The battle with the dragon, where creative vision collides with earthly reality – primitive power is now rebellion for change.
Sometimes one is forced into a new situation or it is challenged from an unexpected source. This irrational energy brings trouble on a concrete level and asks to use instincts and intuition to combat it.
The laws of the material world.
Compromises must be made while still retaining integrity of original vision.
This means strife and a challenge to express power through creative imagination and mindfulness to cause.
In other words, a totality of action, where the present moment is the most important moment of your life. Until the next one.
Overcoming. Getting over a weak opposition.
Breakdown of an equilibrium.
Focusing on the main objective. An initiative to make a winning move.
Violence, cruelty, fear of failure, deep apathy, resisting change.
Walking into a complex situation, losing one’s edge.
Compromises may have to be made before happiness is won.
Temporary misunderstandings could bring sorrow and conflict.
A struggle to achieve personal ambition. Discontent could arise from unrealistic expectations. Competition and possible deception from others.
Practical and material achievements. Matters relating to the workplace
or source of income. The bigger picture of your place in the Universe.
Spiritual ideals, our ethical codes, inspiration and sudden creative vision, a revelation of the truth. Self-sufficiency, authority and ambition that drives us to achieve and the discipline & foresight necessary to accomplish our goals.
Responsibility as power, strength to create and build.
Using own initiative, sense of adventure; courage and kindness will stand you in good stead.
This is the card of the path-breaker, but only if your own foundations are strong. Understand what makes you, and what makes you work. And then access how the world around you works.
In-between is your own foundation.
A leader must learn to discipline self before others.
Delayed outcome through ruthless competition.
Being dogmatic only hurts your own cause.
Actualising ideas with the help of powerful man may be useful. Or re-connect with your own source of inner self-confidence & power.
Sometimes you have to rebel against your own personality to find harmony with your soul.
Rigidity, implacable self-righteousness, inflexibility, arrogance – Neither of these are your friends. In so, make sure your pillars of being don’t suffer them.
Beginnings of a love relationship. Expression of warm feelings. Romantic longing for some thing extraordinary. Cruisin.
The receptivity representing feelings and emotions. Harmony and an overwhelming heart with the desire to express deep rooted feelings.
An urge toward relationships, bringing joy and passion.
This represents a great release of emotional raw energy after a period of control.
A reflection of the unconscious. Productivity, plenty, sentimental ties, deep love for one self.
Going with the flow, entertaining everything but accepting little.
Spiritual nourishment and emotional replenishment.
Satisfactory conclusion of an emotional matter.
Jealousy, laziness, gullibility, vindictiveness, deceit or treachery.
Emotional dryness, feeling oneself empty. Avoidance of intimacy, negative feelings, heartbreak.
Overindulgence, inertia or lost opportunity.
Unrequited affection brings loneliness and insecurity.
Attention to detail is required in official or legal matters.
Difficulty continuing on current path of emotion.
A sense of understanding. Sincerity of intention. The moment a sudden seizing of chance alters one’s nature.
An attractive personality, a lover or a “heart-throb”. It might be a new relationship, a new quality of feeling within a relationship, even birth.
This delicate quality must be nurtured or it can rapidly vanish. Seeing the pleasure life gives rather than the pain after lost love.
The discovery of one’s own worthiness of being loved.
First and unsure steps in a romantic endeavour. Shyness. Sincere intentions. Trying to figure out one’s feelings.
A young friend that sees the humour of life and teaches that laughter heals.
Realisation of new talents. An important message or news.
Selfishness. Apprehension.
Over-absorption in one’s personal feelings, losing contact with others. Sloppiness in practical affairs.
Waiting passively for happiness. The discovery of a deception
The fear of emotional vulnerability or encountering someone with deep repression.
New determination and pride. used wisely, emotions can fuel creative imaginations.
Trust more in own intuition; it will be a more accurate guide. Make sure your goals are realistic.
A sense of embodying your inner truth. Receptivity, refinement and openness in an innately empathetic nature.
Feminine beauty, embodying the hypnotic power and the catalyst for the emergence of depth and feeling. An image of the unconscious, of intense passion or fate.
A mystery in itself, motivated by deep purpose. Sometimes introverted and magical, loving wholeheartedly or hating equally so.
A mature woman, caring and compassionate, experienced in an eventful and emotional life and consequently sympathetic to the problems of others. If this is not you, you will encounter someone of this nature. If this is you, you would welcome & guide someone.
Capable of activating the depths in others and calling for action and conflict without doing anything overt.
A rich inner world which is kept hidden. Guarding one’s privacy or valuable assets. Strong feelings held under control.
Valuable insight into own motivation gained through a challenging female person.
The deepening of inner knowledge aids self-development and awareness. A woman might enter life and reveal new possibilities.
Stirs up trouble wherever she goes, defies rational analysis, can live her life through others and neglect her own reality. If this is not you at the moment, then you will encounter someone like this.
Closure, defensiveness. Distrust of others due to negative past experiences. Hiding one’s emotions under guise of rational criticism.
Emotional independence brought about by realization of own strength.
A close female friend that shows lack of sympathy. Deception from a woman who knows some secrets.
When setting a target, take care that vital factors are not ignored.
Follow your own heart to achieve the impossible or difficult.
Rational thinkers can sometimes suffer through ignoring intuitive urges.
An urge to help others with their problems may become of paramount importance.
A new thought, a newfound inner peace, renewed vision and consciousness anew.
Consciousness is the sky-blue of contemplation, and thoughts are as if clouds clutter the soul’s sky-line.
In order to center yourself, Imagine consciousness as the sky, and observe the thoughts as they go by, let them pass, and if any lingers remove it gently and return to inner silence.
Consciousness experiences alters the person on primal levels. And the healing of every moment of built-up inner silence builds to a reservoir of strength and wisdom in cognitive and mental evolution.
All matters and spirit of consciousness thrive in silence, with that single thought, this card salutes your quietened peaceful state of being.
An inner and outer change is due to happen.
Just rewards likely for past efforts are assured. Despite the odds, any matter indicated by this card has an incredible chance of success.
A card of great force, either for good or ill (depending upon-the surrounding cards), the Ace of Swords can mean conquest. It carries a sense of something unpreventable that will change the entire life. When reversed, it implies victory with disastrous results and weakness of will.
An inevitable event may alter your entire life.
Check your details. Make sure future plans are in order.
There’s something amiss, especially in a new venture is involved.
An awakening of sorts could result in the shedding of outworn beliefs.
Conflict with others over new ideas or plans.
Opposition from others, but success is inevitable despite this.
The emergence of a new creative viewpoint depends on the will to fight. This a is card of finding your inner consciousness.
A coat of quotes and passing poetry
"‘gagan math gaib nisân gade’ - Kabir.
- ‘The Hidden Banner is planted in the temple of the sky; there the blue canopy decked with the moon and set with bright jewels is spread.
There the light of the sun and the moon is shining: still your mind to silence before that splendour. Kabîr says: "He who has drunk of this nectar, wanders like one who is mad. ‘
- Rabindranath Tagore from book ‘Songs of Kabir.
Banner of heaven in the temple of the sky.
"Banner of Heaven - The poetry of Kabir | Rabindranath Tagore