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Gabriel Robartes

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I use Tarot to help you reflect on the meaning and structure of the stories in your life. Book a reading, explore what a Tarot reading involves or see what I’m writing about on the blog.

Recent Posts

  • The (not so) Scary Suit of Swords
  • The Eight of Cups and the Sunk Cost Fallacy
  • The Pope and the Emperor walk into a bar…
  • That Old Devil Moon, Pt 1
  • The Star, Love and Tonglen

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Well now. Some readings, one puts on one’s altar and prepares to consider in some depth over a period of time. Here we have a call to seize the change to make serious changes in one’s life or habits with a blunt choice between increased success and wellbeing on the one hand if you pick the right change and dismal failure and disaster if you doesn’t. And climate change is lurking behind everything I read these days, whether I like it or not.
A quick scruffy note for whoever before bedtime. You’ve too much going on. Put your power and force behind a few key tasks or you risk dropping everything you’re juggling. Look at the image of the spindle decorating the chariot. Your resources aren’t limitless. Don’t waste them on what doesn’t master.
Druids, processing up primrose hill for the autumn equinox ceremony with Christina of @treadwellsbooks as a special guest! Very dignified and quite moving. Not shown, a small army of photographers, joggers, mums/nannies and cyclists. #druids #occulture #london #magicallondon #esoterica #treadwelves #mabon #treadwells #autumnequinox
Today, I’m off to see the druids and celebrate the Autumn Equinox. So, over my usual half litre of coffee, I pulled a couple of casual cards with the question “What adventure will I find? And how should I respond to it?”
Two views of the 10 of Wands. Some see it as over-burdened or taking on too much - that tendency in the work place to be the one who says ‘Yes’ but needs to say ‘No!’ sometimes. It struck me earlier, when someone else posted the Rider-Waite-Smith version, that the man pictured is carrying those wands in the most awkward way possible. So perhaps this 10 has a streak of ‘load hog’ running through it and a passive-aggressive load hog at that!
The Ace of Swords is an easily romanticised card with its promise of pure intellectual force unleashed. Similarly, Zen Buddhism is full of images of cutting discernment. One can see the attraction for the medieval Japanese warrior class and its successors. but Zen’s relationship with the philosophy of Bushido is did not end well. One could argue that these sayings are, of course, metaphors. Except when they aren’t, as happened in Showa Japan. The equivalent would be the constantly recurring notion of ‘soldiers for Christ’ throughout Western history, which again sees the sword as a means of dividing the ‘sheep from the goats’.
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