Post by EMPATHY on Sept 9, 2009 14:35:47 GMT 1
Theres an article by Jason Pfeiffer who claimed that Michael said goodbye to people quite a while before he died. That is a very strange thing to come out with and also tittle tattle - but if thats tittle tattle so is quite a lot we have read. So I thought I would ask tarot why Michael would go and say goodbye to people before he died.
The answer I have here - makes me realise I might be around to 'soften' the blow or expose the baddies. Either way, this card is a merchant on 6 of pentacles. Sixes always represent balance and pentacles have always been known as relative to finance or money. In the picture at the back of the merchant we have a pair of scales which represents the astrological sign of Libra.
Most of you might know that Libra represents balance. You have to put things on one side of the scales to balance it up to the other side -
The Merchant in the picture is deciding who to give charity to - who to help - and instead of giving the money to the very poorest person here the money is given to the one who is better dressed.
It makes you think - why would that merchant overlook the poorest person, surely they need that money more?
Well, he does,nt do that.
So if you reverse this card and look at it and think about it - reversing it changes the idea just slightly.
It kind of 'makes sure' that the person who is poor DOES GET THE MONEY - the reason they SHOULD get the money is because they are the one that DESERVES it most.
But because the card is upside down it throws out the balance of the card when it is upright - so nobody is giving anything when its reversed - its being acquired instead by the poor person by what might seem like underhanded means.
EXCEPT it is,nt really underhanded because they were the ones that should have had the money in the first place. The better dressed people were accepting the money in the upright card and not even thinking that the more deserved poor person should have had it and deserved it most.
Sometimes in life - perhaps we have to throw things out of balance to get our just deserts.
6 reversed is 9 and 9 is completion - that suggests to me that perhaps there are ways to skin a cat.
A good story I think