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.

Tarot Card of the Day: July 19, 2014

The root of the powers of water.  Fertility.  Productiveness.  Beauty.  Pleasure and happiness.  This is the heart of the element of water and love.  It is the Holy Grail receiving the impress of divine inspiration.

I'm going to take this as productivity today, because with all the stuff that I've been doing I've been very productive in taking the steps I need to to make my goal.  

Tarot Card of the Day: July 18, 2014

Represents the fiery part of fire.  A man with the qualities of activity, generosity, impetuosity, pride and swiftness.  Ill-dignified: Evil-minded, cruel, bigoted and brutal man. This is the purely male creative for in fire or spirit.  

This is who I am becoming.  Active and generous.  I'm making sure that I stay active and stay going forward with my plans.  It's a great thing and means I'm continuing down the correct path.  

Tarot Card of the Day: July 17, 2014

Perfected work.  Settlement.  Completion after much labor.  Rest.  Subtlety.  Cleverness.  Conclusions from previous knowledge.  Ill-dignified: Unreliability from over-anxiousness and hurried action.  Completion.  Venus in Aries.  Chesed.  The wands are headed by rams and at the other end doves.  The number 4 conveys the introduction of order into creation.

I think that I've finally completed the stripping away of the "junk" that has been really holding me back.  This means that the next part of my life is really going to kick into high gear. 

Tarot Card of the Day: July 16, 2014

Contradictory characteristics in the same nature.  Sacrifice and trouble giving birth to strength.  Quarrel made up and peace restored, yet tension remaining.  Pleasure after pain.  Truth and untruth.  Indecision.  Actions sometimes selfish, sometime unselfish.  Peace.  Moon in Libra.  Chokmah.  The two swords piercing a rose or lotus shows, in the symbol, the intellect restrained by love.

This has been something that I've been striving for, and I think that I'm finally achieving it.  This is definately a good thing.

Tarot Card of the Day: July 10, 2014

Harmony of change.  Alternation of gain and loss, weakness and strength, elation and melancholy.  Varying occupation.  Wandering.  Visit to friends.  Pleasant change.  Industrious yet unreliable person.  Change.  Jupiter in Capricornus.  Chokmah.  Here are two pentacles, the Chinese Yang and Yin.  The crowned serpent surrounds them as they revolve.  The card suggests that the universe is sustained in space by its rotation action. 

Well change is what I'm doing and what I'm striving for in myself.  I've been through my weak time, now it's time to start being stronger and stronger.  As the mantra goes, every day, in every way, I get better and better.  In this case, I'd adjust to it I change more and more.  Into what?  Only time can tell that.

Tarot Card of the Day: July 9, 2014

Openness to inspiration, intuition, intelligence, childishness, attraction, beauty, love.  Ill-dignified: self-contradiction, instability, indecision, union in a shallow degree with others, superficiality.  This is an alchemical card illustrating the marriage or union of two opposites, thus we have the prince and princess holding the wand and the cup.  Cain and Abel, Lilith and Eve.  The swords at the back suggest the intellectual process in the uniting of two elements.  The figure of the Creator blesses this deliberate synthesis.  The alchemical white eagle of salt and the red eagle of sulfur, the Egg of wisdom and the winged wand of Osiris are at the bottom of the card. 

Inspiration is what I take from this today.  Getting and keeping inspired about this path that I am on both spiritual and physically.  The two will eventually come together in one grand scheme and work perfectly together. 

Tarot Card of the Day: July 8, 2014

Law and order.  Gain of money and influence.  Earthly power but nothing beyond.  Success.  Rank.  Dominion.  Skill in the direction of physical forces.  Ill-Dignified: Prejudice, covetousness, suspicion, lack of originality.  Power.  Sun in Capricorn.  Chesed.  Four square disks engraved with the signs of the elements form the towers of a fortress surrounded by a moat.  The design is intended to show the perfect government of the universe by law and order.

Success and power in an earthly sense.  That works for me.  That's what I'm trying to do here with myself and resculpting my body.  Work on the earthly aspect of myself right now to make the body ready to deal with a bigger spiritual world.

Tarot Card of the Day: July 3, 2014

Complete success.  Pleasure and happiness.  Physical well-being.  Happiness almost perfect but perhaps temporary.  Ill-dignified: Danger of vanity, self-praise, conceit and overindulgence.  Happiness.  Jupiter in Pisces.  The nine cups are perfectly arranged.  The overflow but this is an ordered possessive aspect of love partaking of a ritual.

Interesting that this is the first time that I pick this card on a day when I woke up and wondered what this was all about.  But this tells me that I'm on the right track with my plans and to just keep moving forward.  Complete success is what I need to strive for and what I'll accomplish. 

Tarot Card of the Day: July 2, 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.  This is air in the earth, the oxygen which promotes the growth of plants and the warlike rush of the figure of the princess is the incarnation of dynamic irruption.

Still never liked the court cards, the make me think a bit more than I want to in the mornings when I do this.  But I think this is a warning of dealing with some practical affairs that I need to be on watch for. 

Tarot Card of the Day: July 1, 2014

Established strength. Success after struggle.  Pride and arrogance.  Realization of hope.  Nobility.  Ill-dignified: Conceit.  Virtue.  Sun in Aries. Binah.  Three lotus wands representing creation.

An appropriate care for me today.  Success after struggle, well after struggling for so many years with my weight, it's time to get out of this run and get myself thing again, and that's what I'm on the path to do.  I had some conceit over the conceit thinking that I could go back and eat like I did to get me fat for one day and not have any consequences about it.  But I learned that lesson rather quickly and harshly.  Here is to Success!

Tarot Card Of The Day: June 30, 2014

Abandoned success.  Decline of interest in anything.  Temporary success but without further result.  Instability.  Misery and repining.  Journeying from place to place.  May mean leaving material success for something higher.  Indolence.  Saturn in Pisces.  Hod.  The power is now spent, the water is turned to slime, the flowers droop, the cups are broken.

Well this one is easy for me.  I took the day off yesterday from the routing that I had of eating right, exercising, eating slow, etc, and ended up gaining back 7 pounds of the 7.2 that I lost.  Big big step backwards.  But it is a lesson learned and things will be back on a good even keel starting today.