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The Magician (Major Arcana) as a guide to self discovery

9/18/2011

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The Magician as a Guide to Self-Discoveryby Christine Danielle Vierling

Law 1 (The Magician/Destiny/All Elements but mostly Earth/Ether): Know thy self; Believe in yourself and discover your own inner magic.

To know thy self is easier said than done and may take a lifetime.

You can expedite this process if you don’t just look in the mirror and focus on your appearance and actions but view your life, with all its people and events as a philosophical mirror.    This mirror  acknowledges that everything has meaning and it is all relevant to individual existence, as in the hermetic tradition captured in the well-known adage, “As above, so below. ”   When you look into this divine mirror, you can witness all that you are becoming.   Now that may be too much to swallow and quite overwhelming for some, but if you take closer notice and recognize that what you see actually reflects different aspects of yourself however unpalatable or divine, then you understand more fully who you are.   Sometimes what you see is an exaggeration of qualities you possess and other times what you witness is a mere echo of who you were or who you are becoming.   In reflecting upon what you observe, you can enhance what you like and change what you do not within yourself.

When using the Mirror at first, the negatives you see stand out more blatantly (like a pimple on your face) than all that you may value  in yourself.   All that we criticize and judge in another is really just parts of ourselves that we don’t want to see, and that we will eventually become if we don’t recognize and own them from the start.   If however you strongly feel that someone is projecting their own “stuff” onto you more than you deserve, just recognize that you are their mirror more than the other way around.   You can even visualize a mirror facing out from your centre towards them to deflect any of their negative projections back to them.

I’ve had to go through this experience of becoming or bringing on what I criticize several times before I realized I had to own my weaknesses and shadow side.   Several perfectionists have been prominent figures in my life. They have harshly come down on me for everything from not dotting my “i”s to not folding my bath towels in exact squares.   I in turn would silently criticize them for being too AR and obsessively hard on me, but then later when not so tidy people have come into my life, I have found myself coming down hard on them for not cleaning up their crumbs or putting the cap back on the toothpaste.   Once I was appalled at my roommate’s visiting father who came into the house reeking of cigarettes and now I’m lovingly married to a wonderful man who happens to be terribly addicted.  I clearly have had to own my criticisms and to accept the distasteful qualities in my life so that I can give more energy to the qualities I love.

Equally as much I can look around me and see all the qualities of creativity and intelligent initiative that I admire in my friends and family. Instead of envying those who have become business owners, professors, doctors, directors, artists, musicians, and professional dancers, I can be proud that these talented people are part of my reality.   All that I’ve ever wished to become has been achieved by those immediately around me and therefore if I own these qualities in myself, I too can allow myself to magically become what I witness.

Life is as magical as you allow it to be.   The Magician has one hand reaching to Heaven and the other reaching towards Earth which shows that magic is simply the ability to apply a spiritual vision to an earthly reality.   The basic elemental tools (Pentacle/Earth, Wand/Fire, Cup/Water, and Sword/Air) that are set out before the Magician are all that you need to practice magic. You need the practicality of Earth, the creativity of Fire, the emotional intelligence of Water, and the mental awareness of Air to put your higher visions into reality.

Those of you who delight in the genre of magical realism literature and films intuitively know that such magic is possible. Your quirks and creative impulses can lead you to uncanny and serendipitous meetings in a film by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (i.e. Amelie).   Living a magical reality, however, is not all rosy and perfect.   Fears must be faced in Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth. In Isabelle Allende’sHouse of Spirits, we meet ancestral ghosts who bring powerful emotional truths to human lives.   Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis shows us that you never know what new and fantastic form your life will take when you wake up in the morning.   Some of you may have stories of your own of true life events that have made you realize how magical life itself can be and I’d love you to share those with me.

My next posting will be on The High Priestess.

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Stepping into the Adventure of Life as the Fool by Christine Danielle Vierling 

9/6/2011

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Stepping into the Adventure of Life as the Fool by Christine Danielle Vierling

Before I begin to share the meanings of the individual cards, I would like to add a few general comments on the Tarot.  The 22 Major Arcana begin with the Fool (0) and complete with The World (21).  The “0” which marks the Fool is a conception point whereby the energy-form is more spirit than matter, like a fetus.  From this starting point, you embark on a journey of self-discovery, and encounter many transformative energies and experiences before you arrive at The World, a state of being whereby you go beyond the self and may completely merge with Existence as a Whole.  At every stage of the journey, you may take the high road or you may slip into the shadows and lose your way.  The cards serve as symbolic signposts that can help you to find the path to Wholeness and warn you of the pitfalls along the way.  Call me a “Fool” but I always choose to embrace the positive signs in the cards and though I’m highly aware of the shadows, I consciously steer clear of them.  As such, you won’t find me writing about the “reverse” meanings of the Tarot cards.  For example, I recognize the “Fool” as a “free spirit” rather than a traditional representation of satire and strategic mockery.

Law 0 – (The Fool/All Elements): Know that you are born neither good nor bad. Celebrate your existence and a world of possibility is open to you.

When you are a baby everything is possible and good.  The world is magical and captivating everywhere you look, from your mother’s nose to the shadows on the wall. Life is an adventure.  You move forward without a worry in the world or fear of what lies ahead. My 10 month old would crawl right off the edge of bed with no regard for the bumps and bruises to come if I did not catch her.  Like the fool pictured in the classic 19th century Rider Waite Tarot, a child steps into danger or disobeys only because the consequences of actions are not understood.  Despite the dangers, only such seemingly foolish abandon can allow you to step into a world where everything is possible.

When it comes to the children in your path, whether they are your own or not, don’t judge them too harshly for they only mirror what they have witnessed.  If you believe in bad apples, then you must look to the tree from which they have fallen.  Whatever so-called bad behavior they exhibit they probably modeled after the familiar people in their daily lives.  So do your best to show them your best.  Let the life of the child stay magical.

When I was a girl, my imaginative dream world inexplicitly dovetailed with my daily life.  Everyday was an adventure.  I encountered gorillas in our backyard, communicated with extra-terrestrials, became a vampire-slayer and witnessed ghosts flying down the corridor in our Victorian flat, danced with buffoons in the San Francisco Opera House, played with an invisible girl named Ginger and received gifts from fairies in the garden next door, sun-danced with Indians, and tamed live ladybugs so that they would never fly away.  Some of these experiences happened to me with open eyes and others were witnessed with my inner sight, or Third Eye some might say, but in all cases I was fully lucid and awake.  Fortunately, my parents did not belittle or judge me for sharing these magical experiences with them, but rather they encouraged my ability to cross easily between seen and unseen worlds.  The recent children’s films, Bridge to Terabitha and The Spiderwick Chronicles, capture the agility children have in leaping between parallel worlds.  The challenge is to retain this child-like openness as you cross-over into the world of adults.  Luckily for me, I have Moon in Leo (Genevieve can tell you if you have something similar) which allows me to naturally embody and encourage such childlike qualities in others, even at 42 years.

 A child lives in the moment with no concern of the future and embraces whatever object of wonder is in the path without hesitation.  The sensual pleasure of eating is one simple way you can savor the present moment. Your heart can be awakened to love through the sensuality and sheer magic of food in Lauriel Esquivel’sLike Water for Chocolate or Joanne Harrison’s Chocolat.  There is something enticing and wonderfully magical about Grandmas and the food they give to us as children.  Though my Grandma was not an exceptional cook, she awakened my senses with her orchard peaches (I can still picture her lithe figure climbing up into the fragrant branches while she picked the choicest ones for me and my brother), or her treating us to fresh chocolate milk served in glass bottles from the local creamery.  Such sensual experiences can further reinforce your belief in the magic of life.   Carpe diem!

Pick up a deck of Inner Child cards by Isha Lerner to inspire the child-like spirit in yourself.

In my next posting, I hope to enchant you with a visit to the Magician.

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    Christine Danielle’s intuitive counselling (essentially life coaching via tarot) ability has been validated by on-going client returnees and referrals over her past 14 years in Ireland.  In her practice as an intuitive Tarot/astrology reader and teacher, she has worked for Irish television, RTE (Laura Wood’s Programming) giving astrology briefings and for Ireland ’s KISS magazine doing a monthly astrology column.  Christine Danielle also serves as guest columnist on the Blue Light Lady blog.In the past several months, Dublin City Fm (103.2) Radio has interviewed Christine several times to share her intuitive gifts.
    Again and again over the past decade in Ireland, her clients have returned to seek the accuracy and helpfulness of her intuitive guidance
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