CARDS OF THE WEEKEND: January 21-22, 2023

 

Two of Pentacles and Temperance

Neo Tarot

by Jerico Mandybur with art by Daiana Ruiz

 

   

January 21-22, 2023: Balance and blending are the key concepts here, illustrated by two cards from Neo Tarot who wished to collaborate on this weekend's message--the Minor Arcana's Two of Pentacles and the Major Arcana's Temperance.

The first most often refers to balance within practical, earthly matters with the prancing figure skillfully keeping everything moving in harmony. The second takes things to more psychological, archetypal, and magickal levels, hinting that it's possible to make the "impossible" happen.

Consider the truth, too, that what we think of as earthly and what we think of as spiritual are already one, already perfectly functioning as one. Lean and relax into that reality.

I continue to enjoy Daiana Ruiz's art for this deck, and I especially love the sapphire blue spurt of water from vessel to bowl and the lavender aura emanating from the Temperance angel's head. And, of course, that outfit with its wing-like power shoulders!

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CARDS OF THE WEEK: May 23-27, 2022

 

The Moon and Temperance

The Llewellyn Tarot

by Anna-Marie Ferguson

May 23-27, 2022: I own a Majors-only review sample of Anna-Marie Ferguson's Llewellyn Tarot which I think I liked well enough but, I guess, not enough to seek out all 78 Majors and Minors when the full deck was published in late 2006. I stored the Llew away, never used it for readings, and I'm just noticing that the collection of sample Majors included an instructional card with a five-card cross like mine but with a different sequence and position meanings. If you have the deck, you might find its five-card layout a helpful alternative. Try mine, too, of course!

For this week, two poetically conceived cards called my attention: The Moon and Temperance. They make an interesting pair.

With The Moon, you fly under the full moon over the Lake of Maidens, your owl-like perception further heightened and intensified by an unfettered expanse of emotions symbolized by the element of Water. Ferguson's Temperance, though--the spirit of careful balance and moderation in all things--appears to live at the bottom of the lake where, accompanied by her white dog, she pours water from a clay vessel into a well.

Pouring water into a well under a lake?!

We've slipped into a mythic world.

In this pairing, Temperance's surreal and compelling scenario hints at an unexpected place of serenity inside that deep lake of emotion, inside the power of all that water. There's a steadiness or meditative calibration within all that power. We're back with our Magician's knowledge and skill that keep the potential danger of working with the forces of nature under control. You really have to know what you're doing and, oddly enough-d, that might well be a combination of doing and not doing.

For this week, contemplate that pairing--doing and not doing.

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CARD OF THE DAY: March 31, 2022

 

Temperare

The Gill Tarot

by Elizabeth Josephine Gill

 

March 31, 2022: All of the elements show up in Temperare, the Temperance of Elizabeth Josephine Gill's eponymous Tarot deck. Her crowned angel conjures a blend of Air, Earth, Fire, Water, and Spirit (or Aether). By doing so--and, in her graceful gesture, uniting Above with Below--the angel creates an atmosphere in which no one element will get out of whack. Even elements that might appear radically different in nature and incompatible somehow connect, blend, and work together.

Notice that fire rising from the water? And, no, I don't think we're talking about the various times burning oil slicks turned Ohio's polluted Cayuhoga into a river of fire!

What is that wall of flames rising out of the water? My first thought is: fervent action based in and continuously fueled by deep passion. I invite you to consider how that might apply to you and the opportunities and concerns of your day.

What feelings and passions may be stirred and freed, to great benefit, as you address the actions--from mundane to extraordinary--that will make up your day? How do they power and serve your intentions, your reserves of energy, your efficacy?

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