My tricksy Knight

[pjthompson]

Yesterday, I decided to try a new deck of tarot. I had a reproduction of the Marseille deck that I'd never used and was going through it preparing to ask what they call interview questions to get to know the cards. I was shuffling them, hadn't even asked a question yet, but one of them leapt from my hands and fell on the floor, which is always supposed to be significant. It fell sideways so it was neither upright nor reversed.

What card was it? This guy:



I stared at it, gobsmacked, then laughed. What else could I do? I picked him up and immediately opened the Marseille interpretation booklet.

Upright: "Energy and resources to advance, still looking for the right direction. Hovering above practical constraints. Determination and perseverance."

Reversed: "Confusion, negative and inhibiting thoughts, self defeat. Sloppy use of one's own tools may cause damage."

I was still puzzled as to what the Knight was trying to tell me, but in the interval between then and now, I think I have a clearer picture. I went back to when he first started making his appearance, when he came up twice in the same reading, both times reversed. It occurred to me that I should perhaps always read him from the reversed position? But then I thought about the way he’d landed on the floor, sideways. As if I were at a tipping point and it could go either way.

It also occurred to me that I am at somewhat of a tipping point in my life—physically, spiritually, and in my creative life. I’ve been treading water, not really pushing myself too hard, allowing rationalization to dictate my momentum (or lack thereof) rather than just getting on with things.

So maybe Mr. Knight is telling me to get over myself and get moving.

If that’s not what he’s saying, I’m sure he’ll crop up again because I firmly believe the Universe repeats itself until you do get the message. Sometimes with slaps upside the head. And the slaps get harder the longer you refuse to listen.

I’m listening, Universe. I just hope I’m understanding.

Comments

[tjoel2]

OMG! Knight of Swords is stalking you.

I just did a post on the Night of Swords (https://tjoel2.dreamwidth.org/497406.html#comments) as it happened to be the next court card in the series I'm doing on-line.

I read something interesting, that in the RWS version of the card, and actually in this Marseille version as well, the knight gallops from right to left, as if towards the past. "There is certainly a theme here of being hung up on past events, choosing to dwell in old hurt rather than move forwards."

The Knight of Swords can be very vocal and head strong. I ended up pulling additional cards to find out what my Knight of Swords (which are crows in the deck I was using) was saying. I pulled one to find out where I should be speaking up in my life, and where I should be quiet and listening in my life.

Maybe come up with some questions to pull clarifying cards around this. Like where you should be continuing to go with the flow in your life, where you should be charging forward and where you should be reflecting on the past right now......

[pjthompson]

Thank you! Those are some helpful suggestions.

And how weird is it that you were pulled into my ongoing synchronicity chain with this card?

I think the ancestors/universe are yelling as loud as they can to make me listen.

[tjoel2]

So weird! I think things like that, "synchronicity", are happing around us all the time. We don't even notice the vast majority of them.

[pjthompson]

That's very true. I started keeping a "Coincidence Diary" and sometimes there are a number of entries, sometimes not. After I watched the YouTube series "Hellier" the first time I had a real strong spate of synchronicities—which is hilarious, since that's a lot of what Hellier is about. The universe likes to have fun with us sometimes.

[tjoel2]

I haven't heard of that series. I'll have to look it up.....

[pjthompson]

I highly recommend it. You'll probably either hate it or love it—I've encountered few who have been neutral about it. It's also available for free on Amazon Prime. Hellier 2 will be dropping on November 29 on prime, two weeks later on YouTube. Still free.

[tjoel2]

I don't have Amazon Prime any more but I'll look it up on Youtube.....Thanks!

[pjthompson]

I just went over to read your post and another interesting thing just hit me. (I chose to post this here rather than there so as not to dirty up your post with my nonsense.) The crow/raven is something of a totem animal for me. I actually feed a murder of neighborhood crows on a regular basis. So that kind of slapped me upside the head. Also, a lot of what you were saying about the KoS was definitely hitting home. So, wow. Things are swirling.

[tjoel2]

It is a totem animal for me as well, which is why I was drawn to this deck! We have quite a few raven/crow here where I live and they follow me.

What I love about the King of Swords in this deck is that it's two crow. One with the mouth open, looking straight at you, and then the other with his mouth closed looking to the right (which is future). The King of Swords can be quick with the words, but there are also those times to close the mouth and just listen.

[pjthompson]

The King of Swords can be quick with the words, but there are also those times to close the mouth and just listen.

A lesson we could all learn! :-D

[notasupervillain]

Good luck figuring it out.

[rimturse]

Well, there's certainly something about that card for you, and clearly something you needed repeated. ;)

[pjthompson]

I think I'm on my way to understanding what he's been trying to tell me. We'll see!