Every week a Tarot card is randomly selected for all you readers, and then I write up a mini reading, affirmation, and meditation, for your growth and enjoyment. This week's card is...
THIS WEEK'S CARD: The Hierophant ('Joseph of Arimathea')
Coincidentally enough, this tarot card has kept making an appearance for me since last week. The hierophant represents a wise figure to whom we seek counsel, and yet this figure is also us. The card represents the balance of listening to the signs and messages around us, and yet remembering to listen to our own inner wisdom. Because there is no real difference between the 'inner' and the 'outer'--the outside is a reflection, ultimately, of the inside--if we listen carefully enough on the outside, the world speaks to us even when it is silent; and of course, if we listen carefully on the inside, we have an inner world that speaks to us too.
Although the 'outside' world may speak to us, we must be wary of making anyone on the outer world a Guru. Remember that the word Guru can be pronounced, 'G...u...r...u'! It is fine to consult others for their advice or wisdom, but be careful not to become lazy or dependent. Do not use other's access to divinity and inner wisdom--the Hierophant--as your crutch. After all, if you do that too much your own Hierophant will not be given the chance to grow. Intuitive muscle is like any other. Keep exercising it and it gets stronger like a muscle. Stop using it and it atrophies. Use it or lose it! Although of course you can never truly lose your inner connection to the wise-man or woman within.
So, in short, the message of this card, as with all tarot cards, is Balance. If you've been relying on the outside world for your information and decision making processes, spend more time within. Or maybe you need to balance yourself by doing the opposite! Spend more time listening to the messages on the outside, and allow yourself the freedom to consult the Divine Wisdom that expresses itself through the outside world, accepting that ultimately 'as within so without'. Guidance comes in many forms: coincidences (synchronicity), other people's words (even if the person doesn't realise they are 'answering' your question).
Try asking the Universe a question and wait to see what happens! Be rest assured, if you are open to guidance within and without you will ALWAYS receive an answer in some form, or at least a key or sign-post guiding you in the right direction. Have faith and trust in the Universe's ability reach you in any way necessary!
AFFIRMATION
'I ask, listen, and trust in the Wisdom of the Universe within and without me...'
MEDITATION
Close your eyes, take a deep breath in through the nose and out through the mouth. Take a journey to Joseph of Arimathea's Thorn Tree growing on Wearyall Hill, Glastonbury, in England. You walk up the hill towards the tree, feeling the ground beneath your feet and the sun shining upon your face. Then you reach the tree, closing your eyes again--yes, closing your eyes a second time!--and thus enter another level of reality again. Yet another 'dream within a dream'. Then you become aware of the presence of Joseph of Arimathea who has a message for you. Simply wait and see what the message is.
Once you have your message, come back and open your eyes. Remember that, ultimately, nothing 'outside' can come unto you unless it did not also exist within you, for how else could it get there except that it was already there waiting to be re-discovered. And a thing can only be felt within as true because it was, at some level, already known. You all ready have all the answers you seek, right now, within you...all you have to do is ask. Namaste
Note: Jamie uses the Glastonbury Tarot by Lisa Tenzin-Dolma (Gothic Image Publications, 1999).
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