A Shallow Dive Instead of a Deep One
Let’s start with a little backstory and symbolism. The three cards in this reading are from three respective decks, and only two of them were intentional by me. The third one, Hina, came as a surprise. I’ll elaborate further a little later.
The Jaguar from the Spirit Animal Oracle shows up as an agent of power and prowess.
The Achievement card comes from the Paradise Oracle, which is a deck that I like to pull from every so often when I’m looking more for advice than I am energetic vibes. This card is depicted with two giraffes, one taller than the other, standing together in front of a tree. The taller giraffe is eating fruit from a higher position on the tree.
Last, but certainly not least, is Hina from the Goddess Oracle. She is a goddess from Polynesian legends who governs the energy of the moon. She is also associated with fertility and creativity.
A very surface-level interpretation of these three cards together shows me an energy that is strong and ready to pounce on creative ventures, because in order to have access to more than the lower-hanging fruit, you gotta stretch yourself.
The Timing Though…
I mentioned earlier that Hina was a bit of a surprise in this spread. The reason for that is that I didn’t pull from my Goddess Oracle deck at all. What had happened was–I’m being a little tongue in cheek here–I apparently pulled Hina’s card when I was pulling cards for a totally different circumstance and put the card away in the Paradise Oracle box instead of her correct Goddess box.
Knowing how my mind works, I most likely tucked Hina away with the Paradise cards so that I could write about them later, but I forgot about them instead. So, when I opened the Paradise Oracle deck, the first card I pulled out was a card that totally didn’t belong to that deck, but absolutely belonged to the timing of this week’s moon phase.
This calls to mind the new moon reading I did for the month of January and shared on my other blog. When I did that reading, I didn’t go into it all willy-nilly. No, I try not to go into any readings just any kind of way, not like how I used to back in the day when I first started reading cards. Now I gotta set the mood.
For the new moon reading, I lit moon incense and had a little talk with the moon so that I could get in good with her energy (because the moon is totally a female) and say something that was going to make accurate sense–because something can make sense while being a lie; two things can be true at once.
A Little Bit Deeper
Rather than jumping right into what I thought the cards meant, I sat on them for a couple of days. This was due in part to the fact that I had a little cold that knocked me on my behind and had me in bed for the majority of the day. However, it didn’t make that much of a difference because I still didn’t have the words for it anyway. Then I made the connection.
Yes, the moon will be full again very soon, and Hina showed up in my life unexpectedly.
Hina, the goddess who, in some Polynesian lore, birthed Maui, the demigod–the movie Moana isn’t exactly a documentary, but it plants a couple of seeds about who he is. In many traditions, her story begins with her being human, and being so overwhelmed with life that she sought out the moon for not only a better life, but a new one.
She weaves clouds together as a goddess, the same way that she wove threads together as a human and assembled beautiful creations to wear and observe.
She is femininity. She is the keeper of cycles–because what is the Moon, if not cyclical–and provides inspiration for creativity. She’s really a girl for the empathetic artistic soul.
In walks the Jaguar with all the bravado, strength, and courage, and she’s coming in just when the Moon is moving into the sign of its big cat cousin, Leo. Cards are my thing, but I’m not as well-versed in astrology as I plan to be one day. However, what I know about Leo is that it is masculine energy and a fire sign. Leo has the go-get-it-done spirit, so it seems beyond appropriate that the Jaguar is the card I pull from a deck with a total of 96 animals in it. (If you’re into numbers, you might find it interesting that the Jaguar is number 43 in this deck.)
When I tie this together with the Achievement card, where there are two giraffes and only the taller one is eating from the tree, I see and hear this: Now is the time.
It seems cliché that the majority of messages from the cards, stars, and whatever other symbols seem to be, “Now is the time to manifest the life of your dreams!” It is a timeless message, though, and I think this is a message that is trying to reach a very specific subset of people who are not identified solely by astrological signs, no matter how detailed the birth chart.
It is talking to me, I know, because every time I try to pull cards for the collective, the cards just end up telling me about myself. The cards, however, are talking to the folks like me who have been struggling with the “real world” because you’re not called to be part of the “real world.” Those of us who can get lost in writing poetry and reading tarot cards, and can’t do surface-level stuff, no matter how hard we try.
We always gotta see the layers between everything and see all the mess in between the lines. Our spidey-senses are always tingling. And no matter how hard we try to be normal, it just never works out the way we hope.
Be brave. I know some of us tend to be dark and moody water signs, but now is the time to light the fire and be the big intuitive cat. Like cats, we have plenty of lives. We’ve probably already had a few. You’ve probably already overthought the what-ifs anyway.
Share your poetry. Share your art. As someone once told me, “Nobody cares as much about your art as you do, so let it be seen.”
Let your light shine like a full moon in the dark.
Love,
Sparkle Noir
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