Mirror Dragon Tarot Free weekly Reading #20

This week we have quite a powerful triad, three Major Arcana cards with the Devil at the center. The Major Arcana cards help us look at the “big picture”. They represent the overarching life lessons to be found within our daily experiences. When we take the opportunity to look back at pivotal times in our lives with the wisdom of hindsight we can find lessons underneath the multitude of experiences, fears, joys and confusion that combined to create that vital event. For instance; I held a very good job for many years, I made good money which allowed me to live comfortably, even more than comfortably. After years of striving, growing and finally reaching a top management position, the business I worked for merged with another and every management position that had been held by a woman was either terminated or retitled and given to a man. Needless to say, I found myself without the job that paid the bills. I lost a house, 2 cars and a boat, not to mention my self esteem, and was reduced to moving “back home to Mom” at 40 years of age. When it happened I couldn’t see through the frustrated tears a lot of the time. I felt defeated and quite worthless. I packed up and moved from the west coast to the east and started over. Single, in a job that wouldn’t have covered my car payment only a few months before and feeling like I’d lost everything that determined who I was, I was forced to begin living a different way. I learned a lot about being frugal and I hated it. But when I began to find a new sense of who I was that wasn't tied to the amount of money I made it felt good. I began to like myself for different reasons. Reasons that were not determined by what other people thought was the right way to live. It took five years, a lot of self recrimination and soul searching but at 45 I found myself out of debt, in a loving and fulfilling relationship (now marriage) and finally able to do a job that I love and feel passionate about full time without the fear of being terminated. I promised myself I would never terminate me. The reason for this rambling intro is so I can approach the impact of Major Arcana lessons and, in particular The Devil, in a roundabout way. As I look back, I see that the woman I was before the “crash” would never have found the happiness and comfort I have now. She would not have known to look. The Universe thumped me on the head and knocked me onto a far better path than I would have found with the mindset I had 20 years ago. That said…

The Center card for the week is The Devil.

This is one of the most feared and derided cards in the Tarot. Under the influence of the Devil we’re asked to look at (or are smacked in the face with as in my case) the lies we tell ourselves that keep us tangled in the chains of greed, addiction, distortion, deep rooted suffering and consumption, oppression and vices. Many of the chains we struggle with are based on experiences from deep in our pasts, whether in this life or others. They are therefore held deeply and can be insidious and very smooth in their tenacity to hold us. The key here is that there is no key. The reason for the lack of a key is that there is also no lock. There never was. We have the choice and the ability to remove the chains whenever we decide to or when we discover that they do not hold us as tightly as we thought. The hard part, and often the reason it takes some monumental change to snap us awake, is that the beliefs run deep. They require a different situation or perspective to even recognize, let alone acknowledge and change them.

The West card is the Aeon.

We could not be better supported than with this card in the West position. This position which leads up to the current central focus, carries the wisdom we hold to face the bonds of the King of Lies. The Aeon shows us who we are when we arrive at the place where we can see, very clearly, the “new era” unfolding before us. There’s a knowing inside us that beyond the boundaries within which we’ve been held or which we're hiding behind there is a new morning. The light of a new sun has begun to tinge the edges of our realization and an old wisdom, like a dejavu, gives us the feeling that we’ve been here before. Even in the face of delusions we’ve held close to our hearts there is still a deeper knowing that we can press beyond whatever challenging times we face.

The East card is the Hierophant.

Here we discover that information and wisdom which has been held by a few “chosen ones” is now ours. In every sense of the word, we have been chosen. But not by others. We find that we are The One to meet the Devil in his own empire. As we face the distortions and changes that surround us it feels as though we’ve been given a vast shield of protection, we recognize the smiling demon for what he is. In the immortal words of the Wizard of Oz, “ Pay no attention to that little man behind the curtain!!” Dorothy realizes he’s a humbug, a fraud and as Toto pulls the curtain away we see the tricks behind the smoke and mirrors that blinded us. The energy of the Hierophant urges us to acknowledge, respect and share this new understanding of our inner lessons. His high priest visage represents the inner wise-one, the scaffolding on which to build new paradigms.

In Conclusion;

This week we remove the smoke and mirrors that have kept our eyes distracted from reality. From the fact that maybe “reality” isn’t actually real. Behind the smoky secrecy of the Devil we find deeply rooted beliefs and whether they be self recriminating, self aggrandizing, self deluding or self suppressing we can see them, we can call them out of the shadows and face them brazenly. We now clearly see the new day as it dawns. Even in the face of darkness and confusion we find the courage born of wisdom which allows us to face the chains, find the loose ends and unravel them.

Have a disentangled week.

Light, Tory

TIP of the week: If the demon screams you know you have a frighteningly good grip on his tail. Give him a spin and see what shadows fall apart.

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