7 Cups And A World

Confusion...

SO much information.

Using your intuition.

Wishful thinking.

Illusion and fantasy.

Choice.

- 7 of Cups

Drawing this card in a reading means that there is a lot of thinking and weighing your choices waiting ahead.  It is a great card to represent your imagination and desire to be part of something bigger.  It can be an indication that you have SO many choices or SO many things going on at once, that you may be overwhelmed and unable to focus properly.

"Congratulations!"  You've just made it through the Galactic Boot Camp!  You did survive (I assume).  Maybe you even thrived (I hope).  That said, it is possible that I will continue to pass along an "inspiring" tidbit every now and again to keep your Galactic muscle engaged, but for the most part, you will now be on your own.  If you want to delve into the mysteries of the Cosmos and the New Golden Age any deeper, it's going to be up to you.    

I'm excited to shift into my studies of Alchemical Marriage, and although Tarot will play a part of that, it is not my intention to return to a litany of Tarot messages.  I have, however, been given a little nudge to follow through with this unintentionally didactic lesson on the 7 of Cups today.  I hope you can bear with me.

I've been doing Tarot readings on myself and the circumstances that surround me for a couple of years now.  Recently, a card that's been coming up repeatedly is the 7 of Cups.  Is that good?  Is that bad?  Well, it all depends.  It's a lot of things.  Literally.

I usually take the 7 of cups to be a gentle warning.  It's a reminder that not everything is as it seems, and that it's important to be realistic when making decisions.  It can indicate that there are many opportunities ahead, but it's important to evaluate each one carefully. 

But it can be seen as a downright flaming red flag if pulled in proximity to other cautionary cards.  The card can be a warning against being swayed by illusions and unrealistic ideals.  It can be a warning against procrastinating, suggesting that it's time to take action and make decisions based on a realistic assessment of your circumstances. 

 So, although I never really realized it before, even though it is cautionary at its core, the Seven of Cups is actually a good thing. 

When you daydream your way into the future, the options that you have in front of you can feel both under and over whelming.  The path from A to Z is often nebulous, and life can present itself like a game of Chutes and Ladders that brings you down only to lift you up.  Your desire to choose the one CORRECT and perfect path can further complicate and muddle your decision, because there is no way to know everything that will spill forth from the Cup you choose!  Use your intuition to decide--remembering that the temptation of shiny things can be illusory, while challenging paths will often hold unexpected opportunity.  Ask your discerning heart what options HONESTLY stand in front of you today, and even if things are not exactly as they seem, choosing that which you truly desire will offer the most useful stepping-stone right now.

MY WILDEST IMAGINATION IS A TOOL THAT I CAN USE TO INFORM MY FUTURE IN A DOWN TO EARTH WAY.

It ALWAYS blows my mind when I wake up with words or songs and things like that, on my mind, in my head.  It's really weird when I "hear" it.  

Today I just woke up with a new word I've never heard before.  Kindara.  I don't think I have heard it before.  Have I?  I can't say, but I decided to look it up and see if it is real and if it means anything.  

Turns out, it's a fertility app.  Not something I need, if you get my drift.  But when I clicked on "what does kindara mean?" I was given an AI generated description and definition of kinnara, a mythical female creature of Hindu and Buddhist origins that is part woman and is winged like a bird.  Kinnaras are associated with music and love and are said to have played music for the gods in the heavenly realms.  I wondered if this is where some of "my songs" are coming from?  Hmm...

This was a strange happening for me, and more and more strange and wonderful things keep happening to me, I must say.  I've been reading C.G. Jung's Red Book for my bedtime reading.  I've been doing a little hemi-synch too, as I am winding down each night.  Who can say how either one of these modalities might be affecting or effecting my sleep and my easily malleable (pre)waking moments.  Not to be confusing, but on that note...

I have a lot of new information flowing into my brain and mind and psyche right now.  I am invigorated.  I am excited.  I feel very alive.  I feel very grateful.  I feel humbled and honored to be called to walk upon the paths of Jung, and Nietzsche, and Hermes Trismegistus, whoever the heck he really was.  Not that I am them or will achieve great things like them, but I will begin to study in their shadows.  I will bathe myself in their light.  I will delve deeper than I have ever been before.  

I will explore the paths they took to open up inner realms of knowledge and wisdom and understanding.  I will walk the path of Gnosis, which in truth is the path I have been walking all along.  This path is not for the special, the selected or the elite.  It is for me.  Perhaps in time it will be the path for all.  

Please come along with me if you are so inclined.  Step into the unknown.  Trust.  Of course, we will need to keep our wits about us, for there is much to choose from on this road.  We must choose wisely.  And we will.  Together we can transmute a multitude of sins.  United we can create a gallery of sacred art, one beautiful piece after another, after another, after another.  

"If anyone really possessed these inner ideas of which Plato speaks, then he could draw his whole life from them and create artwork after artwork without ever reaching an end." - Albrecht Durer

It is in that spirit that I now officially take off my didactic robe and assume the role of student once again, immersing myself in the mysterious waters of Alchemical Artistry.  Naked and pure.  Renewed and ready for an explosion of new thoughts and experiences that await my fresh and free and feminine Soul.  No confusion.  The choice has been made.  Thank you 7 of cups for your counsel.

It is time to pick a new card.  The World.  A new World.  An old cycle is ending as a chaste and uncharted one unfolds.  The world symbolizes completion, joy, wholeness, achievement, happy endings, success, new levels of consciousness, literally traveling the world.

"The World brings one of the most positive and abundant messages in the tarot!  Congratulations! You've come far!  A large project or period in your life is coming to a successful conclusion, and it's time to revel in the sweet afterglow of your success.  If you're not quite there yet, take this card as a sign that you are on the right path.  (And the 3 lightships I just saw outside moments ago.:)  Consciously step into the World's Ascension energy and welcome this beautiful shift as your inner spiritual landscape merges with your outer reality.  As you reach this stage of fruition, remain focused.  Don't slacken your resolve as you glimpse the magic at the end of the long journey, because it's time to follow through with your final steps and complete the cycle.  Even in shadow, the World is a positive card that signals bliss and happy endings, with oodles of positive energy on the way!

I ACCEPT THIS GIFT OF COMPLETION, AND I ASCEND TO NEW LEVELS OF AWARENESS AND WHOLENESS.  I AM LOVE.

I am beyond excited! Symbolically speaking, it feels like I am dying in order to be reborn again, but technically, that's not what it is.  I'm done.  I have won the race.  I have completed what I came to do.  It is time to move forward into the new.  It is time.  In the vernacular, however you want to look at it... it's a fresh start!  I'll take it.  Choice made!  Mission accomplished.