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Tarot Cycle: February New Moon, The Magus.

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Between here, Tarot Cycle post #3 and when I began in January, a dialogue started with the Tarot. I believe it began when I started to collect my thoughts and feel out the path between the Magician and the Foolish Man.

There was a path… An interesting note where the Fool is any person and he, or she, is leaving the mundane and entering the mystical along a path that mediates between the highest light perceivable and the process, that I will name as “ritual” or one of the transcendent paths that heighten consciousness, leads one out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary.

The fool is the person coming to circle, the sacred. His companion, the little dog, ever protective is the barking mind. He is the last leg of the mundane world as he steps off into nothing, you see this is the way when we do open and we step out of the “normal” world and into the magickal.

Here we find ourself in readiness and motion, preparing to take another step like the fool but this time with the skilled a prepared power of ritual, rote, and the practiced paths.

Magician: The Magus of Power

The Magus, or magician is within the circle, and it is he or she that we become. This is our creative self that crafts the magick of our life. Our activated creator that evokes our magickal nature. The magickal being, our hidden face evoked within the place that is in-between this world and that other place. We are calling the powers, infusing the elements with spirit, working out magick into the circle.

This is bridging the etherial with the material, becoming the conduit for the idea and creating, opening and transmitting. 

This is the lesson…

Impressions

The Magician is often depicted standing before the altar, with the elemental tools, symbols of the four suites: Fire, Air, Water, Earth. These are not empty props, they are iconic of the elemental powers in the right hands, he or she who takes the energy out of the unseen and binds it to reality.

About the Magus in my reading is a host of influences, Justice, the Sun and his future incarnation as the Hierophant. There are wands and swords but lo, there  is the Tower. Our Magus stands in an eye of light. 

It is a layered and direct perception. I understand the vision, the dream of what could become, what I can achieve. It is a revelation for the path I am on now. 

The sun, communicating all that this metaphoric light revealed over the last few years, trumpets the new calling. The dance now is in two worlds. 

First I am lifting arms and swaying hips in a groove with abundant energy of invisible / visible under conditions: Awakenings. Paradigm shifts. Transformations. Revelations. The invisible world is no longer connected through such a delible bridge of connections. 

There is a method now, more than just an urge to do some action because of a feeling, there is a meaning behind it. I understand why I should follow this impulse, the importance of what I do is instinctive, it is a procession with integrity, the likes of which I could not have seen before. 

That is the magick of the Journey. 

Interpretation

The reading began with the Magus, chosen for the Lunar Cycle in the Procession of the Journey.  The spirit calls for inventiveness in reading, no formula of casting the cards and just the tug of invisible. My eyes drawn in and I see the title “Eye of Light.” 

This then is the spread. 

The Hierophant appears to discuss our potential, what we can become and he frames the Magician with the Sun, Justice, and the Tower, among minor influences of passion and feeling. Images form words create the language of the spread and I am listening to motivational details.

Do right by your self. Take what you do to the forum, the community circle, to the market and get it out there. Take idea and make something: Action, object, art, relationship, make it magickal. The adventure of the fool is metaphoric of leaving one world and entering another, yes. From static to electric, mundane to magick, but as above so below, this vitality… we must learn translate it into the elements of our craft and in channeling this, transform our working  materials into creations.

Manifest idea (spirit, inspiration, creation) with craft, artistry and grace.

I did mention some minor influences, consider the message in last months reading of the passion rising, the fire in the belly of the Fool; and how this rides up beneath the ideas we may have about life now. Being mindful of this strength, it is fire and air, energy and idea, and it together it can cleave as well as create. 

These details coming out of this part of the reading I will call “notes to self,” helping me to understand the disappointment that can arise from spent energy that can feel like waste or emotional upheaval, and focused creativity which is channeling that same energy.

This focus requires more than just releasing energy,  projecting it, or laying it out into our path and creation, it may need more expanding. More than our usual brush strokes, or hands to clay, it is call to expand, meaning to prove our own skill and mastery to our self. 

Spring time energies, rising fires, brightening solar cycles bring us up and out. Whatever the fire is it is coming forward with aggression, packed tightly in a burning burst, a blush, a flash of anger, a drive that sends the Knight of Swords forward. Good. Good, yes, but the knight is a skilled warrior, this may not be the mad rush, galloping headlong into the next phase of whatever we are doing, it is paced, practiced, and a time to hone our skill, put all the practice to test and see how well have done by  measuring our growth in our ability to go forward as a master.

No longer the journeyman. Create from the place of the envisioned future, be the Magician and craft your ritual around what you desire most about your life. 

Watch for schisms, shifts or breaks in the now and observe this… observation not aggravation. The energy is useful for manifesting the future you desire, or it can drive you to destroy what you have in order to get what you want. Knight of Swords, Justice, Tower Reversed these are underpinning the bigger picture they are balanced by two’s, which speak of connecting idea to cause, collaboration, and creating a unique you and way that you want to live you life. 

I’m not saying it will be easy but our focus will channel the life force moving through our collective lives at this time in beautiful, fantastic, or destructive ways. Our consciousness is the key. Craft movements, ritual, routines that elaborate on the future being, now. 

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You can begin, catch up, or follow along with the Tarot Cycle at this link:

http://lifencompass.com/category/tarot/tarot-cycle/

I also started a facebook group called Explore Tarot. Join here: 
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The Fools Purpose

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The Fool, art and card by James Anderson: http://james-anderson.deviantart.com/art/Fool-tarot-199545597

“Wherever we go, we take everything we’ve even known with us whether we know it or not.”
~Maya Angelou 

Continuing on the energy of the new year, with all the sparkle and success of the Water Dragon, I explore the The Journey, beginning with the fool. This year I began the Tarot Cycle and I invite you to tune into the message and thread.

Today I ask myself to explore the energy of the now. 

Refining

A little meditation goes a long way. I just got back from a walk around Hollenbeck Park, drinking in the early spring heat from the grass, flowers, and birds gone wild around the little artificial pond. Trixie and I spent some time on the hill overlooking the park, meditating.

Well actually, Trixie was sniffing around, I take that this is a dog’s meditation. I needed to clear my head of all the psychic clutter and (unnamed) issues I mentioned on Facebook earlier this week.  

I am now processing a few things. The clash of tumultuous ideas bent on throwing themselves together in my head. The beginning of any adventure is filled with such things and I have set my life in motion.

Two friends offered me a reading, per my Facebook status update “I need a reading” in January, with surprising similarities. I took in the information and sat with it and out came the notion of the motion. This may be how the energy comes through for you so it is important to understand your feeling, to be in touch with your gut. I received a sensation of direction and not a direction glowing like a Las Vegas arrow in the distance.

This is the reason I needed to take a break and get some perspective with a little space. Meditate, dialogue, and ask questions, that’s my way to receive answers.

Hollenbeck Park, LA.

Minutes after I closed my eyes, calmed, cleared and connected, I received some dialogue. While contemplating came my thoughts in the form of a reminder, to recall the original message in this year’s Tarot Cycle, the Fool is breaking away from what has been done before and walking away from the known path, or the way I have always done things. 

Most important was the sudden question, asking me to see the motivation, what is the power of this tarot key, the primary energy of The Fool?

This year begins with the Fool, not because we are a fool, but because we are honoring the rising tide of motivating energy, flowing around us. There are a few primary energies to consider.

Spring is coming. Seeds are turning beneath soil, in some places faster than others. Animals are feeling the coming rush of spring building up and as this energy rises, so does our calling to co-create, and participate! 

There is a social rush of power around equality and money; The flow of financial energy in the world.

We should also consider a few other (major) factors, noting that personal energy, relationships with family and friends, and those around us in our own world have a personal and often back entrance into our energy systems (if we are not mindful).

Yes.

Consider the amount of fear and misinformation, doubt and collective breath that is held over this particular year, 2012. What is the vibration of many-many people collectively believing that this year is an end of things as they are physically? The group mutter and fear about reality. I don’t know that is hints at anything greater than the believed Rapture that did not happen for world but, like most things, it is a watchtower for the actions and energy of people; and how that force can affect us by the direct impact of those collective thoughts (in the form of words and deeds) in our world. 

These forces, some or all, and probably a few unseen, together create the tide and tensions that we experience. It is a vast pool of potential that we can reach.

Awareness is opportunity.

This year energy begins with The Fool asking us how to come at “it” (life, the Path, your path, personal growth, that project) from another direction. To expand our conscious observation through feeling and intuition and to let reason follow and collect after we explore. 

Is the moment asking us to be Aquarian, find the inner tempo, your muse through the feeling, the surge of spring energies and through the exploration deepen your connection to now, what you are committed to, and make your own personal inquiry into your trajectory and approach to your personal fulfillment.

I suggest including a few points in that perspective and to not accept any final answer you receive in your investigation until the (inner) drum beat stops.

Choose. Expand. Find your pace. Deepen. Explore. Learn. Redress. Grow… and I sincerely hope you create Success, whatever form of prosperity that is for you. 

This was my day today and why I am here writing on the blog, looking at my projects, and most importantly, taking in the new frequencies associated with the new year.

Are you exploring? What are you feeling? Where is it drawing you? Is it good for your growth?

Point of Attraction

This is a 17 minute YouTube film of Esther Hicks, speaking about our point of attraction, which she mentions. If you, like me, are moving into and along with the new cycle of energies this year, which I am following through the Fool’s Journey in the Tarot, you have already begun to understand this principle as it is moving into front-and-center-perspective.

My reaction when I watched this was a bit of a giggle and awe. There is an inner flow happening here…

Esther Hicks – No Accident is Accidental

Thoughts, feelings, impressions or questions? 

Bring em I’m all ears. 

You can begin, catch up, or follow along with the Tarot Cycle at this link:

http://lifencompass.com/category/tarot/tarot-cycle/

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January Tarot Cycle, Part 2: The Fool.

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Whenever you feel an inner sense that things don’t quite fit who you are anymore, whenever you want to contemplate a new direction, simply get quiet and venture into the world of probable futures. Imagine living out different possible futures. Challenge yourself to think positively and expansively. Learn to love uncertainty and embrace the new.

Spiritual Growth / Sanaya Roman & Orin

 

Welcome back. Thank you for returning. 

January’s Tarot Cycle, Part 1: Seeking the Spiritual Other, began on the 24th and lays the groundwork for this leg of the Journey. My ideas on things like Divination and Fortune Telling, and I am determined to demonstrate the cycle in the coming months: Expanding consciousness, raising inner awareness, and setting the drum beat step in line with The Fool, where we begin the journey. These points are detailed in the previous post. 

We begin with the Foolish Man in January, on the new moon, the lunar new year. We progress through the next eight major arcana, the personality archetypes, Magus, the Priestess, etc. Each new moon a new card, each card in the cycle draws a reading. Each reading is a step along the path to the Hermit, the wise one in the cave, or as I like to think of him, The Other or our spiritual otherness. 

You can read the entire post from Tuesday, here: January Tarot Cycle, Part 1. Today I am reading into the cards. 

The Foolish man

I’ve planned this for a while, the cycle of Tarot begins again this month, the Lunar New Year of 2012. Water Dragon, new beginnings, new questions and answers.

Who are we? Where are we going? How do we begin? The Fool steps forward. He or she has an air of potential and wildness, as if anything is possible. In spite of all their confidence the world can see that there are surprising experiences ahead of The Fool, things the journeyman cannot have seen…

“The Fool represents the soul of everyman, which, after it is clothed in a body, appears on earth and goes through the life experiences depicted in the 21 cards of the Major Arcana, sometimes thought of as archetypes of the subconscious. Let each reader use his imagination and find here his own map of the soul’s quest, for these are symbols that are deep within each one of us.”

~Eden Gray coined the phrase, “the Fool’s journey.” (Complete Guide of the Tarot) thank you Mary K. Greer for the reference. 

Personal Impressions

Ideas are floating through me like clouds in a windy sky. I want to reach out and grasp them, any one, but my hand reaches and I clutch air and these, the glimpses of things to come, evaporate in wispy tendrils. Vanishing into the invisible.

There is Judgement before me but it feels as though this is a shadow, the minds trick. It is an unclear reflection, clouded by the past and questions that keep me from moving forward.

The realm of the deep, the under that plays with the dappled light from above warmly shining into my world, beneath the tree of my life. 

This is where the phantoms play.They come to teach me about the hidden and the revealed.There is a kind of unseen, inner-power drawn out of my projections when I begin to realize that I am the light, the darkness, and the shadow dance.

I know this must be understood. The perceived is not the answer, it is the hurdle, the gateway to knowing. I must pass through this veil to get closer, connected, to passion.

The word ‘union’ whispers from the mouths of Lovers and I, The Fool, cannot see the meaning but in my heart I hear the call. Not knowing how, not seeing why. No logos but pathos, this is what drives one on, the want, the longing, the soulful knowing that one must begin the Journey.

There is a caution about denying the intuition. I learn to fall deeper into Trust.

Following the call, this siren, brings me to the realization that the gifts, these ideas that were floating up in the clouds are here at my hands. Green and fertile they have grown as I have gazed dreamily in the sky. Fulfilling my Will found in waking up my senses to the fecund seeds soon to burst from bulbous pods with cloying sweet allure and dancing colors here in my garden, beneath the tree.

It’s not *out there* it’s here. Here in the navel, the belly, sensation speaks. 

It is here. The time is now.

~ Shadow and Sky ~

Interpretation: Feel, trust and explore.

What are you feeling what is said within? Are you listening? Do you understand the voice or do you need a journey of your own?

The cards are cast and spiraling out from the center where The Fool stands is a path of tiles. Cards that draw upon the influences. Tides.

Ace of Swords; Judgement; Six of Pentacles; Princess of Cups; Three of Cups; The Chariot;  The Lovers. 

I bring you the divining.

I am looking for sensation. The call that heralds the beginning of a new journey. I may already feel it now, some deep sense of things that clearly shouts at me tho I may not yet know how to understand the voice within me. There is only one way to know, to jump off over the metaphorical cliff. I am taking note of any judgment  about the pull that is seeking to sweep me up in an embrace, my faithful companion at my heels (ego) is yapping away. Dog’s seek to protect.

Questioning myself, I ask, “Am I using critical eye when looking at motivations? Am I questioning my resolve? Shouldn’t I follow my instinct?” Too much mental can pave over the currents of emotions that have come, seasonally, to carry me on spring tides. The Fool goes seeking, that is his or her nature. 

Knowing is an education that goes beyond our thoughts and into the roots of our deepest self. It is my gut, my instinct, my elemental being that speaks with urgency, hunger, and deeper still the unseen that communicates the messages up through the layers of my mind to says “go left!” instead of right, and sometimes deeper still into euphoria, complete release. 

The voice of intuition is sensual. I am yearning and that puts a fire under the skin and bone. The body dances anticipating connection. 

Taking stock of my resources, talents, and connections and how I can make the best use of them? This is preparedness. Looking at the packing process with a facetious smile. My luggage like Hermione Granger’s Bag, I may sling the little thing over my shoulder but within is a vast space that can carry many tools and tricks. I know that no matter how ready I believe I am I cannot foresee all things. 

Ideas in the bag, feet on the floor the rhythm of my walk matching, the journey begins here. Less worry, more certainty now that I know what I am capable of, and what I can carry with me when I go.

Yet, I cannot foresee everything. 

Watching for doubt and feelings of defeat or loss, emotional tides take us to the sea where, moved by essential nature.

Faithful companion barks her warning, “be careful!” knowing my anticipation, the young one within me wants to scream into the horizon, wet in the face, hanging from the highest point of the ship.

Thoughts of “what if,” turn aside. Trust the essential nature. 

There is a vernal sense of romance, a frolicking allure in the wind and the sea spray. This, yes, this is the joy of experience I think as it draws me out, into the world. Pleasure -and I do not mean to say (or refuse) indulgence or gratification- this is my guiding force and it should resonate with me with a sense of “rightness;” Rippling at the Swadhisthana and glowing from the Anahata in the warmth of my belly and heart, energizing the right direction even tho I may not know where I am going. 

This creates a resonate field. The principle of vibration, and attraction command and this will collect and populate the very air with a sense of what I am seeking. Emotion, vibrates, and attracts this is the vessel, this is the path.

Intuition guides, mind follows. 

My will should ride the swells and dips with pleasure, open and receptive to knowing through the intimacy of sharing. Evoke wonder. 

I have taken the measure of myself, if I am seeking this new love whatever it might be, heeding the new year influence, I know that I cannot bind it a forceful grip, for if any love is held to tightly the flow will end.  

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The Task: Find the feeling that is calling to you. 

Take stock and measure. Meditate. Journal. Ask questions and find answers. Expand the feeling, does it have a taste, smell, name, sensation, or stir up memories? Open up the treasures found in your senses, within, and see what is inside. 

Draw some cards, lay the Fool out and do a reading of your own. Cast the Tarot around him, what do you see? What are the details? 

Don’t be so intellectual. If you need to, call in your sounding board, a friend or family member to help you understand. Your path might not look clear, and this is okay. I think that the current now is drawing us into the dance and not scrunching up our brow trying to figure out dance steps. You know more than you realize, yet…

Not knowing is the first recognition of growth, the border of the unknown and the unseen. Like the Water Dragon, this step can only be seen from one end, the head and tail are never in one place. 

Take yourself out into the world and follow that feeling, what comes into the path before you? Try setting an intention once you have figured out what is leading you. Create affirmations, start and end each day with that intention. (Louise Hay, Christopher Penczak, and a host of people have great insights on creating affirmations. I have a post here as well). Record your experiences. Share them with trusted friends. Most importantly get outside of the box. 

Seek what brings you happiness and if the feeling that is drawing you is not joyful, investigate it, there are hidden jewels there, and beneath them there are other answers. It might be that the feeling you are looking for is clouded by a shadows dance, wraiths of the past, a screen between you and the future. 

Be childlike. Watch wilfulness, judgement and control. 

Seek what brings you happiness and if the feeling that is drawing you is not joyful, investigate it, there are hidden jewels there, and beneath them there are other answers. It might be that the feeling you are looking for is clouded by a shadows dance, wraiths of the past, a screen between you and the future. 

Be childlike. Watch wilfulness, judgement and control. 

The Fool is our youthful nature, a young on with an amorous and playful passion about him or her. This doesn’t mean romantic love it could be a zest for life, food, a passion. The thinking and planning and all of that stodgy adult stuff can come after, it’s time to embrace newness. Be light. Be playful and soft. 

Like Frances (Diane Lane) in Under the Tuscan Sun, or Liz Gilber (Julia Roberts) in Eat Pray Love, we must draw from our strength to grow and embrace the unknown and to hell with consequence when our souls au jus is on the line.

This is the Journey. I hope you will share it with me. 

Until next week when I’ll be back to share some stories and dig deeper into Foolish Man.  

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