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September 13 through September 19, 2021

The show stopper this week is Mars' entry into Libra on Tuesday, where it will spend the next six weeks focused on love, relationships, balance, and beauty. Even if we plan to build a new business or tackle a home project, this planet will infuse more visual beauty and balanced planning into the mix. Tuesday and Wednesday will be our most productive days of the week, so if there's something you simply must get done, these are the days to address it. Come Thursday, the Moon will travel through Aquarius for three days, which could upend our plans or bring unexpected information or situations to the surface. The main thing to remember is that we'll need to practice a lot more flexibility under this influence, adjusting to whatever arises at any given moment. And remember, if one door closes, it's time to start looking for an open window! Sunday's Pisces Moon will give us the chance to stop and reflect, offering a great opportunity to see the higher purpose in any shifts or changes that pop up this week.

How to Activate a Tarot Reading with Your True Intentions, by Denise Hesselroth

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

Materially and superficially, the Tarot appear as a set of images printed with ink onto slightly stiffened paper or card; to all sense and purposes, they appear as simple pieces of art. However, the Tarot is significantly more than just pretty pictures; they are a treasure house of images that express a profound connection to a mystery school that was centuries in the making. Elements hid within the Tarot reflect a truth that was old when the world was new. The school of Tarot emerged from an Occulture that was intent on creating a tool that would transform the lives and spiritual wellbeing of its users. They succeeded.

As a fledgling Tarot reader, I often felt out of my depth, isolated from my teachers or those who inspired me. Cut off from the guide books and the information therein that, my fallible memory failed to recall clearly and succinctly. With the eyes of the Querent upon me, I cannot begin to tell you how often my breath would catch in my chest, as pearls of sweat broke out on my forehead to glisten and betray my lack of confidence. Thankfully, most querents were patient and willing to allow a young person to simply have a go, and I am grateful to them for their tenacity and encouragement during my studies. And yet, I often felt so alone in my quest to understand and move into deep relationship with the cards.

That is, until one fateful day when I was to meet the most influential person in my magical life. Her name was Myfanwy Davies, and she hailed from the green valleys of South Wales. For decades she had resided in the North Wales coastal town of Rhyl. She was profoundly crippled by consequence of a road traffic accident; she wore glasses as thick as milk bottle bottles, and I would jest that she could still see Haley's Comet through them things. Short in stature yet huge in heart and magic, she told of me something inherent within the Tarot that I had yet to consider or contemplate—the Spirit within the Tarot.

Aleister Crowley explored this spiritual principle hid within the Tarot in his seminal work The Book of Thoth. In it he discusses the animistic principle held within the cards and stated that the cards themselves are living beings. They appear on the surface of to the untrained eye as inert and stationary and yet they crackle with a life-force and a vitality that is accessible to any student or adept of the Tarot. It was of this that my teacher Myfanwy referred to and then encouraged me to expand on that thought and explore the nature of the Tarot as a landscape of living, spiritual entities. My relationship with the cards were never to be the same again.

It is easy for us to consider that the nature of consciousness only applies to that which we consider as kin or near-kin, fellow humans, our pets, other animals, trees and rocks. We can identify the consciousness in others because we may share a similarity of awareness. We may not immediately consider this when we look at a deck of cards, and yet we would be foolhardy—as students of the occult sciences—to dismiss that the cards themselves reflect a consciousness. As I learnt that day, all of those years ago, as the western winds brought hailstones to beat at Myfanwy's windows: the Tarot are pictorial representations of the natural forces of the universe, and they contain within them the very principle of existence and all of its glorious expressions.

Tarot functions through the occult hypothesis that consciousness is not local, and it is not confined to specific points in space, or places like our brains. But in turn, our brains coalesce that consciousness, like a receiver, into a moment in time, and like the opening of a book and the turning of its pages, consciousness reveals itself in the here and now. This is precisely what the Tarot does: it opens the book of consciousness and coalesces material and information relevant to a precise moment in time (the reading), and reveals it.

It is able to do this because of the immense psychic energy that went into its creation.

In truth, each time you take to your decks, you are accessing a storehouse of wisdom that is more than the sum totality of its creators. For instance, if your deck is one inspired by the Rider-Waite-Smith system, a plethora of energies and influences went into the making of that tradition. From the Kabbala to the complexities and magical endeavours of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, to the profoundly powerful images of Pamela Colman-Smith, to every student and reader of that particular system. All have fed and nurtured a mystery school that is complete in 78 branches of wisdom. This magical heritage gave breath and life to the thought-forms that would eventually rise as living beings in their own right, as the spirit within the Tarot.

If your deck is inspired by the Rider-Waite-Smith system but has another overlay, take for instance my own Celtic Tarot. I have retained the primary symbology and system of the Rider-Waite-Smith but overlaid it with the magic of Celtic mythology. This adds another spiritual dimension to the cards; it does not detract from what is already present in the symbols themselves. By proxy of this, using a modern deck connects you to its creator and artist and the spiritual work that was necessary for them to perform to bring their decks into being.

Tarot is revealed to both reader and querent simultaneously, as each card is turned the spirit within that card sings of its heritage and the connection it has to all that has gone before it. The reader interprets the meaning of the card based on its position or value within a spread, and reveals this vocally to the querent. The most effective of readers are those who can sense and work with the spirits that inhabit their decks.

With this in mind, when one takes to a deck, one is in actuality never alone, for the spiritual beings that inhabit the Tarot are your constant guides to their revelation and inspiration. I sit here now, on a night not dissimilar to that which I enjoyed decades ago, the winds blow and hailstones stammer at my window demanding attention. But in my office, I am not alone, I have a number of decks, too many to admit to, and I sense their companionship. For within these decks are the wonders of the universe and of all life and living, of things seen and unseen and things betwixt and between sense and sensibility. In them are the efforts of occultists and artists and magicians long since dead, the mighty ones of the Tarot. It is the company of Tarot that I share this space with, and the comfort and stability that they offer my adventures into the magical world of Tarot.

Next time I will share some of my techniques for accessing the spirit within the Tarot.

Until then, fare thee well, and keep reading.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2020. All rights reserved.

I used to dream about my husband cheating on me a lot when we were younger. In the end, I was the one who ended up cheating. When I started cheating myself, I stopped dreaming about my husband cheating. When he learned about me cheating, he admitted that he had both cheated on me and tried to cheat on me multiple times. I feel like this makes us even. I do know that he would never have admitted to cheating on me if I hadn't cheated myself. I didn't hide my infidelity; we were having a lot of problems and I just didn't care if he knew or not. Here's my current dilemma: I feel like my husband is not cheating on me now, for we spend a lot of time together and things are going well. All of a sudden, however, the dreams about him cheating are back! We have four children and have been able to stick things out and forgive each other for what we did in the past in order to hold the family together. Things seem to be going well, but now that I'm having dreams of him cheating again, I wonder what is really going on. Since my dreams were right before, could they be trying to warn me again? Thank you!

Desiree

Susyn:

For some people, cheating is a type of addiction. Even though you have worked things out and have agreed not to cheat on each other again in the future, it could be that the urge to be unfaithful is something neither of you can control. I recommend you confront your husband and ask him directly if he is cheating. Once you know where things stand, you can work together to address the situation.

It is probably a good idea to trust your instincts, especially considering that your dreams were so accurate in the past. However, do keep in mind that dreams come in many forms. While they can be prophetic warnings, they can also simply be a way to process buried fears.

It is possible that the dream is only bringing up incidents from the past because you're afraid of that happening again, so instead of worrying about what may or may not be going on, your best defense is to ask your husband directly. If he denies the allegations, these dreams may just be bringing up unresolved issues you still carry about the stability of your marriage.

Whatever the case may be, I recommend you get some couples therapy. Though you have agreed to forgive each other and stick things out to hold your family together, it could benefit your common goal to enlist the aid of a professional. An objective third party can also help you process hidden feelings and any addictions that could be affecting the situation.

If the dreams of your husbandís cheating led to your own infidelity, a professional can help you examine your choices and choose a more constructive response in the future. It could be that this was your way of getting back at him because somewhere deep inside, you knew that what you were seeing in your dreams was the truth.

Ignoring our instincts often triggers revealing dreams. There was a part of you that knew something was going on, but because you had no proof, Spirit revealed the truth to you in a dream. Since it took your own cheating to get your husband to admit his infidelity, it sounds like your marriage is not working on many levels. Seeking the aid of a marriage counselor or therapist can help you get back on track.

You may also want to start a dream journal to keep track of other dreams you have that carry hidden truths. Because you have a sixth sense that speaks to you via your dreams, there could be other important messages your subconscious mind is trying to send you.

I wish you luck in sorting through the challenges you face in your marriage, Desiree. As long as you are both willing to work toward a solution, I'm sure you'll find a way to work things out.

*****

Mata:

Sadly, many of us trust what others tell us more than we trust our own instincts. I've met a number of people who suspected their spouse was cheating but dismissed those feelings because their spouse insisted they were innocent, only to find out later that their instincts were right all along.

When it comes to psychically sensing that someone is being dishonest, in my experience, where there's smoke, there's fire. When you get a feeling that something is going on, something is probably going on. When someone tells you something that just feels off somehow, that feeling is usually your intuition telling you to question what you're being told.

Our subconscious minds are constantly trying to help us. When we don't heed our intuition, we may receive information via our dreams.

Many times people who are diagnosed with a severe health issue are able to look back and in hindsight see that their dreams had been warning them of a growing problem for years. The same is true of relationships and all sorts of concerns. When you dreamed your husband was cheating years ago, on a subconscious level, you knew what he was up to but it was too difficult for you to deal with consciously.

Of course, it is very important not to jump to conclusions, especially since our dreams and our intuition tend to speak to us in symbols. While these dreams suggest that there is something happening that you don't want to happen, that doesn't necessarily mean your husband is literally being physically unfaithful.

I can think of many reasons why a wife may dream her husband is cheating. If he is somehow shirking his responsibilities around the house, she may dream that he is cheating because he is not doing his share. If he is confiding in someone else more than her - even if it's his mother or a guy friend - she may feel like he is emotionally cheating on her.

If he is doing things he knows she wouldn't like and trying to hide it, she may dream he is cheating even if what he is really doing is hanging out at the bar or blowing a lot of money at the casino. People who are married to workaholics, video gamers or couch potatoes may dream their spouse is cheating because the way they spend their time makes their partner feel like they are not number one.

To determine the nature of what's going on, ask yourself if you feel cheated in this relationship in general. Are you somehow getting less than you feel you deserve or hoped for? Of course, it would also be wise to tell him about these dreams and openly discuss your feelings, for that's the only way to build a truly solid marriage.

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.