Hello Aries, and welcome back to TenPaths Tarot.
Today Spirit has a very powerful message for you today. It’s about someone who has gone through hard times or has troubling memories; even troubling thoughts about what could be in the future, and learning to go beyond that to become self-reliant by leaving the past behind.
The oracle card Spirit provided was Self-reliance. But look at her. She’s conjuring something up in that beaker. She has had hard times; you can tell that by her clothing and her bare feet; but she is now concentrating on developing something for the future. And she’s experimenting. She’s trying different ways to improve her future.
I asked for two rows of four cards. So first we’re going to do the top row. And the first card out was the Four of Pentacles. Now look at this gentleman. He’s feeling steady. Four is a number of stability, and he has enough to get by. He’s not “rolling in it.” He doesn’t have tons of things going for him at this point–at least that’s what he’s thinking.
And the next card out is the Justice card. Now she is holding a pair of scales, but look at those scales. They’re empty. And so she’s trying to find balance–the perfect balance with no weight. And she has two swords. One is pointing up; one is pointing down. There are different directions she can go. She can start looking forward, or she can keep looking toward past events–things that troubled her. But this also is a card of stability–that balancing of the scales.
And the problem has been, or is, this Nine of Swords. These troubling experiences, thoughts, or emotions that we have gone through–some just consume us in spite of being in the past. And if the figure in this card turns around, she might discover that that big insect is really just a little insect that could be left to run away.
And the next card out is the promise–Spirit’s promise that, if you find a way to reduce the impact within yourself of these Nine of Swords, then what lies before you is The Sun. This is the promise of a bountiful, happy life filled with possibilities. Without the sun we all perish. But you are full of sunlight. You are prancing; you are happy; and the world seems full of possibilities.
So now we went to the next set of cards. The next set starts with the Seven of Wands. This is more stable energy. Now this one is showing someone who has dreams; who has interests; who has things they want to do. And they’re starting to move forward on them. Not at a chariot speed–not at a breakneck pace. They’re just taking it one step at a time.
And the card that follows that is the Ace of Wands. Spirit wants to give you your dreams. You just have to pick a direction. Pick a goal. Pick the dream you want to follow. And Spirit will help guide you. But to do that… Now we have the same card; same position; stacked below the first… is the Nine of Swords. To move forward with those dreams, you’re going to have to let go of the past. In some way, somehow, you have let this troubling past or bad experience or what you think were personal mistakes go. That is all you can think about, and it’s blocking you. If you can find a way to distance yourself from that, then things will start to grow.
And when the next card came up, I actually got literal chills. Because right below this Sun card came The Moon. So we’ve got again the magnificent balance–the sun and the moon. And The Moon represents the unknown. We’re in darkness. This is suggesting some of your anxiety may be centered around something at home or something very close to you. When I see dogs in a card I think of home, since many households have pets. And these animals are looking to Spirit for guidance. And Spirit will guide them through that unknown.
The fact is, you don’t have to know everything. And that may be part of that Nine of Swords. You’re like, “Well, look what happened before. Now if I don’t know everything, I’m going to find myself back in that same place and it’s going to keep happening again and again. And I won’t be able to escape the monster!” But that’s a what-if. What is is now. What can be is in the future. The past is gone. And I know that’s easy to say, but it’s not always easy to put our past behind us, or you wouldn’t have a double Nine of Swords. And that’s very human.
So I asked Spirit to give me a few extra cards. I asked Spirit, “Well, how can Aries move beyond that pain or that way of thinking that is keeping them trapped?” And again we had a card of balance. And here we have that lion–that fierce energy–next to one of innocence; next to one of not knowing. And it could be that the mistakes you think you made with this Nine of Swords… You’re putting the blame on yourself; but you could have just been innocent. We’re naive until we learn from different experiences.
And so when you can change your way of looking at those past bad experiences or ways of thinking–thinking of them as something that happened to you instead of lessons given to you to move forward as a stronger person–then things will start to progress.
Looking back at the oracle card, this woman still shows some of the wear from that experience with her clothes and her lack of shoes. At the same time, she is so focused now on that new thing–what’s in the beaker before her–that other things are an aside. She is not even aware of her clothing any more. She’s just totally focused. And so we’re changing our focus.
The next card shows the focus we’ve had in the past. The disturbing thoughts have been reduced with the Five of Stones. And this woman looks sad, but it’s those rocks holding her down; but she can step out of those rocks. In fact, the next card–the Nine of Stones–says that’s exactly what she needs to do to. Put those stones from the past behind her and start moving forward. Think about something you would like to do or experience, and put all of your focus on that, until these stones and those swords get farther and farther and farther away. Let them become just a fraction of your memory, until they’re so distance they only give you a little pinprick every now and then. They’re never going to go away completely. That’s not even realistic with us being people. But they will come up much less frequently. And when they do, they won’t seem overwhelming.
And so that is Spirit’s message for you today Aries. I hope you got something from this. If you would like to watch the video version of this reading, follow this link to the YouTube video, Aries May 2024 – Strength Through Escape. Available on May 2, 2024, after 4:00 PM Eastern Time.
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