Tarot and 2024
General impressions....
Numerology of 2024
Let’s take a quick look at the Numerology of 2024. The key numbers of this year are 2, 0, 4 and 8. Why 8? This is the number we get when we add up the digits. You’ll notice we have a dominance of even numbers: 2, 4 and 8; all of them divisible by 2.
This is all about creating or protecting our stability during a time of great shifts, but the 0 stand for the wild cards at work in our lives. Births and rebirths, literally or metaphorically. Zero is the most numinous number, or non-number. Originally invented as a placeholder, The Fool card in the Tarot stands for Wyrd or Destiny, and is the greatest mystery of all the cards in the deck.
The Major Arcana card representing the Number 8 is Strength. This card correlates with Leo, which like Aries, is also ruled by Mars. This card stands for health, strength and courage. This is both physical and moral strength, resilience and fortitude, the kind that says we don’t give up. The one who wins is the last one standing. “Tomorrow is another day.”
There are no easy answers. We will all be tested this coming year, guaranteed, and this will be collectively and personally.
This is not a quiet cycle we are in, the whole world is feeling it. This applies to natural events. There will be much flooding, earthquake or volcanic activity again this year, and the best ecological practice in the world would not be able to do the slightest thing to stop it. The cause is coming from space; the sun - though we still need to do better and make less mess.
The world has been here before, and we won’t be coming out of this particular cosmic wash-cycle that began in 2019/2020 before February 2026, when Saturn quits Pisces for the final time in this current cycle of transits.
Ukraine and The Middle East
When I look at Ukraine's President Zelenskyy, time and again I draw The Hanged Man reversed, signifying either significant Pisces timing and/or an unwanted compromise that is ultimately reached. But this could indicate Pisces season 2025, possibly triggered by political events’diplomatic efforts around Libra season 2024. Or else we may see a culmination of events around the lunar eclipse in Pisces 18 September 2024. But as ever, only time will tell. The reader is always and only ever “looking in the glass darkly.”
I have been struck by the physical resemblance to Zelenskyy of this card from The Tarot Illuminati deck. This image below, I drew in a reading for Zelenskyy back in March 2022. I was looking to see if Russia would succeed in assassinating him, as we understood Russia was trying to do at that time, and feeling that no, he will come through all this, but emerge a very different man. Putin will likely get far more than he should out of all this, though also far less than he really wants.
We are all desperate to see an end to the wholesale horror we are witnessing. There could be crucial turning points in the Middle East, or in other conflicts (and also in personal matters) around 14 February, around the solar eclipse of 8 April, during Leo/Virgo season- July and August, and again, around the solar eclipse in Libra, 2 October (ruled by Venus, cards 2/3 Swords- diplomacy/severance) and again towards the end of the year in Sagittarius around Christmas Eve, 24 December 2024.
US Election
My cards have not so far seen a second term of office for Donald Trump. I first looked at this in 2021, looking to see signs of a second term after the Capitol Riot. Link to that 2021 reading is here. But nor are they showing me a second term for Joe Biden. Nikki Haley is one to watch. I get a weak response, though it is a “possible positive” for Kamala Harris, at least via the pendulum. I will be looking more closely at this later. As will twenty gillion other readers and astrologers.
Some Vedic astrologers do say with utmost confidence that it will be Trump.
General
May-June could prove the most productive and easygoing months this coming year when Jupiter moves from productive Taurus into agile arch-communicator Gemini.
The April solar eclipse in Aries suggests a window of opportunity, bold decisions finding ways forward, and at a personal level for any of us, but especially for the Aries native or those with Aries rising, brave new initiatives in prospect.
The tarot card of this eclipse at 19 degrees of Aries is the expansive, outgoing and far seeing Three of Wands.
The possible negative interpretation of this card is the clear potential in 2024 for an escalation of maritime aggression in any of these areas: the Black Sea, the Red Sea, the Straits of Oman and Hormuz, in the South China Sea or the Straits of Taiwan.
Image from The Legacy of The Divine Tarot.
First comes the vision, but planning, co-operation and timing is everything. We are equal to these challenges, and we can achieve more by approaching our most personal problems with an attitude of kindness and respect. The lady in the Strength card does not subdue the lion by killing it.
But it's not going her to kill her, either. She calms its threat by holding her nerve, moving decisively but quietly, and using a carefully measured restraint with the lightest touch.
This card taps into a story from Edmund Spenser’s 16th-century poem The Faerie Queen. Una is the daughter of a king and queen who have been imprisoned by a dragon. Una undertakes a quest to free her parents, but on her journey she encounters a lion. The lion is so captivated by Una’s innocence that he abandons his first idea of eating her, and instead accompanies her as a protector and companion.
Image from The Gilded Tarot.
This is a year of gravitas and destiny. The number 8 loops upon itself like a symbol of infinity. We are changing, and we are feeling that change. There is a sense of a greater self discipline, but also striking out in a new direction, expanding our lines of vision, enlarging our horizons as per the Three of Wands. We are starting new things or revisiting old things and re-imagining them anew.
These are just seeds or buds in 2024. We won't see the results this year, but we are changing direction. The particular nature of this, and the life departments it will affect will depend on our own natal charts.
Jupiter is on our side in 2024, and he can be a big old bully. But Jupiter is also “the bringer of jollity.” People need to eat, but they also need beauty and laughter and they need other people.
Jupiter keeps it large. Jupiter in Gemini can be a big fat beautiful butterfly, the symbol of Psyche, the soul. Airy, breezy, airy pollinator of renewal of the richness of the earth of Taurus. Jupiter enters Gemini 25 May 2024 and stays there until 9 June 2025. This can be all manner of good news, with April May and June are the most promising months for communications, networking, teaching, publishing, business, study, travel and progress in the most general terms.
Jupiter in Gemini is endlessly curious and enquiring.
What brave new stories shall you be creating this coming year?
Thank you for reading.
Wishing you a very Happy New Year, 2024.
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