Ten of Wands

 

"That’s a heavy load you’re carrying, but it’s not just wood you have there, it’s quality timber that can be shaped into support beams for a new home or temple.  It’s hot and you’re tired, but keep in mind that heat is not the only quality of the fire that burns inside you. Feel the Divine in the Fire. Let it light your way and lend you the strength to continue your journey. Understand that fire, focus it, let it burn away the chaff and reveal the eager, fertile soil under your feet." 

-T-Rexx blog

  image Stephanie Pui-Mun Law (ShadowScapes Tarot)

julia iredale (ostara tarot) 

 

 marseilles tarot deck

The 10 Wands represents an opportunity to 'stick or twist' – you have reached the point which you set out to reach, now you can sit there or you can move on to new things. But taking on too much can take a toll - Setbacks and losses could follow – is it time you took things easier? Learned to delegate? Or to specialize? Or simply to be more selective?
This card raises questions about the use of your precious energy and represents quite an ‘expense’ if things don’t work out - on the other hand, that expense could be worthwhile if the experience settles things finally, one way or the other - it leaves the question - at the expense of what? 10s are invariably positive in allowing you to move on, whatever the outcome, so not playing this card could leave you forever a little stuck. Whether it is worthwhile or not is something you will almost certainly know already. -heart shaped world

Transformation

I went as far as one could go

And then went farther

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

Six of Discs

love generously

"Life forms illogical patterns. 

It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, 

for who knows whether any of them will ever return?" 

~ Margot Fonteyn 1919-1991

-six of silly hats from "uncarrot tarot"

what is given freely comes back twofold

Choose what is beautiful

Choose to have meaning

I build my life in choices

Four of Swords

strongly intended time out

In this protective environment, one may gain the sense of non-attachment necessary if the personality is not to feel lonely or abandoned.  -motherpeace

"The authentic self is the soul made visible."
~Sarah Ban Breathnach 

"People are hung sometimes for speaking the truth." 

~Joan of Arc 1412-1431

"Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead."  
~Doctor Who

 

rhyme over reason over rhyme over reason

Fool

“A thing
cannot be
delivered
enough times:
this is the
rule of dogs
for whom there
are no fool’s
errands. To
loop out and
come back is
good all alone.
It’s gravy to
carry a ball
or a bone”

-Kay Ryan, “Fool’s Errands”

"In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again."

-down the rabbit hole

"A Fool’s journey begins at Zero and concludes at Zero- a complete circle."

-Double Oh Fool

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"...the fool is that archetype that turns things on their head, makes us laugh, and for a moment, forget our fear." -colette obrian

"It is freeing to become aware that we do not have to be victims of our past and can learn new ways of responding. But there is a step beyond this recognition. It is the step of forgiveness.
It sets us free.

~ Carolyn Osiek

The Crone Speaks:

To know me, first know this ~
In the beginning, as in the End there is Nothing
There is Nothing
Behind your ordinary world
Behind all manifestation
Lies the Void

I am the emptiness surrounding the universe
I am the uncertainty of the electron
I am the nothingness hiding in your soul

In the Void you have no name
Words do not exist
You have no memory, no past or future
Time does not exist
You find no landmarks, you have no body
Matter does not exist

But You
You may still exist

A mere spark of awareness

But that is enough
That is where you begin

http://www.croneways.com/major0.htm

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Three of Wands

The fire of the torches allows them the light to make art....
Through manifesting their visions, they learn about life.

-motherpeace

Following your bliss means continuously growing, and expanding and purposefully finding ways of expressing joy, and appreciation. When you get the Three of Wands you need to do the thing that is effortless, that makes you feel good. Find your bliss, and follow it.

Ace of Cups

THE VESSEL AND THE CUP
from a Hasidic story


What cup knows the distress
of the large vessel, knows
any more than two inches
of the purple? For the cup
everything that fills up
is equal--the little jug,
the pot, the large vessel.
Beyond its own meniscus
nothing's knowable for a cup.
But the vessel wishes
one something
could use it up.

-Kay Ryan

Offering
the Root of
the Powers of Water

( ( ( g o i n g w i t h t h e f l o w ) ) )

After the grace in the dive, a gentle landing is assured, a friendly welcome from the depths of the unconscious. -motherpeace

...prominent emanations of energy
spanning out in a web of connectivity.

I drink in the evening. I drink in the sky.

My heart swells, vast and great as Heaven Herself.

She fills my soul. She feeds my dreams.

And I believe.

-crone

The silver cup is the vessel,
the chalice, the grail....
It promises a joyous experience of letting go into unconditional love,
the spaciousness of the open heart.
-motherpeace

...the movement of water always moves towards depth, it always searches for the lowest ground.
It is non-ambitious; it never hankers to be first, it wants to be last.

-lao tzu

Strength

Strength, an essential fusion of physical power,

perception from the center and radiant mental energy.
Serene in the midst of chaos, infinity is her womb.

"For they have sown the wind,
and they shall reap the whirlwind…”
~Hosea 8:7a

I am Spirit

Making body
is what I do

I am Body

Expressing spirit
is what I do

I am Primal
I am Sublime

You are strongest
When Both are One
-crone

When this card comes up in your reading, pay attention to what you have passion for and use this passion to further your life. This is a card of enormous courage, vitality and power to achieve anything within your imagining. The power you have is not a power over others but a power from within, a strength you have that is really your own. You do not need to hold it over others, but use this inner strength calmly and by example many others may discover this most powerful strength.

-Connie Lehman

mixed hand embroidery including needle punch

"Conduct your blooming
in the noise and whip
of the whirlwind."

~Gwendolyn Brooks

Tower

“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.”

-toni morrison

-leonora carrington (the memory tower)

'What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.'

-Toby from margaret atwood's, year of the flood

Was there no safety? No learning by heart of
the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter,
but all was miracle and leaping from the
pinnacle of a tower into the air?

-virginia woolf, to the lighthouse

"The lightening bolt of illumination strikes hard, throwing everything into chaos and confusion. This allows for a restructuring based on truth, and releases the personality from false consciousness and depression. The Tower, like the Hindu Goddess Kali, signifies a liberation that hurts even as it frees." -divinewhispers

"...It is no accident that Kali is both sexual guru and destroyer, but she slays whatever stands in the way of true appreciation of what is real. She does not ask to escape 'the wheel of life,' but rides it consciously from the center. When you let her into your life, you will experience an increased sensitivity to everything in existence along with a heightened ability to handle whatever comes your way." -motherpeace






PRAISE! for being alive







"Isabel Snail"-Beth Seilonen

Two of Cups

DESIRE

There is One whom I could love above all others.
I see Her, smell Her, hear Her voice in my blood.
How can She be resisted when She is my own self singing?

-tarot of the crone

"As unconscious desire merges with the conscious love of the heart, the outcome will be union."

-motherpeace

Ten of Swords

"the dive into
deep waters below
may yield
a new experience
of feeling and
emotional sensitivity."
-motherpeace

final fantasy

c o m p l e t e .

can you spot a p a t t e r n ?

r e v e l a t i o n

....the absolute abandonment of a cherished image, plan, or way of life.



...the dramatic end of a cycle, a sudden coming to terms with what really is, rather than what one wanted or hoped would be the case.

.....represents a sacrifice that, once made, allows the personality to get on with it's broader purpose in the world. In a certain sense, one may feel a relief in the certainty that the ten of swords symbolizes-the struggle has ended, the ego has no choice but to let go.

-motherpeace