Let me not pray to be sheltered from risks,
however to be fearless in dealing with them.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
As it’s possible you’ll know from the rising reputation of the subject (and maybe from the numerous essays and articles I’ve printed over time), the numerology of your birthday, or of a specific yr, corresponds to the Tarot Main Arcana playing cards (the triumphs).
Utilizing this technique, we are able to find out about some common traits and patterns that may be anticipated in a given yr. These will emerge as a robust world affect.
As I had explained last year, since 2+0+2+3 totals 7, we had been experiencing the challenges and joys of a yr dominated by the seventh Main Arcana card: The Chariot.
Now, we enter the yr dominated by Main Arcana card VIII.
However Wait (Waite!)
There may be one small catch.
One of the crucial controversial issues that Arthur E. Waite did when he and Pamela Smith created their new Tarot deck in 1909, was to swap the Eight and the Eleven of the Main Arcana.
Whereas some newer decks in the present day stay true to that earlier interpretation, the Rider-Waite-Smith decks and their numerous trendy derivatives present the Eight because the Energy card.
Volumes have been written by Tarot students analyzing and arguing over the knowledge (or not) of this variation.
Being a lesser mortal with fewer esoteric leanings, I select to observe the Waite-Smith lineage, because it was my unique deck I realized with. Many of the decks I nonetheless use are additionally primarily based on its system.
So I can be discussing this as a Tarot Yr of Energy. However I invite you to affix me in making a psychological be aware that Justice (equity, authorized issues, karmic stability) may play an necessary half in occasions this yr.
The truth is, right here in the US as the continued drama of The Former Man heats up, we already know that our democracy could properly grasp by a thread – of Justice.
Take A Stroll on the Wild Facet
The important thing query to ask ourselves as members of our neighborhood, nation, and world village this yr is, “Is that this the trail with coronary heart?”
Final yr, all of us went via some difficult conditions once we could have needed to chew our tongues and even repress our emotions with a view to energy via.
A typical situation can be that, primarily based on selections made in 2022 (The Lovers yr), we then moved ahead final yr, steering our Chariot with regular dedication. Or we’d have been obliged to metal ourselves, delaying gratification, with a view to see issues via for long run payoffs.
As an example, final yr featured quite a few political operatives fully dedicated to their private agendas and avarice. Their fanatical loyalty to their disgraced chief (whose corrupt and unconstitutional activities for private achieve have additionally been revealed) subsumed moderation, private integrity, or dissent. This has resulted in almost no governing progress in the US, however as an alternative, a gradual barrage of self-promotion.
Nevertheless, now that we’re in our Energy yr, there’s the potential for severe push-back on all fronts. The stakes couldn’t be increased, as we’re on the sting of an entire paradigm shift right here within the U.S. So look ahead to any remaining gloves to come back off, and other people to much more clearly reveal who they’re, what they need, and what lengths they are going to go to, to get what they need.
It’s value mentioning that the final Energy yr we skilled was in 2015. Allow us to not repeat the errors that had been made at the moment.
For in a Energy yr, it’s vital that our important instincts be wide-awake as soon as extra. The world wants people who find themselves totally alive — passionate, dedicated, and prepared to go to the mat for what issues.
That is the yr to face our shadows and come clean with our fears, for that’s the solely manner we are able to “tame” them.
Holy Flame of Life
In lots of decks, together with the R-W-S, the flower-swathed lady within the Energy card is topped with the cosmic lemniscate, image of infinity and dominion.
And she or he has been likened to a Vestal Virgin priestess, tending the holy flame.
She is aware of that fireplace is perilous, particularly if one doesn’t comprehend its methods, and listen. Tending this probably damaging pressure requires grace and intelligence. However she is unafraid, and actually calls this fireplace sacred.
Like a Priestess of Vesta, the lady of Energy is aware of her energy lies in understanding, not battle; she controls by her acceptance and never repression. She doesn’t combat it, nor does she quell it.
The Energy of Endurance and Braveness
Gaze into her face and you will note deep peace. Poise and equanimity are on the coronary heart of her capacity to coexist with the harmful lion.
We at the moment are invited to specific the nice pleasure of being each human and animal. How would life be completely different if we had been wildly, totally unleashed, but at all times beneath the steerage of our increased angels? For it might be mentioned that the lemniscate celebrates the everlasting move between our carnal and divine natures.
This can be a likelihood to reconnect on a deep degree to what you’re keen on most about your life and the those that empower you. It’s this ardour that provides you the need to face your doubts and conquer them – not with a whip, however a young contact.
But in a Energy yr, our braveness could also be examined. This is a vital yr for stepping up as a individuals, and disarming our conflicts with the hand of mild understanding. Reasonably selecting sides after which blaming the opposite, now’s a time for paying compassionate consideration. As an alternative of a “battle on terror,” which, if you consider it, is a horrific oxymoron, how may we wage peace?
What fears do we have to identify and tame? How can loving, regular forbearance quiet the “beast?” And the way, in flip, can its magnificent ferocity serve our highest aspirations? For certainly, the 2 figures usually are not at odds. They’re allies.
Rising to the Event
This yr, we could also be required to rise to the event and settle for a specific amount of threat. We could even need to combat to defend what we love. As Ben Franklin wrote, “Those that would quit important Liberty, to buy somewhat momentary Security, deserve neither Liberty nor Security.”
That is definitely shaping as much as be a time once we should not defer from defending these liberties, nor our highest values. And it’s clear that we as a species should act with daring and tackle instantly the grim trajectory of local weather disaster that’s now upon us.
Though there are prone to be difficulties forward, the reward of Energy is nice fortitude. Allow us to not pray to be sheltered from all hazard, however to fulfill it with artistic, daring options.
Allow us to faucet into the Supply that provides us infinite braveness, and the need to do what is true. It’s time to awaken from the hypnosis of apathy and despair, remembering that our best energy lies in embracing our lives totally and following fearlessly the place our lion hearts name us to be.
And thus, shall Justice prevail.
