Something that stands on the threshold
Something that waits within
Something I need to banish
Something I need to let in
Something I need not fear
Something I need to begin
I am pulling a card for each line/position. The layout looks like this:
……1…….
2………..3
4………..5
6
I am using Black Cats Tarot by Maria Kurara (Lo Scarabeo).
QUEEN OF SWORDS
The energy I typically pick up from this Queen is that of mental clarity, decisiveness, and intellect balanced with emotions. Her less desirable traits might include being critical (including self-critical) and harshly judgmental. If this Queen is “standing on the threshold,” she wants me to pay attention to those characteristics and ways in which I might be influenced by them (or people who exhibit them).
QUEEN OF PENTACLES
To say that this Queen “waits within” suggests that I already embody her characteristics, which include a desire to nurture (including self-nurture), generosity, and a down-to-earth, resourceful nature. Less desirable characteristics might include a tendency to be overly focused on the material world, overly concerned about my health, or insensitive and stubborn. These traits wait for me to enlist them as I choose.
STRENGTH
I need to banish any effort to use cruelty or force to “tame” or control the “lion” – the instinctual aspects of my nature, the passion or “life-force” that some might feel the need to repress or suppress in order to appear “civilized.” Instead, I need to seek balance and integration between instinct-passion and intellect, and to do so with quiet courage and inner fortitude.
THE HANGED MAN
I need to “let in” a completely different perspective or way of looking at things, to give myself time to pause and reflect, to be still and wait and watch. I need to “let in” the spirit that encourages me to question and challenge preconceived ideas or beliefs and perceptions foisted upon me by others. I need to “let in and let go.”
TEN OF SWORDS
In the Black Cats Tarot, this card does not depict the typical character with ten swords sticking out of his back. Instead, we see a cat considering whether to go through a door. He is on the brink of attaining what he has always desired, but is overwhelmed by fear. I need not fear taking the next step, moving forward through the door to embrace whatever awaits. From outside, it appears that the door opens on a stone-brick wall barricaded with swords – but that image is the product of fear. In order to find out what is actually on the other side of the door, I must go through.
FIVE OF SWORDS
I need to begin a battle or fight – probably within myself – between conflicting ideas, thoughts, or perspectives. For too long, perhaps, I have been complacent, allowing the “strongest” of the competitors to be in charge without challenge. It is time to push back.
Hi Zanna, interesting reading. I did have an alternative thought about your last card Five of Swords - something you need to begin, and thought perhaps it could also be suggestion that one needs to start to acknowledge their limitations and try to stay within those guidelines...... Just a thought.
ReplyDeleteThat's an interesting interpretation of the 5 of Swords, Helen. I have not ever thought of it that way. Thanks!
DeleteIt is often a card that signifies that one can have difficultly in translating their ideas into a reality. If often also indicates that one has to face up to their position in a situation more realistically rather than battling their way through. ^_^
ReplyDeleteInteresting! I will try to keep that in mind.
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