Tarot Card for Lunar New Year Week, Jan. 20-26, 2020: Two of Swords
This week, we are warned that as much as we’d like to close our eyes, something eventually must change. We postpone and avoid decisions at our peril.
This week, we are warned that as much as we’d like to close our eyes, something eventually must change. We postpone and avoid decisions at our peril.
This week, with emotions running high, here is how compassion and gentle strength may be asked of you, especially in matters of great significance.
Ironically, as we don our face masks, bigger forces are unmasking, not only various individuals, but our very way of life. Behold: change is here.
This week, if you need a time-out, take it. But don’t get so wrapped up inwardly that you miss a gift from Spirit that you did not even expect.
The HermitThere is a road, no simple highwayBetween the dawn and the dark of night.And if you go, no one may follow;That path is for your steps alone.— from Ripple, by Robert Hunter/Jerry Garcia A first appearance for us in our Card of the Week, The Hermit is a powerful card about being on the … Read more
The Eight of Wands Great things are not done by impulse,but by a series of small things brought together. — Vincent Van Gogh One of the simplest images that Pixie Smith created for the Waite deck, the Eight of Wands has no people, animals, or celestial bodies. We only see eight staves flying through the … Read more
Two of Pentacles(no, this is not a mistake!) Lord, it is time. The summer was very big.Lay thy shadow on the sundials,and on the meadows let the winds go loose. — Rainer Maria Rilke This is a bit unusual. After a very thorough shuffling (and, of course, many shufflings in all my last uses of … Read more
The Moon That moon which the sky never saweven in dreamshas risen again bringing a firethat no water can drown See here where the bodyhas its houseand see here my soul the cup of love has made the onedrunkand the other a ruin.— Rumi In the ancient Greek lunar calendar, the days during this week’s … Read more
The MoonI climb to the tower-top and lean upon broken stone,A mist that is like blown snow is sweeping over all,Valley, river, and elms, under the light of a moonThat seems unlike itself, that seems unchangeable,A glittering sword out of the east. — William Butler Yeats This week, strangeness and possible illusions may be in … Read more
The Ten of Pentacles And the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.— T. S. Eliot This week, we receive a card not seen since late 2007, a time when many of us were feeling much more financially stable. The Tens are the culmination … Read more