{"id":76301,"date":"2014-05-04T14:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T18:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=76301"},"modified":"2014-05-05T11:36:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T15:36:51","slug":"the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-may-4-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/reading-tarot\/the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-may-4-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Tarot Reading — Sunday, May 4, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Three cards that correspond to Jupiter in different signs: Earth, Water, and Air respectively. That’s a whole, whole lot of expansion, as well as protection — a breaking open wide but with assistance.<\/p>\n

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

The first card that I drew was the Nine of Cups: Happiness. This is the pivot-point in the reading, which the two outer cards feed into.<\/p>\n

The Nine is a beautiful, delicate-yet-strong, surreal card — much like the feeling of happiness itself when it becomes a fully fledged, soaring aspect of the Soul and its experience through the body and the heart — because Cups are associated most strongly with the heart and our feeling nature.<\/p>\n

Some of the phrases on the card: “Overflowing Love,” “Deep Joy,” “Rapture,” “Blessing.” A tiny phrase at the top of the card is difficult to discern, but seems to read, “Hallo My Friend” — though I can’t be sure. If so, it is a recognition — the acknowledgement of someone or something that is familiar, and which reflects the spirit of the card.<\/p>\n

I cannot help but feel what the card is trying to convey, simply by looking at it: its colours are warm and light. Redemptive. A baby-blue spiral turns in on itself towards the centre. It is a homecoming into light, surrounded by hearts, and a collage incorporating nine cups — all enclosing the mysterious experience that seems to draw the lower part of the card up towards it.<\/p>\n

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The two outer cards are ones that are not unfamiliar to the Weekend Tarot Reading. In fact, they appeared in the reading of April 13<\/a>, with the Two of Disks in the same position at left, and the Eight of Swords at centre.<\/p>\n

There has been a shift since then. The lack of clarity of the Eight of Swords — the mental machinations that cause indecision in the figure sitting beneath the two women — has moved to one side. It has become peripheral to the Nine of Cups. Yes, there is the oppression or internal pressure caused by a feeling of not knowing which path to take, where figures — outer expressions — have become larger than life itself. However, something altogether different and harmonious is making its presence known.<\/p>\n

The Eight of Swords speaks of a state of mind, rather than reality. It is the prison of inaction that we create with our thoughts, which then hold us in place. It is where we believe that we are trapped. Like the figure in the Rider-Waite Smith version of this card, there is little, if nothing, physically holding the seated man back. It is he who is choosing to stay seated; he is not bound. <\/p>\n

What binds him is a mental ‘bind’. A double-bind. A titillating (literally!), faceless, voluptuous, overtly sexual double-bind — similar, yet contrasted. One woman with her arms tucked behind her, strangely demure in spite of her lack of dress. The other on show, her arms held over her head as if to show her breasts in the best possible light. Are they really two women? Or are they two aspects of the same phenomenon? After all, there is only one Sun, and yet here there appear to be two.<\/p>\n

The Two of Disks — Change — is in the same place as it was three weeks ago. The only constant is change, and the card’s presence here again underlines the idea that change is a prevailing energy.<\/p>\n

“Transformation” appears several times on the Two of Disks. The moving from one form to the other, and yet in a way that is inclusive. Yin and Yang — which also appears on the card. Looking back at the Eight of Swords, it feels that indeed the path is not one of “either\/or” but of “both\/and.”<\/p>\n

“Both\/And” as the dance of Yin and Yang, the interplay of co-existing contrasts in a balanced play of perpetual motion. To resist the dance simply delays what lives to dance; to choose ‘one’ over ‘other’ suppresses, represses or denies what is unequivocally present. What appears at the centre is, in this instance, what is created through the integration of both — its colours ecstatic, a release into the joy of inner synthesis.<\/p>\n

“Hallo my friend.”<\/p>\n

Astrology\/Elemental correspondences:<\/strong>\u00a0Two of Disks (Jupiter in Capricorn), Nine of Cups (Jupiter in Pisces), Eight of Swords (Jupiter in Gemini)<\/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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