Unveiling the Arcana
Wind blows steady, jumping over
lacy ocean waves. Rain drops fall slow
and dot the sand like a dappled leopard.
Cold sand slips in and out of my gold sandals.
“”Hey, Ma,
you like to make friends,” one of my children says and points to people
gathered around a roaring fire at dusk.
“Sure,” I
say, “I’ll just go say ‘hi’, introduce myself and ask ‘what's your birthday?’”
My children
laugh. They know me. They’ve seen me do this before. But not tonight. We stash driftwood for a fire later when we
come back to check on high tide.
The
question lingers. Tell me your birthday,
I’ll tell you patterns that likely apply to your current reality. Everyone wants to know more about her/himself. So, it is an easy way to make new
friends. It is only a suggestion, a
possibility of what might be going on beneath the surface of your life.
You add the
month and day together.
Example for
March 7th:
3
____7____
10
Then you
add the current year:
10
___2013___
2023 = 7 The Chariot
Voila, a
peek into a life pattern, a part of the Constellation of The Chariot, offering
personality unfoldment.
We walk up
the path to the cottage as the glowing disk of sun dives into Neptune’s lair. I scrounge around the bottom of my suitcase
and find one of my travel tarot decks:
Secret
Tarot: Tarot secreto by Lo Scarabeo.
With Summer
Solstice in sight, I can only think of The Sun, XIX, a rather non-traditional
image in this deck. A brilliant sun
fills the upper half of the card, two young boys, naked and contemplating
(actually, it seems that one has a cell phone.
I don’t have my magnifying glass to see what is being studied.) There is a flair of Gemini in this card, a
reminiscence of The Lovers, and a hint of duality that takes us through the
Major Arcana.
Two aspects
of The Fool coming through the vicissitudes of the previous cards. There is an innocence and clarity here, as
the promise of nature reveals itself in the full sunshine. It is here that The Fool sparkles in the brilliance of The Sun and senses the connection with all things, where the
outcome is clear and joy is a reality.
As Summer
rides in on a horse and wanders in the garden, celebrate your Fool. Share your tarot with someone new. You might be surprised at who’s very
interested but didn’t know who to ask.
Tarot is out of the closet. There
are more decks than we can imagine. Find
one that suits how you’re feeling now.
A thousand
bright and joyful summer blessings to you!!!
C.J. Prince received a call from the mermaids who tend the
waters at Haystack Rock. Back in
Bellingham, Washington, she considers another deck to study the dance of the pearl moon and
the 78 archetypes to freedom.
Catching My Breath,
by co-author C.J. Prince is available at The Stone Moon, Village Books and Amazon. One of the main characters receives a tarot reading.
Reprinted from The Stone Moon newsletter.
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