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Card Meanings: Surviving Disaster, Being Saved, Courage, Positive Energy, Worst Is Yet To Come, Good Health, Relapse, Things Getting Better, Being Beyond Help, Total Ruin, Pulling Yourself Together, Learning From Past Hardships, Fears Coming True, Over The Worst, Escaping Ruin, Despair, Rising Above Problems/Haters/Bitchiness
As I said in my first examination of this card, the Lord of Ruin is much more about what we invite into our lives with negative and unhelpful thought patterns, than it is about outside events. When we pay close attention to the things we wish ourselves, ensuring that our thoughts are as bright as possible, we attract goodness and positive energy into life. If, on the other hand, we are careless in examining what we think, feel, desire and dream of .allowing ourselves to slide into habits that diminish us, living more by fear than by love ..then we draw bad things into life. The trickiest bit about this positive thinking business is that its effects project into the future and we are strongly affected by our experience of the present. If things seem to be going wrong, life is heavy and difficult, we tend to have negative reactions to things. Unfortunately, though, having those negative reactions in the present condemns us to further difficulties in the future.
So you can see it is essential to somehow break out of the downward spiral. Positive thinking is a habit. So is negative thinking. And, as with all habits, it can be very awkward to change the pattern. Constant vigilance is required. We need to monitor our thoughts and feelings VERY carefully. And as soon as we discover that we are starting to think dark thoughts we need to pounce, snatching that thought up and determining where it has come from. This applies as much to our deepest inner responses as it does to our responses to external stimuli. Life is always throwing the curve ball at you, just to see if you can catch it. And harmonising yourself with the rhythm of life is – beside being the greatest reward of all – a very big challenge. It does help, though, to try to interpret events in terms of your own reactions this gives you a good reason to watch yourself carefully in the present. Try this – find something that you currently feel unhappy, frustrated, shocked, hurt about .. Take a good look at the overview of this ..try to separate the differing elements of the problem.
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Creative Tarot: With ten swords, the man is destroyed under their weight. The swords represent thoughts, ideas, fears. They are not useful because there are too many of them. The Ten of Swords is a card of defeat. There is nowhere else for his thoughts to go; they have destroyed him and his potential. The hope of the card is the gaze toward the horizon. His act of surrender can lead to a new beginning, but first the defeat must be felt.
Tarot Triumphs: As the book unfolds, I will explain the Fool’s Mirror approach to Tarot, which has largely been shaped by my early encounters with Tarot and, to a very significant degree, by the person who created the term ‘Fool’s Mirror’ to symbolize the process of divination itself. The theme of the Fool’s Mirror, including a unique layout using all twenty-two Tarot Trumps, will be developed throughout the book, starting with a definition of the term in chapter two. For now, I would like to describe how the living tradition of Tarot drew me in through my interaction with three knowledgeable Tarot masters. This is a way of naming those people who initiate you into the life of the Tarot, whether through a fleeting chance encounter or a more profound and prolonged training period.
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Reversed Cards: It is hard to imagine this card as being protective in the reversed aspect. Like many cards of hope and advancement, it is difficult to see their opposite as helpful, loving, and compassionate. Yet even in our darkest moments, there is light, love, and the chance to choose again. It is a space and a sacred one at that, which allows us a choice. And it is in this space that you now find yourself. Things may have you feeling far from courageous, but this is where your true strength is tested when things are not going your way. We dont build muscles by not using them, and right now you are getting the chance to flex and grow, all while being safely wrapped in the space of choice. So what will you choose? To learn the lesson no matter how hard? Or to allow it to consume you, leaving you with nothing but more sorrow and more suffering?