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You can enhance your interpretation of the Tarot (and other Oracle cards), as well as frame readings around special topics, by taking special notice of central and incidental picture images in the cards. While some of the images featured in the card illustrations may seem like window dressing, just stuck in to add visual interest, Tarot designers do have to think about the backgrounds and other symbols that they incorporate, and are no doubt operating on both conscious and subconscious levels when they do so. Although I always consider a card's weightier archetypal meanings first, and I don't normally expect to find too much in the incidental images, when items in the illustrations do ...
The Moon's natal sign shows how we instinctively react in overly emotional and stressful situations. Water sign Moons retreat, cry, or maybe cook; earth Moons endure, but clean the house or do the gardening; air Moons intellectualize and talk incessantly about the situation; and fire Moons get angry, shout, and throw things about. All action is expressed to get the emotions out. All action is expressed to get the emotions out. These reactions are all modes of behavior designed to make us feel emotionally comfortable again, so the Moon's sign indicates what we need to express to feel good about ourselves. Its natal aspects indicate whether this is easy or tough for us to achieve. The ...
Perform this spell if you've put in applications or sent résumés to a number of potential employers that look promising. You may not yet know which one you'd like to work for—but you would like to get interviews so you'll know your options. In this layout, the Eight of Pentacles symbolizes your desire to work in a certain field (if you can find a Tarot card that more clearly suggests the type of work you want to do, you can substitute that card for the Eight of Pentacles). The Emperor represents the companies or institutions that you've applied to, as well as the individual persons who will have the power to hire you. The Page of Wands is used here to represent a ...
Happiness isn't what it used to be, but then again, we are not what we used to be, either! We are evolving and realizing more of our human potential. That is not an easy statement to back up with all the evidence of collapse and chaos that has been with us since the start of the century. But what is really going on? In the big picture we are evolving into the oneness of the family of humanity. We're not there yet (far from it), but the handwriting is on the wall: we are going to have to solve our global problems as a global family. It is humanity itself that must rise to save humanity. The interconnectedness of our issues is becoming apparent at all levels: economic, environmental, ...
