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The Center card for this week is the 2 of Swords.

The Swords of the Tarot represent our intellect, our left-brain articulate thinking. It is in the left hemisphere that our language and ability to communicate reside along with our problem solving and organizational skills. The right hemisphere holds more visual, sensual and contextual memory. The communication between the two, the corpus callosum (a large bundle of nerve fibers), forms the heart or core where they interface. In the twos of the Tarot we find the compulsion to recognize and integrate left, right, up, down, inner and outer to create unity within Self. The blue-white flower at the intersection of these two swords asks us to regard the beauty of the interface of intellect versus wisdom in the drive to find balance between the two. With this focus on pulling opposing aspects into an alignment and the ability to come up with the words we need to make that alignment clearly understood, now is a good time to speak up and voice our decisions about what we want and need for our own health and harmony within the group. Whether that group be the Universe, the family, that one special person or simply me, myself and I, this is about finding the core, the heart of the matter and speaking directly to that in a way that brings recognition, acceptance and balance.

The West card this week is the 5 of Cups.

This card gives us a clue as to where to look to find the ideas or feelings that want the alignment found in the 2. The fives are inherently unbalanced numerically and give us the opportunity to see where the blind spots are in our interpretation of difficult times or frustrating lack of communication. In the image on the card we see that there are three empty cups and two cups we cannot see into. We can see the empty cups as spilled out and used up or as open for whatever we want to put into them and the two empty cups as unknown possibilities. Often this card comes up in times of indecision, sadness or lack of motivation. When we see the empty cups as used up and gone it's easy to get caught up in the loss or lack of what was. When love, work, health, creativity or things we’ve enjoyed have passed we feel their absence and sometimes grieve by trying to hold on to what once was. This can become a trap. Only they who allow change are true to themselves. This is the quintessential energy of cups/water energy. Things change. Water is like that, it flows. If we get caught up in the grief or desire for things that are no longer there we’re blind to what else can be. It does take courage to look into the unknown which can make it harder to let go but I believe when we access that courage and relax into the change we flow into the new best thing gently and naturally.

The East card is the Moon.

With this Major Arcana card we see our primordial self. All the depths of emotion, of spirit and within that depth our connection to all things of heaven, earth and beyond. The Moon asks us to let go of the stagnation of dependency and let emotions carry us to the deepest depths and highest heights possible. This release to freedom requires determination. When we discover our ability to surpass expectation, need, fear or whatever we find ourselves dependent on we find a great strength. One that has lain dormant and hidden by the reliance and duty we feel to societal norms, religious tenets, relationship parameters or prescribed structure. Just because it has “always worked that way” doesn’t mean that it’s the only way. Think of the creative student who, although he’s quite talented and can reproduce the qualities of “the greats” in the field, he knows that there’s more. He knows that he can go beyond the parameters of what’s expected. When he finds he can rely on his abilities to bypass the expectations of others he discovers a strength that’s deeper than he's known before and the opportunities that have opened as a result.

In conclusion;

This week we see the heart of things, the core belief, the mechanism or the calm (or cause) at the center of the storm. When we give ourselves permission to accept the lessons of the past, let them go and look up into the unknown of the empty cups we can step out of the need to conform or perform and expand on what’s important to our needs at this moment. We find depths we didn’t expect this week and the cool thing is we have the intellectual clarity to speak the truth of what we find so that others can hear and understand.

Have a clear and honest week.

Light, Tory

TIP for the week: I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand. Confucious

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