Welcome to the latest Tarot Blog Hop, wranlged by Arwen Lynch Poe, who posed the question:
How can I best foster the energy of the Aces in my life?
My thoughts leading to a spread went roughly like this:
Ok… so whip your Aces out of the pack and lay them to one side for now.
From the majors, pick out The Empress, The Wheel, The World, The Sun and The Magician… place these as imaginary fingers going from left to right as shown above with The Empress as the thumb to The Magician sat as the pinky… In the palm of the hand, place The Tower…
Next, select the Ace that you want to work with… place the Ace in the palm over The Tower and imagine that it is a seed that is going to be cracked open… visualise it breaking apart…
Now… place a card at each finger and much like the 3 Magi or the good fairies that visited Sleeping Beauty… imagine each card that is laid down as being a gift bestowed by the Major…
So you might say…
I am The Empress and I give to you the gift of the 8 of Swords…
So here are the cards I pulled for myself:
The Ace of Swords was chosen… the question relates to a creative project but the Ace of Wands does not feel to be the best fit here as the fun creative part has been done and now it comes to the brutal editing…
So… In brief…
I am The Empress and I give to you the gift of the 8 of Swords…
The ability to wiggle free of perceived restrictions and the means to find your way out of the corner that you feel that you’ve backed yourself into…
I am The Wheel and I give to you the gift of the 6 of Cups…
A reminder to return to the original source and exchange of ideas and the ability to find the patterns and cycles…
I am The World and I give to you the gift of the 7 of Pentacles…
This one made me laugh somewhat as every time I’ve thought about this project recently, the words that come to mind are – ughhh… it’s just withering on the vine… So this feels to be a timely kick up the ass to give me the strength and patience to reap what has been sown before it does indeed shrivel away…
I am The Sun and I give to you the gift of the Queen of Cups…
I’ll help you to bring back and restore that loving feeling!
I am The Magician and I give to you the gift of the 9 of Pentacles…
Let’s finish this spell and bring things to a fruitful ending… money’s not really the issue here… I’ve been speaking to The Empress and we both agree it’s time for you to complete this so you can cut free and move on to the next task…
And speaking of moving on…
I have neighbours either side waiting to hear from you 🙂
The pure and blessed way 
This is pretty nifty, and so simple to make use of. Thanks for sharing, it must have taken a little while to come up with it 🙂
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No time at all and all the time in the world… 😀 it pulled several of my idle musings all into one place 😉
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What a creative and compelling approach to a spread! I love it and will give it a whirl 🙂
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Thanks Olivia! I like to make my spread tactile and talk out loud so I remember them… I have terrible handwriting so I can never read back my own notes… and when I type I usually save under some random title that amuses me in the moment but I forget instantly so never find them again… 🙂 Have fun with the spread… it’s also a nice one to find the quint for the 5 cards pulled but I was too lazy to write that out… 😀
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That’s brilliant! I love the concept… and ‘palming the aces’ – well, that’s just inspired (speaking of Ace of Swords energy)! Thanks so much for sharing this.
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Thanks Alison! I’m glad you enjoyed it 🙂 lol yes… palming the aces amuses my old ex-croupier heart! 😀
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Ooh, what fun. I shall try that – I love gifts 😀
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Gifts is good! 😉
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Fabulous spread! Very creative. I love it!
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Thanks Joy! 🙂
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This is very unusual, but very inspiring way of reading, seeing the first card as where that energy is coming from, ‘the gift’ as you mentioned – it’s really got me inspired to utilise that kind of identification as part of the process and to incorporate that into readings where the energies aren’t clear as to where they’re coming from! 🙂
Thanks for the insight and the inspiration! 🙂
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Thanks Scott, you’re welcome! I hope you have fun experimenting 🙂
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Definitely putting this one on the To-Do list. How very very clever!
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Thanks Arwen! I hope you have lots of fun with it 🙂
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