Knight of Cups/King of Swords reversed. The Knight of Cups (cusp of Aquarius, “I know,” friendships, the group, cause-oriented, and Pisces, “I believe,” feelings, duality, suffering, soul growth) is about feeling things strongly and without restraint or grounding.  He may appear calm, cool and collected to others, but my Knight of Cups responds deeply to life, and dreams big dreams.  The King of Swords (cusp of Capricorn, “I build,” ambitious, cautious, cunning, authoritative, and Aquarius, “I know,” friendships, the group, cause-oriented, aloof) in an upright position is a good judge of people and situations.  He uses his intellect to analyze, so he may not be compassionate but he is trustworthy.  But my King is reversed, and perhaps he is encouraging my Knight of Cups to dream his dreams and feel his feelings.  Perhaps a bit of imbalance here, eh?

My Thoth card is the Two of Swords reversed.  “Peace” reversed today. The Two of Swords (Moon, feelings and emotions, illusion, imagination, in Libra, “We are,” partnerships, balance, cooperation), which in an upright position can represent a time of not looking or of shutting out the world.  My Two of Swords is reversed, so barriers won’t be effective today.  Hmm . . . another reversed Sword card.  Looks like today it will be love and caring that solve the problems, rather than logic.

My Legacy card is the Ten of Coins, flavored by the Four of Wands reversed. The Ten of Coins (Mercury, reason, intelligence, education, communication, in Virgo, “I serve,” practical, analytical, work and service oriented) represents physical world wealth and bounty. This card tells me that my efforts to bring stability and prosperity into all the phases of my physical world are effective, and if I’m not already seeing evidence of this, I will see it soon.  The Four of Wands (Venus, beauty, allure, relationships, in Aries, “I want,” action oriented, assertive, enthusiastic) in an upright position is about building enough to become established.  This situation often makes us believe that we have completed our project, but in reality we have only made a good start.  Since my Four of Wands is reversed, and flavoring my Ten of Coins, I am being reminded that wealth can become a burden if we try to pack it away and protect it.  Instead, we need to do something with our bounty, create something with it, use it to bring good things into our lives and those around us. 

My 6-digit date number is 10, the number that tells of the end of a cycle.  It reduces further to the number 1, which tells of potential and position.

My horoscopes: “Today you may want to set aside some time to spend with close friends or a love partner, Sagittarius. Other responsibilities could have you on your own, taking care of errands and other important matters. You may have the feeling of being lonely in a crowd. Don't waste time feeling sorry for yourself. Take care of business and get back to your loved ones.”

And: “Planning is not generally a strong point of yours, but sometimes, it is painfully necessary. It may be that you are more comfortable with just throwing caution to the wind, letting fate lead the way, and keeping good luck as your back up. This plan works for the most part, but realize, that in some cases, a degree of rational thinking and organization might be helpful to get the job done right.”

My Shadowscapes Insight is regarding The World.  This card is defined as “a unity of disparate parts,” and that is a perfect description of The World.  This card tells of balance, but it also tells of the weaving and blending of patterns and connections throughout the universe.  This is truly “as above, so below; as below, so above.”

Let’s talk a bit about the number 3!  As with the other numbers, this blog post is based on the book, “A Beginner’s Guide to Constructing the Universe,” by Michael S. Schneider.  And even looking at the image we use for the number 3 helps us to define the effects of the number itself!  The shape has a beginning, a middle and an end, a natural way to divide the whole.  In our lives, we have birth, life and death; space is defined by length, width and height; time is defined as past, present and future; traffic lights are green/go, yellow/pause and red/stop, and even our day is divided into dawn, midday and dusk.  We have three strikes in baseball, three medals in the Olympics, we usually use three counts as a catalyst (ready, set, go!), and auctioneers complete a deal by “going once, going twice, sold!”  And the successful bidder may celebrate by shouting, “hip, hip, horray!”

Three is a number of strength, stability, and of “process” or “creation” within processes or effects in science, in religion, and in commerce.  Many modern product logos exhibit triangles or three points for this reason.  Another interesting fact: the first symbol unable to be created in our three-dimensional world is the “tribar.”

The triangle is the opposite of a circle, which encloses the greatest area within the smallest perimeter; it encloses the smallest amount of area within a shape as compared to its perimeter.  It is the first shape constructed of straight lines, and it represents the two-dimensional concept of “surface.”  Triangles are stable, strong, balanced and efficient; the thorn on a rose bush and the teeth in the mouth of a shark are triangular.  The more triangles an architect or engineer uses in a structure, the more weight that structure will support. 

The smallest knot to be tied crosses itself in three places; tie a knot and three become one; make a braid and you create one whole out of three parts.  It takes two opposites and a “binding element” to create this union: a seller, a buyer and money create commerce, wax, a wick and a flame make a candle, and prosecution, defense and a judge create a trial.  LOL, the word even hints at this: tri-al.

The numbers 1 and 2 are seen as parents, as male and female; this means that the number 3, the creation of those two polar effects, can be considered the first number.  In fact, many primitive cultures don’t have a number beyond 3, and count by saying “one, two, many.”

Cool!

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