That Which Does Not Kill Me Can Only Make Me Stronger

Being happy has always been one of my life's greatest pursuits. There are times when it's challenging and there are moments when it's as effortless as breathing fresh air. The past day or two though, it has come to my attention that a few individuals who I used to respect and look up to betrayed me in ways that I never imagined. It sent me to a roller coaster ride of painful emotions and my pursuit to happiness has once again been challenged. I got sick which I tried to not to nourish, I went about my usual tasks and even ran errands in another city as I mustered all the physical and emotional strength I can gather within me. Eventually, I gave in, fell into a momentary depression and slept it all away. 

Yesterday was the toughest day. I turned to my spirit guides and guardian angels for guidance through my tarot cards. I did my card reading for the day and I picked up The Magician. 

The Art of Letting Go by The Hanged Man

If you've read my recent post on my self-help blog entitled Be Proactive: 1st of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, I was actually starting the process of letting go... letting go of someone I considered important, someone I looked up to, someone I admired because I just recently found out that all this time, she hasn't been true to me. It hurt... a lot. I cried so many tears for her, for the relationship I thought I've built with her only to witness it crumbling down to pieces, or actually, only to find out that the relationship never really existed in the first place because it has all just been ONE BIG LIE. 

Anyway, after days of crying buckets of tears  and before I even told my closest friends about it, I consulted with my Spirit Guides through my tarot cards. As usual, while meditating, I picked a card that will signify my Spirit Guides' advice for me and this was the card I picked - The Hanged Man. It still amazes me up to now, how apt the card I pick every single time. And not all or most cards can resonate with whatever it is the card picker is going through. So I know that this is indeed the right card for me.   

The Hanged Man is a Major Arcana card of the Tarot Card deck. Major Arcana cards are usually drawn when events of major importance are happening in one's life. True enough, what happened recently has a big impact on me and my current relationships, so it's just very fitting that I picked up this card. 

The Hanged Man is all about:

This is it! Even My Tarot Card Says So...

It's been a while since I last held my deck of tarot cards. I've been pretty much busy with my moving on process (Read related post here: 100 Happy Days Project - I'm Back!) that I forgot to seek guidance from my trusted spirit guides through my tarot cards. 

So today, after waking up at 4 am and playing in the kitchen to make an all-day pasta feast, I rested for a little while in the living room, propped myself up for meditation and saw my deck sitting on the wooden bench. I picked it up, opened the box and dealt the cards as I asked my spirit guides to let me know if I am somehow on the right track with my most current decisions (which is to find true love... see related post here: My Quest for Finding True Love Begins Now and to soon have a baby). 

Tarot Cards: The Minor Arcana

I shared with the other day how the major arcana symbolizes the universal themes of our life. This time, I'm going to share with what the rest of the Tarot, composed of 56 cards called the minor arcana is really all about.

Just like what its name suggests, the minor arcana of a Tarot deck, when drawn during a reading, tells something about the little things in our life --- our concerns, emotions, activities... all those mundane stuff that make up the every day drama of our existence.

The 56 cards of the minor arcana are divided into four suits: Wands, Cups, Swords and Pentacles. Let me discuss the importance of each...

Tarot Cards: The Major Arcana

A standard deck of tarot cards consists of 78 cards divided into two classifications or sections: the major arcana and the minor arcana.

The word arcana is plural for the word arcanum which means "profound secret". According to the alchemists of the Middle Ages, the arcanum was the secret of nature. Therefore, the tarot cards are actually a collection of the secrets of our universe.