Tarot and Astrology Life Solutions

Athena's step today is the Hierophant. The sign is Taurus, the element is Earth, the time is Spring and the key are her sensations, manifestation and money.

In this sense the Hierophant step will represent her believes regarding tradition and ways of handling her financial affairs. This step is about handling money.

As a person the Hierophant can be a consultant and an advisor. He is old fashion. Never try to negotiate at this level because the Hierophant is very stubborn and will not be flexible to new ideas. However, he is wise and holds a lot of spiritual knowledge. The two keys at the bottom of the Hierophant card suggest that Anthia must listen and hold her speech till later, because he has all the knowledge she needs. The Hierophant is placed between two pillars that show him as a mediator. He has both the pros and cons and holds the right solution.

To uncover the original meaning click on the following link: the Hierophant.

For Athena this will be the time she will polish her resume. The hierophant will show her as a woman returner that acquired new skills in her role as a full time mother such as ability to be patient and flexible. Her varied work experience has taught her many things about different organizations and made her confident at joining the new freelance role as a virtual marketing assistant/ blogger/ website content writer.

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You may think that the Empress and the Emperor are a couple too. However, they are NOT a couple. The Empress is the mother figure and predicts fertility, while the Emperor is the father figure and represents authority.

To uncover their original meanings click on the links below:

Empress
Emperor

The Empress will foretell Athena's lesson and give advice on her love troubles. Most important she will give her a magic love key that will open her potential to love.
Athena's lesson meant to learn from her situation is that love does not solve problems, makes problems. What can she use from her experience to grow and improve?

Athena's lesson was to learn that police and the legal system do not always apply by the law. Just being right is not enough to win in Court. Corruption and religious believes are above doing the right thing. Justice surrounds around who you know, and being Jewish connected is how you get win your case when you are guilty ( hack someone's computer and break a young mother's arm when she tries to file a complaint).
Honest admission to assume NOT GUILTY is getting nowhere and blaming her accusers will get her charged with felony from misdemeanour. Going to Court again is not going to get her any justice, if anything will give her plaintiff another chance for revenge.

Empress advice is to negotiate her situation. There is no love connection with September, the man who seduced and abandoned her with no remorse. Even worse, this man made all her love letters public and accused her of harassment, when he was the one who pursued her and never stopped flirting.
How does she go from here?

The Magician and the High Priestess are the Couple of the Major Arcana. They each represent the Querent, the Magician for males and the HP for females. Therefore, the HP will represent Athena, and the Magician will signify her significant other, the Dragonfly. In the scenario that is no significant other there will only be a Magician, if the Querent is a male or a High Priestess if the Querent is female. In this case the other card, not representing the Querent, will show a situation rather than a person.

The High Priestess sits in between 2 something, indicating a love triangle or a choice between two suitors. Despite the "other" options Athena remains strongly attached to her Magician. HP's corresponding Planet is Moon, the element is Water, the time is Summer and the key are her feelings/ love and emotions. The Moon as well as the Water indicate strong emotions.

The HP tells us that either her feelings or her lover are hidden. The Magician will need tricks to discover her. The Magician and the HP are perfect for each other, even though his Planet is Mercury, his element is air, and the time is Fall. The Magician functions at key mental level, he has creative potential and abilities. He represents the thoughts, the ideas, the mind, to the communication. It is all about his will to take an initiative, to take action.

The Magician is also the 6th chakra/ the third eye, aka Ajna = command center.
The location of this chakra is Brow, and indicates intuition ans insight. This helps him connect with HP that shares the same attributes. When this chakra is unbalanced- there will be problems with his intuition, clarity and vision. In short he will lack the ability to see into the future. By contrary, when his chakra is balanced he can see his aura and can connect with his spirit guide. The Magician needs to look into his past to see the future. The 6th chakra tells the Magician to be creative in finding ways to connect with HP, to search for new opportunities and ideas.

The lemniscate symbol above his head signifies that their love is eternal.

Athena is ready for a new beginning. She will let herself go and experiment whatever will happen as long as she will enjoy it. Things are still chaotic and if she misses she will have to start all over again.
Athena is spontaneous and she knows solutions will come by change. Her curiosity will come in handy this time. In order to succeed at this step she needs to identify with the Fool's attributes as a person: open-mindedness, innocence, eagerness to learn and naivety.
She will find "old" friends and make "new" ones in a book social network such goodreads, except her name there is Lydia or something. That is because she wants to re-connect with someone from her past . They met in 1800s England, he moved on into 1930s, but she is into 1980s now. She has identified with Nicky Wells and wants to know more about Cleeland Donovan.
Just like the Fool from Major Arcana Tarot Athena is a traveller. The thought of changing her career into something more creative and more independent than her jobs in the past became her short term plan. Getting into freelance becomes her strategy. The lack of direction, trauma and difficulties are something that belong to her past now.
A one card reading a day will do for a spiritual connection with someone close to her. The card of today is : The King of Coins. This means that someone from her past is thinking of her. He is well educated, honest and logical. He could be a good adviser for Athena.

The first step in Athena's cycle/ journey is the Fool Step. The element, planet, time and key are all valid and the same for anyone at the Fool level/ step not just for Athena. In fact the entire situation is completely analog for anyone whose principal card in a reading is the Fool. Only her individual choices will not be the same with your interpretation, everything else stays the same.

The element: AIR, the planet: Uranus, the time: Fall and the key: ideas and strategy.

Athena will experience something unusual or something that will happen suddenly by this Fall. Uranus as well as the AIR are indicating that everything is happening is at the mental level and the key here is to develop some ideas and take on a strategy.

The main problems she will encounter at this level are: the disruption, the unconventional, the ups and downs, the pros and cons and the changeability. Athena will be forced to change her circumstances and in particular something in her environment, like her job or her attitude in regards to her life. This it will be difficult for her because Uranus is the ruler of Aquarius- a fixed sign. Other possible problems for Athena will be her adjusting to new circumstances and a possible lack of direction in her life. Being in a fixed sign, at the Fool step she may encounter even mental anguish.. Please remember everything at the Fool level is mental and therefore not tangible/ practical; it is all about plans and ideas in our head.
Uranus has a 7 years transit in each house of the zodiac, therefore Uranus half return will be between Athena's late 30s and early 40s. Athena is middle aged and therefore her Fool stage will be more drastic as will coincide with the Uranus half return.

The Fool level corresponds to the 7th chakra or the crown chakra also known as Sahasrara (thousand fold). This chakra links to our central nervous system. We need to have this chakra balanced. If the crown chakra is out of balance we will have problems establishing a spiritual connection, even understanding things in general. Headaches, fear and anxiety are other examples of a 7th chakra problems. Athena has a balanced chakra. Here are some of her tips for a balanced 7th chakra: quiet time and meditation, connect with inner-self and spirit guide, using crystals (amethyst, quartz crystal, diamond).

Last but not least we have symbols on the Fool Tarot Card that will give us clues on actions we need to take at this step in our Journey. Anthia knows that if she takes the wrong decision at this step her journey will have a different course than what she would have expected.
Here is some of the Fool level symbols:
1. the dog - means she will need to choose her friends carefully; she must find her true friends and must be true to herself;
2. the butterfly- indicates transformation; either herself or someone close to her has to make a change of opinion;
3. the ice- equals isolation, wait and patience; it can also mean distance or rejection, announces a beginning of a period of financial difficulty- she will have to find a way to live within her means.
4. the sun- is the excitement of starting something new, optimism and expansion.
5. the rose- in order to smell the perfume she needs to go through the thorns first- there are few lessons she will need to learn before she will see positive results.

I honestly do not see anything crazy or mad connected with this stage as some books suggest. There only bad choices or good choices someone can make at this level and this is an individual choice.

Stay tuned for Athena's Fool choices coming soon.

Initially I presented the Major Arcana cards briefly, today I want to re-write the journey from Athena's perspective. Athena is a middle aged mom, slightly overweight, married and with a major career plan. She wants to start a new business, in a foreign country with limited resources.
Will she succeed? She will also need to "survive" difficult relationships with her hysterical mom and a long-distance husband.

The first step in her journey is the Fool level. Attention this is a fundamental step that can have both positive and negative impacts on her cycle/ journey. It is all about options and making the right choices. Remember, we start with the fool step only for practical reasons. People are in different steps at different times, and all steps repeat. Our life is made of repetitive cycles of 22 steps. Some steps can merge and the outcome depends on our individual choices and circumstances.
initial fool step interpretation:

the fool
new meaning to be continued.

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This blog has been a bit difficult to read over the last few months and it is almost impossible to understand for a regular reader that is not up to date. I have no intention to continue or explain what happened.

This is a Tarot and Astrology blog and I will start a tarot analysis AFTER I will revise the major arcana cards explanation. The new Tarot concept is to create fast, essentials tarot detachable cards, that can be placed right under your cards after the cards are turned and revealed. No more flipping and turning through your book from card to card!!
Also, the court cards will impersonate real kings , queens and princesses. I think it is much easier to remember a person than just a card.
The rest of the cards 1-10 will have their Raider-Waite Tarot together with their element, symbols and planet in sign explanation.

Last I will explain spreads, the tarot journal and how to put together a tarot blog for readings.

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That being said I wish everyone a beautiful and productive week.