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Card Meanings: Rigid, Stalemate, Chronic Fatigue, Refusing To Compromise/ Give In, Giving Up, No Fight Left, Falling At The Final Hurdle, Weakness, Adversity, Retreat, Obstinate, Ill-Health, Unexpected Trouble, Lack Of Courage/ Persistence/ Perseverance/ Backbone, Dropping Your Guard, Not Learning From Past, Stubborn, Last One Standing, Withdrawal
The Lord of Strength relates to our own inner strength and power. When he comes up, we need to allow ourselves to be reminded of our personal wealth of experience, knowledge and talents. This is something that we rarely take time out to assess and consider. Yet since we are constantly adding to it, it is something we should sum up as often as our bank accounts. When we get a clear view of our own strengths, we gather to us a new sense of self-confidence, holding ourselves in high esteem, and treating ourselves as good and trusted friends. This fundamental acceptance of ourselves is essential to allow us a long-term feeling of well-being and optimism. So on a day ruled by the Lord of Strength, we must count our personal strengths. This obviously raises a simple question….how do you know what is strong?
The quickest way to identify strengths is to look at the hardest experiences of your life, and assess how you feel you handled them. If you maintain a non-judgemental and objective perspective upon your actions, then youll see that, over the years, you have learned to deal with trials and tribulations increasingly efficiently. Every single time you pass through a trying experience, you will have gathered more understanding about how to approach difficulties and resolve them. Your mistakes have special messages for you. To be able to admit you could have dealt with a situation better is, if you allow it to be, one of the most useful revelations of your life. Rather than feeling bad about your actions, allow yourself to consider what would have improved the outcome. Once you have done this, youll store that away as new knowledge…and next time a similar situation occurs youll remember, and act accordingly. Never be afraid of assessing your mistakes….theres one very big thing to be said for them – they are all yours!!!! And they can be teachers if you let them be. Having worked through the obvious strengths and frailties, go looking for the more subtle aspects of strength….empathy, compassion, patience, morality, humour, respect, honesty, understanding, sensitivity…..there are many many things that we might not at first count among our strengths that make us stronger people.
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Creative Tarot: So you can see how many different situations can be a Nine of Wands situation. These situations become significant because youre putting this added attention on them. This helps you understand your cards better, but it also helps you understand patterns in your behavior better. So later, when you pull the Nine of Wands again, you understand that you should pay attention to all of the ways you become defensive in a bad wayshutting down in social situations, thereby preventing you from making new friends and connecting with othersand how you act defensively in a good way, such as standing up for yourself when you are disrespected at work.
Tarot Triumphs: Tarot historians suggest that these Italian processions may have played a part in the creation of the Tarot, since they accord with the time and place of the earliest Tarot decks known to us. Some specific emblems are found in both contexts, such as the Lover, the Chariot, and Death.1 Likewise, the concept of Trumps applies to both the parades and the pictorial cards, even if trumping applies more to games played with Tarot than to its use for divination purposes. The processions are unlikely to be the sole source of Tarot, but there certainly seems to be a link. And this aspect of Tarot history is well worth pursuing, as it indicates how some of the Tarot scenes may once have been viewed as life-size moving spectacles, which would have created an intense experience for onlookers. Very shortly, I will suggest that we try this out for ourselves.
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Reversed Cards: The Hierophant in the mirror aspect gives you the opportunity to take stock of the holy people you have chosen to emulate. No matter if they include ascended masters such as Jesus, Buddha, or some other spiritual figure, such as Amma or the Dalai Lama, take a very close look at the way they lived their lives. Do you live your life in the exact same way? Are you truly being a reflection of their teachings or are you modifying it to suit your ego-based desires? This position is probably the hardest of the Hierophants reversed aspects. It is not easy to do a spiritual audit of ones life and not allow the ego to get in the way, but if you have received this card in the mirror position, then that is exactly what you are being asked to do. At the essence of all faiths is the thread of compassion and love to all. There are no exclusions and no exceptions with the word all. As you do your spiritual audit, list where you have placed exceptions and exclusions, because it is there that people or situations are holding you back from living an authentic spiritual existence. As I said, this aspect is hard. It wont come easily, and it sure wont come quickly. You could say the Hierophant in the mirror aspect is the lifelong journey we all take in the egocentric material world.