#tarotnotes

[thesolarrealms]

the magician 🪞

‘Perfectly capable. Wise enough. Talented enough. In control of enough. Has enough time left. Skilled and educated enough, but are you willing? Your wishes and desires will not come to life without action and willpower. Daydreaming is not enough. The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.’ - Ava

“It is for your soul to go out into the world, to be brave enough to see what you do and don’t love for yourself. Love for you may be the other, it may be freedom, it may be nature, it may be child care, animals or experiences related to mechanics, machinery, technology or sports. Love for you may be activity, it may be cerebral and literary orientated, it may be cooking, it may be painting. If you want to spend the rest of your days on earth painting sunflowers, and daisies, drinking jasmine tea in your little studio out in nature - you have the opportunity. 

This is your time after all, this is your chance, your one opportunity in this body to create that. Wishful thinking and day dreaming about a potential reality or dream is different from planning to actually allow yourself to physically and tangibly experience something. Is it important to ask yourself, “Do I want to just secretly day dream and long for this thing which I love for the rest of my life? Or do I want to take action, now, today and tomorrow, to ensure that I experience it.” Do you want to have the memory one day of you having wished for something? Or do you want to have the memory of you having fully experienced that something for yourself? 

We are all drawn to different things, people and experiences. The soul next to you may long to climb a distant mountain, you may long to enjoy rest near the lake or forest. We are all harbouring different desires, and it is important to ask yourself in each moment whether you actually want to do something, or if somebody told you to do something, or if you’re doing something because you want to make somebody else like you, because you want love. 

People often act or behave with the intention or motivation to a) keep themselves alive (money, finances, ‘hunting’) or b) gain love and approval from others. What do you love? And how honest with yourself are you about that? And how much do you fear that others won’t approve of your pursuing of that which you love?

Maybe you do love working, and making money. Maybe you do just love helping and assisting others, those around you. Maybe you love listening to people, or telling stories, or being outside in silence. Whatever it is that your heart calls out to do and naturally leans towards, listen. Because chances are, fighting that is going to make life here a whole lot harder for you. It is painful and unnatural to go against yourself.” Fall seven times, stand up eight. The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground. Author Unknown. What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt. When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal, you do not change your goal. Zig. Some people dream of success… while others wake up and work hard at it. Unknown. I learned that I had the willpower and ability to reshape my body and life. Mardy Fish

[thesolarrealms]

the moon card 🪞

“Illusion, deception, seeing things for what you want them to be rather than what they are, casting illusion, being under one, mental confusion, cloudy, foggy, hazy, fear. Only the naive are confused. Only those who don’t seek the truth are deceived. The world is only dangerous to those who wish to wear blindfolds because it feels soft. ” - Ava

‘Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.’ - CJ This card can show running away with your imagination. Confusion is a mental disturbance characterised by bewilderment, the inability to think clearly or act decisively, and disorientation for time, place, and person. Women, especially young ones tend to be the most naive, the most easily confused, the most easy to influence. Men tend to be more discerning, in my opinion - especially grown ones. The story of this card is to observe more, watch more, listen more, open your eyes. Do not jump into this situation, as you are not in safe waters. Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men. How can you be confused if you know what you want? If you know what you seek, if you carry and hold precise values within yourself? Who can deceive you? Things not being what they seem, people not being who they portray themselves at, situations not being what you think they are. 

*Mind you, confusion in humans can also be caused by dementia, delirium, alcohol, drugs, fever, brain trauma, infections, lack of sleep, blood sugar and temperature level abnormalities, low oxygen levels, and vitamin deficiencies.

‘Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.’ - André Malraux. “Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.” Walter Scott. ‘People are secretive when they have secrets.’ Deb Caletti. ‘The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.’ -Shan Alder. ‘But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?’ Graeme Simsion. Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.  - Benjamin Franklin. The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. - George Orwell. ‘Confidence, once lost or betrayed, can never be restored again to the same measure; and we learn too late in life that our acts of deception are irrevocable - they may be forgiven, but they cannot be forgotten by their victims. Sydney J. Harris

‘It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noel Coward’

[thesolarrealms]

the hermit card 🪞

“Introspection, Meditation, Self-reflection, Solitude, Soul-searching, Withdrawing from society temporarily.”

Healthy and unhealthy isolation. Anxiety, fear, shame pain and deep helplessness can describe how loneliness can make a soul feel. “Some people can go for a walk or listen to music and feel that they are deeply in touch with themselves. Others cannot.” Many great thinkers have championed the intellectual & spiritual benefits of solitude, Lao Tzu, Moses, Nietzsche, Emerson, Woolf, but many modern humans seem hell-bent on avoiding it. 

“Every single time we have a chance to go running we plug in our headphones. Every time we sit in the car we listen to the radio, I mean, my students today tell me they can’t go to the bathroom without their phone on.” - the Atlantic. That is where solitude comes in. Such a separation requires what psychoanalysts refers to as the “capacity to be alone.” You have to have that capacity, the ability to know that you’re going to survive, that you’re going to be okay if you’re not supported by entire group. Put another way, a person who can find a rich self-experience in a solitary state is far less likely to feel lonely when alone.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. Solitude vivifies but isolation kills. There is a different between some time and space out, VS exile, being anti-social, a misfit, sadness and dangerously withdrawing from loved ones. “The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.” – Einstien. “Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalising.” – William S. Boroughs. “Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.” – Edward Gibbon

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.” – Arthur 

[thesolarrealms]

the empress card 🪞

‘A creation; whether that be a project, a painting, a baby, a life, a new opportunity, abundance, care, nurturing an existing creation, pregnancy or love.’

Femininity, nurturing, fertility, abundance. A life-giver, a creator, a source from which life has sprung. The desire within every living thing to grow or flourish. It represents the world bringing you forth, asking you to simply be. The pleasure principle. Care. Self-care, care for others. Compassion. Kindness. Making sure your needs are met, knowing your needs, not holding shame for them, voicing them; meeting the needs of others. 

The careful creation of safe spaces. Creating nourishing space. Bringing people together and encouraging them to together. Radical acceptance, radical self-acceptance, the willingness to be in your own skin and allow others the same bliss. The Divine Mother says, ‘I am here and I love myself. I belong. There is space for me. There is space for you, too.’

The Empress card can be very triggering in that not all beings experienced safety and unconditional love. Narcissism runs rampant on the planet, a disease spreading further by the day, sinking its claws into more and more women; more fathers. We all deserve to feel loved, it’s not something we have to ‘earn’. The Empress represents meeting your own needs, and receiving care from others. This is not a person who only cares for others and neglects their own self. Neither is this a person who is focused only on their own needs. 

The Empress correlates to Venus; the planet of love, the concept of love and its overall complexity and depth as a subject. 

“Love. The highest vibration on Earth. The one thing most souls on this planet long for, but complain of having been deprived of. The force that fuels peace, the substance behind passion, the very thing fuelling your being to move forward. The reason that billions of us wake up in the morning, the reason tears form and fall, the medication which alleviates most pains. The thing that hopefully your Mother gave you upon first entering this world, a precious precious thing that many don’t even harbour, and may never experience. A patient thing. A thing free from all devious intent and evil. Greek philosopher Plato once said, "Every heart sings a song incomplete until another heart whispers back.” This reflects that most souls upon incarnating on Earth deeply desire to experience being loved by another, unconditionally, even if just momentarily. It’s a lonely realm if you wander around in isolation for what would feel like forever, your voice would just echo for eternity. 

This realm would be hollow, with nobody to express your thoughts and feelings to, nobody to teach, nobody to see, no voice to hear but your own, none to learn from, none to observe, none to look up to and none to eventually adore with your whole heart, your whole being. This world would be empty without each other. There are many beings and characters that you may not like on this Earth, millions you may not look up to, or agree with. There are those you’ll feel sorry for, those you’ll despise. Those who will cause and intend you harm, attempt to manipulate and use you and that’s why the pull or draw for unconditional love is that much stronger in most of us, because we can tell that this world is full of cold and callous hands, strange hardened hearts. We feel safer in the softness and protection of love.” - Ava

“Love coats and insulates things with light, with a vibrant frequency of the highest order. To love somebody is to coat them with light, to protect them and to be loved is to be coated in the most purity that another being can possibly offer.” - Ava Alexis (Psychic Medium & Astrologer)

[thesolarrealms]

Three of swords

“How hurt are you? How distraught and disappointed? How bad was the rejection, betrayal or discouragement? What’s painful for you may not be painful for me. Pain is a subjective experience.” - Ava

Objectively I can think of a long list of things that would pertain to the three of swords though. Unhappiness, heartache, sorrow, loss and sadness are a part of life. It’s a part of nature. It is a part of survival and growth. Emotions can’t all be positive, that is unrealistic. The process of pain does however interrupts a person's attention and focus, forcing them into an unwanted and unwelcome situation. It could be emotional pain, mental pain, financial pain, physical pain - either way its unwanted displeasure. You may be losing a relationship or an identity, a belief, a purpose or goal. Numbing a pain for a while may make it far worse when you finally feel it. Pain is a pesky part of being human. Most people can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

‘The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. - Ernest Hemingway. ‘Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.’ - George R.R. The enjoyment of pain on the other hand and seeking out of it can be referred to as Masochism, which should be looked at by a psychotherapist for you. ‘One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.’ - John Lennon. ‘One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life and that word is love.’ - Sophocles. 'Tragedy should be utilised as a source of strength. No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.” - Dalai Lama 

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” - James Baldwin

[nightjasmine]

🎶Yeah you, PMS, like a bitch, I would know🎶

My daily cards are on the mark today.

Decks are the Druidcraft Tarot and the Tarot of Trees.

[nightjasmine]

Turns out the meaning of yesterday's daily cards was "You're gonna miss the deadline to register for your exams because it's not tomorrow like you think it is, bitch."

Cards are from the Druidcraft deck and the Tarot of Trees.

[nightjasmine]

Started a new tarotnotes tag so I can better track some of the weird things my cards do before I write it down in my shiny new grimoire. It was gonna be a daily sideblog buuuut turns out I don’t have the dedication for that.