Tarot #45: Prince/Knight of Swords, creative intellect without roots

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A person who has creative intelligence with no grounding in practical application and/or lacking life relationship building skills or has no interest in these. 

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You should examine your relationships with the people who are involved in your life to determine if you are allowing them to inhibit your creative endeavors.

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There is the possibility that your creative endeavors and projects have narrowed your point of view so much that you have alienated people who are close to you.

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You may have sacrificed or be in the process of sacrificing your human relationships for your intellectual pursuits and be focused on academic or artistic projects to the point of unbalance.

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Now is a good time to develop of discipline the learning of complex skill requiring mental and physical skill, mind and body cohesion.

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You may need to focus on building skills that help you to make your creative work in a more manifest and interactive in the world.

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You may need to use logic and reasoning in a creative way to resolve a problem in which emotional and physical ties are inhibiting you.

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Tarot #44 : Futility, frustrated desires and unrequited idealism

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 “This is why we can’t have nice things!”

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Should be, could be, would be except for . . .

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It is time to stop banging your head against whatever wall you have chosen and find a new way to move forward.

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You are engaging in self-deception or hypocrisy and possibly leading others into an unwinnable battle that is very unlikely to make much of a positive difference or may even be harmful if successful. Find attainable goals that really matter and begin to work towards them methodically.

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You pay close attention to the way you communicate and the messages you send. Every word, symbol and picture should be well chosen and the media you use should fit the message in order to avoid misunderstandings.

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You are being lead or are leading others either by deceptive methods or for a cause that is not as beneficial in substance as it is portrayed on the surface. Getting people to act against their own best interest for a cause that benefits only a few.

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Tarot #43: Change, balanced and harmonious transition or transformation.

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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Alan Watts

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This represents changes that occur in the flow of passive and active elements that maintain the balance in the universe.

Two of pentaclesIf you pay attention to the rhythms and tones of the life you are immersed in, you will for a time be attuned to transforming energy to adjust your perspective or make positive creative changes that may effect the flow of your life in subtle ways.

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There are active and passive ways to be in the world and the dance has a rhythm let the world show you the moves.

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You may feel the deeper machinery under the surface of the daily busyness of life, by using  and following these feelings you may become grounded, in a profound way, in the fabric of woven lives and interactions that form the intricately subtle web of existence.Related image

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“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds’ wings.”

― Jelaluddin Rumi , The Essential Rumi

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Tarot #42: Prudence, wisdom in small things

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It is time to mind your “p’s and q’s”, put your ducks in a row, and use your common sense to manage your relationships, business and endeavors in the world.

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Examine your dealings in the world mindfully and with a focus on cooperation and symbiosis. How can you benefit those around you to build a sense of solidarity that will make everyone’s life more stable and secure.

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Follow the threads of your life with awareness of how your movements fit into the whole pattern.

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Find the day to day skills and knowledge that bring you satisfaction and keep your boat floating. Use them with diligence and care. Tend to all your social relationships like putting your garden in good order to grow a crop of good will that will nourish you for as long as you apply your attention.

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Any risks you take should be calculated carefully and any guesses should benefit from education and advice from people you trust. It is not time to be venturing out on any less than stout limbs or leaping before a careful inspection of the take off  and landing points with a plan ready for how to proceed after the landing.

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