Finally getting around to sitting down and slinging the cards. It's been hectic and moody in these parts.
So for this week's celestial week, I've gonne ahead and indulged myself with the black and white Tarot of the Holy Light. I'm also following the planetary wheel that heads these celestial weeks threads.
Starting from today Monday I have the chariot highlighting nostalgia and memories of past connections, here ruled by Gemini.
Tuesday is quite ambitious with the 6 of wands looking ahead.
Wednesday finds the knight of swords ruled by Gemini considering lost connections.
Thursday is the air trine in 10 of swords with the distance traveled.
Friday os the 5 of wands looking at connections, relations, and distances in between. I can't help but think of the song The Space Between by The Dave Matthews Band!
Saturday and the ancestors being the fire of the 7 of wands.
Culminating in the 2 of cups for Sunday.
So let's see here. Right off the bat there's a stark tension between fire and air, the air that fans the fire. The chariot does not dwell on nostalgia but instead charges forward, despite not dwelling there is awareness of the nostalgia. If I think of the twins and the two sides of Gemini, I acknowledge that there's a polarity being played out here wherein I learn to direct the reings of the twins, one that looks one way (nostalgia, memories) and the other that looks ahead.
With mars, the following day in the order, there's still an emphasis on twins on duality, but now they see eye to eye. This is the 6 of wands leo ruled by the sun, lion and eagle, above and below coming together for a common goal. There is ambition for the future, ambition that desires to bring the future close and in harmony. Glory in union.
Wednesday below features Gemini again in the guise of the knight of swords, lost connections. This side of gemini is the trickster side, the side that hides the fallout of connections lost in misdirection. Instead of having the sensibility of the chariot, this knight plays no games, instead cuts, reorders, and rearanges to suit his mood and ambitions. Perhaps this is something worth dwelling on. Perhaps there are grievances or past connections that deserve to be felt, maybe even mourned. But this knight knows that mourning should be brief.
Again, Jupiter's day has the air trine, again air, thinking of the mutable Gemini along with the other two signs, the cardinal and fixed. I can't help but see the weight of all 10 swords lie heavy on the distance traveled. Maybe this is why the knight doesn't want to wallow too long in lost connections, the distance traveled, the lessons learned have been hard won. 10 swords illustrate the weight of pain and grief. Better to have loved and lost... but one has to keep going.
Friday is opulent, now we're in the section of the spread where wands bring fire heating up the dry air, 5 wands in this case. Five, movement action, configuration, getting the angles right. Two pillars, both lighting the center, illuminating secrets at specific angles. Leo ruled by mars. This is the leonine that blazes the trail, that gets the the distance right. Current connections amd relationships although few are attuned to the precise degree of proximity wherein there is comfort, there is understanding, and there is passion.
The very special saturnian connection with ancestors comes in the shape of wands, 7 of wands. Sagittarius ruled by mars, there is a dynamism here with the ancestors, there is a fire that tempers diversity, all these different wands entwined and connected. It is comforting to know that the ancestors are never far, and that the connection's fire blazes.
The topmost central card is the 2 of cups, the sun. Glories of the past but here, the way it flanks the 5 and 6 of wands seems fitting. Glories of the past also contain blessings for the present. The two of cups one pours belows, the other receives from above. As past glories are spent and poured out, space is made for new blessings from connections that are and that will be.
Well, lots to suss out still, will sit with this one. I find myself sitting with these readings as the week progresses. I like it.
