June Tarot Guidance
Sometimes cards can be subtle and require work from the reader to draw out the meaning. Other times they hit you in the face. I asked the deck “How should we seek balance in our lives this June?” and the deck pretty much shot back with “Really? Balance is balance. It’s not hard.”
Today’s draw:
Three of Cups
Temptation (The Devil)
Nine of Cups
Sacrifice (The Hanged Man)
Deck:
The Psychic Tarot Oracle Deck, by John Holland
The spread I’ve used here draws on traditional numerology. Across most cultures, four is the number of balance. There’s a reason we call boring people “square,” after all. It’s the shape historically considered the most equitable, unchanging, and stable — the moment any of the sides change in relation to the others, it ceases to be a square. In Indian thought, the root chakra is a square with four petals on it. In wu xing, the fourth element, earth, is represented by a square. Ancient Greeks also treated fours in similar ways. Squares exhibit symmetry in each direction, and the cards in this spread can be read in any of them. The top two compared to the bottom two. The left to the right. The diagonals can also be read as pairs.
The cards in this draw came out…well…extremely symmetrical! If we wish to maintain equity, we must balance sacrifice and a willingness to do without against having our wishes fulfilled. To give in to one side of this equation at the expense of the other collapses the delicate tension between them. Likewise with the balance between temptation and celebration — giving in to temptation to always celebrate our riches risks greediness, while denying ourselves things to be grateful for is stinginess. You could also read it on the diagonals to say that allowing ourselves to be tempted and having our wishes fulfilled can be balanced by a willingness to stay humble and be grateful for what we receive.
A fitting draw for the trickstery month of June as we travel through Gemini. The key to balance is, paradoxically, to be greedy! Allow yourself to traverse the full range of possibilities, playing them against each other so that you give each its due and draw the best from it.
