Hey friends! I want to start by letting you know that I've decided to close the Tarot Tuesday chapter of my life at the close of 2019. This means there will be 2 more of these after this week, so let's make the most of them :) To get the most out of this, I suggest feeling into an area of life you could use some insight on, relative to finding improvement or forward movement within the circumstance. When you've anchored in your intention, look at the cards presented and see where you gravitate. Continue scrolling for the reveals. Thanks for being a part of the Tarot Tuesday Fam these last 3 years! 💛 GRAB FREQUENCY TAROT CARDS HERE GET THE BLINDSPOT ORACLE Crystals: Infinite Sphere Centerpiece, Pink Cobaltian Calcite, Jade, Pyrite, Blue Agate Card #1 - Excitement in Reverse: If you have drawn this card in reverse, be cautious of acting or reacting in rash and impulsive ways. Do your due diligence. You are at risk for acting in total disregard to the consequences of your actions. Now is the time to let the mud settle and make a rational plan. If you feel drawn to, involve other people in the matter. Do not take action until you have thought through the matter completely. This will prevent you from the pain of acting recklessly. If something is meant to happen, you can be sure that it will. Card #2 - Sigil 53: Identification: If you have drawn this Sigil, you are currently so identified with something, that you cannot separate yourself from that thing enough to be objective or conscious about it. Identity is the condition of being oneself (one, separate self). Another word for this is ego. Whenever we associate something with our self, we identify with it. It becomes part of us. We make it the same as us. This is what attachment really is. It is identification. And if that thing we identify with is ever threatened, we experience it as a threat to our own survival (a personal attack). One could argue that identification is a good thing when we identify with things that cause us to feel good. But the thing is, the minute we identify with something that causes us to feel good, it contains within it the seeds of its own opposite. Worthiness carries the seeds of unworthiness; excitement carries the seeds of disappointment. Far more troubling however, is that we often identify with things that cause us to feel bad and as such, we must keep those things alive in order to keep our own sense of self alive. When it comes to identification, it is not only things external to us that cause us suffering. It is also identification with things we perceive to be internal to us. We are the most identified with the three primary aspects of ourselves; our body, our mind and our emotions. Each of these three aspects is inherently a different expression of source consciousness. We mistake these expressions to be the totality of who we are. A bit like a painter who has become so identified with his painting that he has forgotten that who he ultimately is, is more than his painting. We think we ARE our emotions, we ARE our body and we ARE our thoughts. In truth, you could dis-identify with just about anything. To dis-identify with something, you must first identify it as different to yourself. You must see it as “other” than you. For example, if you would like to dis-identify from your own pain, all you must do is to conceptualize of your pain as a separate entity and when you experience pain, observe the pain as if you were watching this separate entity reacting. In this way, you do not take the pain personally. This Sigil will remind you never to do this “separating from” process with an attitude of resistance. Instead allow the aspects of you that you want to dis-identify from, to fall away like rose petals exposed to the sun as a result of exposing them to our conscious awareness. This is the key. To try to push away the things you are identified with, only causes you to become more identified. It only causes you to feel rejected by yourself. You will essentially cause an intense survival reaction within yourself in response to your own self-rejection. You cannot try to take something away from yourself without hurting yourself. As it applies to body, thoughts and emotions, you cannot try hard to disconnect from those aspects of yourself without those things being perceived internally by you as self-abandonment. The way to allow these aspects to fall away is to recognize them first and foremost. Relative to this situation, take out a sheet of paper and jot down all the things you suspect you might be identified with. You can be sure that there are many more than what you will come up with. But this is a consciousness exercise. A good way to find things you’re identified with is to look at everything you call “mine.” For example, the minute you say my friends, you are identified and thus attached to them. Also, everything you would put after “I am (x).” For example, the minute you say I am (sexy), you are identified with being sexy. Try to identify thoughts and beliefs you are identified with. For example, “money doesn’t grow on trees” might be a thought you are identified with. Try to recognize emotions you are identified with. The ones you are the most identified with are the ones that are chronic or come up most often. For example, disappointment might be one of them. Also, try to recognize the aspects of your body that you are identified with. For example, if you see yourself as fat, you are physically identified with being fat. Anything you identify with will cause a strong reaction in you. The ego has owned it as part of the composite that makes up what it is. Whenever those things are threatened, the ego will go into a state of reactivity and defense. The ego has motive to maintain these aspects of our life, even if they cause us pain. It sees the loss of these things as annihilation. If you have drawn this Sigil, in this situation, you are not seeing your identification clearly. A little dis-identification will do you good. Card #3 - Sigil 39: Duplicity: If you have drawn this Sigil, the reaction you are having to something is an indication that you are deceiving yourself. As a result, what you show the world is not a true reflection and may even be the opposite of what is authentic about you. As people, when we have decided it is so not okay to own and accept and admit to something about ourselves, we tend to transform the unacceptable into its opposite. For example, when a man who is leading a march against homosexuals, is gay himself. Or when a woman who hates another woman throws a party for her. Or when a man struggles so much with his sexual desire and impulses that he becomes a priest and spends his life preaching against fornication. When we are two-faced or hypocritical, especially when we don’t realize it, or if we are extremely polarized in any way, we may be falling prey to duplicity. In a study done in 1985, female participants in a study who reported high levels of sexual guilt as well as disapproval of erotic imagery, reported low arousal response and even repulsion to erotic images when they viewed them. However, the devices being used to measure their physical arousal at the time reported the exact opposite of what they said. They showed the highest level of arousal when exposed to the images of any of the participants. Harsh judgments of other people and things, as well as our desire to set ourselves to the total opposite and prove how much we are not anything like that and have nothing to do with it at all, often points to an insecurity within ourselves. For example, if you are insecure about being a selfish person, you are likely to rant and rave against selfish people and do everything to be a leading example of a selfless person. The things that you oppose need not necessarily be things that are negative in and of themselves, simply things that whether they are objectively good or bad, you have experienced them as personally unacceptable and shameful. If you have drawn this Sigil, you are avoiding an insecurity that does exist within you and are both denying and disguising it by taking the polar opposite position. Card #4 - Uplift in Reverse: If you have drawn this card in reverse, someone in your life is in need of a pick me up. Send them something inspirational. Help them to be spontaneous by inviting them to do something fun and unusual. If at all possible, find a way to make them laugh. This person in your life would greatly benefit by a random act of kindness. You could give them a gift or do them an act of service. You could offer them words of affirmation or physical affection or spend quality time with them. Do you know who this person is? When you find out, take some action.
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AuthorMatthew Rosewater, CPCP Archives
December 2019
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