Weekly Tarot Message for Week of December 26, 2021

The Napo Tarot

This is the Wheel Spread

In this spread, The Shadow Card is placed in the middle of the spread with the corresponding cards surrounding it like a wheel

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These readings are done with the human collective in mind.

They show us what is going on in our lives and affecting us, what challenges and obstacles we face, the positive and negative factors involved and advice as to what we should or shouldn't do.

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1.  Card in the Middle is (The Shadow Card):  IV The Emperor

2.  Card Top Left is (The Past):  II of Cups

3.  Card Top Middle is (The Present):  XV The Devil  

4.  Card Top Right is (The Destination Card) Where We're Headed:  X of Wands

5.  Card on the Bottom is (The Hidden Card) representing the energies we can't see at the time of the reading:  0 The Fool  

6.  Card to the Right of the Hidden Card is (The Advice Card) VIII Strength (what we need to do or not do depending on the situation)  

7.  Card to the Left and directly under the Past Card is (The Outcome):  X The Wheel of Fortune 

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This Week's Message:  

1.  IV The Emperor represents family, justice and someone respectful of tradition and customs.  

This card indicates that an individual is hovering in the background, cognizant and mindful of all that is taking place with a keen understanding of personalities, people and events.

2.  The II of Cups shows our interactions with one another.  It represents kindness, relationships, courtship, love and communication.    Interesting that this card is in the Past position.   Are these virtues now a thing of the past?  

3.   The XV Devil Card in the Present position tells us why we are seeing and experiencing all we're going through today.  The Devil represents cruelty, sadism, chronic illness, suffering, terror, ambition, power, and perversion.  

4.   The X of Wands represents oppression.  Not a particularly good card especially in the Destination position.  

5.  The Hidden Position is represented by O The Fool and represents the energies we can't comprehend (see or feel) but are very much influencing the situation we're in:  Incoherence, a lack of cognitive ability, nervousness, unable to focus and rationalize what is really going on.   

6.  The VIII Strength Card in the Advice position encourages us to do what we need to do (meditation, prayer, seeking spiritual help) in order to get through the obstacles and challenges we currently face.     

7.  The Outcome Card X The Wheel means that change (whether good or bad and we have no say as to what it will be) is always occurring.   Most of the time we are oblivious to change and only when it manifests into the open are we able to actually see and experience it.

This card means:  A period of crisis; rapid change; one cycle is leaving and another one beginning.  

*Note that the next card, after the Wheel of Fortune in the Tarot Deck is XI The Justice Card.  

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All in all I feel this reading gives us Hope in knowing that others are aware of what's going on and positioning themselves to intervene, on our behalf and at a pre-determined time, to stem the tide of suffering.

The numerical value of this reading is 4:  Interesting that IV represents the Emperor and Number 4 in general stands for a well built foundation, structure and stability.   I believe we are headed in that direction.