{"id":77380,"date":"2014-06-15T14:05:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T18:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=77380"},"modified":"2014-06-16T13:04:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T17:04:28","slug":"the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-june-15-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/reading-tarot\/the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-june-15-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Tarot Reading — Sunday, June 15, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

There are some striking parallels between today’s reading and the previous Weekend Tarot Reading<\/a>, on May 25.<\/p>\n

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

Last time, the card on the left was the Eight of Wands; this time, it is the Nine of Wands. The card on the right last time displayed a fragile bloom made of light; this time, there is a petal-shedding flower backed by a darkened sky. The centre card was The Moon; this week, that has made way for a similar globe — this time, the rounded belly of fertile creativity.<\/p>\n

Some things the same; yet, this is also different. It is a shift, either in circumstances or emphasis, suggesting a different feel, perhaps offering choices that were not available — or were not as visible as they are now.<\/p>\n

The key card here is the card in the centre. The two words that I can discern on the card are “renewal” and “Harmony”, which in turn evoke the concept(ion)s of evolution and attunement. The Princess of Disks is very much attuned to her own environment, her golden hair at one point undulating into a loose wheat sheaf, her leafy mask becoming feathered, the folds of material gathering towards her at her waist, as if embracing her.<\/p>\n

She is unable to see; she doesn’t need it. She feels<\/em>, is sensate. Her body tells her everything; the world moves to meet her body.<\/p>\n

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The Princess of Disks is the Rider-Waite equivalent of the Page of Pentacles. Representing the earthy element of earth, she is, quite visibly, the physical world at its most physical. Unlike the Page of Pentacles, she is femininity incarnate — a deeply sensual, naked figure, on the verge of birthing what she is carrying. This could be a physical baby, but ‘gestation’ can refer to anything brought into material form, whether an idea or inspiration that is shaped into matter, or the process of fully inhabiting oneself as an embodied being. In other words, where you become your own act of creation that has a tangible presence and effect on the world around you, which in turn responds to you. Co-creation.<\/p>\n

The outer cards seem to me to describe two distinct experiences emanating from the central act of creation — offering a ‘map’ of sorts, but one where each path signals a move towards contrasting outcomes.<\/p>\n

In the Seven of Cups, what has bloomed has nowhere to grow and nothing to nourish it. The earth under the flower is dry and cracked, offering no life-giving water, the cups empty, small, diminished, two fallen. The single cup to the left of the stem seems to lead me back to the card at centre — the flower, too, bowing its stem towards it. There is a clear message of a choice that need not be taken, another choice at hand: the Nine of Wands.<\/p>\n

The Nine of Wands, or Strength, is a progression from the ‘mind-meld’ Eight of Wands from May 25. It is a symbolic return to the exchange that was taking place between the man and the woman, and the opportunity to shift something that once seemed unshiftable. The stone block structure — its walls dauntingly thick — is blasted apart in a supernova explosion. This is a profound and unmistakable release of energy that was once trapped and beyond reach. The block itself floats above the ground, defying our notion of gravity.<\/p>\n

What seemed impossible has now become possible; light — consciousness — can move mountains. The dark sky in the Seven of Cups here feels natural and accepts the light; the cracked ground in the Seven is grassy, soft. We are in the realm of the Princess of Disks when she has found expression and birthed what she has been carrying for so long.<\/p>\n

What is emerging, what you have been nurturing, asks for patience and a deep knowing that what you hold is of value and that who you are is someone fully capable of bringing it into being. This is something you have been made for; whether in part or in whole, it is why you are here. The result is a form of liberation that clears the way. Your world reveals more of itself to you. It seems bigger than it was before.<\/p>\n

Astrology\/Elemental correspondences:<\/strong>\u00a0Nine of Wands\u00a0(Moon in Sagittarius), Princess of Disks\u00a0(the earthy element of earth), Seven\u00a0of Cups\u00a0(Venus in Scorpio)<\/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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