The 6 of Pentacles and Wu-Wang / Wild, Pure Heart (February forecast)

In this episode we discuss the monthly cards for February: the 6 of Pentacles and Wu-Wang (Wild, Pure Heart). These cards speak to fostering our internal wild goodness, and offering that out into the world to create prosperity, growth, generosity. They speak to how prosperity is an internal-external co-creation, emphasizing prosperity, growth, and generosity without necessarily linking it to financial wealth

We also discuss how this forecast highlights the importance of fostering a wild, pure nature within oneself, which can lead to magic and prosperity. Both the tarot and oracle cards call for gratitude, celebration, and collective effort to create change and support prosperity.

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Ashlie McDiarmid: 0:23

Hello there, dear spirit. Thank you so much for tuning in and listening to the Tea and Tombstones podcast. Tea and Tombstones is a platform dedicated to helping you root into nourishment through the haunted darkness and claim your hallowed ground through tarot education, spell crafting, spiritual coaching, and nature-based services. My name is Ashlie, the creator and wolf-child of Tea and Tombstones, and I welcome you here. Hello there, my sweet, sweet hauntings. Wherever you are at on this February afternoon, I hope you are well and provided for. Thank you for letting me into your day. Before I begin talking about the monthly cards for February, which are the Six of Pentacles and Wu-Wang (Wild, and Pure Heart), I want to just give a brief shout- out, as you heard in the intro, my intro now has music which is so exciting,I've been wanting to get some theme music on the podcast for a while, and I'm so excited that I can be sharing some music from a friend of mine and from a local Colorado band, a local Metal band called the Gravedancer. I will have links to their band information down below. If you like metal music and you want to support some Colorado metal you can do so in the show notes. The name of the song is called "As Death Approaches" from Gravedancer, again. I'm just... I'm I'm so happy I have theme music, and I'm happy that I get to support a dear friend and his amazing music, in in the same same theme and in the same focus, so very, very exciting, and I just want to give a brief shout out to the band Gravedancer. So, let's go ahead and start talking about the monthly cards. As I mentioned, it is the Six of Pentacles and Wu Wang (Wild and Pure heart). In this episode, we're going to be discussing the messages of each card individually, and then go more in depth on the similarities and the contrast between the cards, what's really being opened and inviting us into for this month. So grab your tea, or whatever you are sipping on, and let's get started. I am drinking some simple mint tea because if it ain't broke, don't fix it. So let's start talking about the Six of Pentacles. What is it inviting us into for this month. What is the Six of Pentacles about? I really want to first start by saying that I don't believe that the Six of Pentacles, or any of the pentacles, for that matter, is in relation to wealth, money, finances, jobs, job security, homes, moving, or jobs, anything like that. Those themes can definitely come up. I wouldn't say that those themes are absolutely positively always excluded from the Pentacles. They can certainly come up, but the Pentacles do not, in my opinion, immediately speak to that theme. Nor do I think that the Six of Pentacles is immediately a card that speaks to financial or fiscal charity, donations, or good graces in some way. The reason that I don't read the Six of Pentacles that way is because when we look to, or when...I should say, when we invite in themes or ideas or concepts or narratives within the tarot that speak to having to bring in another factor, so if, for instance, we go to the Six of Pentacles, and we look at some of the traditional images, and in just kind of the pantheon of the Six of Pentacles, we always see a person offering out the Pentacles to others. Usually, these people are paupers. They are destitute. They're poor. They are in need in some way, and then there's always a set of balance as well, so that it's meant to resemble fairness. When we bring in themes or concepts or narratives that require an additional third party, or require us to engage with an additional third party, not present in.. in the reading and in the... in the narrative, we're kind of giving that power away. It's the same reason that I don't read Court cards as other people, because we are then forcing the tarot to rely on another entity, another person, another shape, another outline in order to find fluidity within the narrative in the here and now, and I don't like to read that way. I feel, I feel like it kind of gives some of power away from the person who is getting the reading. It kind of takes away the person's ability to do for themself. That's not to say that charity and generosity and reciprocity are not apparent or needed. They absolutely are, but I don't want to read the cards as a need to bring other themes or other entities in order to make my tarot readings or my tarot narratives make sense. So then, what are the Pentacles really about? What are they inviting us to go deeper into and consider when we work with these cards in readings and, and beyond? I personally believe that the Pentacles are the translation of the internal faculties of brain, heart and spirit. The body, the physical form, the way that we are these physical beings in an act of being, is the translation of the Pentacles... is the Pentacles translating, excuse me, all of those internal factors, all of those internal states of being out into the physical world. So the Pentacles are the co-creation, or the cooperation between the internal and the external. The Pentacles are the bridge between our internal sovereignty, our internal faculties, and the collective outpouring, or the collective narrative of the external world. This also means that it can go the other way. The Pentacles can then take what is within the external world and bring that into our internal faculties. So, this can come in in the form of our five senses, but it doesn't have to be that, because if we were to rely on only that that creates an ableist narrative. It can also come in through intuition. It can also come in through instinct. It can also come in through our inclinations. I know that for me personally, I can only speak for myself, but because I see and cooperate and exist in a world where poetry is part of the process, where poetry is baked into the cake, the external world provides my internal faculties a poetic narrative, a poetic way of seeing the world and a poetic way of being in a state of being, and the Pentacles are the translation of that poetic narrative, or that poetic ingredient in my existence within this external world, and bringing that internally, because poetry is part of me. It's part of who I am. It's part of how I show up in this world. So, the Pentacles can also be our inclinations and our our gifts and our abilities, or our ways of cooperating or seeing this world in our... through our unique set of lenses and through our unique gifts and skills that allows the world to take on meaning and make sense for us. Those, those inclinations, those different traits and different abilities, are also part of the Pentacles, because it's this generative process of what we take in from the external and also what we give out from the internal. That's why I don't say that the Pentacles could never be about money, because money is part of the cycle from internal to external, or from external to internal, but it doesn't have to be. It doesn't have to be about these very, very tangible, but also quite rudimentary themes, I would say. So, with the Six of Pentacles, it's not about someone giving us something from their good graces, or about us giving something from our good graces. It's about coming from a place of continued support, continued offerings. That when we take stock of how we have been served over time or in different situations, we therefore have the capability to give that out to the external world and those who need it can take it. It's about sharing in abundance for the bigger picture. It's about showing how the external bigger picture is going to be served from this abundance, from this favor of offering, from this build of support. When one cause is served, then the whole world is served. We are part of a narrative of forging connections through those inclinations, through those gifts, and through those skills, through all that we can offer based on what we have received in at some other point, some other time, we create this generative cycle of abundance, and that abundance creates change. That abundance creates expression in a way that serves the whole. So when we look to themes like prosperity, growth or generosity, it's about seeing how the work that we have been putting in, the actions, and again, that translation from the internal into the external creates prosperity, creates nourishment. Generosity begets generosity. Think of it, if you will, like pollination. The whole point of pollination is to ensure that the next generation of, of these plants is allowed to thrive, that the conditions are right for the next generation to thrive. I see that here with the Six of Pentacles, that when we are translating from a place of truth, from...[uh] when we are translating from a place of internal truth and offering out all that we have taken in at some point that is for the betterment of the bigger picture, that encourages support and abundance and prosperity, it's allowing that sense of thrival to continue. It's allowing the narrative to not [um]... it's allowing the narrative to not settle or become complacent. It's about continuing this radical, beautiful act of prosperity, growth, generosity and service. So just to touch on this narrative of radical, beautiful acts coming from the Six of Pentacles. The reason that I mention this is because part of this theme of prosperity, growth So, when we have a prosperous world, when we hold prosperity and generosity is that it takes us out of the picture in some way.That we are part of it, yes, but that it is for the simple act of being itself, that is why it's so important, and I'll give as this blooming channel of energy from the internal into the external, we are creating change because we are giving out you an example. So I was listening to a podcast the other that which has been nourishing us. We are giving out which... that which has supported us. We are giving out from this space of being in flow for spirit and for truth and for what simply should be allowed to be. Prosperity should just be. It should just be what it is. It should just be, and this day called Earth to Humans. It is a podcast that speaks to abundance as a form of expression allows there to be a rebalance in the energies. This prosperity and this abundance allows this reciprocal balancing of energies. Also returning to this narrative of generosity and prosperity as this generative cycle, I think that one of the most beautiful things about the conservation efforts, different conservation efforts throughout Six of Pentacles and one of the most beautiful invitations that it invites us into, is how we can encourage more support, more generosity, more growth, more of that rebalancing of energies because support.... creating that support in times of plenty is going to... is going to sustain us in times of trials and in times of hardship, that as we build and layer the world. One of the podcast episodes, the one that I was prosperity, growth, community, generosity and it creates the cyclical... It creates this generative cycle, we are creating a system that is plentiful in the times of goodness, and then it's nourishing and supporting in times of trials and hardships. So there's this element... the subconscious, or this secondary listening to was about the Vaquita. So, the Vaquita is a element of creating gratitude and celebration that we have what we need, and because the Six of Pentacles is the trend[sic], or all of the Pentacles are the translation of the internal faculties into the external world, that which we give out in in the form of prosperity, growth and generosity could be knowledge. It could be kindness. It could species of porpoise that is endemic to the northern end of be it could be money. It could be supporting a particular cause. It could be listening to someone. It could be bearing witness to them. It could be resources. It could be any any sort of thing. It could be a story, so it could be any sort of thing that is offered out to encourage further growth and further prosperity for this layering network of support. the Gulf of California, and they are extremely in... extremely This also goes back to what I mentioned in my last podcast episode about imagination as a way to strengthen intuition. When we allow our imagination to be prosperous, when we allow there to be prosperous play, we are creating a very beautiful and radical sense of transformation. We're creating endangered. In fact, it's, it's estimated that there are only abundance through expression, through offerings, and also just through a very beautiful act, through the act of powerful play, through the act of imaginative play and prosperous play, we are creating transformation. So, with the Six of Pentacles, I invite you to see how your imagination offers about 10 left in the world, which is heartbreaking in and of out abundance. How does your imagination create movement that allows you to leap into new capabilities? It allows you to leap into a new form of offering. It allows you to leap into values being translated into the external world in real time, because this transformation and this creating and conjuring and taking and bringing it out into the itself, so I was listening to this podcast episode, and I was physical world is part of that shared resource. The world needs what you have to give. Because the world needs what you have to give, how are you prosperous within the self? How is your imagination prosperous, and how can that be offered from the internal into the external in a way that is of service for you, just my heart was just breaking internally, and I had realized and therefore the bigger picture? I now want to just go ahead and touch on the haunted and the hallowed aspects of the Six of Pentacles. This is not an exhaustive list. This is not an all- encompassing list of the spectrum. There could be many other things that you discover and find that reside on the spectrum for you in working with the Six of Pentacles in between the darkness and the light, and that I didn't even know that there was such an animal as the I encourage you to see how that spectrum is built, and I encourage you to see how that spectrum comes through for you. This is how it came through for me in this time and in this space, so there could be many more elements to the spectrum, so it's not exhaustive in any way. One of the first elements, starting with the haunted that I see, is that there's a need for exchange in all forms. There's a need to know what our needs are. Vaquita. It doesn't affect this animal... doesn't affect my As empathetic people, this can be quite hard, because we can feel overwhelmed by taking in the pain, the wounding, the hardships of others of the world. There's also a need to know where boundaries lie. Within the space of need, there daily life. It doesn't affect my immediate bubble around me, but is a need for this energetic exchange in all forms. For example, one of the one controversy or one narrative that I have seen sometimes circulate throughout social media, sometimes circulate throughout the internet, is that spiritual services should not be charged. There shouldn't be money involved in in the in the offering of spiritual services, now that I know that this adorable little Porpoise is out because everyone should have access to spiritual services. I fully agree that everyone should have access to spiritual services that will help them heal, that will encourage better health, more optimal health, and just a more optimal sense of being. I agree with that. However, as a spiritual worker, there and it's facing such such such a threat of extinction. I as someone who has spiritual offerings, I also have to make sure that my physical needs are met. I need to have food in my stomach. I need to have a roof over my head. I need to have the lights on and the heat on in the winter, there is a need to understand where and how we can give freely, where we can give generously. There's also a need to see where the bottom line is, want the Vaquita just to thrive because even though it doesn't where some of these needs cannot be negotiated. Not to say that, you know, there can't be a discussion in price. There can't be a discussion in maybe a payment plan or something, but when we speak to energetic exchanges. We need to understand that even though we are speaking to themes and focuses that affect me personally, I want to live in a world where the encourage prosperity and encourage a more optimal sense of being, there is a need to be realistic and to be rational as well. So we need to be able to have a boundary that speaks to our needs and that it can't be crossed. This form of energetic exchange can also come through in the form of empaths and Vaquita is thriving. I want to live in a world where this people like energetic vampires, when we create an opening for someone to constantly take advantage of, or when they constantly try to take advantage of, and they don't heed our boundaries, that is a violation of the energetic exchange. So within the haunted nature of the six of pentacles, there is a prosperous nature between flora and fauna is just there. It's need to be realistic. And we've been talking, I've been talking all about, you know, growth, prosperity and blooming and channeling of energies. And these are all such gorgeous energies and gorgeous themes. But there is also a need to ground that energy into physical, into the rational, into the realistic. Because if we don't, we could be giving out it's just that. It just simply is. It doesn't have to affect me more than we have the capability of. We could be pouring, trying to continue pouring from an empty cup, and we just can't do that. We have to also make sure that we are being the receptacle and taking in what we want and what we need, so that we can encourage that offering out again and again. The hallowed element of the Six of Pentacles goes back to what I directly in order for it to be important to me. It doesn't have was saying earlier, that need creates knowledge. Knowledge creates plenty. Plenty sustains the spirit, the body, the heart, and the mind through trials and hardships. When we create and encourage healthy energetic exchange, we are stepping into that generative cycle of prosperity and blooming and channeling of energies so that it can more easily and readily to affect me directly in order to make the world a more come back to us, so that we create an environment, both internally and externally, for plenty and for bounty and for prosperity, to have a place to be grounded into that rational... into that realistic environment, again, both internally and externally. The hallowed elements of the Sixx of beautiful place, and that's what I think the Six of Pentacles is Pentacles is that through this connection, through this generative cycle, this is where we can then take it further and step into magic and ritual. Once we have the plenty and the support and the sustaining and the nourishing of our physical sense of being, and therefore our internal faculties as well, speaking to. that creates the ability to not only offer out into the physical world, into the world of sacred land, sacred community, or into causes or contributions that can also be channeled into the different levels of universal energies that we are a part of, that we maybe seek to be a part of. I know that for me, when I am more sustained, when I am more nourished, when I have more plentiful prosperity within my life, my magic and my ritual just they.... I can feel the power be more substantial, and that power translates further and further outward into the universe. So when we create this, this generative cycle of prosperity, of contribution, of generosity, and sharing that can translate if we intentionally use it this way, if you don't, that's totally fine, but if we tra[sic], if we intentionally use our energies to affect magic and ritual, we can therefore be more sustained and more nourished beyond just the physical realm. So let's go ahead and now move on to the card, the oracle Card, Wu Wang (Wild and Pure Heart) from the deck, Oracle of the Dragon Fae. Some of the invitations from this card are a wild and pure heart is the threshold into magic. This goes back to what I was just saying, that when we have this prosperous, generous, powerful, playful nature, that our prosperity, our growth and our generosity can transcend from the external world in the physical external world and also, and therefore into our magic itself. This card also states or invites us to consider that perfection is a myth. When we speak to wild and pure, we are not including here an element of perfection. We are not trying to or striving for perfection, because perfection is a myth. Going into what the guidebook says about this card. It says that Wu Wang is a dragon Faye Lord who has been both a dynastic ruler in human form and whose energy has entered the Chinese system of philosophy and divination known as the I Ching. This one article that I found says that the I Ching has served for 1000s of years as a philosophical taxonomy of the universe, a guide to an ethical life, a manual for rulers and an oracle of one's personal future and the future of the state. This article also goes on to say that 500 years later, Confucius himself wrote ethical commentaries explicating each hexagram. There are 64 hexagrams in the I Ching and they have brief oracles and interpretations known as judgments attached to them, and Confucius himself wrote ethical commentaries explicating each hexagram, which are called the 10 wings. So this text, the I Ching, had profound implications for Confucius himself, obviously a very well known Chinese philosopher. Going back to the invitations from this card, this card is really asking us to to just consider ourselves as sovereign and sacred, that when we have this nature within those internal faculties that is wild and pure and innocent, it is what allows that prosperous energy to come forth. If our internal faculties, if our internal natures, you know, if we become cynical, if we become jaded, if we become vengeful or angry, anything like that, what we are doing is we are stripping that sovereign, sacred part of ourselves that is wild, that is unencumbered by the past, by the events that have happened to us. We always have the ability within us to tap into that wild and pure nature that no one can take from us. Now, sometimes tapping into that nature requires that we heal through traumas, wounds, and h[sic] and hardships, either through professional help or through engaging in it ourself. What I find about this card is that and how it relates back to the Six of Pentacles is, as I just said, no one can take that wild and pure nature from us. So, when we cultivate this wild and pure nature within, that is what we are allow... that is what we are allowing to give out- that we are creating the sense of reclaiming despite what else has happened, that prosperity can always be encouraged and gained and shifted from the internal to the.... to the external. All we have to do is reclaim it, tap into it within ourselves, and then offer that out, and when we do that, we are contributing to that generative cycle that is going to sustain and that's going to nourish us. Essentially, what I find so, so grounding within this card is that it's basically saying that as we foster goodness within our wild and pure selves, we are fostering goodness to come through for the wild and pure prosperity of the world.That this magical generative cycle is allowed to bloom even more. These two cards connect very, very strongly and very greatly to each other. That when we keep ourselves honest and we allow the natural world and the natural state of things, the true state of things, to shape, and to support, and encourage, and strengthen our internal faculties, we are therefore encouraging that back out into the external world. That truth and innocence can always be reclaimed. As I just said, our prosperous internal self can always be found. If that requires that we go through the healing of traumas and hardships and wounds, we can find something within us that is beautiful, that is bright, that is pure, that is wild and untapped, and we can use that to create prosperity in the external world. This card is also saying that the past should not dictate goodness in this moment. So again, we should seek to step away from being vindictive, regretful, vengeful. That's not to say that having honest emotions in the moment is is not needed. We need to obviously step away from the toxic narrative of love and light all the time. However, what it is saying is that if we have those emotions within, we need to heal those first and then, as we heal those, step into a space of fostering our wild and pure Self. This card is also saying that we cannot tap into our wild and pure self if we are clinging to elements from the past that we have no control over anymore. If we are simply holding on to elements of the past and we haven't let go and we haven't moved on, we are hindering that wild, impure nature and that fostering of goodness to create movement. We are reducing it from this wild, beautiful ocean into this stagnant, murky puddle going into the haunted and the hallowed aspects of this card. One of the Haunted elements is that this wild and pure nature, this beautiful fostering of innocence and goodness also needs, again, a sense of humbleness. There needs to be this rooting down into what is feasible, what is rational, what is realistic, not to say that we That wild and pure nature is what is the hallowed part of this card- that the wildness within us cannot be tamed. It shouldn't tap into imaginative, powerful, prosperous play, or cannot be taken, unless we allow that or give that. What is wild and pure within us can always be reclaimed. It can always be that we shouldn't cultivate our wild and pure goodness from an returned to and healed. It can be used as a way to give out to the external world. It... I find this card to be such a beautiful card, albeit the image is not that inclusive. This deck is imaginative from an imaginative or innocent place, but we need actually not the most inclusive deck. I will say- I do love this deck, but it just there is obviously with the Caucasian, to recognize that we don't know what we don't know. We need to Caucasian Fae on the image and the card is in relation to Chinese philosopher and a Chinese ruler. It's a little bit problematic, I would say. However, what I love about this be allowed to to learn, to grow, and to hold on to this wild and card is that the hallowed nature of this card is the root of this card. That the wild and pure part of us that is sacred and is pure nature, but also foster a sense of maturity as well. We sovereign, and it can always be returned to. It can always be reclaimed, and it can always be used to encourage prosperity and shouldn't let innocence and this wild and pure nature to lead us magic in the layers of the external world. It's just such a beautiful invitation to really step into this again and again, to create that which we want within our internal faculties into a space of ignorance, that if we are humbled by what we do and what we want within the layers of the physical world around us and beyond us. In incorporating these two cards not know, we allow that to continue the growth of for the month February, these cards are really asking, how does prosperity sit within you? How does prosperity and this knowledge, which is therefore to continue the growth and the wild, pure fostering of goodness sit within your internal faculties, within the brain, within the heart, and within the spirit, and then, how can you through the use of the Six of generative cycle of prosperity itself, that as we know more, we Pentacles, how can you offer that prosperity within, that goodness within, from that wild and pure place within, how can can do more, yet we still want to hold to that wild and pure you offer that out into the external world? You can also ask, how is your wild and pure nature within, encouraged, supported and nourished by the prosperity in part of ourself. We want to still hold to that sacred and your external world? Where can we cultivate gratitude and celebration for the here and now? So, for February, this card sovereign part of ourself that is untapped and no one can take is... these two cards are really about tapping into the generative cycle of prosperity, growth, generosity, and away from us, but we want ourselves to be influenced sovereignty in the external and in the internal. These cards are really asking us to... these cards are asking us to step into positively by the acquisition of knowledge, by the acquisition of a place of gratitude and celebration for the prosperity that is both within and without. That is within us that cultivates that wild and pure nature, but is also supported what we bring in, creates prosperity that we give out, and and nourished by the external prosperity. These cards are also asking how we can be part of change. There's so much to be that prosperity, and that growth, and that knowledge, all grateful for here in the physical world, but there's so much that needs to be done to encourage more prosperity, more growth, and more generosity for for more people we there needs of that generative cycle that we take in needs to be grounded and to be more seats at the table. These cards are asking, How can we be part of that process? How can we be part of that change? It's not going to be through one mere act, and it's not going to rooted into a place of humbleness and maturity. If we be through one person. This is a collective effort, and it takes time. It takes effort, and it takes also knowing going back to don't allow humbleness and maturity to have a role within boundaries. It also takes knowing where we need to step away from feeling like we constantly have to be of the wild and pure nature of ourself, we can stray into service, like we constantly have to be acting and doing on the part of change that it's okay to check out. It's okay to step ignorance. We can stray to arrogance, and that can again into a into a place of play, and in fact, our wild and pure, sovereign, prosperous space within our internal faculties needs that, demands that, so that we can replenish ourselves also hinder that prosperous, generative cycle to continue in from a pure, innocent place and then return to the causes, return to the process of change in a way that is empowered and all of the different layers and support and nourishment of the replenished. One small way that I am choosing to create change within my own here and now. little space is I was so moved by that podcast episode of the Vaquita so any purchases made with me, a portion of that will go towards vaquita conservation efforts. I encourage you to think of ways that you are part of the change, and that your beautiful light is creating prosperity in the external world and where we can collectively bring more to the table, bring And I think that is where I wish to end this today. If you liked this podcast episode or any of the podcast episodes that you more nourishment to the table, more seats to the table, because have listened to, please rate the podcast, review it, and subscribe to it. That helps me know what you are liking, what your thoughts on the podcast episode are, and it also helps that is the continued effort and the here and now, at least one other people find the podcast as well. 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