How To Achieve 2012 Tarot Goals

It's been a few days since the New Year started, and I hope 2012 brings all of us success and prosperity. Today seemed like a good day to plot the direction for my Tarot related resolutions (I prefer to call them promises). They include growing my business which right now is only readings at psychic fairs and online via email or Skype, to include a private Tarot consulting service with office hours, performing corporate gigs and private partes and publishing a tarot related book. But before laying the journey out, I wanted to get some insight and advice from the cards. I asked:

"What are the best ways to achieve my Tarot related goals in 2012?"

Timmy Returns - The Page of Swords

Timmy

I wasn't really in the mood to pull a daily card today. I'm in very lazy place.  However, I promised myself a daily blog and I wasn't about to quit less than a month in, so I grabbed my Rider deck and pulled Timmy, The Page of Swords. Some of you may remember Timmy. He is one of my spirit guides and I was first introduced to him in January of 2009 (you may read the blog about our meeting here). Since then Timmy and I talked once (read our conversation here) but that was all the contact we've had. Until now.

Page of Swords

Look at this fellow. He is posing like he's being painted by Rembrandt. The very picture of aloof royalty. But there is a distrust behind his eyes. Facing front, his eyes slide to the right always alert for dangers or perceived dangers.

Our page knows his truth but rather than rushing into the fray like his brother Knight he puts himself above the issues. The distraction is beneath him. He remains apart and aloof. His secretive analytical nature can make him paranoid.

Like his mother Queen yesterday, I do not know why he is visiting. After the days of wands that spoke to my business ideas, I now receive two swords whose message seems to be not speak of this endeavor. To go ahead and work on getting the biz up and running.

For more clarity on both these cards I took Lisa's suggestion and pulled two clarifier cards. I asked, "What is the reason I pulled the Queen and Page of Swords for the past two days?"

My answer was the Two of Cups and Temperance.

The Two of Cups is a cup of relationships and true friendship. We see the profiles of a man and woman sitting above two golden cups. Above the profiles is the Earth. A star burst fills the space between the couple, arcing into an encompassing light that touches the cups.

The images here are of unified opposites. The man and the woman. Blonde and Brunette. And while the two gaze at each other there does not seem to be love in the looks. Instead we find determination in the woman and a bit of suspicion, like our Page, from the man.

Temperance is Balance. Not the balancing of the Scales of Justice, but the balancing of the forces in ourselves. Nature and Society. Religion and Magic. The Known and The Unknown. We see a beautiful redheaded woman in profile dressed in orange. Clouds of the mysterious night are below her, clear skies and fiery Mars above her. She is mixing two cups at an impossible angle. Fire flowing from the Golden Cup turns into Water when landing the Silver one.

Again, the images speak to unifying opposites. These two cards are telling me I must marry the opposites inside myself. My spiritual side with my worldly side. I have always hard a difficulty with charging for my talents. Whether it is reading cards, acting or fixing computers I have always felt that if I can do it I should and not make a big deal about money. The Queen yesterday was telling me to be approachable as a business and that means accepting payments.

The Page being a secretive analytical fellow tells me I must learn to be more open and trusting in the universe. Understand that I can not control all aspects of everything.

I hate Court Cards!!

I've been invited to go to Synagogue for Shabbat services tonight. This will be the first time I am attending Shabbat in over 10 years. I wanted to know what I could expect from and take from the experience, so I asked my Gilded.

I pulled the King of Swords, the Page of Swords and the Knight of Swords reversed. I think it means something that I pulled not only all Court Cards, but all Court Cards in the same suit. I think it shows some growth as the Page is youngest and we move through all the males courts to the Wisdom and Social Responsibility of the King.

Swords stand for intellect and thought. All three of these gentleman know their truth. Their own truth. Without the blending of understanding from Cups or passion from Wands and grounding found in Pentacles their may be a tendency to shut myself to the messages being given by the Rabbi because of my own distrust of organized religion.

The first card was His Majesty. Our King sits comfortably on his throne, assured in his own knowledge. The next is the young lad. He is standings as if posing for a portrait of royalty and knowledge, however there is an uncertainty behind the eyes. Our Page is trying to convince everyone, including himself that he has the answers. Finally is our messenger falling off his horse.

Our Knight raises his sword high ready for battle, sure in his certainty. His Golden Sword glows with virtue and righteousness. Reversed our knight is a wild braggadocio.

These cards are telling me to that I need to "forget" my knowledge and approach tonight as the student Page. I need to not look unkindly on tonight's service and turn it to a social event or an opportunity to show my vast knowledge. I just need to be quiet and aware and learn.