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.

The Magus

Have you ever felt that you want to create your own success but you sense that there are not enough tools at hand? Or at times when you feel that despite all the tools and resources that are easily available - the goal seems elusive and somewhat inaccessible.
The Magus shows us the driver at the wheel of our designs, plans and projects. It's a crafty little juggler who can help you to understand that coming up with ideas to solve problems or create something new lies on the doorstep of already existing knowledge - the skill we have to develop is to use it imaginatively.
It also poses interesting questions when it appears as a good omen. When we have an urge or a wish which lightens up the hearth of our desires - the ultimate divination symbol in a card when you need to touch an idea that stems from diversified elements.
Trust your instincts and creative assimilation of your experiences to use them in building the design of the change you want to be part of.
There is always a brand new array of skills, resources, way of focusing yourself on your goal that can open new and new doors to a happenstance - or is it something that you have created by your own field of energy? 

Six of swords

Welcome to another episode of Djed Taroth blog. Today we will deal with Six of Swords.

Transitions are part of our lives. However they may be - they are often quite regretful and painful.
Moving forward on from the matters of the past we thought important into the great unknown of the future can bring emotions and feelings not that easy to be dealt with.
Letting go of things and people and energies we were attached to brings reflections upon the nature of our life. How much of an essence is out there in time-related achievements and the fruits of them - material output, our present relations and our situation in general.
Dwelling on the past may not change our beliefs but put us in a stagnant mode where possibilites seem scarce and there is a huge lack of vital forces. Changing our life statement can prove crucial and groundbreaking as we move on ...
There is a platitude saying that in order to solve the problems sometimes the best way is to move away from them. As much as there is a bit of escapism in it there is a grain of truth it in too...
There are certain feelings of collateral nature - you may feel a coward escaping from things, you may feel unworthy of something positive escaping from them - but it's all but a part of a larger construct - a highly judgmental in nature which eventually leads us to a very stagnant point.
Six of swords invites us to a state of a mental clarity where logic and objectivity will allow us to make the transition smoother - from the negative towards more bright light of the New.
Don't be afraid to go this path.

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.