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Tag: Rumi

  • Wizard’s Tarot | Rumi Quotes

    So, over on Facebook I try to do Interesting Things with court cards that help fellow readers become more confident with their court card work.

    My most recent week was spent in the company of The Wizards’ Tarot (Llewellyn) by Corrine Kenner which is a really pretty deck.  In fact, I must do a review of its courts for you one day soon.
    Anyhoo, I decided to pair up court cards with cards from the rest of the deck and match them up with some lovely quotes by Rumi.  The exercise for all of the cards is ‘Card A helps with Card B’:

    Here we have the King of Wands paired with the 8 of Cups:


    ‘Set yourself on fire and seek those who fan your flames’ – Rumi
    The Lovers paired with the Queen of Cups
    ‘Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray’.     Rumi

    8 of Pentacles paired with Queen of Pentacles

    ‘Everyone has been made for some particular work (8 Pents), and the desire for that work has been put in every heart (Queen Pents).” – Rumi (well, not the bits in brackets!)

    7 of Cups paired with Knight of Pentacles
    There are many ways (7 Cups) to kneel and kiss the earth (Knight of Pentacles), just pick one of them and make a start! – Mostly Rumi <3

    If you like this kind of thing, I would love it if you could like @tarot.thrones over on the book of the face.

    If you’ve not encountered Rumi or The Wizards’ Tarot before, here are a couple of links.

    What do you think of the exercise – Card A helps with Card B? What do you think of the pairings – do they work?  

      

  • Blog Hop – Love

     “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the
    barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

                                                                                                   Rumi

    Panic not, dear Reader!

    I haven’t gone all mushy and doe-eyed over some slim-hipped Lothario!

    The blog hop for this Samhain is about love.  And Rumi wrote a LOT about love.  But although the oft-quoted poet wrote about love, it a transcendental divine love, not the mundane love of two people making eye-contact across a shared pizza and ending the evening with a slow shuffle round the dance floor to Lionel Ritchie.

    What could I do for the Blog Hop about love? I decided that my contributionis a 3-card spread, based on the quotation above:

    Card 1:  You
    Card 2:  A barrier to the Beloved
    Card 3:  Removing this barrier to the Beloved

    Bear in mind that the Beloved needn’t be Hugh Jackman another person, but can be anything that you long for – a healthy relationship with your offspring, a promotion at work, or even something as mundane as new wool for a project.  I’m looking at YOU, yes YOU, all you NaKniSweMo peoples!!

    For Card 1 – pick a court card to act as a significator – you can use whichever method you prefer.  Here I’m simply going to choose the King of Wands because he represents my birth sign, Leo.

    I shuffle the deck, repeating the Rumi quote above and when I feel that my shuffling is complete,  turn the deck image-side upwards and work your way through the deck until you arrive at your Significator.

    The card before your Significator represents the Barrier (Card 2) and
    the card after your Significator is Card 3.  Card 3 shows a way to
    remove the barrier.  And by simply removing the barriers, you allow yourself to attain the Beloved 🙂

    Using my BELOVED Druidcraft, this is what I got. 

    First of all, my Beloved, for this spread was ‘to write a Tarot book’.   No sniggering at the back there!

    The Lady in the 5 of Pentacles leans against the tree with her arms over her eyes whilst a hound chases down a hare.  The hound and hare are part of the legend of Ceridwen and never fear the dog doesn’t get the wabbit:-)

    What does this Barrier card mean?  I don’t want to look at the work involved! I don’t think that I can do it – like Ceridwen, I won’t be able to catch my ‘hare’. This card is traditionally associated with a sense of lack or loss and perhaps I feel that I can’t do it? That I’m not entitled to it?

    I look at the Court Card that represents me – he is alert and about to get up from his throne.  Although one foot points to the Barrier card, he inclined towards the solution.  This is good, right?!

    The way to remove this Barrier is to get on with the hunt! The dog and hare of the 5 of Pentacles have been replaced by hunters coming home after a successful outing.  At the beginning of the day, they didn’t know whether they would be arriving home triumphant, but they went anyway.  And so must I.  Time to get on with working towards my beloved. And next time you see me, I might be triumphant!

    Now, I wonder what happens when I replace ‘Tarot book’ with George Clooney…….. *mind wanders off to somewhere that you’d better not look*

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