As Above, So Below for Monday, 6 November 2023

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The reading notes for today’s reading are below. You’re welcome to watch the video here.

Significator Runes: Laguz (21st rune, intuition, flow, harmony, clairsentience, occult, assertive female, dream work, trance work, emotional balance, draw energy back to you, purification, cleansing, Water; Rubeus (misuse of force, red hair, passion, temper, vice, sexual, destruction, violence, overreaction, either/or)

Cards: 5 of Pentacles, Ace of Cups, 10 of Cups; additional card: 3 of Cups

Pattern(s): A run on Cups (Water element) or issues of change and emotion, the number 5 and change, snowstorm in the 5 of Pentacles that indicates the Water element.

Overall numerology: 21+5+1+10=37; 3+7=10; 1+0=1. With the additional card, 3+1=4; Cards only: 5+1+3+1=10; 1+0=1

Beginning with the significator runes, Laguz represents the flow of spirit into our awareness. It represents cleansing and purification and our intuition. It can also be chanted when dissolving energetic channels you create with other people, memories, and circumstances. Laguz can then be visualized as a magickal hook to draw your own energy back to you. Rubeus, on the other hand, as the below side of the equation, represents a misuse of force, either from you or from someone else. It can describe overreaction, and an either/or perspective. Together, it seems we have some opposite energies at work within today: staying in the flow of spirit while controlling your reactions or dealing with the reactions of someone else.

Defining the runic influences further, we begin with the 5 of Pentacles. Here we see two people walking in a snowstorm. Their clothing is tattered, one is using crutches and is bandaged, and both people appear to be shoeless. A stained glass window depicting five pentacles is on the side of a building next to them suggesting they’re walking by a church. The number five suggests change so we can infer from the scene that the people have experienced some profound change in their material circumstances, and the blizzard they’re walking through is presenting some difficult challenges for them. The fact that there is no door visible may indicate that there is no help available to them, or at least they believe there is no help available.

At this point, all we know is that a change in circumstances has occurred which is overwhelming. If this card also relates to Rubeus, it could be that a misuse of force has instigated the situation.

Next, the Ace of Cups, a card of Elemental Water, illustrates a hand reaching out from a cloud holding a golden cup. A dove drops a white disc with a cross on its face into the cup, while five streams of water pour out of the cup and into the water below, nourishing the lilies that are growing there. Aces represent the genesis of something, and in this case, it could be defining the genesis of new emotional awareness. Relating this to the 5 of Pentacles, this genesis may be growing out of a significant change in your life. Considering that each suit may contain elements unrelated to the suit, Pentacles involves our physical reality and our material security while Cups involves our emotions and change. It could be that the people in the 5 of Pentacles feel shame and cannot ask for help. If so, the Ace of Cups is suggesting that you reconsider that choice so that you don’t have to face these challenges alone and that support is actually there for you.

While looking at the 10 of Cups, it became clear that the reading needed another card between the Ace and the 10 because there seems to be a piece of information missing that happens before the successful outcome suggested by the 10. So, I drew the 3 of Cups, another card that is reinforcing the strong emotional component of the reading.

We see in the 3 of Cups, three woman dancing while holding their cups high in celebration. They could be celebrating harvest, but applying that idea of celebrating with others to the reading, the 3 of Cups may be suggesting that friends and family are there to help you through whatever has happened to create change in your life. This doesn’t feel like an offering of money, given all of the cards from the suit of Cups, but of emotional support instead.

Looking at the final card of the reading, the 10 of Cups, we see a home on a hill with a family celebrating out in front of the property. The kids are dancing, dad has his arm around mom, and they each hold an arm up in celebration of their good fortune. Ten cups curve into an archway in the sky in a rainbow-like fashion suggesting the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow involves emotional satisfaction and security.

SUMMATION

So, it appears that a change in circumstances has taken place in your life where you’re feeling overwhelmed by the emotions you’re experiencing. You may be hesitant to ask for support from friends and/or family, but in doing so, you may find that an abundant amount support is there to help you through what’s happened. There could have been a personal agenda at work that caused the situation. Maybe a relationship has ended and a new genesis is possible. The 10 of Cups suggests that success, happiness, emotional satisfaction are possible as you move past what has happened, and that even though the situation was upsetting, it opened the door to a whole new life that can bring tremendous abundance and satisfaction.