Category: Divination

This is one of those readings where you turn over the cards and go “oh… now that’s interesting.” Just look at all that feminine energy lining up. What’s all that about?

I’ll be honest – it’s another week where the cards are giving me a hard stare. There is a very obvious message here about the circumstances I currently find myself in; but again, I think elements of it are highly applicable to many of us at the moment.

These cards, I feel, are speaking to different aspects of one individual. The Empress is earthy, grounded, embodied, physical. The High Priestess is esoteric, highly intuitive, changeable; hers is the inner realm, that which often remains unspoken. In the centre, the fierce sharpness of the Queen of Swords’ insight and intellect is the mediator, the provider of clarity.

I can’t speak to the circumstances internationally, but where I am now, many businesses are beginning to reopen after the Covid-19 lockdown and there is a significant push for a return to something like normality. For many people, myself included, this is a challenge. The virus has not gone away by any means, and normal life will not be as we knew it. Some feel it is too soon for restrictions to have been eased, though some are eager to resume life as it was.

This is the challenge our reading speaks of: how to protect ourselves (and each other) physically, staying healthy while honouring the inner voices which in one ear say it’s OK, we can do this but in the other whisper no… not yet. We are surrounded by uncertainty and it is the Queen’s insight that will enable us to weigh up and make decisions as to what is best for both body and spirit. These are choices not to be rushed or taken lightly, for it does not befit a Queen to act in rashness. Take your time this week, think hard about what is best for you, and act accordingly.

Have a good week and stay safe x

There are times when I pull cards intended for a universal weather report type reading and as soon as I look at them, I know that they are reading my mind and smirking at me. This, friends, is one of those times. But I’m not here to witter about what’s happening in my head, so what can I tell you about the next seven days in a more general sense?

Well, it’s a week for connection, according to the 3 of vessels (aka cups) and the Sun. We may not yet be venturing fully back into ‘normal life’ – whatever that means now – but we still need people, and many of us are craving the company and familiarity of those we care about. In whatever way we feel comfortable, we should seek it out this week. Talk to, or spend time with, friends; nurture relationships. Bask in the metaphorical warmth of the sun just a little. It’s OK to relax, in fact it’s necessary.

Why? Because the Queen of Swords’ blade is double-edged and razor sharp. Spend too much time thinking or looking inward and we run the risk of turning insight into conjecture, clarity into confusion. The mind is a powerful storyteller, but thoughts are not facts. If we take insufficient care to remember that it’s all too easy to walk ourselves down a hundred dead ends, wasting valuable mental energy that we could have put to better use. Like stepping away to connect with friends, for instance.

Have a good week and take care x

There is optimism to be found in the coming week, if we are able to resist the urge to overthink. The nine of earth (aka coins/pentacles/discs) speaks of a balanced, grounded state in terms of resources: an appreciation of our wealth, in the fullest – not purely financial – sense. The father of wind (aka king of swords) is a master of intellect, of rationale, of thought: but the bull he rides here is an aggressive mount. He appears to be riding with his shadow. Two figures, two flags, two sides to every sword blade. The power and blunt force of this figure can cut either way, so it is up to us to balance the inrush of thoughts with the grounding influence of the nine’s Zenith. In doing so, we find the middle way of Temperance.

Have a good week and stay safe x

I thought I’d start doing a short weekly reading on here, as a general look ahead.

However, as this weekend was the Summer Solstice, first I pulled a couple of cards thinking about the period flanked by the longest and shortest days; what’s in store for us between now and the Winter Solstice?

Well, that’s an interesting contrast. The 6 of Cups is about beauty, pleasure, indulgence almost – although in many decks it also carries a connotation of nostalgia and dwelling on the past. The Hierophant, on the other hand, speaks of order, tradition and our place in communities. Here we have a tension between doing what feels good, the things we think of with fondness, and what we feel (or what we think others expect) we ought to do. How apt as many people’s lives – mine included – have been upended by the events of the year so far, and our expectations of the future may be far less clear than previously. ‘May you live in interesting times’, as the proverb goes.

Now to the coming week.

Wow, that’s a lot of energy rushing at us for the week. The wheel keeps turning – the Solstice begins the diminishing of the light towards the darker half of the year, and a new moon cycle begins today. Endings and beginnings surround us, the push and pull of competing elements, the need to find balance to reach our goals and not to get caught beneath the wheel as it turns. We may need to be forceful this week, strap on our armour and slay some metaphorical dragons where they are keeping us from reaching where we need to be. The good news is that the World suggests we’ll get there.

Have a good week and stay safe, all.