Synthesis and Reawakening ~ Tarot for 20 Feb 2017
Synthesis of hearts and minds cannot be imposed but instead achieved through quiet reflection. Negative thoughts can have a destructive effect upon our emotions. Channels we create by repeatedly visiting past issues become our present reality affecting our peace of mind which we inevitably visit upon others. Finding harmony within extends the same without and stepping aside from the drama in quiet reflection brings a clarity that escapes us when we remain engaged in all of it.
In today’s reading two cards from the suit of Cups along with one from Swords and one from the Major Arcana describe how awakening results when we bring our intellect and emotions into balance and align in Source Presence. The numerology of the cards is 10, 21, and 8 reducing to a final numerology of 3 or a catalyst for unification and wholeness.
The 10 of Swords from Aleister Crowley’s Thoth tarot depicts five swords coming together in the top half of the card with four swords positioned over a small red heart in the lower half of the card. The tenth is in the middle, pierced and broken into pieces by the four swords below. Its title is Ruin and suggests a betrayal of some kind or perhaps one’s own faulty reasoning. Our thoughts are in disarray but the scales on the hilt of the center top sword suggest a need for balance. Our thinking has become destructive with our emotions taking a back seat to our intellect.
From DuQuette:
Sol in Mercury-ruled Gemini brings a complete identification with the mind and the intellect, which, in this card, are in the very process of being destroyed. “It is the ruin of the Intellect,” Crowley intones, “and even of all mental and moral qualities.”¹
The excess continues as the 8 of Cups with eight cups giving a sloppy, indolent feel hence its title Indolence. It feels listless and without energy. We feel bereft and abandoned, the dark clouds suggesting a lack of clarity or confusion derived from lost focus.
The Queen of Cups is loving and dreamy. Intuitive, she is a natural witch and empath. Like her reflection in the pool below she aligns in Source Presence invoking the vibration of as above so below into her awareness. Her heart and intuition guide her choices as she casts loving intention to all.
The numerology of The Universe card aligns with the overall numerology of 3 or the catalyst for unification and wholeness. When we incarnate into form, we experience a forgetting of sorts and over time our attention becomes focused on our immediate environment in lieu of our true nature. In other words, we forget we’re the Creator and begin reacting in judgment to everything we experience. We believe the separateness that we see and find justification for that belief. In short, we move further and further away from others as well as from a healthy balance within.
I have the sense that we’re tired of the conflict. Our hearts really cannot take much more. All attempts to reason our way find no purchase given the heightened emotions that many are experiencing. Like the Queen, we find benefit in going within considering our options with grace and compassion. The Universe card marks the end of the Major Arcana where awakening is ours.
The All-Seeing Eye looks down upon the Goddess, her foot resting on the head of a serpent that appears to emerge from the Eye itself. Rebirth and renewal, understanding embraced, her journey of awakening complete. Her unfettered joy is felt as she spirals through consciousness both in ending and beginning in unification and wholeness.
As we go within we reawaken and remember that our hearts and minds were once in synthesis and harmony and with certainty can be again. We are one as the Creator, not a mere cliché but a reality. In quiet reflection we know this to be true. As we balance reason with compassion our response to others is softened, extending forgiveness and love to others as we receive the same in gratitude and joy.
Besides, it’ll keep our minds off all those terrorist attacks happening in Sweden right now.
#StandWithSweden
Blessings!
References:
- DuQuette, Lon Milo. Understanding Aleister Crowley’s Thoth Tarot (p. 254). Red Wheel Weiser. Kindle Edition.
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