This week I thought I’d do a reading using the Vacchetta (Master) deck to see how it performed. When reading some blogs of fellow AT members I came across a great spread for discovering my highest potential. Thanks to RC and SherryZoned for bringing it to my attention.
The spread:
Shuffle the cards and ask "Where do my highest potentials and abilities lie? Cut them into four piles; physical, mental, emotional, spiritual. Search to see which pile has The Sun. That realm is where your highest potential lies. Shuffle just that pile and lay out three cards as follows:
1. What aids me in developing my highest potential?
2. What hinders me in developing my highest potential?
3. A possible outcome once you have formed and developed your highest potential.
I first went through the physical pile knowing the Sun wasn’t going to be there and I was right. I expected the Sun to be in the Mental pile and I was right again. I spend most my life running around in circles in my mind so this is certainly no surprise. Now, if only I can find a way to use my mental potential effectively…
The three cards I drew from the mental pile were:
The Hanged Man
Six of Cups
The Moon
1. What aids me in developing my highest potential? The Hanged Man
So I read this to mean that it is my challenges and trials in life that help me to develop my potential. The sacrifices I have made and the difficulties I have had in my life obviously contribute to who I am today. Also I think that it could be about my ability to look at things from different perspectives. The keyword on this card is ‘agony’ which says to me that it’s the most difficult stuff that contributes to my potential. I wonder if it’s also a reminder that I need to be patient. As far as the mental side of things go I tend to be very ‘full-on’ with things. If I have a new idea I have to fully research it immediately, I can’t just take my time. I go through life thinking ‘there is so much information, and so much to learn, and yet so little time’. Maybe I just need to take it easy.
2. What hinders me in developing my highest potential? Six of Cups
This is an interesting Six of Cups. I spent some time on the weekend looking at this card and working out how the keyword ‘memory’ fitted with the image. I read this card as being very much about past-present-future and how the three link together. I see the card in three levels with the two animals at the bottom being the past (cat representing the actual past and bird representing the perceived past, which are often two very different things), the middle layer with the three cups being the present and the top layer with the two smaller cups and the larger more elaborate cup, being the future. It’s interesting how the middle level seems to be dragged down towards the base (the past). I read this card to mean that if we want to move towards our future, our aspirations and our dreams, then we need to release our tie to the past, especially things in the past which cause us pain. That’s not to say we sever all ties with the past, but we need to reconcile our issues and then let the issues go, let the pain go. I think often our ideas and goals seem fanciful and unrealistic because we are still carrying limiting beliefs formed in our past. So, the message for me….let stuff go. Accept that painful incidents in my past have helped me become the person I am, and that they have served me well, but it is also time to let them go so I can focus on the future and achieve my potential.
3. A possible outcome once you have formed and developed your highest potential. The Moon
This seems quite a strange card to have in this position. It’s probably my favourite card in the deck, and possibly my favourite ever moon card. I guess the moon can mean quite a few things. It can indicate confusion and so perhaps the message for me is that now is not the right time to be trying to have a concrete outcome in mind. Perhaps I just need to ‘go with the flow’ and see where I end up. It could also indicate that the outcome would involve using my intuition. Another thing I think of in relation to the Moon is motherhood. My highest potential could be linked to my role as a mother and so perhaps I should be concentrating on being a good mother to my girls rather than worrying too much about the future. The Moon can also symbolise dreams and so it could suggest that I need to focus on my dreams and work towards making them a reality. Cycles are another thing represented by the moon, and mystery and magic. No wonder I feel confused.
After looking at the three cards for awhile it suddenly struck me that the Hanged Man has his head down the bottom (obviously) which links to the past in the Six of Cups, and the Moon has her head up the top, linking to the future in the Six of Cups. Perhaps this is the message for me….to stop hanging around in my thoughts of the past and looking for reasons as to why things are the way they are, and to simply flow with life and live in the present with a view to the future and the realisation of my dreams.
Now I just need to work out exactly what those dreams are.
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