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Deck: Dark Goddess Tarot
Spread: Card of the Day
Date: Sun Sep 13 11:29:57 EDT 2020


Today's Card
Four of Earth ~ Sphinx (Upright)

Greek Monster of Fate

How you define your life limits your life.

The Sphinx is a fearsome, fourfold creature, having the head of a woman, the wings of an eagle, the body of a lion, and a serpent-headed tail. She is one of a family of winged demons, like the Furies and Harpies, who ravage the living at the bidding of the Greek gods. She plagues the outskirts of the town of Thebes as punishment for an ancient crime. She challenges all who travel the road to solve her riddle: What creature walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at midday, and three legs in the evening? The answer encompasses the entirety of a human life from infancy to old age. Those who do not understand the answerβ€”that she asks them to define and claim their own lifeβ€”are killed.

As well as β€œstrangler,” the literal meaning of her name, the Sphinx is called β€œprophesying maiden.” Votive sphinxes are offered at Delphi, the center of prophecy in the ancient world, where the priestesses also speak in sacred riddles. It is the oracle at Delphi that sets spinning the events of Thebes, when she tells of the son who will kill his father and marry his mother. It prompts the father to abandon the child. Years later, it prompts the same child to leave his adopted home and encounter his birth father. By speaking the prophecy, the oracle becomes the instrument of fate.

A large marble sculpture of the Sphinx faces the inner sanctum of Delphi. She guards the omphalos, the sacred stone egg that marks the center of the world, the heart of the oracle’s power. The Sphinx also guards the peace of the dead. Sculptures of the monster are often found on tombstones and within temple grounds, there to frighten those who would defile the dead through coveting their grave goods and special treasures.

The deeper answer to the riddle includes this fourth and final stage. Life is about more than what one possesses. It is about what one leaves behind.

When the Sphinx appears:

Definitions work two ways, helping you understand reality and separating your perception from reality. Upholding or debating rigid definitions can require endless vigilance. Find your own reality, the only position you must defend, and find the center of your power.

Write down four pillars of your situation, things that appear fated, concrete, or absolute. One by one, redefine them. Rewrite them in words that allow for creativity and transformation. Rewrite them in words that question or embellish their necessity.

Honor what you have to work with in this one sacred lifetime: your body, your mind, your heart, and your external resources. Be disciplined with what you should be using better. Be careful with what you should respect more. Protect your resources from greed and abuse.

Look ahead. Your story will end someday. Where it will end and how it will be remembered are written through actions in the present.



Presented by Dark Goddess Tarot app from The Fool's Dog.
Deck: Dark Goddess Tarot
Spread: Card of the Day
Date: Tue Apr 30 17:45:06 EDT 2019


Today's Card
II Priestess ~ The Pythia (Reversed)

Delphic Oracle of the Gods

From dissolution comes awareness.

The Pythia is the Priestess of Delphi and the Oracle of the Gods. The word β€œoracle” comes from the Latin verb orare, β€œto speak.” In ancient times the oracles, the speakers, are differentiated from those known as seers, who interpret signs. An oracle is a portal through which the gods speak to people directly, rather than indirectly through manifestations in the natural world. The most important oracle of Greek antiquity and the only female is the Pythia.

She is taught by the elder goddess Themis, who also instructs the gods in piety, grace, and natural law. The Pythia is named for Python, the great serpent appointed by Earth Mother Gaia to guard the sacred stone of Delphi. The sacred stone, the omphalos, is the navel of the world, the place of connection to the mother. The Pythia speaks for Gaia until the god Apollo slays the serpent to take over the shrine for his own. Yet the voice of the serpent, the servant of the Mother, still whispers, and inspiration still arises from the intoxicating fumes emitting from the ground below.

The Pythia is not an individual but a sisterhood. It is the title for a succession of powerful priestesses who relinquish their individual names in order to merge with the god. In the throes of the ecstasy of communion, she speaks on behalf of Apollo. He reveals to her things hidden from the view of mortal men. The sacred sisterhood answers questions asked, gives sage advice, and utters prophecies. She may also prove a catalyst for change, as when she famously advises Socrates to pursue a path of philosophy. Within her lifetime, within her every lifetime, the Pythia is the most influential woman of the land, for she speaks with the voice, power, wisdom, and authority of the divine.

When the Pythia appears:

Use bay oil and leaf, the incense of ancient Delphi, in your aromatics to increase your power of vision.

Believe in the power of oracles. If you ask, prepare to listen.

Believe in your own intuition. You know more than you can explain, so do not let wordlessness get in the way of knowledge. Recognize knowledge may arise through any avenue of your being.

Try scrying by gazing into water, either a natural entity or within a bowl in a candlelit room. Ask a question. Then gaze and let symbol, shape, and meaning coalesce from the flow between the water’s surface and its depth.

Learn to read the signs and symbols of every day. Study the appearance in your life of birds, webs, winds, and waters.

Read also the signs and symbols of the night, thoughts and dreams alike. Each night ask dreams to come. Keep a notebook and easy to use pen by your bed. Do not strive to be well-written, strive for simplicity and immediacy of expression.



Presented by Dark Goddess Tarot app from The Fool's Dog.
Forwarded from MoonMaidenMusings
Have a wonderful solstice everyone πŸ’œ

Brew some sun tea, pick some summer flowers, have a bonfire or sit and meditate on setting your highest intentions for the latter half of the year.
Sparkling Wind' (η…Œι’¨), 2018, by Kobayashi Noriyuki (ε°ζž—η―„δΉ‹, born 1986), a contemporary Nihonga (Japanese-style) painter from Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan.
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