Step by Step Tarot. Terry Donaldson

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      This card is showing an angel standing by a pool of water, pouring water from one cup to another. It shows the movement of the life force from one vessel or body into another. Water, the symbol of life itself from time immemorial, moves from the state of solid, when it is ice, through to liquid, and then from liquid to the state of air, when it evaporates. After a period spent in that form, it condenses, when it comes back down to earth in the form of rain, i.e. the downward motion of water in the card. So, we have a guided tour in this card through each of the elements, but with the essential and eternal quality of the life force remaining absolutely constant.

      This card is inviting you to recognize the eternal and unchanging aspect of your own spiritual condition, that although you go through the experience of seeing constant change around you, you yourself as a spiritual creature are not whatever body you find yourself contained within in this lifetime.

      This card is saying that at this point in life we have genuinely experienced a sense of spiritual and personal growth. Now we can begin to look back into our past with an awareness unfettered by the blinkers of ordinary consciousness and see what has really happened there to make us – or at least influence us – become the things which we are in the present.

      It is a card which suggests great good fortune, if we take advantage of the present to look more closely at the decisions about ourselves which have led us to this present vantage point.

      It is a period of considerable clarity, enabling us to define more clearly those things which we want to be, to do, and to have in the next cycle of activity as well.

      This card is saying that it is by looking at our past from this perspective that we will more accurately be able to understand our present. At that point, it will be increasingly easy to determine our life direction, and to begin to move ahead to our goals and objectives.

      The angel, or, more correctly, archangel which is shown here is Raphael, traditionally associated in ancient texts with healing. Thus the card is suggesting some kind of a healing process which is taking place in your life or which perhaps needs to take place. This card comes up a lot for people that have been involved in counselling, either giving counsel to others or receiving it themselves. Behind Raphael we see a road running into the distance, suggesting the past experiences which we have gone through, which have led us to where we are now. If you look carefully you will see the angel stands with one foot on land and the other on water. This represents the time when we emerged from the waters onto land, and thus became air-breathing creatures with lungs instead of gills. Thus we see from the posture of the angel that this card is all about the important evolutionary steps which we have as yet to make. What is there in your past that you could actively bring forward into present time to help you move forward? What is there in your life which still needs to go through the healing process?

      15 THE DEVIL

      Here we have the Tarot saying to you that there is some kind of energy blockage taking place. Quite probably you are suppressing your emotions and forcing your emotional response on the basis of a personality imprint made upon you at an earlier point in your life. You must ‘unlearn’ away from this pattern. You must get away from all the sources of negativity and annoyance which vex your soul and trouble your mind at this time. It is not necessary to overload your mind at the expense of your own sense of peace and harmony.

      The Devil card often appears in a person’s life when a challenge is being made against them. This challenge may come through other people – here, you must be strong enough to withstand the opposing forces representing the influence of these people: they may well be hidden or out of sight, not wanting to display themselves openly, preferring to work against you in a more surreptitious manner.

      The basic message of this card stays the same, whether your opponents are fighting you openly or not: what you must do is stand by your principles, your ethics, and refuse to compromise with the forces against you.

      Another aspect of the Devil is that it touches upon all of that which we feel we cannot give up or relinquish: all of our stuff, habits and routines, which we know aren’t doing us any good at all, and which may in fact be holding us back from going ahead into what our futures may hold for us. What is it that you aren’t prepared to say goodbye to?

      Some people need devils, so that they can have an excuse for failure. ‘Well, I tried to do X, but, well, it didn’t work out, so it must mean it’s not “intended” to work out.’ Or they dramatize others in the role of the Queen or King of Darkness, against which they seem to lose their power of control. How can we rid our lives of casting others into this role? How can we come to see those who challenge us in life less as devils and more as our own personal trainers, leading us on to greater levels of self-empowerment?

      16 THE TOWER

      In this card we see a great tower being tested by the forces of nature. It represents everything that you have built up being put to the test.

      From the financial standpoint, now is most definitely a time for you to conserve resources, almost fanatically. Any kind of excess would work against you under this СКАЧАТЬ