Tarot #34: Dominion, the wind is at your back and you are ready for take off.

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You are in a position of stability and have all the energy you need to move forward with any plans you implement.

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You have come to a point where you must decide between to two paths forward both of which your talents and skills are well suited.  A thorough assessment of your desires and hopes must be made in order to make the best choice.

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You are ready in mind, body and spirit for a long journey or an arduous test of your hard won skills and natural talents.

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Being in charge of a project or managing a company or agency or taking the next step in your career, will suit you if you approach your task with well-founded confidence.

It is time to offer your talents to the world or make connections on a broad scale to enhance your agency in the world or community. Be ready to be drawn into some kind of relationship most likely to do with creativity or movement or both.

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Tarot #33: Strife, internal conflict or vigorous competition among equals

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This could be dissension or discord in a normally orderly process, or unnecessary competition or poorly handled disagreements. What ever the case you are working to through some obstacles in an inefficient manner do to friction of some kind.

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It could be that you are conflicted about your goals or motivations for working toward them and need to come to terms with inner turmoil in order to either smooth out the process or adjust your aim.

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Maybe you need to be more seriously striving toward a goal to gain the respect of others, but there is a feeling of maintaining control in order to focus energy in the right places. Healthy competition when engaged in with mutual respect can be good for all who participate, but winning cannot be the only object if it is to remain a useful activity.

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The opposite of strife is not peace or love, for those take some doing, it is ease, few things of value are easy to get. The problem comes when we strive for ourselves alone against others and not together toward a common goal. Struggling hard for something worthwhile for everyone with many hands and minds cooperating creates community and love and the bonds of friendship and these in themselves are worthy of the struggle.

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You might be aware of the conflict or competitive nature of your project, but may have lost sight of value of compromise and cooperation in any undertaking. Look to keep your fire but if there are allies or ways to smooth out some of the rough spots with a few friendly gestures instead of a cudgel to the head, maybe you will rest a little easier after the process is complete.

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Wheel of Change Interpretation

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 Find meaning in ritual and find yourself in the four sacred directions. Locate yourself in your home land wherever you find yourself. Center and celebrate your life by a process of connection with the sacred inside you.

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Tarot #32: Knight/King of Wands, on fire and boldly moving

I think often intensity is confused with maturity. ~

Laura Marling

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A situation has arisen that needs quick definitive resolution brought by a single source. This is a one shot deal that needs a confident and firm hand. Decisive action is called for without any hesitation or doubt.

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There is only time to assess the situation and the skills you can bring to bear on it. You must be the one to leap into the flames and deal with whatever awaits you. The risk is that you may be acting rashly perhaps endangering yourself and others. This all depends on the surrounding cards.

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People represented here are the fiery part of fire and will burn if standing or moving and they must succeed in their first attempt because they have no ability to evaluate and correct their trajectory.

These are the revolutionary bringers of change who will become tyrants if left in charge too long. They have the charisma of fire and vitality and will be asked to lead whether they choose to or not. They are not consensus or coalition builders. They act boldly and unilaterally or with or without sanction. A loose canon or bull in a china shop when dealing with sensitive issues. Diplomacy is definitely not there style.

Alternate Reading: Wheel of Change Tarot

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This card represents spiritual growth and attainment of insight into the processes of mind and body that regulate and control energy.

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Tarot #31 : Valour, get up, stand up, stand up for your rights

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Courage in the face of overwhelming opposition or a brave attempt to defend an unpopular position which you believe to be right. The rightness or wrongness of your position or the success or failure of your mission is not the point.

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You are the juggler with seven flaming batons in the air. These are the commitments you have taken on. You have to decide if you can handle more or if you already have too much on your hands.

Release the tiger! Let go of the leash and see what you can accomplish if you don’t hold back your emotional response and commit your body and soul to what you believe.

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Are you ready to personally stand up for what you believe in and the consequences of such an action physically, mentally and spiritually as well as the collateral effects on those close to you?

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You are engaged in a conflict in which you face overwhelming opposition. It may be time to reexamine your position and reevaluate your situation. Either to push on to the end or salvage what you can in compromise or retreat. It may be time to survive and fight again another day.

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Tarot #30 : Debauch, illusion, delusion, and denial.

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The temptation of fleeting, selfish pleasure may be corrupting or preventing loving relationships. There is pleasure that you gain from giving and receiving love and gifts with those who share your life,  and there are those pleasures that separate you from others and manifest in ways that exclude the people that share your life.Scan_20181230 (2)

There is value in spending time alone honoring your inner life of dreams and taking care of your mental health. But, there is also a way of being alone that build walls around us and we begin to live selfishly valuing pleasure taken and not returned. This selfish pleasure seeking only sickens and corrupts any relationship between people and brings joy to no one.

the longer you engage in the quest for sweetness only you can taste, the farther you continue down that road, the harder it is to turn back toward an open life, sharing with others who want nothing but to share there lives with you. In this way, people end up living together in communities in which individuals, driven by there compulsive pleasure seeking, rob each other to fulfill their desires at the expense of relationships based on compassion and sharing.

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This card is a warning to pay attention to your relationships and see what is sound and fruitful and which is barren and has no life and eventually will rot and sicken the strong viable structures of your life. It is time to do some pruning and some examining of opportunities to grow toward the light, while there is still time and will for true sharing.

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There is a place for imagination and fantasy in every life. It brings in new ideas and keeps things fresh and engaging and is worth exploring as long as it does not act as a screen to block out the fullness of life lead to a life lived in denial and illusion then the richness of life is lost in a shallow dream of sensuality and delusion.

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