Today I pulled the Three of Swords. This is a card of tears, of strife and of heartbreak. Also, as I read it, it's also a card of divine inspiration, of Awen. My life has taught me to embrace impermanence as the one inviolable law. Loss of love, loves, loved ones and ultimately even of self is part of impermanence but, so also is rebirth. Phoenix Rising is more than the name of a soccer team. The Phoenix rises from the ashes, ascends and — eventually becomes ashes again. If there is one law that cannot be escaped it's that cycle. And so, I am invoking The Tower. On this first day of a new year, I am invoking that. The Tower both protects and imprisons us and, well, everything has a beginning, a middle and an end. We can embrace it, fear it or deny it, no matter. It's true.
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This reading is part of my own personal Divination/Invocation Practice. As always when I speak of life, love and tarot I speak only for myself.
Divination — The 3 of Swords is from The Modern Love Tarot, by Ethony
Invocation — The Tower is from Cold Lyre Tarot, by Lacy Marton and Christine Scanlon
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