Moments of Awareness

The Lovers card has us seeing through new eyes, and making choices and changes, some quite sudden, in favor of the things that matter most to us. We're focused on what is ours, but we find interest in examining it from unusual perspectives which puts us in a mind to travel and reorganize. Love, friendship, and new unions are nurtured in the home.

The Page of Cups comes to us as a dreamer, perhaps an illusionist, who plays a role in our understanding of the ways in which the emotional affects the physical and vice versa. We want to know more but learning requires stretching, and stretching can be painful. Meetings regarding and discussion of future work projects are favored today.

The Ace of Wands tells of potentials and beginnings, nascent life and new promise in business and society. Whether we burn warm and steady today, bright and hot, or low and cool, we'll do well to be mindful of nurturing what's trying to emerge. The best new ideas strike like lightning under this energy.

The Two of Swords indicates that this is a day to walk with those who understand where we are, can potentially be of use, and/or love us regardless of what's going on. Fear and doubt cannot, or at least should not, be allowed to deter us from making choices and moving forward; we'll have to trust our selves, our instincts, and those to whom we matter. Our eyes perceive what is seen, our brains decipher their signals, our minds make the provided information useful, and confusion at any step signals a need to remain balanced and clear while paths are revealed.

The Four of Swords stirs us to action, with written and promotional items high on the to-do list. Social activities are supported provided we can comport ourselves with charm and balance, and business interests are favored. A just approach ensures good fortune.

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The Two of Wands directs us to make Solomon's choice between health, wealth, and wisdom. While this is first and foremost a choice about who we are it's also, if not as apparently, about our careers and the environments in which we choose to expend the most energy, not all of which is physical. It's about what we can and will do with the beings we are, and what those actions and reactions through which we make ourselves manifest will bring into our respective worlds.

The Sun brings light and heat to the situation, illuminating what's been hidden and stirring to action what's gone stagnant. We move forward in the visionquest called life and achieve what we'd given up on or what we newly envision. Our appearance to the people around us has the effect we intend, consciously or unconsciously, and while it's always good to be who we are, we have the capacity to manifest our best selves or less than our best; the choice is ours.

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Are the two necessarily mutually exclusive, or is there a happy medium at which the two might come together for the good not only of society but also of the individual? Might it not be to the individual's benefit, and support his or her rights as a human, for societies or a society that can to provide as much of the following as possible: water, food, shelter (including necessary clothing and equipment), education, and health care? These are the things upon which a society prides itself for providing; it's for the social (greater) good, because it makes each individual happier, healthier, and more naturally productive. In those ways it also works for the individual well-being. I feel (for what it's worth) like the issue arises not in the provision of these things to every human being we can reach, but in trying to enforce a 'code of use'. Money given must be given freely, without strings, because the giver can afford it. A government's job is to see to the well-