Hello, Heartbeats! Wow, empowerment is being channeled from our Higher Selves into the mundane aspects of our lives! The decks of cards I used are Tarot of the Golden Wheel, Karma Angels, and Spiritsong Tarot, and you can find more details about each one of them right after the reading, at the bottom of the post.
The picture painted by the cards this week is clear, fluent, to the point. In a nutshell: we have stability in divine power that manifests into sharp, mature, confident mental abilities, and is used in the daily conflicts/challenges that make us change – hopefully for the better. But let’s have a closer look!
The Emperor sits on his throne, surrounded by clouds, way above ground level, a falcon on his left hand. The Emperor symbolizes masculine attributes of the Divine. He embodies stability, structure, calm courage, practical wisdom, self-containment. He is the ultimate protector and ruler. However, he is an absolute, an ideal, meaning that this energy never materializes in its purest (positive) form.
Here comes the King of Swords – the master of ideas, words, and, most importantly, his own mind and knowledge. Through him, The Emperor energy starts narrowing down to a practical facet. The King of Swords sits on a throne, too, but the heavy clouds in the scene reveal that this throne is placed directly on the ground. Like The Emperor, he too has a bird, but his is a symbol on his garments, and it sits on his chest, symbolizing his deep commitment to truth, knowledge, and freedom – particularly of thought. We could say that, in this context, the King of Swords resides at the border between thought and materialization.
The next card is the Five of Wands, which depicts five boys play-fighting on a cloudy but warm day, unlike the snowy environment of the King of Swords. In this illustration, the sky is in the background, and three swallows fly freely under the clouds. At the forefront, on a verdant meadow, there is a training match. The young men are confidently putting their knowledge and skills to the test. Some will win, some will lose, but everyone will gain experience and new insight. Through application in the real world, their ideas will change or consolidate – either way, it is a learning process.
We could see this succession of cards as a funnel for awareness. Yes, at a certain level awareness is pure and (probably) endless, but, as long as we live a material life, it has to transmute into practice.
There could be more to interpret, including the colors in the cards, but the essential point would not change, so let’s keep the reading on the shorter side, and look at the additional cards.
The first one is part of the Karma Angels oracle deck, and it represents the angel Nith Haiah. Nith Haiah evokes the solitude of the poet, that independence of thought that can be achieved by embodying our personal truth. It’s the mental confidence that does not need external validation, because it is rooted in divine truth. The book of Nith Haiah might be the one under the right arm of the King of Swords, the knowledge the Five of Wands is in the middle of processing.
We also have the Knight of Acorns, represented by the Boar in the Spiritsong Tarot, a deck that can be also used as an animal oracle. This card encourages us to take action! Your knowledge needs to be put into action: what stands the test of practicality should be kept, what doesn’t can be discarded without regret. And in the process, new ideas and observations will appear.
So… just do it!
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Tarot and oracle decks used for this reading:
- Tarot of the Golden Wheel by Mila Losenko, published by U.S. Games Systems
- Karma Angels by Marcus Katz and Tali Goodwin, art by A. A. Atanassov, published by Lo Scarabeo
- Spiritsong Tarot by Paulina Cassidy, published by U.S. Games Systems
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