Reading #3: The Triple Goddess Spread
This spread is inspired by a post at Mary K. Greer’s blog on variations on the 3-card spread. I commented on this, suggested to let the 3 positions be:
1. White: The Virgin (purity)
2. Red: The Mother (passion, maturity)
3. Black: The Crone (experience, wisdom)
We could also call them the Spread of the three Ps : Purity of Innocence, Passion of Life and Power of Knowledge.
Using the Alchemical Tarot Renewed, I drew:
1. 6 of Coins: Youths; generosity, sharing, innocence, trust
2. Lady of Staffs: Dance, love of the new
3. 9 of Vessels: The Mountain goat; experience, confidence, perspective
I can’t help getting the feeling that the deck has distanced it self a bit from me this time, and is now showing me what it can.
I’m asking it about innocence, and it is showing me the two nude children, exchanging the coins, (one them has an owl – symbol of wisdom – on it), like saying: This is (one of) my image(s) of innocence.
The Lady of the Staff is an image of the dance of life, love, newness and passion, and the goat with it’s nine vessels barried in the hill side is an image of – well, knowledge, experience and perspective. It is a treasure, waiting to be dug out by living the life itself.
The Tarot Wisdom for this card, according to the Alchemical Tarot Study Group, is: “Take all your emotions and memories, and let by-gones be by-gones. Be on your way. The emotions and memories associated with the past are your foundation, and can be built upon, but cannot be changed. Don’t try to change the past, but look to the future. Don’t worry; you are sure-footed and will not stumble.”
This remind me of this first step on my journey, that I took today.
Images from The Alchemical Tarot, copyright Robert M. Place, are used with kind permission. Visit the Alchemical Tarot website.
Tags: passion, purity, wisdom