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Yoga And The Tarot Archetypes
When I’m not doing psychic readings, I enjoy engaging in activities that support a healthy lifestyle, such as Yoga and Herbalism. Although I spent many years training with Yoga masters from around the world and I am a certified Yoga instructor, I continue to learn more each time I get onto the mat.
While practicing the other day, I found myself thinking about the Tarot cards while in a particular yoga posture. It was the asana known as the Hero’s pose, or Virasana. The pose involves kneeling or sitting in between your bent legs.
As I was sitting in this stretch, I was wondering how the posture got its name, which comes from the Sanskrit word vira meaning ‘hero.’ It occurred to me that a hero was someone who had to think of someone else or others in that moment more than themselves. When we are pushed to our edge, in that moment of vulnerability, it makes us stronger. The same humility can be found in certain Yoga postures.
Then the Emperor card from the Tarot deck came to mind. The Emperor in a reading can show a ruler or leader who is strong, confident, and who guides others. Might there be an ancient connection with Yoga and the Tarot?
I then began to think of other Yoga postures and how they might correlate with the other Major Arcana cards in the Tarot.
The first that came up for me was The Hanged Man. This iconic card features a figure hanging upside down from a tree. Hanging from a tree in this way would certainly make one see the world from a different perspective. Interestingly, the headstand pose in Yoga, Sirsanasa, aims to create mental balance and physical poise. Continue reading
The Year Of The Emperor
During my psychic Tarot readings, I often ask my clients for the month, day, and year of their birth, so that I can equate their Tarot lifetime archetype and current year cards. Tarot numerology has always been spot on in my readings, and it has also been accurate on a grander level, when looking at the current year in general.
The year 2019, when added across calculates as 2 + 0 + 1 + 9 = 12, which reduced equates to 1 + 2 = 3. These numerological calculations of 12 and 3 correspond to two cards in the Tarot.
The first is The Hanged Man (12), that often shows up in s spread when there is a sacrifice to be made, hold-ups, the need to let go of hang-ups, seeing life from a different perspective, or an overall feeling of waiting in general. This state of limbo is often seen as a voluntary sacrifice for a greater cause on a more macrocosmic level.
The Empress card (3), represents fertility, pregnancy, motherhood, female entrepreneurship, or mother to the son in the Hanged Man card.
What could these two cards be saying on a numerological level about 2019? I thought about this on New Year’s eve, as we were crossing into 2020. What sacrifices did we make on a personal level in 2019, as well as on a worldly level?
It appears there was a division of opinions on a mass scale, about many different topics, as well as a need for us to look at the ‘hang-ups’ that we were holding onto, and to see them from an outside perspective. Humanity, as a whole was in a way, on hold and pregnant with what we will give birth to this year, in 2020.
Numerology, Tarot And Astrology For 2020
Are you ready for the coming year? According to the ancient art of Numerology, the year 2020 is a 4 Universal Year and energy. To calculate a Universal Year, we add the individual numbers: 2 + 0 + 2 + 0 = 4. The energy of 4 is grounded, practical and will build stable, solid foundations this year.
Although there will be ups and downs, focus, determination and patience will pay off this year. Whether it’s your business, relationship, finances or career… slow and steady will win the race.
The Japanese concept of Kaizen is an approach to creating continuous improvement based on the idea that small, ongoing positive changes can create major improvements. Small steps lead to substantial change over time. This is the easiest way to change habits and reach our goals. This is notion is very true for 2020, as it offers us the stage to take our plans and create success.
In Tarot, the number 4 is represented by the Emperor in the Major Arcana. He is ruled by Aries and his element is Fire. The energy is masculine, yang energy, the Great Father. He’s all about getting down to business; he’s on it. He also has vision, can see the big picture, and he is consistent and disciplined, even during the slower times or when there are delays. He has Divine reason and order, and sees things as they are realistically.
The Emperor knows how to use the yin energy from the Empress, the Great Mother, and her imagination, ability to go inward, and patience. He is in his higher polarity, he’s charge using mercy and justice. He rules with his inner power. However, on the lower end, he can be a bully, cruel and self-absorbed.
