Tarot #64: Completion, temporary balance of forces initiating a time of celebration and regeneration

Posted on October 29, 2018 by randomyriad

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To the elements it came from,

Everything will return.

Our bodies to earth,

Our blood to water,

Heat to fire,

Breath to air.

— Empedocles (490 B.C. — 430 B.C.)

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For now we abide in this state of unified matter interconnected with all the other matter of the universe, and every now and then we are reminded that this state is miraculous and tenuous. Each of us is complete and yet reliant on the whole of creation to survive in this form.

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Now is the time to appreciate the journey and pause to gather your abundant resources for the next phase. The balance of shifting forces rarely maintain equilibrium at one point for long.

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Celebrate success and reward those who have been loyal to you and provided needed support along the way. Acknowledge all sacrifices and triumphs, forgiving those who doubted and reaching out to others as potential new allies. All is in balance, it is a balance that requires commitment and skill to maintain.

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You are building a relationship or relationships that with energy and attention will lead to a time of abundance and respite for all involved.

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You have gathered around you a group of colleagues who are trustworthy and industrious. You must trust them and maintain their trust for your undertaking to move forward.

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Enjoy harvest and the reward of work. Work must be balanced with joy and have joy interwoven with common threads of justice and humility to create abundance of every kind spreading out into the world. The more complete the better for everyone.

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Tarot #63: Queen of Disks, cultivating a home and life of abundance and nurturing

Posted on October 28, 2018 by randomyriad

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The Queen of Disks represents a person full of spirit and moved by maternal instinct to protect and feed those in need. They will use common sense rather than cleverness and have little patience for or understanding of actions and ideas that have no practical application.

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These people will be sensual in that they inhabit there body completely and have little use for imagining anyone else’s existence. They are centered and grounded in their day to day life.

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They are pragmatic healers and natural nutritionists intuitively finding simple remedies for ills and injuries. They are trusting and loyal, and they will go to great lengths to keep promises, as they want to be trusted. They are often honest to a fault.

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They tend to be conservative by nature but liberal with their family or people close to them. They are welcoming and will keep the hearth fire burning and put food on the table at a moments notice.

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You may be in need of someone who can give you unconditional care, but not get bound up in your problems, or someone close to you may need your help in this way.

You may need to simplify your life in order to make room for family and friends.

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This may be the time to grow a garden, move to a place with more opportunities to connect with nature, or pay attention the your sensual aspects of your life, reducing the influence of the intellect.

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You may have the opportunity to start a family or instigate a nurturing relationship.

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Pay attention to your senses, especially those having to do with protecting and nurturing, or providing for others. These feelings can enrich your life and bring an abundance of all kinds as you move through the world.

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Plant a tree, cook a meal, grow some food, keep someone warm, protect a child or someone less fortunate, build a shelter, bask in the arms of the world and just be.

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Tarot #62: Prince of Cups, a single-minded artist or idealist driving through a tunnel of ambition.

Posted on October 27, 2018 by randomyriad

An intensely ambitious creative person who relies on others without reciprocal feelings of belonging. This person belongs to creative energy and tends to get lost in imaginary worlds, but has an intense desire to manifest these works of thought in the world for others to appreciate.

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This person is often unkind and even ruthless, but usually without true malice, simply as part of a creative process that must be worked through. They tend to use whatever assistance that is offered as a natural part of the work, and so feel that nothing is owed to the people who participate in the process.

These people are capable of tremendous energy and personal sacrifice to their chosen creative endeavor, often expecting the same from others who work with them. They generally do not respond well to input or criticism even when it is valid and given in good faith.

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You are engaged in a creative task and are placing demands on friends and family who do not share your obsession and may be growing weary of being used. Your focus may need to enlarge to include your effect on those around you, if you wish to retain good feelings in your relationships.

This may be a time to focus on creative endeavors and distance yourself from your social life and avoid emotional entanglements. Beware of callous hubris that can lead to a lonely life and the ill will of others.

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Beware of brooding and melancholia, perfectionism, idealism, and narcissism. Try to maintain realistic humility and a sense of humor about your ambitions and gratitude for the parts that others play in your successes.

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Knight of cups: Compassionate and Empathetic, Providing and Seeking Unconditional Love.

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Keep me away form the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow to children.

Khalil Gibran

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Tarot # 61 : XIII Death, the dance of interruption and transformation

Posted on October 26, 2018 by randomyriad

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The Universe is Change; every Change is the

effect of an Act of Love; all Acts of Love contain

pure joy.  Die daily.

Death is the apex of one curve of the snake Life:

behold all opposites as necessary complements,

and rejoice.

Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth

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Death is not the extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.

— Rabindranath Tragore

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The end of an extended and integral relationship (a job, a partnership, a career) that will be devastating, and leave you transformed and transported to the other side of an abyss. There is no knowing what awaits you.

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You have reached the long expected crisis point and must make a drastic change in your way of life or undertake long journey to a unfamiliar living situation or face imprisonment or devastation of your current life.

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Like a caterpillar that has reached its full size, you are at a point of stasis and stagnation and must enter a process of metamorphosis from which you will emerge in a form more capable of navigating beyond your now limited range of perception and gain new perspectives and insight into your existence.

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What are you not doing now

that you are putting off.

Changes will come soon enough maybe

before you awaken

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Tarot #60: Strength, from the heart of fire moving to provide support and balance.

Posted on October 25, 2018 by randomyriad

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Pure energy from the deepest levels brings harmonious rhythm to the delicate balance of the world and universe.  Elaborate patterns of synchronized motion that make the structures of the universe stable.  Though at any one time the balance can swing quickly from order to chaos if any of the elements should weaken or fail or fall out alignment.

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For a time, you have at your disposal more than the usual amount of energy and will, enabling you to push through hardships and obstacles and rely on stamina to put effort forth at critical times to succeed at to your undertaking.

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You will be challenged to use your will and energy to protect something in which you believe that is endangered or you will find a cause that you believe in that needs a leader with immense amounts of enthusiasm and energy to manifest a change in the world. You will be ready and capable of accomplishing what you desire.

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It is time to face cowardice with courage, speak truth to power, and leap into the breech both barrels blazing, knowing that it will a long and hard fought battle to bring something revolutionary out of the spirit into the world. But it is the stagnant water that breeds disease and needs to be stirred and tumbled to run clear.

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You have put in hours of practice and gained experience in a variety of situations. You are in your element and ready to lead those around you by your confidence and intensity.

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