MONDAY TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 8/12/2024
Theme, Knight of Wands. Wands is the element of Fire in the realm of spirit, creativity, career, and work. The Knight serves, protects and seeks. This Knight seeks adventure, constant change and challenge. This week, be aware of how, in your effort to escape the hum-drum and routine of your creative work, your flight from boredom might lead to creative burnout. Change and challenge can be good things for creativity, but too much leads to exhaustion and often an inability to settle and finish work. Give yourself and your work time to ground and center before charging off to a new project or creative challenge.
Focus, Page of Cups. Cups is the element of Water in the realm of heart, emotions, dreams, intuition, and creativity. The Page is the youthful stage or phase, that sense of new beginnings. Here, this Page is immersed in the element of water, appearing to be at the bottom of a lake or sea, grounded in emotion and imagination, and very still. A significant contrast to the constant motion of the Knight of Wands. How can you experience a practice of stillness? A state where you center and allow imagination and intuition to speak to and guide you? How can you let your creative well and well-being be re-filled by some practice of meditation and stillness?
Action, 7 of Wands. Wands again, that fiery element of creativity. Seven in the tarot is a point of action or the contemplation of action. This week, take time to think about where you invest your creative energies. Are you defending a position that doesn’t need defended in your creative work? Yes, take a stand, but do it in a way that doesn’t drain time and energy that would be better used to create and move your project and your career forward, or further establish your expertise.
Gift, Heirophant. This Major Arcana card in the gift position offers you the blessing of new information for and encouragement on your creative path, once you’ve allowed yourself to center and get still. And perhaps, the gift of a mentor along the way.