Happy Tarot Tuesday to you all. I hope that all of you are doing well. The Rocky Mountain National Park was amazing this weekend. We had a great time just being out in nature together. Did you guys have a good weekend?
Let’s get to today’s card pull, I am using the Shadowscapes Tarot Deck by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law with text by Barbara Moore. I will be doing a three-card pull and only pulling more for clarification. If you like this deck you can get it for yourself. Just click on the picture below.
What does the Universe need me to share?
First Card is the Two of Cups:
This is the melding of water and earth and air, the alchemy of elements. Golden as the goblets, the fish swim through the waters (or is it air that they glide through?). The dryads coil around each other, braided into an embrace as fluid as the air (or is it the sea?) that they are surrounded by. They are soulmates. They twist together to form one solid trunk, and yet they retain their individuality and their own colors.
Like the harmonious swirl of a yin-yang, they circle one another in a liquid push and pull that unifies. They share a cup. "Drink," one whispers, proffering the goblet.
"I accept," one responds, and takes it into her hands. They drink deeply, at once, and the shared sap flows down into their roots.
The other cup balances precariously on an outstretched branch. They do not seem to notice it, though the spirits and sylphs watch it carefully. For now it stands stable, but as the trees grow, as the branches stretch and uncoil and burst into bloom, will that cup still stand upright or will it tip and tumble to the ground, spilling its precious liquid?
The Two of Cups is about making a connection, a union, a partnership. It is the bringing together of opposites and the potential for bonding. It is a relationship. Like a living organism, relationships grow; the ones that are strong become pillars of stability, and the weak connections are gradually forgotten and fall apart.
Second Card is the Five of Pentacles:
She huddles below, curled in upon herself. Her eyes are downturned from the glory that spills out from the window made of liquid-colored light above her. Its beauty and color are reminders of her lack; she feels drab and drained by comparison. The dragon seems to trumpet exultantly, mocking her and demanding humility. Only the thorny ground embraces her. It stretches spiny tendrils towards her, and she shrinks way from it. She feels her solitude with an acute pain, not seeing the soul that hovers just at her fingertips nor any of the other eyes watching from the shadows.
She is oblivious to her surroundings, willfully blind to her external world, and ignorantly blind to her inner one as well. Her spirit cries with needs that she does not heed. Or perhaps it is that she simply does not understand what she really yearns for, so separated is she from her body and spirit's signals. There is disconnect.
The Five of Pentacles is indicative of spiritual poverty, material troubles, insecurity, and hard times. There is a neglecting of the body's needs, a feeling of being ostracized and excluded, of loss. And yet, salvation is not far off if you can make that connection and see past the mental and physical blockades. Even the thorny bush that she views as her only companion bears flowers.
Third Card is Eight of Pentacles:
With diligence and patience, the spicier crafts her gossamer web. Dawn dusts an array of dewy stars across the threads.
weave a dream of summer musk;
weave the drape of autumn dusk.
Weaver, weave a fate:
weave a life’s frail, anchored line;
weave the pale moons waxing signs.
Weaver, weave a web:
craft each silky, precious thread;
artists inhibitions shed.
Spider works hard. She weaves her web through the night, each thread placed with care to create a pattern at once beautiful and built for a purpose. It is like a meditation, an intricate dance with eight legs: spin, step, step, hold, place thread, twist, and step; and repeat.
The Eight of Pentacles embodies a craftsman, someone possessing great patience and who is attentive to details. It is a call to be absorbed in a project, to seek out knowledge, and pursue a higher understanding. But this must be done with practical experience, using one's own hands and body and mind to create. This is often what is required to achieve success—a practical application of intellect and skill to a task to see through to the finish.
This reading is all about the connections that we have created. Check-in on them make sure that you aren’t neglecting those who you have strong bonds with. Understand that now is not the time to hermit yourself away fully. Yes, we still need to stay at a distance, but that doesn’t mean you can’t reach out to someone that may need to hear from you. Create something for yourself. For it is with putting yourself into something it can help transform something into magic. Put in the effort it will be more than worth it.
For myself, I am very good at being the hermit. It is one of the things that I have to work not to do. Since I grew up mostly around adults with either no children or ones that were much younger than me. I would use books as a way to entertain and escape the situation. To this day I have to catch myself from doing this, but I have gotten a lot better over time. I have many things that I am working on to create for myself and others, one of which is doing these Tarot Tuesdays. This brings me quite a lot of joy to share with you all.
Are you needing to connect? Are you not able to see the bigger picture because you have pulled away? Are you working on creating anything?
I hope that this reading has been helpful to you all. Please let me know if it has impacted you in any way. I’d love to hear from you. I am doing personal Astrology, Divination, Card, and Astro Dice Readings for a fee. If you would like to have one please email me at amandamrickey@zodiaccelestial.com.
While doing this reading I am was listening to Spotify playlist Deep Focus. You can find me on Spotify under amrauthor. I hope you enjoy the music.
May your stars shine brightly upon you.
Images of the actual card is one that I took of my own deck of cards.