The King of Swords sent me an Inner Voicemail message today…
(c) 2010 Jordan Hoggard
shrewdness, exact statements, clear opinions, no bullpoopy
“In my stunning relationship with my No Bullshit straight-up Queen, we have two 2-word mantras that enhance our relationship and intensify my role as The Ultimate Communicator. Just ask. Just say.”
~ The Land of Mystereum King of Swords
Listening to the cards speak, resonant like an epic movie.
Tarot in the Land of Mystereum. It’s all about discovering your Inner Inheritances.
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The Queen of Wands sent me an Inner Voicemail message today…
“I do not feel that Tarot and Spirituality and Spiritual Development build character.
They reveal it.”
~ The Land of Mystereum Queen of Wands
Listening to the cards speak, resonant like an epic movie.
Tarot in the Land of Mystereum. It’s all about discovering your Inner Inheritances.
If you’ve never used PayPal and want to order, here are some easy to follow PayPal instructions to send your payment to jjordantarot@gmail.com securely.
It only takes several steps. After the first time, it ought to be a snap. PayPal is secure, and they try and make it easy, too. Simply:
~ mouse over the “Buy” tab with a little down arrow next to it
~ and select “Make a payment”. Make sure to specify which volume you are ordering in your order notes. Thank You.
~ Note: eChecks through PayPal take 5-7 business days to post. To receive your order in a more timely fashion, I suggest to use your credit or debit card with PayPal as it is instant. Orders are shipped upon payment clearing and posting.
~ There’s also a “How to purchase online” option under the “Buy” tab which is helpful, too. My experience is that PayPal is safe and secure… and very convenient.
Do you have more success reading Tarot for others? Yet, sometimes do you find it difficult to read Tarot for yourself? I think we all have experienced that at some time or another. You turn the cards over and POOF you get it, but in a eh-eh not-feeling-it-so-much way? Sometimes it simply indicates it is more fitting to take a walk. Or, you really feel you want to give yourself a reading. And then, you know what the cards mean, but rather than divinations, your reading becomes more of a set of predictables, kinda falls flat? Kinda doesn;t resonate so much with a “Well, I knew that and I would rather. . .well. . . that’s not what I wanted and I would rather have a good and in-depth reading.” Ever feel this way? Ever feel that your Tarot reading for yourself is over before it ever really got started? And, you want to keep it in mind, but your reading didn’t open up new paths of discovery like the priceless feeling when you read for someone else? I hear this a lot from readers, often regardless of their level of experience.
Would you like to feel more value out of readings you do for yourself? Would you like to feel more value from your daily devotion of pulling a card? How do you bring yourself more to your readings so you develop your valuable core? I could say, “Grow from your core, not from your edges.” I find that valuable as a good quote out of hand, but it might not affect directly building more value for yourself through Tarot. . .when you are reading for yourself. I could say to refer to yourself in the 3rd person, “Jordan, with this card it is indicated. . .”. And, though that can sometimes be a decent tip, kind of like reading to yourself in the mirror, it can only go so far when you re-frame it back to the 1st person. . . and this may feel like a bit of goofy or awkward MPD (multiple personality disorder) to some. Good for writing a bio, but maybe not so much to build value in a reading for yourself.
This comes up a great deal, the difficulty of reading for oneself. I felt a need to address this. Rather than taking the direction of outlining techniques, I felt there was a great value to be explored in this regard by creating spread packages that come from the heart, Spread theme packages. It felt that by creating themed spread packages, powerful and artful spread packages, the kind that even if you tweak a position, YOU tweak it, YOU tailor it to come more from a place within YOU in an even more honored way. Respecting yourself in Your heartfelt way!
Creating themed spread packages, starting off in an element-y kind of way — Wands, Cups, Swords, Pentacles — felt to be a way to honor the need for a different approach to enhance the value of reading for yourself. And, using these spreads, you can make them even more yours through your readings for yourself, like test-driving a new car or pair of shoes, and they may not need to be tweaked at all. You can work to further enhance the value of the spreads as you tune your own resonances with them by reading for yourself with them. And, you can further enhance the value of bringing YOU more fully to your readings for YOURSELF!
So, I set into this venture of creating spreads not to re-evaluate myself, or my reading style, but to open myself up to feeling better ABOUT readings for myself, and in doing so mine my discoveries as I go along for the bigger benefit of all . . . much as I did in mining my creative process imaginatively and actionably with the 192-page Imagination Primer in The Land of Mystereum where each card gifts you Imagination Tools. I felt that more value needed to be built in this area of reading for yourself, and that it would serve to help others overcome their difficulty of reading . . . for themselves. My ability to stand and deliver on the fly set me into this study of depth in spreads to help others re-VALUE readings for THEMSELVES. To re-VALUE YOU reading for yourself! I would call it FeBreze for Tarot spreads, but that’s pretty gimmicky, and quick fixes often have shallow roots. So, I felt a great deal more value in creating sets of spread packages in themes that are great for working with clients, and at the same time can directly address the issue of reading for yourself.
I thought, “I am creating spreads that are so much more meaningful than just doing a self-reading for money or love!” And, there it was! Here are spreads to fully honor your self-exploration, to provide you tools to gift yourself more fruitful digging at the deeper stuff. Here are spreads that support and catalyze discovery! “There,” I thought, “that’s where we begin to understand ourselves and grow more.” Further, “Then, everything else follows suit in some way. Things are nurtured and more fully developed powerfully.” A reading for love or money can then take on a new life. “Hmmm” you might think using one of these spreads. “Rather than a clarifying card, I think I will pull THAT whole spread part over there of another spread in these spread packages to more depthfully explore my ideas with THIS spread. And, doing so I can fully bring these cards to give wise Counsel to my situation. I can add clarifying. . . spread parts. . .add wise Counsel WITHIN and TO these spreads simply by customizing them to ME.” Cut. Paste. POOF. And, then these spreads became valuable paths themselves to take on new ways to explore and bring forth new ways to build value . . . to bring forth value . . . when reading for yourself.
This way the spreads themselves can be nurtured to enhance your growth as you work with them like perennials in a garden. This one goes here. That one part goes CLIP into a vase on your altar with the card, or becomes a cutting to grown another reading. Hmmm, this part goes CLIP into the altar of my reading itself. It can become like Tarot spread flower arrangement! Readings for yourself can enliven your surroundings. Win-Win!
And, another gig came up. I was curious if people were assuming that these were Land of Mystereum spreads? Cool if yes, and cool if no? Hmmm. That they were made to work with Tarot in the Land of Mystereum? I wondered about that possible perception. I smile in that that was me exploring their language as Mystereum so wonderfully does, and that these spreads got me thinking in a wide array of valuable uses, especially towards the benefit of bulding the value further of reading for yourself. And, a friend big-ole-smilingly quipped up to my query, “Maybe you don’t have to have Mystereum, Jordan, but why wouldn’t you want to? I mean, that’s like cake without the icing, right? You can certainly use these spreads with other decks, and I would recommend it, but I suggest more to enhance the experience and get both!”
Now, THAT of course smiled back at me to both having and not having The Land of Mystereum to work along with these spreads to enhance the experience of reading for yourself. The Land of Mystereum IS all about the cards literally speaking to you, the Imagination Primer has each card literally enter like a stage play, character-developing a phenomenal novel of sorts as they each speak, literally talk to you and tell you about themselves. . .their history, their development. . . and each from their individual personality. And, like these spreads smiling back even brighter, these things came to mind:
~ The spreads are valuable because they came from the heart, are powerful, and artfully rendered.
~ These spreads are valuable because they came from an honored place within to enhance your own of same.
~ These spreads are valuable because they strengthen the flow of peoples’ natural ways. Maybe that’s even a priceless gift.
~ These spreads are valuable because more than honoring peoples’ heartfelt places, they play Marco Polo opening the hull after a valuable voyage of discovery, and do so for EACH card!
~ These spreads are valuable because they open up those honored places within each of us for wondrously exploration.
~ These spreads are valuable as they shiningly bring forth inner inheritances! What are those? No spoilers here. That’s a job for Tarot in the Land of Mystereum.
~ These spread PACKAGES are valuable as they really turn on and warm up the Imagination Primer in Tarot in the Land of Mystereum.
~ These spread packages are valuable because they work so well with the Imagination Tools the Land of Mystereum gifts you. Hmmm, again no spoilers.
I LOVE that this came back around to The Land of Mystereum. It is a place where you can establish harmonious relationships with your ideas and feelings, explore identity and personality, and guide your intuition and imagination. We can celebrate our differences. “All similar, each unique” is Mystereum’s motto. It is a motto to celebrate keeping our lives lively! Depthfully! Enjoyably!
So. . . back to the original topic: Difficult Reading For Yourself?
~ Do you find it difficult sometimes to read Tarot for yourself? Is there value in opening up to release yourself from that pattern?
~ Do you want to value your readings for yourself in more vibrant and informative and vital ways that effectively work into your life?
~ Do you want to open up new paths of discovery that are wonderfully alive?
If you answered Yes to any of the above, I would like to suggest to give a 4-pack spread package a spin to more fully implement your Yes into your life. Even test-drive them! Each package has a FREE SAMPLE. So far, they are still in the Intro Pricing phase and all still under 10 bucks for a 4-pack, and each is presented artfully. In the near future the packages will reach full price as they are more than spread products. They are powerful and artful packages of Do-It-Yourself self-discovery! DIYSD? Eh Eh. Do-It-Yourself Self Discovery Packages, and still under 10 bucks. What can you get for 10 bucks? Sandwich and a latte? But, those are gone once you finish ’em. They taste great, but what if you bought something that kept opening up more and more the more you worked with it?
I bet that you DO already know your readings are valuable. Honor your readings further with a gift to them. Honor your readings with a gift of a tool that can always gift greater value to you. All the packages are sent electronically in convenient and easy to use jpegs. Gift your readings a powerful and beautiful set of spreads today. Gift yourself some more vigor in your reading value with some Do-It-Yourself Self-Discovery packs that are pre-made! All you will need to do is do your throw, and read with these evocative and soul-searching questions.
for yourself to strike chords to resonate in and from deeply heartfelt places in your readings . . . eSpread packages for your readings . . .for yourself!
The Queen of Pentacles’ throne’s left flank,
in the right side of her card.
Form was given to the formlessness
of her grounded station airy ness
by The High Priestess.
Hands naturalized in out of body and earthenly rooted
at one and the same time as she permeated all,
She took the station airy ness,
to stationary ness of a Queen’s throne,
A Nessy unknown now known as throne.
As Queens’ settled regal wing-feathers
solidly folded themselves in purple and gold
to sit regally naturalized in her garden.
The High Priestess, looking all directions always,
looked over,
looked over to The Queen of Pentacles to feel all directions.
While looking to her right. . .
The High Priestess formed the formless Q of P’s thought:
*Splay regal purple and psychic gold wing-feathered throne!
Splay!*
*Regally splay-spread your wing-feathers to stretch through twilight*
*At dawn and dusk regally herald a resounding voice to say
WAKE UP!*
*WAKE UP throne!*
*WAKE UP PERENNIALLY!*
*WAKE UP!*
*You are now no longer throne!*
*You are now called Judgment!
*Open EACH IDEA as they burst forth unseen!*
*Open each from their bulb- box!*
*Tis the SEASON!*
*Phoenix-Resurrect your throne-bulbs Judgment!*
*Open your perennial regalNESS in your bulbs!*
*Look at ALL that green out there!*
*Open the perennial bulbs of your ideas to the SUN
each when in their season!*
~ The End
Card Resonances:
Land of Mystereum’s Queen of Pentacles throne left flank, right side
FORM-GIVEN BY
Land of Mystereum’s High Priestess giving form to the station airy ness
BECOMES
Land of Mystereum’s Judgment’s horn-voice heralding regal wing.
(c) 2010, 2011 Jordan Hoggard. All Rights Reserved.
I say, “I think”, as I feel there is merit in Bonnie Cehovet’s statement that, “. . . but that has to be disruptive in some way.” From my perspective, and I have heard many conflicting ideas on eclipses as of late from my astrology buddies, lunar and solar, yet with this one being a rare central eclipse, I felt them reaching somehow in statements that sounded all too reasonable, and too. . .too, “that makes too much sense to believe.” The statement, “reasons are often unreasonable” came to mind, and I smiled feeling a lot more comfortable eclipsing all that chatter and feeling into it myself, divining it.
So, why not work that out right here in a blog in one take kinda thing? That’s how I do most things anyway, them not taking an hour or two, but more so taking my whole life up to that point with a “let ‘er rip n build something” where the meaning occurs in the act, with the meaning AS the act. Heck, I don’t really know if I layered that wisdom into the stories told in Tarot in the Land of Mystereum or if building it, Mystereum taught me. I can say that mastery, one way or the other, led to discovery. Maybe no matter if I AM Marco Polo’s hull after a voyage, or the starry-eyed-in-anticipation person standing on the dock as the hull reveals and unfolds it treasures at my feet. Maybe both. Maybe neither. Certainly not nether.
Let’s start with 4 features: the 4 big ole archetypal Tarot ideas for the eclipse of The Sun, The Moon, and Temperance — as the moon will be in Saggie, and Temperance is ruled by Sag. The Sun and the Moon are kinda necessary for this lunar eclipse gig to happen. They intermix in this central lunar eclipse as an alchemical rue due to a more mundane gig, though. . .Earth. Respecting that, it feels to be fitting to bring in another, The Empress as Momma Gaia to represent earth. Then another, The World, as the universe of an alchemist’s crucible wherein all 4 intermix. So, that’s 5. The Sun. The Moon. Temperance. The Empress. The World. Before this gets ad infinitum out of hand, before the roller coaster dynamic of a multi-layer chess tennis match between them all unfolds on Wednesday, and I ask you to smile and fasten your seat belts. . . it seems prudent, WOW I actually used that word for once. . .It seems prudent to pose a centerline or nucleus of some questions first. Pose them not for what we will see, but for more expansive focus toward further opening up vision. Vision, the kind where you don’t say, “the sky’s the limit,” as that is limiting. Simply look up. Point to it. It’s right there. The sky is then equivalent to sight, what we see or want to see. Thinking bigger than that, that seems to be what I am calling vision here. Seeing the powerful limit beyond the sky that is given by vision. Maybe the questions coming up are my own boxes of the blind-spots of expectation, of sight rather than vision. That’ll have to be up to you.
So. . . . . . .
How much more unconscious and depthfully intuitive can we be made as we simply gaze right out at the not-there-in-the-sky-hiding-in-plain-sight central lunar eclipse moon? Do we see further in when looking at, into, its darkness in the darkness of the night?
Maybe the experience is like a natal astro chart of someone I know with Neptune and Mercury 4 degrees from one another in Scorpio? Basically, someone being born with a foot on both sides, where even taking a walk takes that person multiple places at once where those places are all mostly always integrated together in a single experience that seems normal to them? Hmmmm. . . Someone who sees psychic contents as easily as looking at art in a museum? A place where the autonomic, everyday devotion of breath is the prayer, the ongoing meditation? Seat belts, please. 😀 Here we go. . . .
Hmmm. . .dark in dark. Is this an anomaly of an antinomy, the totality of inner opposites. . .yet an antinomy of a totality of inner sameness, the moon and our intuition going into the dark of our own earthly shadow? Pictures! How? What’s there to see with vision? I have another question also coming to mind that I should preface before I blotto-transcend it. With the yin-yang symbol, the black spot being more than a beauty mark in the white field, is the spot really a psychic wormhole? A psychic wormhole where you go so far into the light as to become dark, and wormhole through the spot POOF to the dark field. . .and then the other way you go so far into the dark that POOF you come to the light dot bright-spot and POOF you wormhole again to. . . . I rather like that activation of the symbol. But, enough of the question-preface of that scenario as it seems small now. I sense a larger question:
What happens when the dark goes into the dark?
Does intuition get deeper, where the Moon, the bright eye of intuition in the night sky. . .goes dark? Deeper intuition? A huge sense of a loss of bearing? Vast expansiveness afloat in total clarity in total darkness, a Hanged Man moment you cannot see? Do you experience glimpses of eternity from your known depths of the realms of your creativity and imagination and experience? Total dissolution of self, or is it more not an annihilation of self but more fully a self-realization of the far reaches of one’s infinite inner divinity plunging further into the night so to speak?
The Penumbra Missing That Is A New Experience. Alternate title? No, I think I have said what I want to about the coming eclipse. . .there’s a title of a poem rattling around in that alternate title. . .the now-subject of this blog dedicated to the full lunar eclipse on Wednesday. I’ll run that, too, since I am warmed up. If you cannot see the eclipse in your area, maybe so much the better. Look at the moon and close your eyes with your own Momma-Gaia earth-shadow eyelids. Fully eclipse the moon yourself passing dark into dark, a void between stars, an odd, “hmmm, of a dark spot the size of the moon.” It may be a blank darkness in the night. It may be another imaginative wormhole to take you places and dissolve false connections. Again, that’s for you to decide and/or feel / experience. I will be curious what the core resonance of dark passing into dark is for everyone. Until then, I better write that poem while IT seems to still be warm. . .
The Missing Penumbral Light. A New Experience
Shadow shadow in the night,
I do not see you though I dance without fright.
Stop rhyming you say,
and I say,
ok.
Your Pallas-Athena gift that formed and set up in my mind
between Uranus the Shaker-Upper
and Pluto The Transformer
seems a gift that extends a gift,
extending the gift of the dark passing into the dark,
further into night,
night passing back a different glimpse of eternity from its own deeper night,
eternity’s own shadowed moon seen not-there.
Your gift.
Your Pallas-Athena gift saturates an old dusty idea in my mind.
The Sophia Principle if I remember correctly,
where may I be lucid enough to sense my shadow,
but smart enough to dance with it,
and now, smarter falls away to more. . .
Acceptant and receiving
I will dance
in the dark
with my shadow,
with and IN my earthly shadow
in Gaia-cast night-level shadow,
Gaia-cast
Gaia cast up to right not-there the moon,
now right not-there in the night sky,
where my symbols of intuition and depth disappear into experience,
where on this night
dark passes into dark.
Where on this night an infinite dark passes into my night.
What happens inside when the dark goes into the dark outside?
Here is a 13-card spread to go along with the Death As The Master Gardener blog post. At each place in the spread where you are asked to remove a card or cards, visualize dead-heading flowers in the garden as you pop them right off to further nourish what remains.
The spread is formatted in an easy to use PowerPoint slide show where you can move through it at your own pace. Here is to your perennial qualities shining forth and further naturalizing! Death_As_The_Master_Gardener
Spread, images and text all (c) 2011 Jordan Hoggard. Please cite author when you feature anything from this blog. Thank You. Let him know as well. He might just promote you as well. 😀
Memory illuminating forward, inner light, perspective from experience, silent awareness
Tarot Birth Identities: The Nines + a Birth Card Finale!
Welcome to my Tarot Birth Card Identity Blog! This blog is intended to be a simple overview of Tarot Birth Cards, a casual and concise and hopefully invigorating walk-through of the groupings of Birth Cards to express some of the ways that they can contribute vital components to your identity. Also, I will layer in my concept of Birth Card Preludes to express the whole of each Birth Card grouping in a short statement.
I find that these Preludes, as I like to call them, are best stated as catalysts, as triggers to remind one how the Birth Cards can integrate an overall expression of each Birth Card combo into a single, incorporated and integrated voice. Enjoy finding your own path with my Prelude versions of Birth Card Groupings.
I look forward to hearing your own, personal catalyst and trigger Preludes and Birth Card thoughts directly composed from your feeling-sense of them. Have fun with ’em! Whether you post yours here or not when you craft your own, as they can be great tools for you, personally, and no-one else, my wish is that this blog series promotes you in your own way to shine in the way only you do . . . like The Sun.
Note also how these Birth Card expressions and Preludes factor in to hook up and work with my videos like the upcoming Nines Invigorate video on my YouTube channel. 9’s video to be released in the near future. Please enjoy the other videos in the interim, and full-on share them if you dig ’em. Thanks Mucho when you do! Enjoy the correspondences of the numbers as they flow back and forth between the Major Arcana in the Birth Cards and each of the suits of the Minor Arcana and Courts in the videos.
Also, again, I encourage you to have some fun and come up with Preludes on your own for your Tarot Birth Cards, the Aces through the Tens, and as well the Royal Court characters to enhance, reinforce, and strengthen your own Birth-Placing Identity set. In The Land of Mystereum the Courts present themselves as Your Royal Courts . . . so, enjoy taking ownership of your Tarot Birth Cards in YOUR own way as a great step to further establish your Inner Royal Sovereignty! I hope this blog series can provide a vital step for you in that way!
So, let’s get started with the Nines in from a Land of Mystereum perspective, shall we?
Memory illuminating forward, inner light, perspective from experience, silent awareness
THE MOON -~THE HERMIT XVIII ~ IX :: 18 ~ 9 Note how the numbers of these cards add up to 9, and thus correspond with the Nines in general, and the upcoming Nines Invigorate video on my YouTube Channel. 9’s Birth Card Prelude: With The Moon ~ The Hermit as your Birth Cards you may often experience a naturally aware and awakened inner and outer reflection connecting you to unseen places.
How does this simple Prelude statement express the 2 characters as facets of one in your personality?
The Hermit ~ Do you often experience a naturally aware and awakened inner and outer?
The Moon ~ Do you reflect to connect yourself to unseen places. (like the moon reflecting the unseen [identity of the] sun . . . which of course beautifully comes next in the Majors.
~ Notice the cross-over overlappage in the mixed order of the single, integrated Prelude statement that can be gifted by the 2 cards working together. Integration in these kinds of Prelude statements may very well indicate that things are rarely simply put in line like dominoes disconnected, working together(?), and as well also set to fall. Maybe not linear. Then again. . . In the Prelude The Hermit gifts his portion to the 1st part of the statement asThe Moon chimes in to reflect the 2nd part.
With integration of concepts imaginatively, things are incorporated, integrated, like a well-made 3-day rue is folded into and simmered into a gumbo. Certainly not two things once served up. The 2 portions mix and blend and contribute inter-locking strengths to enhance and bring about the creation of something different than the two separate characters. Something new made by teaming things up this way. Maybe as well that is how metaphor is made . . . like the French Surrealists of Paul Eluard or Andre Breton expressing, The world is blue, like an orange — attribution conflicted, so, if you know differently, pease chime in in the comment. Two things put together in an integrated way that in short-form tell a new story that is expansive.
Does The Fool live on the Moon? Or, am I just over the Moon about The Fool. May the ground rise up to embrace your every footstep regardless of whether it was ther before or not. Trust. Faith, though don;t go smoking the narcotic of hope.
vision, genius, poetry, madness, inspiring light from unseen sources
Sidebar questions for your Inner LunaTic to ponder with your Hermit: Does The Fool live on The Moon? Sure looks that way. Or, does The Fool just jaunt there to get a more robust perspective in support of unknown, sacred ground rising up to support every footstep on new paths? Is The Moon The Fool’s trailhead cairn?
With The Moon ~ The Hermit, I suggest to ask the question, “What new quality is revealed in my personality each time things team up and are incorporated this way?” Visualize making a souflle. The eggs whites are folded in in 2 stages. They are incorporated across the process. I suggest to think about this in just that way. Hungry yet? I certainly am. What about this? Portabella Polenta Souflle with Mediterranean rice and a bruschetta? . . . that oughta do it, and maybe leave one of the 3 as ‘WOW, I am full . .n rockin’ leftovers tomorrow. Do Birth-Placing Identities of Preludes work that way? Let me know in the comments.
Back in to these cards, specifically. YOUR cards if these are Your Birth Card paring.
~ The Moon indicates a natural reflection, the inner industry of identity of la luna, The Moon, your Inner LunaTic, unlit as hiding in plain sight always there . . . to influence constant reflection? To reflect in Your own way, like the moon does the sun? How does this inter-relationship work for you!
~ The Hermit is a light insightfully reflected forward while at one and the same time peering into and illuninating and utilizing the chthonic darkness, maybe living in both at one and the same time like a Chthonic Numinosity =’ing Self? In the moment he steps into the steps he first embossed into the ground at each cycle?
The Fisherman in Ernest Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea might just be this. Or, Jung’s expression of the ichthios, the glowing-eyed fish yanked from the deep. Something tells me that Harold in Harold and the Purple Crayon is a Moon ~ Hermit character unfettered by any reason other than to live and act wisely with his own vibrance in time, cycles of experience integrated whether they have been experienced or not.
Doesn’t that indicate imagination at its heart? Inner inheritances as expressed in Tarot in the Land of Mystereum brings to mind, From the mouth of babes. And, I am not talking about the annual Sports Illustrated issue or Maxim or insert your own rockin’ visual rag issue cover. Though, thinking about that that was harsh. Include those, too. Your call.
The Moon card can represent your Outer Expression. This is how most people ‘see’ you in the world. The Moon card is known for its ability to reflect light from unseen sources as it influences your feelings constantly like the moon. Get past the barrage to what YOU resonate with? With The Moon card representing your Outer Expression experience the filters with which you influence your world. These are of primary importance. Know that your cycles may move in a faster gear like the moon’s direct movement through and to and continually across the astrological signs of the zodiac.
Keep sight of shifting with your cycles as you do being conscientious with the not-knowing wise in time. Your sense of meaning may poignantly and effectively occur simply in your each and every act, in your direct and actionable expressions not so much in need of explanation. You may naturally cycle through the personalities of your ideas on a daily basis, even shifting your mode idea to idea with as much versatility as the moon influences each astrological sign as it continually moves through them. Self-influencing itself where it is via its reflections?
Rather than reasons being unreasonable with The Moon, you may simply, naturally act in the living of your life. You may naturally act wise in time as directly as the moon continues its orbit. Shift and corner and enhance and reinforce and strengthen the quality of your versatile ability to perform. May I suggest to look into keeping track of the Void Of Course cycles of the moon? To start things with a distinct sense of them? You may be as agile in your moods as you are in your motion, especially when they tango together.
It is pretty Mercurial to be as agile in your moods as your motion. Where’s Mercury in your Natal Chart Visualize the substance of Mercury. The alchemists did. It is metal . . . that flows . . . at room temperature of course. And, is poisonous at uncut levels. Does that depend on the room, the People In The Room Astrology of your chart with continually modifying transits?
I would not advise touching mercury in any way, though, other than visualizing it or empathising with its qualities. You probably already knew that, though Mercury in your chart can be bountiful. What does is conjunct, oppose, quincunxes, square trine, sextillion? And, just where is it, initially, in your Natal Chart? That in itself may nourish your Tarot Birth Cards.
The Hermit can represent your Inner Expression. This is a side of you that only your closest family and friends may ‘see’. The Hermit as your Inner Expression can symbolize that you have an active and reflective inner light that leads your way. You have a natural and thoughtful ability to illuminate mysteries as you mind and develop yourself, literally aware in minding yourself. In some cards The Hermit sees his/her footsteps, aware and noticing the current placement in a familiar place.
And, this awareness of both completed cycles AND an integration with current cycles, sometimes quite a Tower set of interrogations tensions is set up internally, and replacement that I will call integrative experience, may well be a chief feature of The Hermit’s ability to see familiar things in a new light. To see and utilize familiar things differently, each time in a refreshing way that promotes vitality like dead-heading flowers in a garden. With The Hermit your illumination emanates from your experiences as your continual mastery and awareness of placement leads you to further discoveries.
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And, back to the order of this blog, your The Moon ~ The Hermit Birth Cards, and Birth-Placing your identity.
To put The Moon and The Hermit back together again into an Exalted Prelude or an Evolved Prelude = minus card names: You may often experience a naturally aware and awakened inner and outer reflection connecting you to unseen places. Note that the cards are intentionally not mentioned in this second Prelude statement which I call an Exalted or Evolved Prelude. They are not really missing, though. Are they simply and vitally present in the statement like the color of your eyes relative to you?
Are they embedded and contributory features? Or, is an Exalted Prelude, an Evolved Prelude what you come up with when you utilize the cards as counsel, and then make your own decision about how they work together? . . . like in a reading! . . . where it becomes not a “they told me. . . ,” but a statement of your own that you supports you? Your client? I feel an Exalted/Evolved Prelude has cut the strings, has unlocked the docking clamps like on Star Trek.
You can feel the float, or, hear your inner Jean Luc Picard with a confident finger uplifted to direct, say, “enGAGE!” Exalt yourself Evolve yourself! This is a place where arrogance is often seen as ancillary and relatively useless. Smiles are rockin’! I often wonder if confidence without even a whiff of arrogance . . . is that another way to say someone is clearly having fun? Hmmm . . . and maybe like a lion or tiger . . . expert skill can be naturally masked in play?
I hope you have enjoyed this The Moon ~ The Hermit Birth Card Identity Blog, and find it useful in your process as you further explore and enhance and express your own, personal Tarot voice! “Tarot in the Land of Mystereum: An Imagination Primer” is all about your life-long process to continually emancipate your Tarot voice in YOUR way. Teachers are rockin’, gurus not so much, at least from my point of view. I remember in a meeting someone telling me there was no “I” in team. They were simply frustrated in general so I smiled silently thinking, *maybe their lunch burrito wasn’t sitting so well? Problems at home? Elsewhere?* I had to laugh, though, when then I chimed in right after, “Yup and there’s no U, either.” There is certainly U in gurU, though, YOU kinda “U”. Oops. 9s are dynamic and fluid and keep going and going. So, the EverReady Bunny says keep going…
With your naturally aware and awakened Hermit ~ Moon Inner and Outer Expressions connecting you to unseen places . . . you may well know how much we are each created in the image of . . . and consequently each HAVE the face of . . . and further that you are your only ruler in the face of . . . YOU!
Hmmm, ever heard of the book “Animal Speak” by Ted Andrews? Great book! I highly recommend it to layer in another facet to your daily life and as well to flesh out the experience of animals you come across. I encourage you to experience them as totems, as living Oracle cards as they cross your path, as they enter and populate and pass through your experience . . . like the inner inheritance your were born with of your Birth Cards! May animals enter your experience as companions, simply for a while, or just wonderfully passing through and saying, “Hi”, as they lend their personality, their story, to your story. May your Birth Cards enter your experience.
But, thinking about “Animal Speak” and your natural inner and outer reflection that connects you to unseen places . . .that just gave me an idea! With your Moon ~ Hermit dynamic duo . . . Are you your own living totem or are you unseen to yourself? Do you exalt yourself without arrogance for your highest good? Do you smile in darkness? What happens when you securely place your natural Moon ~ Hermit to live as your own totem? Does it accentuate you to activate your highest good? If so, what do you do with that? What would then occur when there is a You-sighting? What would you like to happen when there is a You-sighting?
Thanks for your valuable time. Much appreciated. If this article freed you up to be more YOU in ways that only you can be like The Sun, I am thankful.
And, towards closing again of this Tarot in the Land of Mystereum style exploration of your Tarot Birth Cards, to discover and experience through the process of Birth-Placing your identity, I would like to extend a precis, a synopsis of these 9 Birth-Placing Identity with Preludes blogs for you. Here is a Prelude section for Birth Card personalities, for Birth-Placing your identity. I call these Preludes the integrated, individual personality of each Birth Card set as I feel they provide a bearing, an informed direction, to simply synopsize and provide triggers for Birth Card Groupings as personalities.
In each form they are placed in their respective locations throughout this blog series as whole Birth Card expressions, but I place the Birth Card Preludes here again, afterwards, as I feel they provide stronger triggers once you know the more fleshed out expressions above. Enjoy grouping them in any way that you feel that they strike chords that best resonate with you, with you in your naturally enjoyable voice, in whatever place you are. And, I encourage you to craft your own Birth-Placing Birth Card Preludes from what resonates from Mystereum and / or your fave deck!
THE Preludes of the personality of your Birth Card Set: some subtly different than presented before, as their adjectives and movement mod & fluctuate like the tides here and there as they live and move . . . like the versatile You?! Hmmmm… The Versatile Tarot. Is that. New dec to be created?
The Moon ~ The Hermit as your Birth Cards you may often experience a naturally aware and awakened inner and outer reflection connecting you to unseen places.
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