Naos Reading #2
A Darker but ultimately rewarding reading. I believe this reading will be self-explanatory to the recipent, and create the necessary contrast to concrete whose is whose, by the process of elimination. Thank you both, for allowing me to read for you.
ISS,
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1) Magus of Salt / Wands
The Client: A tumultuous arrival at intense landscapes varying in extremes of hot and cold, but only at the very beginning of the Journey forward. Seeking companionship with a need for resting on ones own when those companions come too close, there is much to learn and many arduous steps to overcome before you will arrive at your true destination, though you will arrive many times before it, and think each one the authentic. Volcanic, vulvic energies, intense and passionate, often overpowered by one another cause disruption and you must learn to master each, to teach each to wait its turn before being played if you are to have the strength to start your Journey.
2) The Fool
Predominant Influence/ Acting against you: Innocence, virtue, lifes naievity that either condemns one to wander the world a manic jester, or propels them through that archetype into a mastery of laughter tempered by sorrow and achieve the crucial acceptance of an ability to laugh at ones self, be gentle with oneself, and when time calls for it, yet gather all ones follies into a powerful weapon against self-doubt and uncertainty. A nuance of character, neither one nor the other, smiling at Life even as she bears sorrow. The ability to face the unknown, take risks, be prepared to jump. Be prepared to leave an old life behind and step into the Sages shoes.
3) The Magickian
Distant Past: A lack of reflexion and seriousness toward the angles that gives you your light, allows you to breeze past obstacles and difficulties, has encouraged you to isolate yourself from the needs and feelings of others. You have performed conjurations, pulled rabbits out of hats, to avoid having to deal with your responsibility in situations that have caused grief to another - changed your face, your clothes, your job. It is nothing to be ashamed of, we must all wear many masks until we find the right one is no mask - and to prepare for a journey requires a solid foundation from which to proceed, an identity and place to leave behind and travel forth from.
4) The High Priestess
The Recent Past: Growth and self-assurance and the ability to foresee shadows before you cast them, not a psychic sense but the development of intuition and empathy - the key elements that set the woman apart from the girl, the Found apart from the Lost. Gazing into yourself, scrying what you really feel is no challenge for you - you excel - but you are still detached, raised on high by your levity and refusal to be part of the often dark, muddy, messy earth - it is beneath you, chthonic wasteland that causes gravity to weigh your flights down. On the edge of a cliff, a precipice, you gaze down at yourself, sleeping - you are not awake, you do not know Her - but you will.
5) The Sun
The Present: All preparations have been made, and you have descended from your tower of isolation, said goodbye to old friends that you no longer need and set off into the unknown with nothing but your resolve to keep you company. Your wolves have gone, and where you are going nobody can follow you. There is no fear about where you are going, though you do not know and the road ahead is dark and long, your early gift of detachment, once a burden now a blessing has come full circle. You have been on this journey before, but the last time you were ill-equipped, you took too much with you and did not get very far from home. This time, you have taken nothing, need nothing, and will go far beyond the obstacles that present themselves on the near horizon, to whatever lies beyond.
6) Azoth
Immediate Future: The years have seen fit to grant you a rich vein of wisdom beneath your floating visage - it keeps you anchored, it gladdens the room and brings other light - but it will be tested on your lonely walk, and you will meet with many savage barbarians, both external persons seeking to take advantage or envious of your progress and in the form of negative frustration, doubts and fears of failure that the mountain is too high, too cold, the valleys too deep, too dark. But have faith, She Within and Without will shine a light for you, watch your passage - you know She is you, and you know what to do, you just have to do it - its what you’ve always known, you just have to let it happen. From your transformation in the Ice you will find the temperament to calm your fire.
7,8,9) Man Gate, 4 of Pentacles, Wyrd
Future at Intervals: The Man Gate represents a Chaotic element, a drawing down of great energies that threaten to harm or destroy the progress made, and only the Magus can direct the flow of these energies, partition them into safer streams from the raging torrent. It is your masculine side that will protect you when the gates open, your ability to reason and apply the logos over emotion and raw passion - the alchemical hierograms necessary to survive an attack on ourselves by ourselves. And yet, hope and a shining light in the bitter darkness from a Woman, from yourself and the reserves you did not know you had. The laughter you have carried will illustrate its perfection, its sublime apparatus as a weapon that comes as a white knight at the last moment to rescue and salvate. And you will take that hand, the cards attest to it. The Woman leads the way to the Three Wise Women, the Fates, the triple-goddess and the formation of a unity many go their whole lives without achieving. Now it is you who watch the fool, rather than be the fool - and may will seek your counsel because of the course you have taken and the insights you have gained. They will want to know your secret, the light in your heart and you will be well equipped to share it, to guide and comfort.
10) Aeon
The Outcome: The most profound of the Arcana, great ambitions, dreams, realized and with them made manifest the changing of a grand scale both seen and unseen. The Chess of the World unfurls, like a flower unfolding in the morning sun, your journey is destined to have profound effects on others and change the currents, bend them to the archetypal will characteristic of the Jester. The Wheel is waiting to turn - and fortuitously - but you will be required to turn it. Laugh, as you turn it, Magus.
