Susan's Personal Card:

Justice

This Deck: The Lover's Tarot

General Meaning: Traditionally, what has been known as the Justice card has to do with moral sensitivity and that which gives rise to empathy, compassion and a sense of fairness. Since the time of Solomon, this image has represented a standard for the humane and fair-minded treatment of other beings.

Often including the image of a fulcrum which helps to balance competing needs against the greater good, and a two-edged sword to symbolize the precision needed to make clear judgments, this card reminds us to be careful to attend to important details. It's a mistake to overlook or minimize anything where this card is concerned. The law of Karma is represented here -- what goes around comes around.

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So I opened up my daily tarot email today to find that my card for the day was 'judgement'. So, out of curiosity, I pulled out one of my decks and pulled a random three card spread. Surprise:



Two of Swords: A tight reign over emotions, feeling deadlocked or suspended, stalemate, paradox, indecision, feeling overwhelmed by toomany factors, supressed, perfectly balanced

You are on the horns of a dilemma and cannot see clearly which path to choose. You are immobilized by indecision and do not know whether to follow your head or your heart. You may be using all your intellectual defences to avoid facing your feelings about an issue and therefore have a tight reign on them. Reversed means that there is a decision made. paired with the following card it seems to suggest just that. Considering the things I have on my plate, there seems to be no choice in the matter of making a choice, lol.

Judgement: resurrection, a life change, career change, an identity crisis, readjustment, transformation, transition, upheaval

The Judgement card often indicates a time of resurrection and awakening, a time when a phase or period of our life comes to an absolute end, making way for dynamic new beginnings. It requires the acceptance of inevitable change. Often, this heralds violent upheavals or difficult life-changes.

It is important when this card appears to remind yourself not to judge yourself too harshly, and to look ahead to the new paths the coming changes will open up.

The Moon: Intuition, a time to be passive and receptive, strong emotions, psychic awareness, bewilderment, an oceanic feeling, change, mystery, creative potential

This card warns against self-deception and suggests a period of fluctuating moods and uncertainty where one must face unconscious forces. Your gut feelings may be more reliable than your logical mind. You should attend to your dreams, feelings and intuition now, and you notice how ingrained patterns from the past affect you now.

So in affect, this card, being in the 'future' position of my reading, indicates that I should be 'riding the wave' and sorting things out - reordering as it were - after I make the decisions I must make as suggested by the Judgement card.

Funny, how I instinctively know these things and spend so much time trying to logic them into manageable little boxes. Oh how useful is tarot for smashing those little boxes to bits.

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The Devil

This Deck: Medieval Cat Tarot

General Meaning: What has traditionally been known as the Devil card expresses the realm of the Taboo, the culturally rejected wildness and undigested shadow side that each of us carries in our subconscious. This shadow is actually at the core of our being, which we cannot get rid of and will never succeed in taming. From its earliest versions, which portrayed a vampire-demon, this card evoked the Church-fuelled fear that a person could "lose their soul" to wild and passionate forces.

The image which emerged in the mid-1700's gives us a more sophisticated rendition -- that of the "scapegoated Goddess," whose esoteric name is Baphomet. Volcanic reserves of passion and primal desire empower her efforts to overcome the pressure of stereotyped roles and experience true freedom of soul. Tavaglione's highly evolved image (Stella deck) portrays the magical formula for harnessing and transmuting primal and obsessive emotions into transformative energies. As a part of the Gnostic message of Tarot, this fearsome passion and power must be reintegrated into the personality, to fuel the soul's passage from mortal to immortal.

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