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Showing posts with label swords. Show all posts
Showing posts with label swords. Show all posts
24 March 2013
10 August 2012
Tarot Trivia - elementals
Coincidentally, "yang", like fire, is also associated with wealth, like coins, in Chinese Astrology and Feng Shui. Cups in tarot are usually shown as golden or metallic goblets. Metal is a supportive or generative element for water in the eastern tradition as well.
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29 June 2010
Elemental
Where is your favorite vacation spot? What natural setting makes you feel comforted, energized, relaxed, inspired, centered, grounded and connected - all at once?
Find your natural element affinity, and you may find one suite of the Minor Arcana portion of the Tarot cards have special meaning and resonance for you....
Cups=water, coins = earth, wands = fire, swords = air (source: "Animal-Wise Tarot" by Ted Andrews, Dragonhawk Publishing, Jackson Tn, USA 2007) www.dragonhawkpublishing.com
Baihu
15 October 2009
Knight of swords
If you find yourself outside of your comfort zone, it might be time to make your comfort zone bigger, not run for comfort.
Expanded post on knight of swords on kindle blog today: http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Oracle-Tarot/dp/B0029XF5WO
Baihu
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Expanded post on knight of swords on kindle blog today: http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Oracle-Tarot/dp/B0029XF5WO
Baihu
www.modern-oracle-tarot.com
08 October 2009
3 of SWORDS
3 of swords - "corruption"
Betrayal and corrupt authority can, in the right people, teach activism and autonomy...
"All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" ~ Thomas Jefferson
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent" ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Baihu
02 October 2009
10 of SWORDS
This time of year has always been associated with dark, even frightening scary things...Halloween, longer, colder nights, the shortages and disease associated with winters past.
They say the veil is thin between this world and the next this time of year... maybe that is why some of the most challenging and even frightening cards the Tarot deck has to offer.
There is nothing to be gained by avoiding or sugar-coating the cards, so lets roll up our metaphysical sleeves and take a look at the 10 of swords.
Even the artwork on this card, in the Raider-White deck anyway, is a little intimidating. It can't be fun for that guy to be face down in the dirt with a bunch of swords sticking out of his back. Yikes!
Traditional meanings for the card include treachery, defeat, ending, ruin...not fun stuff.
The 10 of Swords is a little less drastic than the Death card. It can mean ultimate, final end...but the connotation is more compartmentalized. Rather than a global, irreversable life-altering change, this is more like a project that fails. A romance ending, an invention that doesn't sell, the hand-made sweater 5 sizes too big...that sort of thing. Like the Death card, though, the 10 of swords also has the promise of new beginnings. Only an empty cup can be filled...even if the emptying process isn't a lot of fun. "As one door closes, another opens."
The little I've read about numerology tends to associate the number 10 in general to extreme ending and finality...we leave single digits and enter the next level.
From the yin-yang perspective of eastern philosophy we again see the idea of any extreme becoming its opposite...ending becomes beginning, one more than nine is demonstrated with a zero and a one...
The same is true of the of failure seen in this card. In the extreme of failure lies the seeds of success. I think of it like those Dyson commercials, where they talk of all the prototypes it took to develop their product. Another favorite example is Pixar's "Meet the Robinsons" one of our family's favorite movies..."yeah! you failed!"...you can learn from failure, but from success "not so much".
I believe this is the lesson of the 10 of swords, too.
This tarot card asks us to think about why we fail in life...and who defines our successes and failures?
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent" ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
"Failure is always an option" ~ Mythbusters
If we use failure to learn persistence, clarity of understanding, release of attachments...and all the other things that adversity can teach...then failure becomes something to be celebrated, not dreaded. Or at least taken in stride
"keep moving forward"!
Baihu
11 August 2009
PAGE OF SWORDS
Faith is like a swinging sword: it shouldn't be used blindly.
Think of where you place your faith.
Blind faith, and belief out of habit is a kind of dishonesty.
What you believe in the end doesn't matter as much as the process of thinking about it first.
20 July 2009
Ace of Swords psychic tarot daily meditation
Ace of Swords:
No one can become enlightened for you. Spiritual awakening is a solitary experience that requires courage. Doors may open and close, but only you can walk through them or walk on to the next.
01 May 2009
daily meditation 8 of swords
8 of Swords:
Numerology isn’t my strong suite. WAAAYYYYY too much like math and arithmatic…
But it comes up often enough in Tarot readings. The cards are numbered, and lots of one number or another can turn up and is usually a hint or message-carrier of some sort. Most of the time I just refer the sitter to the internet to learn about the numbers for themselves. That way they are more likely to find the true message for them, rather than have their perceptions of the number formed by my interpretations.
A friend of mine swears by Doreen Virtues’ Angel numbers. I found it a bit of snooze, and didn’t resonate with it at all…except for the number 8
She cites the number as being the symbol for infinity. This is also true in the Hindu / Buddhist tradition, and is part of the reason meditation beads from that tradition often have 108 beads.
She also associates it with abundance, and career luck. I’ll take that nowadays. Wouldn’t we all?
In most cases I associate swords with our relationship with society at large. The idea of “steadfastness” combined with the number 8’s abundance and career luck leads me to this simple bit of wisdom that we all know…but warrants a thought in today’s economy.
It is sort of a cosmic ‘hang in there’
Steadfastness, and persistence is an essential element in success, in the mental, physical or spiritual realms, all three.
In our physical livelihood, we persist for material success. You can’t get a paycheck if you don’t show up for work every day. It takes persistence to keep at our chosen career, improve it, succeed at it.
In the mental realm, it takes persistence to learn. Repetition is a key element in learning at any age.
Spiritually, growth, learning, experiencing, observing…all are continual aspects of our spiritual life. That never ceases. Plus if we move in the opposite direction here…our spiritual supports are steadfast, persistant and reliable. If we don’t feel that kind of persistent and utterly reliable guidance and support from our spiritual path, then we may be on the wrong path…but that is an idea for another day.
So Steadfastness and persistence are an element of success in mind, body, and spirit, to borrow a phrase from Holistic Health.
It also connotes an element of self-discipline. We have to be self-disciplined enough to do what we need to do to care for ourselves so we are physically able to work our jobs, find our jobs, and provide for ourselves and our families.
It takes self-dicipline to learn and practice something new, to keep mentally progressing and not stagnate. This will help keep the mind sharp and the emotions healthy.
It takes self-discipline to ask the hard questions, face the hard realities and choose the right spiritual path, and to persist on that path of spirituality once we find the right one.
All of these things have some thread of connection with our place in society and our personal responsibility. All topics that have become relevant in national politics and society at large today.
All of these things have connections with success and abundance on both the material and intangible plains.
Wishing you an infinity of success and the steadfastness to get you there.
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