The center, which I take to be you, is the Crone of Pentacles, or Pasowee Buffalo Woman. The image is of an old woman and a young one setting up a teepee in the snow. You are in need of shelter and have the tools and materials you need and a reasonable idea of how to get it, but could use some help. This card also echoes back to an earlier reading, where you were teaching weaving to a younger person.
The basis of the matter--the factors that underly your current situation is the Six of Flames, or Bast. This card is also titled play. Young gymnasts are playing with the flame. They perhaps have more skill at controlling themselves than they do with the wild elemental power of the flames. Still, no one is getting burned, and cat-headed Bast looks on, smiling.
In the past is the three of Cups, or Bonding. Three women dancing together, holding up their cups in celebration or to toast each other. This has a similar sense of dancing as Play, and similar colors. Harmonious energy.
In the future, however, is the five of cups, also titled The Storm, showing that your troubles are not yet over. There's lots of energy in this card, of course, but it's tumultous and might be perilous. Still, three of the cups are still upright, despite storm and lightning and flood, and one sits solidly on a rock, untroubled by the storm. I'm not sure if this is evidence that the early energy has become disorganized or fallen out of harmony, or if this is outside forces. The weather isn't malicious, just chaotic.
And the final card, the skills or resources you can reach for to get you through the storm, that one is the Three of Pentacles, called Aruru Clay Woman. Once again an American Indian woman, so I think again this is you. In this card, the woman is sitting alone, making pottery vessels, her kiln to one side and finished pots to the other.
While I was dealing out the cards, two cards escaped me, and fell to the floor. I am interpreting this as that they represent something that's missing, something that's needed. They are Meditation and Balance/the Bull Leapers (the Seven of Blades and the Five of Pentacles respectively). The names of these cards seem to be quite clear.
Putting this all together, I see that there's a lot of energy and movement that has led to this place and that is going on, and I don't get the feeling that any of it is bad, just that it has gotten out of balance, that taking some time for contemplation, grounding and centering yourself, and finding ways to make the movement more harmonious or more directed would help.
This doesn't necessarily mean resting more--though in Meditation the Eskimo and her dog are indeed resting--because the Bull Dancers, young women leaping onto the horns and back of a charging bull, they are not in any way resting or taking it easy. They must be alert and in motion, using all of their skill and knowledge, to survive, much less thrive in their circumstances. And yet they are not desperate, they are celebratory.
They share that total focus with the woman making perfectly round pots despite not having a spinning wheel, and the colors of the two cards are also very similar. Meditation is also a matter of focus more than anything else.
There's nothing wrong with chaos, of course, but only chaos is tiring and frustrating. Be mindful, whether it's focusing on a single project or juggling a dozen. Be focused, in stillness or in motion. Resolve the dissonance by re-establishing harmony. The storm won't last forever, they never do.
Mindfulness and Harmony in the Storm
The basis of the matter--the factors that underly your current situation is the Six of Flames, or Bast. This card is also titled play. Young gymnasts are playing with the flame. They perhaps have more skill at controlling themselves than they do with the wild elemental power of the flames. Still, no one is getting burned, and cat-headed Bast looks on, smiling.
In the past is the three of Cups, or Bonding. Three women dancing together, holding up their cups in celebration or to toast each other. This has a similar sense of dancing as Play, and similar colors. Harmonious energy.
In the future, however, is the five of cups, also titled The Storm, showing that your troubles are not yet over. There's lots of energy in this card, of course, but it's tumultous and might be perilous. Still, three of the cups are still upright, despite storm and lightning and flood, and one sits solidly on a rock, untroubled by the storm. I'm not sure if this is evidence that the early energy has become disorganized or fallen out of harmony, or if this is outside forces. The weather isn't malicious, just chaotic.
And the final card, the skills or resources you can reach for to get you through the storm, that one is the Three of Pentacles, called Aruru Clay Woman. Once again an American Indian woman, so I think again this is you. In this card, the woman is sitting alone, making pottery vessels, her kiln to one side and finished pots to the other.
While I was dealing out the cards, two cards escaped me, and fell to the floor. I am interpreting this as that they represent something that's missing, something that's needed. They are Meditation and Balance/the Bull Leapers (the Seven of Blades and the Five of Pentacles respectively). The names of these cards seem to be quite clear.
Putting this all together, I see that there's a lot of energy and movement that has led to this place and that is going on, and I don't get the feeling that any of it is bad, just that it has gotten out of balance, that taking some time for contemplation, grounding and centering yourself, and finding ways to make the movement more harmonious or more directed would help.
This doesn't necessarily mean resting more--though in Meditation the Eskimo and her dog are indeed resting--because the Bull Dancers, young women leaping onto the horns and back of a charging bull, they are not in any way resting or taking it easy. They must be alert and in motion, using all of their skill and knowledge, to survive, much less thrive in their circumstances. And yet they are not desperate, they are celebratory.
They share that total focus with the woman making perfectly round pots despite not having a spinning wheel, and the colors of the two cards are also very similar. Meditation is also a matter of focus more than anything else.
There's nothing wrong with chaos, of course, but only chaos is tiring and frustrating. Be mindful, whether it's focusing on a single project or juggling a dozen. Be focused, in stillness or in motion. Resolve the dissonance by re-establishing harmony. The storm won't last forever, they never do.