The Emperor

According to my friend who reads tarot, my card this month is The Emperor. This means I am in charge of my life; all things are lining up in my favor. The message is, "Go for it!" I'm not exactly sure what "it" is. If I'd been paying attention, I would have seen that last month was supposed to be my time of coming into "it". I don't have my friend read for me every month, but I do ask her on my birthday (or thereabouts) to do a year-ahead reading for me. This year ends my nine-year cycle, so I'll be wrapping up loose ends and moving into a new nine-year cycle -- The Magician -- at the beginning of October.

I don't necessarily feel in charge of my life, or I don't feel like being in charge of anything. My productivity has been on an upswing the past few days. I think it's because of necessity (new classes start next week), but that's a choice, I suppose. In other words, I could decide not to do anything to prepare, which would lead to a bad start to my classes. It isn't so much that I'm motivated as that I'm more worried about the consequences of not getting everything ready. Whatever works, right?

In the next few weeks, I'll ask my friend to do my next reading. The past year has been a mixed bag, mostly good, and I know the stars (or cards) don't control my fate. But I've been having my cards read for almost twenty years and it's interesting how accurate -- even tiny details, not generalities -- my friend's interpretations are. When she first started reading for me, I thought she might be pulling details she knew from our spending time together into the "forecast". She moved across the country before I moved to Florida, and we've seen each other only a few times since then. She doesn't know a lot about what's going on in my life, and still the readings ring true in eerie ways.

Next month's card is Justice, which is also my life card. Apparently when a card appears in a "double position" its meaning is intensified. I'm going to see Justice as a good thing, because I feel like my karmic aura (and, yes, I'm poking fun with that phrase) is pretty solid. (Justice could be good or bad, depending on what one has done and how one has lived one's life.) I'll be interested to see how that manifests.