Are you a patriot? Are you a fundamentalist? Roll with it.
Isn’t being a patriot always Us? Isn’t being a fundamentalist always Them? Who are We and They anyway? Oscar Wilde called patriotism the virtue of the vicious. Mark Twain indicated patriotism to be in support of country always. In support of government only when it deserves it. Who responds to the Facebook posts indicating something is always this or always that? That things should be more this or that? Like the posts with . . . intuition vs intellect. The initial rotten bait of a post is often seen afterwards and too late for its “I am The Emperor, and these are the rules I can’t tell you yet I think you should follow. By the way please confess some guilt in your response. I could certainly use with berating whatever it is that you say.” I call this the Hullaballoo Post. I would love to grant it Ivory Tower status, but the world’s too greem and ivory is waaayyyy out of fashion. LOL
So, What If You Keep Your Wits . . .
and talk back with humor right out of the starting gate? Talk back. Humor may turn these daily dramas into lively discussions, or be dynamite on oilfield fires. Talk back. Respond. Yet, respond from your 3rd option, the one beyond proving yourself. Really speak from your own expertise whatever it may be. Without overextending, how do you dance with an idea? Here’s a thought:
The Star, The 5 of Wands, The Sun
stiff competition, challenges, finding your unique perspective
The Star ~ eternal hope, celestial grooves, dreams?
The 5 of Wands ~ seeing the asset that your competition is missing?
The Sun ~ identity beyond reproof?
Putting these 3 Tarot cards together in a Turbo Reading way — Turbo Reading being composing a single phrase from ALL of your cards in a reading AS a reading. Putting these 3 Tarot cards together in a Turbo Reading, try this one iteration of these cards on for size:
Bringing your dreams to reality by capitalizing on an asset that the competition is missing.
Have Some Fun . . .
Talk back. What is one way that you can read these 3 cards together? With humor, talk back.
Talking back. It’s not just for kids anymore.
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Imagine . ~ . pushing fences and talking back . . .
Parts Playing
Does your life speak to you? Do your Tarot cards speak? What do they say?
Whether they speak or not, do you talk back or simply nod and reflect when you have an experience, when you pull a card? I mean, pulling a card is usually not like pulling a muscle is it? Do you speak from your life with cards as storied experiences informing you? Informing you of where you push at your fences? Where you can push at your fences? Where to jump them? Do your experiences, your cards, weave their fingers to give you a boost? If I remove time as a concept for a second. Roll with me on this. Remove time from your equation for just a sec. Memories and dreams are more than siblings, huh? They may in fact be the same thing traveling back and forth across each of us. Through us? With us? How’s your own Life Mirror?
Mirroring Life
How do your memories and dreams reflect each other? How do you stand, reflecting in the mirror, with each of them playing their own background game? Talk back to your memories. Talk back to your dreams. Heck, disagree with them with a joke on your breath. They might be tired of the same road, too, or simply be umm-hmphing for a little Windex. Are you weaving them, or are they weaving you? Use your Inner Memory DreamTeam. Talk back. Humor may turn your daily drama into lively discussions. Heck, maybe even productive ones ended oln high notes. Talk back.
Clair Amara Fonce, Pen & Ink (c) 1991 Jordan Hoggard
wisdom, down-to-earth spirit, spiritual activation of your own authority
Dreams Coming, Becoming True . . .
Take a look at the images above. A photographer friend was going to throw away the cat woman one on the left back in the late 80’s. Well, it didn’t look like this. It was really an almost white piece of processed photo paper, the image almost completely washed out, but it spoke to me. I bet PhotoShop can do this now, but in 1989, I saw something in a photographer friend’s hand on the almost blank sheet of hard-to-see washed-out ghost grays on its way to the trash I saw something like a dream becoming a memory. With an indelible, black pen, I focused in on it and aimed past the target of a dream coming true. Was it already true once I saw it? Some people adopt animals. Personally, I notice a Dumb Friends League / Animal Shelter for Art gig popping up in my fences here and there around here through the years. Things tend to show up on the doorstep. When it strikes, what do I do? Hmmmm? Umm-hmph? Well, you be the judge of that. The other one on the right was circa 2003 from a black background in . . .you guessed it. PhotoShop. One seemed bored, so I created another. A dream realized into a memory. What was that dream? Pretty simple. Creativity as a sandbox. Heck, bring a little water, and start your castle. It was similar to The Hierophant bringing spirit down-to-earth at the time, sending my ideas out into the world. And, how does this go the other way? How does your down-to-earth spirit make your dreams into memories? How can you use The Hierophant as a supportive memory on your DreamTeam? Weave those fingers together . . .
Talk back. It’s not just for kids anymore.
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When Tarot Cards Repeat Reading After Reading . . .
When a card or cards come up multiple times when reading for myself, reading after reading, to me it feels like successive laps on the track continuously voicing their time-message, their presence, each time differently, to inform me from different perspectives, as a chorus of a card voicing its multiply informing messages. Meaning, it is my job to resonate more with its/their iterations, as if the card is pulse-cycling to gift me a fuller meaning before I slingshot out of a curve back onto the straightaway powered by it and the other card(s). Meaning, “I am trying to message you!,” the cards seem to say.
attracting wants, fire of life, life-acumen
joy, surprises, thrills out of the blue, new energies infusing and refreshing established ones
Balance of the 4 psychological functions: intuition, feeling, thinking, sensation. The self-cooling psychological fan. The more intensely the movement and interaction, the more intense of the self-cooling inner fan.
Initial fruition of ideas, balanced communication in motion
Allow the 3 of Wands to simply be here. If it resonates to add anything . . . how so from your perspective?
4 of Swords ~ Queen of Wands have come up together repeatedly recently:
~ balanced ideas resonating ~ to intuitively lead the way naturally, higher energy octaves in need of direct feelingsense?
~ cycling points in motion ~ informing a court quadrangle with very specific energies?
~ a gift of resonant thought, ideas, as if on an initial plateau, an expansive foothills plateau to play on to embrace as a precursor to me expanding forward ~ without explanation or reason other than staying energetically on track in a (natural inner leader) Queen of Wands way?
~ less primrosed pathed 4 of Swords ~ Queen of Wands interps such as note the energetic foundation present very simply and clearly?
~ another LESS primrosed path? Is that really less primrosed, or simply fear/expectation/blind-spots presenting to stifle the verdant vibrancy of forward movement? Expectations presenting as being stuck, or wrestle-breaking out of chains inspirationally. And, I ask you not to do that simply because I asked. Eff respect for what I say. Maybe what I say has zippo bearing on your reading-sense.
The resonance of the same card repeating for me becomes a motivating metronome, a strobing of multiple meanings divining towards a message of tuning the idea or concept I am working on where identity is pulsing itself to clarity through working it . . . expresses a centering device to embrace it more deeply at speed, and in motion in real-time. A warming up through action with the card(s) rather than to pause and contemplate. One of the repetitive card messages is to cycle up across the board kaleidoscopically without confusion, experience the vibrancy, through my actions rather than digressing to pause and take notes.
Repeating cards feel to be a call to interpret things in motion, in a way expressing, “Come hither, Heathcliff / Heather.”
“Digressing” to taking notes is cool by me when coming in for a pitstop so to speak. And as well, when cards come up multiple times in a row, they seem to be signaling me to be informed of the successive heartbeats IN and OF my actions to inform and tune and tailor my further actions. They seem to be a hint that a vein of gold has been struck, and to explore it actively.
Mystereum Tarot Moment With The Family of the Twos
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 it as eleven in your 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 Tarot pairings and contrasts with the Twos. [[INSERT CARD IMAGES]]
directed focus of energies chosen, seeing past tricksters and decoys
With the 2 of Pentacles strive for equality, equanimity. Feel a direct line from your feet to your imagination with your feet as ground-grabbers. Spread your toes as fingers. Imagine things as soon as they touch your feet with the dexterity of delicate finger-strokes in an epic spiral of giving and receiving.
With the 2 of Cups feel another persons’s big, bright-eyed smile when you think of your identity. Love yourself. Love your imagination. Love who you are. Relish in the wonderful gift of two people or ideas participating together.
With the 2 of Wands shift your focus and redirect your scale on the fly if you feel perplexed. Literally, adjust the energy of your gaze, and do not let many little things be confused as one, big thing.
The 2 of Swords focus for better communication. Study things. Strongly see and discover the way you were naturally born to see. Express it. See and think about familiar surroundings differently.
Pairing and contrasting the whole family of Twos in your own way can provide a vital Tarot lesson. Allow them to inform one another as they come up in a Tarot reading. 1 present, 3 as Silent Counsel. An example? The 2 of Swords can serve to better discern familiar perspectives differently. See and think about things in a different light on the foundation of the 3 Silent Counsel. Refresh your perspective, and more specifically direct the 2 of Swords.
And, to address emotions and receiving in relationships with the 2’s with another example? Visualize how male and female qualities relate. Men may be from Mars, and women from Venus, yet I don’t think so. That seems to be a trickster. See children, say 6 years old. A little boy will play. Another boy comes up, and they play. A 3rd comes up, and they play and play catch-as-catch-can until they are hyper-tired balls of emotion, and they all cry and cry and cry. Then, see a little girl. Another girl comes up. They begin a tea party. A 3rd comes up. And, once whichever is alpha begins to get overloaded, she sends one away with something like, “YOU need to go think about what YOU have done!” And, the girl, tail tucked between her legs, skulks away. Notice that there was no content in the dismissal.
What does this indicate? I would say that at core it indicates that males are naturally emotional, and females are natural strategists. Scroll this forward to now, and apply this to your feelingsense in relationships — male and female (anima) qualities in a male as emotional, and the female and male (animus) qualities in a female as a strategist. We all generally utilize some of both. Does this example provide any flipped, societal clarity in regards to addressing emotions and receiving in relationships? Does this provide a simple and example that is applicable?
Here are two food-for-thought questions to play with:
~ for your male aspects: What are you really feeling? Ask. Couple with the other’s perspective.
~ for your female aspects: What are you really working to orchestrate? Ask. Couple with the other’s perspective.
Thank you for visiting my blog. I look forward to further touring you through the families living in the Land of Mystereum.
Numerically the Aces correspond with the Sun, The Wheel, and the Magician of the Major Arcana. You can explore the relationships of these numbers further in my Birth Card blog series. So, let’s explore potential with the Tarot family of 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.
So, a vital Tarot lesson from the Aces can be to allow the whole Tarot Ace family to inform one another. Unseen cards in each Tarot family can be silent, family Tarot Counsel, a ground of invisible Tarot support to inform each card. Visualize each Tarot card as a flower bud. Allow it to open up and bloom with the allied fields of forces each Tarot petal contributes. Discover each Tarot petal as a treasure. Do they unfurl like a butterfly’s wings? Visualize the Tarot landscape scene of your spread. Let each card position in your Tarot spread be a center in your personal, Tarot landscape. They can be neighbors. Places. Questions. What action to they indicate to take? Ask the community centers of your Tarot spread how they get along in your Tarot world. What kind of living flower bouquet do they make in your Tarot Garden?
The center doesn’t have to be in the middle. Think of the center of a flower. Does it move around up top in the breeze like a gardener tending to his flowers? Do Tarot petals unfurl around its center that is up top, not in the middle?
I hope you get some great takeaway from this. Do please let me know. Are there topics that you would like addressed by the The Land of Mystereum families?
Jupiter’s Blessings to You and Yours,
Jordan
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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.
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