Abracadabra: The Magician as Therapist
When life gets too crazy and you feel like there is nowhere to turn, it is not uncommon for the practitioner to reach for her tarot deck. These are after all her confidante, trusted friend and spiritual counsellor.
Tarot can illuminate certain aspects of your life or can point out something that you may not want to face. It can help you to untangle thoughts, heartache and general discombobulation of the soul. Sometimes it pays to read tarot and write in your journal – a purge and then a rebuild.
A recent card pull not only helped me in the immediate situation I found myself in but it has created what people would say the ability to “touch base” or “find your centre. By accident, this new illumination became less of a reading and more like a spell.
Pulling The Magician card is always exciting and is a great way to start excavating for better or for worse depending on the situation. It radiates potential, but it also opens up our minds to all the elements, the tools he shows us on his table: the suits.
I was deeply compelled to write about the tools featured in this card at great length. In fact, they felt more than just tools, they felt like pathways. After reading my journal entry after the event I realised I had in fact laid my path out before me. I started to declutter, clear the debris and began rebuilding the path – brick by brick.
Abracadabra
Take the magician card out of the pack and place it in front of you. Look at each and every tool that he is presenting you with. Take some time with them.
The first part of this exercise is to think about your present situation and what brought you to this moment. In your journal, go through each suit and ask yourself:
What does each suit represent in my life right now?
(I am including a brief example using keywords just to give you an idea of what you can write and then expand on).
Cups - Overly emotional
Pentacles - Earthly pleasures replacing wellbeing
Swords - Overthinking
Wands - Impulsive to the point of making wrong decisions
Now the second part of this exercise is to ask yourself this: If we were to use these suits as tools in order to make big changes, how could we use them correctly?
Cups – Create a balance between emotion and thought rather than letting my cups overflow.
Pentacles – Earthly pleasures are now earthly walks, soil under the fingernails. A grounding of the self.
Swords – Cutting through bullshit I no longer want to entertain and undertake a re-thinking of my thinking.
Wands – Take control of my actions and point my wand in the right direction, with the right intention.
This can take you moments or maybe hours to complete, you could even do it over a couple of days. There is no timeline with so please go at your own pace.
