eight of wands – Cairn by Cairn

Eight of Fire
Dark Goddess Tarot

First Impressions: My first impressions are of a beautiful red fire goddess falling into a small village. There is a sense of haste and purpose.

Book: Let the rush lead to a new awakening, Inviting change in, a great energetic shift, seducing people to follow impossible dreams.

Guidance: Get out of the way and go for the ride, invite the Goddess in, follow your desire

Journaling:

I’m not sure what to do with this energy. A feel there is a change a’brewing, but I don’t truly know what I want in my life. I don’t know. Part of me just wants peace in my life. I don’t want to change the world or just buy things. I just want peace. I want to wake up and look into my soul and clean away the debris that has accumulated there. I want to live a simple life, but how do I get there? How do I live a contemplative life while still being in the world.

December 28, 2017

This week has been a really good experience for me in letting go and choosing to live in peace. I’m not thrilled that we have to have daily meetings to resolve defects, but I’ve realized that I have choice: I can choose to let the 30 minute daily meeting ruin my entire day or I can choose to say, this is 30 minutes that I need to spend doing this, but then I’m done. It really is a choice and I’ve been doing a good job of choosing to do the meeting and let go. That is so much progress for me because before I would have spent the entire day in a snit because I had to have this one 30 minute meeting.

I’m also doing a good job of choosing to let go of not being able to spend as much time cleaning the house as I want to. It’s really hard to clean around people and to a certain extent that annoys me, but I can choose to get all angry and pissy about them sitting there or I can just choose to relax and do something else. It is my choice.

Serenity can be an easy concept to grasp, but a hard emotion to master. As I’ve been doing more and more lately, I turned to my Tarot cards to help me figure out how to have serenity in my life.

I developed a spread based on my personal adaption of the serenity prayer:

Deity,

Grant me gratitude for all that I have

Grant me serenity to accept the things I cannot change

Grant me courage to change the things I can

And grant me the wisdom to know the difference

Grant me patience to accept the changes that take time

Grant me compassion and grace for those with different struggles

And the strength to get up and try again, one day at a time

Blessed Be

The Spread

This spread is designed to ask for guidance on key attributes from the prayer.

Card 1–What am I grateful for?
Card 2–What in my life can’t I change? What are the things I have to accept?
Card 3–What in my life can I change? What things do I need to have courage to change?
Card 4–How will I know the difference?
Card 5–How can I be patient?
Card 6–How can I be compassionate toward others?
Card 7–How can I find my strength?
Card 8–How can I find my serenity?

My reading

Card 1–What am I grateful for?

Eight of Wands (R)

The opportunity to slow down and take my time instead of rushing full steam ahead. Although rushing full speed ahead is exciting, it doesn’t give me the opportunity to be thoughtful and methodical.

Card 2–What in my life can’t I change? What are the things I have to accept?

Moon

My intuition and my connectedness. Even though I sometimes try to disconnect, the connection is always there and when I am out of alignment, I feel it. I also can’t change that there is chaos and confusion. I cannot control the world.

Card 3–What in my life can I change? What things do I need to have courage to change?

King of Pentacles (R)

I can change my attitude and quit being a snob about money and valuing people based on how much they make. I can also change my financial situation and my own attitude toward money and move from poverty consciousness to prosperity consciousness.

Card 4–How will I know the difference?

7 of Cups (R)

I can let go of delusions especially around thinking that I have control of all situations. I can come down to earth and let go of false hopes.

Card 5–How can I be patient?

Page of Wands (R)

I can let things go and accept that it is not all about me. I can also accept that other people are sometimes slower than I am and that life gets complicated sometimes.

Card 6–How can I be compassionate toward others?

Knight of Wands (R)

I can let go of my ego and accept that not everyone has the same interests and skills that I do. I need to look at the bigger picture and not be so selfish and all about my own self interests.

Card 7–How can I find my strength?

Five of Swords (R)

I put down my sword and quit being on the defensive all the time: My strength is in vulnerability. Additionally I can open myself up to change.

Card 8–How can I find my serenity?

Queen of Wands (R)

I can get organized and I can support and applaud other people. I need to let go of my jealousy and competitive spirit.

My Artwork

Here is the background I created for this spread. I modeled it after a painting that I

have called SkyFan.

And here it is with the copies of the cards glued on.

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Eight of Fire

Serenity Spread