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I try not to let my assumptions about the card get in the way too much. So, pulling a card for meditation doesn't necessarily suggest anything about me or my current situation, unless I insist on it. I like to meditate on a card by considering the associated attributions as well as the so-called "meaning". Kabbalistic, astrological, metaphysical, alchemical attributions are all symbolic of different realities that we humans move through or are touched by in the course of our lives. Perhaps meditating on a time or event in my life that resonates with the card I pull might give me new insights into where it's brought me today.
Nine of Swords? - During the course of my life, as well as just today, what's been my relationship to things like illness, suffering, cruelty, pain, despair, malice, oppression and deceit? What about my response to these things that I've experienced or witnessed in the world as much as in the microcosm of my self? The positive spin on a card like this for me is that it's a station on the way - a brief snapshot from the course of an evolution, not necessarily a fixed judgment or statement about a manifested reality at the moment. When I look at it, the entire book of Tarot is truly operational in every moment, in every dimension. We humans are that complex; that exquisite; that angelic...dare I say godlike?
So there's always an evolution going on somewhere in my life that includes any of the elements I choose for meditation. I ask myself, "Where is this evolution leading? How can I experience and learn from it subjectively in this moment? How can I give to others what I'm learning from this? What meaning will this card have for me at the end of this life experience?"
Meditations like this help me turn corners.
Peace.
J.
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