Weekly Reading #17 for 2021 Mirror Dragon Tarot

Free Weekly Reading #17 for 2021

Each week when I do these readings I set up my reading space with black fabric (for the photo, mostly but it also allows for and smooth, calm space to focus on the cards) make sure I have undisturbed quiet time; dogs are out, husband is at work/play/store/whatever, phone is off, etc… I begin with a quick grounding meditation and settle into a centered peace to ask for guidance in choosing the cards which will be most appropriate for the week ahead. I shuffle the cards with my intent in mind and spread them in a dealer’s “ribbon spread”. Then with eyes closed, I ask for the Center card, the West card and finally, the East card, reaching out to the spread, touching the cards and choosing the one that feels most fully under my finger tip, then sliding them into their positions. Before opening my eyes I return to a calm, centered state and do my best to sense whether the three cards I’ve chosen are the most fitting for the highest and best for all involved. Only then do I turn them face up and photograph them for the reading. There are times when I see the three cards before me and groan or breathe a sigh of relief but I always use the cards I’ve selected ”blindly”.

That said;

The Center card this week is the Moon.

The Moon is about all things hidden, all things unseen. The image offers us a view of evolution with an arthropod ascending from the primordial ooze towards the land and the light. Just as most of us don’t carry the memory of our evolution in our consciousness there is much in everyday life that’s a part of who we are that lives below the surface. Our experiences from the most obvious and transformative ages of birth through early childhood and adolescence influence our adult lives in a profound way. And though we rarely have the memories of those experiences right at the tip of our brains their results define who we are now. This week we’ll likely get a chance to look into our shadow selves. The dark beginnings of our growth and change. Whether we’re confronted by a person or situation from our past, have a realization of just how much we’ve grown in strength and wisdom or simply notice that something which once really pushed our buttons no longer has any influence or power over us, this week we’ll have a good chance to honor our life-molding experiences and let go of the past. There’s a unique clarity that comes with discarding the hard shell of the crustacean to evolve into a higher and less guarded form.

The West card is the 5 of Wands.

The fives of the Tarot carry a sense of disruption. The fours signify calm, peace, stasis and rest and then out pops the disruption of that peace with the one odd card, and the fives push us off our comfy pillow. At first this created turmoil is usually seen as undesired and unwelcome. That spot was nice and safe and quiet! How dare this change knock me out of my indecision, my sadness wallow, my un-consciousness and my lethargy!? Now I have to face new things. (Stomp foot here.) I have to let go of my past and my sorrow.

When I was in my thirties I had a very good job that paid me well and gave me the chance to live easily and comfortably. Then in an instant it all disappeared. The company I worked for merged with another and together they fired all the female management. I was devastated. My self worth slithered down the drain along with my healthy paychecks and I spent about two months sitting on my comfy couch “catching up” on all the TV I’d missed while I was working. At the time I had a beautiful chocolate lab named Mousse. She was my comfort and my crying towel. After days of tears and weeks of frozen lethargy she apparently decided that she’d had enough with the soggy fur so one day she climbed up on the couch and literally snuggled me off onto the floor. She slowly, gently and determinedly wedged herself behind me and then pushed with her legs. Thump. I was on the floor and she was gazing at me with love in her eyes, and lying in my spot. I had an epiphany right then. I knew in that moment that I needed to get my butt off the floor, get my act together and figure out where to go from there. My life changed course in that moment and it was all because it had been disrupted, I grieved and then I got pushed out of my funk by my BFF.

The East card is the Prince of Swords.

By week’s end we find ourselves in a turmoil of ideas and imagination. As we look to find directions in which to move since we’ve been dislodged from our soft, slow, unimaginative stasis, ideas and plans spin around us. We grasp them, consider them and release them to catch the next and the next. It’s free flow and can be confusing but the lack of emotional connection embodied in this prince allows us to feel comfortable letting the flow continue. Expect to come face to face with your own swirling ideas as well as those of others around you. It’s best during this time to hold ideas and interactions loosely as they’re likely to be in a state of motion and holding too tightly could pull you over. The weekend looks like a good time for relaxation, light hearted get-togethers and easy weekend trips.

In Conclusion;

Our focus this week is on evolution, embracing change and pulling ourselves up by whatever means necessary. Expect inspiration and realization at the expense of the wallow of sadness, the indecision of stasis and the lethargy of self depreciation. Stasis can be a necessary break. Self imposed stasis is unproductive.

Tip for the week: Only those who go too far can possibly find how far one can go. T.S.Eliot 1931

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