tarot & spirituality

[justannaagain]

Empress of The Multiverse 

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[thesoulpath]

Playing with The Gentle Tarot

I just received the Gentle Tarot this week in the post and I fell in love with it immediately. I got the linen edition which is the medium-sized version and the card stock is a dream. The images and Mari’s writings (the creator) are just so heartfelt it made me feel emotional going through the cards. I absolutely loved the quote on the welcome card that reads “Sending so much love to you and to our paths towards wholeness.” Absolutely beautiful.

Before I properly got started with spreads and shuffling up all the cards I went through each card and specifically had a look at the ones that confused me. The ones that I needed the most help with were the court cards and a few of the cards which lent more heavily into animal symbolism. I think this is the first closest animal deck that I have so just taking the time to get my head around that. (Side note I’m super excited to pre-order the mini oak, ash and thorn soon!!)

So the first spread I did was a deck interview spread, this is always the first spread that I’ll do. It’s just a nice, easy way to get to know the deck, the cards, how it reads and start to build a bit of a relationship together. I used the interview spread that I got with the deck from my littleredtarot order which was a 6-card spread. I loved the variety of questions this spread had, particularly the question asking the deck ‘what can I do for you in return’, I’d never seen that question phrased particularly like that in an interview spread before. From this spread I learnt that the deck is nourishing, nurturing, empowering, confident and playful. Something that I didn’t completely expect was that it asked that I need to be ready to receive the messages and aware of my own bad habits to work best with the deck. I really enjoyed doing the interview spread and it was this first spread that solidified my love for this deck.

The next day I decided to do one of the deck-specific spreads, the “lift me up” one. I liked this spread a lot, because I was a little worried the messages from this deck would be ‘too gentle’ in that they would be all uplifting talk but no tangible actions to take away. But this spread really showed me that it wasn’t going to be like that for me. From this spread it showed me the power I have, but how I need to let go of the worries and just keep moving forward (while looking after myself of course). And I thought that’s really quite great advice for myself at the moment, just keep some steady momentum forward and let go of the worries. The worrying has been a big thing getting in the way for me currently.

All in all I would say that I feel such a connection to this deck, I am so happy I took the plunge to get it. I knew I wanted it for a while, but I was unsure if it would resonate with me. I didn’t know how a more animal focused decks would feel and I knew a lot of it was based on the Aleutian Islands, I thought this might create a bit of a disconnect when trying to work with it. But I would have to say most definitely not. This is slowly but surely making its way up to becoming one of my favourite decks.

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The Fool. Art by Alba Ballesta González

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La Temperanza. Art by Diego Gabriele, from Tarocchi del Disordine: Disorder Tarot Deck.

Upright Meaning: Economy, moderation, frugality, management, housing.

Reverse Meaning: Things connected with churches, religions, sects, priesthood, sometimes even the priest who will marry the consultant; Even disunity, unfortunate combinations, competing interests.

[thesoulpath]

The World

“It is your song playing at the Disco of Life and everybody is getting down to it…Immerse yourself in this moment, have a ball!” Quoted from the guidebook of this deck.

I’ve pulled The World tarot card twice recently and I’ve been thinking about it more. I feel like it’s a similar message to the death card, in that something is ending but it is making way for something else. But of course the death card brings up a lot of fear usually and the world is a card of celebration. Especially depicted in the Playful Heart Tarot (which is the deck I’ve pulled it from recently). Such a beautiful card of joy, celebration, dance - I love the colours, but i also love how the characters are all kinda alone. They’re celebrating together but in their own bubbles enjoying themselves. This really resonates at the moment I really feel that energy of enjoying myself but it does feel like i’m in my bubble doing my own thing.

This card has really been on my mind recently, we just bought a print of the artwork for this card to hang up in our flat and I did an abstract embroidery piece that i named The World also. The message just keeps coming up for me.

I feel like i am really in a period now of transition, I’ve been feeling that quite strongly, that a lot of big changes are coming. Usually this level of change and transition would feel quite scary but I’m eerily at peace with it all. I think pulling this card has made me feel reassured that everything is working out how it should be and in my favour.

Before this I hadn’t pulled this card much, if at all from what I can remember. But it has really made me see it in a new light.

[thesoulpath]

Daily card pull - Playful Heart Tarot

Today I pulled the 9 of cups and 5 of pentacles. Initially these two felt quite opposed to each other, so I felt confused about the message. On one hand there’s the sadness and difficulty depicted in 5 of pentacles but then on the other hand is the joy and celebration of the 9 of cups. When I read the guidebook I felt that it made a bit more sense to me.

We’ve got the discomfort of being outside of our comfort zone (5 pentacles) and needing to make a plan and carry on. While the message of the 9 of cups reassures that everything is aligned and you have been listening to your intuition and going on the right path.

So for me what this message means is a validation of things feeling tricky at the moment and this feeling of being outside of my comfort zone, which I definitely do feel at the moment. Like things are difficult and there is a part of me which does sometimes feel like the little girl depicted on the floor crying and needing someone to pull me along. I’m feeling out of my element not knowing what I’m going to do career-wise and struggling financially. But then the beautiful contrast of the 9 of cups which is a lovely joyous message that I’m exactly where I should be, celebrating in having listened to my intuition - something that I have most definitely found difficult in the past.

I think the contrast in both of these cards today is really on the nose for me. I really am feeling the push and pull of the stress of my material world (pentacles card) and the joy and relief in my emotional/spiritual world (cups card).