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!

The Hermit

In our series today I would like to present the card that can both  provoke different interpretations and emotions.
The Hermit comes in as the ninth of Major Arcana. Its position denotes a completed circle of understanding, progress and process of events, points - stations on our journey to accomplishment.
How does The Hermit speak if it could convey what is meant to be a help?
A hooded lone figure, carrying a lantern that often symbolises knowledge as well as its enlightened sister - wisdom. How far we can go into the dark night of a profound crisis. Is it a measure of how much light we can shed into understanding and acknowledging our past. What is to be done here? Are we done here?
The card clearly shows the ambivalence and dualism of action and reception. Receptive knowledge that contains a static chill of wisdom - something which is usually to be achieved through loneliness and analysis we can do on our own solely.
The concentrated hump of past experiences can be quite a burden if you consider a pictorial symbolism of the card. But without this weight we cannot assess and judge the importance of those experiences that shape us.
The Hermit invites us not necessarily to dwell on the past and add up the the already heavy burden of thoughts and recollections - it's a predicament that calls us to wait, ponder on, stop in continuity that lasts and extends itself into our future by a plan of the Unknown. He dwells in a secret space where everything took a break to prepare us for a new energy.

The Tower

In times of distress we often try to find the language that can be used to translate the events that are part of our experience into a viable understanding. What is there that we can use to embrace the change? Did our concepts of providence fail us in the face of dividing reasons?
The card of The Tower is quite often a misread phenomenon or something merely inclined to direct us to thinking of a meaning towards the end of things. It is a compulsive thinking of a figurative: a tower that crumbles and what stems from it.
Our physical world stands on the foundations of the idea. Our needs, prayers, will, our wishes and desires are bent on this idea. Idea of self-fulfilling phenomenon - be it career, love, education, more trivial pursuits of momentary satisfaction, caprice and of course, last yet not least - the pursuit of happiness.
Happiness glows like a shy flame in the hindsight of whatever we think or deem.
How to attain it when worlds collide, opinions hurt, events tear everything into pieces, hopes are destroyed by the unpredictable?
The way to understand the elusive symbolism of the tower is to look beyond what only seemingly is referred to as a crumble, a catastrophe, a disaster. It's a blessing in disguise. An emergence of something that was imprisoned and now wants to sail full steam ahead.
It is an invitation towards opening yourself. Understanding that most of the time we see only one side of the coin while the other one doesn't necessarily bring any harmful effects to our life.
It is the providence and help to create a new construct - one that will be helpful as long as it provides help and understanding - brings all that needs to be revealed into the limelight of our consciousness.

Arcane without a name

Fear has always been one of the major issues reasoning with our sense of independence, resilience, harmonious equilibrium with what is generated by our love and need for it.
It is embedded in our nervous system as a sort of atavistic protection against issues that might harm us. In modern day world fear is also a very important part of neurotic entanglement with human avoidance of casual problems and dealing with them on the mature terms.
XIIIth of Major Arcana is often wrongly depicted as a Grim Reaper who takes everything we ever believed in from us by the means of the Inevitable.
But apart from the common way of interpreting it - this card denotes radical purification and cleansing of all the matrixes and behavioural syndromes we have accumulated over the time given to us. Time, however, is a matter of both alignment and limitation and as such can be difficult to cope with on worldly, human level of existence.
A major transformation can be a major transfiguration as it is a matter of our concern to re-create pictorial of our SELF.
Pompous and trivial how it may feel liberating explosion of it goes through heart and emptied mind which clearly this card depicts if you look closer at the main figure.
The harvest is yet to begin depending on our readiness - the vision as it is illustrated in the card can be an eye of symbolical dragon Ouroboros who is eating its own tail - a symbolical reality of something that is not necessarily far from repeating itself.
" Do not offer me your hand, for I shall immediately cause it to rot. Offer me your consciousness. Disappear within me, in order to finally become The Totality"
Happy Yule dear readers, customers, friends!!!