Steph at The Witch Within has been doing some interesting divination for the new year using numerology and tarot. I thought it would be fun to give her methods a try.

The first thing is to find your personal year number for 2007 by adding your birthday to the year, like this: 4 + 29 + 2007 = 2040; 2 + 4 = 6. So my personal number for 2007 is 6. (This works on a 12-year cycle, so if you get a number higher than 12, you continue to add the single digits of your number until you end up with a number between 1 and 12.)

Once you know your personal year number, there are many resources that can give you predictions for what 2007 has in store for you. I used the one that Steph recommended at Tarot.com. Here is their forecast for number 6:

This is a year of progress and financial advancement. Major career opportunities present themselves. It is a challenging year in which personal growth is joined with new responsibilities and challenges.

This is a year of domestic responsibility and attention to the needs of family and friends. It is a time of heart felt emotions and some sacrifice. It is a time for comforting and caring.

You realize the importance of your place within your community. You will be called upon to help others bear their burdens. You are the proverbial friend in need.

You must work to create an atmosphere of harmony and balance. It is often a time when marital issues surface and need attention. However, you possess the understanding to deal with such issues effectively if you apply yourself with love and flexibility.

These deep feelings bring renewal to relationships and often a birth in the family.

May is an emotional month filled with the promise and the stress of imminent changes. June is a breakthrough and a relief. September brings advancement, October self- reflection and readjustments, and December brings a sense of completion and fulfillment.

Then, using her personal year number, Steph chose a tarot card of the year. For me, with the number 6, my tarot card for the year is the 6th card in the Major Arcana: The Lovers.

The Lovers is a complex and often misunderstood card. On the surface, it is about Love and finding the ultimate partner. While that can be true as a basic reading, this card carries much more nuance and depth than that. It is also about choice, communication and connecting with your higher self.

Of course, nothing can replace your own wisdom and insight working with the tarot, but again turning to Tarot.com, here is one interpretation of The Lovers:

Classically, the energy of this card reminded us of the real challenges posed by romantic relationships, with the protagonist often shown in the act of making an either-or choice. To partake of a higher ideal often requires sacrificing the lesser option. The path of pleasure eventually leads to distraction from spiritual growth. The gratification of the personality eventually gives way to a call from spirit as the soul matures.

Aecletic Tarot has this to say about The Lovers:

LOVE is a force that makes you choose and decide for reasons you often can't understand; it makes you surrender control to a higher power. And that is what this card is all about. Finding something or someone who is so much a part of yourself, so perfectly attuned to you and you to them, that you cannot, dare not resist. In interpetation, the card indicates that the querent has come across, or will come across a person, career, challenge or thing that they will fall in love with. They will know instinctively that they must have this, even if it means diverging from their chosen path. No matter the difficulties, without it they will never be complete.

Ruled not by an emotional water sign, The Lovers is actually ruled by Gemini, an air sign. Gemini is the communications sign; it's all about messages and making contact. Also, as it is represented by the twins, Gemini is about finding your other self.

The Lovers, The Fey Tarot

Finally, I offer you some insight into The Lovers from The Fey Tarot:

To meet, even in diversity; to choose, even in doubt; to love, abandoning oneself to the heart and to life. The present moment is not the past and not the future, yet it embraces them both. Man does not come from the Earth nor from the Sky, yet his spirit is attracted and composed of both. There is no need to be afraid of the differences or to choose between them, but to perceive how each thing is completed by the other.

This card is first a card of love, either toward a partner, a child, or a friend, but its significance is deeper. Often each one of us is torn by conflicts between contrasting sentiments and sensations, very often between the needs of our spiritual nature and the contingencies and necessities of material life. The card of The Lovers once indicated the need to choose. However at times there is no need to choose but to conserve both opposites, in peace.

I have been reading with this deck almost exclusively for the past few months and am enjoying the Fey approach to interpreting the cards. I love this deck's beautiful Lovers card; it's very different from the way most Lovers are depicted.

In conclusion, I'd say I have lots of food for thought here. Much opportunity for positive change and abundance in the new year, combined with the promise of happiness and love. With my Venus in Gemini, perhaps this card portends a new love for me in 2007 after all! Though ultimately the most spiritually fulfilling love of all is to discover, finally, that we love ourselves.

Posted by Angela-Eloise at 4:49 AM