Tarot Blog Hop: Imbolc 2013

Tarot Blog Hop 2013 Imbolc Previous Blog:  TABI

Welcome, Tarot Blog Hoppers! Imbolc is here again already.  Is it just me, or does that wheel seem to be turning faster and faster?

So, what's 'in my belly'? What is in my spring? What shall I birth this season? These are the questions we're meant to answer this time around...

I'm so eager to see the earth spring to life, I asked myself, what is the most exuberant deck I own? And the first deck that came to mind was Wheel of the Year Tarot! I decided to draw three cards with no position:

Just look at those cards! Look at those colours! So fantastically spring-y. Ahhh. They practically warm my toes in my slippers. (You may notice I've cropped all borders off the deck, and written the numbers on in silver. I also drew a wiggly silver inner border around the majors. I quite like the effect.)




The story told by these cards is a very happy one. The Sun card, to me, represents the new season, the new year, the new awakening of the earth. The card is so beautiful, the glowing light of the sun in a yellow sky makes me feel warm just looking at it. And meditating before the sun is a very muscled Horned One. Now, I know he's not supposed to be born yet at this time of year, but you know he's always around, and he is over there in card 3 of the spread, right? (I mean, who else could she be pregnant with?) What better representation could there be of the Wheel of the Year than to have the Horned One manifested in all his guises right there in the very first spread, because now that I look at it, the middle card can represent the dying god as well. And yes, they're out of order because, well, the whole story makes very little sense, and life and time are such a hodgepodge that sometimes it feels just like this--a jumble of images, not necessarily remembered in the right order. So, we start with the Sun, shining out at me, contemplating its own splendour. It is the light within, the hara, the fire in the belly; it certainly makes me feel warm in my belly. The Sun is me, the me inside.

Then there's the 8 of Cups, which shows someone leaving behind this weepy young maid in the pink, but to me, this is not a  teary good-bye to someone who will be missed, but a good-bye to the tears themselves, and to the cause of them. I see this card as signifying the end of some misery for me. I've sat and looked at that card for a long time now, and I see it as the Sun in my belly driving the sadness out. Good-bye to something that's been bothering me for a long time. Good-bye. Good-bye to being the weepy little girl. Good-bye, good-bye, good-bye.

And now that there's this fresh-swept place where the sadness had been, what better to fill it with than an inner contentment that mimics the glow of a pregnant woman? There's something about this particular 7 of Coins that seems so very placid and happy. The card suggests to me that the seeds of my future happiness in 2013 are planted and taking firm root in this Imbolc season. And without going into details, I actually do feel like important things are happening in my personal growth.

This reading fills me with hope and warmth and...the need to sing a song from 'West Side Story'---

I gotta feeling there's a miracle due--
Gonna come true--
Coming to me!
Could it be? Yes it could!
Something's coming, something good
If I can wait
Something's coming, I don't know
what it is
but it is
Gonna be great!

And for some reason, I need to sing one from a completely different musical----

LE-E-E-E-E-T THE SUN SHI-I-I-I-INE! 
LET THE SUN SHINE IN!
THE SU-U-U-U-N SHINE IN!
(Everybody now)
LET THE SUN SHINE!
LET THE SUN SHINE IN!
THE SU-U-U-U-N SHINE IN!!!  (tee hee)

Whew.

Well, it's certainly no quiet, contemplative Imbolc for me this year. I'm not turning inward to meditate on the sleeping seeds in the frozen earth. I feel like the earth -- and the universe -- is simply straining at the seams with LIFE.  I feel like golden rays are about to burst out of my chest, and let me tell you, I needed a bit of that.

So to one and all I wish blessings, namaste, sat nam, and as Tarot by Arwen would say, 'Seek joy, y'all.'

Which, by the way, brings us to the next blog on our Imbolc Tarot Blog Hop journey:


Tarot Blog Hop 2013 Imbolc Next Blog: Tarot by Arwen


An Imbolc Tarot Spell
Edited to add: I didn't provide a spread so I thought I'd come back and suggest a tarot spell for you. Brigid is the goddes of the hearth, the forge and intuition. Try this:

Prepare 3 candles: one for hearth, one for forge, one for intuition.
Select three tarot cards that seem to embody your goals or desires for those three areas in your life: hearth (home), forge (work), intuition (spiritual, creative, etc)
Lay out the cards and light a candle for each. Let them burn down, you know the drill.

Blessed be!