[🌝 Offering] Full Moon Tarotscope and I Ching Reading - 5 May 2023
Five and Nine is pleased to partner with Ignota Books to offer a tarotscope and I Ching reading for our paid members each full moon.
Five and Nine is pleased to partner with Ignota Books to offer a collective tarotscope and I Ching reading for our paid members. Published every 🌝 full moon.
This tarotscope is 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.
We consulted the I Ching using three coins, interpreting them with Benebell Wen’s private translations and annotations. The tarot was read using the Buddha Tarot by Lo Robert M. Place, and using the seed-root-garden spread developed by Five and Nine. Card titles are presented as is, with equivalents in parentheses.
These readings were channeled amidst chanting Om Shanti Shanti, extending a prayer of peace, for all readers of this tarotscope, in this fifth month of the Chariot Year and third month of the Rabbit Year.
I Ching Reading
䷠ 33 Retreat (遯 dùn)
In I Ching readings, there are often two hexagrams, representing the situation and the evolution of the situation. Because we are using a deck rather than coins this month, the changes between hexagrams is stronger than usual. Each hexagram contains two forces, represented by trigrams, one above and one below.
In this reading, however, there was no change of the hexagrams. This can suggest a time of stillness, and it’s especially resonant given the theme of Retreat (䷠), which is composed of Heaven (☰) above and Mountain (☶) below. The mountain points upward into heaven, which gives a hint as to the nature of the retreat recommended.
Rest well and take a minute to assess your situation. During this eclipse, it’s wise to pause and get a bird’s eye view on the conditions you face. This retreat is not one of escape but regeneration. You’ll know when it’s time to return to the matters of the earth soon enough.
Tarot Reading
Garden: 7 of Lotuses (7 of Wands)
Root: 6 of Lotuses (6 of Wands)
Seed: 5 of Lotuses (5 of Wands)
No mud, no lotus, as Thich Nhat Hanh has said. In the Buddha Tarot, the wands suit – the suit of qi, or energy, or life force – is represented through the lotus, a symbol of beauty and grace emerging from the ugliness from which it grows.
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