The Aces ~
doorways/beginnings
To touch, to speak, to feel, to love
Pentacles:
Holding an opportunity in the palm of your
hand.
Money, finances, health, the body, stability, security, grounding, recovery, regeneration, gnomes, elves, brownies, motives, outcomes
Ace/Pentacles ~
With the ace of pentacles, you hold in your hand all of the infinite possibilities of your physical world… the space you live in; the objects surrounding you; the clothing that adorns your body; the food you eat,; and so much more that makes our human experience complete on this earth. But somehow, it goes even deeper than that, into the atoms, and neutrons, and molecules that make up the physical us, all of these microscopic parts that have to fit together perfectly for everything to run smoothly in order for us to live.
This Ace wreaks with the element of Earth. It embraces in a wild frenzied passionate coital rapture LIFE in all its glory.
Reversed:
Beware. A shadow falls on the physicality of your world. Somewhere in the vast universal miraculous machinery that keeps your mundane earthly life in order, there is a glitch, a virus, a wrench.
Be
prepared to make repairs.
My
Personal Connection:
I’ve been in and out of this doorway so many times, from financial security, then a hand to mouth existence, and a crawl back up to relative security once more. Mostly my entrance and exit through this card and the world it envelops has been through divorce, remarriage, and divorce. It’s a transition that this Ace has followed me through relentlessly.
I look at it now with a sense of peace, because I look at it from a secure vantage point, and it’s shining on my well ordered world. It wreaks with the physical accomplishment of new books that are selling well, a job that I love and feel connected with, a pride at being able to maintain my physical world and all the grownup financial intricacies that go with it. I’m at a state of grace with the Ace of Pentacles at this point in my life, and my main ambition is to retain this glowing relationship. I know how fragile it can be.
Swords:
Holding on tight, bracing for life.
Communication, clarity, creativity, mental fortitude, mental endeavors, fairies, deception, swift action, ruthlessness, power,
Ace/Swords ~
With the ace of swords, you hold in your hand the key to communication and the doorway to your creative abilities… your ability for clear, and thoughtful, and eloquent speech; the ability to express yourself clearly with paper and pen, or paint and a brush, or a musical instrument and the notes that make it come to life. This ace embraces your ability to create life’s art, but also, your ability to understand, enjoy, and benefit from someone else’s creations.
The ace of swords embraces our mind, our thoughts, our perception of the world on an intellectual level.
Reversed:
Beware. A
shadow falls on the mental aspects of your world. The ability
for
communication and understanding are disrupted.
The ability to be creative, or to enjoy creativity, is interrupted. The mind is touched in a negative way in some
manner.
Be prepared to swim from the dark gray depths and break the surface.
My
Personal Connection:
Every time writer’s block has put the brakes on a project, every time I'm at a loss for words with someone in my life, whether my mother, a husband, a child, a friend, this card has pulled me through it’s portal and stood me on precarious cliffs, ready to push me off into oblivion. It sounds so cruel, but it can be so necessary. It’s been the key to finishing a book, writing a story, telling someone something that’s been difficult to say, or something that needed said even if it would tear things open, or cut things off.
This Ace is a thorn in my side, but one I still hang on to, pulling from it what I need to spark my mind, to move my tongue. This card was key to the relationship I had with my estranged mother. It whispers of so many things left unsaid, of connections lost, of possibilities gone.
Wands: Holding on tight, trying to maintain
momentum, keeping up-stream.
Finances, business, contracts, connections, mentality, combativeness, defense, victory, motivation, persistence, salamanders, cleansing, purging, destruction, regrowth
Ace/Wands ~
Reversed:
Beware. A shadow falls between yourself and sweet success. This doesn’t mean you won’t reach your goals and revel in your achievements; it only means that the road you have to travel to arrive at your destination may contain potholes and detours.
Be prepared to work harder and persevere.
My
Personal Connection:
This card scoffs at me for treating so many things in life with such caution that I’ve missed the whole point, not to mention the experience and the lesson. This Ace has also chased me through life, from love affair, to love affair, relationship to relationship, its fires of passion burning bright and all too carelessly. Sometimes those flames of passion consume things that were not intended to be consumed and abandoned, like common sense and independence.
The
essence of this card was with me in childhood, though we had not officially
met. It’s energy was there
none-the-less, in those first hesitant submissions of my work to magazines and
editors. This Ace was there all along,
walking the walk with me, fanning the flames of ambition with my desire to
write.
Cups:
Holding tight, grasping for love, and
following dreams.
Relationships, visions, intuition, emotions, sensitivity, purity, cleansing, undines, mer-folk, illusions, chameleon, secrets, decisions, transparency, fantasy, delusion
Ace/Cups ~
With the ace of cups you hold in your hand all of
the visions, dreams, and love you will experience in this lifetime… every
relationship that touches
your existence, every dream-scape that you
travel in your sleep, every vision you experience through Spirit spills from
the ace of cups. You swim within this
realm enveloped by the magic of it all.
The real dilemma of this ace comes in managing all of the images,
emotions, and depth that you experience with feeling, really FEELING, life.
With the ace of cups, you will learn the importance of filters and boundaries.
Reversed:
Beware. There is the danger of being entangled in fantasy, deluged with paranoia and narcissism, caught in the web of self-deceit.
Be prepared to sort out reality from delusion.
My
Personal Connection:
The Ace of Cups has been my biggest challenge in life (me, the Libra, forever connecting in partnerships), forever pursuing love and a fairy tale ending, not anticipating what each encounter would bring to me, what I would learn from it, what I would suffer for it, what I would take away from it. The Libra in me has not been content unless I was one of a pair, from the time I was 15 years old. There has only been three years in my 20s and going on three years in my 60s that I have been a single entity. And I realize now, looking back in reflection, that these single years have been the largest periods of growth and development for me.
This beautiful cup full of promises and love, commitment and passion, had to throw the water it contains in my face to wake me up, in order for me to see and recognize destructive patterns in my life, in order for me to break these patterns. Does this mean that the belief in fairy tale endings has been washed away? The idea of love and passion that never dies? The idea of soul mates and magical connections? No, of course not, but it’s the realization that those things must be chosen carefully, that you can’t take such big steps at face value and wish for the best outcome. It’s also made me realize that if those things are not for me, or not for me at particular periods of life, that’s okay too.
It’s
taken a lifetime, but I’m finally at peace with the Ace of Cups.
for Your Personal Tarot Journey
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