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Monday, August 28th, 20069 of Wands Tarot Card by Abella Arthur
Monday, August 14th, 2006
Nine of Wands
by Abella
Description
Symbolism
Card Meaning
Artistic Media
Artist’s Bio
Description
This card is in celebration of the goalie from the game of hockey: A favourite Canadian national sport.
The goalie ensures the 9 of Wands puck does not get into the net and helps his or her teammates play defensively. Yet the goalie, in large part, stands and skates alone within a confined space.
Abella went with an abstract, surreal, minimalist, graphic design, advertisement, post-modern mass effect for this 9 of Wands Tarot card.
Many levels of meaning are intended to be found by each individual viewer of the card and Abella can only attempt to describe but a few of the consciously created details, symbolism, and meaning that exists within the card.
For example, one may see a goalie made up of the word “goalie” as well as hockey sticks for knee pads or perhaps a hockey rink (glass, boards, and ice).
The goalie’s knee pads and hockey stick make up the traditional 9 wands of fire. The stick symbolizes the passion and tool used for the goalie to protect the net.
The abstract goalie’s eye is a sun that sees clearly the goal ahead as well as telling the opposing team to steer clear away lest they be burned by the sun.
In astrology your sun sign signifies outwardly appearing personality traits. This card’s elemental significance is sun in Sagittarius. Sagittarius belongs to the element of fire and it’s here where the sign becomes the mouth on our abstract goalie. The goalie is letting us know what type of personality he or she is.
Many Sagittarius’ seek challenge, adventure, and freedom and are optimistic and enthusiastic. They work well with others but prefer personal independence. These traits are expressed in the goalie personality as well.
Black: Strength, Injured, masculinity
Red: Passion, Strength, femininity
Blue: Icey Cold, Bruised, masculinity
White: Good Intentions, Snow, femininity
The months between November and March are considered the winter season for Toronto, Ontario and most of Canada. This also happens to be a time when ice hockey is played a lot.
The 9 of Wands is about standing up to a powerful force even if that means doing it alone and potentially getting hurt in that process. The 9 of Wands is about being prepared, determined, dedicated, tough, independent, an energized gate, overcoming adversity, focusing strength, confident, and having a positive outlook that leads to future success. It says: “I’m not giving up!”
The 9 of Wands is the beginning of the end. This card holds both masculine and feminine energies due to the element of fire and the number 9. It is a card that sees a person at both his or her weakest and strongest point while coming out alive and kicking — stronger than ever before.
When the 9 of Wands represents a person, he or she masters and sacrifices his or her fear in order to drum up the focused and precise strength needed to reach the goal of protection.
Digital design and photo of a puck.
Abella lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada — home to many hockey players (one of which includes her beautiful partner & fellow psychic Tarot reader Ryan). She is a full time esoteric reader, teacher, and entertainer focusing on psychic abilities, Tarot and other tools.
On learning psychic and esoteric skills (tarot, palmistry, astrology, numerology, etc)
Monday, August 7th, 2006Learning psychic and esoteric skills lasts a lifetime — it’s like learning to ride a bike or drive a car (you are likely not to forget it and it’s very helpful to have that skill). A vehicle, like a bike or car, allows you to travel faster and have more fun getting to your destination. Reading people, situations, and events is a vehicle that allows you to travel faster and have fun too.
Psychic Experience: Psychometry & Names
Sunday, August 6th, 2006Last night Ryan and I were reading for a bunch of very nice patrons of a favourite restaurant of ours (one in which we will be holding monthly “readings” — stay tuned) and a fellow asked me if I would hold his hands and see what I could get from it. Sure, why not. I do a bit of psychometry (even though it’s not a main thing) and I’m clairvoyant (even though that’s not strong because I don’t want it to be — I prefer being clairsentient) and telepathic.
I also felt “comfortable” with seeing whatever came into view with this gentleman and the first thing I saw was a star and then it seemed to be drawing itself in a shape of the Star of David and I told him what I saw but it didn’t seem to mean anything to him so I said, “Are you jewish? Do you know of anyone Jewish who is helping you with something at work for financial reasons (i.e. the star = success).” And he said no. Then a couple of minutes later he said quite seriously, “What’s your name? I’m David”. And I found that to be quite bizarre given I saw the “Star of David” so in his case it meant that David is a star which is what I had been telling him during his reading. And after I explained that to him he “got” the Star of David reference.
By the way, my partner Ryan just told me that David introduced himself to Ryan “before” I gave him a reading because after writing this entry, I myself wondered if he just said “I’m David” to humour me but that wasn’t the case and I didn’t get that at the time either. I tend to be very analytical and like to seek the truth and will question my experiences to find it. 🙂
I don’t normally find names (because I haven’t seemed to care about them) but who knows, maybe that’s coming up for me now so I shall try a bit of psychometry in the future when I see people in-person.
Anyway, the moral of the psychic experience story is this: Accurate interpretation of symbols and signs can take a very long time and requires a lot of practice with feedback. When you start to use your psychic faculties in varying ways, just say what you see rather than describing what it could be. The sitter is likely to know what you are talking about even if you don’t. *grin* But sometimes in the case of David, it might be hard to see the connections because even if they are obvious, if it’s slanted in a particular direction it can be hard to open it up to another direction.
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btw, it was really nice to chat with the people I read for while Ryan was reading for them. I was just talking about myself and my experiences while “reading them”. We shared some wine and dinner was on the house later on. These are special times and the reason why I like doing special events where I can connect with seekers outside of readings. Socializing, connecting, expressing. This is hard to do when I’m reading the whole time which is why I will only be doing a few readings at our Halloween Psychic Party in October. I want to be able to sit down and chat with seekers in a relaxed and friendly way in a group setting where I’m not “on-the-clock”. 🙂 When someone gets paid, myself included, the time isn’t often as enjoyable as “freestyling”.
