Tag: tarotofgrief
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Libra I: The Mediator
The ancient images present twin, upright figures, standing on scorpions, holding water jugs from which fine pipes release their contents in a continous, regulated flow. The justice portrayed here, is an ongoing practice, a steady, measured distribution, maintained against disruptive forces. The scorpions beneath the feet are symbolic of the venomous reactive impulse standing beneath…
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Virgo III: The Examiner
We praise this knowledge like a final benediction, the insight grief most needs and most resists, that what was essential in the one who is gone has already been released into the world. The Mercurial sorting of the permanent from the perishable reveals an indestructible residue that no gate of any underworld can finally confiscate.…
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Virgo II: The Petitioner
Venus in fall in Virgo has lost access to her most reliable gift, the quality of being simply received, of attracting without having to argue, of moving toward what she loves with the confidence of one who has rarely been refused. What she finds in Mercury’s exacting realm, in the mutable atmosphere of Virgo’s middle…
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Virgo I: The Harvester
The First Decan of Virgo marks a profound transition in the zodiacal journey. Having passed through the fullness and generosity of Leo, consciousness now turns from an outward demonstration of vigour, towards stewardship. The question is no longer how life may be enjoyed, but how it may be tended so that its blessings endure.
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Leo II: The Noble Archer
The unknown land this decan governs is not simply a geographical unknown but an existential one, beyond the boundary of what the traveller has previously understood about loss, about love, about the self that continues when what it most loved has gone. Jupiter’s enlarging influence within the Sun’s own kingdom does not promise that this…
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Days Above The Year: The Heriu Renpet
What the structure offers is a guarantee of texture, the assurance that every quality encountered in grief has been named, presided over and honoured. At the heart of the structure sit the five days above the year, which are not a stage that comes at the end of the process but a vertical dimension that…