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Card Meanings: Defeat, Floods, Stormy Relationships, Return From Travel, Eloping, Difficulties, Causing Trouble, Lack Of Progress, Nowhere To Run, Slow Healing, Obstacles, Out Of Frying Pan Into Fire, Disrupted/Cancelled Travel, Stuck, Trapped, Delay, Standing Your Ground, Rocking The Boat, Changing/ Abandoned Plans, Trouble Coming, Overwhelmed, Instability
Part of the inner lore of the Lord of Science is depicted most clearly on the Ryder Waite deck of Tarot cards, where you will find that a family sits in a small boat, which is being poled across a river by the father of the family. This is a symbolic journey away from the Land of Unreason to the Promised Land (youll notice the connection here with the exodus of the Jews from Egypt). And it is within this hidden lore that we can discover much about the influence of the 6 of Swords. Interpretatively, the card indicates a period where the querent is sailing into safe haven after having had a bit of a bumpy ride. There is a sense of tranquillity and ease…..a lifting of burdens….a time for rest and recovery here. The concept of crossing the river is one that turns up again and again in mythology. Psychologically, the river can be taken to indicate the flow of the subconscious, emotional Self, whilst the fragile craft in which we travel may be taken as the strivings we make toward spirituality. This can often be tossed about by rapid flowing, ever-changing feelings…..but in the end, with sufficient determination, we can indeed reach the shores on the farther side of the river.
So, on a day ruled by the Lord of Science, we need to regard ourselves as moving into calmer waters. Problems must be approached rationally, and objectively. Emotional swings will be better curbed than indulged. Thus we shall find new and different solutions to difficulties. We shall see things clearly, get issues into sharp focus and perhaps establish new perspectives. We must strive to climb for the higher ground, so as to get an overview on life which allows us to see its overall pattern. Reach for whatever you consider to be the Gods on a day like today….stretch upwards and outwards, and attempt to consciously make contact with the Higher Powers of our Universe. Try to get a broader perspective on the whole idea of life….. And allow your tensions to slide away, minimised by the grand view you are able to achieve!
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Reversed Cards: The Six of Swords shows Mercury and Aquarius coming together for some future thinking, yet here in the retrograde aspect, Mercurys wires might be getting a little crossed and causing confusion. Not all journeys run smoothly, and not everyone makes it to the other side unscathed. If the Six of Swords has shown up in the retrograde aspect, you may need to slow down and do your daily tasks one at a time. Break up your larger goals so that you can stay focused on shorter deadlines, and keep checking to make sure that you arent actually going backward!
Tarot Triumphs: It is this visual impact that draws most of us to the Tarot today. We are lured in by its imagery and the intensity of its symbolism; it has a kind of theatricality. The cards also create a sense of mystery, of a meaningful sequence that may point the way to a school of knowledge behind the construction of the images. Views vary as to what these inner teachings may be, and we may never know whether the cards came together as a result of deliberate embodiment of such teachings, or whether they are the result of a merging of folk wisdom and classical learning, fashioned over time by usage. Their exact history is still elusive, though much has been discovered over the last fifty years, as we shall see in the next chapter.
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Reversed Cards: The Strength card is one of the three virtue cards in the major arcana. In its upright position, it teaches the lesson of fortitude by showing us the many ways strength can be played out in our physical experience. It can speak of inner strength, confidence, will, and resolve. Yet it is in the reversed position of this card that I find the deeper lessons. For if in its upright position it represents fortitude, then in its upside-down state it can represent non-fortitude. A Buddhist teaching, the idea of non-fortitude is not one we consider very often, which is why I think we have a lot to learn from the upside-down, topsy-turvy nature of the Strength card. Adding to the story this card tells is its number, the eight. The eight speaks of a continuum, a constant flow and abundance. In numerology eights offer great lessons on money and physical resources. The energy of the eight mixed with the virtue of fortitude embodies the stoic idea that ‘the obstacle is the way,’ meaning that we dont really know how resilient or strong we are until we are tested to move outside our comfort zone.