lessons from the lovers
Each year is tied to a Tarot card which can offer us some insight on the thematics at play and potential clarity around how to lean in + support ourselves throughout the year. This year is tied to The LOVERS. This card is really about balance, about choice, and unlike other cards in the deck it is very much rooted in the mundane reality of our life, here on Earth, as individuated human beings. It is about the decisions that we make on the day to day level. With this card framing our year, we are no doubt in for some big revelations as well as some challenges and conflicts along our path, much like the hero’s journey.
While this card is very much rooted in our earthly choices there is still (and always) an element of Spirit at play, of Divine factors and forces, as we see Cupid overhead. It gives breath to the question of how much control we have over our lives and how much is fated in the cosmos. When we think about our natal chart, and our bodygraph in Human Design, there are elements that are written in ink so to speak, challenges we will face, oppositions we will come up against, areas of weakness and also of strength, of gifts, of potential manifestations of those archetypes in their highest frequencies. Everything has a high and a low vibration and with awareness we can see which way to lean, how to support the expression we desire rather than being led around by negative forces. With the Divine we also ALWAYS want to hold space in our co-creations for something better than we can imagine, that the Universe, Source, God, our higher selves may actually know better than us.
Additionally, this card points to our relationships and love as a greater source of our own involution and individuation. And reminds us that in our quest for individuation we must face the parts of ourselves we cast aside (hello, Shadow my old friend).
The number 6, in numerology (2022 = 2+2+2 = 6) happens to be the only number considered both masculine and feminine, a shifting narrative that is very much up for us right now. Rather than seeing ourselves as opposites and swinging the pendulum from one side to the other, can we recognize we all carry masculine and feminine, anima and animus, Magician and High Priestess… duality within + that according to our Design we do actually find greater balance and wholeness, energetically, in another’s resonant Aura.
It is also tied to completion and endings. What is ready in your life for consummation, for release. Some places to peek in your chart this year, which may offer some insight, might be the significations of your House ruled by Scorpio (and any planets within), the House ruled by Aquarius (and any planets within), the Shadows of your Gates (especially modules 5 -10 in the Meeting Ground which deal with sacred union as our path to re-membering + illumination) - the choices we make between light and dark.
This is a year to really get cozy with your Strategy + Authority, your intuitive gates and the ways they show up for you, your Cognition, etc.. Get out of your mind and into your body. We must look deep inside ourselves for answers. This year will ask us to face the forks in the road, and no matter which path we choose on the earthly plane, we take ourselves with us. Sallie Nichols writes, “It matters less, therefore, which overt path he chooses than wherefrom in himself he does the choosing.”
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