Four Ways to Sunday
Today’s woo points us towards the work we are confronted with amidst a world of upheaval and change, one that feels like it is in the midst of forming, unforming, and reforming itself. What do we want the new world to look like, and what must we do to get ourselves there?
Deck: Ostara Tarot
Cards:
2 of coins
Page of coins
The World
Both the two of coins and the page of coins are interesting anomalies within a suit that is otherwise largely devoted to material resources. The two represents the skill and magic required to manifest our goals, but the magician attains these goals through a careful balancing act that acknowledges all of the elements, not just the material resources of the earth. In the background, a roiling sea shows us the magician must find a way to accomplish his goals while balancing precariously on a ship that rides the turbulent waters. He must learn to work with and on the wild and powerful emotional world. But he is also simultaneously confronted by the world of air represented by the birds — the ideas, breath, and will of the divine. It is up to him to be able to sense when to follow their guidance and when to ignore them as distractions and false messengers. As he does all of this, he applies heat and fire to his materials to transmute them through his own actions into what he seeks.
The page, like the two, also points us away from overfocusing just on material wealth. She is the innocent and curious archetype of the suit, the one whose purity of purpose looks to the whole of creation for its inspiration, still guided as she is by spiritual hopes and not only material acquisition. Despite her innocence, she is guided by the cunning of the fox. She knows, even in her youth, how to get what she wants. She is not yet too jaded to believe that she can’t have her cake and eat it, too, somehow attaining both the security she needs to thrive without compromising her own soul or the rest of the world in the process.
Together, they suggest that we can take advantage of the current formlessness of things to create a world where we can have it all. One that allows us to have security and wealth, but in a way that recognizes the divine, that recognizes and takes pleasure in the work and skill maintaining such a world takes, and that learns how to embrace the wild and deep waters of the emotions. If we can do that, we can live lives rich on all dimensions.
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