Awakening the I Am ~ Tarot for 3 Jan 2017

The 2 of Cups has been coming up more frequently in recent divinations. The Sun and the 3 of Cups join in to set a catalyzed emotional tone of love and joy to the reading. The numerology is 2, 3, and 19 resulting in 6 or Higher Self, harmony, love, and the I Am layer of Self.

Looking again at the 2 of Cups, we see an peacock looking down adoringly at the spark of love coming from the two chalices below her. Seven stars arise form each cup, the magick of love in harmonious balance. The 1st hexagram of the I Ching represents Qian or The Creative as our genesis or primal essence.

Qian expounds the nature of Nature, the principle of Creation. Qian, the Initiating, is the most sublime, the most firm, the most central, and the most upright. It possesses the attributes of initiation, prosperity, harmony, and steadfastness. It moves forward endlessly and inexhaustibly. It is an ideal model of human conduct.¹

Although it can also be applied to relationships, the 2 of Cups really represents the creative aspect of Self in harmony as we balance the sacred feminine and masculine energies within. Contrast that with the 3 of Cups, which depicts three overflowing chalices in what appears to be a cave representing our inner emotional presence. The 28th hexagram, Da Guo or Great Exceeding present on the card suggests that power is transitory in nature with our intuition guiding any potential response. In other words, sometimes we place too much importance on the transitory or temporary nature of life.

Great exceeding suggests a situation that is out of balance. It denotes an extraordinary situation requiring extraordinary action. Confucius’s Commentary on the Symbol says, “The superior person stands alone without fear and withdraws from the world with no depression.” This is the proper attitude for taking extraordinary action in an extraordinary situation. Because the situation is unusual, not everyone is able to take such action; one should stand alone without fear. If one fails, one is able to withdraw from the world without suffering. In so doing, one acts in accordance with the spirit of taking extraordinary action in an extraordinary situation.²

Things that are too big are difficult to control, and things that are too firm are easy to break: this is the defect of Great exceeding. This gua expounds the truth of adjustment between the strong and the weak, the excessive and the deficient. If one masters the principle of adjustment, no matter how difficult the situation, any problem can be solved.³

This suggests that the 3 of Cups cautions us to refrain from judgment, to stand apart in observation without our emotions clouding our perception. All may not be lost, as it were.

Now the Sun, the 19th card from the Major Arcana depicts both the Hebrew letter Resh or head and Gebo, the seventh rune of the Elder Futhark indicating balanced energy exchange. As significator for Spirit, the Sun indicates expansion and awakening. The light of clarity has returned promising material gain, happiness, freedom, and contentment. A new day is dawning across the land, a single rose stands in the foreground suggesting our direction is toward unity and love.

Ideally, irrespective of the drama that may be coming, the I Am layer of Self should remain unaffected by it all, instead observing and then acting when appropriate. We stay away from emotional reaction to the situation as it unfolds, allowing our emotions to take a back seat to our alignment in Source Presence. Each of us gives everything we see and experience the meaning it has.

The situation at hand is giving everyone the chance to choose. Will that choice reflect the awakened choice of unity and service to others, or the more problematic choice that service to self has given us? The reading seems to suggest that awakening to Higher Self is the way to proceed if humanity is to succeed as One. Because no amount of divisiveness will ever destroy that truth, that humanity is one Creative Presence.

Remember and awaken to the I Am.

Blessed Be

 

References:

1. Huang, Taoist Master Alfred. The Complete I Ching — 10th Anniversary Edition: The Definitive Translation by Taoist Master Alfred Huang (Kindle Locations 776-778). Inner Traditions/Bear & Company. Kindle Edition.
2. Huang, Taoist Master Alfred. The Complete I Ching — 10th Anniversary Edition: The Definitive Translation by Taoist Master Alfred Huang (Kindle Locations 4526-4530). Inner Traditions/Bear & Company. Kindle Edition
3. Huang, Taoist Master Alfred. The Complete I Ching — 10th Anniversary Edition: The Definitive Translation by Taoist Master Alfred Huang (Kindle Locations 4531-4533). Inner Traditions/Bear & Company. Kindle Edition.