Stay attentive to your goal even as change accelerates.
General Meaning
This suit, most often called “Wands” and sometimes called “Rods” or “Staves,” represents initiative, ambition, drive and desire. This is the suit of enterprise and risk-taking.
An Ace of this suit in this position symbolizes a pivotal act, or fateful step, that will set loose a chain of events leading toward your desired goal. It refers to a birth or new beginning, the inauguration of an endeavor, and the building of the necessary commitment to see a project or plan through. It personifies an aroused Will that is totally focused, aiming at the bulls-eye.
In the Advice Position
Be ready to act on imminent opportunity.
The card in the Advice position suggests a course of action which will harmonize what you want with what is currently possible.
The Ace of Wands in this position encourages energetic movement toward activity. Brace yourself and get ready to spring into action. You may need to make your move soon, so make sure you are fully prepared. Trust your instincts and spontaneity. When the opportunity comes, you may want to seize it without hesitation.
So quicken your senses and raise your antenna. There’s excitement in the air, and supports your immediate ambitions.
The suit in Tarot known as Cups is also referred to as Chalices or Hearts. It represents the emotional and psychic aspects of life — fantasy, imagination, feelings, love.
An Ace of this suit in this position generally shows a hand holding up an overflowing cup, which gives forth an endless stream of water, wine, blood or soma for the people’s refreshment and healing.
This card represents an unfailing source of balm for body, heart and soul. It suggests that you can relax into a safety net of love, support and communion.
The Hierophant represents the protector of a culture’s heritage and traditions. His purpose is to defend and teach the established ways and beliefs a group embraces. He is inherently conventional and a true believer in the power of the group. He loves the structure of the group and its values. It is the task of The Hierophant to bring new members into the group—to prepare the uninitiated to take their rightful place in his culture. In this sense he is very much like a teacher or a priest. He also acts as the repository of his group’s history. The Hierophant is certainly not one to buck proper authority. However, he is staunch and worthy defender of the tried and true. He represents the positive aspects of tradition and conformity.
Life is at a standstill. Difficulties will probably remain as they are.
Astrological Influence
Aquarius Reversed
This card signifies the closing of both heart and mind, which leads to stagnation.
Element Influence
Earth Reversed
Earth reversed denotes a lack of positive connection with the life spirit–a lost soul. If you are not careful you may miss much of what life has to offer you.
This reading represents strengths you were born with and you will need in the next few days.
The Lovers
The Lovers indicates both the most powerful of unions and the most of challenging conflicts humans must face. On one side The Lover’s embodies love and union on a cosmic scale—a love so strong, so inherently good that it actually makes the lovers better, more than they really are. All of the elements are there for the perfect union. The Lovers represent all powerful unions in general, and the elements that create/sustain them. The problem The Lovers face is temptation and the decision to act morally or abandon their ethics to take advantage of other opportunities that would be defined as transgressions.
Rise above your day-to-day and connect with the divine.
General Meaning
The Star Tarot card is about reconnecting one’s soul with the divine — the transcending of personality, family, community, and reputation. It has to do ultimately with the freedom to be one’s self. The soul is responding to celestial influences — forces that can provide the personality with a stronger sense of purpose. The Star card helps us to remember our exalted origins and our attraction to a higher union.
This card could also be called The Celestial Mandate — that which refers us back to our reason for being, our mission in this lifetime. The Star reminds us that, in a sense, we are agents of divine will in our day-to-day lives. If we let go of the idea that we are supposed to be in control, we can more easily notice and appreciate the synchronicities that are nudging us along. In this way, we become more conscious of the invisible helping hand, and we better understand our place within — and value to — the larger cosmos.
In the Advice Position
Your time is better spent in reflection and spiritual pursuit.
The card in the Advice position suggests a course of action which will harmonize what you want with what is currently possible.
The Star card advises that you rededicate yourself to your higher values, increase your spiritual cultivation and meditation practice, and surrender to the greater good. Connect to your higher self — a being of a larger realm traveling on an evolutionary course that started long ago and runs indefinitely into the future. This is the part you wish to contact and communicate with.
Now is a period for quiet contemplation. Listen for the voice within. Anything that would interfere with this communion may not be serving your best interests right now.
The challenge of The Hermit card is to be able to recognize a teacher in a humble disguise. This font of mysterious knowledge will not make it easy for the student to acquire his wisdom, as it takes time and long contemplation to fathom what he knows. He often speaks wordlessly, or in ancient and barbaric tongues, communicating with the elements, animals, and nature herself.
While an hourglass was an identifying feature on the earliest Hermit Tarot cards, more modern cards have shifted the metaphor, showing more or less light released from his lantern. In either case, the Hermit card reminds us of the value of time away from the hubbub of civic life, to relax the ego in communion with nature.
This card represents serendipity, creativity and the coming to life of psychic powers. It may also signify dangers yet seen, deception and bad luck for someone dear to you.
Astrological Influence
Taurus
With The Bull comes strength, loyalty and determination.
Element Influence
Air reversed
Air reversed denotes a lack of freedom to move through life as you want.
For the week of April 10, I chose the Three of Swords!
This week, you may find that you are easily hurt and you take others’ words to heart. Perhaps you have a heated argument with a loved one, or you read a scathing email or social media post. It is as if the words are flying at you like swords and your heart is broken and the tears start flowing.
Be with the sadness and hurt for as long as it serves you. But also know that this pain is temporary and it will pass.
And if you want to avoid the hurt and pain altogether, then grow a thick skin this week and be ready to let those words fall away without inflicting any pain to your heart. Look for the blessing in the situation. (Yes, even nasty social media posts can be a positive — it’s a clear sign about who is in your tribe and who is not.)
This card is traditionally entitled the Knight, but in some modern decks appears as the Prince. Traditionally, this card in this suit has pictured a homecoming — portraying a return to his true heart’s home after a long journey. Like the prodigal son, he may be returning after long estrangement from all he holds dear.
His taste for adventure is exhausted — there is no more romanticizing of battles or travel in strange lands. Now he wants to go where he will be recognized, wanted and welcome — where he doesn’t have to fight at every turn. He has the attitude of one who has become older and wiser, the prodigal son.
Good news will come to you. Success will be realized through labor and industry.
Astrological Influence
Capricorn Reversed
Capricorn reversed signifies impracticality and a lack of ambition.
Element Influence
Fire
Fire denotes the unleashing of raw energy and change. The status quo may be about to crumble, but will be replaced something better. Fire also provides light to those in the dark and warmth for a cold body and spirit.
This reading focuses on your inner secret ambitions and dreams
This card represents the dreamer in you, the idealist, the mystic. The Fool desires to do great things, but is often unaware of just how difficult great things are to do. He must always be very careful of the choices he makes, and remember knowledge is his ally. The Fool often symbolizes a new beginning, unrestrained optimism, and curiosity that hasn’t been dulled by time. While The Fool may well indicate a lack of experience or grasp of the pitfalls along the path he is taking, it is equally true that his lack of experience leads him to believe all things are possible, which brings even impossible goals within his grasp.
The Hierophant represents the protector of a culture’s heritage and traditions. His purpose is to defend and teach the established ways and beliefs a group embraces. He is inherently conventional and a true believer in the power of the group. He loves the structure of the group and its values. It is the task of The Hierophant to bring new members into the group—to prepare the uninitiated to take their rightful place in his culture. In this sense he is very much like a teacher or a priest. He also acts as the repository of his group’s history. The Hierophant is certainly not one to buck proper authority. However, he is staunch and worthy defender of the tried and true. He represents the positive aspects of tradition and conformity.
Although it has taken on a strictly romantic revision of meaning in some modern decks, traditionally The Lovers Tarot card reflected the challenges of choosing a partner. At a crossroads, one cannot take both paths. The images on this card in different decks have varied more than most, because we have had so many ways of looking at sex and relationships across cultures and centuries.
Classically, the energy of this card reminded us of the real challenges posed by romantic relationships, with the protagonist often shown in the act of making an either-or choice. To partake of a higher ideal often requires sacrificing the lesser option. The path of pleasure eventually leads to distraction from spiritual growth. The gratification of the personality eventually gives way to a call from spirit as the soul matures.
Modern decks tend to portray the feeling of romantic love with this card, showing Adam and Eve at the gates of Eden when everything was still perfect. This interpretation portrays humanity before the fall, and can be thought to imply a different sort of choice — the choice of evolution over perfection, or the choice of personal growth through relationship — instead of a fantasy where everything falls into place perfectly and is taken care of without effort.
How’s your life working out for you? That’s the key question that Tarot’s suit of Pentacles wants you to ask. If you don’t like the answer, it’s the Pentacles cards that can provide the insight you need to start moving in the right direction.
How’s your life working out for you? That’s the key question that Tarot’s suit of Pentacles wants you to ask. If you don’t like the answer, it’s the Pentacles cards that can provide the insight you need to start moving in the right direction.
Tarot cards in the Pentacles suit — sometimes referred to as “Coins” — pertain to things in the material and physical world. Often Pentacles are mistaken as only symbols of wealth and money matters. But in truth they speak of success and prosperity on all levels — this includes money and career success, but also family, body, and health matters.
The suit of Pentacles is connected to the winter season and the Earth element, which represent stability, practicality, and determination, as well as giving and receiving. When a Pentacles card turns up in a Tarot reading, it’s typically an indicator that something in your material world needs attention. This can be positive — such as a successful business transaction or a large inheritance; or negative — such as health troubles or obstacles in the way of your success.
Emotionally, the Pentacles symbolize energies of safety, security, and abundance. The theme of prosperity is not limited to only a financial experience. Even the poorest person can be enriched and increased by the experience of a golden moment, contact with goodness, or beauty — all parts of the Pentacles suit.
The Pentacles Tarot cards can also symbolize strengths or gifts you hold. Those who are willing to invest themselves — their time, money, and labor — deserve the rewards of effort. The Pentacles provide those rewards, as well as supply the means to earn and deserve them.
Whether it’s intellectual, entrepreneurial, artistic, or any other “property” you command (including the sheer brute energy and strength to outwork those around you), the Pentacles symbolize the value of your assets. This suit also represents your personal values — the things you love, are attracted to, and collect around yourself. If you can translate this into a way to pay your bills and take care of your family, you have mastered the Pentacles.
The suit of Pentacles in a classic Tarot deck consists of 14 Tarot cards beginning with the Ace of Pentacles, progressing upward through the 10 of Pentacles, and concluding with the four Court cards, the Page, Knight, Queen and King of Pentacles.
The Blessing for this month … wait for it … is the Ten of Swords. Now, you’re probably thinking, “How on Earth is that a blessing?!” There is a guy with ten swords in his back, it looks pretty bad…
There is a little bit of pain associated with the Ten of Swords, but this is like the darkest hour before dawn. Maybe it’s a relationship that’s been struggling for many, many months and it’s time to rip the bandage off and say, “You know what? We’re not suited to each other.” Then you feel that great sense of relief afterwards, as a result of having let go of that relationship.
It might be the same for a job — leaving the job you think, “Oh my goodness, where am I going to get money from? How am I going to survive?” But you just go, “You know what, I’ve just got to do it.” And then you do it, and you feel that sense of freedom again. So think about how this card might be playing out in your life this month.
Challenges card: The Moon, reversed
Our Challenges this month are represented in The Moon reversed. If you recall, last month we had The Moon in the upright position as a Blessing. It’s that place where you’ve not traveled before, and sometimes it can be a little bit confronting as you realize different parts of yourself and you’re like, “Ah, that feels a bit uncomfortable.”
So the Challenge this month is dealing with some of that discomfort around those darker aspects of yourself. It might stir up some really old emotions that have been sitting there for a while, and that might feel like your Challenge. But in order to turn this into an opportunity, you need to really confront that head-on. If you’re feeling fear surfacing or anxiety in any way, really deal with it, don’t run away from it hoping it’ll go back into the depths of your subconscious. The more you deal with it, the more you can start to release some of those negative emotions.
Recommended Action card: Knight of Pentacles, reversed
OK so what’s our recommended course of action for this month? I’ve got the Knight of Pentacles reversed. I see this guy as like the Knight of routine and doing things a very set way, every single time. But this month, it’s encouraging you to shake things up a little bit. All those routines that you’ve had in place in the past — maybe try doing something different. Think about your life right now, and what kinds of routines need a bit of a shake-up so that you can re-engage with them and enjoy them that much more.
This suit, most often named “Coins” or “Pentacles”, is a symbol for a magical talisman that represented wealth or potential. This suit represents something supportive that is available to you — whether it be health, some kind of talent, or a material or financial resource.
The Two in this suit generally features a youth juggling, with two coins juggled in figure-eight fashion, or just the coins without the youth — one heads up, the other tails — both flipping in the air. It is clear that until one or the other coin drops, the final call can not be made; there is more to learn before a decision can be made about appropriate action.
This card counsels patience, so do not allow yourself to be rushed. The figure-eight image is a symbol of immortality and eternity. Its message is “No need to hurry. You have all the time you need to work this out, no matter how things appear right now.” Implied within this scenario is the idea that changes are in the works, but you will do better to stay calm until you have more information. Everything is in flux at a time like this.
Six of Swords Reversed
Aquarius Reversed
Earth Reversed
The Moon
Taurus
Air reversed
The Six of Wands
Capricorn Reversed
Fire
Four of Cups
Faith Reversed
Virgo
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