April 1: Ace Of Swords, Utah Maninni One Tarot
Well, I had my consciousness raised yesterday, and this card is one more proof to me that there are, indeed, no accidents. I am getting personal insight from the Universe on some of my longest-held perceptions, and it's turning my head around. Let me 'splain....
I am a die-hard (I thought) Air-Wands, Fire-Swords girl. It made sense to me on every level--after all, trees breathe out oxygen, don't they? and of course tree-branches will always be my chosen wand-stuff--and you can't make a sword without fire, and the blade looks like, and is made with, the flame--and of course wooden twigs are flexible (like thoughts) and swords are pointed, direct, and double-edged (like the will)....So, I thought, TarotWitch has this one down, but good. Right?.......Well, maybe.....
I had a class yesterday on British Traditional Witchcraft, to learn some background and ethos from a master of the Arte. And he said that he himself was creating a tarot deck, and he had the exact same views--and the deck didn't work. Until, he said, he got a cosmic ass-kick that it was, of course, exactly the other way around. Fire. he discovered, wasn't the forge-fire at all--not a man-made fire. It was the dawn-fire, the rising Sun, not the fire in the hearth, all safe and controlled, but the cosmic Fire of Awakening, the Fire of Inspiration, the Fire-In-The-Head of the Bard. And North, for a BTW (and for this American Shamanic 1734 Witch) is Air, the Polar Star, the Iron of the North, that draws all things, that creates thought and idea from cosmic harmony---the Lode-Stone, the MotherLode, the source of Ideas/Ideals...
And it all rang true. And it all made sense to me, as well as it had to him. I began to re-think it--and then, today's draw, in affirmation, is this particular Ace of Swords, the White Owl (my own personal totem beast) with the sword going right through hir head, opening brain-paths to new ideas... No, there are no accidents....
So--how are you having your mind changed today? How is the Lodestone bringing your thoughts into harmony whilst letting them fly free? Where is the place where you have to discard a long-held theory and think Anew? Works for me...
