[🌝 Offering] Full Moon Tarotscope - 3 July 2023
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Five and Nine is pleased to partner with Ignota Books to offer a collective tarotscope for our paid members. Published every 🌝 full moon.
This tarotscope was read at first light with the arrival of the solstice. It’s a general reading for the collective, using a combination of the I Ching and tarot, in which we present tarot cards for the different elements. Read for the elements calling to you now, whether that’s associated with your Sun, rising or Moon sign, or one speaking to you at this time in your life.
This month, summer in the northern hemisphere is in full swing, as is winter in the southern hemisphere. We consulted the I Ching using Benebell Wen’s oracle deck, interpreting them with her private translations and annotations. The tarot was read using the Carnival at the End of the World deck, and three cards were drawn with no particular spread – just three energies, tools or resources to keep in mind. The Carnival deck contains a few non-canonical tarot cards, which we happened to draw.
These readings were drawn in mindful and noble silence, for this seventh month of the Chariot Year and fifth month of the Rabbit Year.
I Ching Reading
䷫ 44 Meeting (姤 gòu)
In I Ching readings, there are often two hexagrams representing the situation and the evolution of the situation. We used a deck instead of coins this month, with no second card. Each hexagram contains two forces represented by trigrams, one above and one below.
Wind (☴) below and Heaven (☰) above. In the Wen translation, this is an ‘Improper Meeting’, where a challenge just beneath the surface is coming up, stirred up by the winds. Her translation advises caution about new pairings, unions and partnerships. Perhaps this reading applies to your personal life, but we choose to read it more broadly, relating to the larger forces moving through society right now.
This is a time of shadows coming to light, of belief systems thought long swept away re-emerging to test our foundations. Some of these systems may be welcome. Others may shake you to your core. Pay attention to the energies with which you meet these winds. Whether you perceive them as helpful or harmful, you’ll do well to understand they guide you to the heavens. They call you to a new awakening.
This hexagram corresponds with the summer solstice – a fitting symbol.
Tarot Reading
Three of Coins (aka Pentacles)
Eight of Arrows (aka Swords)
The Inferno
The Three of Coins often encourages growth, planning and development. In this deck, it is a figure of seeds or fruits extended across barren trees, falling to the ground. In the northern hemisphere, winter has yielded to the birth of new fruits. What is growing, what is evolving? The Eight of Arrows – here depicted as a mail carrier covered in a red coat and wearing a red post office box for a mask – asks you to receive the messages willingly, even if they may be uncomfortable.
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