Ever had one of those dreams that sticks with you for life because you know it means something? This client has had several of those as well as some uncanny messages through divinatory sources since she was eleven years old. A recent dream pretty much tied them all together. A trip to her local genealogical library, a synchronous random passage in a book, and an Internet search verified her assumptions—that a family spiritual tradition died out in her family a generation ago. Her ancestor is urging her to research and regain her heritage. Can she trust this message?
This is just the kind of story we love, so we did a 10-card Celtic Cross spread to examine all the angles. I used the Radiant Rider-Waite deck. The Ace of Swords in the center is the truth card. She has wanted to get to the truth of these dreams and signs all her life. To know without a shadow of a doubt what these things mean. Crossing her is the Ace of Wands. This card speaks to the birth of a powerful inspiration. She, however, admits that she has resisted falling into impulse on this matter. She wants solid answers that what she believes is true, so this energy has indeed “crossed” her.
At the root is the Page of Swords. He is a clever thinker. He can put all the puzzle pieces together. He is all Air, all mind. He has keen insight as well. This represents my client. She has collected the pieces of the puzzle and can put them all together into a cohesive, convincing picture. She however lacks certain knowledge, so she doubts.
In the recent past is the Magician. These are the magical influences that have come into the client’s life. This issue is about a spiritual inheritance, so this card takes on a much deeper meaning here. She has been contacted through dreams, divination, random synchronicities, auspiciously timed gathering of facts, and more.
The 4 of Wands at the top gives us the general flavor of the reading. This celebratory card is often about rites of passage. These messages have been coming for a long time, but the client has just moved into a place where she can connect the dots. The next step is to accept where this is taking her—hence, the rite of passage.
The Page of Pentacles is in the near future. This card is the student/apprentice. Knowledge of the family tradition died with the ancestor. The client has resisted accepting her clues at face value because it is so easy to get lost in Fluffy Bunny Land in matters like these. Without concrete knowledge she doesn’t venture forward. But how can she get that knowledge? It has died with her ancestor. She must approach this with a more childlike, less severe attitude. If she wants the blessing, she will have to rely somewhat on faith. This looks like a good solid “yes” answer from the universe. In some books, I have seen this page connected to the solitary journey of the vision quest. I think that might apply here.
The client is represented by the High Priestess card. The HP trusts her dreams and intuition. She prompts us to look deep inside ourselves for our own answers. That’s a good message here.
The outward influence that is affecting the client is the taboo of veering away from standard spiritual practices, or a belief in surface matters rather than inner truth. She looks at things of this sort like a fanciful flight of whimsy that could steer her into some bad dodo. Her eyes got kind of big when I pulled that Devil card, though, so I pulled another for clarification (after I took the picture, and you know the trouble I have with pictures sometimes. I didn’t take another one.) The King of Swords is a person who relies over much on his intellect, but I think this card is also telling her to continue to read, research, and use her intellect. Just recognize that it can be an obstacle if held on to too tightly. At some point, intellect needs to merge with wisdom and faith.
Now for an interesting aside—she has gotten this card before when doing her own readings about this ancestor. The card that represented her ancestor was crossed by this card, and at the time, she felt that possibly her ancestor’s husband was against her spiritual gifts and insisted that she suppress them. This is quite possibly the reason they didn’t get passed down to the next generation in a God-fearing Southern community.
The 2 of Cups is a meeting of like-minded souls at the beginning of a fulfilling relationship. This is certainly what the client hopes is the case between her and her ancestor.
The Wheel of Fortune is a wonderful outcome for this reading. The wheel is turning and it definitely looks like the Fates are trying to nudge her into a new, important direction. All in all, I think this reading points to a positive direction in terms of stepping out into new spiritual territory.
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