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The Present:
A couple of days ago I started posting a random Daily Tarot card to iRovr.
Yesterday I connected with a study group online that is focused on L&S deck.
This morning the card I posted on iRovr was the Hierophant.
I read in the forum that someone thought the 3 pentacles represented Goepferd (it does).
I googled online tarot readings…
Background:
I pretty much left the community a few years before I left SF, so 7 years or so. Really didn't do anything related to it or the traditions. Dropped out, I guess. The past couple of years have been quite challenging. Things seem to be sorting themselves out now. Realizing I need more, to be connected more, to allow me to surface again instead of who other want me to be. Thought I'd lost interest, lost the talents, had moved on. Discovered that a sibling with whom I have had no contact with in 20+ yrs also has pagan leanings. Exchanged one email, then the silence again. Got me thinking about how I was back then, the creativity, the community, the fun, the happiness, the growth. Would like to return, but can I? Am I ready? Will I be accepted? Do I have the ego-strength?
The Question:
Is this the time to re-emerge in (rejoin) the pagan community?
The Cards (Celtic Cross Spread)
9 swords, 3 cups, Prince Cups, 7 wands, 9 pentacles, 4 wands, 3 pentacles, 5 cups, Ace cups, Hierophant
The Poem (compiled from the Incantations for each card)
Bedridden, the torment of warring self
plunges with sharp visions
of rage and doubt.
Here the Shadow wounds deeply.
Creative vision triples perspective;
pleasure, fertility, and plenty.
It contains the fulfillment
of abundant love.
Air of Water first Son
glides freely on passionate dreams;
desire propels him through experience.
In difficulty, instinctive courage
and the creative mind inspired by love
enlist in a soldier’s battle
for the honor of one’s values.
My open arms accept the harvest
of seeds well planted.
With good fortune and focused attention
the golden field blooms.
Build the bridge
flush and plumb
to cross complete
new spheres of discovery unobstructed.
The well tuned body
equipped with the proper tools
works smoothly, building
toward gain and wealth.
Pleasure, tipped over,
turns to brine,
and the Spirit drowns
in false expectations and illusions.
Root Water power, first drop of creativity.
Fertile emotions flow freely
in the well contained unconscious.
and I am
Hierophant,
wisdom teacher
of four tangibly made manifest
in fiveness balanced pentacle
point and circumference.
The Spread:
9 swords - certainly where I was.
3 cups - the challenge to bring this me back; move from the mundane to the sublime.
Prince cups - Certainly on the top of my mind.
7 wands - the soldier (survivor) underneath.
9 pentacles - I had abundance in the community in the past, some degree of fame even, no worries, many friends, every opportunity.
4 wands - well if the question for this reading isn't about crossing bridges, I don't know what is.
3 pentacles - this one freaks me out a bit, as this is the card the artist thought most like himself, and now I am returning, with his work, to share what I know. Just freaky!!!
5 cups - indeed, get away from the negativity, the boozing, the naysayers and those that don't support who I am and how I want to be in the world (you know who you are and so do I - bye bye).
Ace cups - a beginning, in the emotional realm. Have been through the thinking, the material, and the fire. Nows the time for the emotional me, now that I have distance, objectivity and wisdom to allow me to just tumble along in vulnerability that is so necessary.
The Hierophant - ahhh duhhh. Of course. first random drawn, then intentional drawn...could the answer ever be more clear? I am back! And thrilled to be.
The Reading: This is why I love this stuff. Synchronicity exposed. Right on the nose, as they say. Each card fell in the exact right place. I may be rusty, so let me know if I am not reading this quite right – if I am only reading what I want it to say rather than what it is telling me to hear.
Thank you for allowing me to share this here. I feel invigorated and humbled. Merry met. Blessed be!
A couple of days ago I started posting a random Daily Tarot card to iRovr.
Yesterday I connected with a study group online that is focused on L&S deck.
This morning the card I posted on iRovr was the Hierophant.
I read in the forum that someone thought the 3 pentacles represented Goepferd (it does).
I googled online tarot readings…
Background:
I pretty much left the community a few years before I left SF, so 7 years or so. Really didn't do anything related to it or the traditions. Dropped out, I guess. The past couple of years have been quite challenging. Things seem to be sorting themselves out now. Realizing I need more, to be connected more, to allow me to surface again instead of who other want me to be. Thought I'd lost interest, lost the talents, had moved on. Discovered that a sibling with whom I have had no contact with in 20+ yrs also has pagan leanings. Exchanged one email, then the silence again. Got me thinking about how I was back then, the creativity, the community, the fun, the happiness, the growth. Would like to return, but can I? Am I ready? Will I be accepted? Do I have the ego-strength?
The Question:
Is this the time to re-emerge in (rejoin) the pagan community?
The Cards (Celtic Cross Spread)
9 swords, 3 cups, Prince Cups, 7 wands, 9 pentacles, 4 wands, 3 pentacles, 5 cups, Ace cups, Hierophant
The Poem (compiled from the Incantations for each card)
Bedridden, the torment of warring self
plunges with sharp visions
of rage and doubt.
Here the Shadow wounds deeply.
Creative vision triples perspective;
pleasure, fertility, and plenty.
It contains the fulfillment
of abundant love.
Air of Water first Son
glides freely on passionate dreams;
desire propels him through experience.
In difficulty, instinctive courage
and the creative mind inspired by love
enlist in a soldier’s battle
for the honor of one’s values.
My open arms accept the harvest
of seeds well planted.
With good fortune and focused attention
the golden field blooms.
Build the bridge
flush and plumb
to cross complete
new spheres of discovery unobstructed.
The well tuned body
equipped with the proper tools
works smoothly, building
toward gain and wealth.
Pleasure, tipped over,
turns to brine,
and the Spirit drowns
in false expectations and illusions.
Root Water power, first drop of creativity.
Fertile emotions flow freely
in the well contained unconscious.
and I am
Hierophant,
wisdom teacher
of four tangibly made manifest
in fiveness balanced pentacle
point and circumference.
The Spread:
9 swords - certainly where I was.
3 cups - the challenge to bring this me back; move from the mundane to the sublime.
Prince cups - Certainly on the top of my mind.
7 wands - the soldier (survivor) underneath.
9 pentacles - I had abundance in the community in the past, some degree of fame even, no worries, many friends, every opportunity.
4 wands - well if the question for this reading isn't about crossing bridges, I don't know what is.
3 pentacles - this one freaks me out a bit, as this is the card the artist thought most like himself, and now I am returning, with his work, to share what I know. Just freaky!!!
5 cups - indeed, get away from the negativity, the boozing, the naysayers and those that don't support who I am and how I want to be in the world (you know who you are and so do I - bye bye).
Ace cups - a beginning, in the emotional realm. Have been through the thinking, the material, and the fire. Nows the time for the emotional me, now that I have distance, objectivity and wisdom to allow me to just tumble along in vulnerability that is so necessary.
The Hierophant - ahhh duhhh. Of course. first random drawn, then intentional drawn...could the answer ever be more clear? I am back! And thrilled to be.
The Reading: This is why I love this stuff. Synchronicity exposed. Right on the nose, as they say. Each card fell in the exact right place. I may be rusty, so let me know if I am not reading this quite right – if I am only reading what I want it to say rather than what it is telling me to hear.
Thank you for allowing me to share this here. I feel invigorated and humbled. Merry met. Blessed be!