Hello, Heartbeats! Are you ready for change? Irrelevant, it happens anyway! This week’s general collective tarot reading warns of stratagems, while highlighting a need for alertness and balance. Our main companion will be the Forest of Enchantment Tarot by Lunaea Weatherstone, brilliantly illustrated by Meraylah Allwood, and all the decks used in this reading are listed at the end of the post. That being said, let’s see if we can find out what the trickery is about. 🤔
The main energy this week is one of deception, of selective truths, and of others taking advantage of our lack of attention or awareness. It comes after change, or as a natural stage in the process of change, and it precedes The Emperor. The Emperor is pure masculine principles; it symbolizes authority, stability, solidity, structure, force, drive. While all these things can be used for good or for evil, with the Seven of Challenges/Swords darkness is suggested. The picture painted by the cards is that of machinations that could (mis)lead us right into an authoritarian situation. It’s not an overt movement, it’s not suppression or force, it’s not an attack. You don’t see it coming because it stays out of sight. It uses shadow and light, our ignorance and our susceptibility to distraction. The scene depicted in this particular Seven of Swords is very telling: foxes are stealing objects that the people in the wagon/vardo carelessly left outside. 🦊
What are you taking for granted in your life, assuming it’s always going to be there, even if left unattended? Maybe you should reassess what holds value to you and be more protective of those things.
Seldom, if ever, are we deceived into a positive situation. So, in this context, The Emperor becomes his darker version. He is no longer the just and wise ruler, but a tyrant. He imposes, dictates, punishes. He is inflexible, insensitive, inhuman(e). However, in the future position, this is only a possibility.
And here comes the guidance. In addition to the tarot, we also have two advice cards: Justice or The Crow from the Spiritsong Tarot and She of the Cruach from The Faeries’ Oracle. Wise advice! ⚖️
These two cards together speak of balancing the situation through sacred feminine energy. In order to avoid the negative, unbalanced version of masculine energy, gentleness must be embraced and practiced. Focusing on nourishment, healing, compassion, listening to others, being altogether open and awake can help us avoid being tricked into oppression. Just like the Moon is “awake” at night, the sacred feminine can be the light in the night of deception, basking in and reflecting the positive qualities of the sacred masculine, in a balance as perfect as the succession of day and night.
Let the Full Moon (in Aquarius) this weekend remind and inspire you to be receptive, so that truth and clarity can prevail. And keep up to the rhythm of love!
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Tarot and oracle decks used for this reading:
Forest of Enchantment Tarot by Lunaea Weatherstone, illustrated by Meraylah Allwood, published by Llewellyn
Spiritsong Tarot by Paulina Cassidy, published by U.S. Games Systems
The Faeries’ Oracle by Brian Froud, text by Jessica Macbeth, published by Atria Books, Simon & Schuster
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