Tarot Card of the Day: October 18th, 2014

Redemption through sacrifice.  Enforced sacrifice, Suffering.  Ill-dignified: Punishment, Loss, Defeat, Failure, Death.

Water.  Mem.  This figure is Osiris or Christ and shows redemption through suffering.  He is drowned in the waters of affliction.  The attitude is traditional and involves a right angle and a triangle.  His foot is bound to the Ankh of Immortality by the serpent of life.  The complete symbol is a triangle and a cross.

Okay, not sure what to make of this.  I think is is perfect for my weight loss surgery.  To get to where I want, I needed to sacrifice something, and that something was about 85% of my stomach.  

Tarot Card of the Day: October 17th, 2014

Represents the earthy part of air.  A young woman, stern and revengeful, with destructive logic, firm and aggressive, with great practical wisdom and subtlety, dexterous in management of practical affairs.  Ill-dignified: Woman filled with low cunning and frivolousness.

Here is snow.  Round the princess's dress are water crystals, beside her is a dolphin of Venus, the tortoise is an emblem of earth to show the solidification of water in mud, ice and snow.

I guess I need to watch out for someone young that is stern and has destructive logic.  Although I don't mind the aggressive part of things.  And someone with great practical wisdom would be great to be around.  

Tarot Card of the Day: October 16, 2014

Business.  Paid employment.  Commercial transaction.  Constructive building up.  Increase of material things.  Growth.  Commencement of matters to be established later.  Ill-dignified: Selfish, narrow, prejudiced, greedy person seeking impossibilities.

Works.  Mars in Capricornus.  Binah.  A three-dimensional pyramid is looked at from above.  It is placed on three wheels on which are the signs for mercury, sulfur and salt, a fundamental analysis of the components of earth according to the alchemists.

Been really needing to figure out what I need to do with my life.  I finally dropped below the 300 barrier and told myself that now is when I would start looking for work.  But I also have the desire to do something different.  I've got a plan in the works, now it's time to start taking steps to make it happen.

Tarot Card of the Day: October 15, 2014

Quarreling.  Fighting.  Competition.  Cruelty.  Violence.  Lust and desire.  May be prodigality or generosity according to dignity.  

Strife.  Saturn in Leo.   Geburah.  The wands are the Caduceus, the Phoenix and the Lotus.  Their disproportionate size indicates that, following the coordination of spirit, disunion has begun.

This is what I'm feeling at the moment with the lack of progress in my weight loss.  I'm stalled.  I'm in competition with myself and trying to make sure that I keep going down on the scale.  Maybe this is telling me that I need to stop fighting with myself.  Get back into a union with myself.  

Tarot Card of the Day: October 14, 2014

Pursuit of pleasure crowned with perfect success but incomplete. Matters arranged and settled as wished.  Lasting success.  Peacemaking and generosity.  Ill-dignified: Dissipation.  Debauchery.  Pity, Waste. Stagnation.  

Satiety.  mars in Pisces.  Malkuth.  The cups are arranged on the Tree of Life and a great lotus overshadows them.  Exhaustion, which comes from expended energy is expressed.

Lasting success is what I take out of this.  Been away for a while because I have been focusing on health and had weight loss surgery.  What better way for lasting success than what I have done.  I have lost 76 pounds from my heaviest and loving life.  It's this kind of change that is what I have been striving for and will continue to strive for from this point forward.  

Tarot Card of the Day: July 21, 2014

Blind impulse. Irresistible strong and unscrupulous person.  Ambition. Temptation. Obsession. Secret plan about to be executed.  Hard work. Endurance. Aching discontent. Materialism. Fate.  As this card is governed by Capricornus, we have the traditional goat.  On his forehead is the Eye of God, his curved horns represent the spiral force in nature, that is wanton creation, and his abandonment is emphasized by the bacchanalian bunch of grapes.  Beneath him are his votaries in two dividing cells, stressing the doctrine that all sin is division.  The background is designed from the marking on the planet Mars.  The Goat is supported on the Caduceus.  At the top of the Tree of Life at the back of the card is the ring of Saturn.

From this card, I take the idea of hard work and endurance.  Because in the end that is what I'm doing.  I'm working hard to build up my endurance and to get healthy.  Which is also signified by the Caduceus.  Overall, a good card.

Tarot Card of the Day: July 20, 2014

Courage. Strength, Energy, Use of magical power.  Control of the life force.  Great love affair.  Resort to magic.  This card was called Strength.  It means joy in desire.  The lion has seven heads, an angel, a saint, a poet, a warrior, a bacchante, a satyr and a lion-serpent. The woman has given herself to the forces of life.  She holds the Cup or impregnated womb.  The horns surrounding it represent the male element.  The figures under the feet of the lion are the martyrs to whom this path towards Union is an empty dream.  The reins which are held try the woman are the passion which unites her to the Beast.

Strength and energy are the keywords that I'm looking at with this card.  Because that's what I have been gaining.  But I also see that the use of magical power is also on there, and I've been waiting for a sign to start working magick again.  I think this is the sign to start working on that again.