Tarot reading advice when on holiday…
Goa, India, day 2, if you don’t count the arrival day. Two nights of sleeping badly I woke to feeling decidedly unrelaxed, unhappy, and cross with myself for feeling so. I was on holiday, idyllic beach, sea, sun, wonderful food, lovely people, what more could I want? My equilibrium had deserted me and I was feeling out of sorts so I decided to pull a tarot card. I hope you an imagine the smile that spread across my face when I picked the Temperance card as my advice, reflection, support card. I breathed out a sigh of gratitude. Thank you universe. Thank you Tarot. As ever awed by the perfectness of the card I pulled for myself that particular day, out of a choice of 78. I felt as if my restlessness was fully acknowledged with Temperance. It is often a card that comes up in readings when there are issues of Patience.
I felt I was both given permission to not be patient i.e. it was fine to be feeling impatient with myself, Temperance says we understand, but your way out of this is to be patient with yourself. It might take time to relax, give yourself the time, all will be fine. More than fine, as in the illustration on the tarot card, with one foot on dry land, the white sand of Goa, and other in water, the blue green sea of the Indian Ocean, cooling the restless desires of your heart. Patience is a virtue and will bring you the peaceful, quiet, and divine connection you desire.
A beautiful image of an Angel that brings divine guidance and Temperance
This tarot card has a particularly lovely image of an Angel that feels powerfully peaceful. When I am describing the meaning of this card in a tarot reading I find myself saying, this card asks us to cool our own desires, for things to be different. So often we live in a state of urgency, constantly pushing for more, towards a goal, we are constantly living in the future instead of the present. This card asks us not to be lazy (with focussing on plans for the future) but actively live in the present with an attitude of trust that divine guidance will appear in the space you leave unfettered by all our pulling and pushing.
I like the idea that ‘divine guidance’ comes in all forms. Don’t you find it amazing when out of the blue you find yourself in conversation with a stranger and they tell you something that feels like a message, or at least has the impact that stays with you. I just had this experience, his name was Raphael. His name reminded me of the Renaissance painter and that there was an angel called Raphael. An Archangel as it turns out, to whom you pray for healing, to be a balm when are feeling doubtful. In our conversation among other things, the search for enlightenment via alternative forms of medicine. For him that way was illusion. Reality, connecting to nature, the sea, the sky, earth, nature was the way. I certainly had that in spades on this idyllic beach facing the Indian Ocean. He also talked of the melody that plays inside us that is always there. It is desire that takes us from being present, from hearing our melody. Actively present as in Temperance. Let the melody play.
Do come for a tarot reading with me in Battersea or online and we can explore your melody.