Eight of Spirals

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From Chrysalis Tarot by Toney Brooks and Holly Sierra

This card is all about moving forward rapidly.

Long-awaited answers are coming, along with the successful conclusion of unresolved matters. You may find yourself surprised by the direction you are suddenly heading because Eight of Spirals is all about major changes and turnabouts of ideas and beliefs, usually through a burst of enthusiasm or a sudden enlightenment. It is a very exciting card to get!

It can sometimes indicate a physical house-move or travel. Listen to your random thoughts, strange dreams and coincidences in your life right now…they are guiding you. Allow this sudden inspiration to show you the way and there will be no holding you back!

Four of Stones

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From Chrysalis Tarot by Toney Brooks and Holly Sierra

 

Four of Stones often turns up when we are somehow blocking our own way with our attachment to material possessions.

You might be holding yourself back from a new opportunity or from making a change in your life because of the fear that if it all goes wrong, you’ll be worse off than you are now. That’s fine and has its place, of course, but as with all things in life, balance is the key. Think about whether the risk of stagnating is greater than the risk of losing what you have.

This card acknowledges your accomplishments to date but is suggesting that now might be a good time to slide that treasure-chest to one side so that you can climb the stairway to even greater achievements. 

Elpi – The Star

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From Chrysalis Tarot by Toney Brooks & Holly Sierra

 

Elpi is a sign of promise. She often shows up when you are starting to make plans. They may be very long-term and ambitious, but you are being encouraged to take whatever steps you can (even baby steps) in the right direction.

The caution with this card is not settling for less than perfection, maybe even being a bit too much of a control-freak and refusing to budge from your own vision! If things don’t go exactly how you expect, if you start to feel disappointed or disillusioned, just relax. Things are actually working out perfectly.

The important thing is to remember is sometimes we can only reach the stars inch by inch, but the choices you make today determine your future. Make sure you always visualise your destiny bathed in hopeful starlight.

Solus

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From The Faeries’ Oracle by Brian Froud & Jessica Macbeth

This is a very energising and action-based card.

Solus is bringing light and radiance into your life, and when he turns up in a reading, you can rest assured that things are moving forward in the right direction. Something new is being brought into your life, something that you have been, and probably still are, putting much effort into. Solus is letting you know that your efforts will pay off and that you are receiving help from other realms too. He encourages you to stand on your own two feet and to give yourself credit for your own strengths and good qualities…now is a time to learn to trust and depend on yourself.

Movement into the light is occurring and you can expect a run of miracles! Enjoy them, be grateful for them, and be sure to pass your blessings on by doing whatever you can to help and serve others.

Ace of Water

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From Osho Zen Tarot

 

 

The figure in this card is completely relaxed and at ease in the water, letting it take him where it will. He has mastered the art of being passive and receptive without being dull and sleepy. He is just available to the currents of life, with never a thought of saying “I don’t like that,” or “I prefer to go the other way.”

Every moment in life, we have a choice whether to enter life’s waters and float or to try to swim upstream. When this card appears in a reading, it is an indication that you are able to float now, trusting that life will support you in your relaxation and take you exactly where it wants you to go.

Allow this feeling of trust and relaxation to grow more and more; everything is happening exactly as it should.

Six of Mirrors

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From The Crysalis Tarot by Toney Brooks and Holly Sierra

 

This card is the card of nostalgia and of waxing sentimental about earlier times. There is a hint that you may be seeing the past through rose-coloured glasses! Or maybe they really were the good old days, and today’s relationships are less harmonious than then.

You may be finding yourself wishing you could turn back the clock so that old romance and magic would come back into your life. Six of Mirrors is reminding you that , for better or worse, energy patterns in the present mould your future. You are creating your future in the now, in other words.

So, the best thing to do is to make happiness now. Take what was good about the past and use it to re-kindle present joys. Maybe talk/reminisce with old friends/family members, or tell the kids about it, but not in a maudlin way. Rather, one that is full of joy so that happiness reaches you here now…and beams its way into your future!

Ace of Stones

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From the Chrysalis Tarot by Toney Brooks and Holly Sierra

This is a very positive card which heralds the start of something new in the practical world, for instance a new job, project, house-move or learning a new skill.

The Ace of Stones is an encouraging sign that success and fulfillment, in fact, endless possibilities are now within your grasp. It is the card of financial abundance, and is telling you that you absolutely can achieve your goals and live the life of your dreams.

The advice is to make step by step effort and not look for instant rewards. Don’t be discouraged if you don’t see amazing results straight away. If you stay true to your course, and with planning and flexibility, you are guaranteed success!

Five of Water – Clinging to the Past

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From Osho Zen Tarot

The figure pictured in this card is so preoccupied with clutching her box of memories that she has turned her back on the sparkling champagne glass of blessings available here and now. Her nostalgia for the past really makes her a “blockhead” and a beggar besides, as we can see from her patched and ragged clothes. She needn’t be a beggar, of course – but she is not available to taste the pleasures that offer themselves in the present.

It’s time to face up to the fact that the past is gone, and any effort to repeat it is a sure way to stay stuck in old blueprints that you would have already outgrown if you hadn’t been so busy clinging to what you have already been through. Take a deep breath, put the box down, tie it up in a pretty ribbon if you must, and bid it a fond and reverent farewell. Life is passing you by and you’re in danger of becoming an old fossil before your time!

Major Arcana VII – Herne the Hunter

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From The Chrysalis Tarot by Toney Brooks & Holly Sierra

Herne the Hunter symbolises the dogged might of your willpower. Now is the time for you to firmly take the reigns and choose your own route. This is a powerful card that foretells success…but you have to use your own impetus to get moving.

Chances are, there are major changes afoot and you might have been feeling the winds of change blowing for a while now. Sometimes Herne the Hunter shows up when you feel like you have been being carried in a direction you don’t like…as though you’ve just been doing what other people expected you to do. The future may be feeling a bit uncertain, as it’s always daunting moving away from what is familiar to you, but you are being encouraged to follow your own path.

The only caution that comes with Herne is if you find you are constantly changing external circumstances, when it’s an inner blockage. For instance, changing jobs at the first setback, not sticking with relationships if the going gets a bit tough, constantly having new friends and interests, but finding that your enthusiasm cools rapidly. Make sure you are changing the right things, and not just moving the old play to a new theatre with a different cast.

Taitin the Sylph

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From the Faeries’ Oracle by Brian Froud & Jessica Macbeth

What we see here is mental quickness, adaptability and enthusiasm. Ideas and opinions abound. A few are brilliant, but others vary from mediocre to downright silly! Be selective. Mental and psychic abilities may be awakening. Independent thinking is in operation. New ideas and new versions of old ideas are creating an exciting effervescent atmosphere.

Avoid excess and extremes. Minds may change often as new ideas and new ways of seeing bubble to the surface.

Out of conflict and confusion, resolved by good will and clear thinking, a new and better understanding may come.