CoD - Five of Wands from the Cosmic Tarot

The Five of Wands from the Cosmic Tarot shows two men either fighting, play fighting or practising some kind of martial arts. Exactly how the energy in the card is perceived depends on what's within the person getting the reading, as well as what is shown in surrounding cards.

As a one card reading, like today's 'Card of the Day' it could indicate a day filled with minor irritating conflicts or obstacles that have to be negotiated. The focus could also be completely internal, in which case there would be inner turmoil but no outside conflict. The lessons tied in with these conflicts/obstacles would always have to do with limitations to the ego, as the astrological correspondence for this card is Saturn in Leo.

Saturn in Leo in the 5th Sphere on the Tree of Life was once shown to me in a vision of black and red. From these swirling dark colours emerged a Flamenco dancer, a woman who expressed all the pain and conflict that each of us encounter our fair share of on this planet in the dance.

The limiting conditions that we experience as pain/conflict are the Saturn energies. The need to express them in a creative way in the public eye is the Leo energies. Gevurah, the 5th Sphere (ruled by Mars) demands aggressive movement, passionate action and response.

With Saturn in Leo, there is great resistance to transformation and to learning any lessons. The ego gets in the way and makes up all sorts of excuses for why the lesson does not apply. It's a bit like Jacob wrestling with the Angel: we are so sure that we deserve better than we're getting that we're willing to fight God.

I'm not suggesting we come out on top when we do this just because Jacob did. Not by a long shot. I know these energies very well by now and I truly believe that the only way to transform them is to dance. Saturn can't hold Leo down for long and in the dance, Leo might have had to learn some new steps to get around the limitations laid out by Saturn. If we're lucky, every once in while we come away blessed by the Angel of the Lord, and this most often happens because we touched the life of another with our dance...