It's easy to be a leader. Just be honest, kind, and your true self, and ta-dah! - you are leading by example.
Showing posts with label king of wands. Show all posts
Showing posts with label king of wands. Show all posts
04 November 2012
14 June 2012
Today's Tarot - King of Wands
18 May 2012
The 79th Tarot Card
From www.baihusnewshaikus.blogspot.com (used with permission)
Sully Sullenberger. 'Nuff said.
A quiet leader
Is the most effective kind
They lead through action.
Is the most effective kind
They lead through action.
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Even with all of its depth and complexity, there are some things tarot cards don't cover. And that is saying something. Just look at the math...78 cards, times the number of cards in a spread (I use 7 at the most but a celtic cross has something like 12) times the number of potential "meanings" for each card, plus the shades of position meaning...let's just say it covers a lot of ground.
Earlier today I watched an interview with Captain Sullenberger. He's the airplane pilot that made the safe splash landing on the Hudson River a few years ago. He's written a book, and I want to read it...but that's beside the point. The interview focused on leadership, and staying calm under stress.
So what does that have to do with tarot? While the tv was on, I was trying to come up with today's post. It made me wonder...what is the best tarot card to exemplify good leadership? Diane Morgan associates it with the King of Wands. Ted Andrews attaches various aspects of leadership among all of the king cards. The Emperor is another candidate, as would any of the court / royalty cards.
I want to take it a step further. I think the role of leadership belongs squarely with the 79th tarot card...the tarot reader themselves.
Whether you read for others or just for yourself, there is a responsibility of leadership. If you read for others, it is important to be and example of ethics, wisdom, learning, listening and openness...or whatever qualities you believe essential for your sitters to grow. If you read just for yourself, without acting on what you learn, the act of reading cards is impotent and futile.
Tarot cards are, as has been said many times, a tool alone. They are just a means to access the real oracle, the real source of information, the real leader...our intuition and spirit.
02 June 2011
Daily Meditation - King of Wands
King of Wands: Example is the most powerful form of leadership because it is deeply authentic and genuine. Being so, it is respected.
13 March 2011
three card pathway reading 13 March 2011
Just following impulse, instinct and intuition. It seemed like a day for a three card reading instead of the usual daily meditation. I'm not sure why, but here it is, offered in the hope it is helpful to someone.
Lessons from the past: King of Wands, leadership. Wands often have to do with our inner journey, inner learning. This card has a feel of "learn from your mistakes of the past"...in times where you have been timid, it is time to be a leader. Stand up for what you believe is right. My mind is drawn to the political events in Wisconson, USA. Also a bit to other peaceful pro-democracy demonstrations world wide. Now my mind is drawn to the Jacob character in Twilight. Just because a natural leader has put off that role in the past, does not mean they can not assume leadership I 'hear' "sometimes the benevolant king can ascend the throne". On an individual level, the past may have been difficult, mistakes may have been made, hurtful things may have happened...but you can still act with compassion and dignity even if others don't. Assume your throne.
The current concern: 6 of wands, peace. One person does not a peaceful society make. One person a peaceful life can make, and many peaceful people together can transform the world. Here my mind is drawn to a strong feeling of compassion toward Japan, even more so than other disasters for some reason...I don't know why, it isn't right per se, but that is the feeling of the moment. Perhaps because I just heard a news report that this one was magnitudes worse than Haiti even... it is the way geology works. The Richter scale goes up by magnitudes...one point up on the scale means damage and repercussions many times worse than the point before. Although I haven't thought of it, or looked at the website in quite a long time, my mind is drawn to the "I take the vow" project that was, at least in part, started by Deepak Chopra. I don't know why that comes to mind or quite how it relates to this, but I give it in case it helps somehow. I get the sense that organization isn't quite what it was when it started, but I associate that idea of "be the change you want to see in the world" both with that website and with this card right now.
The path forward: 2 of coins, balance. Here I think of the "middle way"...that moderation, balance, and avoiding extremes is the best way forward right now. Act...but act effectively. Extremism, fundamentalism, judgmentalism, or other extremes are a bad idea right now. The feeling here is very much balance, and especially "work smarter, not harder" . Efficiency is a key to having the resources to play, and to bring a life situation back into balance.
The "cold reading" portion this (the mental images that may or may not have to do with the cards or current question) shows first of all an image of the USA map...this reading my be for the nation as a whole, though the image is faint, and I'm not really confident in saying that. The feeling and idea of CALM comes through as essential. Also the phrase CALM AUTHENTICITY. (can use that advice myself...hope it helps you too).
And there the energies end.
Happy Sunday to you, what's left of it. I hope you have calm and peace when it is needed
Baihu
15 November 2010
King of Wands daily meditation reading for you
King of Wands: take a leadership role in your own life. You are in charge of the world that exists within your own heart and mind.
27 January 2010
king of wands
Sometimes making the decision is harder than the actions that must follow
Baihu
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