Spiritual Sunday #6

Introduction

Today has not been a good day. I'll leave it at that. I'm getting a very late start -- which doesn't help either. So -- it may be practically Sunday by the time I finish this -- and that's how I've decided to handle my content today. Given all this, the reading is surprisingly positive. Thank heaven. I could use some good news. Maybe you could, too.

In three words I can sum up
everything I've learned about life:
it goes on.
~ Robert Frost ~

This week's layout

This week's theme

The Devil Rx = Reaching a spiritual break-through; releasing unhealthy commitments, unrealistic expectations, unworkable attachments to money, material success, status, etc.

There are some cards in the Tarot that are more positive by a long shot when they're reversed than when they're upright. This is one of them. Upright it shows a slavish attachment to money, possessions, power, envy, status -- things of the material world ... all those trappings of success we are told to chase so we'll be "happy."

Only it doesn't work out like that in the slightest. It's actually the path to enslavement, ruin, spiritual suicide, a meaningless end to the journey. (Because this remains true: You can't take it with you.)

So ... The Devil Reversed shows the moment when you stop beating up on yourself about all the worldly things I just mentioned -- or maybe the lack of them. It shows the collapse of these artificial structures and the meaning you may ascribe to them. It's the decision to reclaim your soul in a very, "Get thee behind me, Satan" sort of way. It can be a cause for real celebration. Let's call it that.

This week's personal issue

Ace of Rods Rx = dealing with a poor self-image; feeling unsuccessful and ineffective; not understanding who you are; criticizing yourself

This is actually the process of building a better realization of yourself and your worth. But ... it isn't finished. It isn't "mature." You haven't managed to own it properly. And you may not have learned that beating up on yourself emotionally, verbally, etc., isn't a kind thing to do. Abuse is still abuse -- even when it's the voices in your head who are sniping and carping and judging.

Stop doing this to yourself. Start telling yourself the truth about yourself and your essential being. If you're dealing with "problems" look for better ways to handle them. Start talking to yourself like someone you love and respect. Srsly.

This week's emotional issue

Queen of Cups = the active source of unconditional love, acceptance, support, comfort -- the mother we all wish we'd had in real life

This is truly the source of your self-esteem, your belief in your own goodness, your joy and creative talent. Reconnect with your compassion. (Show some of that to yourself.) Be kind. Give it away generously.

A while back, my cats managed to change the wallpaper on my computer. I do not know how they did this. I don't even know how. But what they "selected" was a cat meme with the message: Practice love until you remember you are love.

I cannot make this crap up. It was such an awesome moment, I left it up for a really long time. Maybe I should dig it out again. Meanwhile, practice its wisdom this week. Tell people, "The Tarot made me do it."

This week's intellectual issue

2 of Swords = waiting, thinking, planning, observing, gathering information

We had this card a few weeks back. Evidently we're not done "collecting data and making plans." Again, this is not a card of action. It's a card of thinking and watching, mulling and musing. It suggests you don't know everything you need to know yet to make an effective decision. So ... consider your options. And among those options is the possibility that Life itself needs to come to new arrangements before it's time for you to move forward. Chill -- a little while longer.

This week's practical issue

7 of Pentacles = Reassessing your focus; comparing your actions and intentions to your actual desires; realizing these may not match

This card often shows you've reached a useless goal or a fairly insignificant interim milestone, that you've succeeded at something you don't want -- or can't use -- or that isn't appropriate to your future

This can be a very sobering moment. It usually shows you've reached a target you once thought you wanted ... but it isn't any good to you now. It may be exactly the goal you aimed for, but something has changed.

Either you want and need something else now -- because life is different. Or your success doesn't fulfill its intention. It doesn't do what you thought it would. It hasn't panned out properly. Maybe the situation itself has changed to the point that what it was supposed to provide -- is no longer (or maybe never was) possible. Whatever the case, you and this goal are no longer congruent.

It can mean the end of a substantial investment. Letting go of a vision that may have served you well in the past. Figure out where you need to go and what you need to do now. Cut your losses. Salvage what you can from your assets. Make some different choices and investments with your capital. It's time to do something more practical, more profitable. (And maybe stop beating a dead horse.)

Where you hoped to be finished with this project by now, you find there's still a ways to go -- and possibly a different road to finally get there. Your overall ambition may be sound, but you may want to adjust your strategies and methods to fit reality. Take a hard look at what exists ... not what exists in your wishful thinking and overzealous imagination.

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