Tarot Of The Week, Week Commencing 29 January 2012

Relationships	Mood	Career
Ace Of Pentacles	Ace Of Wands (Ill Dignified)	Two Of Pentacles

Relationships

The physical/material beginning of things - the ultimate and successful completion of physical/material matters to the highest standards. It is time for you to ground your creative energy into material gain, contentment and the fulfilment of your hopes, wishes and desires. Allow yourself to experience the ultimate balance - mental, emotional, spiritual and physical success resulting in a joyful life. Bring together all your internal and external resources and talents. Everything is great now and successful ventures are possible if you start with a good foundation. You have the stability and skills required to get results. You can silently visualise your hoped-for results, decide how to use them in a new way and then stubbornly keep at it until you see it in final form. Experience the fruits of your labour - it is your spiritual work which leads you to recognize the magic in normal things. Move beyond that to an even greater knowledge. You will receive important information soon. Set your goals, plan how to achieve them - then act on your plans. Nurture them with patience - complete the task and reward yourself.

Mood

You are beginning to unfold and become the person you were meant to be, in all angles of your life, though you may feel blocked in some areas, questions that may be asked right now internally may include “what makes me passionate?”, “what is inspiring you?” “are you rushing into something?” “what is being offered you, you are nervous about taking?” Answering these and other questions you may be asking yourself will make it a lot easier to deal with what is happening right now.

Career

You will experience progressive change now. You have the ability to cope with two or more situations, having learned to juggle them both - but, much more will be achieved once you have made a decision. Think before you act - reflect on things - take a good look at your situation. Be patient - time and reflection will reveal how you are doing and what your next move will be. It is essential that you maintain harmony. Do not allow this change or these disturbing influences upset you. Let yourself play. Be flexible and venturesome - it will provide scope for your intuition. Emotional tranquillity brings clarity. You can not see to the bottom of things if the surface is all stirred up. Get away from it all - even if only for a moment. Expect to receive acknowledgment and reassuring news.

Overview

A positive reading there is no doubt, but somewhat confusing to my mind. It certainly sounds like everything is coming together for me, but I don’t really see how it can. I don’t see any options for growth in some areas covered by this reading. But I guess time will tell.

Tarot Of The Week, Week Commencing 22 January 2012

Relationships	Mood	Career
The Hanged Man	Two Of Pentacles (Ill Dignified)	Queen Of Cups

Relationships

After the crisis of seeing what you have made of your life comes the peace of acceptance. Love alone can effect the transformation to "obedience" through which your will is able to "perceive" the revelations from above which inspire, direct and strengthen you. Your choice to obey renders your will capable of receiving the call from the universe - the gift of faith in yourself - the union of your will to the will of the cosmos, leaving behind the powers of thought and imagination. You will now experience the reversal of attitude and experience that comes through spiritual awakening as you are taken out of the ordinary consciousness - that of reason, memory and sensual perception. You will learn to "act" before your thought and imagination have understood what your action implies. While everyone else is panicking - you will know peace.  You KNOW that you must seek solitude wherever you find tension - for in solitude you live, develop spiritual temperament, breath spiritual air, quench your spiritual thirst and satisfy your spiritual hunger. In solitude - you are in control, poised on an "inner" level, centred in peace and through chaos you maintain serenity by reversing the usual way of living and finding contentment. Pause now, be willing to listen and observe things as they really are - not as they "appear" to be on the surface. Suspend your decision-making and remain passive now - use your sympathy, tact and maintain tolerance by centring yourself within.

Mood

Become receptive to "limiting" feelings - allow yourself to feel deeply - transform any "limiting" feelings and maintain your inner balance. Think things over - put aside inappropriate feelings and allow a new perspective to develop - deter anything which arises from undesirable external situations and allow your inner peace to radiate outwards. Try not to repress your emotions - learn to emotionally regenerate and revitalize yourself. Recognise that you are capable of experiencing great happiness even in the driest of times.  It is a time for healing and new things to come from that healing.

Career

Awaited pleasures and success are now coming due. People in high position not only offer you assistance, but may bestow some sort of recognition on you. Rewards are promised now - advantages and powerful spiritual forces are present. You are psychic - deeply emotional and you reflect the unconscious in others. You are empathetic and understanding. Recognise that you can also be moody and deceitful. Heal and bring life to yourself and others through feeling fully and deeply - express the beauty of your heart.

Overview

An interesting set of cards, positive in my view once again.  I think it is telling me this mood of mine of frustration in all areas isn’t going to last that much longer.  This can only be a good thing.

Happy Birthday Edgar Allen Poe

He would have been 203 today

Sadly though the tradition of the "Poe Toaster", is now officially over. For those unfamiliar with the story an anonymous man wearing black clothes with a white scarf and a wide-brimmed hat, had from the early 1940s until 2009 left three roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac at Poe's grave.  He hasn’t been seen since.

Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is considered the first modern detective story.  His other tales like the Black Cat, The Tell Tale Heart, The Pit and The Pendulum and of course The Raven resonate with fans to this day, myself included.

Poe, was born in Boston in 1809, lived in Baltimore, London, New York, Philadelphia and Richmond, Virginia. During a visit to Baltimore in 1849, he died under mysterious circumstances at age 40. The cause of his death has been the subject of much speculation over the years, with theories ranging wildly from murder to rabies.

Poe was buried in his grandfather's lot in Westminster Burial Ground, in what is now downtown Baltimore. In 1875, his body and that of his aunt and mother-in-law Maria Clemm were moved to a prominent spot by the entrance with a memorial marker. The body of his young wife and cousin, Virginia, was exhumed and reburied with him 10 years later.

Whatever the truth of the Toaster’s demise and also of Poe’s demise it’s mystery that may never be solved.

My Next Reading

Pandora - by Anne Rice