The Chariot

Welcome again to our weekly blog about the cards of tarot and their meaning. Today we are going to focus on the next Major Arcana card which is in this case The Chariot.
The time of Autumnal equinox is a special season when we turn towards reassessment of what are our priorities and the crucial aspects of our life here. Quite often amidst all the fervour and strenous trials our mind seeks the answer of where should we focus our attention when there is so much to do.
The Chariot doesn't initially give a clear answer to it but if we look closer - it can dawn on you, quite literally.
Once you assert yourself and take a bold stance - it will become crystal clear that everything you need is at hand. Insight into your abilities and how they have served you until now can be a useful signpost to recognise what is important and what you have to focus on.
The tools we have are usually the most understimated ones. The process of understanding how abundant we are in what can be used can be quite slow and painful but the easier it gets when willpower and confidence come into the picture.
The Chariot is also a remark and a hint that we often misunderstand others through our impetous stance, irritability and pushing through the human wreckage. A collateral damage of a life road trip.
Maybe stopping for a moment to take a reflection on what is the purpose at this particular stage of your life is a good idea. Having in mind the risks as well as the people and above all understanding the keyword of "control" in our lives is crucial.
Who is in control?
Are you too controlling over your and someone else's life?
Maybe it's the time to set your goals and intentions in alignment with your higher self?
Maybe you just need some time to get a grip on things and grasp what's important.
Take your time.
The road is calling...

The Devil

Given the time and space to make some reflections on what drives us in the real world of ups and downs, we often ponder on what are the negative forces that are at work that we cannot master and cannot fight over. They might might our habits, our addictions or other ways to react to  what we experience that eludes the conscious way of choosing how we are and what we want to achieve.

But there are always opportunities to do some goodness to yourself in times when we feel that the dark shroud has befell on us. The first step to understand it is the major temptation - to sort out things at once - the instant gratification of ego and helping yourself by seemingly easy steps. The case cannot be far from being mistaken in this belief.
Sometimes the long-term and quite ardous path lies before us to truly understand what is there to be done. The patterns that recurr can be managed in the way of reassessing our stance, understanding the subconscious drives and motives of our choices.
The devil is often a distant call to open yourself to a deeply hidden potential. To eliminate the forces in your emotional world that are harmful, break the bonds of it. It is also about creating healthier habits as in the shift towards something that reverses the picture of ourselves.
The last but not least it is also a trip to the depth of your inner world - often through darkness and by hitting the rock bottom. The struggle to understand can be real but never as much beneficial when you actually understand yourself and have willpower to slowly change it.

The High Priestess

The end of summer is usually the time when we are re-assessing our stance and position preparing for seasonal break and getting ready for a new change. At those times we manage to analyse our moral judgements, our ailings, alignment with what we really want and everything that comes along with it. How much further inside ourselves can we venture to understand our true blessing, our real goals and challenges that we set?
The High Priestess is the one of the most innate drive towards understanding The Unconscious, the most intimate and the most intuitive. it invites us to focus on developing our skill to use the intuitive powers and shift our attention to feeling rather than intelectualising, working together rather than competing, creating rather than deconstructing.
Listening to your inner voice and understanding both your feminine and masculine side - both the feeling and acting is something that The Priestess encourages us to do.
There is a calm centre, an asylum that dwells in each and every person that helps us to understand how much depends on our ability to perceive the reality through wisdom that we have but in the rushed pace of life we tend to forget and abandon to something less helpful, something that we don't even know how to stabilise as it cannot be stabilised - the unrestrained limbo of the unconscious - something that clearly won't lead us anywhere positive.
The sage inside us can both help and reinvigorate our lives, especially now in beautiful Autumnal time of change. 

The Hierophant

Welcome again to our blog and the new post in the series of articles helping you to understand the meaning of the tarot cards.
In the fast pace of life we often forget the most important values which relate to rules that stem from perenial philosophy but the ones we have to abide in order to conform to certain social circumstances.
The challenge of finding the teacher that dwells within is quite difficult when you think of a constant chase to fulfill someone's expectations and the competition that chases us everywhere.
To set up your own spiritual set of beliefs is to understand how much we create by creating the rules that we know how to follow but in deeper understanding of it - it's the acknowledging your own experience and transposing that into wisdom.
With the Hierophant there is a tendency of tension between the rules of the world - especially communal aspects of it. How much of ourselves we see here greatly depends on perception of individuality and its purpose in a group.
Questioning and challenging the status quo can be a mere act of rebellion or a greater scheme that is derived both from our feeling of discontent and ideas for a design change.
Are your personal values in agreement with values that are taken for granted? Do you really need to follow what is objective to a certain group of people? The conflict is on its way but it may not necessarily be destructive in its nature.

The Moon

Welcome to our blog after the summer break, we will be coming with more articles on meaning of the tarot cards with even more reflections on the symbols and the way to understand and apply them in our life.

Our next entry brings us to the card of intuitive perception, the premonitions, the insightful way of understanding our unconsciousness and the path between the tamed and unrestricted parts of our psyche.
How many times we ask ourselves: what if...? The questions are always revolving on how much are we able to control our lives and the output of our choices and our efforts so we are able to move forward according to our plans. How much is there to be understood when it comes to using conscious forces of our mindset to prevent things which, in the wider perspective, are just a collateral damage in their nature? Things which we cannot avoid but in the long run - they show us the signs to find a new pathway.
We are often deceived in our perception of things. The mystery unravels itself not necessarily immediately. How much we idealise the situation and even to some extent we presume that there is always a hindrance, a difficulty... But the origin of this lies often in something that we, by higher design, cannot really predict - our path conforms to the type of difficulty that arises and shapes the experience we receive.
We often loose the sense of goal, sense of our destination. Be it by negative self-talk, conscious mental blocks, stereotypes and platitudes - we distance ourselves from the path of inner peace and understanding.
But even in the times of unhappiness we may see what we are looking for. And rather than conforming for the experience that our subconsciousness shapes to imprint us - we may start trying to find our own imprint and trace what stops us from achieving what we really need.
The Moon with its magical light clears the way inward and outward and helps us to reach the magical place of fullfilment.