Line reading with 7 of Cups

7 of Cups today from CBD Tarot (not shown in image. Image is from Google images, an unidentified deck.)

It's been a rough couple of days. My emotions have been very volatile, explained by hormone fluctuation, the pressures of a house buy and the reality of a mortgage that possibly extends longer than my employability.

7 of Cups is troubled emotion or relationship(s). That pretty much sums it up my last few days. It's been stormy round here, people!

To expand on this card, I drew two more: 2 of Coins and 8 of Swords. Ideas and plans for balancing finances. Yes again.

To read the story of the cards, here are a few different possible interpretations:

--Troubled emotions/relationships caused by overthinking the balance of money.

--Troubled emotions/relationships require schemes for getting to grips with the reality.

--Troubled emotions/relationships find balance (become grounded) through careful analysis.

--A financial partnership is stormy but can be balanced by a rational approach.

No matter how you slice it, the message is clear. Get a grip. This looks like a job for CBT, some research, and some very flexible short term and long term planning. And a bit of faith and trust.

Like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel

CBD Tarot, Ben-Dov 2011

Hm, lots of wheels this week, CBD Tarot turns up the 2 of Coins, following on from yesterday's Wheel of Fortune.

Ben-Dov says:

Duality. Two options or two elements. Collaborating while keeping distance. A winding road, advancing in complex ways. Recognition and acknowledgement.

Yesterday I was miffed at my mortgage adviser for sending me a condescending email reply to my asking him to explain why he'd selected a particular insurance provider instead of some of the ones with better reviews on Which? It was uncalled for, to say the least, but I have merely asked again for more information about the product he's chosen. If he remains unwilling to explain himself, I will have to assume his main motivation is lining his pockets with my commission and not helping me understand why I should buy his product,  and I'll just have to select my own cover as most people do -- on the internet. But the Wheel will come back up in my favour again, and it might be that doing my own insurance actually is in my favour.

Some 2 of Coins affirmations:

"I celebrate my growth and power." Angel Paths

"Every problem is just an opportunity waiting for someone." Key-Hypnosis

"I flourish in the tide of change." Machelle Earley

"Act happy." James Ricklef

Those are all very interesting takes on a card that shows balance, movement and exchange in the realm of money, security and the material world.

(Title reference: Windmills of Your Mind song lyric)

TCB

Bonefire Tarot

Wow, another two from Bonefire Tarot today. Here's the 2 of Coins, which pays homage to the RWS image by having a man juggling two coins in a figure of eight, near wavy water with boats. He has a pouty mouth and broody face, reminds me of the Knight of Cups, actually. Maybe he's just in a bit of a meditative state. Finding and maintaining the status quo can become a repetitive and mundane task, the mind wanders, not unlike that stream meandering upward into the sky. Maybe he's doing some daydreaming whilst he goes through the motions that keep the disks juggling in their ceaseless loops.

Sometimes days can feel like that. You do the things you have to do to keep the house going, you go to work, do your tasks, come home, do the tasks there, just keeping things ticking along, and sometimes, you can get through a half a day, a whole day, perhaps even a week or more, without a blip, without breaking the rhythm of the routine. It's like a flow, and I for one do not criticize it. It can be a psychologically healthy thing to be in the groove for a while, the groove of doing what needs to be done. In the 70s, they used to call it 'taking care of business' - 'TCB'. And business must be taken care of, through all the phases of life, from the new sprouts of fresh events or ideas (the green shoots) through to the end of cycles (the dead trees) -- birth to death, those two coins need to be juggled, to remain suspended in the never ending loops. This is what life is about, and the rainbow and valentine heart in the center show that actually, a sort of contentment and deep happiness comes about from the comfort of sustaining routine.

So, hi ho, off to work I go! :)