LEOS’
2014
TWO OF
SWORDS
This is a card of decisions, when put
in the simplest way. It’s an indication that an important choice awaits you
this year- and you better be careful about it. This would be an important
choice; with implications over your beliefs about and position in your life.
I would request you to observe the
picture carefully. The woman there sits with two swords-as if to protect
herself-but blindfolded; and thus unable to protect herself altogether.
To know more about these choices; I added
a card to each side of this one. One of them was THE LOVERS and the other was EIGHT
OF SWORDS.
The Lovers
This card has a much deeper significance,
other than the obvious indication of a couple-as depicted. This card also asks
you to combine both the masculine and feminine traits –present already; inside
you as well as everyone else, more or less.
So apart from saying that a new love is all
set to enter your life; this card also presents you with a choice as
well-between your heart’s desire and the call of duty. Though you may not even
know yourself the source of this love, but its entry would be undeniable and
unavoidable-and so would be the test it would bring.
You would have the two ways out-you could
either take a risk, and it would have a promise for the new heights of
happiness and emotional fulfillment. OR if you think the stakes are too high
for you to take the risk, you can stick to your call of duty; and things would
remain just the same-no losses, and definitely
no gains due to refusing to rise to the opportunity.
Eight of Swords
This card is one of those where a Tarot Card
Reader isn’t needed much for interpretations.
We can see lady-hands bound and eyes obstructed.
This may be describing a situation where you
don’t know what the situation exactly is, and how can you do anything about it.
Plus you’re powerless too, when it comes to interfering effectively (your hands
are tied, remember??)
Then the question is-“what can we do in such a
situation??”
The answer lies, again, in the card itself.
Look carefully at the figure’s feet and legs. Neither are they bound nor are
any swords in front and back of her. They’re there just on her sides,
obstructing movement-and/or depicting elements of danger-in those directions;
and thus away from the situation. But she’s not aware of it. So she rather
tries to either move sideways-look at her posture- or she tries to free her
hands.
Analogically, in situations where your
knowledge is inadequate and/or your powers of action are limited, plus there’s
an element of danger too; it would be a better ploy to move away from the
situation-at least for a while, if not permanently.
So, all in all, the Two of Swords
provides you with the following options and situations:
Most probably, a new love is about to
enter your life (may, or may not, be a person); and you’d know nothing about
it, except that it does have promises of escalation of happiness and emotional
fulfillment. You’re free to choose it, reject it or do nothing about it. If you
do nothing about it, it would also require you to move away from an unfamiliar
situation-which, I think, is having any kind of contact with the object or
person personifying this ‘new love’ in case you decide to do nothing about it.
THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE (REVERSED)
Your fortunes are in a back gear, Your
High and Mighty Majesties- retreating. The luck is about to take back what it
had endowed upon you some time ago.
Coming up are the times of misfortunes
and unpleasant surprises. But most of all, you will start to feel-at least a
little, even if you are super-cynical-your life and its problems
‘fated’-predestined, inevitable, inescapable.
You will start to feel yourself losing
control of your life, feelings and emotions. And here it lays the catch.
Though it’s beyond doubt that it is indeed the
fate which is pitting problems against you, but it’s YOU-and
only YOU-who can get over them-if
you want to end things fast.
But there are upsides to this card
too, so you need not fret too much-Too much of worry diminishes regal beings,
like you undoubtedly are, to the generalized, mundane level of ordinary
existence, you know.
What are they??
Firstly, this is a very temporary card;
and chances are that your problems may fizz out themselves by the end of the
month-though you do need to work on
them if you want them to end sooner.
Good or bad; the times heralded by
this card are very short-tenured. Neither does the good luck shown by it lasts
much, nor the bad.
Secondly, as you already do know (and so is probably almost
useless to remind you) that bad times end only when they have, at least,
scraped their lowest point. And this card says that those times aren’t too far
away. Soon the wheel shall rise to a high point (or at least neutral one) and
all shall be well once again.
ACE OF
PENTACLES
On the personal front, I think things aren't that complicated for you guys. The Ace of Pentacles represents a new
opportunity for growth and development; on the material front.
But it also indicates a lot of
energy-perhaps a bit too much. So the energy needs to be contained and
channelized in a proper direction.
A new job or a new position within
your current job/organization is also shown by this card.
