Friday February 16th, 2024

February 16th, 2024: Tarot Reading

Theme: Turning Sorrow into Sovereignty

Hello, seekers of wisdom and self-discovery! Today’s cards hint at a journey from heartache to personal power, carrying a strong call to alchemize our experiences into growth and inner strength. In these dynamic interactions, you’ll discover a potent blend of stoic philosophy, heartrending empathy, and vibrant energy. Here’s our spread for the day: Three of Swords, The Emperor, and Queen of Wands.

Our first card, the Three of Swords, traditionally symbolizes sorrow, loss, or heartbreak. Despite this, remember that even in our hardest times, we can find seeds of wisdom taking root. Stoic philosopher Seneca reminds us:

“What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.”

This is not to despair but to validate our pains. It’s an encouragement to let your sorrow carve a deep well within you—a well that will fill with resilience, understanding, and compassion. It’s not the avoidance of pain but its acceptance that cultivates emotional fortitude.

Moving onto our next card, we encounter The Emperor. This card encourages us to channel our inner sovereign, the rational part of us that governs our emotions and impulses. In the face of hardship, The Emperor advises us to apply order, structure, and discipline. As the Stoics taught, life isn’t about hiding from storms; it’s about learning to dance in the rain. You are the master of your domain, be it your mind, heart, or the world around. It is up to you to create order from chaos, peace from turmoil.

Last but not least, we have the Queen of Wands - an individual brimming with confidence, courage, and creativity. She embraces life’s adversities and uses them to fuel her passion, affirming another principal tenet of Stoicism that in every adversity, there is opportunity. The Queen of Wands urges us to wield our transformative pains, knowledge, and experiences as tools for growth and wisdom. Approach life with unflinching vivacity and see each challenge as a vitalizing opportunity for knowledge, growth, and self-discovery.

As we can see, our journey today begins with accepting our pains, gaining control over our emotions through structured order, and then integrating these experiences to fuel our passionate pursuit of life. Seneca wisely noted:

“He who has made a fair compact with fortune that, let her send what she will, he will keep his mind serene—this man has laid down a law for himself.”

Contemplate the compact you could make with life’s ups and downs today.

####Journaling Prompt: Reflect on an experience of heartbreak or loss you’ve had, and write about how it has shaped you as a person. Then, imagine how the figures of The Emperor and the Queen of Wands would respond to this experience. What order can you create? What passion does it inspire? Write about the tools, structures, and emotions they would use to transform sorrow into a form of personal sovereignty.