Our Daily Spread for Feb. 5, 2011
The best way to handle fear is to let it be
Nine of Wands Ace of Pentacles, Ace of Cups, Strength
Love Perspective: *He is afraid she will succeed at getting him to love her. *The right way is the easy way to handle the guy who tries to intimidate you. *She pressures him to cooperate and do it right. *Being loving is the perfect way to prevent him from from being defensive. *She soothes his fears, she handles the situation right. *She has a soothing touch as he worries about being a success. *She has a soothing touch as he worries about money. Practical Perspective: The best way to handle fear is to let it be. It’s easy to handle this perfectly, and you were so nervous about it. You were worried about this, but you do it easily and perfectly. Health Perspective: She overcomes what threatens her perfect health. Her health is perfect because she overcomes all threats.
Oh, today is a blessed day, you have the touch, things are easy to accomplish, especially the things you were apprehensive about. You handle it beautifully, especially the part you feared would be difficult. I bet you can even assemble one of those bicycles from China today!
Meanings and Illustrations:
With Ace of Pentacles and Ace of Cups as the first two Tarot cards, you can’t go wrong: They mean perfect love, they mean easy success, even easy money at times.
The Ace of Pentacles shows the right path, the achievement of success: The hand with the money in it over a straight easy road to a garlanded arc de triomph type structure. Whereas the Ace of Cups shows a flow of spiritual water meaning the five senses channeling divine health and energy. Not a bad start, huh? Next we have the Strength card, which in Rider Waite means overcoming by spiritual superiority, strength of character, and expert touch, deft handling, and so on. Its illustration shows a woman whose white robe and symbol of infinity over her head mean spiritual superiority and purity of character. She is making the lion who wants to attack her purr, shutting his mouth deftly. Good for her! Then our last character is the Nine of Wands: fear, apprehension, tension, nervous about what is going to happen. Here is the border guard wounded from the last attack suspecting there will be another. The Strength + Nine of Wands suggests overcoming fear, doesn’t it? The Ace of Cups + Strength is the easy touch, isn’t it?
His idea of fun is to be the head man of a place
Four of Wands Emperor, Knight of Pentacles, Sun
Love/Marriage Perspective: He aims to be a happily married stable man. A fun marriage is important to his personal security. He aims to be a fun guy at home even when he is old.
Practical Perspective: Looking at this house, he is delighted: This is a VIP’s house. The boss looks forward to leaving the home on vacation. His idea of being a man is being outdoors in the sun, free. His idea of fun is to be the head man of a place. Finally, we have a spread that is definitely from a man’s point of view! Both the Emperor and the Knight of Pentacles are manly type men: The Emperor from the perspective of being powerful, and the Knight of Pentacles from the point of view of being physically strong and driven .. that ‘one thing on his mind’ thing that some men can get into so well.
Meanings and Illustrations:
The illustrations, of course on each of these Rider Waite Tarot cards express each idea: The Emperor is an older man, sitting on a throne rather rigidly, looking august in his robes. Whereas, the Knight of Pentacles has this butch glare and sports muscles under his tin suit. Even his horse is macho.
The third Tarot card of this spread is the Sun. Just look at the illustration: Delighted kid outdoors in the sunshine, leaving the house. The feeling of a fun vacation. (Yes, this card has a number of other applications that don’t count and aren’t being used here.) And the last is the Four of Wands, the marriage card that refers to the solid citizens of the community, and shows a mansion and a celebration. It shows the kind of house that would make the kind of man the Emperor is feel right at home in his position of power.