Sabbats, Seasons, and Tarot Spreads

Do you play video games or computer games? I think most of us do. One feature is achieving different levels. The higher the level, the greater the difficulty. Yet, in most games, the higher the difficulty, the greater the rewards.

What does this have to do with today’s message? Let’s take a look at the card I’ve drawn. It’s Judgement, represented in the Wise Earth Medicine Tarot by a butterfly. My first thoughts is how different today’s card is from yesterday’s! Yesterday we were looking at a ponderous, heavy elephant; today we’ve got a delicate butterfly flitting around.

The butterfly is perhaps the most familiar symbol of transformation, so it’s a fitting image for tarot’s Judgement card. Judgement is a time when we “hear the call” to move forward spiritually, a time for us to look at who we are, what we’ve done, atone for mistakes we’ve made, and figuratively shed our old skins and step into a new spiritual awareness.

In other words, it’s time for us to “level up”, to look back over the “XP” — experience points — we’ve gained, and move up to the next level in our spiritual practices. It’s a fitting “follow-up” to yesterday’s message about giving and receiving, making sure that we’re in balance there.

We’ve learned the importance of caring for ourselves, and we understand the need to care for others. Now, the “Judgement Butterly” is calling us forth, asking us to shake off the old and accept the new, to spread our wings and see how far we can fly.

But enough platitudes. Let’s get real. After all, that’s what these Weekly Readings are all about. We not here to simply talk about doing good and being spiritual. We’re here to listen, learn, and take action. The action we’re challenged to take to dy is to do something — to answer the call to help someone in some way.

We’re being called to “level up”, to show that we’ve learned, that we’ve gained experience, and that we’re truly ready to become more spiritual, not just in practice but in our actual day to day lives.

Where you can volunteer today? Can you help out at a soup kitchen? How about your local animal shelter? They’re always needing volunteers to come in and help with cleaning, feeding, exercising, transporting — if you love animals, drop by a shelter today and ask “How can I help?”

That’s the question for today. “How can I help?”