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Card Meanings: Overcoming Grief/ Sorrow/ Sadness, Repressing Emotions, Getting Over The Worst, Confusion, Reconciliation, Compromise, Suppressing Memories, Sorrow, Sharing Problems, Releasing Pain, Optimism, Overcoming Depression, Loss, Recovering From Heartbreak, Forgiveness, Inability To Let Go Of Pain
The Lord of Sorrow sometimes bring sadness in with him when he appears – and he also highlights areas of life where decisions are needed, and where we feel unable to make important choices. This indecision leads to sadness and frustration. So on a day when he rules, we need to be exploring our unhappy feelings, wondering if there are issues that we feel unable to deal with, which are causing us pain or confusion. However, it’s important not to expect ourselves to deal with conflicts or problems until we feel stronger. So, having identified our difficulties, we need to file them in the ‘to do….’ box & treat ourselves very gently for the rest of the day. In regaining our strength we’ll be much better equipped to deal with things (notice the connection here with the Aeon – all decisions have their moment) If today you have no particular difficulties that need dealing with, you might like to spend a little time considering the whole concept of sorrow. We have become very afraid of experiencing pain & often go to great lengths not to enter into our own pain with a generous, gentle heart.
Yet having the ability to face your own pain makes it into a more tolerable event when, sadly, it happens in your life. Look at the ways in which you have dealt with past pain. Try to decide if you feel you have done the best you could for yourself – and if not, work out why not. When we get hurt, we often make our suffering much worse by barbing the pain with guilt, self-accusation and bitterness directed to both ourselves and others. Often we do this as a way of trying to avoid feeling our pain – we distract ourselves with things that are basically irrelevant, but which eventually end up fouling the pure experience of hurting. Each one of us has a right to experience our sadness without judgement, nor recriminations, nor guilt. If, rather than avoiding hurt, we engage it, sometimes it can provide a clear energy for transformation, creativity and development. I don’t advocate suffering as an efficient spiritual tool, but there are times when, since you hurt anyhow, you can direct the deep emotional experience into new insight. And in so doing, you might well find your way through your pain with fewer after-effects and dark memories.
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Tarot Card Meanings: Three of Swords; loss and absence, sorrow, mourning, separation and departure or removal. This card generally represents an ending in some form or another but is often seen as creating a blank canvas for renewal. Much change is indicated by the card but it is not always interpreted as a negative one. Traditional sources ascribe the card with the meaning of the beginning of a new journey, which may be relevant to the more modern interpretation, in many senses. Reversed; generally seen to indicate confusion and disorder, often mental illness or anxiety.
Tarot Triumphs: So recreating an imaginary procession of the Tarot Triumphs is not too far-fetched as a historical idea, and it may have a kinship with the way the symbols were perceived at the time they emerged. However, there’s no attempt on my part to say that the Tarot set as we know it is derived from a ‘lost’ triumphal procession, complete with all twenty-two emblems. This could perhaps be the case, but from what we know of early Tarot history, its images seemed to be in a fluid state at its inception, and it took some time for the different variations to be crystallized into a more or less standard form. But in terms of the types of scenes in a triumphal procession, and perhaps some of the specific images used, it may be a link to how Tarot itself was first conceived.
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Reversed Cards: One of the lessons of the Chariot card is learning the consequences of your actions. All movement has a cause and effect. Every action has a positive and negative reaction. Sometimes you can control them, sometimes you cannot. Here in the shadow position, you know exactly what conditions your actions will create and none of them are good. Rebellious, impulsive action will cause distractive reactions. What you do here will create a ripple effect that will resonate long after you leave the shadow lands. Indeed, you could be cleaning this mess up for a long time to come, so proceed with caution.