After taking three days to rest and recover from Midsummer celebrations, I am back.
Lower Realm: Barbieri Tarot XX Judgment is one of those cards that makes us uneasy, at least it does me. There is that sense of irreversible finality that at times make us feel hopeless. However, this is also a call to action. In this position our shadow is screaming for us to act, to do what we need to do. It is up to us to make the judgment call as to which path we would like to take. Would it be a completely different path that’s forged by our current circumstance? Will it be to unite with our soul and, with it, our destiny? Perhaps, could it be staying where we are to hibernate and heal?
Middle Realm: Rider-Waite IX The Hermit calls for prudence, hidden agendas, solitude and introspection. In this position, it signifies shining a light on our shadow’s message for hidden meanings by going into ourselves deeper. This suggests this may be the time to go to our quiet place away from the noise of our daily lives and meditate and center.
Uppper Realm: Goddess Oracle 23 Iris (Communication) helps us find our voice and express it clearly with integrity. As the goddess of communication, she is guiding us to be clear with ourselve while being aware that those around us are withholding something from us, be it facts or their true intentions. It is imperative that we be clear and demand the same from others as we stand up for ourselves and what we believe in. In some cultures, Iris is the goddess of the rainbow that is a celestial sign of hope as she also reminds us of our conversation with the Universal Power’s and its inherent ability to send signs and omens to let us know what is going on beyond all the smoke and mirrors put up by those around us,
Barbieri Tarot 3 of Pentacles reminds us of the fleeting nature of time and its effects on everything around us. Time wears down even that facade of strength and perfection you try to show everyone. Our legacy that remains through times passing will be our character revealed by our actions.
2 Aphodite (romantic love) reminds us to fall in love again whether it is with someone new or the one we currently have, but more so with our lives. She challenges us to see everything through the lenses of this romantic love and see its essence around us to increase its potency and strengthen it. This card tasks us to be here and now, even in times of pain. She warns us of the negative effects of longing or yearning for that hard-to-get love or getting too hung up on expected outcomes as it clouds our judgment, preventing us from seeing the truth. Learn to let go of expectations and attachments and just let things flow on their own. Pay attention to your thoughts, words and actions, and hold yourself accountable by apologizing and earnestly making things better.
8 Brigid (creative spark) is the Celtic Triple-Goddess of hearth, the forge and inspiration, she challenges us to see that we always carry a spark of creativity within us and tasks us to set fire to it. If you are in a creative slump, imagine how it felt when you the first time you expressed yourself creatively just because you felt like it. Imagine the time you first drew your breath and sang your first notes, the first lines you drew or the shapes your molded out of clay. She reminds us to feel what it is like to play with our art materials. Just let go of our expectations, inhibitions, and most of all our excuses, and get into the flow of creating, without judgment of whether it is good or bad—just create.
Summary Reflection: This reading, like others with shuffle jumpers has many layers and very timely to my current circumstance. It is a call to immediate action to introspect and shut out the noise of the external world, and to communicate love clearly through working on my creative projects in seclusion. My Spirit Guides, Angels and Deity really want to be heard in order to guide us in answering the shadow’s urgent call to action. Today’s middle realm supports both the lower and upper realms with a message of delving deeper within ourselves and, for the moment, isolate from external noises of other people’s issues, and the craziness of the outside world. The shadow aspects reminds us to act and reminds us that time is fleeting meaning it is time to act now. The Divine reminds us to communicate clearly, fall in love again with and set fire to that creative spark that is within us. They all come together in the mundane as instruction to shut out the world and work-on myself, on my creative pursuits in a way that clearly communicates and increases the love in the world.
