Divine Intervention?

Originally Posted January 29, 2009:

Sometimes I just love the way the Universe works! When I did my annual reading for 2009, I tried a new method using three different decks: one for the General Energy of each month, one for the monthly Blessing, and one for the Challenge. It was interesting to see which cards repeated themselves between the different decks and the different patterns that revealed themselves when I looked at the reading as a whole. [And I’m not going to concentrate on the fact that my year does NOT look like it’s going to be smooth sailing. Nope. Not gonna do that… ]

Anyway, back to this Divine Intervention. My Blessing card for the month of January is the Five of Pentacles. Lovely. But because it’s in the Blessing position, I’m able to remove myself a little and see a bigger picture for this month. (And I know exactly what this card means for me, so that helps.) Despite that, my initial reaction is always one of “good grief!” whenever it shows itself.

Enter Wald and Ruth Ann Amberstone with the Tarot School. Just so happens that this month they’ve had a series of teleclasses for an in depth look at the Five of Pentacles. Now, I’m always interested to hear what they have to say, because each time I’ve ever listened or participated in one of their classes, I’ve been greatly enlightened, without exception. It turns out that I had expressed an interest in attending these calls on their Ning group, but didn’t realize how my response would be interpreted from their side.

So I got home from work tonight and there was a message on my answering machine from Wald asking if I was still interested in attending. (I had already missed the first of three calls, but I could still attend and reap the benefits of the other two.) Of course! I had to juggle a few things around to get the “quiet time” I needed around the house, but I just made the 9:00 call-in time. Yay! Would I have participated if Wald had not called me? Definitely not, and not just because I plum forgot about it, but because I admit that I’m one of those people that needs a swift kick in the rear to get moving sometimes.

This class comes just in time to help me appreciate and integrate my Five of Pentacles card of the month, and the theme that seems to be emerging for me. [Although this is only a Minor Arcana card, I’m not naïve enough to think that the energies are not going to follow me around a bit longer than January. Some things just don’t get cleared up that quickly or easily. Yes… I know I’m being a bit vague here, but that’s ok. You don’t need to know everything. ] Next week we’ll be discussing how the aspects of this card that we’ve discussed thus far integrate themselves into our personal experiences. Gotta say, I’m really looking forward to it!

Bright Blessings!