Today I pulled the 5 of discs. I call this card the "dark night of the soul" card. Take a look at it and you'll see why. There's a crippled child and a barefooted, ragged woman slogging through a snow storm. They pass by a stained glass window (implying a church perhaps). The warm colors of the window hint at the warmth and comfort, both spiritual and physical, that lie within.
Let's take a deeper look at this card. First, we'll check out the symbology of the number 5. Here is a Cabalistic take on this number:
Manifestations of the Deity are expressed in five phases:
1. Source or Seed--The Ain Soph Aur or Adam Kadmon
2. Root --World of Emanation of Atziluth
3. Tree --World of Creation or Briah
4. Branch --World of Formation or Yetzirah
5. Fruit --World of Action or Assiah
These five phases form a schema of the Tree of Life.
The stained glass window has the appearance of a tree of discs, so I think this interpretation is particularly pertinent. Energetically, I see this as a card that tells us how we do (and how we can) create the life we're living.
1: The source of our creation is the way we see the life we're living: our perspective.
2: The Root is our desire to change or make more of an aspect of our life that has our attention.
3: The Tree, or creation, are the thoughts we think that imagine that change.
4: The Branch is how we go about getting what we're imagining.
5: The Fruit is the concrete result of the change we put into action through thoughts and deeds.
There is also an emphasis on feet in this card. The boy's injured foot is symbolic of not having a firm footing in one's life, perhaps feeling too limited to make anything important happen. The woman's "cold feet" are an obvious symbol of being too fearful to fully engage in life. Neither boy nor woman look at or into the window, an obvious place to look to for help.
Fear and self-limiting thoughts prevent us from utilizing the message of the Tree of Life: that we are life's source, and the creator of our personal universe. We cannot create what we want in our lives if we feel limited in ourselves, nor can we create what we want if we feel fear.
These feelings however, are temporary. We can become stronger, less fearful, and more self-trusting by guiding our thoughts towards what we want instead of focusing on what we lack; and by connecting more deeply with the earth, and with all that is solid and good in our lives.
The more we give thought to these things, the less we will find ourselves "out in the cold" and the more we well feel the warmth of well-being and fulfillment.
Much love,
Kristine
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