The World Offers Itself To Your Imagination

As Above Tarot ~ Barbara Moore

Look at all those orbs! Planetary energy showing up in this draw with Earth, the Sun, the Moon and Mercury. Astrologers will know better than I what to make of that combination but I feel these cards as relevant to an ongoing question I have been holding about communication on a wider sphere. Seeing Mercury show up here in the Two of Fire combined with this depiction of the Ten of Earth feels like an affirmation to move forwards in the direction I'm inclined towards wrt this situation. I'm loving the visuals here today.

Ten of Earth ~ As Above Tarot

Ten of Earth, traditionally the Ten of Pentacles, here speaks of the human family and our place within it as well as on a more macro scale, the Earth's place within her planetary family. We see the Sun and Moon, day and night, on either point of the earth's rotation. There is something comforting about seeing one's larger place in the family of things.

The LWB talks of this card as being about right timing, about being aware of the balance of time and being able to attune to that universal flow. The world is clearly in motion here with the figures at all angles on its surface. And in a rather poetic description the card talks about how everything carries the seed of its opposite--the moon reflecting the light of the sun, the day casting shadows, seeds of night under the sun.

When I line this card up with the traditional meaning of inheritance and legacy I can feel it in a much more global way, the sense that ultimately as a species, we inherit each other. Inheritance not as something that happens in the future but rather as an ongoing cycle of return. I'm thinking of the butterfly effect which was coined to describe the effect a butterfly's wing movements in one part of the world had on a hurricane in another part of the world several weeks later. I feel that kind of intimate and articulated sense of interdependence when I look at this card.

Two of Fire ~ As Above Tarot

Now this is a pretty spectacular depiction of Hermes/Mercury. There is such a sense of power and presence here with the planet forming the hub around which the focus spins with the god himself keeping watch. As well there is the theme of twos going on. I'm drawn to the two wings on his helmet, the two entwined snakes on his caduceus, the two wings on the same staff. And the two salamanders at the bottom of the card reminding us of the fire element.

Fire feels like a curious elemental association in relation to Mercury, the messenger, whose realm I most often associate with air. He is however the protector of merchants, god of business and in that sense his presence feels fitting here for what is traditionally the Two of Wands.

The LWB describes this card as being about the importance of communication, that either something needs to be said or heard depending on the surrounding cards. I'm aware that Mercury will be completing its retrograde today, and Mercury's presence in the card very much feels related to that. The god himself showing up to assure he's back on course, so to speak.

Overall, themes of time and space are presenting themselves here. Having just journeyed intensely with an oracle card in which this very theme came up I'm encouraged to see my travels reflected in the cards today. Questions of connection, of the stories and wounds we inherit from our ancestral lineage as well as from the planet are all swirling around in the atmosphere and in the cards. There is an imperative here to listen to and share in each others' and our own songs and that by so doing we'll come to know more fully the jewel that is our unique place in the family of things. Mary Oliver names it perfectly in an excerpt from her poem, Wild Geese.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting --
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.