What Will the New Year
Bring into My Live
This is an astrological layout with 1—12 relating to the corresponding
astrological houses.
1. Knight of Cups
2. Ace of Swords
3. Page of Wands
4. King of Swords
5. Tower
6. Knight of Swords, reversed
7. 9 of Swords
8. 6 of Cups
9. The Sun
10. 8 of Cups
11. 4 of Pentacles
12. Ace of Pentacles
The first house is about the mask that we wear publicly, what we would like others to see us as, but it also represents qualities of our personality that are really within us, just given a different emphasis in the public version.
While knights seek and quest they also protect and fight for something. My cause is love and harmony this coming year and I seek to protect that.
The second house holds our talents and sense of self-worth as well as earned income and what we do financially to expand on who we are.
The Ace of Swords represents a victory and a new idea or new beginning. Hopefully this indicates finding a way to earn some income as well as increased self-esteem. This card is also sometimes seen as a birth card. If I were working and younger it could also indicate a change in financial circumstances due to a pregnancy. Luckily at 53 that is unlikely.
The third house is a predominantly about communication, in particular more immediate communications, writing, email, speaking, etc. There is also an element of every day and local here.
With the Page of Wands here it can indicate a resurgence of creativity, perhaps more energy put in that area. I may begin to get back to writing this year.
The fourth house is our home both on a physical realm and the place where we are at home. So from that we also get the place of psychological grounding and where/how we feel secure.
The King of Swords suggests that the realm of mind is still where I feel the safest, the most at home in. But it could also refer to Tom and say something about a focus on him and home here. Potentially it could also refer to the idea of discipline and strength as the place where I rest and so could also refer to Faol. So in that way it could be suggesting that my home situation is stable – well as stable as it gets with my keeping two homes half a country apart with its required commuting between.
The fifth house is the place of creativity, self-expression, and romantic love. Children and pets also come under this as extentions of self and those we love with a certain amount of innocence.
Here was the first card that gave me pause and concern since it was the Tower. This suggests disruption and difficulty. The tower of assumptions crumbles with the lightening stroke of revelation and insight but whether that turns out to be growth and understanding or pain and loss is both a matter of perspective and of circumstances. I received this last month and had a difficult several days but that was all. So I can hope that even though it represents something about the coming year that it won’t be that much of a problem.
The sixth house represents work, health, mentoring.
The Knight of Swords can represent being too hasty. Reversed it could mean too cautious. It could also indicate a health problem, or some unexpected reversal in the above areas. Since this card represents taking action on what one thinks, reversed can indicate holding back and not taking action on one’s real position. This could lead to negative health affects.
The seventh house represents one-on-one relationships whether love related or business related. It includes partners as well as enemies.
This was the other card in the reading that gave me some concern, the 9 of swords. In this position it can indicate fears, sleepless nights, in regard to some relationship. Tom suggested though that it could represent gremlining. Looking at that as a potential it is likely that both the Tower and this card taken together indicate another year of ups and downs and worries over my relationship with Faol. This is not the healthiest response.
I would prefer to look at the Tower, reversed Knight, and 9 of swords as telling a story of seeking to act within rather than externally to deal with the disruption and gremlining with an eye to overcome it.
The eighth house relates to the energetic products of relationships (sex), material products of relationships (joint assets and inheritance), and death.
The 6 of cups is a card of harmony, shared emotions, and giving. This suggests openness and trust as well as pleasure. It could also mean a prosperous year.
The ninth house is about communication on a higher level dealing more with spirituality, philosophy, higher education. It can include knowledge gained through experience with foreign matters.
The Sun here brings light or even enlightenment to this area. There is optimism and growth. Where the Sun is found there is success.
The tenth house represents our position in the world, public reputation, our destiny, and/or career.
The 8 of cups in this position can suggest a change, leaving behind the treasures of the past and moving on. What was once satisfying is no longer. But there is no clear indication that anything new takes its place. This is just the beginning of the search. It also suggests dissatisfaction.
The eleventh house is the house of hopes and dreams, what we would like to manifest, also relationships that arise out of common purpose, and community.
The 4 of pentacles in this position could indicate the attempts to build something solid and the desire to manifest on the physical plane. It suggests holding tight, not giving up yet. While this card is often drawn to exemplify the negative, as in a miser, a focus on the physical is not inherently negative. It can be when overly emphasized but without that focus we could not achieve in the physical realm at all. It might also be saying to count your blessings and appreciate what you have.
The twelfth house is what is behind the ascendant/first house and so is about the unconscious, the depths of self, that which is not seen and so by extension things like prisons, institutions, asylums, etc.
The ace of pentacles is another birth card, a gift. It indicates growth and
a new beginning. I would like to think that it meant self-development work
was producing positive results.
Copyright © 2004 Kyril Oakwind