Finding Strength in a two card tarot reading.
A two card tarot spread is invaluable when you want a little bit more information on a situation…
you need some insight
have a question
don’t know what to do
For instance, and it’s a bit personal, but to give some context to my example for this blog and to show what a helpful friend the Tarot can be….. my question was around some newish friends, a group that had known each other for years. I was really really enjoying their company and being part of the ‘gang’. The ‘newby’. However I was also conscious that it was early days and I shouldn’t be presumptuous and I was still trying to gauge the chemistry/language/dynamic/rythmn of communication of the group. I didn’t want to get it wrong. I was finding myself spending far too much time wondering whether I would or wouldn’t be asked on a walk! I wanted some insight and advice so I thought I’d ask the tarot.
The first card I pulled was the 7 of pentacles which says
You’ve put in quite a lot of work into this venture, made a decent investment in said situation. While you may have doubts this isn’t the moment to give up. Just keep on working at it, i.e. progress in the pentacle suit to the 8. The eight of pentacles, the card of perfecting your skills. A steady building on what you’ve already achieved sort of card.
As I stared it, I felt okay the seven of pentacles is a pretty good description of the situation and on one level the insight made sense, just keep on learning, except, it didn’t really help with my emotions, and advise me how to behave. The ‘trouble’ was I really really liked this group of people and I didn’t want to get it wrong. I was conscious as ‘the newby’ of it being early days in a relationship if you like and not to make assumptions or be over enthusiastic …. however my anxiety was affecting my enjoyment of the freedom of my own company to do what I wanted, when I wanted, as I was concerned ‘would I be invited for a walk?’ Do I wait for the text? Or initiate? Go for a walk anyway or wait for a text …
It makes me smile as I write, a grown woman of over 70, worrying like a teenager when you’ve just got into/ met a new gang you like
The tarot rarely lets me down and so I pulled another card for advice. And I pulled Strength.
Strength is all about all about communicating in a way whereby your purest intent (most genuine self) is received, heard, without letting your ego (pride) get in the way. I could say, It’s about getting yourself across without being too ‘in your face’.
One of my favourite moments of interpreting The Strength card was for a client who was in the early stages of a passionate romance with a man who was a bit elusive, as is the case in the early days of romance. It’s a dance. Moments of intense intimacy and then distance. You are getting to know each other. Strength is all about communicating without being challenging (on the tarot card we see her whispering into the ear of a lion) which suggested the situation required her not to ‘confront’ the masculine ego by asking too many direct questions, demanding answers, expecting any answers for that matter, as most likely in the early stages of anything no one knows for sure how they feel or where its going.
Equally taming the ego, is also about taming your own ego.
Communicating from the pure feminine principal is strong but not confronting, seductive even. In her white dress she bends down over the lion and whispers into his ear what she wishes him to hear. And thereby tames the wild ego of the lion. Not to mention her own ego of Fear.
When I see the Strength card in the work place I have often said ‘if you want to get your point across you might let the other person think it’s their idea’.
What I liked about receiving this advice was the encouragement of BE yourself but don’t push it. Communicate without your stressing. i.e. keep your Lion/ego/desires/fears out of the way, communicate from pure intentions the confidence and inner strength without agenda or anxiety.
Good advice don’t you think. And so interesting the Tarot has a card that describes such subtlety. I was awfully glad the Tarot didn’t say compete, or back off, or be careful, or a million other pieces of advice any of the other 77 cards might have expressed.
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