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Welcome! Welcome!

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Welcome! Welcome! To all those who signed up to this blog in my absence. I’ve been highly amused to see there’s been more hits per day while I’ve been away than I had when I was writing every day. Not sure what to make of that but maybe people have more free time around Christmas to find obscure blogs such as mine, lol. Please feel free to join in the conversation anytime, to argue, to contradict, whatever. I love to hear from you. I’d like this blog to be like this card…

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Three of Cups: Friends enjoying one another’s company.

Cheers, tan

The Tarot Of The Christmas You Want Vs The Christmas You Get

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So. It’s Christmas Eve here in Australia and I’m writing my post early before heading off with the family to my parent’s house. My youngest daughter is beyond excited and is champing at the bit to open her first present which she’ll get to do when I finish this because it’s too darn heavy to lift into the car (it’s a rubber dinghy). But before she starts ripping into that wrapping paper I want to discuss the Christmas you want versus the Christmas you often get.

This card represents the Christmas we want…

10 Cups

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Two Of Cups: When Muslims and Jews Are Friends

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After a few days of sad stories, a happy one:

Muslims in the United States have launched a public education campaign in the hope of reclaiming the word ‘jihad’ from extremists. At it’s heart jihad is not about terrorism at all apparently (I’m as surprised as you are!) It’s a personal spiritual quest. A struggle for justice, compassion, tolerance. All the good stuff. And it requires faith, courage and perseverance. Not bombs.

The campaign features Muslims describing their personal struggles on Twitter, Facebook, bus advertisements and a website: myjihad.org. Organizers are also working to spread the message to Sydney, Melbourne, Toronto, London and Manchester. (I’m doing my bit right here and I’m not even Muslim. Just a believer that there is good in every religion and every person. Like Tarot suggests.)

One ad pictures an African-American man with a Jewish friend and the slogan: ‘My jihad is to build relationships across the aisle.’ It’s so exciting to see a public declaration that Muslims and Jews can be friends. This whole campaign hopefully signals a new partnership between the Muslim community and the Western world. FYI: New partnerships are represented in Tarot by the Two of Cups above.

I for one am glad to see the Muslim community speaking up in a positive way. More of it I say. What do you think?

The Ace Of Cups: A Teacher’s Gift Of Love To Her Terrified Students

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As I said in another post, the Ace of Cups represents a gift of love. There were many such gifts given during the horror that unfolded in the U.S. yesterday when a gunman opened fire in a primary school in Connecticut.

First grade teacher Kaitlin Roig protected her class from the gunman by barricading them in a bathroom.  She said to them, ‘I need you to know that I love you all very much and that it’s going to be OK.’ She thought they were all going to die and that was the last thing her students were ever going to hear. Afterwards she told reporters, ‘I wanted them to know someone loved them. I wanted that to be the last thing they heard, not the gunfire in the hallway.’

What a great gift to give to the children in her care. Not only did she save their lives she had the piece of mind to let them know what was truly important in that moment. That they are loved. Bless her and the other heroes of this terrible tragedy. Some gave their lives for their students and there is no greater gift of love than that. I salute them all!

Ace Of Cups: Treat Yourself! Love Yourself!

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The Ace Of Cups: A gift of love.

I treated myself today to a two hour massage after work. Not something I do very often. In fact it had been so long since I last visited my favourite beauty shop my records were no longer on their computer, lol. Massages are very much the terrain of The Empress card. But because I brought it as a gift to myself I consider this afternoon to have been more an Ace Of Cups experience. And I enjoyed every minute of it.

There seems to be some confusion in Tarot circles as to whether an Ace card signals the beginnings or an intense experience of something emotionally enriching. A topic I would like to tackle another day. For now the point I’m trying to make is that you can receive the love this card intimates from YOURSELF. Nothing wrong with that. In fact, as we all know, you have to love yourself before you can really open up to receiving love from anyone else. And sometimes that is the hardest love to find of all. Took me awhile. Into my forties.

Anyone else a slow learner when it comes to luuurve?

The Eight Cards: A Deepening Of The Tarot Journey

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The Eight cards in Tarot signal a shift in the journey through each suit. They ask that you dig deeper inside yourself than you ever have before. They ask you to be brave. To face challenging situations full-on. Take a look…

8 Wands

Eight of Wands: Being rewarded for the effort you’ve put in and now having to step up to the plate in some new aspect of your career/life e.g. A bank finally gives you that mortgage you were after and now you’re going to commit yourself to actually buying a house. Yikes!

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Eight of Cups: Leaving behind a relationship/career/home to search for something better. It’s never easy to let go of something, no matter how unsatisfying it may be, when you have nothing in particular to replace it with.

8 Swords

Eight of Swords: Fighting your own negative self-beliefs. The hardest critic to ignore is the one who lives inside your own head.

8 Pentacles

Eight of Pentacles: Working harder than you’ve ever worked before. Because you’re committed to some goal you want to achieve and nothing is more important than that. As my new favourite saying goes: You don’t get what you wish for. You get what you work for!

Even in Life Lesson Tarot the number eight signifies a deepening of the Tarot journey. It’s the step from childhood into adulthood.

Strength

Strength: Standing up for yourself.

So if you get a number eight card be brave. It won’t be easy. But know that Tarot wouldn’t give you this card if it didn’t think you were up to the challenge. And the reward is a significant one. Inner strength. Empowerment. Feeling like a proper grown-up in other words. In charge of your life. A fully fledged adult!

The Tarot Of Introverts

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I’m a massive introvert. By that I mean I need a lot of time by myself. This is because there’s a party going on in my head all the time that demands attention. Party, imagination, stories, other worlds, same diff. I think a lot of writers are introverts. My friends and family find it hard to believe I’m one of these strange creatures because I actually like talking to people. You can tell. But there’s the thing, despite the popular misconception being an introvert doesn’t make you anti-social. It just makes you feel really really tired when you’ve had people in your face all day long. More than is normal tired.

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The Eight Of Cups: It’s The Journey Stupid!

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I watched a beautiful movie tonight called ‘The Way’ starring Martin Sheen. It’s about a man, Thomas Avery, who goes to France to collect the remains of his only child and ends up completing the journey his son started on the Camino de Santiago otherwise known as the Way of St. James. This is a famous pilgrimage route that covers hundreds of kilometers from France through northern Spain. Traditionally you walk it starting from your front door and ending at the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, the place St James’ remains are said to be buried. The story of Thomas’s journey along The Way is one of those old-fashioned tales that moves slowly but grows on you with each step (boom boom).

The Way reeks of this card…

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