which he is facing. He is keeping the Ace of Swords in his sights. And so are we, central as it is to the reading and the story that is unfolding. Its light and the manner in which it stands — upright, keen, radiating its own brilliance that seems to part the clouds above it — leads the eye past it and down the cypress-marked, wide, green avenue and into the dawn.<\/p>\n

I just love this card! The Ace is like an alien spaceship landed on a cultivated yet organic runway, in a place that is green, gentle, bathed in moonlight. It is an uncompromising visitor from another place, bold and larger than life, utterly unwavering in its presence. The Ace represents the opportunity to do something new — to add it to the Five and to move away from a place of loss and defeat and into a different realm: from concrete that strangles everything around it to a sense of living where there is cognizance of both the meeting of material needs and the preservation of the natural systems that support us.<\/p>\n

And that comes to fruition in the final card, the Knight of Disks.<\/p>\n

The card that holds the individuated potential of the Disks suit, the Knight here depicts a rebuilding of some form of structure, but this time it has the chance to retain integrity, to maintain balance. The Knight is the masculine custodian of the material world. He embodies man-made systems that are in synch with nature, attuned to them, being responsive to and protective of them. He is insight — the most constructive aspect of the Swords suit — partnered with earth.<\/p>\n

Builder and healer, what he brings into form will not block out the light, nor will it pave over paradise. His direct gaze mirrors the planes of the Ace of Swords. In it, I see a commitment to something that honours both earth and air, humanity and nature, the mind and the body.<\/p>\n

Astrology\/Elemental correspondences:<\/strong>\u00a0Five of Swords (Venus in Aquarius), Ace of Swords (the pure potential of air), Knight of Disks (the fiery aspect of earth)<\/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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