Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Eight of Cups/Death. The Eight of Cups (Saturn, discipline, responsibility, limitation, law and order, in Pisces, “I believe,” feeling, duality, suffering, soul growth) tells of an ending or a change of direction. Often this change is voluntary, and involves the sacrifice or giving up of something that may not be healthy or positive. The Death card corresponds with Water (cold/binds and wet/adapts, and sensitive, imaginative energy that strives to stay the same or take the same course), Scorpio, Nun (fish head; liberation), and the Path between Tiphareth (the hub of the creation process where energies harmonize and focus to illuminate and clarify) and Netzach (the stimulating factors of emotion and inspiration), and tells of transformation or change, both voluntary and involuntary, the ending of an era and the fear of the unknown result of change. Death often brings a freedom that ends up initiating new growth, even if the attaining of that freedom is a bit frightening. Both of these cards are about endings, and both are connected to Water, so the ending they are referring to most likely will have to do with my emotional self.

My Thoth card is Adjustment. The Thoth Adjustment (Justice) corresponds with Air (hot/separates and wet/adapts, and quick, animated, intellectual energy usually connected with challenges or problems), Libra (“We are,” partnerships, balance, cooperation), Lamed (ox goad, train and teach), and the Path between Tiphareth and Geburah (the place where forms and structures are challenged or affirmed). Crowley feels that this card can represent agreements of all kinds, including marriages and treaties, and tolerance; he feels that each of these things are protected by laws and are upheld by the courts, both of which are also connected to this card. Justice is about balance, about cause and effect, and about moving away from extremes, and about equilibrium. Crowley changed the name from the static “Justice” to the active “Adjustment” in order to show us that this is a dynamic process. “Change is stability” is the way that Crowley presents this.

My Legacy card is The World reversed, flavored by the Seven of Wands. The Universe/World (Earth, cold/binds and dry/shapes, stable, physical, material, slow to change; Saturn, discipline, responsibility, limitations and resistance; Thav, mark or sign; and the Path between Malkuth, the physical world of action and physical reality, and Yesod, the place where patterns and images emerge that may manifest into Malkuth) in an upright position tells of reaching the maximum available integration between the physical self and the mental/astral/energy body. The Seven of Wands (Mars, action, spontaneity, aggression, drive, in Leo, “I am,” passionate, dramatic, natural leader, egotistical, selfish) has a personal significance for me, given to me by Archangel Uriel. I see this card as representing the approach of a Threshold, and the need to pass the tests of the Guardian; since the card is paired with The World reversed, I am seeing that the Threshold has appeared, but I have not yet passed the test of the Guardian. All of my cards are pretty powerful today, and I need to have all of my senses opened to receiving any messages.

My 6-digit date number is 4, the number of depth and stability. I think I will need this depth and stability today to act as a foundation to support the things to come.

My horoscopes: “Opportunities for new partnerships concerning a personal project of yours could come to you from far away, Sagittarius. Contracts, agreements, and other legal matters work in your favor, but making sense of them could require concentration. Read the fine print to learn as much as you can. Whatever happens, your life should definitely change in a subtle but positive way. Embrace the change!”

And: “As soon as you woke up this morning, the obstacles began sliding out of your way. Get ready for a day of karmic payback. Plum parking spaces, friendly fellow drivers and plenty of smiles will all surround you. You'll be experiencing the best of what people have to offer, and it will buoy you to share your own goodwill. The road ahead has never felt wider, sunnier or smoother. Whatever hesitation you've been feeling about a relationship will disappear.”

And: “A proposed get-together with a love interest might have to be postponed until much later tonight, %, or perhaps even until another evening. This could make you a little blue. Your insecurities might even get the better of you. Does your friend not want to meet up with you? Don't fall into this kind of thinking. Accept that there's a reason for this, then go with the flow. You'll enjoy the date that much more for the delay.”

My Sun reading: “Finish unfinished business. Start something new after lunch when the Moon settles in Taurus. If you're single, a romance that starts tonight could become a solid relationship. You and your significant other realize how snap judgments cause problems. Never underestimate the power of the words ‘I'm sorry.’”

Well, my Tarot cards of the day are certainly sending me a clear and strong message: let’s get moving!! Okay, then. Onward.

And it looks like I will need all of my recently-gained fortitude, for the 27th Path corresponds with the Tarot card The Tower. This Path connects Hod (Glory) and Netzach (Victory), instinct and emotion, and is called Active, Activating or Exciting Intelligence. This is the Path that fulfills the wish, “may you live in interesting times,” and with this Path you need to be careful what you wish for, because you will get it, in spades.

The horizontal Paths are considered reciprocal, meaning the energies flow back and forth in two directions rather than mainly in one direction. Ellen Cannon Reed describes the energies of this path in this way: “This is the Path between Fire and Water, between the Lady of Nature and the Lord of Books, between emotion and mind, instinct and logic, natural magic and ceremonial magic. Because balance is so strongly stressed in both the Craft and Qabala, the importance of this path cannot be exaggerated, nor can its difficulties.” The 27th Path is also the first of three Paths to also cross the entire Tree; this means that the energies of this Path will “cross over” into the physical world more readily than the other Paths.

**gulp**

Now, the strange thing is that Reed sees Temperance as the Major Arcana card that corresponds with the 27th Path, while most of the other sources I have see The Tower as the Major that corresponds to this Path and Temperance as corresponding to the 25th Path, which goes between Yesod and Tiphareth. While I usually tend to agree with Reed, this time, I am going to follow Uncle Al, and use The Tower with this Path, at least until I have also worked with the 25th Path.

This Path balances the feminine Pillar of Form/Restriction and the masculine Pillar of Force/Expansion. And like I always say, you can’t achieve balance unless you understand the extremes of each; this is why Reed places Temperance alongside the 27th Path.

Looks like the serenity of the past week is over, and in a way I am glad. I am feeling that there is some message out there for me, some aha! moment waiting for me. I spent my entire trip back up from Cape May, all 2 ½ hours of it, attempting to actively reach out to whatever this information is. I tried sitting next to Danu’s Well, but ended up in the same place each time: standing in the middle of an endless field, harvested or cleared, surrounded by the browns and grays of tree stumps and the ends of plants, all dry, with an overcast sky. There, in the middle of the sepia-toned scene, His robe searingly white, His hair golden, His eyes two suns, is Archangel Uriel. He is standing there, a silent Sentinel who is guarding the Gateway; I am not yet allowed to pass.

Something is coming.

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