Connecting, Pouring & Passion

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201302
Connecting, Pouring & Passion
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Author: Arwen Lynch
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DotM_TemperanceToday’s card is from an older deck. Round tarot cards are unusual in that you have more than reversals to read. You can read angled cards as well. Is the energy of the card tilted towards the reader or away?

Here we have Temperance from the Daughters of the Moon colored version. I also have the black and white version. Traditionally, Temperance is an angel pouring water from two cups–one into water and one onto rocky ground.

This Temperance, while not visually an angel, pours water and fire that loop out and around to combine into a rainbow above her head. What really calls me in this card today are the lines in the ground under her feet. They seem to be spreading out as if they were ley lines.

Perhaps they are connecting her to the earth and to the others in her net. Maybe she is showing them how to balance emotional needs, spiritual needs and physical needs. If you turn the card upside down, there is almost a yoni effect with her in the middle waiting to be born. The lines then seem to be drawing her out.

What connects you to your physical self? To your passionate self? To your emotional self? How do you utilize those energies in your world? How do you balance them one with the other?

Perhaps, if you feel overwhelmed by one or not engaged by another, you can hold this image in your mind. Focus on working all of the energies. Understand that when you have all three things in balance, you can become your own angelic self.

And, grin, of course there is always the message from Terence:
“Moderation in all things including moderation.”
Don’t be hard on yourselves today. Do something to make someone else joyful if you are feeling down. Remember to find those tiny, small joys and let them pile up.

Seek joy, y’all. Pass it on.

Temperance, Daughters of the Moon, 1991

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Who is the Writer's Tarot Coach? I am! I help writers who are struggling with the fear of never finishing their book by busting through blocks so they can finally get their book done. I help those who are actively seeking to find their bliss by showing them how get laser focused on being happy again. You know how everyone says “follow your bliss" ….but lots of people don’t have a clue what their bliss is? Well, what I do is help them find it and keep it in their lives on a daily basis. Published as Ellora's Cave author, Marilu Mann (with Cai Smith), I've helped everyone from NYTimes best sellers to the prepublished seeking that NYTimes experience finish that damned book. I am also available for personal consultations via phone, in person or Skype. I am the current president of the American Tarot Association.