Arthurian Tarot, Aquarian Advocate 1990
[As predicted yesterday in imitation of I pulled the Spread card, nobody happened--we weren't even excited at work--unless you name that I let the spinach cook dry and it overcooked on the baffle of the pan podium night, to the same extent I was excited reading out clear from THE HOBBIT to hubby in preparation for our viewing of the publicize today. So a good deal for the Spread card. This has happened so lots epoch that it no longer has any sting at all in imitation of it turns up in a reading for me.]"
Let's nattering a bit spread about the tarot of the week, ARTHURIAN TAROT BY CAITLIN AND JOHN MATTHEWS, AQUARIAN Advocate 1990. As the name implies, the complete tarot has been personalized to the Arthurian tradition, so that all the majors foothold been renamed (even occupation them snooty Powers' more willingly than powerful Arcana'.) Lone the Moon and the Sun support their traditional names. Each one powerful card nature a entity or home in on from Arthurian legend, for trial, Merlin for Conjurer, Lord of the Basin for Drone Priestess, and Gawain for Attitude. The creators foothold had to flexible a bit on some of them, but I think of their selections are bright and work well: The Washer at the Ford for Debit, The Dead Peer of the realm (ie, the quiet Arthur) for Judgement, and The Snowy Hart for the Lovers, for trial.
The minors, or Diminutive Powers, may annoy some to the same extent 1) they do not uncover the pips (ie, you strength of mind not see seven figurines on the 7 of Saucers) and 2) they part unfilled landscapes more willingly than realm, or even plants. This puts lots readers off the deck. Each one circumstances is named for one of the 'Grail Hallows' (Sword, Spike, Grail and Rock), and cards 2-9 of each circumstances copy the notion command which the hunter journeys. If you think of about it, for some pretext the landscapes command which the knights be carried in examine of the Holy Grail without fail show to be and no-one else, bereft. And so each circumstances takes us on a be carried from the Hallow (Ace) to the Hallow Citadel (the 10 of each circumstances). We transport command marshes, better bridges, amid fields and hills, barrows, tors, and silly villages of thatched hefty houses, secure standing stones, drink spiked fences and stone fences, command birch forests and rocky seaside. I love residents walking in England and Wales, so you can see the exclaim of this deck for me. I completely love the images in the minors, even whereas I typically disparage decks that do not foothold the utterly magnitude of pips on each card. They recollection me an fantastic lot of separation on holiday--the weird and wonderful English caring of holiday, anywhere you get caught up a come into view in a refuse to eat pea soup mist, and remain on a wet sway to lunch on permissive sandwiches with unresponsive tea from a flask, period beads slash on your specs. Ha ha. (Am I selling it?)
Today's card is Spike Hallow, or Ace of Wands. I don't character very heat up this origin, having woken at the down hour of 4.45 AM. It's now 6 AM, and even whereas I've non-discriminatory complete a pot of russet, I think of I'll go back to bed and see if I can catnap for newborn hour. I delight what action today strength of mind see, or what new ooze or rationale may crusade off.
But Ace of Wands doesn't foothold to be non-discriminatory a new ooze. It's fire. Agni, the Hindu god of fire and acceptor of sacrifices. Hara, or tanden, the Japanese fire in the front, the physical and spiritual centre. Holy Extract, the Christian version of the fire within (near his word is in my general feeling kind a fire, a fire seal up in my bones, and I am in bad condition of holding it in, and incontestably I cannot' Jeremiah 20:9). All these experiences, whereas framed differently by changed cultures, are the exceptionally elemental greet of spiritual fire.
MAY MY Draw your attention Pursuit OUT THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE Fire Detachment IN MY Consciousness Today.
MANTRA: The Agni Gayatri
'Om mahajwalaye vidmahe
agni devaye dhimahi
tanno agni prachodayat'
Come into bud ESSENCE: Hornbeam*
"*[This is a new part I castle in the sky to trial this week: an try, a hymn and a glow crux for each day.]"
