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FIVE OF WANDS
No journey is ever completely smooth sailing, and Fives represent one of the most difficult points in any of the suits’ cycles, a moment of conflict, frustration, and tension. In the case of the Five of Wands, it’s a conflict of vision that can manifest in a number of ways - your goals not aligning with the goals or opinions of those around you. Your vision for what you want to create being out of sync with the reality of what you can currently achieve. Your own mind being pulled in multiple directions or being undermined by self-doubt, lack of focus, or any other internal demons that rise up to tangle the metaphorical bicycle spokes of your motivation.
Artist Feature — Ba
What led you to BTS?
Prepare for vulnerability...
On New Year's Eve 2017, I headed out to the bar after eating dinner and spending an evening with a family I tend to share a holiday with. They turned up the TV as they settled in for the night and BTS were performing "DNA" and "Mic Drop". Catching my eyes immediately, I didn't need to know who they were yet to be amazed that a Korean group was performing from LA – for Times Square!
THE LOVERS – you got me // i got you
VMin as the Lovers?? During a collective 💘lovers💘 year?* Stunning! Actually groundbreaking! We absolutely love to see it.
Number six in the major arcana – and, in many figurative decks, the first card in the deck to feature two figures – the lovers is often aligned with the mercurial duality & (self)-twinship of Gemini. Big Mikrokosmos – “you got me // I got you” – vibes.
ACE OF PENTACLES
As Anaïs said, a seed is the perfect symbol of the Ace of Pentacles to me. In truth, I often say that of all the Aces, but when it comes to this suit, I mean it very literally. As the first cards of the four suits, they are often described as the pure energy and potential of a suit. A divine spark; a drop of springwater spilling from underground rock; the first gust of wind clearing the sky. They carry the information, memory, blueprint and fuel needed to sustain their growth. We have the choice to do with that what we desire.
AQUARIUS SEASON
Welcome to Aquarius season, ARMY! Broadly speaking, this is the season of originality, idealism, deep thinking, and visualizing for the future. Much to the annoyance of the Aquarians I know, most stereotypes of the sign portray them as alien oddballs who dance to the beat of their own drum and make little sense to other members of the zodiac. But in truth, Aquarius is a sign of revolution, of rejecting the conventions that exist only for the sake of the status quo, and of visualizing a more just collective future.
MERCURY RETROGRADE IN AQUARIUS
Mercury retrogrades are very common. They happen consistently, three or four times a year, when the planet’s apparent motion makes it seem like it is moving backwards. This means that they are a kind of transit we’ve moved through up til now – before we were even aware of them – and will continue to move through for the rest of our lives. We know how to live with them. This doesn’t mean we don’t feel their impacts, but those tend to be more short-term.
FIVE OF CUPS
After sitting in the uncertain and liminal in the Four of Cups, we move onto the Five of Cups to process whatever came up. This card seems to be perceived as a “negative” or dreaded one, as its themes are around grieving. Who wants to draw a card that confronts you with loss?
But the thing is, haven’t we all been grieving these past two years? For many of us, we’ve carried around grief constantly, long before the pandemic.
![THE HIGH PRIESTESS – I’m [my] filter](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61536362ef59082d4b0c9687/1642709671265-IV6BIJOINCPY42XOPW0J/1.png)
THE HIGH PRIESTESS – I’m [my] filter
Number two in the tarot’s major arcana, the High Priestess – also called by many the High Priestexx, to reflect the card’s openness to any & all gender identities – is (for me) absolutely an energy that Park Jimin embodies in his work, persona, & way(s) of showing up / being in the world. My advice as a “professional”* tarot reader – if you want to think about the High Priestess in the context of embodiment, and especially as a card that challenges binary oppositions – is ✨simply✨ to do yourself the favor of watching Jimin’s performance of Filter.