{"id":77497,"date":"2014-06-22T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=77497"},"modified":"2014-06-24T03:11:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T07:11:09","slug":"the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-june-22-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/reading-tarot\/the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-june-22-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Tarot Reading — Sunday, June 22, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

This week, we have what seems to be at a cursory glance a very ‘masculine’ spread of cards: Knight of Disks on the left, Prince of Cups on the right, and The Fool at the centre. Except things aren’t always what they first appear to be.<\/p>\n

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

Given that The Fool makes his appearance as a major arcana card — and given he is at the ‘centre of all things’ — the reading is focused on the larger, soul-based work that we do as individuals. This is The Fool as our practice of self-expression. I write that it’s a practice<\/em> of self-expression because we have a few things occurring simultaneously in the interaction between and among the triad.<\/p>\n

First, while The Fool is associated with our own fool’s journey through life and therefore refers to our soul development (or, perhaps better, “recovery”), the presence of two court cards, which enclose it, signifies that we are dealing with a particular person, or an aspect of the personality. More often than not, it applies to a characteristic that is expressing itself dominantly, or seeking expression, in the person observing the spread.<\/p>\n

Second, there is a clear message in the first two cards that this is an aspect of personality\/psyche (Knight of Disks) that is coming to a shift — moving away from the close of one theme, to the opening of another. This is because the Knight of Disks is the very last card in the tarot deck; The Fool is the very first. From very last to very first: this is a significant turning point.<\/p>\n

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Card “0” in the major arcana, The Fool is what we become when we are at that turning point in our own evolution: we become willing, or at least able, to take a step into the unknown. The Fool himself is ambiguous. Although male, in this deck he is the divisible, but integrated, self — both masculine and feminine. Both, however, are caricatures: the left half of his face in black and white, a clown-like smile painted over his mouth; the right, a mask of drag-queen make-up, a heart on his cheek. Both are personae, both over-lay the essential Self, which lies in the unknown that The Fool embodies and towards which he is pulled.<\/p>\n

Towards the left, he is pulled to the essential masculine: the patriarch of his suit, yet a suit that is feminine in nature. As earth, the Knight of Disks is fully grounded in both aspects, and rules over the (inner) physical world, in balance both as a human and an intrinsic part of nature. He embodies dedication to the craft of creating his reality on the material plane.<\/p>\n

Towards the right, The Fool is pulled to a younger energy — one that is romantic, idealistic, desire-driven. It is this desire that is prevalent, the Prince’s mind morphing into erotic fantasy, the feminine feathers on the Fool’s headdress undulating here over breasts, genitals.<\/p>\n

As the airy aspect of water — representing the mind and the emotions respectively — the Prince loves to think about love. He is meditative, that strong is his focus on his desire. What he faces seems to be a contradiction: a female ‘mask’ over a male face. Androgyny. Ambiguity. The Fool becomes the object of the Prince’s desire, the Prince mirroring back a potential to the Fool\u00a0— one of the marrying of desire with the Knight’s wisdom and empowerment as ruler of his (inner) realm, but in a way that might, at first, seem contradictory. It is an act of grounding fantasy in reality and the paradoxical point where the two meet.<\/p>\n

From the nothingness steps the binary in the form of The Fool. Two co-existing potentials that he has yet to discover in himself look directly at us from both sides of his face. But what lies underneath — what is there all along — is the Fool’s essential Self<\/em>.<\/p>\n

What is life but that path that we step along to discover more of ourselves, whether consciously or unconsciously? This particular path of discovery holds its own truth for you in what you see in the two outer cards. It is these that are activating right now, and it’s your unique adventure to take.<\/p>\n

Astrology\/Elemental correspondences:<\/strong>\u00a0Knight of Disks (the fiery aspect of earth), The Fool\u00a0(Uranus), Prince of Cups\u00a0(the airy aspect of water)<\/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":"

By\u00a0Sarah Taylor This week, we have what seems to be at a cursory glance a very ‘masculine’ spread of cards: Knight of Disks on the left, Prince of Cups on the right, and The Fool at the centre. Except things aren’t always what they first appear to be. Given that The Fool makes his appearance … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}