Sabbats, Seasons, and Tarot Spreads

Yes, I’ll still behind! It’s already mid-morning on Friday, and I’m just now getting around to writing this blog post. I’m hoping that next week will be a bit less hectic. Maybe I can catch up on a few things.

Let’s get right to the point here. Today’s card — the 5th and final in the spread I’m now using” is a bit of a “summary” card. It asks us to look back over the week, figure out what it was all about, and then move on to the upcoming week.

The idea of “moving on” is quite fitting, for our card today is the 6 of Wind — that is, the 6 of Swords.

Keywords for this card — as you can see in the card illustration — are PURPOSE, TRANSITION, JOURNEY. The usual concept behind the card is that of moving from a troubled situation to “calmer waters”.

This deck — The Wise Earth Medicine Tarot — is a newer one in my collection. I do like it’s gentle way of teaching through the cards. In the 6 of Wind we’re seeing flamingos, which are typically not migratory birds. So why use this symbolism? It’s because these birds have the ability to recognize when an environment is not right for them. They will then move to a different location.

So how does any of this fit in with this week’s Weekly Reading? It’s been disjoined week. I’ve been coming and going and my thoughts have been scattered about. I think the overall lesson to learn from this week focuses on honesty in many forms.

Are we honestly being charitable and helping others? Are we honestly able to admit our faults? I could go on and on with more questions involving “honesty”, and to that I’ll add the “ineffective communications” I’ve shared here this week. Quite simply, this “Weekly Reading” has been a mess of jumbled ideas and mixed messages.

So now, the “takeaway” today is let’s just move on. Let’s put this crazy, too-busy week behind us. Let’s take a deep breath, enjoy the weekend, and prepare for a new week.

For now, that’s the best I can do!