Weekend Shift

This card means business.

Consider this from Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Facebook:

“In a deck of 52 playing cards, the total number of possible shuffles is Astronomical:
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** If a trillion people each shuffled a deck of cards a trillion times per second…
** And they each did this for a trillion years…
** And it occurred in a trillion civilizations across our universe….
** And that played out in a trillion universes across the multiverse…
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On your next shuffle, only then is there a nearly even chance your deck will match any previously shuffled deck.
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Which means any time you fully shuffle a deck of cards, it’s not likely to match any deck that has ever been shuffled before.”

A Tarot deck has 78 cards. That makes repetition of a shuffle even more unlikely.

The Alleyman’s Tarot has multiples of major arcana cards plus the “Strange Suit” plus the “Other Arcana” plus expansion packs – do depending on how a Tarot reader has customized their deck, this has over 130 cards which raises the magnitude of mind blowing and makes repetition damn near impossible.

Yet here we are. The Moon, albeit with different cards and art, has been here two weeks in a row. Sure, you can argue things like shuffling technique, cutting vs dealing, a pure, raw coincidence – I’ll leave the pedantry and calculations to the scientists and mathematicians.

Still, my layman’s guess is the odds of this happening are somewhat less than 50-50. All things considered, this card means business. It went from current energy two weeks ago to a growing energy position this past Monday. It’s almost like it backed up in order to take a better aim at us.

While we are on the topic of mind-blowing statistics, let look at a little bit of science juxtaposed with some of the Moon cards classic meanings. I’m not saying that science explains Tarot or supports the existence of magick…I’m just saying that the scientific and the spiritual give us some lovely, complimentary analogies.

The Moon card is associated with water, emotions, intuition, psychic ability, spiritual journey, women’s intuition and natural cycles.

The actual moon is just as mind-blowing as its spiritual side and card-shuffling statistics.

Lots of planets have moons. Some planets have lots of moons. We have one that spins in just the right way to allow the same side to always face us here on Earth’s surface. Amid all of its phases and changes, there is an element of constancy and therefore comfort. The moon changes, but it changes in predictable ways that small schoolchildren know. Even when it backs up and aims right for us, Moon card energy is gentle and comforting at the same time it is spiritually empowering.

The Moon card energy is clearly lingering. As the weekend goes on, it is clearly shifting too. My guess is that it will be a background energy that continues even as the focus moves on to other things as the new week begins. Look for natural cycles large and small to shift and turn. Look to the sky for comfort of Earth’s changing yet constant companion.