My Thoth card is the Three of Swords. “Sorrow,” again. This card has been showing up lately, and perhaps I need to be aware that things could be happening behind the scenes. The Three of Swords (Saturn, discipline, responsibility, limitations and resistance, in Libra, “We are,” partnerships, balance, cooperation) usually indicates the possibility that logic and the intellect could end up causing harm, or challenging my logic and rationality. This card always makes me feel uncomfortable, but at least I am aware that things could be happening behind the scenes, and will be watching so I can head off any negativity as soon as possible.
My Legacy card is Temperance reversed, flavored by the Eight of Wands. Interesting that I threw these cards exactly two months ago, only with Temperance upright and the Eight of Wands reversed. Temperance corresponds with Sagittarius (“I seek,” philosophic, adventurous, blundering) Fire (hot/separates and dry/shapes, and spontaneous, impulsive, energetic change), Samekh (the tent post), and the Path between Yesod (the place where patterns and images emerge that may manifest into the physical world of action and outer reality) and Tiphareth (the hub of the creation process where energies harmonize and focus to illuminate and clarify), and it is one of the Major Arcana cards that presents the concept of dynamic balance. But, my Temperance card is reversed today, so balance may not be beneficial or easily attained. The Eight of Wands (Mercury, reason, intelligence, education, skill, communication, in Sagittarius, “I seek,” philosophic, fun-loving, adventurous, blundering) is a card of action, of quick developments, and of pulling it all together so things can be completed. My Eight of Wands is flavoring my reversed Temperance card, so things could get a bit chaotic or crazy. But that is not necessarily a bad thing, now, is it?!
My 6-digit date number is 11 (Archangel Uriel), which reduces further to the number 2, representing balance, polarity and the concept of “distance between.”
My horoscopes: “Your values could undergo a complete turnaround today, Sagittarius. Recent developments in the world, your community, among your circle of friends, and within you could make you realize, like it or not, you and everyone around you is going through a transformation. This might be a little disconcerting, but it's a positive development. Take things one day at a time and see where they go. You'll probably like it!”
And: “Some strange phone calls could come your way today. There could be a few hang-ups, wrong numbers, or even friends who forget why they called you! Communication in general isn't likely to run too smoothly today, so you may have to make the effort to choose the right words, go into as much detail as possible, and ask if you're being understood. Otherwise things could get more complicated than you'd like.”
My Shadowscapes Insight is regarding Death. I just love the joyous way that the Shadowscapes Tarot perceives this card, which is seen to correspond with the phoenix. From the Shadowscapes Companion: “When the phoenix sees death beckoning, she lifts her voice in a tragic song of pain, of rending, of sorrow . . .that yet cannot mask the most intense joy, for she knows that as the flames lick at her heart, the heat is quickening the egg in which her successor sleeps. Her deathflame is its life spark; one is linked inextricably to the other.” Death is not always bad, and in my spiritual tradition, Death is seen as the reason for the immortality of life.
Friday the 13th!! I actually see this as a lucky day, but not everyone does. Here is some interesting information from Wikipedia about this much-dreaded day.
The fear of Friday the 13th has been called friggatriskaidekaphobia (“Frigga” is the Norse goddess for whom “Friday” is named and “triskaidekaphobia,” fear of the number thirteen), or paraskevidekatriaphobia, (Greek words “Paraskeví” or Friday, and “dekatreis” or thirteen, attached to “phobia,” meaning “fear”). Every month that begins on a Sunday will have a Friday the 13th in it, and there is at least one Friday the 13th in every calendar year. The longest period that can occur without a Friday the 13th is fourteen months, either from July to September the following year, or from August to October the following leap year. Friday the 13th can happen as many as three times in a single year; either in February, March and November in an ordinary year, or January, April and July in leap years.
According to folklorists, there is no written evidence for any superstition connected to Friday the 13th before the 19th century; there are several theories for the origin of this fear. One states that the superstition was created because this date is a combination of Friday (considered unlucky since the 14th century to modern times; remember Black Friday?), which is considered an unlucky day, and the number 13 (12 is considered a number of completeness and 13 ends the balance of the number 12; both Christian and Norse myths have created the superstition that having 13 people seated at a dinner table will result in the death of one of the diners), which is considered unlucky by many. Some say that this superstition is rare before the publication of Thomas W. Lawson’s novel, “Friday, the Thirteenth” (which tells of a broker who takes advantage of the superstition to create a Wall Street panic on a Friday the 13th).
And of course, there is the now-famous connection between Friday the 13th and the Knights Templar, presented first in the 1989 book “Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry,” and later in “The DaVinci Code.”
To me, Friday the 13th is an auspicious day, filled with possibility. After all, almost everyone else is cringing and withdrawing into the safety of their protective shields, leaving many opportunities and beneficial energy flows unguarded and ripe for the plucking.
So, Happy Friday the 13th everybody!
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