In the summer of 2020, I decided to start doing a weekly series of posts on my facebook page about tarot cards. I managed to get the first five cards in the Major Arcana done between June and August of 2020 before facebook changed their format. I had been using the 'notes' section of my page because of the ability to organize the posts and to add multiple photos. When they changed the ability to do that and converted my existing 'notes' to basic status posts, I lost the desire to continue the series; as I had lost the look and ease of the 'notes'. One of the many reasons I decided to start this magazine was to rectify this issue. As 2021 has sprung us from the clouded chaos that was 2020, I am noticing a major theme within the tarot communities I am part of. One of which is the question "how do you calculate your card for 2021?" Everyone has their own method for doing this. I have two. I use the basic of just adding the year together, in which case 2 + 0 + 2 + 1 = 5 which is the Hierophant card. The other, is simply seeing what card comes out the most in the week leading up to the New Year and the first two weeks of the New Year. In this case, that has been the Ace of Pentacles.
In this situation, I'm actually not surprised, as the Ace of Pentacles is a card of new beginnings, seeds being planted and of instant manifestation. It's a card connected to the feminine energies, the physical world, wealth, health and legacies. It's element ruler is Earth, it's connected to grounding oneself in reality and cycles of the year. So as a card of general growth, seeing the Ace of Pentacles appearing over and over again in the beginning days of 2021 makes so much sense. It made the most sense too as the first card to mention here in my re-vamping of the series.
Every deck has it's own interpretation of the card. The most common image being of either the single disk floating in mid-air or of a hand holding it out as if a gift to you. The colours connected to it most often being gold or brown. The colours of gold or yellow in this regard connect it to the sun and enlightenment/knowledge suggesting there is an a-ha moment on your horizon.
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