Three of Cups

Welcome to a new episode of our blog and welcome in this beautiful spring time in Northern hemisphere.
Today I will talk about the card that somehow resembles the vitality and the celebration of the Spring season. Three of Cups.
As depicted in the picture - Three Maidens are raising their cups up high joyfully and celebrating. As their arms are raised and connected together we can understand the idea of deep connection through friendship and happiness. The laurel leaves on their heads are symbol of victory and success. When we think of deeper meaning - laurel is also a symbol of protection, peace and purification - a letter from the Universal realm to us. The Letter bringing good tidings - opening us to the sweet happiness and joy.
A collegiate harmonious relationship of friendship, full of support and oneness.
Three of cups usually show how much the harmony in our lives can help us to build strong and healthy relationship with others and our identity. It is also a sign of respite in our daily struggles - it helps to understand how much everything is temporary - and also our problems. The more we look through the idea of a compromise - alignment with our true mission is possible. A positive attitude within ourselves brings it into the outer world and helps to find solutions intuitively through the process of individual reckoning.
Pursuing a creative spirit can help you to achieve that. While your creativity is being stifled you may find it difficult to follow the process and find the balance in things. Don't be dismayed. Three of Cups can both represent three options - the third being out of the duality of the usual discord between the things we pursue and difficulties - the third that represents the door to re-gain what has been lost. The third breath, looking at things outside of what is our usual perspective, re-assesment and re-grouping.
Please ponder on it for a moment while the Spring opens itself to us with our beauty, thank you.

Queen of Pentacles

In our today's blog entry I will talk about a card of the Pentacles minor arcana - namely: The Queen of Pentacles.
As we live our worldly lives - we begin to understand how much being independent is important. It's not only about a stable income but also about the nurturing the ones we love and our household. Finding the balance between the necessity of earning money and looking after ourselves and the loved ones often proves to be very tricky but it's achievable through certain mindset.
This mindset is the belief that we are always abundant and secure to create a peaceful life for ourselves and the ones we provide for. It's about being resourceful and practical in achieving it.
The Queen of Pentacles works on the energy of request. It asks you in finding resources within you or around you to bring the critical situation towards the state of stability.

It's reversed meaning reveals how much consumed you have become in a pursuit of money. It's a request given to you. To re-balance your life and trying to come back to the natural state of prosperity that you can give both to yourself and the loved ones.
Making choices is very important at times when it seems you cannot handle and tackle the situation given by yourself.
The reversed meaning is also about a certain stance towards others. At times it's important to make people understand that they need to be made accountable for what they do and although we try to look after them and use this motherly energy to protect them against their own mistakes - it's not necessarily the best solution. We should encourage them to learn from their own mistakes and experiences
Queen of the Pentacles is an invitation to find the refuge in balance and prosperity. The natural and practical wisdom which keeps us grounded and balanced in this earthly realm we live. Let's make the best of it.

The World

What is fulfillment to you? What does it consist of and what does it stem from?

The 21st and final card of major arcana shows a picture an accomplished female being, a soul filled with joy and a symbol of a perfect realisation.
The World encourages us and invites us to the path of realising our dreams and worldly achievements through the obedience of intellect.
Our intellect can both be a positive, persuasive force to subordinate our fears and anything that drives us away from success or - on the other hand- can be a generator for neurotic illusions - anything that binds fear we hold with the poor quality of our thoughts and in consequence our well-being.
The way we can showcase our egocentricity is not only through being plainly selfish in our desires but also in pursuing our anxieties and anything that holds us back from following the path of the Ultimate Perfection that dwells in our heart.
It's not an Ideal that is unattainable - it's the very picture of ourselves that can actually help us a reference.
The labour of the self-improvement is never an easy way but through it we help others, we join the world of the cosmic egg that is an accord. The accordance with our true nature. 

Judgement

Where does our call stem from? What was the initial problem that led us to the actual fear of failure, the feeling of being unfit for our life situation? What makes our difficulties so hard to comprehend?

Welcome to our next post from djed taroth. Today we will look at the characteristics of the 20th card in Major Arcana - namely The Judgement.
The pictorial aspect of this card clearly refers to the very moment of our birth. As you may know there are several types of psychological therapies that deal with this topic.
In the way tarot understands this important event we can discover the symbolical meaning of transcendental aspect of prompt and finding our vocation, our inner voice through assessment, also reckoning and indeed: a judgement.
You are born to be Goddesses and Gods in your own understanding of it. The difficulties that arise as you are trying to find the individual way to answer your questions may pose a lot of resistance in your psyche when you belittle and underestimate your abilities.
This card helps you to understand how much you have to do to urge yourself to undertake a task of realising your own way in this world.
It's bringing your own Light into the sphere of existence. It happens through trust that not only makes everything possible but also brings this certainty that is so much sought for when you are dwelling on hesitance rather than possibilities. 

The Star

How many times when something occurs we still recall our past and dwell on all that happened before and drove our path to this very stage? It brings back the memories but also the whole psychological process of reacting in the way we used to react or the way that our emotional imprint conditions our process.
The Star is the card which is XVIIth in Major Arcana. It symbolically shows us the well, the spring of Universal generosity. It shows us how wandering characteristics of The Fool stops us to provide the blessed place for communication with human side of ourselves. It can speak through an individual that can be both giving and receiving. The Star is our spiritual guide that we carry - the one that connects us to higher Divine Force.
As we read it in tarot - it helps us to locate the spot that is reserved for us in the world. It fertilises our imagination and our sense of well-being with luck, prosperity and generous actions towards others.
As the figure in the pictorial designate - it brings us to the idea of Venus - both beauty and values that rule things that are most dear to us.
It shows us the paths to cleanse our past and make a pathway to our future through love, understanding the root of the secret that is within us. Opening us to the infinite and permitting all the mysteries to unravel. 

Temperance

In our next episode of tarot cards' description I would like to talk about the card that may provoke some interesting reflections on how well we deal with our inner spirit communication.
Many of us have been presented with a picture of a guardian angel that loves us with infinite and protective love, the one that helps to understand the benevolent part of our subconsciousness - the watchful and caring force in our life. Some of these pictures have been derived from promises of our upbringing that are taken for granted in our childhood, then as we shake our heads in disbelief and leave aside anything that childish and naive.
Temperance is a card that helps us to reconcile with our spiritual judgement and the inner balance that speaks through something larger than ourselves. Be it inner voice, be it an angel, a protective guardian - it may be elevated in our understanding to a trust that can bring fruitful dialogue between what we think we need, what we really need in wider perspective and what helps us to conclude this discourse - seeing what's really available in times when we deem that nothing is given to us yet all is worked for.
The healing of the inner child and its opposite pole - a healer in us that has been hurt is possible through understanding of balance. A balance that is neither resignation or sacrifice but a true understanding of what's helpful.
Like in a dream that is meandering and comes back and back again, only to be fully formed and shaped so we can see all the details of our yearning through the eyes of an experienced, yet with the purity of a child's heart.

Strength XI

In our next episode of Djed taroth blog we will talk about XIth card of Major Arcana which is Strength/ La Force.
We often ask ourselves - where is the strength to make decisions, to make commitments and to look forward to new perspectives in our lives? How much we need to sacrifice to achieve certain goals in life and where does it start? But first and foremost how to embody our own nature in the work of life, the art of life as such?
There is a certain deal of intricate work behind leaving the reigns of our instinct and creative spirit to let them rule our mind. At some point it breaks free through the part of individual's governing centres seeking the way to express itself.
May it be at time when we are bedridden and lacking physical power or feeling a bit uneasy in our erotic life.
You are at the point when great deal of sophistication is taking part in consuming the elements of the fear and inner obstacles that are under the onslaught of your sensations, and sublime impulse to break through towards what seemingly is best for you.
Like waves of the ocean tide we cannot stop the coming change - we can only help it by tuning to it with understanding.
There is an element of force majeure that is in every of us - the Universal force that created us combing both animal ferocity and instinct with something more sublime that makes our body of work - our own creation. This is the time to use it and act!