Today, I am working with the
Shadowscapes Tarot, one I haven’t used in a while. The cards I threw are Temperance reversed and The Sun. Wow!!
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 presents one version of the
concept of balance: balance achieved through knowledge and experience of
extremes. If you split the Major
Arcana cards into two horizontal categories, theory and practice, and two
vertical categories, active and passive, Temperance falls in the middle of the
passive practice cards. You could say that it presents a balanced version of
active, outer energy and passive, inner energy, and even if releasing that
which cannot be changed does not solve the problem, it will allow the return of
this beautiful balance.
The
Shadowscapes Temperance card shows a woman working with a dragon and a phoenix,
maintaining a balance of opposites by providing small adjustments here and
there, as needed. “Without water,
fire rages utterly unchecked and all-consuming, burning itself out eventually
in a terrible conflagration. And
without fire, the waters are lightless and drowning, flooding until there is
only a still, silent mirror of nothing.”
Limits need to be defined in order to achieve balance.
The Sun
corresponds with Fire (hot/separates and dry/shapes, spontaneous, impulsive and
energetic change), our Sun (the inner core of a person or situation), Resh (the
face; reason), and the Path between Yesod (the place where patterns and images
emerge that may manifest in the physical world) and Hod (provides analysis and
communication), and it tells of a time of enlightenment and peace that comes
after the completion of some ordeal.
The Sun is
golden and warm, and its light illuminates all. We are reminded within the Shadowscapes Sun card that our
Sun is a star, similar to the twinkling lights of night. However the light of our Sun lights our
world so its splendor can be perceived.
The
Shadowscapes Tarot does not have reversals, so I am going to interpret that
reversed Temperance card as telling me that balance will be achieved today, but
not by expected methods. Things
might seem to be upside-down today, but that in itself can offer balance, and
if I believe that for today, even an upside-down balance will turn to golden
light, I will end the day with a smile on my face. Both of these cards have golden fire on them, the phoenix on
Temperance and the sun on The Sun.
Light will lace its way through the day, hopefully allowing me to see in
all the dark corners.
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