Manifested Will

Tarot cards are not only divided into four suits but the Major Arcana is also separated into three groups in the same manner as are runes, seven for Tarot and eight for the Elder Futhark. In today’s three-card tarot reading, there is one card from each group representing soul archetypes relating to mind, body, and Spirit, or inner awareness, awareness of others, and awareness of Spirit.

Our will seems to be in play for the next few days with The Chariot, The Tower, and the 8 of Wands presenting. Issues of control may be coming up if the fiery colors on each card are any indication. Archetypal influences from the Major Arcana dominate the reading and it’s interesting that the overall numerology of each card is seven suggesting magick, balance, the shadow side of self along with intuition and divinity. Thirteen is the overall numerology of the reading, however, it’s typically reduced to four or Mother Earth energy. I like to leave it at thirteen because I consider it a Master Witch number, but that’s just me. Witches are full of Gaia energy, so I see no problem leaving it at thirteen.

Four Kerubic beasts stand ready in front of The Chariot. The Knight in golden armor, a crab sits atop his head signifying a card of Cancer. He holds a round bluish shield, rays emanating from the red orb in its center. The Chariot represents polarity and knowing when to assert oneself or to surrender to others. Movement and mastery along with strength and balance are among traditional interpretations.

Although The Tower is card 16 of the Major Arcana, it reduces to 7 placing it in synchronicity with The Chariot. And while The Chariot represents all that the first six cards have to teach us, The Tower seems to indicate that we’re ready to experience the further transformation, this time of Spirit. The All Seeing Eye of the Creator watches The Tower’s destruction as the dragon breathes its fiery solution below. A dove flies above the fray while the serpent of renewal sits coiled and ready while geometric-shaped people fall to their deaths. Reminiscent of Hagalaz, the witch rune from the Elder Futhark that indicates destruction prior to renewal, The Tower utilizes Mars energy in the manifestation of our will to create anew.

The numerology of both The Tower and The Chariot is seven, the number for magick, balance, and the shadow side of self. Seven has always represented the scales to me, three on either side of the one, hanging in balance from that center point of rest. The Chariot ends the first grouping of the Major Arcana dealing with issues of the mind, while The Tower appears toward the beginning of the third grouping dealing with universal or soul archetypes. Clearly, we’ve progressed but we need to look at the third card, the 8 of Wands for more clarity.

Crowley titles the 8 of Wands, Swiftness, eight red-orange lightning bolts moving in all directions in front of a crystalline Merkaba in elemental balance. Arching over the Merkaba is a rainbow with the astrological glyphs of Mercury and Sagittarius in each top corner. Eight represents strength and practical matters and if I rearrange the cards placing the eight in the center, then we see a more meaningful picture, with The Chariot establishing our inner balance, beginning our exploration of self in society from a position of strength. The 8 of Wands represents the expression of our manifested will and our alignment with Spirit. We center, align and then know the way forward, in this case, willfully destroying what does not serve Spirit.

Humanity is no longer in its spiritual infancy. Instead, we’re ready to collectively ascend to the next density of experience. Outmoded ideas are cast into the fiery abyss as the All Seeing Eye of Spirit provides clarity. It’s time to not only speak our own truth but to assert truth with a higher purpose. Polarity must give way to the realization that each of us is an aspect of the other, and together we are the Creator expressing Itself in form to know more.

The rainbow represents our rainbow body of light, the Merkaba our soul vehicle, as we manifest joy in willful abandon. In alignment with Higher Self, joy is the natural result of that focus. So whether I rearrange the cards or leave them as they were, the 8 of Wands represents our soul, the arrowed tipped lightning bolts suggesting infinite expansion. We are everywhere, our souls radiating throughout creation. And we’re ready to manifest…more.

Blessed Be