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Things slow down this week as we move under the watery vibes of a Cancer Moon on Monday and Tuesday, followed by the Sun's entry into Cancer on Wednesday. For the next four weeks, our thoughts will turn to home, family, and comfort-seeking activities. Gardening, cooking, and restoring order to our homes and relationships; these are the hallmark traits of Cancer. Emotions and spiritual activities will also serve as a focus, reminding us to rebalance any areas of our inner lives that have become scattered or disconnected. Self-focus will be essential Wednesday and Thursday under the Leo Moon, as we stop to look at where we have been giving too much and not taking care of ourselves. This is the time to turn the focus back on our own needs for a few days. Once the Moon enters Virgo on Friday, we'll have two days to concentrate on restoring physical order to our surroundings, clearing out clutter, making lists, and creating a blueprint for future endeavors. With the mood of each day changing this week, we'll welcome the Moon's entry into Libra on Sunday, where we can assimilate all the activities and insights of the week and find our balance.

Have Your Ever Fallen for a Knight? The Tarot’s Four Knights in Love, by Elliot Adam

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

The colorful personalities of the tarot court can offer us amazing insight into the different types of people we might encounter in the realm of dating. Many of us are initially hoping to secure a relationship with someone who is serious, stable, and ready to settle down in a relationship. However, the desire for stability is more in alignment with the tarot's king and queen personalities. Although kings and queens can offer lasting security, they may not initially inspire the same fireworks as the dashing knights of the tarot court. On the quest for true love, you'll inevitably find yourself interacting with individuals who exhibit the personality traits of the tarot's four knights.

Many tarot decks will depict knights riding a horse. Knights are always in motion, ever coming and going. In a love reading, knights are passionate, vigorous, and electrifying individuals. They lack the stable nature of kings or queens… and yet, that's what makes them so attractive and exciting. However, the youthful vigor that makes knights so captivating is also what makes them resistant to being tied down. Their behavior is notoriously erratic and inconsistent. Knights usually appear very confident in themselves, even when they don't have life completely figured out yet. They are still on a quest of personal development and rarely make their relationship partner the primary focus of their life. At their best, knights are sexy, passionate, exciting, confident, vigorous, and chivalrous. At their worst, they can be inconsistent, noncommittal, or even unfaithful. Although many traditional tarot books seem to describe knights as strapping young men in their twenties and thirties, the tarot court does not necessarily adhere to traditional assumptions of age or gender. The court cards in the tarot often more accurately describe the personality traits and maturity level of the person in question. This is true for any gender identity or age group. I've spoken to many frustrated clients dealing with a partner who is chasing after a knight well into their 60s! Here is a sampling of the tarot's four knights from Tarot in Love: Consulting the Cards in Matters of the Heart. Try and identify if you've ever dated one of these unpredictable knaves.

Knight of Swords: The Knight of Swords is continually in fast pursuit of their desire. Whether chasing a love interest, a job, a deadline, or a personal goal, they give 110% to achieve their objective. In love pursuits, the Knight of Swords will initially pour all their interest and energy on the object of his affection. However, their attention can be easily diverted toward the next conquest that captures their imagination. It can come as a sudden shock when their abruptly switch gears toward a different pursuit. For the Knight of Swords, it's all or nothing. They are fiercely competitive, holding visions of glory for themselves. The Knight of Swords wants to win, conquer, and vanquish anything standing in the way of their goal. Their confidence give them great sex appeal; however, they can lack the empathy to consider how this ruthlessness might hurt others. At best, the Knight of Swords is dashing, intense, exciting, and attractive. At worst, they are self-serving, ruthless, and possesses an eerie ability to detach from compartmentalized emotions.

Knight of Cups: The Knight of Cups is the archetypal "Knight in Shining Armor." Because of their beauty, they have been blessed with many unearned advantages in life. Their dashing, romantic confidence can make you swoon, as past lovers fade into distant memory. The Knight of Cups fearlessly declares their heart with unmatched charm. It's easy to abandon all common sense when they set their angel eyes on you. Although the chemical attraction to the Knight of Cups is irresistible, they don't always translate into a substantive partner. The thrilling pleasure of their presence is also laced with the danger of possibly losing them. The Knight of Cups will quickly gallop off if they sense desperation from a lover, preferring to idealize a romance that is just out of reach. This knight secretly desires that rare person who is out of their league. At best, the Knight of Cups is expressive, romantic, confident, charming, and devastatingly sexy. At worst, they can be unfaithful, changeable, conceited, and emotionally unavailable.

Knight of Pentacles: The Knight of Pentacles can captivate you with their potential. They exude an aura of self-confidence and all the external trappings of success. The problem is, the Knight of Pentacles hasn't quite reached their full potential yet. In a love reading, the Knight of Pentacles can represent a person who attracts you with their possibilities. However, the Knight of Pentacles is usually slow to grow. The Knight of Pentacles will often step on the brakes before making a big commitment. They also harbor a secret frustration for not quite attaining the success to which they aspire. The appearance of the Knight of Pentacles will often advise you to keep your expectations in check. Beware of projecting your wants and desires on a person who is currently unable to deliver the total package. At best the Knight of Pentacles is attractive, charming, exudes confidence, and has great plans and aspirations for the future. At worst, they can be stagnant, slow to grow, and will constantly keep you waiting.

Knight of Wands: The Knight of Wands seizes each day with a spirit of adventure and vitality. They might leave you breathless after your first passionate encounter. The Knight of Wands loves physical activity, movement, and change. They will likely be athletic, enjoying sports or working out. It goes without saying that they also love sex. Their self-confident presence oozes energetic virility. The challenge the Knight of Wands presents is also what makes them so desirably attractive, this roaming spirit of adventure. The Knight of Wands will maintain their freedom for as long as they humanly can. This is not to say that the Knight of Wands can't fall in love or make a commitment one day. However, they must be at a life stage when their "wild oats" have been satisfactorily sown. Waiting for this Knight can take a very long time… At best, the Knight of Wands is thrilling, sexy, confident, honest, free-spirited, travel-loving, and open-minded. At worst, they are rebellious, non-committal, evasive, impulsive, and unfaithful.

Falling for a knight can be passionately exhilarating. However, finding lasting happiness with one can only happen when you accept the stage they are at in life. Knights cannot be "waited out," guilted into submission, or pressured into doing your will. In fact, these behaviors will only seem to drive them further away. If you enter a relationship with a knight hoping to "make them" into a more consistent king or queen, you are likely to be disappointed. You must believe and accept what the other person is showing you, not the elusive potential that they promise to live up to in the future. However, if you find yourself exploring a liberating "knight phase" in your own life, a relationship with another knight could open your world to previously unknown levels of passion, excitement, and adventure.

For more in-depth card meanings for any relationship reading, check out Tarot in Love: Consulting the Cards in Matters of the Heart.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2023. All rights reserved.

Can an inanimate object sometimes act as a guardian? I had a car that actually saved my life one time by refusing to move just before another car ran a stop light at high speed. How does that happen?

Dreamchaser:

I am so glad that you asked this question because lots of people ask the same thing.

Can an inanimate object save our lives? No. Can a higher power, angel, spirit guide, etc. use an inanimate object to save our lives? Yes. You used a car as an example. The car itself does not have a mind or a soul. It cannot say, "I think I will save my owner's life." A spiritual being of some kind, however, COULD make the car not move.

When annoying things happen, I often wonder how much of it is to prevent something "bad" from occurring. For example, if my car will not start or I get a flat tire, it very well could be to delay me so that I stay safe from harm. We can't see the whole big picture all the time. We tend to be rather short-sighted. If we could see all the action going on below the surface and behind the scenes, we would be AMAZED. We have beings of all kinds helping move things into or out of our paths accordingly.

One example that keeps popping into my mind is a story from my own life. My daughter had been born approximately three weeks earlier. I wanted to take her to my father's house, so I hit the road. We were traveling on a four-lane divided highway, and I was in the right lane. I heard a horn honk blaringly and I looked to my left. There was a man in a car staring at me, and I realized that I had nodded off. The ONLY thing I saw when I looked at the car and man as a whole was this man's eyes. They were very big and brown and looked strangely liquid-like. I was heading for a rather steep drop off that would, at best, hurt us both very badly. As I shook the sleep off and looked around to get my bearings, I looked back to wave to the man - and there was no car.

I looked behind me and in front of me on the road, and I was the only car on that stretch of highway. I realized that some higher power had saved our lives that day. Spirit made that car and that man manifest to wake me. I guess someone could have come into my car and shaken me awake, but this was a much kinder and gentler method, as it didn't freak me out too badly.

So you see, we both had "cars" save our lives. I wonder how many of our readers have similar stories. I would venture to say MANY. Next time something "bad" happens, like a postponement of any kind, stop and think. MAYBE something is trying to help you in some way. If you change your thinking about delays, at the very least, it will make it easier to deal with the wait!

I wish you all safety!

*****

Astrea:

All my life, my Daddy has always bought Ford cars. He drives a Ford now. When I was about three, we traded "Josephus" in for another Ford, and I went nuts. I didn't want to have a DIFFERENT CAR! Daddy explained that it was STILL Josephus. He even started the car so that I could hear the engine and said, "See, he's still right here!"

No matter what car we had, the SPIRIT of Josephus transferred into our new one when Daddy signed the papers to buy it. Whether it is the SPIRIT of Josephus (the car, not the historian), or A SPIRIT that enters every one of Daddy's new cars until it's not his car anymore, I always feel safe when we're driving. Daddy has been driving for more than sixty years, and has never been in an accident. He has had ONE ticket, and I think he might have been driving my mother's car that day.

Perhaps thinking we have Josephus in the Ford gives us more confidence to drive to where we're going safely. Maybe we're just more careful because of Josephus - we want to be careful not to HURT him, after all. 🙂

I don't really believe that INANIMATE objects can have Spirits of their own, but they can be well inhabited by Spirits both Good and Bad. A car that is a LEMON might have an EVIL Spirit living in its motor. A SPEEDY car might carry an IMPATIENT Spirit, but it isn't a Spirit that is built into the car, in my opinion. It may be that when we NEED extra protection when we're driving, we dig around and summon permanent Guardians to inhabit our cars!

There is a simple protection spell for those of you who do NOT have a protective Spirit living in your cars. When you get ready to go on any trip, load up your car and then in your mind, create a net of blue stars and wrap your vehicle in that net. This also works to protect your home while you're away. It's such a habit with me, I rarely go to the store without throwing my net over the house and car. It just takes a second, and driving through THIS world, I need all the help I can get.

I can't say for sure whether the CAR has a Spirit or whether a GUARDIAN Spirit you carry with you settled itself into your car. It is one thing or the other, but you certainly WERE protected in that car in that MOMENT. However you choose to perceive it, you DID receive protection when you needed it the most. What difference does it make where it comes from as long as that protection is THERE? Just be sure to remember to take it with you when you go to buy your next car!

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.