Your Celtic Cross Greenwood Tarot Reading
The Significator represents you and your current state of being.
Instruction
Ten of Arrows
A parent passes on skills, wisdom and ancestral ways with love and tolerance. Instruction and communication between the generations to help use old skills in new ways.
The passing of skills from one generation to another.
The Crossing Card denotes that which opposes or influences you.
Reflection
Patience and prudence are the keywords here, although trust plays a large part in the process of crossing to the island where insights into your own unconscious workings will be revealed.
This process differs from The Hermit's journey in the fact that The Hermit makes a conscious decision to withdraw and contemplate the universe but with Reflection a surrender of will is required.
Insights may come from dreams and meditations, but now is not the time to force the pace or drive on with a plan or desire until you have heard what your soul has to say about it and your bruised and wounded spirit has been healed.
Be patient. Let the journey commence and awaken afresh and full of energy ready to deal with the world and the challenges it raises.
When the foundation of one's life seems to have collapsed beneath you, you can seek sanctuary in Reflection from the emotional intensity of The Blasted Oak.
Reflection is concerned with sacred mysteries...
In a reading this card indicates profound healing, a period of introspection, healing, immersion in myths and visions, stellar lore, conception, learning about yourself.
The Foundation Card addresses the origin of your question.
The Lovers
On a personal level, love is a universal gift to the generous heart and the seeker will find balance through inner harmony and healing.
Polarity is the key element in the natural ebb and flow of emotional commitment between two people. The Lovers also represents a positive spiritual force of creative emotional energy and the universal desire for harmony and peace.
The creatures of the Greenwood revere and respect the rites of love as the force that ensures the unfolding cycle of creation and future emotional stability.
Between the Lovers is the maypole, or living birch tree, once erected every Beltane. This represents the Tree of Life, spanning the three worlds.
It is love that enables one to transcend the boundaries of these worlds, uniting the physical, emotional and the spiritual.
In some ways this is a card of young or new love, yet to be tested by time.
The Recent Past represents past events and concerns.
Injustice
Two of Arrows
False judgement, ignorance or arrogance. Sitting in judgement but with unbalanced scales. The bow lies broken and useless because of prejudice.
The scales of justice are already unbalanced in favour of the light, and the 'white'.
Someone who judges others from a position of arrogant superiority, often stemming from a fearful withdrawn heart.
The Crown issues that are significant in the present or may come to pass in the future. This card foretells future events which you may or may not occur, depending upon how you respond to the present situation.
Insecurity
Seven of Arrows
Ungrounded fears and confusion lead to instability and panic, self-torture through guilt or illusion and the need to deal with fragmented or rejected aspects of personality.
...attacked by anxieties and nightmares, unable to see a clear way out as ungrounded.
The solution is to protect one's boundaries, call in warmth of support; the need for intense physical activity to help one to ground some of the panic.
The Future depicts that which lies ahead.
Tradition
Nine of Stones
Reverence for past wisdom and sacrifice.
The ability to relate to ancient knowledge and pass on the lessons of ancestral memory and ritual.
Be aware of the patterns of connection linking you and nature around you to the past, present and future.
Deep learning. The memory of much that has been revered in the landscape can be retrieved in periods of respectful stillness.
Learning from elders.
Emotions card signifies the current state of your emotional self.
Responsibility
Ten of Wands
The challenge of dealing with responsibility brings a need for inner fortitude and stamina. This requires courage. The weight of the burden may be heavy. Face this with resolve and welcome this testing experience with enthusiasm.
A feeling of being burdened, weighed down by the responsibility of work or caring for others. Try to delegate and lay down some of the load.
External Forces represents the influence of others in your life as well as trends in your relationships with others.
The Fox
Knight of Wands
The qualities of cunning and stalking combined with great alertness and curiosity make the fox a stealthy night hunter. Often seen at dawn, the fox retains a beguiling mixture of wisdom and playfulness.
A quick-witted person able to weave in and out of situations, usually turning them to their own advantage. Difficult to 'pin down' or to be sure of their motives. Someone often on the edge of society. A wanderer.
The fox (and raven) are the trickster archetypes of our mythology.
Hopes and Desires stands for the hopes and desires you have for the outcome of your question.
Breath of Life
Ace of Arrows
The Uffington chalk hill figure breathing the vitality of life - a renewal of vitality combined with knowledge of where you wish to be and how to get there.
Tender and gentle love that revives one with the 'kiss' of life. Renewal of inspiration, a reconnection to life, truth and wisdom, spoken from the horse's mouth.
The Outcome the ultimate outcome your question. Remember the future is not predetermined. Interpret this card in the context of the entire reading and as an indicator of the path you are currently on, but not bound to.
Balance
You must be balanced and patient. The time is right to rest and contemplate all the facets of your existence. To continue now you must be still and calm.
Finding the inner balance that will enable you to see beyond the present state is a process of trust and confidence in your own strengths. These facets may include the parts of your psyche that you would rather not deal with, but no amount of denial will rid you of the need to absorb and reclaim them.
Balance is absolutely necessary to free the inner self from the fears and self-doubts that keep us spiritually deaf, dumb and blind.
Once the natural state of balance is achieved, the plateau that will give you access to the higher self will be open before you.
Drawing this card can indicate a new harmony in your relationship or in a friendship. A creative phase in which you will blossom. An inner balance.
All dualities of light and dark, fire (red) and air (white) land and water, active and passive, are blended together creating a new third force - the green and fertile land, the person in balance with themselves, who is both grounded and creative, (Creativity, three of stones) and who radiates that energised peace (Fulfillment, 3 of wands) generated by someone at one with themselves.
Three has always been a very sacred number, representing creation, i.e., one + one = another.
The fleur-de-lis, iris or flag, in flower this time of year is a symbol of the three-in-one, the three worlds unified.
Drawing this card can indicate a new harmony in your relationship or in a friendship. A creative phase in which you will blossom. An inner balance.