DruidCraft Tarot: Self in Balance

 

I love my DruidCraft Tarot deck. It’s a big deck and sometimes I have trouble shuffling the cards given its size, but the cards are just beautiful and they leave such an impression. I often lay out spreads in an intuitive way and this one was no different. Three cards from the Major Arcana form an inverted triangle and deal with overall spiritual issues and the other three cards illustrate how we function in the physical realm.

Death, Strength, and The Fool appear together forming the spiritual archetypes that influence and give us our foundation. The Fool begins his journey in innocence and trust. He expresses our potential in form. He is ready to take the leap of faith, sure in his choice, trusting the adventure of his new life.

Death indicates Callieach, the Goddess in her Crone aspect. Rebirth and becoming are favored when this card appears in a reading. Making way for new opportunities and change for the better is in store. Transformation is now at hand.

The last card in the spread from the Major Arcana is Strength. The woman stands in her power, loving and allowing. She has tamed the wild boar by her side. She represents wild wisdom, blending her instinctual and more conventional aspects of self.

What these three cards from the Major Arcana tell us is that as we go forth on our journey through life, we move in nonresistance, standing in our own quiet power, neither forcing or directing, but allowing our lives to unfold as they will. The Fool trusts his experience, observing without judgment all that he sees.

The remaining three cards, the Two of Cups, Five of Wands, and the Queen of Swords bring three elemental energies into play: Water, Fire, and Air. Water governs our emotional presence, Fire our catalytic presence, and Air our intellectual presence. Earth is not present.

Life in duality is influenced by the Two of Cups as this card brings to the reading equanimity and partnership as it balances projective and receptive energies within and without.

The Five of wands suggests the Fool may experience a certain amount of chaotic tension while on his journey, illustrating the need for balance and a measured response. Challenges are a natural part of life and the goal is to observe without judgment so that choices made are clear and not necessarily in response to chaos brought by others to the situation.

The Queen of Swords rounds out the final three cards, bringing grace and intuition to the spread. Rising above the fray, making the intelligent choice, the Queen of Swords sits on her throne, comfortable in her power, manifesting her quiet Strength.

As his journey unfolds, it feels like The Fool ultimately becomes the Queen of Swords in this reading. She’s learned to stay in her own alignment, experiencing life in nonresistance. She sits in calm observation, remaining unaffected by life around her. She doesn’t suffer fools as they say, her sword at the ready, but she isn’t particularly bothered by others either.

The Queen manifests change as needed, fully embracing her Maiden, Mother, and Crone aspects of Self. In fact, it could be said that the Fool, Strength, and Death represent energies of the Triple Goddess, Maiden, Mother and Crone respectively as they illustrate not only the cyclical nature of our lives but also its transformational nature as well.

Observing the experience without judgment frees us to endlessly create in joy and love. The Fool grows in her experience, becoming the Queen, settled and sure.

Very cool! I love when the Queen of Swords is in a reading. It’s one of the cards that resonates most with me. She’s noble and has integrity. I love that.

So let your inner Queen of Swords reign!

~Blessed Be