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Change is the theme this week, as a New Moon and Sun sign change are in the cards. With the Moon still in Libra on Monday, we’ll want to take advantage of a smooth-flowing day, before the shifts start to take place. The Libra new Moon occurs on Tuesday, marking a two-week cycle where new beginnings are sure to be a success, so make your wishes on the new moon and start implementing those activities you’ve been meaning to get a start on! The Sun moves into Scorpio on Wednesday, heralding a four-week cycle of soul development and spiritual enlargement. This is also a time when secrets tend to come out, so if there’s something you’ve been keeping under wraps, this next month may be the best time to come clean. This is also a cycle when the veil between the spiritual and physical world is thinnest, making it an ideal time to practice channeling, get a psychic reading, or try your hand at a new divination tool Things lighten up on Friday and Saturday as the Moon dances through Sagittarius, making fun interactions and light-hearted conversations a theme. We may find ourselves clearing and cleaning on Sunday, as the Capricorn Moon will encourage taking action to restore our physical worlds to order.

3 Tarot Meditations to Support Your Life, by Chanda Parkinson

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

The tarot invites us to free our minds to the imprint of their meaning upon our lives at any point in time. There are a plethora of traditional, time-honored interpretations we can bring to our tarot practices. However, making tarot personal and intimate goes beyond standard interpretations. In order to take flight into the poetry of the tarot, we must entertain the myriad ways in which each card can be interpreted in collaboration with the other cards. It is essential to include our intuitive impulses, plus our own mental connecting prowess, not just book meanings.

Surrendering ourselves into the vastness of the tarot requires building a relationship with it that is separate from memorized meanings. This attitude and strategy is what brings tarot to life before our eyes. It elevates the tarot from simply an object of deliberate study to also becoming a living, breathing embodiment of our daily lives; past, present, and future. It is the magnificent storyteller of our soul's path.

I know that for some, learning tarot can feel like an arduous task: 78 images stare up at us, all with deeply nuanced meanings combined with intricate levels of symbolism. It can be daunting to pick up a deck as a beginner, and even more intimidating to sort out how to begin learning. The more classic or traditional tarot decks are steeped in mythological and biblical tales, embedded with Egyptian hieroglyphs, letters of the Hebrew alphabet, and other esoteric symbolism. While it may seem a bit rebellious, even foolish, to connect with tarot cards first through your own intuition, it is a way to gain access to innate realms of wisdom that live within you. One of the methods for engaging your intuition to reveal personal truths held within the tarot is meditation.

Meditation is a flexible, universal modality that can be applied in many areas of spiritual practice. It not only stills our mind, but also opens our sixth sense to potential feedback and input intuitively gathered from our psychic tools. One psychic tool that pairs well with meditation is tarot. No matter how long you have been reading tarot cards, you can use meditation techniques to open a deeper awareness of the meanings and stories in the cards.

The combination of meditation and tarot isn't just for those who want to deepen their relationship and understanding of the tarot, but also for those with a dedicated meditation practice who are bored and looking for a new, fresh way to meditate! You can pull one card a day, and spend time connecting to its imagery as a way to clear your mind or move through a challenging moment with more clarity.

HOW TO BEGIN
Set and setting matters. I prefer a quiet, undisturbed spot in my bedroom for meditation and tarot. When I go in there and close the door, it's me time. I can spread out on the bed and know I am always in a comforting cocoon. Locating a space in your home that feels conducive to about 15- 20 minuntes of connecting with the cards is best. If you enjoy working with any sacred tools or objects, gather those around you.

If you have housemates and don't have much capability for seclusion, never fear! You don't need to be sequestered in dark room to meditate. As a matter of fact, parks or hiking trails are excellent options. If you have a lunch break at work, grab your tarot deck and take a walk to some place in nature. As long as you won't be interrupted, you can be somewhere near others. You can sit in the parking ramp on a work break or seek out a private room at a nearby library. Get a good set of noise-cancelling headphones. You can create the space to make this practice work for you.

A few thoughts on deck choice. If you don't already have a deck of tarot cards, you may wish to begin with the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot. It's a great basic deck with which to learn. Eventually you can expand from there, and incorporate other decks that speak to you. The Rider-Waite-Smith is the most universally used and written about deck, so you'll see examples of it all over the internet and in most traditional tarot teaching texts.

Here are three simple meditation and tarot techniques you can begin using now to support your personal path and life choices.

Choose Your Card Meditation
In this meditation exercise, you first look through your tarot deck face up and choose a card that speaks to you in the moment. You may not initially know why, and that's ok. Pull the card from the deck and place in front of you.

Now take a few nice deep breaths, and focus on emptying your mind. Try visualizing all of your thoughts being put in a safe or a large wooden box with a lock on it. Or, you can imagine your thoughts dissipating into the atmosphere, transformed into butterflies. Whatever visual can help you slow your thinking processes is helpful.

Now look at your card, and answer these questions quietly to yourself:

1. How does the card make you feel?
2. What is the story in the card?
3. How might this card relate to what is happening right now in your life?

Make note of it in a journal or notebook for later pondering.

One-Minute Tarot Meditation
This meditation exercise is best done sitting at a table, where you can spread your cards out in front of you. Hold your tarot cards in your hands. Take a few nice deep breaths, slowing down your body's biorhythms and your thoughts so you can focus and concentrate. While you shuffle your deck, send your intention into the cards for what it is you would like to know.

Next, fan the cards out on the table in front of you. Slowly run your dominant hand across the tarot cards, paying attention to any tingles of energy surging through your fingertips telling you which card to draw. Pull the first card you feel connected to. Trust your instincts.

After that, gaze at the card and simply allow thought forms, feelings, intuitive impressions, or messages to pop into your mind. How does this card mirror what may be going on currently in your life? Does a sudden mental imprint or AHA! moment pop into your mind? Go with your first impression. Take notes.

Prioritize Your Thoughts Meditation
Fun fact: on an average day, our minds think on average 60,000 thoughts. This is absolutely mind-blowing to me, and explains why it can be of tremendous use to have tools to bust up those thought streams, and give your mind a much-needed break.

You can use your tarot deck as a mental anchor, taking pause in the hectic moments of life, and slowing down the thought forms consuming you. Not only this, but it will also assist you in hearing your inner voice. Tarot is a wonderful tool for helping you prioritize your thought processes, so you can more systematically approach what needs to be done. This is an excellent exercise for those with ADD or who tend to scatter focus throughout the day.

Shuffle your deck while asking the deck to show you the one area of life to spend a little time reflecting on first. While shuffling simply project your intention into the cards. Divide the deck into three piles. Draw the top card from each pile and lay them out in front of you. Scan the three cards while keeping any disruptive thoughts from invading your mind. There is nothing but this moment, and this opportunity to learn something new about an area of your life. Just gaze lightly from card to card, not really committing to any one thought or insight. Begin to notice how the cards in front of you mirror something you are dealing with right now. With a paper and pen jot down notes about what area of life the cards are helping you prioritize.

Now gaze upon the cards again. What nudges are you feeling around this particular area of your life? Are the cards imparting any needed wisdom or guidance? If you would like, you can draw three more cards for additional insight. Trusting your own inner voice, write down 3 possible solutions the cards are revealing to you about that particular area of life. Allow your imagination and creativity to show you the way!

Combining your meditation and tarot practices brings an extra level of calm presence and capacity for deeper understanding during life's ups and downs. The key is to experiment with different settings, maybe even different card decks, and each meditation to see which ones work best for you. I hope you find these exercises helpful!

You can get even more detailed tarot and intuition building exercises just like this, including an in-depth meditation for each Major Arcana card in my new book Meditation and Tarot: Connect with the Cards to Develop Your Inner Vision.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2024. All rights reserved.

I have a pretty strange question. My husband passed away a couple of years ago, and nine months later my daughter had a baby girl. Much to our surprise, this little girl has shown many signs that she could be my departed husband reincarnated. They look very much alike, have similar personality traits, and they have the exact same birth spot in the exact same place! Here's the really strange part: I had contact with my husband after he died, and this continued for some time after this baby was born. Lately, however, it's been much harder to connect with him. Is it possible for a soul to reincarnate and still communicate with us as the spirit of the person they were in their last life? I'm so confused. Thank you!

- Denise

Astrea:

It's normal to want to have our loved ones come back - to be reincarnated to be with us - because we grieve so when they are gone. While your granddaughter's similarities to your husband are very pronounced, she is NOT your husband reincarnated.

Our Ka-Tet or Karmic Family rests in the Celestial until the members gather together to be born again as a group. This Celestial Incarnation may last hundreds or thousands of years, but people who die are not reborn to us in our current lifetimes.

Part of her DNA comes from your husband, however, so it makes sense that she would have part of him come through her in her appearance and demeanor.

While she isn't your deceased husband, it is possible that she is communicating with him, and that could account for a lot of what she's doing that makes you think of him. If he is a guardian watching over her, it would make sense that she would pick up on his mannerisms, gestures and expressions.

She could be dramatically affected by his Spiritual presence, right down to her facial expressions. She's learning to make faces now, and if she sees him, she may copy him just like she does the rest of the family.

Little kids can access Spirit a whole lot easier than we can because they haven't learned or been taught to close themselves off from such experiences. It's a good idea to let her know that's fine with you, because that way she'll be able to connect with him longer.

As she gets older, you'll be able to tell her not to talk to just anyone who is in Spirit, and teach her to protect herself from any kind of bad or unpleasant Entity who might try to come through her.

To be so like your husband she must have some kind of Spirit connection with him, and this could open up for other spirits as time goes by. (No doubt she's inherited this psychic sensitivity from YOU.)

Finally, I don't see how she could be your husband because your communication with him continued after she was born. A person is in Life or a person is in Spirit, and not caught or split between the two. Because she is so like him, you just get caught up in the feeling of his essence.

He may also be trying to come to you through her at times, so be vigilant about observing her. Soon she'll begin to talk TO him, if she's not doing that already. Also, as she learns how to talk, you'll be able to ask her how he's doing or if there is something he needs you to know.

While I know you would love to have him back again as this baby, that's not what happened. He lives THROUGH her, but he can't BE her. I'm sure you'll enjoy her as herself just as much as you loved him.

*****

Susyn:

What you describe is quite possible. In fact, I've seen and experienced this phenomenon myself.

You're fortunate to recognize the similarities and signs of your husband that your granddaughter is exhibiting. Most people don't realize how quickly a loved one can return to us in human form, or how very near they can be when they do.

As we transition from one plane to another, there are still many unknowns as to how, when and in what context spirits can communicate. Some can speak with you or leave signs, others can manifest in a ghostly form, and still others can cause physical objects to move.

The idea that spirits could be in more than one place at the same time is mystifying, isn't it? However, the more we learn about the other side, the more we come to realize that the possibilities are endless and often far beyond our understanding.

I will say that as your granddaughter grows, starts talking and formulating her own thoughts more, you may experience less and less contact with your husband. In the same timeframe however, you'll notice more and more of his traits coming out through her spirit, especially in the words she says and her special knowing smile.

It may seem confusing that your husband's spirit is operating in two different places virtually at the same time. It may help to ponder that just as our bodies are left behind on earth after death, for a time our spirits are moving to another plane, so during that period, we appear to be in two different places at the same time.

Your granddaughter will soon start speaking to you, and as she does, many of the things she says will confirm her soul's identity. This will be especially true between the ages of one and five, when young children still have memories or a sense of who they were in a previous life.

You'll also notice her being drawn to objects of her grandfather's or showing interest in some of his favorite hobbies or pastimes. She may share his favorite flavor of ice cream, and even display some of his physical habits such as nail biting or frowning in a certain way.

You'll also share looks and secrets with each other that no one else will seem to be in on because the loving bond you formed with your husband and his spirit will now reside in her.

How wonderful to be awake and aware enough to witness this phenomenon, Denise! You can watch the process of birth and rebirth and see how, despite your loss, there is lots of evidence that your husband has never truly left your side.

He's found a wonderful way of continuing to share your lives and remain close to you, your daughter, and the rest of his loved ones.

Astrea:

Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.

Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!

While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!

I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!

As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.

I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.

You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!

Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.

A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.

You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.