ADA (action dissolves anxiety) are daily meditation style tarot readings that do not predict the future – they empower you to influence the future through your actions.
What it is: Page of Pentacles (learning, sense of wonder)
What to do: Judgement (critical thought, second chances)
Just for today, indulge your curiosity and not your judgement. Being judgmental serves no good purpose today. Curiosity opens doors, and lets in light.
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ADA two-card readings are a daily meditation style Tarot that is intended to help ease worry and help creative problem solving because uncertainty sucks. Having a little understanding of a situation and a first step plan of action can go a long way to turn down the volume when anxiety happens.
The current energies: Four of Cups. Emotions just are – they come handed to you by life. You are the one who gets to decide if an emotion or a situation is a good or a bad thing. You get to decide whether to embrace or reject it. Don’t be stubborn about it. Your happiness is up to you.
What to do next: Page of Swords. Learn something. Knowledge is power. Swords are cards of mind and intellect. Googling social media doesn’t count here. Get real, science level information and education. Use your head. Use your know-how to cut through the fog and find your way through the storm of emotions.
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Left (what is going on, the current energy): The Empress. Nature is calling. Deep solutions for small problems are closer at hand than you may think.
Right (a good next step, an idea for what to do next): Nine of Wands. Whatever you are feeling right now is valid and worth your attention, even if it is a whole lot of tired. Tend to your needs for a minute so you can regain your strength and persist for yourself and or others.
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These two major arcana cards suggest a simple but powerful lesson: Only the empty cup can be filled.
What is (the current situation, current energies): The Magician
What to do next: The Death Tarot card (change, not the literal horror movie thing – you know that, right?)
The energy is right for attracting the things you need. If it is right, doors will open. The flow of energy is strong enough to follow.
But change may be needed. Clear a space, mentally or physically, for the desired things to be. Clear the runway – make a space for good things to land.
Deck: Alleyman’s Tarot by Seven Dane Asmund used with permission
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Knight of Wands (the current situation, left) The time requires action. Boundaries are getting blurred and need reinforced. It is a good environment for rediscovery of your strengths and magic.
Three of Wands (next step forward, right) Watch. Asses. Know where the boundaries are and reinforce them where needed. Evaluating and planning IS action.
Deck: Alleyman’s Tarot by Seven Dane Asmund. Used with permissions.
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Heirophant: The energy still lingers from this card’s message earlier this week. Live your own truth, listen to your higher self and your inner wisdom. Use critical thinking and a healthy dose of intuition before taking outside authority at face value.
Death (reversed) The change that is causing you pain may not be as bad or irreversible as you might think in this moment. But this is the death card just the same. The changes cut deep, and your feelings in this moment are valid regardless of the ultimate outcome. Give them – and the outcome their due each in their own time.
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PAGE OF CUPS: Roll with it. Plans might go all to heck, but it doesn’t make the weekend wasted time. Go where life steers you and Monday will come soon enough.
HIGH PRIESTESS: Let sleeping mysteries lie. It’s a mystery for a reason. If you want to dig for details, be prepared to deal with whatever you might find.
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The mysteries of any relationship, but most particularly a romantic one are both simple and complex together.
Ask.
Speak.
Listen.
Listen with your heart and the way will become clear.
Sage Sips is Tarot for your day in the time it takes to sip your coffee. Today’s sip: Page of Pentacles
It’s probably that Dan Harris book – or maybe a response to the national news over the past week or so – but stress management is stepping forward as a good idea of everyone.
Buddhist (in the philosophy, not the religious ritual sense) impermanence and detachment step forward.
In other words, this too will pass, so don’t get too wound up in thinking or worrying about it.
Pentacles are Earth, grounding, practicality. Pages are learning, maturing, graduating to the next level. It isn’t always easy, and it isn’t second nature to everyone to wait, watch, and learn before you act, but the wisdom of it is present in a whole list of adages and platitudes:
Keep your powder dry.
Hold your fire until you see the whites of their eyes.
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
Stay frosty.
Good things come to those who wait.
“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen… Keep in the sunlight … He that can have patience can have what he will.”
Benjamin Franklin
Today the page reminds us to wait, watch, learn, then we can act and elevate our response to something extra beneficial.
Sage Sip meditation with the Ace of Cups
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“If turbid waters are stilled, they will gradually become clear.”
Tao Te Ching, Victor Mair translator
It is hard to see the way forward when emotions are running high. The suit of cups, in addition to close romantic or family relationships, symbolizes emotions in general. Cups are connected to the element of water, so water analogies are common, especially here with the Ace. Ace cards carry the essence of the suit. Today, the energy is more akin to water-emotion energy than its water-intuition connotations. Water can be the depths of our human psyche but also deep emotion.
Churning water stirs up all sorts of dirt and debris from the bottom of a stream. Stormy waters are dark. Raging rapids and a broad ocean is far beyond our ability to still them. Sometimes, as with real storms, we have to metaphorically take shelter until the storm passes, and the waters become quiet.
Still waters run deep it is said. We have more emotional resilience and maturity after the reflex response has passed and we’ve calmed down. When churning water becomes still, all of the dirt, sand and silt can settle out of it. Emotions settle down, debris settles out of water, both become more clear.
Nothing about this energy is suggesting suppressing or artificially quieting emotions, any more than it suggests you could (or should) stop a hurricane. By the same token, it isn’t suggesting that we should let emotions rule and ride the pure impulse of the emotions roughshod over the whole situation, either.
There is a middle way.
Sit still. Feel the feels however painful and difficult they may be. Abide your time. Waves can’t stay high unless energy is added to them.
Don’t feed the upset.
Sit still.
Just as gravity and friction and time will eventually quiet a stirred up cup of water, as long as you don’t keep stirring the cup, emotions can naturally get quiet too.
Hurricanes are an apt analogy too. On the leading edge, winds are high. Things caught up in the storm and pushed by the wind cause damage. Go to shelter. From the quiet eye in the center of the storm you can see what you need to do next.
The song “Don’t Dream It’s Over” by Crowded House comes to mind with the lyric “trying to catch the deluge in a paper cup.” Let the deluge pass, and your paper cup can be filled in a puddle instead of destroyed by a wave.
Or, in the words from The Crow starring Brandon Lee – “It can’t rain all the time.”
Sit still, abide. It’s hard – but this too will pass. Stillness results in the calm and clarity you are looking to find.
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