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sweetsunray


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Sorry, I had a very busy 2 days, and hardly was home... I will do the reading this weekend.
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No problem. Take your time.  
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Hey Lemonade,

I chose myself to go for a positive question, which would give several layers of present states of yourself, including your outside facade, as well as advice cards for the future. This spread is called "The Way", and I specifically asked to show me how you can attract the right persons in your life. I used my Crowley Toth deck for this occasion, for I had this feeling that its imagery would work for you.

THE WAY:
_1_
2_5
3_6
4_7

1 is the card that reveals the issue at hand
the left column (2,3 and 4) is the present
the right column (5,6 and 7) is advice for the future.
2 and 5 both represent conscious behaviour
3 and 6 reveal emotional and subconscious behaviour
4 and 7 reveal the facade or actions for the outside world.

Apparently this is a major time to ask about this; because no less than 6 of the 7 cards were Major Arcana cards, and Major Arcana cards do not speak as much about events or personality, but rather a general atmosphere, a theme in your life right now, a force or lesson you're learning. 6 in the Major Arcana is the card of the Lovers, and thus the hidden Major Arcana card of the spread.

Hidden Card: Lovers
You'll see the card in the top left of the picture I added for your convenience about the spread.
The Lovers card is under the influence of Gemini, an astrological sign that is hard to pin down, a union of opposites, and often weighing between decisions and thus doubts.
On the card you see a wedding of a mixed couple, blessed by Cupid and a large figure who looks like a possible monk. Actually the hooded figure joining the royal couple in matrimony is the Hermit. You'll see the two cherub angels are holding a spear and a cup... with the spear/staff as a phallic symbol, and the cup the womb symbol. The card is full of opposites in many expressions: phallic spear <-> feminine cup; black <-> white; male <-> female; king of the land Leo <-> king of the air Eagle; flowers to charm and make peace <-> a bat to knock someone's head in. But the card also shows commonalities: the black cherub stands with the white woman, the white cherub stands with the black male... maybe they represent the spirits of the man and woman. And to be honest, without the attributes at the male and female side, it would be hard to determine who's the man of the pair and who's the woman.
The union of the two is symbolized by the marriage, the hermit performing it, cupid throwing its arrows at both people, and the snake of wisdom getting wings, and of course lion and eagle together form the mythical beast Griffin who is a protector against evil.
So, what does this all mean? It means that this question and spread is not just about finding the right person who you can fall in love with and unite with, but it hints at the fact that you are in a phase of life where you need to make important decisions, and that to find the right man you have to decide to want this in your life, and you will be doing the choosing, which is not easy, because the choice of uniting opposites implies you need to become aware and open to the fact that the person who's right for you may not be what you expect: he will have elements that might strike you as impossible to unite with.

Ok, so now let's get on to the spread itself:
These were the cards I drew in this spread for you
1 - Art
2 - Lust
3 - The Emperor
4 - The Hermit
5 - The Ace of Cups
6 - The Devil
7 - Aeon

1 - the issue at hand, chances and risks, what it boils down to: Art

In the Rider Waite deck this Major Arcana card is known as Temperance. With Crowley Toth this card as Art often gets the meaning of Chemistry. A black and white two faced angel in a green dress mixes fire from a wand (phallic symbol) with water from a cup (feminine symbol), and lets the result drop into a cauldron. The Lion and Eagle try to drink from the mixture. The angel's cape has the colours of a the rainbow, just like the disk behind her. And an arrow seems to travel upwards from the cauldron towards her heart, which seem to be several disks.
The disk behind her has an inscription: Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem, which forms VITRIOL for acronym, and means "Visit the interior of the earth, and by rectifying you will find the hidden stone [which is the true medicine]". This is an old acronym and saying used in Alchemism, the thing what the angel seems to be doing. Its implication is that it tells people to feel their emotions instead of repressing them, and to transmute those emotions into higher feelings.
In other words, attraction (of opposites), sexual/emotional and mental chemistry may be volatile at first appearance, but need to be lived through and consciously transmuted into something higher than the thrill, anxiety and electrifying effect of meeting someone we are attracted towards.
So, this card means chemistry on several levels, its volatile feelings that are involved, and the need to somehow unite the seeming opposites.
In relation to the hidden Lovers card, we can easily see how most of the symbolism is present in both cards, and yet they do not mean the same thing. While the angel is also back and white, she is in fact truly colourless, as if she's standing in the dark moonlit night, where we can differ shadow from light, but not discern an objects true colour. Art therefore is more under the power of the Moon (you can see 2 moon arcs at the top of the card), a symbol of the occult, the hidden, fear from the unknown, and things not being what they seem.
Conclusion: where the Lovers stands for (hidden) decision-making process to unite with the right person who is in many ways opposite of yourself, Art stands for how to make the union work, as well as the more instinctive feelings we feel when we fall under the spell of another person: sexual attraction, need for control and power, fear of rejection and making a fool of yourself, fear of losing one's own identity, ...


2 - your conscious behaviour at present: Lust

In the Rider Waite deck this card is known as Strength. In the Crowley Toth version of this Major Arcana card we see a naked woman riding a beast with many heads, an allusion to the "harlot on the beast with 7 heads" of the apocalyptic bible foretellings. This card shows the feminine power to use attractiveness and sexuality as reigns to wield the instinctive lusting. Basically it shows how you can enjoy your own sexual feelings without shame and yet with control. If you see this card in relation to the Art card then we can say, that in Lust the querent is taking his or her first steps in trying to transmute the sexual attraction into a higher feeling. In its most straightforward meaning this card in this position means that at present you feel and are aware that you are attracting sexual attention, you feel feminine, and that without shame. You are having fun with life itself, following your own inner passions (which may have nothing to do with love and attraction at all). It is most likely this attitude that you carry with yourself that gets noticed by men, like bees to honey. You may dress modest and consider yourself average, but you also carry yourself in a way that makes men lust for you, and you are aware of the effect at least, even if you say you don't understand it based on looks. That is because it has little to do with outside looks.

3 -emotional and subconscious behaviour at present: The Emperor.
The Emperor is a symbol for the Major Arcana force to build, to control, to create order and balance, to make plans, work hard and endeavour to realize them. It seems strange to see this "rational" card in the position of your emotional subconscious world, but it means that this drive to build a balanced and orderly life of plans you want to realize is not to be ignored, and probably why you avoid commitment at this moment in life. Although you are very able to take up such a responsibility.

4 - our facade or actions for the outside world at present: The Hermit
How you try to come across and what people first notice about you consciously is that you are by yourself by choice. You are withdrawn, introverted, listening to your inner guide. Aside from alone it makes you come across as being courageous. So, if you wonder whether people realize enough the message you are sending: I'm single, because I wanna be single... YES! That is the message you are sending and  that is being received. In a way it makes people admire you for it.

5 - advice for conscioius future behaviour - Ace of Cups
Aces are opportunities, but not handed to you by chance or outside of you, but created by yourself... If you want to find the right partner for you, you will have to open your heart. When you open your heart, you will create (from within) your chance to experience happiness through love.
What you see as cup is the Grail (which we saw in Art and the Lovers). When you open up yourself to be the Grail itself (regardless of past hurts) you will shine the correct form of love and the right person will be attracted to it.
If we set this agains the Lust card, we can deduce that at present you are attracting lust, and not love. The key to this lies within yourself.

6 - advice for subconscious/emotional future behaviour - The Devil
This is another Major Arcana card. While in the Rider Waite deck this card is mostly oriented on being tied and chained to a person or substance or way of life like an addiction, Crowley emphasises that life has its dark side and its light side. The one cannot go without the other. Without light there is only darkness, and yet before there ever was light, darkness was just the lack of light, not darkness as the opposite of light.
In relation to the Grail of the Ace of Cups, Crowley's Devil indicates that you will open your heart, when you accept that pain and happiness, love and severeness go hand in hand. You can break free, once you are able to see life just as it is and see it in grounded perspective (note how the devil has a third eye). This is indeed an emotional process, because it requires you to accept your emotions, of the past, present and future, and yet at the same time free yourself from them by transmuting them. Without darkness, we would not appreciate the light. When you understand that on an emotional level, you will be free to open your heart.
In relation to the Emperor of the present, the Devil warns you not to become too engrossed in the material alone of the Emperor, and at the same time the wisdom you can gain from the Devil will lead to a better understanding on how to build a complete and balanced life.

7- Advice on how to present yourself to the outside world in the future
In the Rider Waite card we see people being resurrected. Crowley shows something similar, but of the resurrection of the soul to the divine world and meeting death in Egyptian symbolism. In the Book of the Dead the Egyptian mythology reveals how a soul can enter the afterworld: their heart is weighed against a feather.
Resurrection implies that you shed the past and realize you are a newborn person entering a new life. The advice for how to present yourself to the outside world then means to show people that you truly wish to give new things a real chance, that you are transformed, that for you the past is truly behind you and that instead of retreated into yourself, you are open like a child almost towards what life throws at you.

I hope this reading helps to satisfy your curiosity on all the issues regarding attraction and is useful for a while to come to find and attract that in life what you wish for.  



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lemonade


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its fascinating how this reading is so deep...
frankly it is lot more than i expected.

knowing that this is an important phase in my life is very exciting.
i'm equally nervous too.. b'cause it all depends on the changes within me.. and asks me to make decisions/choices.
the cards/reading is very encouraging, the time seems to be just right.
so, i think i might be doing the right things. it can't be coincidence that i asked for a reading now, right?

Many many thanks.
sweetsunray


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No, it's no coincidence. Your request itself shows an indication you want to move away from the present situation. It aren't the cards or your life making it the right time, but you yourself, which has its own influence, kinda like the love opportunity of the ace of cups comes from within, and not outside Cards and life are reflecting only what you started yourself already, if only by requesting a reading on the subject.
a general reading please :)
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