The four suits or Minor Arcana of the Tarot represent the everyday aspects of life. These cards are the oracle of our desires, emotions, thoughts and physical world. There is a natural progression through them that reveals to us just where we are in relation to manifesting our reality. You are always manifesting. Are you manifesting what you really want? If not and you aren’t sure why you are off course the Minor Arcana will help.
WANDS (Staves, Staffs, Rods) represent our soul essence, our desires. They are the fire that drives us forward. When there are many wands in a reading it is likely that your soul is beginning to nudge and to awaken you to moving towards its purpose and fulfillment. Here is where our aspirations arise and ask us to take action.
CUPS (Chalice) represent our emotional body. The emotional body is the element of water. Water is a powerful force, even when it is moving gently in a river or stream it is always moving, pushing forward and overcoming any obstacles in its way. At full force, such as a tsunami, it will tear apart anything in its path. When we vibrate emotional energy into the matrix of life, then we begin to draw to us what it is that we desire. Are your emotions flowing naturally or do you push them down until they are a tsunami and you explode?
CRYSTALS (Swords) represent our mental body. The crystals are the element of air and show us where our mind and thoughts are taking us. Negative patterns of thinking, the underlying currents, will rear their ugly head here and may sabotage your desires. There is a purpose to this, which is to offer an opportunity to adjust our course.
WORLDS (Disks, Pentacles) represent earth, the three-dimensional world. This is the material realm, such as the car and the house. It is the material/physical mirror of our interior perception of our self and the world. If we didn’t catch the pattern through the other three suits, we certainly can look at the world around us and see if we like what we are creating. Again, it is another opportunity to adjust our course.
How does the manifestation process happen?
Let’s say that you have a desire to buy a new car. Perhaps you think about it from time to time but never put any emotion behind it…. then it just fizzles and never materializes. However, if that desire (wands) becomes a strong or ‘burning’ desire you begin to bring the emotions (cups) to it.
It seems that the car you desire is everywhere! It just passed you on the street; the driver even resembles you. Every commercial and magazine has that car in it. You may even feel yourself in the car; hands on the steering wheel. Do you feel the road under the wheels! Oh, yes! And that, mmmmmmmmm, new car smell.
Your mind (crystals) has begun to come into play and takes you to the car dealership. Which car, what options, how much, can I afford this and how do I finance it. And last, but not least, you have the keys in your hand; you are parking it in the driveway. Ah, Ha! It is manifest (worlds) in you life.
