The Royal Elements - How the elements reveal the personalities of the Court Cards

The Royal Elements

Royal Elements very often become quite a quandary in a Tarot reading. Understanding the Court Cards relationships and their elements may assist you in understanding each Court Card's personality. By understanding the relationship held within the Court Card itself truly makes a huge difference, especially when identifying the relationships between the Court Card and neighboring cards in a spread. 

Court Cards and Elements

A brief look at the relationship between Tarot and Astrology.

A brief look at the relationship between Tarot and Astrology.

The earth takes one year to travel around the Sun, therefore when you find yourself celebrating 'Many Happy Returns' at each of your birthdays, you are returning to precisely the same astrological layout as when you were born, as it is literally your Solar return.

Many people are however born when the Sun left one sign and entered anew, which is known as being born on a cusp, or the dividing line of two houses.

Rainy day meditation.

Rainy day meditation

Have you ever experienced a day when there are blue skies above, and yet it's raining buckets? Clouds refer to the mind and bridge between the Heavens and us. Therefore, a simple exercise is to peer between the clouds, until we are able to see the brilliance of these Heavens and experience the blessings that our Creator is raining down on us.  It is incredible.  By acknowledging the Creator within this natural phenomenon, we are thereby able to see between the cloudiness of our own minds, and acknowledge our blessings in this wonderful Creation.

Meditations:

What am I suppressing?  It is essential to release in order to bless all surroundings.  Water is double sided; too little or too much offer drastically different, and often dismal consequences. 

Cross & Crucifix

Cross & Crucifix

The ‘christian’ crucifix derives from the Latin cruciare, meaning ‘to torture’, as does the word crucifix.  As Christ’s crucifixion was not about remembering His torture but rather a crossroad for Him to be resurrected, granting us eternal life.  I feel it important to delve into the various origins and meanings of the ‘cross’.

The equal length cross, as the one seen as a sacred emblem to Aphrodite, was originated in Greece, and was used ever since, especially to denote the four elements, Fire, Air, Water, Earth.  Later the cross came into being to denote direction, north, south, east, west, and thereby indicating wind.