April 20, 2020

I am doing a daily Tarot draw asking Spirit, what message do you have for the world today to guide us towards our highest good?

Message to the World
April 20th, 2020 (10 The Wheel of Fortune, 1 The Magician)
THE HERMIT – Tarot
THE DOG (faithful friends) + THE MICE (anxiety, stealing, nibbling) + THE STORK (transformation) – Lenormand

Surrounded by darkness, balanced atop a narrow rise, our futures, once open and bright, charted across our various calendar apps, are now obscured. We are alone. Cut off from social gatherings, some of us, from human touch. Our worries about friends, and survival as the world transforms, erodes at our spirits. What will this virus steal next?

The Hermit card reminds us that strength can be found through our intuition, in the unconscious, in the energy of all beings that can be sensed only when we close our outer eyes and look from inside. This connection to all earth’s spirits, the plants, the rocks, the waters, the animals, the people, the planets, becomes the staff that we grip to support our balance. Our energy is part of an expansive unity.

Spirit’s white light illuminates our path in this darkest of times with the realization that though we cannot know or control the details, we can be confident of the Divine’s love for us and presence with us, as our soul’s journey cycles on.

April 19, 2020

I am doing a daily Tarot draw asking Spirit, what message do you have for the world today to guide us towards our highest good?

Message to the World
April 19th, 2020 (18 The Moon, 9 The Hermit)
JUDGEMENT REVERSED – Tarot
THE BOOK + THE FOX + THE BEAR – Lenormand

The Book + The Fox = workbook, manual
The Book + The Bear = powerful secret

Do we doubt that we are ready? Are we hanging back, looking for some workbook that we need to read, a powerful secret to be discovered before we can transcend to the next stage of our highest purpose?

What if it was as simple as turning to Spirit, lifting our arms, and saying, “here I am, as I am. how might I serve?”

 

April 12, 2020

I am doing a daily Tarot draw asking Spirit, what message do you have for the world today to guide us towards our highest good?

Message to the World
April 12th, 2020 (11 Justice, 2 The High Priestess)
TWO OF PENTACLES REVERSED – Tarot
THE SUN + THE HEART + THE MOON – Lenormand

What beautiful Lenormand cards today.
Love and Happiness, Creative Passion, Emotional Positivity

Today’s numerological cards are Justice and The High Priestess. These, paired with the Two of Pentacles, resonate as balance.

With the Two of Pentacles reversed, things are probably feeling out of balance today. Many of us are out of work, or have reduced hours, or, if we are working, we might be in risky, high-adrenaline situations. Financial worries prevail, as does anxiety for the well being of our community. We may be lucky enough to be sheltering in place with loved ones, but there are many, still, that we can’t gather with.

Today, my emotions are rolling through me in surges, much like the waves that threaten to swamp those boats. One moment, I’m happy because I was able to Zoom with my family; the next, I’m filled with grief because I want to hold them, and smell them, and feel their warmth. One moment, I’m content, because the sun is shining, the plants are growing, the day has a quality of stillness brought on by the Easter holiday. The next, that stillness fills with anxiety, that I want to push away with projects and busywork.

In the two of pentacles reversed, the figure has their back to those beautiful Lenormand cards.

I think Spirit’s message is to tap into the Divine today. We can find succor from our turmoil by allowing that golden and white light to fill us up, and renew us. Just as we might ache to be able to hold and nurture our loved ones, Spirit would like to embrace us, to bathe us in love, in light, to see us engaged in our creative passions. To restore an inner positivity as a balance to our heartaches. Let us turn towards Spirit today, in prayer, or meditation, or through the flame of a candle. Let’s turn our troubles over to the Divine so that we can focus, however briefly, on our joy.

April 11, 2020

I am doing a daily Tarot draw asking Spirit, what message do you have for the world today to guide us towards our highest good?

Message to the World
April 11th, 2020 (10 The Wheel of Fortune, 1 The Magician)
THREE OF CUPS – Tarot
THE CROSS + THE DOG + THE MICE – Lenormand

This weekend, Christians celebrate Easter, and the Jewish Faith is in the midst of their Passover remembrance and celebration.

It is a time when, even if we don’t celebrate these holidays, we witness the rituals, and maybe partake in secular spin-offs, such as easter egg hunts and decorating, and Easter baskets. Here in the US, the retail stores started prominently displaying chocolate bunnies and jelly beans over a month ago.

For those of us of faith, our religious rituals are steadfast supportive pillars in our lives. For those of us who don’t celebrate Easter or Passover, we often have traditions of our own that ride in the wake of the religious ones, family get-togethers, and meals. These gatherings tie our community together and remind us of the year’s cycles.

This year, when we are quarantined in our homes, a deep depression can arise from the inability to congregate with our families and communities to partake in our traditions, be they religious or secular. Change is uncomfortable and can be scary. Our feelings of isolation and of being adrift will intensify.

Spirit’s message to us today is to reach out to our friends, family, congregations, and find ways to meet virtually. This human contact, sharing emotions, honoring each other, looking at each other in the eye, raising a glass together, is part of the thread that stitches together our sense of belonging.

The Wheel of Fortune influence today reminds us that these holidays are cyclical and can mark pivot points in our year, like birthdays. The Magician tells us that we have all the tools to make a group celebration possible while maintaining social distancing.

We are asked to be aware, too, of the individuals unable to connect to the internet or to leave their homes physically or virtually. How can we support them this weekend? Maybe we could create a phone chain to reach out to those most vulnerable to depression today.

April 10, 2020

I am doing a daily Tarot draw asking Spirit, what message do you have for the world today to help us manifest our highest good?

Message to the World
April 10th, 2020
PAGE OF WANDS REVERSED – Tarot
THE CROSS + THE BOUQUET + THE TOWER – Lenormand

We are all experiencing different levels of hardship brought on by our forced shelter-in-place orders.

Today, Spirit asks us to look upon this time as a gift, even our troubles. This moment offers us the opportunity to contemplate, to pursue, to think about what our true passions are. Look within and remember what sparked the fires of our youth. Were there creative pursuits, ambitions, activities that lit us up, that the grind and hustle of life caused us to abandon or forget? Do we have new instincts, new drives being birthed by witnessing the sorrows of today through the lens of our accumulated wisdom?

Remember that Page of Wands that lives deep inside you, and embrace them anew. Allow that staff of fire to heat you up inside, to support you, so that new, green, beautiful life, ideas, energy, and concepts emerge.

April 9, 2020

I am doing a daily Tarot draw asking Spirit, what message do you have for the world today to help us manifest our highest good?

Message to the World
April 9th, 2020
Draw 1
ACE OF WANDS REVERSED – Tarot
THE DOG + THE ANCHOR + THE WHIP – Lenormand

If we are struggling to manifest our creative ideas, projects, and ambitions because of long term struggles with addiction or hardship,
today is a good day to find a coach or mentor. Even talking to a steadfast friend might help. These cards strongly suggest the benefit of working with someone outside yourself to help you gain traction.

Draw 2
THE HERMIT – Tarot
THE HEART + THE WHIP + THE ANCHOR – Lenormand

With the Hermit as the primary card, I see the Lenormand clarifiers as referring to how hard it is to love ourselves, to view ourselves honestly, and accept what we see with kindness. It takes a consistent effort of self-evaluation and shadow work to heal and learn to forgive our blemishes and push ourselves towards our highest good. This effort will be life long, but so so rewarding. Shine Spirit’s light inside ourselves and gather all of our fragments and facets up in love.

April 8, 2020

I am doing a daily Tarot draw asking Spirit, what message do you have for the world today to help us manifest our highest good?

Message to the World
April 8th, 2020
TEN OF PENTACLES REVERSED – Tarot
THE BOOK + THE TOWER + THE FOX – Lenormand

I have two interpretations, as the Lenormand cards can be read in two different ways.

The first way as knowledge of the law (BOOK + TOWER), and a lawyer (TOWER + FOX).

The second interpretation of THE BOOK + THE TOWER + THE FOX is: deceptive officials in governance have kept secrets from us.

The TEN OF PENTACLES here represents our legacies. The reversed position implies that this pinnacle of our Pentacles journey is imperiled in some way.

The first message is morbid but practical advice. In this time of uncertainty, make sure that if something happened to our loved ones or to us, that our legacy will be allocated the way we would like.

So we could contact our lawyers, if we have one, or look online for resources, to be sure that our family legacies or our life’s work are not left to our local government or courts to dispense of. It might ease some of our collective anxiety if we are confident we have protected our dependents, and that our assets will be distributed in a way that mirrors our core values.

The second message would be. By keeping knowledge from us, officials have damaged our financial success, savings, legacies. The cards are saying, “heads up, be aware that our trials today might, in part, be caused by the coverup or delay of information.”

April 7, 2020

I am doing a daily Tarot draw asking Spirit, what message do you have for the world today to help us manifest our highest good?

Message to the World
April 7th, 2020
EIGHT OF WANDS – Tarot
THE SNAKE + THE BIRDS + THE COFFIN – Lenormand

It is poisonous to talk with our heads together, chirping like birds, gossiping, sharing the news in our flocks, our cliques, with neighbors, over coffee, over check-out, over fences. All of the chatter has stopped.

And yet, there is tremendous building energy all around us. The Pandemic is starting to peak in some places. Efforts to combat it are lining up, getting in position, gaining momentum.

I think today’s message to the world is an affirmation that sheltering-in-place is making a difference. That by stopping to gather with each other, by stopping the spread, we are assisting the recovery. The relief efforts have organized and are hurtling along.

April 6, 2020

I am doing a daily Tarot draw asking Spirit, what message do you have for the world today to help us manifest our highest good?

Message to the World
April 6th, 2020
KNIGHT OF CUPS REVERSED – Tarot
THE BIRDS + THE WHIP + THE MOON – Lenormand

These cards are either encouraging us to manifest the Night of Cups and seduce our significant others tonight, or…

To seat ourselves in a place of love and intuition and ignore arguments that are erupting around us as we all chafe from the close quarters caused by weeks of sheltering in place.

April 5, 2020

I am doing a daily Tarot draw asking Spirit, what message do you have for the world today to help us manifest our highest good?

Message to the World
April 5th, 2020
PAGE OF CUPS REVERSED – Tarot
THE CROSSROADS + THE GENTLEMAN + THE CROSS – Lenormand

The Crossroads: decisions
The Gentleman: our masculine side/energy, ambition, action, strength, logic, power, dominance
The Cross: hardship, heartache, burdens

The hardships that we are feeling today are, in part, a result of accumulated decisions that humanity has made from a place of masculine energy. We have, perhaps, been living globally with an imbalance between our masculine and our feminine qualities. The male attributes being exalted, and the feminine disenfranchised or seen as weak.

The Page of Cups reversed is asking us to look deep inside ourselves and figure out how we can reprogram our responses, our reactions to situations, so that they come more from a place of water, of give, of empathy, of nurturing, of fluidity.

How can we shift our habits, our impulses, our learned reactions to be balanced with the feminine energy that resides in all. The Page of Cups is curious, creative, and open to new ideas. They are water’s messenger.

Let’s work with our inner Page to try to change mankind’s trajectory, one person at a time. It starts with each of us, individually, and our behaviors. Let us tap into the feminine energies inside ourselves, sink into them, and observe how they might balance our pre-programmed responses.