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Understanding Tarot’s Acolyte Cards
The acolyte cards are strong medicine. They all concern fate in some way, if only as an idea, and limit our personal power to dispense their wisdom.
Understanding Tarot’s Acolyte Cards
The acolytes are special because they clearly illustrate the role of power and control. This early sequence of acolyte cards deals with naturalized power and control.
5 Pillars of Tarot for Liberation
Tarot for liberation is a call to integrate and respect the role of intuition in movements for justice.
Seven of Wands: Tarot for Conflict
Conflict can bring out the worst in us.
When we're in conflict, our first stance is often to defend ourselves. Defensiveness is the enemy of intuition.
Queering Tarot's Queens: Reclaiming Our Labor
“I suspect that many of these attempts to "modernize" tarot come out of empathy, warranted or not, for tarot's Queens.
The main assumption about gender in tarot is that it must be prescriptive rather than observational.”
Building Responsive Power: Queering Tarot's Kings
The court card's monarchs are power as it really is in our lives. The Empress and Emperor of the major arcana, by contrast, are power as it was designed to operate. They are power as we are conditioned to believe it operates.
Queering Tarot's Knights: Becoming Ourselves
There's something very familiar about tarot's Knights. There's a youthful quality that most of us have passed through. They're on a mission, and seen in the midst of action.
Like all court cards, they're purposeful. We see the Knights, and all court cards, at work. They are figuring out how to do their job, but also how sincerely.
Most of all, the court cards, Knights included, blend symbolism with actual people in your life.
Make Yr Life: Queering Tarot's Pages
Regardless of our path to ourselves, we have all had page moments. Queer life is full of them.
I'm not talking about coming out, although that may be one for you. I'm talking about coming into your own. I'm talking about seeing your path unfold before you, and co-creating your life.
Five of Wands Reversed
One method of reading reversed cards is returning to the work of the preceding card.
For the 5 of Wands reversed, one would have to revisit the 4 of Wands. The 4 of Wands is the beginning of harmony.
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Through free thought, by which I mean attention to detail, inquiry, and understanding, we can see that the work of tarot’s Swords isn’t good or bad.
Through free thought, we can see the role systems play in our limited ability to see the truth and accept reality. Our unwillingness or inability to think and scheme freely limits our capacity for action.
It all but ensures that we will act without thinking, and reap the consequences about which the Swords warn.