Harmony

This Ten of Staves(wands) has a priest using his magic wand to bring order and harmony to his thoughts and challenges.

The emblems on the priest's robe are Trigrams.  The emblems of Mother and Father, Earth and Heaven, North and South.  The Mother Trigram are the three broken lines and the Father Trigram are the three solid lines.  In the I Ching this paring would be Hexagram 11 notating  Peace, Harmony, Balance.
As I say goodbye to 2016 and begin my final turn to 2017 I can see where I began my year and the progress I have made in my life.  There has been some difficulties but out of chaos does come some clarity.  The ten of staves in traditional tarot speaks to hardship or burdens to carry, I certainly have had those in this year.  Still as the magician brings order, so does time.  2017 reduces down to 10 in turn reducing to 1, the number of new beginnings, a fresh start. Today I am going to list ten things I can do in 2017.  I can have more fun, I can choose healthy foods, I can walk more daily, I can earn a great income, I can play more, I can learn Chinese Astrology, I can do more healing, I can take two wonderful vacations, I can be prosperous, I can have peace and harmony in my life.

Wishing You 歲歲平安 Suìsuì-píng’ān – everylasting peace, year after year!

Ahh, interesting, very interesting

Predictions for the New Year.

What will the New Year hold for me?  Can anyone really predict the future with complete accuracy? Probably not, and I say probably since there is a probability that there is at least one person among seven billion that can.  In my real estate profession I get asked all the time what do I think is going to happen? Idk. I can make a educated guess based on patterns and indicators, but that is all it is, a guess. Are predictions that, educated guesses?
I have begun studying Chinese Astrology and Feng Shui, just bits here and there, because my paying job has kept me fairly busy lately, but I can say this, 2016 and until about January 28, 2017 is and has been the year of the Fire Monkey, and there has been lots of monkey business going on, everywhere.  We will be moving into the year of the Fire Rooster, coincidence that the Presidential Inauguration is January 20th?  Usually the Chinese New Year is in the first few days of February, early this next to accommodate the new banty rooster?  I do predict there will be lots of posturing this coming year and I hope they don't become rooster, 'cock' fights.

The six of coins or pentacles indicates some prosperity, generosity, and charity and with that thought I will suggest you get yourselves ( I have mine in the fridge) some oranges, six should do it and roll them into your front door in the New Year for additional prosperity to show up in your home and life.  (The Chinese consider oranges very lucky.)   Besides the oranges at this time of year are very delicious and healthy for us too.  I just thought of this...I guess I will roll oranges in my front door January 1 and January 28 to cover all bases.  Whew, almost missed that possibility.

The Chinese Tarot Deck -  Jui Guoliang

Thinking

A different perspective on the Hanged Man

My first thought when I looked at this card is well there is the light that was missing in the Hermit's card on Monday.
Are ghosts really spirits with unfinished business?
I am not sure I get this card. The LWB postulates that in ancient China being treated badly with no recourse for justice was a reason for suicide.  Pretty drastic to prove a point that you were right and another wrong.
I have been contemplating this card for a half hour or so and really have nothing.  Maybe that is the point.  The Hanged Man in suspension releases cognitive thoughts and gains enlightenment.  All I need to do is let go of my need to have some meaning to this card and somewhere along clarity will be gained.





The Chinese Tarot Deck - Jui Guoliang

Acquistion

When I first started studying The Tarot, I read that all Aces are gifts. So one would think that this Ace could portend forth coming money?  Like Astrology with simple daily newspaper forecasts; there are those that reduce the meanings of the cards into bulk mundane interpretations.

Here I think I am being asked to examine the way I make my money.  Am I satisfied with how I earn my money? 
This gentleman has earned or inherited his money and has invested in gold coins.  Why?  Maybe gold is considered a safe investment, but if the world goes dark what can you buy with gold when food, housing, clothing, candles, and chocolate are more valuable than gold.  So it reminds me to work at something that is satisfying and fulfills me.  Not to work just for the sake of working and acquiring money.  Sure I need a roof over my head and the daily comforts of living, but do I need to think ahead to stockpiling cash?  (Well maybe some)

Every year for the last ten years or so someone in Louisville, across the river from my vantage point, has placed a gold krugerrand in a Salvation Army kettle during the Christmas campaign.  Someone invested and collected the gold coins and now is anonymously gifting.  I guess that is one way to spend your gold.

The Chinese Tarot

Sounds of Silence

"Hello darkness my old friend, I've come to talk with you again." -Simon and Garfunkel

Yep, that is what popped into my mind when drawing this card.  I have a funeral to attend later today, and maybe that is why Death has made an appearance. I really feel like death is a doorway.  A passage way as we move from one point of existence to another.

As Master Gandalf said in the Return of the King, " End? No the journey doesn't end here.  Death is just another path...One that we all must take.  The grey rain curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass...and then you see it."
Pippin ask" what?"
"White shores...and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise"

2016 is coming to an end in just a few days: an ending of one year a beginning of another - transformation.  And to me that is what death is, transformation.

The CHINESE Tarot Deck - Jui Guoliang

Introspection

The Hermit

I had a full post and then poof it was gone.  Maybe what I was writing was not what the card and image had to say to me.
Quite possibly now with the disappearance of my post I should consider "not over thinking" things and the card image.  And just spend some alone time in contemplation.

When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

Where is the damn light of the Hermit to help me figure it out?

Which one is the Teacher and which is the Pupil?





The CHINESE Tarot Deck - Jui Guoliang

Christmas

Merry Christmas to All