A Tarot Message for Today

To grow anything in spring we must nurture the soil, the earth that we have just reaped...

​"This time of replenishment is sometimes a time of emptiness, but often it is a very active time of preparation...

​The Tarot Card for today that presented itself during meditation and after shuffling my deck is: Key 0 in the Major Arcana.  In the deck I used or this, The Sacred Circle Tarot by Anna Franklin & Paul Mason (Llewellyn, 1998, 2011), the card is entitled “The Green Man” but it is commonly referred to by its Rider-Waite title “The Fool”.  What’s the message for us today from Key 0?

A new beginning is at-hand.  A new adventure, a completion and continuation or forward movement.  This is very fresh and new energy like spring.  But why so in the autumn of the Northern Hemisphere?  Because it is a fresh start for the earth.  Just like in planting, after the final harvest and the sharing and celebrations of gratitude and generosity and abundance, it does not stop there.  To grow anything in spring we must nurture the soil, the earth that we have just reaped.  It’s been stripped, not to lie fallow but to be composted and fertilized for the new growth to come, the expansion.  This time of replenishment is sometimes a time of emptiness, but often it is a very active time of preparation – making space, cleansing, and resting, and celebrating, and resting, and preparing.  What of the seeds which need to freeze in the earth to stimulate their impetus for germination?  Several plants species of flowers and fruits and others may be sown in autumn to be able to thrive properly in spring – like blueberries or heather.  What of the spring fields when new energy is ready to burst forth?  In a malnourished and apparently fallow bed of earth, there is extra work in the spring to return life to the soil.  Why wait?  Prepare now by allowing the nourishment to seep in, allow the earth time to process and rejuvenate.

There is new energy forthcoming.  The clear message is to cleanse space in yourself, your life, you’re your experiences to welcome this new energy or adventure or endeavor, to prepare by celebrating in gratitude the space for its arrival, preparing the space for its growth in your life and experience, and recognizing the support you have all around you for this new beginning, new energy, new passion, new project to be received and integrated and processed and grown and experienced in whatever way it is meant to be in your life. 

This card has many meanings and layers and depths to the understanding it provides.  It dances between the light and shadow of our experiences and learning.  The card represents our conscientious attention to our own Consciousness – including our waking mind, unconscious mind, and “altered states” of mind.  But for now - for today - consider this Celtic New Year season, this season of honoring the Ancestor’s and dearly departed past, this season of generosity of spirit and gratitude, this season of harvest and gathering as a time of slowing down to meet what it is we have asked for, to prepare to receive everything about it – what it means to experience it or have it or attend to it – and to recognize that the empty spaces and hallowed, reaped grounds still need care and nourishment as such in preparation for the changes we are making.
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Peace & blessings to you!
Cynthia & her Spirit Guides

Do you know Tarot?  What does Major Arcana, Key 0 say to you right now? 
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