I am writing this post intermittently while organizing my
kitchen and doing my laundry. In all honestly, I should have seen this coming –
and probably should have written this in September, when the Emperor’s whispers
started rolling in like tropical waves.
Doing an annual global reading is interesting and the
purpose has been to share my perspective on life as a tarot reader. Everything
is energy and with the 2020, according to numerology – if you are into that sort
of thing – is 4 energy and has an impact on us.
The Emperor (tarot card) is a no nonsense kinda fella/
masculine energy – you may have noticed the impact of the Empress’ feminine energy
this past year, as per Time magazine’s PERSON of the year and the recent
release of the ‘Bombshell’ movie. Women have had enough, and many have taken
their power ‘BACK’. We’ve been shown that the more we share – the more we have.
Co-operation vs. competition can only move us forward. Oh, but the backlash has
been there. A great quote by Irina
Dunn, still rings true for me…’A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle’.
And so, I digress.
I am heading this
warning for all of us, coming out of the 3 Empress energy, we will still want
to have a good time, make babies, go into nature, and all night dance raves,
but alas, this is a year for us to clean up our acts. The oceans, our budgets, our
landfills, if not, we will be forced to do so. Responsibility, hard work,
dedication, by choice or by force; the footloose fancy-free days of the Empress
will soon be forgotten.
Any extra spending,
we did individually or, as a collective will need to be paid. Many of us will
be caught off guard by unexpected expenses we either forgot about or weren’t
expecting. If you are reading this, it is an invitation to make sure all your
expenses are taken care of and that you have some money set aside for the
unexpected ones. If this sort of thing comes naturally to you, congratulations,
you can sit back and enjoy some of your reward points and stock options paying
back their rewards.
The most
important lesson of the Emperor energy is COMPASSION. And we will be given many
opportunities to practice compassion. Mass migration, climate disasters, civil
war casualties, all there to teach the collective compassion. Have you noticed
the increase in vegan diets and restaurants? The results of ever-increasing
pressure to treat animals compassionately. The new generations are rich with
mindfulness and wisdom as our borders become ever closer.
If you haven’t
seen the movie, ‘Please Give’, I recommend it. It invites those of us in North
America to evaluate our motivations behind ‘helping others’. In our consumer
led society, where do we focus our attention and compassion when we are socialized
to sit in front of our TVs with our tablets and spend money? Did you make it
through the holiday’s unscathed? I didn’t.
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The sephiroth on
the tree of life that represents this 4 year is Chesed – when you truly give
from your heart you are practicing ‘Chesed’. Tzadkiel is the angel who is
working with us to protect our teachers and guide us towards the abundance of
this life. There will be great acts of idealism, devotion, and commitedness
this year. We can all be called upon to respond in a heroic way.
As per the movie
example, please give, we will be called out on any ego driven giving, smugness,
and self-righteousness as well. So please, whomever is reading this, be mindful
of your ‘scope’, before you are shown your privilege.
There will be
quite a bit of ‘have tos’ not necessarily ‘want tos’ this year. Where we feel
obligated to declutter or work or home spaces etc. As a collective we will be throwing
out, donating or passing on things that no longer serve a purpose. This is a Marie
Kondo year, but for the whole.
I call this the 'big girl underpants' year where you have to 'be a boss' or 'like a boss', and step up into your own personal power. This is not the easiest statement to translate to the collective, but my hope is that we all collectively look to ourselves as to what can be done, rather than looking to others who may be 'in charge'. We all carry our own personal responsibility to the collective to manage, maintain our mental well being, physical health, physical space, carbon footprint etc.
These 'like a boss' activities for me have been imposed since September - and we have the choice to either face them head on or get railroaded. The choice is yours. I say, face the music, you are a great dancer.
The purpose of all of this is to
prepare for this time next year, which will be a doozy, you can look up Gevurah if you want to look ahead. There will be
some even bigger changes this time next year – we have at least eight months to
prepare. Lighten your load to prepare for the changes ahead and to make room
for new things that serve us better to come in. The more we purge the better. Personally,
I’m hoping patriarchy is the first to go.
My prayer for us
all is that we will all reclaim our own divinity and majesty, treating each
other like the divine royal spirits we are. That any disrespect is banished,
and that personal (treating yourself with respect, a personal code of conduct) and mutual respect (treating others with respect) is always the better choice.
In our royalty of
this year we can enhance any situation with the colours blue and purple, and
the stone lapis lazuli.
May we all take
our power back and choose to do acts of kindness, truly from our hearts, with
love.
