daily inspirational card- 5 of wands- taming the dragons,like Game of Thrones

June 15 Inspirational Card of the Day

Sorry I am late today

The MYTHIC TAROT

5 of wands /Game of Thrones

Traditionally the 5 of wands, like all  5′s  represent difficult, taxing, testing, spiritual energy.

This 5 of Wands by Liz Greene & Sharman-Burke  shows the Greek Hero Jason battling the Dragonwhich Guards the Golden Fleece. Beside him stands his lover and helper the sorceress,enchantress,the Princess Medea.

DRAGONS always hold a popular fantasy. In the popular Game of Thrones PBS series, based on the novels A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin, the Princess Daenery’s three dragons are very valuable dangerous creatures.   ”Dragons are Fire made flesh. And Fire ins power.” Quaithe.

The dragons, whether they be from a Harry Potter novel, Middle Earth, or the one St. George slays, all symbolize the same thing in Western mythology and psychology.

Dragons are psychological resisters of practical, earthly reality and change, they jealously guard their treasure buried deep in the cave of the unconscious. Dragons are inertia, the “sloth of despond” is a similar anthropomorphic creature.

That is why the Hero- the Higher Self , or positive Animus- the HERO who ACTS-must fight the Dragon- it symbolizes a lower level animal consciousness, of fear. The damsel in distress is always your own ANIMA or soul that must be freed from being locked up in a tower, chained to a rock, etc. and she is the natural  reward for slaying the dragon etc. The SOUL then gives her knowledge and direction freely.

But dragons are seen totally the opposite in CHINA although they are also masculine, fiery, mythological creatures they are considered very positive and filled with auspicious powers. Dragons are said to control water, rainfall, hurricane, and floods. The dragon is a symbol of power, strength, and good and the EMPEROR uses the dragon as his symbol. Dragons are similar to snakes, and we are in the water snake year. There are ancient symbols for DRACO the ancient constellation.

MEANING

A difficult time, a struggle, competition. Feeling that you must win at all costs. Irritability,anger and feeling pissed off. 

You can fight or tame your inner dragon. The choice is up to you. Know your enemy. The dragon you need to slay is always within yourself. You have your own inner sorceress, which you can count on to defeat your dragons, inertia,, fear, status-quo. You are being tested in the world. You need to have your weapons, tools and wits about you. You need to be able to conquer your own lands and live the life you choose.

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Daily Inspirational CArd, THE DEVIL made me do it, the Tarot wisdom

May 30 Inspirational Card of the Day

Major Trump # XV

THE DEVIL Visconti- Sforza deck Italian Renaissance

There are many variations on the Devil Card in the Tarot.

It traditionally shows BAPHOMET a pan like God with a man and a woman bound and chained before him.

The Devil is associated with the Astrology sign of CAPRICORN as he relates to earthy, material, corporeal desires of the flesh and worldly success.

Greed, selling your SOUL TO THE DEVIL  for material gain as in The famous film Rosemary’s Baby.

In the Harry Potter Tarot the Devil is of course Lord Voldemort. The total incarnation of evil, power over, ruthless,vindictive, inhuman, separated, soul wounded, totally rejected.

The HARRY POTTER TAROT  DEVIL CARD

The CATHOLIC CHURCH created the Devil, the devil is all about projection. Yes in JUNGIAN psychology, the shadow.

The Devil represents all of our “evil” taboos and unacceptable parts of ourselves, that’s the shadow we see in all “others.”

Whether that is fear of homosexuals, Jews, Infidels, liberals, immigrants, Muslims, fat people, witches, conservatives, intellectuals or Fear itself. Muslim Terrorists have the biggest blackest shadow of all.  Also NEW AGE whiter than white shadow people who assume they are purer, higher, etc. Ascending.  Also very dangerous.

They symbolize our own unaccepted unintegrated parts of ourselves.

The Devil is fear, HATRED,  separation. The opposite card to THE Devil it’s partner is THE LOVERS. 15 & 6 = the same number.

Carl Jung famously said there are only Two emotions. LOVE or FEAR.

If we choose LOVE then all is ONE harmonious there is no “other.”

If we choose FEAR  and separation then we are left out in the cold, we separate ourselves from creation.

Where there is LOVE there can be no fear.

“The DEVIL works for GOD”  is one of my favourtie Stuart Wilde quotes and its true.

Fear of the Devil of Hell, or eternal damnation a story the CatHOLIC church made up keeps people in check.

YES there is real evil, negative entities abound. The Kabbalah calls them Qliphot or “Shells.”

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH  burned tortured and killed around 9 million mainly women for over 300 years, to steal their property, to disenfranchise midwives, independent women, pagans who still believed in the OLD RELIGION of the Goddess, Nature, which honored sexuality as part of Life.

The Church accused others of  ”Consorting with the devil” is a euphemism for their own greed, denied lust, attempting to control human sexuality, their “holier than thou” stance.   REALLY if there ever was a devil in disguise it is the Church itself. Not the beautiful teachings of JESUS

but that kind of organized power and control hungry manipulative, sexually deviant CHURCH.

THE VATICAN is going to come apart at the seams now because of child abuse, stealing, robbing, and worse. 

Forget all organized religions unless they practice what they preach.  Tibetan Buddhists do not fight or kill.

THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT!

I am late today, because I have just  finished up my taxes. TAXES, ruled by Saturn. The DEVIL is known as SATAN/the planet SATURN.

The earthy real world = the wordly temptations of the flesh.

We live in a greed filled almighty buck Devil world right now.  The Devil is so deep and complex.

MEANING

Make friends with your own shadow, what bedevills you is something within yourself, never anything outside.  What tempts you?  Sex, Drugs, Chocolate cake, ambition?  Are you struggling with your addictions? Your own inner demons? What is the core hurt behind that addiction?

LOVE IS ALWAYS THE CURE.

That is one of the major lessons in the Tarot. The Devil was originally PAN the pagan horny half-goat- the association with Capricorn. The Thoth Tarot shows an erect penis subliminally in the image. Embrace all of life, sex is  a natural part.  YOUnger people are freer with sexuality but the old Devil’s still linger. They are all of our fears.

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DEVIL IN DISGUISE ELVIS PRESLEY http://youtu.be/338Qv5zmi-g

TEMPTATION By Bing Crosby :going Hollywood" 1933 http://youtu.be/NtUBYLMxtXY