{"id":78128,"date":"2014-07-20T14:03:43","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T18:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=78128"},"modified":"2014-07-21T12:27:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T16:27:17","slug":"the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-july-20-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/reading-tarot\/the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-july-20-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Tarot Reading — Sunday, July 20, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

The Eight of Swords and the Nine of Wands have come up often enough recently for me to list their respective readings here from the past three months:<\/p>\n

– Sunday, April 13, 2014 [Two of Disks, Eight of Swords<\/strong>, The Wheel of Fortune<\/a>]
\n– Sunday, April 20, 2014 [Knight of Swords, Nine of Wands<\/strong>, Nine of Disks<\/a>]
\n– Sunday, May 4, 2014 [Two of Disks, Nine of Cups, Eight of Swords<\/strong><\/a>]
\n– Sunday, June 15, 2014 [Nine of Wands<\/strong>, Princess of Disks, Seven of Cups<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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

My invitation: to look back — to the readings, and through your memory banks — and see if you can distinguish the pattern, theme or story that they bring into form. Are the dates significant? Feel into the two cards. Are they symbolic of something immediately recognisable in your life? More: has it seemed like there has been an endless back-and-forth quality to what they symbolise?<\/p>\n

The reading this week is different in one significant way — that is, both cards appear together. My take on it is that this is a meeting point, or crux, of something that has been playing out over at least the last quarter, if not longer (the Eight especially has been present in earlier readings, the majority of those with the Rider-Waite Smith deck: different interpretation, same quality).<\/p>\n

It looks like there is, at hand, the potential for a resolution, or the discovery of an exit point to a new way.\u00a0What this looks like for you will depend entirely on your inner experience, and so my writing here will be short and to the point.<\/p>\n

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There has been a dilemma of some kind — the apparent pressure to choose between two or more options — that has left you trapped in your indecision, or in the seeming impossibility of your circumstances. So much so, that you have taken neither route; rather, like the figure in the Eight of Swords, you have become so seduced by your predicament\u00a0that you have forgotten that there is a route to walk at all<\/em>. You have been a sojourner in the land of forgetfulness — the forgetting of your true Self, which knows clearly the path\u00a0that leads towards the best destination, the one to which your soul wants to guide you.<\/p>\n

It is on this path that these two apparent choices converge in your realisation that you were never really obliged to choose in the first place. Here, you understand that it was your indecision itself that created the illusion of a second route. Paradoxical, but no less valid for being so.<\/p>\n

By removing yourself from your stasis and stepping forward, you create the burst of energy needed to remove the blocks that were your perceived obstacles. Careful as you go with this one: self-care, compassion and support are wholly constructive things to turn to when a release of this magnitude happens. It might feel like a surge of vitality; it might feel like an emergence of something from left field into consciousness; it might be an insight that feels blindingly obvious while seeming to appear out of nowhere. It might be all three, or none of the above.<\/p>\n

What won’t be in doubt is that you’ll know it when it happens. And things will not be the same again. The Death card spells the end of one thing and the beginning of another. It is rebirth, and that cannot happen without the laying to rest of something marked: a belief that you hold dear, a way of perceiving your life or the world, a part of your outward identity that you cling to in moments of movement and uncertainty. All change.<\/p>\n

The Soul wants more than your certainty; it desires your unconditional embracing of what seeks full expression through you. It wants your uniqueness; it wants your singular heart. That heart is beating at your core, but so often it is hidden under layers of armour that have felt necessary — essential, even — to your very survival.<\/p>\n

This has been the crux of your indecision: the fear for your own survival. But in order to embrace life, you must also embrace death. In so doing, you find your heart — your soul’s desire — and you become willing to carry it fearlessly on your sleeve.<\/p>\n

There has been nothing to fear but fear itself — and it is that fear that has rendered you life-less. In that moment of understanding, perhaps you can crack a small smile at the irony that what you most avoided was where the light lay all along.<\/p>\n

Astrology\/Elemental correspondences:<\/strong>\u00a0Eight of Swords (Jupiter in Gemini), Nine of Wands\u00a0(Moon in Sagittarius), Death\u00a0(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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