Free Reading #48 for 2021 Mirror Dragon Tarot

Each week when I do these readings I set up my reading space with black fabric (for the photo, mostly but it also allows for and smooth, calm space to focus on the cards) make sure I have undisturbed quiet time; dogs are out, husband is at work/play/store/whatever, phone is off, etc… I begin with a quick grounding meditation and settle into a centered peace to ask for guidance in choosing the cards which will be most appropriate for the week ahead. I shuffle the cards with my intent in mind and spread them in a dealer’s “ribbon spread”. Then with eyes closed, I ask for the Center card, the West card and finally, the East card, reaching out to the spread, touching the cards and choosing the one that feels most fully under my finger tip, then sliding them into their positions. Before opening my eyes I return to a calm, centered state and do my best to sense whether the three cards I’ve chosen are the most fitting for the highest and best for all involved. Only then do I turn them face up and photograph them for the reading. There are times when I see the three cards before me and groan or breathe a sigh of relief but I always use the cards I’ve selected ”blindly”.

That said;

The Center card this week is the 5 of Cups.

Nostalgia lives here. Under the influence of this card, we find ourselves reeling in the years with a heightened sense of old lessons and connections. Perhaps the holiday get-togethers have opened your eyes to things you hadn’t known or thought of or maybe they opened old wounds. The fives herald an end to the stability and stasis of the fours’ plateaus --where we review, rework and realign-- and the forward movement we begin once we’ve determined what works and what needs to be changed. With the renewal of movement we feel the loss of the familiar (though not necessarily comfortable) more acutely until we become accustomed to life without it. Old comforts and discomforts leave gaps that we feel. Like when you clip your fingernails and the underbed feels the air as a tiny cool spot at the end of your finger. Or you leave a job you hate for a better one but you still miss the person at the next desk over. With this five, we may feel ourselves getting tangled up in old “glory days” to the degree that we could blind ourselves to new opportunities held out before us with visions of the past.

The West card is the High Priestess.

I see the Priestess as symbolizing the recognition humans have of something greater than themselves, something Universal that we’re part of, an understanding that we’re all connected. She is divinely feminine in that she encompasses the macrocosm of life’s beginnings. In the desert of physical reality, she brings the first stirrings of knowledge that life is possible. She can be the doorway we use to maintain a connection to the perfection of Universe, God, Buddha, Christ, Spirit, whatever name it’s given and the reminder that there is a greater good, higher mind, spiritual connection. She is the light that we strive to attain.

The East card is the Prince of Cups.

Here we find the influence of emotional courage. I see the princes of the Tarot as the risk takers, those who stand up to conventional thinking and challenge the accepted status quo. In this instance we’re looking at the watery element of feelings; physical, emotional and thought based. Having faced renewed connections with family and friends that holiday gatherings offer with our viewpoint expanded to include the wisdom of Higher Mind, of our Universal connections, we feel more confident about acting on those emotional interactions with the confidence of a teenager who hasn’t learned how to be jaded yet. In accessing that wisdom we may overcome barriers that are no longer real or necessary.

In conclusion;

With so many of us having had the experience of spending time with people we haven’t seen for a while, especially after last year’s quarantines, we’ve gotten a chance to see relationships a bit differently. Many of us have gotten closer as a result of separation and many have discovered how well we feel in the absence of some of those connections. There will likely be some feelings of grief for a past that no longer exists but with the added perspective of our Universal relationships, the tendency to hold onto the past that the 5 of Cups can trigger becomes less about regret or guilt and more about growth.

Have a mystical week,

Light, Tory

TIP for the week: You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

George Bernard Shaw- Major Barbera (1905)

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