Summer Solstice 23rd June - 23rd Sept
Lets take a look at the energies working through the months June to September. Summer Solstice is one of the key landmarks of the year being the mid point between Jan and Dec and for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, that longest day and night (marked, this year, by the sun's rise and set on the 22nd June), can have a real magic to it.
In a nutshell, this Solstice period will mark the beginning of the end. It will be marked by the challenges of shocking, too hot to handle, news and issues being presented to us thick and fast. The world in which we have been used to living will present us with a good few wake up calls and there will be passion and volatility. It will seem as if the world is on fire. What will we keep a hold of and what will we drop? This marks a period of time where we will need to reevaluate what we based our sense of security and foundations on. An intense period of reflection and scrutiny will inevitably follow for those of us who are taken by surprise by certain revelations and contradictions to what we have believed up to now constituted the foundations on which we have seen fit to base our lives. The final card The Chariot however, is a great indicator of the strength we will as a collective be able to draw on to focus our vision firmly on establishing a positive and triumphant outcome from what will for many of us be the ashes of the fires indicated in the 10 of Fire and a very challenging period. This is the stuff of revolutionary times....
Illumination of things previously kept hidden. A new phase that aligns with what we know in our soul to be true. The necessity for creative solutions that are fueled by the fires of passion for truth and justice!
I was intrigued to see that the first card of this spread is the same as that which opened the spread on the 6th June! The Ace of Fire is a powerful creative and passionate start to this year's Solstice and totally fitting to the beginning of summer. The fiery power of the Sun and the impact that the solar rays will have on our spiritual development cannot be avoided here. Anchorage to our Soul's knowing and allowing that to shine and transform for necessary change is the theme of this next few months.
The Ace of Fire will shine light and illuminate much that has been previously kept hidden and followed by the 10 of Fire card tells me that it will indeed be a hot and fiery summer. Much is set to come our way that will feel like hot property and challenge us to keep a hold of the information and realities being presented to us during this year's summer months. It will be necessary for us to be guided by the light of our Soul's knowing and deeper intuitive knowing rather than by what the outside world is presenting to us.
New beginnings spurred on by the build up of a collective societal and spiritual passion for change and innovation that is needed for us to break with the old outmoded model of existence and to take us into a new direction. Trusting the power and energy of our Soul/Spirit and knowing that it is capable enough of revelations and information too hot to handle, yet requiring us to do just that and process them in such as a way as to ensure that our material needs are still met and the firm earthy foundation is not too fractured by the potential volatility of this period.
A great deal of reflection and scrutiny will be prompted by what comes to us with the Ace of Fire and 10 of Fire setting the scene and through this potentially unnerving time, it will be necessary for us to stay grounded and remember that the universe has our backs.
Too hot to handle but handle we must! That which is not relevant and necessary for us to keep a hold of will burn out as quickly as it arrived...
The woman in this card stands between two pillars of wisdom and knowledge and within this space she is presented with a feris wheel of words on fire! Hot property in the form of challenging information that we may not even wish to have presented to us but the communication is inevitable and the ferris wheel of words on fire will keep dropping what we need to know about in front of our faces for us to grasp and process. Main stream Media, Independent Media sources and the spiritual downloads from our Soul communicating to us information that is required for us to come into alignment with our growth that will run concurrently with our capacity to absorb those burning words. Truth bombs!
Some of the news and perspectives put in front of us will burn out just as quickly as they arrived as we filter out that which we need to keep hold of from that which has no currency or accuracy in our lives and can therefore burn itself out. Letting go of that which does not serve us is as much of an importance as grasping that which is presented to us. It may feel too hot to handle but none the less needs us to integrate with our Soul's wisdom and to benefit from the resources that lie within our own Source. The challenge for us will be not to catch every piece of burning words and information that falls in front of our faces and become over burdened with the sheer volume of it. This is where the 9 of Pentacles steps in to provide a supportive platform from which to find the resources within and externally in our environment.
Trusting the Universe to keep us on firm ground. Believing in the gifts of the earth to provide our needs, staying grounded and digging deep into our inner and outer resources to maintain as firm a foundation as we can...
The 9 of Earth counsels us to remember that we have all the resources that we need around us in our environment and within our own innate ability to adapt, manifest and be self reliant. Our relationship with the availability of money, health and physical resources is indicated by the 9 of EARTH and being a 9 it resonates with equality, humanitarianism and connection to Soul wisdom. When dealing with hardships and providing for our material needs, the 9 energy prioritizes the needs of all whilst at the same time utilising one's independent ability to generate the fulfillment of those needs. Both self reliance and collectivism will be the key during these times, each aspect playing out where relevant and supporting eachother. The 9 of Earth provides a firm foundation for us to handle the fiery hot information and challenging issues that will be presented to us thick and fast by the world at large and in our own individual countries during this summer's months.
Faith in the unconditional existence of the physical resources that we need during this period will be a challenge but we need to be working along those lines to give us a sense of much needed security. Spirit made Matter, our ability to manifest and focus our mind on creating from personal and collective will and faith alone will become apparent whilst the world around us seems to turn upside down, inside out and back to front.
9's are all about endings which give way to beginnings. The end of one cycle and the cusp of the new emerging cycle and with the pentacles in this 9 of Earth card, we have 9 spinning discs that embody the creative spiral. Each of the discs in the card has a unique take on the design of the Celtic Triquetra knot which is made up of three over lapping loops: past, present, future / life, death, rebirth / the father, the son, the holy ghost. Nine options for a 3 part cyclical transformation. So this card, the 9 of Earth, with its spinning discs of transformational energy, indicates that during this period we will have all the potential for transforming our situation and the world around us in a material and tangible way which is in rhythm with the earthly cycles of nature. This is the supportive energy available to us whilst we are making the transition from old to new and bringing to the surface that which we need to shine a light on in order to see it and discard it and then align ourselves and societies to greater more humanitarian soul based choices.
Connection with the sacred and the need for total faith in the fact that our physical needs are met by our honoring of our inner resources aligned to the divine and natural order of things. Hearing the whisper of our soul and focusing our attention on the wealth that lies within will shape the availability of those needs to be met in the outside world, in our environment at large. True Sovereignty and alignment with the Natural and material world showing us the bounty that is available to us according to our will to manifest it, is something that will help us to navigate through the seeming madness and the appearance of the world as we knew it up to that point, being deconstructed all around us.
Your Soul's wisdom knows how to discern and sift the fact from fiction. Remaining calm and resisting a fiery reaction whilst the dust settles and the light from the remaining fires transform your view of the world, is going to be your best strategy...
Resisting the temptation to re-actively fight and remaining calm and quizzical will be the most helpful strategy when dealing with the passions that the words on fire will inevitably provoke. Reacting to everything the Media ferris wheel drops in front of your face in the first instance may give vent to the passionate anger that you will likely feel, but the stillness and poise of the girl in this 5 of Fire card will prevent you from fire fighting every thing that comes your way and enable you to see what is important to respond to and what will inevitably burn itself out and actually halve the problems you initially thought you were up against. The 5 of Fire will help you to avoid burnout with her still and reflective poise as she asseses that which is shown to her. This card with its number 5, indicates that only half of that which comes at you from the 10 of Fire needs be given your energy and emotions to engage with.
As the age of the girl in this card indicates, we will feel somewhat inexperienced and young, whoever we are, whatever age we are, because this period between the 22nd June and 23rd Sept has us all introduced to a new, hitherto un-chartered territory in which most of us will feel ourselves to be young and a novice to handling the life that is rolling out in front of us. This is a period of transformation whereby our past will look different to what we had thought it was and our future looks to be based on terms that are new to us and that requires us to either evolve and go with our newly developing wisdom or burn with the remaining fires that are left to burn themselves out from the 10 of Fire. The expression on the girl's face is one that indicates she has boundaries ... it is as if she is saying "you can push me, but only so far ... and I dare you"
The white wings of what is actually a White Moth rather than a butterfly, indicate that by maintaining the same calm observance of the girl, transformation and adaptation to the new circumstances will be possible and the fact that this is embodied by the girl in the card with her own White Moth wings is encouragement for ourselves. The adaptation to new beginnings and the necessary changes required in order to survive unscathed, is the message here as well as the fact that the previous 9 of Earth card with all that it offers us, provides the necessary foundation for us to be able to do this. Our ability to adapt during the next few months will help us through what will sometimes feel to be a period of living in dark times and the white wings symbolise survival of the light through those moments of darkness.
Seeking answers and looking for divine inspiration whilst feeling closer to nature and the earth's resources is inevitable during this period....
"What is going on? Have I got this right? is it the way it looks? I need to understand ..." These are the kind of questions we will be inevitably asking ourselves during this period. The little voice in our mind that gives counsel, that whispers on our shoulder in our ear that which previously seemed too outrageous to think and accept will become louder as we strive to get a grip on the true reality of the situation. Taking stock and trying to keep our feet on the ground whilst at the same time communing with the whispers in the air and attuning our antennae in our need to understand and make sense of things. 7's are about scrutiny, scrutiny to understand completely and to see things as they truly are.
Someone who is a number 7 in numerology is compelled to look at things from every angle, to search within and without for the answers until those answers add up to something that is convincing in accuracy. A tenaciousness in this endeavor and thoroughness to ensure that the truth and nothing but the truth is revealed characterises 7 people. Couple this with the element of the Earth and it leads us to need to know tangibly and in physical form, the true situation. It has to add up physically as well as conceptually ... to become manifest in real lived experience given that this is how we will be affected and this is what we will need in order to stay grounded and mentally sane during these times.
Our vulnerability goes with the territory and bearing our chest, revealing our heart's struggle to come to terms with the changes we see before us and are living through will require us to come together and share our fears, insights and coping strategies with eachother. Resources inner and outer will be our currency and being guided by that little voice will ensure that we handle things with integrity.
This is where there will be a fork in the road. Taking stock and being confident of our assessment of the situation will be crucial to the next stage in this unfolding story and this too involves the number 7... The Chariot card takes the most decisive action!
The Chariot was always poised ready to charge! Once those words of fire become manifest physically and we taste their accuracy, experiencing the true impact of them in our daily life, there will be nothing for it but the revolutionary drive of the justice seeking Chariot ....
Love hides where we most need to find it .... light hides where the darkness most needs to reveal it, dualities merge with the unifying reason for their existence and the Chariot ending this period of the spread is an expression of this. The revelations of this period of time as brought to light by the Ace of Fire and the 10 of Fire require action and after the truth seeking scrutiny of the 7 of Earth, this is fulfilled by the only Major Arcana card of this spread that would express revolutionary momentum. Also a number 7, being a Major Arcana there is an inevitability about this call to action which requires a visionary facilitator for justice. The number 7 can refer to revolutionary passion and action and the will to right wrongs in the name of equality and justice. Given the revelations and challenges that we will face between June and September, it is hardly surprising that the Chariot is the fixed element in this spread being as it is, a Major Arcana card.
Evaluation and choices when we come to the fork in the road, will be required in order to move forward into new terrain with the determination and confidence that the Chariot affords. A sense of conviction for the changes required and this path chosen will be necessary in order to cope with the speed and focused momentum of the Chariot. The summer will end with jobs to be done, places to go and wrongs to be righted and this will be a matter of necessity. The revolutionary zeal will win when we get to that fork in the road as the energy of the number 7 has a strong need to refuse to put up with injustices and to defend our rights fearlessly. Employing practical solutions to the vision of a better world that has arisen due to the many truth bombs and revelations during the summer months, means harnessing the energy of the Chariot and powerfully standing for that which is humane and stands for dignity. The old order will not even get the chance to crumble .... that which is still burning itself out in funeral pires of the 10 of Fire, the Chariot will trample systematically into the ground with focused determination as we collectively revolutionise the world we live in for ourselves and future generations to come.
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