Keeping it simple, a line of verse for each card whose given number can be 11:
11 Strength ~ Feeling the natural power of your own inner animal in your voice instinctively,
11 Page of Wands ~ Developing a playfully newly energetic presence,
11 Page of Cups ~ As You are fulfilled by emotions dancing with the music you love, music being what emotions sound like,
11 Page of Swords ~ As You playfully cut through to thiink and communicate clearly, resonantly from Your personal way,
11 Page of Pentacles ~ May You have a fertile ground that receives the naturalized messages born from your whole life up to this point
11 Justice ~ (And, if your Tarot sequencing places Justice at 11) may your heart weighed against a feather inspire everyone around You including Yourself to find Your own, personal, higher octave balance today!
energetic play, letting the crown chakra flow with expert skill in play
. . . putting them all together . . .
Feeling the natural power of your own inner animal in your voice instinctively,
Developing a playfully newly energetic presence,
As You are fulfilled by emotions dancing with the music you love, music being what emotions sound like,
As You playfully cut through to thiink and communicate clearly, resonantly from Your personal way,
May You have a fertile ground that receives the naturalized messages born from your whole life up to this point
And beyond!
May your heart weighed against a feather inspire everyone around You including Yourself to find Your own, personal, higher octave balance today!
Blessings to All on an 11-cubed day, where 1,331 = 6 . . . a grand number of exchange, where adding in the 2000 prefix, may your 10 be wonderfully completed cycles felt throughout your every thought, feeling, and action!,
Hmm. . . Which card in the Tarot represents the symbolic meaning of the ouroburos?
The World from Land of Mystereum
From my perspective many cards in many ways represent the ouroburos. For now I will go with The World as a verge point of the “that which eats its tail.” I see the eating of the tail as a “so to speak” gesture present in real-time, change as ongoing as breath, like a tadpole absorbing its tail, leading vestigial qualities to continually be and refresh inherent structural, personal components. Primitive and instinctual features?, and then the cycle of The World card presents a larger, new world being entered. Similar for the great white shark of the insect world, the dragonfly. It goes from being an underwater swimming and voraciously carnivorous larva in a chthonic underworld (so to speak) TO numinous flight above. Brings in “as above, so below” to be symmetrical as to placement but not relative to its form. I call it educated symmetry. . . things of different identities placed identically or similarly across an axis though they are different identities, different forms. similarly placed across an axis. Focusing on the ouroburos (uroburos)’ head-tail connection would be related to this “axis of educated symmetry”. On either side is the same body, but of different form. . .body behind head, body in front of head. The point where they touch is that cascading-throughout milestone/landmark place where transformation occurs. The cracking of the once-caterpillar’s-now-butterfly’s chrysalis is as well this point/place. And, back to the dragonfly. It’s whole world began under water. It, then, moves above water, to fly! “Dragonfly. Break illusions. Make change.” is an great totem statement. It also expresses phases and cycles. How would one express these on a day to day basis without making an overly-intrusive learning curve? “Breath is prayer” might work. I believe Alan Watts expressed that a great deal. Thx, Alan.
So, all that said, I’ll stick with The World as the card I feel for the Uroburos for now, yet any two cards in sequence can as well can represent the place of the connection of the tail being eaten when seen in light of them both being The Fool becoming the next Fool experience. Every place, every scale you experience . . . there is a whole world there. Shifting focus, and redirecting scale . . . Card one the mouth, Card 2 the tail. How do they continually interact on a deep and presently actionable and ongoing level. Level. Singular. All those roads as components of one. Mitochondia comes to mind. Mitochondraical sounds like memory sickness, existential, cellular biology alzheimers in the making. So, I will stick with mitochondria as a non-sequitur that popped up to squiggly-looking structure express connections. Like . . . think cell nucleus. The center is rarely in the middle.
Hmmm, so now I say The World as one card is representative of the ouroburos, and also the space or place between two cards is a whole world as well . . .hmmm, any two cards in a reading to be representative of the transformation. That sounds a bit nebulous, huh? Think of a stairway. Think of the stairs AS a place. Stairs are themselves a place like the space between. Stairs are the space between spaces, the place between places. Stairs themselves, when you are on them, are your place.
And, thinking of that I just thought my way through this to see the little squiggly thing I draw when indicating card relationships to switch up and cascade forth and become the ouroburos. Heck, I’ve used the Leo-looking squiggly since I was 14. Squiggling a stroke in, and lasso-ing around back to connect places. Visualize this. Nice to refresh it. My diagramming just transformed a little. Looking forward to that cascading throughout. What new world will come of this detail? . . . this place where the snake bites its tail? What new world comes into play when you transform a crucial detail behind/within your head to become a nourishing place before you? The ouroburos is in a the-present-is-perpetual state continually taking in a new perspective of itself, its tail end, the ouroburos as a metaphor for bringing the tail-end, the horizon between, seen and unseen, right up for close view. The snake not seeing its tail, curls to tail-touch-bite. The snake, tail-biting . . . its shedded skin not missed.
What new world comes into play when a time similar to after The Tower happens for you where “You, only new” occurs?. . . occurs for you when skins are shedded naturally and not missed, you still you are there, only new?! Is the shedded skin the nourishment of reinvigoration? Is the newly discovered and experienced world the nourishment of refreshed places? Both? Neither? Both and more? The Fool can be the whole ouroburos, and as well the micro-place where the mouth meets the tail. Foot on the Ma? Not so much. The World is your oyster when shedding skins. The next first touch can be just that grain of sand . . . that irritates . . . OR . . . over time you form a pearl with it. I would say the choice is yours. I would rather say that you probably deal with things your way. Are you an irritation hound, or a pearl maker?
So, where is your center on the move? How does memory influence and fuel your decisions. Is not the Uroburos a symbolic reflection on how connections are continually made? And, further, how they are continually made in real time, at speed, on an ongoing basis?
Which card or experience in your life resonates with the connection of the snake biting/grasping/connecting with the tail of its instinct?
Whichever card or whatever experience, best to your best being present in your way. Simply said. What drives you? Not, what is your foundation, but what drives you? What is the foundational placement that is always refreshed and refreshing when you connect with it. Personally, I like chocolate with things like rasberries and chocolate in it. Break it, and see the colorful constellations of a whole universe that you can taste . . . like your tail . . . only useful for YEAH! kinda continuing with breathe as prayer.
Which card in the Tarot represents the ouroburos to you? Or, which experiential gig plays this part?
Joy in the Mystery continually solved to You . . . for further breaths. None of us are getting out alive, so isn’t your play expressive of the higher octave expertise of your everything? Be your expert. Play as you do. Maybe there is a tail awareness there. Maybe. Maybe I am simply having a hard time cadence-melodying the language of this blog to finale. C’est finis. How’s that?
What is your place of a whole world in a single connection? What is the World really small? I’d say the 2 of Pentacles, the most crucial connective tissue, the kernel-shell nucleus of integrated opposites that births the onset of antinomy.
Land of Mystereum 2 of Pentacles
What distinguishes your World from a really small and detail perspective? What is your place of a whole world in a single connection?
Hi… Jordan Hoggard, author of Tarot in the Land of Mystereum here to explore pairings and contrasts with the family of the Twos . . .
… Numerically the Twos correspond with Judgment…Strength (or Justice if you run eleven that way in your use of Tarot card sequencing)…and The High Priestess of the Major Arcana. You can explore the relationships of these numbers further in my blog . . . So, let’s explore pairings and contrasts with the Twos. . .
With the Two of Pentacles: Sense the most crucial connections, the most vital yet potentially minute connective tissue present. . .and with this an ability to cascade verdantly throughout from subtlety to entirety, a Priority FedEx of influence. . .Visualize a direct connection between your feet and toes and your imagination and ideas.
With the Two of Cups: feel heartfelt cooperation, and with bright eyes smile as fresh ideas pulsing with life begin to play in your imagination.
With the Two of Wands: Discern and distinguish individual energies from one another. Note how they interact. As you do, mind overload and imbalance by not perceiving many little things as one big thing. Respecting the energies you distinguish by naming them, as you focus each one by its name, identify and pair them with the aim of their influence.
With the Two of Swords: Gift yourself the ability to focus on familiar things to see them differently, in a new and polished light. One of the vital lessons from the 2 of Swords. . .highlight object of your focus, Mind your focus to communicate content more clearly, rather than assuming and expecting. . . sense and communicate things anew, even familiar things, sense and communicate things more congruent with their identity.
So, a vital yet open-ended overall lesson from the Twos is about pairing and contrasting the whole family of Twos in your way to inform one another as they come up individually. . . you are better able to see familiar things differently..
Thank you for watching. I look forward to further touring you through the families living in the Land of Mystereum.
Hi… Jordan Hoggard, author of Tarot in the Land of Mystereum, here to explore potential with the family of the Aces . . .
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new life, place-making, enthusiasm
trust intuition, nurture new feeling, fresh flow
sticking to the point, ideas cutting through, quickening, focusing thought to make your point sharply
Treasure of Inner Booty is discovered, new assets and seeds
… Numerically the Aces correspond with the Sun…the Wheel…and the Magician of the Major Arcana. You can explore the relationships of these cards further in my Birth Card blogs . . .
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So, let’s explore potential with the Family of the Aces.
Visualize the Fool’s first step as an Ace. Which one comes to mind when you think of the Fool? Play with that AS a two-card reading: Card One ~ The Fool; Card Two ~ the Ace that came to mind for you. It’s called a Came to Mind Reading. I’ll cover that in another blog, though it is as simple as it sounds. Ask your question and quickly write down the cards that come to mind. Then, do your reading from those cards.
Visualize the first step after X The Wheel as a 2-step Ace.
Visualize the first step after XXI The World as a single quaternity of Aces in a step.
The Aces
With the Ace of Pentacles ~ Sense your Solid Inner Inheritances, the assets and seeds you were born with.
With the Ace of Cups ~ trust your heart, and with bright eyes your ideas may begin to pulse with life.
With the Ace of Wands ~ Direct your energies. Place them where you feel best. As you do, feel the magnetism of things that are wonderfully located. Use your energies to magnetize yourself and inspire the energies around you.
With the Ace of Swords ~ Gift yourself the ability to cut to the chase. listen to its vital lesson. . .listening, Mind that you stick to the point.
A Vital Lesson from the Aces and a Reading Technique
So, a vital lesson from the Aces is about letting the whole family of Aces inform the others when they come up individually. For example, when the Ace of Wands comes up and you need clarification, rather than pulling another card or cards right off the bat… visualize the other Aces. Lay them out in the order they came to mind and ask each Ace, “What Wise Counsel do you have to express to the Ace of Wands?” Do that for each card, and then go back to your Ace of Wands. See if the Ace of Wands stands up strong for you with a clearer voice. You can really do this for any of the cards. For Minors, visualize the other suits of the same number. For Majors visualize the corresponding Birth Cards that go with the Major you have selected. Call it the Collective Consciousness present within families of cards and all the cards in The Fool… that can be a fun concept to explore on your own.
Thanks for stopping by.
I look forward to further touring you through the families living in the Land of Mystereum.
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