Hello friends
It has been a busy summer filled with opportunities for creative and fruitful engagement with the world. I have found new venues to practice my divinatory arts and new inspiration in old writing projects. These things have commanded a lot of attention and left me little time to concentrate on writing specifically intended for this blog. I do have some ideas that I hope to get to as the darker season progresses. For the time being, however, I want to share another excerpt from the manuscripts I am working on. This is another from my “Tarot and the Wheel of the Year” project. I hope you find it interesting.
As always, thanks for reading, it is an honor to be gifted with your precious time and attention and I am profoundly grateful.
….
Eight of Disks
If Ares is the “first sign” of the Zodiac, Virgo One is the third decan which The Sun rules by face. In Ares Two (Three of Wands), The Sun urges us on in our journey. We follow The Sun, traveling the face of the world to see everything. In Gemini Three (10 of Swords) The Sun, in its setting, reminds us that time and change will always outlive our plans and designs. Here, at Virgo One, The Sun returns to remind us that tangible things are built day by day, through commitment and repetition.
We see a craftsman at work creating pentacles. By the pentacles that hang above his work bench we see that he has been practicing his craft for some time. We see the care and precision he applies to his work. This is a picture of mastery through repetition. Inspiration may set us on a lifelong path. But this path is taken one step at a time. Daily devotion and practice sharpen our intention and strengthen our will.
The suit of Disks is about give and take within the material world. Disks are “coins”. Like seeds, fruits, eggs, - disks are a condensate of value that accumulates over time. Each of us has unique gifts and talents that we bring into the “marketplace” of the material plane. The more time, attention, and energy we apply to these “pentacles”, the greater their value and power.
The shadow expression of this card is one who practices but never performs. Eventually we must bring our produce to market to see what price they might command. In this world, the value of what we have cultivated is set by what others are willing to “pay” for our goods. No matter how independent we might be, we all must earn our way in the world. We do this by bringing something unique to the world, something that only we can bring. This is the key to success in the world of matter which the suit of pentacles depicts.
What a good reminder that no matter what we produce we must eventually share it if we wanted to have any impact. That could be a book, a piece of art, romantic feelings, anything really. It reminds me of the book "Share Your Work".