{"id":79317,"date":"2014-09-07T14:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T18:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=79317"},"modified":"2014-09-10T12:13:58","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T16:13:58","slug":"the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-september-7-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/reading-tarot\/the-weekend-tarot-reading-sunday-september-7-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Tarot Reading — Sunday, September 7, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Air being held by earth. This is the collective quality of the three cards in today’s reading. It describes the idea of something that issues from the mind being grounded by, well, ground — or, more exactly, the grounded nature of your body when you feel its connection to the earth around and beneath it.<\/p>\n

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Queen of Disks, Four of Swords, Eight of Disks from the R\u00f6hrig Tarot deck, created by Carl-W. R\u00f6hrig. Click on the image for a larger version.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Appropriately, Swords are considered the sharpest suit in tarot, seeming to hold a higher-than-average number of cards that are deemed negative. Try to find a ‘positive’ Swords card, and you realise that the pickings are slim. Why is this?<\/p>\n

My feeling is that this is because Swords represent thought<\/em>, which is\u00a0Mercurial in nature, much like a blade: fast, sharp, and prone to changing direction with nary a second’s notice. Just as quickly as you have a thought, you can turn it on others, and you can turn it on yourself. There’s something to be said about the many schools of thought that encourage us not to identify ourselves fully with the mind: if we aren’t practised at working our sword with skill, dexterity and integrity, we are as a neophyte with a sabre, swinging it mind-lessly<\/em> (where the mind is not grounded). Ouch, ouch, ouch!<\/p>\n

This is where “earth” comes in. When you ground yourself, by moving into your body, experiencing your world through your senses and feeling your connection to the steadiness within, your mind sinks into a calmer state. It quietens; the wisdom behind any redundant movement comes through. The sword becomes a blade that cuts cleanly, paring everything away that doesn’t matter<\/em>. It is then that you gain insight.<\/p>\n

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The Four of Swords is also named “Truce” in the R\u00f6hrig Tarot. It is mental time-out. You are like the soldier on the battlefield (of the mind) who is feeling the blows of attack and fending them off, and who chooses to seek respite in order to restore mind, body and soul. It isn’t compulsory, but there is the implication that if you don’t take the opportunity, then there will come an experience in the not-too-distant future where you will have no choice but to surrender (the Nine and Ten of Swords).<\/p>\n

So here you are. In time-out. And whether you know it or not, you are the one who issued the original order for that inner truce that you are currently experiencing. Now look around. What is holding you? The answer lies to your left and your right. The Queen of Disks and the Eight of Disks.<\/p>\n

The Queen of Disks is the feminine wisdom of embodiment. She is Earth Mother, but in human form. Most likely an aspect of you, but she could also be someone who has that influence in your life, or both. The words that adorn her card describe what you experience from the Queen of Disks: “FRUITFULNESS,” “nourishment.”<\/p>\n

How do your nourish yourself? How do you mother yourself? How do you honour your connection to the earth? How do you hold yourself through the razor-barbs of belief that sting when you feel wronged, attacked, stared down on the battlefield? Can you feel that there is truth, although it might be a distant concept that is masked by activity frenetic enough to block your full perception of it?<\/p>\n

At the heart of the Four of Swords — while the battle rages elsewhere — there is “Quietness,” “Clarity.” Drawing inward to a nurturing centre that lies outside the range of the mind enables the mind to shine through its wisdom. Because it does have wisdom — it’s just that it’s a wisdom grounded in our core connection to everything that is, and not solely in our heads. The mind, as important as it can be, forgets that.<\/p>\n

From this sense of quietness there grows something beautiful — the otherworldly ‘tree’ in the Eight of Disks. It is fragile yet strong — a light-infused, exquisite, intricate living framework constructed by a mind that is wholly connected to the earth, to natural wisdom, to others. This beauty comes from your mind, but not completely. It is what you discover you can create when you envelop yourself in what calls from the depths of you.<\/p>\n

It is what you can see ahead of you, when you have called a truce on all the other thoughts that have directed their blades anywhere other than the Truth.<\/p>\n

Astrology\/Elemental correspondences:<\/strong>\u00a0Queen of Disks (the watery aspect of earth), Four of Swords\u00a0(Jupiter in Libra), Eight of Disks\u00a0(Sun in Virgo)<\/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 Air being held by earth. This is the collective quality of the three cards in today’s reading. It describes the idea of something that issues from the mind being grounded by, well, ground — or, more exactly, the grounded nature of your body when you feel its connection to the earth around and … 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\/79317"}],"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=79317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}