Todays Card - 4 of Pentacles

To be written up asap

Card of the Day - The Sun

Keywords: confidence, warmth, positivity, success, vitality, radiance, abundance

What do I see when I look at this card?

I am trying to think about the cards imagery and what clues it holds to the meaning of the card. So, lets start with colours: red, orange and yellow are the colours that pop out at me. These colours are warm and optimistic. Red is the colour of life blood, vitality. Orange and yellow are both colours of happiness and confidence.

The Sun in the picture looks calm and content. Keeping a watchful eye on the world beneath. The flowers are blooming and stretching into the blue sky. The child is riding the horse, but without restraining it. Everything looks free and easy. The banner is waving in a breeze. It all looks like a carefree summer afternoon.

What meaning is behind this?

Life is good!
You are becoming more confident and therefore more free and relaxed.
Things are going to get better!

What do you think?
I am also thinking about other correspondences.... I would think the stone Citrine would go well with this card as would orange calcite. Oh and amber! Chrysanthemum flowers and sunflowers obviously! I will have to to think about scents, but perhaps something resin-like... Perhaps copal?

Thoughts?

My Birth Tarot Card

Apparently a little numerology will help with Tarot reading.

So I found out what my tarot birth card is using a teeny tiny bit of numerology.

Whats my life path number?

Basically just involves adding up my birth date and you can find out how/why through the Little Red Tarot course.

I added up and came up with 4 as being my life path number.

The 4th card of the major arcana is The Emperor (incidentally this is the card that I most often misspell!!!).

The Emperors keywords are:

The Sun, Illumination, rational, order, organisation, practicality, leadership, compassion, father.

The Emperors key phrases:

Rule firmly but with compassion.
Don't be tyrannical!


I think this probably is a card that fits with my personality. Not sure how happy I am about that!

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Exercise 1 : What is tarot?

Here are a few of my answers from the first exercise. I won't put all of it on here, partly because its personal and partly because I don't want to give the whole course away! Mostly, this post is going to be a little bit about me a my perspective....

I First Came Across Tarot When:

I was about 13 years old and my mum got a set. They were beautiful and I was instantly enchanted by them. They were the Tarot of The Old Path and they were coloured beautifully, with lots of fine detail. I can't remember my mum actually using them and I can't quite remember if she wrapped them in a cloth or not. I do remember getting my first tarot deck. It was the Mythic Tarot and rather than it coming from some mystical or bohemian shop, it came from a games shop in Colchester. The shop mostly sold board games and fancy chess sets but it also had few tarot decks. I wrapped my tarot in the cloth it came with (which I still have) and placed them carefully in a wooden box. The images on these cards were based on Greek and Roman myths and were quite pretty.

The High Priestess is the image that sticks in my mind from that deck. She is standing in a stone doorway. Long black hair and a pure white dress. She had large dark eyes that could see into your soul.

I didn't stick with this deck for very long because the deck I wanted most was the Tarot of the Old Path...... But it was my first deck and it still holds a special place in my mind.


The Reason I Want to Learn Tarot is:

I have been dabbling since I was 13 years old. I want to be able to read the cards without having to be surgically attached to a book.

I would like to be able to read for myself and others with confidence.

I want to feel more comfortable trusting my intuition and witchiness!


Heres how I feel about embarking on this journey:

Nervous.
Resolute.
Spiritual.


So, thats a little about me!

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Beltane, Full Moon and Tarot Journeys

Today is the start of a new journey for me. A journey that I have wanted to take for some time but have been, up until now, unable to take.

I am re-evaluating my life and what holds meaning for me. This means I am making changes to my routines and actions. I am making hard choices and being decisive about things that I truly want.

There is a full moon tonight. A perfect time to start something meaningful.

I have started Little Red Tarots 8 week tarot course today, which is really exciting for me. I have had tarot cards since I was 13 and have never learnt properly, with structure and focus. I have always wanted to do a course in tarot but have never been able to afford it..... I still wouldn't be able to if Beth hadn't put this awesome course out for only $25 (which is approx. 16 quid in the UK) so thanks Beth!!!

Anyway, I have done the first 3 exercises this afternoon, which I will be writing up tomorrow.

I have made this blog to keep people updated on my progress and to give me a kick up the butt to do my work.

Wish me luck,
xx