Ok everyone, I have completed this week's weekly Tarot reading on how the coronavirus will impact the US on a national level. Before that, however, I decided to recap my previous readings on the subject. Get ready for a whopper of a post (my apologies for the novel):
JANUARY 26
Cards: 4 of Cups / 10 of Coins / 8 of Swords
My reading: A past of apathy and self-absorption has led us to this current problem. In the present, people continue to attend social gatherings. Unfortunately oppression, confusion, and isolation will result. (Note: this was a Rider-Waite based Tarot; the others that follow all used the Thoth.)
MARCH 12
Cards: Fool / Hermit / Princess of Wands / Death / Queen of Wands
My reading: We are entering a new area of life and are, quite literally, entering the unknown. Now is the time to withdraw from the world as much as possible and prepare for change. Avoid the impulse to be irresponsible and careless; instead and let go of old ways of being. It is clear an end is here—but a new beginning will emerge. We will need to call upon our inner strength and embrace the transformation that brings enlightenment. (The Queen of Wands could also symbolize the “women rising” future seen by many.)
@Frank had a slightly different interpretation of these cards: The Fool means we are embarking on a journey, with the Hermit indicating it will be one of introspection and soul searching. The Princess of Wands indicates that from this will come new ideas, inspiration and limitless potential resulting in the Death of old patterns and ideas. The Queen of Wands encourages us to have courage, confidence and determination in the face of this change.
MARCH 19
Cards: Queen of Wands / Death / Hermit / Fool / Chariot
My reading: This continues to be a period of change and transformation as the crisis surges. We must continue to hunker down and wait out this turbulent time. I am bolstered but the appearance of the Fool and Chariot combo at the end there and wonder if we might not soon see a positive development, perhaps a leap forward in treatment.
@jeanne-mayell interpreted these cards in this way: The cards are very high level cards - Trump cards and Court Cards, indicating an epic situation. We are in a game changing, culture changing situation in which everything seems to be moving fast and big changes are happening every day. There are no bad cards. The Death card says we are going to be letting go of old ways. It seems to loom over us but the Collective does not know yet what it means. It is coming closer, though. Death coming closer: As the reports from Italy show a catastrophic death rate (double the Chinese) because their medical system cannot handle the surge of severe cases, the U.S. Collective is becoming aware that the same may happen here. Did we shelter quickly enough? No we did not. We didn't even have tests. One hope that is not in the cards yet, is treatments, like drugs. We need to get those antivirals out to people. The FOOL - Donald Trump - moves further back in your line of cards the second week because people have no use for a FOOL - full of hype, naive, inexperienced in a catastrophic emergency. The Fool also represents the naiveté of the American people. Naivety is moving further away next week. In the FOOL'S place is the QUEEN OF WANDS - a strong protector, someone who is doing her best to protect the people. She is the female-based democratic Congress, the Katie Porters. But she cannot hand out medical care, only entitlement to medical care and money. The HERMIT is the American people sheltering in place, isolating selves. The CHARIOT indicates that we are going to be going it alone, independent state and local action to deal with a crisis that the Federal Government utterly and totally has failed and will continue to fail to do. This entire process is a dry run for what is going to happen when climate change ramps up. Both the Virus and Climate Change are exponential processes of nature. The Universe is giving humans a chance to get ready for climate change which will be far more devastating than this little virus. I think we will learn our lesson from the virus - the harsher the lesson, the more likely we will learn.
MARCH 26
Cards: Queen of Wands / Emperor / 10 of Wands (Oppression) / 7 of Wands (Valour) / Queen of Cups
My reading: We continue in this period of tremendous change and transformation. This change is great and frightening, so it is not surprising that people would seek order, stability, and security — but a desire for order can easily give way to oppression. Oppression, however, has a positive result, as the courage of many comes to the forefront, especially those (perhaps nurses and doctors?) whose inner wisdom and intuition will be valuable in this time of crisis.
Thanks, all - as always, would love to know your thoughts and interpretations :)
Also, I have to say: this Queen of Wands loves a corona reading, doesn't she? ?
One thing that just occurred to me:
In last week's reading, I thought that the week would end (I generally do Thursday to Thursday/Friday) with a new beginning, a great leap forward. At the time I thought (or rather hoped) this might be referencing a positive development, but I just read that tonight the US has surpassed China and now has the most CV cases worldwide. That is certainly a leap of a different kind, unfortunately.
Oppression, however, has a positive result, as the courage of many comes to the forefront, especially those (perhaps nurses and doctors?) whose inner wisdom and intuition will be valuable in this time of crisis.
Don't forget the citizen journalists who are subverting oppressive governments to reveal the truth of the coronavirus in their own countries. This is happening in China and is probably taking place in Iran (I haven't checked). I think we can expect a surge of citizen journalism from India, where Narendra Modi (ideological cousin to #45) has just ordered a 3-weeks lockdown. Things in India are already turning chaotic, with pharmacists and grocers being unlawfully attacked and detained by police; states shutting their borders and stranding travelers; informal workers having no way to purchase food, The list goes on, and this is 20% of humanity we're talking about.
"Unfortunately if my surviving the 'rona comes down to eating liver, I better start getting my affairs together now ? ? ? (I have awful memories of being forced to eat liver as a child.)"
As do I! Because i grew up in Alaska it was moose and deer liver! And my dad heartily advocating for tongue and other even more disturbing organs--head meat, and even brain. Puullleasse, no no no!
My father was born in a huge pioneer Alaskan family where survival was entirely self dependent on survival and subsistence skills and no part of a hunt was wasted. It was the waste of the gift of parts of an animal and many parts contained (as @thebeast noted ) essential vitamins and minerals etc.
Much like the indigenous native tribes of Alaska, also believed and practiced in native villages are still practiced by their children and grandchildren today. It is not only their culture but intrinsically connected to their deepest spirituality of being one with the animal.
All animals are and were seen as sacred and holy gifts and hunting and using the gifts of them as part of all that is passed down and rituals from the ancestors.
The same could be seen and said of my own dad and his siblings and extended family. They all used every part of the native animals and fish as well. It was common to be offered breaded and fried fish cheek patties or potato and fish eyeball soup by my Finnish grandmother.
Needless to say in spite of our double pioneer DNA (Finnish from my dad and French from our mother) most of us five kids were initially overly finicky and even highly resistant, much to their dismay.
As a result, the five of us kids, ate a lot of homemade bread and ketchup sandwiches instead.
But as @jeanne-mayell has said and all 3 of my adult children as well-- If we insist on eating meat (particularly in the decades to come) we need to be willing to kill it--or in my personal case participate in the process afterwards of preserving and using it as I have.
My husband and kids have all hunted, carted out and cleaned as well as hung up the meat animal (for weeks as required) before cutting apart and wrapping many deer, elk, and home raised pork or beef as well.
I am still finicky. I prepare the butchering setups and supplies give thanks and prayers of gratitude to the spirits of animals who sacrifice their lives to us and help in wrapping for freezing or drying.
And i am emotionally attached to my chickens. I thank them every time they give eggs and provide a wonderful and loving home for them. But i would have to live a more challenging food necessary life than now before i could them. And i know that day might still necessarily come.
My ancestors and my parents and grandparents would be proud of my family. But no, it is not easy at all. Besides being very, very hard work it is often emotional. You truly have to see yourself as part of nature and just a part of all there is--as one in nature-- and connected to the food chain and the gifts of the great mother earth and her many species of children to consciously and with gratitude and even reverence eat other beings.
Humans may see theirselves as royalty (to make this thread under this heading of Prince Charles and William at all!) but truly we are not.
Our governance is a man made construct based on our own views of power over others. It can and often is destroyed in the wild where without our manmade tools of power, control, destruction from knives to guns to bombs while in the wild we are simply part of the natural and ever changing hierarchy.
And right now, at this point in time microscopic particles are taking humanity down in great numbers. Succession to the throne has begun.
"Unfortunately if my surviving the 'rona comes down to eating liver, I better start getting my affairs together now ? ? ? (I have awful memories of being forced to eat liver as a child.)"
As do I! Because i grew up in Alaska it was moose and deer liver! And my dad heartily advocating for tongue and other even more disturbing organs--head meat, and even brain. Puullleasse, no no no!
My father was born in a huge pioneer Alaskan family where survival was entirely self dependent on survival and subsistence skills and no part of a hunt was wasted. It was the waste of the gift of parts of an animal and many parts contained (as @thebeast noted ) essential vitamins and minerals etc.
Much like the indigenous native tribes of Alaska, also believed and practiced in native villages are still practiced by their children and grandchildren today. It is not only their culture but intrinsically connected to their deepest spirituality of being one with the animal.
All animals are and were seen as sacred and holy gifts and hunting and using the gifts of them as part of all that is passed down and rituals from the ancestors.
The same could be seen and said of my own dad and his siblings and extended family. They all used every part of the native animals and fish as well. It was common to be offered breaded and fried fish cheek patties or potato and fish eyeball soup by my Finnish grandmother.
Needless to say in spite of our double pioneer DNA (Finnish from my dad and French from our mother) most of us five kids were initially overly finicky and even highly resistant, much to their dismay.
As a result, the five of us kids, ate a lot of homemade bread and ketchup sandwiches instead.
But as @jeanne-mayell has said and all 3 of my adult children as well-- If we insist on eating meat (particularly in the decades to come) we need to be willing to kill it--or in my personal case participate in the process afterwards of preserving and using it as I have.
My husband and kids have all hunted, carted out and cleaned as well as hung up the meat animal (for weeks as required) before cutting apart and wrapping many deer, elk, and home raised pork or beef as well.
I am still finicky. I prepare the butchering setups and supplies give thanks and prayers of gratitude to the spirits of animals who sacrifice their lives to us and help in wrapping for freezing or drying.
And i am emotionally attached to my chickens. I thank them every time they give eggs and provide a wonderful and loving home for them. But i would have to live a more challenging food necessary life than now before i could them. And i know that day might still necessarily come.
My ancestors and my parents and grandparents would be proud of my family. But no, it is not easy at all. Besides being very, very hard work it is often emotional. You truly have to see yourself as part of nature and just a part of all there is--as one in nature-- and connected to the food chain and the gifts of the great mother earth and her many species of children to consciously and with gratitude and even reverence eat other beings.
Humans may see theirselves as royalty (to make this thread under this heading of Prince Charles and William at all!) but truly we are not.
Our governance is a man made construct based on our own views of power over others. It can and often is destroyed in the wild where without our manmade tools of power, control, destruction from knives to guns to bombs while in the wild we are simply part of the natural and ever changing hierarchy.
And right now, at this point in time,microscopic particles are taking humanity down in great numbers.
Succession to the throne has begun.
Hi all. Trying to understand the future of climate change brought me here about a year ago, and I've been following along ever since. I am awed by the perceptiveness of the intuitives on this site and grateful for being able to read your insights.
My psychic abilities tend to come and go, as hunches, feelings, images.
Over the past couple of days I've seen an image of a candle: there is a long white taper and the flame is going out, with a thin spire of smoke rising up from it. This feels to me like the end of the age we've been living in.
I did a simple reading with the Rider Waite deck today, asking how things will occur around the Coronavirus in the US over the next two weeks. The results:
Two of Wands: The stop-start of the federal government. Dithering too long about taking clear action. Things staying in theory rather than being implemented.
Six of Pentacles: The distribution of much-needed financial support to people who have been laid off and to small businesses that are struggling.
The Tower: I hope this does not have to do with our healthcare infrastructure. It feels more like the collapse of structures that are selfish and do not contribute to the common good.
Wishing everyone good health.
My family has always been poor, and I don't remember it, but my sister said they only had meat once a month. I do remember brains and eggs though. I wouldn't eat them. You could tell because the eggs turned green. My brother told about eating a plate of brains and eggs, and saying how good they were until they told him what he just ate, and wanted to throw up.
@sistermoon, I love your readings. Your 10 of Wands for Mar 26 appeals to me as symbolic of the tremendous burden and stress of our situation--illness, confinement, isolation, and quarantine; and the 7 of wands being our valiant healthcare workers and even our quarantined selves, defending us all from disease.
@elaineg, when I was a kid my father ate brains and eggs and blood pudding. We grew up in an ethnic (primarily Polish/German) neighborhood in Baltimore, and all of the small markets had it. He also loved fried Spam (as did I at one time). My mom served liver & onions at least once a month. I could only eat liver if it was covered in gravy. It all gives me the willies now!