Tarot Overload Day 7

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 Hello, everyone!

This is the last day of this first week of the Tarot Overload Challenge by Hermit's Mirror. If you're curious and want to read how the earlier days went, you can find them here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Starting tomorrow the rules change slightly, and I am excited to see what my brain comes up with. 

Onward!




The Prompt

What do my gift and wound share?

The Pull

I pulled The Magician (much to my surprise) through my normal shuffling pattern. The Eight of Pentacles (Reversed) came from shuffling the deck twice and pulling the first card on top.

My gift and wound share the ability to DO the work, and GET the results, but they also share this tendency towards perfectionism, and valuing the destination over the journey.

Astrology Associations

I honestly didn't think I'd be talking about The Magician again because I discussed it at length on Day 2, but I only discussed the Gemini Portion. This Virgo angle took me down an entire rabbit hole, and the Eight is also a Virgo placement (Sun in Virgo). Buckle up! It's a ride...

I have my Lilith and South Node (I have mistakenly said North Node for the last 3 months, oops) in Virgo. This node placement is all about work and labor. Perfect for my wound, no? Perfect for that Eight card! This need to work for everything, for everything to be hard and difficult to achieve isn't just environmental and societal for me. It's written in the stars. Sigh... I consistently block my own way and success even though I am capable of both. 

The Eight of Pentacles (R) only confirms this with its hard working, perfectionist tendencies. The emphasis on traditional values that can be hard to go against and heal. 

I was brought up in a pretty non-traditional family, and they're very white liberal. (I am working hard daily to step-up my political views and actions to be far more inclusive than "white liberalism.") But I was also raised in Catholic schools for 10 years, and a lot of body shaming, woman-shaming, etc. has made it into my brain even if logically I disagree. These are considered traditional values, and I hate them. I am ready to heal that nonsense and move more into my Aquarius rising and Sagittarius Uranus mindsets: innovative and dreamy!

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