Tarot Year Card
Mary K Greer's
Tarot for Your Self gives a formula for calculating the tarot card that rules each year - add the numbers of your birthday (day and month), and the current (or soon to arrive) year. If they equal a number in double digits over 22, then add them again.
My number is 7 - The Chariot.
I've never felt any particular affinity with this card. I know it means travel, moving forward, harnessing two opposing forces to create harmonious movement and velocity. Control asserted to create a direction.
Because my spiritual path is on my mind at the moment, I see this card as indicating that with control and concerted effort, this year I will find my direction. I often find myself divided between scepticism and faith, rationalisation and mysticism, my everyday life and the spiritual world. I think this year I will find a harmonious balance for these opposites, especially in the matter of bringing my spirituality into my everyday life, which can be only too void of spirit.
I think this is one of the first years in my life where I have felt no nervousness over what lies ahead. I am confident, and excited - I feel that this will be a year of peace, and contentment, but also some important changes, especially in the employment arena. I look forward to the dawning of the new year.
Numerology
According to
Titania's Book of Numerology, my number for the coming year is 6.
My primary concerns will be love, emotional security and happiness. I will feel self confident and optimistic, and my undertakings will prosper. Marriage may be under discussion (in fact, in the last few weeks it already has been). My home will take on a new importance to me.
This coming year will be a harvest - a contented reaping of seeds sown in previous years. It will unfold peacefully, slowly, but surely - it is a year to catch my breath, and enjoy all that life offers me.
Litha
Tomorrow, the twenty-first of December, is the Summer Equinox, the longest day of the year, the culmination of the season. It is my partner's last day at work for the year, so he will celebrate by throwing off the worries of work and relaxing into his holidays. I still have two days of work left to go, so the Solstice will be a simple day for me.
It has been an unusual summer, this past month - full of volatile storms that arrive in the late afternoon in great gusts of wind, rain and occasionally hail, only to disappear by the morning, leaving the sky clear and blue, and the city sweltering under the sun's heat. Our young trees in the front garden have been enjoying the unusual summer rain, and have been covered in new leaves and flowers for weeks, a beautiful display of pink and rose. (This colour coordination is essentially accidental - I am not a great planner when planting out gardens.) Our mango trees drip with small hard green fruit. A great branch of the macadamia tree was torn off in one of the storms, and it lies in a heap of chopped lengths, waiting for us to decide what to do with it.
I sometimes find it strange to be participating in what are ancient rituals of the Northern winter in this sweltering heat. Spending a day baking at this time of year is decidedly unpleasant, yet I enjoy doing it. The potted cypress pine in the living room is not there as a reminder of life in the dark of the year, but is decorated with white and silver, cool colours, and is, to me, a celebration of the life blossoming under the sun outside. The presents we exchange on the twenty-fifth of December, the day we spend with our family, is a reminder of what is most precious in our lives - love and connection with community, exchange of energies. This is the first Christmas that I am having in my own house, and I have been greatly enjoying creating my own rituals, bringing in my living tree, and buying a couple of very kitsch stockings for my partner and myself to fill with goodies for each other. I hope, in years to come, to make my own stockings for us, and perhaps for our children.
I will be spending the Christmas day with my partner's family, but bringing along the Christmas pudding icecream that my mother has made for Christmas every year that I can remember. That, for me, is the personal resonance of the Christmas holiday, and to an extent, the Summer Solstice - tracing family traditions, and creating your own.
Reading
I was given a half-hour psychic tarot reading from
Gena for my birthday a few days ago.
It was a really interesting experience - I've never seen a psychic or had my cards read by a professional before, although I own several decks of tarot cards and regularly read them for myself and others. I wasn't sure what to expect as I walked up the narrow stairs to the upper floor of the bookshop.
Gena read from several decks for me, keeping up a running narrative and asking a few questions, although rarely asking me for input. I had the session taped, but I want to write down what I remember her saying, for future reference.
She told me:-
- I would travel overseas in the next few years
- I needed to buy a new toothbrush
- I needed to take care of my back, and should get a massage once a month
- I was going to make a new resolution about my health in the New Year, and stick to it
- I was going to have a wonderful daughter in the future, who is going to be a very special woman
- I am very spiritual
- I am destined to make a difference in the legal world - to work with honesty and heart
- I will get a new and fantastic job in six months
- My mentor at work will introduce me to a man who will offer me a job
- My mentor will leave my work in six months
- My grandmother will die next year
- I am in a very happy relationship
- I need to experience some passion over the Christmas holidays
- I currently work in a very autocratic and uncomfortable workplace
- I shouldn't let it get to me, as I won't be there for too much longer
- While I am there, I'm going to make a difference in the way the place runs
She was an excellent reader, and spot-on about a lot of things, especially those work related points. When she told me about my daughter, I felt tears come to my eyes, although I'm not sure why. I suppose because having children is something I really want to do in the future, and it was like an affirmation that it is actually going to happen.
Although she didn't go into a lot of detail about my spirituality, the High Priestess sitting on the table prompted me to once more explore my spiritual roots, and re-create a spiritual practice that has fallen by the wayside this year as I've begun working fulltime. This blog is going to be an expression of that, reflecting my thoughts, practice, and discoveries as I move into a new year.
