Temperance reversed/King of Pentacles 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.  Because Temperance is reversed, this may be a day of extremes (or of experiencing the effects of extremes) rather than balance. The King of Pentacles (cusp of Aries, “I want,” action oriented, assertive, competitive, and Taurus, “I have,” sensual, stubborn, cautious, physically oriented) is the expert on the physical world, on physical world resources, and on physical manifestation.  My King is reversed today, and perhaps his steady and cautious personality would not be a benefit, especially when taken with the reversed Temperance card.

My Thoth card is the Two of Cups.  “Love” is the keyword for the Thoth Tarot Two of Cups (Venus, beauty, allure, relationships, in Cancer, “I feel,” sensitive, family and home oriented, tenacious, moody), is about love and connections, usually about relationships and commonalities.  This card tells of favorable connections of all kinds, even business connections, but more likely having to do with caring and respect and love.  This love can be borne of wisdom, and is usually an expression of harmony.

My Legacy card is Death, flavored by the Four of Coins. 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 natural change that cannot be stopped.  Death is not fun, although once the process of renewal is completed, good things may very well manifest, but I can’t allow myself to fear the process. The Four of Coins (the Sun, the inner core of a person or situation or the deepest self, in Capricorn, “I build,” ambition, authority, caution cunning) in an upright position tells of very solid foundations and an awareness of the value of our possessions.  This card hints at a need for control, predictability and stability, but they often are not found when the Death card is around.  LOL, with the Temperance reversed card and the reversed King of Pentacles above as well, the poor Four of Coins might be in over it’s head!

My 6-digit date number is 9, the completeness of manifestation.

My horoscopes: “Goals that may have seemed unreachable in the recent past are finally starting to come into focus, Sagittarius. It could be that you've been neglecting your dreams because they only seemed to move farther away every time you addressed them. Have faith that your luck is starting to change. Be patient and you'll find that even your wildest fantasies will start to come to fruition.”

And: “You can do no wrong today. In fact, your slippery nature can navigate though cracks today without anyone noticing. You may find, however, that you would rather be seen up on center stage. This is fine as well, just as long as the choice is yours. Independence is a key theme for you today, and you will find that the more you can break free, the better off your general mood will be.”

My Shadowscapes Insight is regarding the Ten of Swords.  This is a card of heavy burdens, of the perception of approaching ruin, but also the end of delusions.  We can only go so far merely expecting the approach of misfortune.  Sooner or later that approach ends, and we need to (pardon my profanity) shit or get off the pot.  After all, the worst that can happen is what we are expecting.  Once the event is over, we will know what we are left with and will deal with the situation, so worry and despair are a waste of energy.

Today I am going to address a concept that may seem basic to most, but to me has been a bit of a challenge to understand:  evoking and banishing pentagrams.  When I first began casting a sacred circle and calling Watchers and Elemental Guides, I tried to decipher the process behind determining which pentacle was evoking and which was banishing.  I already understood the concept of moving deosil (with the sun) and widdershins (against the sun), and thus my first assumption was that an evoking pentagram would be drawn into the corner representing the element so the rest of the pentacle could be drawn in a clockwise or deosil direction, and that a banishing pentagram would be drawn out of the corner corresponding to the element so that the rest of the pentacle could be drawn in a counter-clockwise or widdershins direction.  And indeed, this is how we draw evoking and banishing pentagrams.

However, I was finally able to find an explanation for this process.  Evoking pentagrams are still drawn into the corner corresponding to the element, but they seem to move in a widdershins direction; banishing pentagrams are still drawn out of the corner corresponding to the element, but they seem to move in a deosil direction.  This explanation is simple: banishing pentagrams start in the corresponding corner, and then move in an upward direction, and invoking pentagrams are starting in the next corner, moving in a downward direction.

This means that the first like of each pentagram would be between the same two points (for instance for Earth, would be between Spirit, the upper corner, and Earth, the corner in the lower left), but would just be moving in a different direction.  Okay, that makes sense!

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