The Joyful Tutor
A Tarot poem that helps a reader gain clarity on the best way to share their gifts
Welcome back to WiggleStick: a playful synonym for “divining rod” that, today, hopefully guides
toward an answer to the question she posed in the comments of a previous poem!If you’d like a reading of your own…
I'd love a reading poem on getting clarity about the best way to share some new visions that have been coming through. Thank you so much!
Four of Wands
Celebration, joy, harmony, relaxation, homecoming
The Hierophant
Spiritual wisdom, religious beliefs, conformity, tradition, institutions
Celebrate wisdom and hand down your truth!
Wave the bouquet of success in the air!
Slough off your shyness; it’s joy that has juice;
Double your Light but let Shadow-half share!What institutions can serve your expression?
Where are there friars who, eager to learn,
Will sit down and listen, absorbing your lessons?
Your heart and your gut and your root can discern.
Wanted to note that lines 4 and 8 relate to visual aspects of the cards that jumped out at me.
According to the lore, nothing about these cards is accidental. It’s said Pamela Coleman Smith was a medium and produced these illustrations through a process of psychic channeling.
Just as much as that, perhaps, they are just evocative enough to spark the intuition of the reader and querent.
Line 4, The light-robed person waving two bouquets and the dark-robed person waving one: It’s important to acknowledge and integrate your shadow. Not in order to give it an equal say necessarily, but because if you don’t recognize and love the discarded parts of yourself, you may find that they’re sneaking into expression in ineffective and even dangerous ways. Dangerous especially when people are relying on you for visionary wisdom that’s mingled with hard to extricate shadow.
Line 8, The three crosses on the Hierophant’s robe: they are over three chakras, the heart, the sacral and the root. The heart, of course, deals with love and compassion. The sacral deals with intuition. The root deals with safety. It’s easy to see how keeping balanced (one thing a cross can signify) application of those three things at the fore will be useful in discerning where and how to share, right?
You can never go wrong listening to the wisdom of your body. As Nietzsche said, it contains more wisdom than your deepest philosophy does.
The WiggleStick has spoken.
(Dramatic!)
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This is fantastic, Geoffe! Thank you! I love that you brought the chakras and body into it. It makes perfect sense for me.