The Shadowscapes Tarot jumped
out at me today, so I threw The High Priestess reversed and the Knight of
Swords reversed. The Shadowscapes
Tarot does not have reversed meanings; a reversed card, however, does serve as
a red flag, or as a figure jumping up and down and waving her arms and yelling
“Look at meeeeee!!”
The High Priestess (Water; the Moon, feelings
and emotions, illusion, imagination; Gimel, the camel who safely crosses
Da’ath, the Abyss, and thus, has the secret of life; and the Path between
Tiphareth, the hub of the creation process where energies harmonize and focus
to illuminate and clarify, and Kether, the source, limitless possibility), is
one-half of the Major Arcana representation of the Sacred Feminine, with The
Empress being the other half. The High Priestess is the source of the power of
The Magician (who is also in this pair), the feminine version of The
Hierophant, and the Keeper of the Mysteries. She is the Gatekeeper who determines whether I am ready to
experience the Mysteries, and she is somewhat removed from everyday life
although her mind is receptive.
She is not about mental analysis at all; when upright, she tells me that
in order to access the Mysteries she guards, I must know my inner self
completely, and accept the messages of my Inner Voice, even if they defy
analysis. She is reversed today,
and while she may be able to balance the outer realms with the inner realms in
an effective way, I won’t be able to do the same. Her tools are not my tools today, and I would be better off
looking around me in the physical world for messages.
The
Shadowscapes High Priestess is a beautiful card! The HPs is floating upward, wrapped in a veil of the palest
lavender embossed with crescent moons, her wings and arms spread and her dark
lavender skirt festooned with green oak leaves and slate blue feathers, holding
a pomegranate in her left hand.
Her hair spreads around her head like a corona, mimicking the rays of
the sun. Below her a ghostly white
owl flies, wings and tail spread.
The sky is sprinkled with stars, but the darkness is soothing rather
than fearsome. “In the gloam, the
night is full of whispers – the secret knowledge of the stars, of the trees,
and of the earth.”
The Knight of
Swords (the cusp of Taurus, “I have,” sensual, stubborn, cautious, and Gemini,
“I think,” curious, talkative, dual, intelligent) is outspoken, assured, alert,
and logical, as well as rude, domineering, critical and sarcastic. His daring and courage, and his ability
to respond quickly to situations, are impressive, but he can also be
disruptive, too. While all of the
Knights can be considered as mercenaries, the Knight of Swords truly
personifies this career.
The
Shadowscapes Knight of Swords is also flying through a star-studded night sky,
but the colors of this card are more intense. Our Knight sits proudly on his swan, coming directly to the
point without spinning the facts.
He does not acknowledge the possibility of defeat, does not back down
once he has engaged, because he will only allow himself to visualize
success. He slices through the
night sky, not noticing the storm of swirls and eddies behind him, caused by
his passing.
The events of this day just
might distract me from that quiet, calm and confident place within me, that
place attained by working to obtain and understand knowledge and then manifest
that knowledge with wisdom. The
lure of being the hero, of saving the day in a blaze of intellectual glory,
just might be the distraction.
Neither of these cards are the wrong thing to focus upon, but neither of
them are the right thing either.
Perhaps a balance of the two??
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