Muse Tarot Meanings Queen of Voices

QUEEN OF VOICES

— Taste the wind, truthspeaker —

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THE QUEEN OF VOICES TAROT MESSAGE

KEYWORDS

an honest and astute leader, wisdom, ability to cut through the bullshit, clear vision and clear communication, wit, intelligent and wise advice, strategic thinking

CREATOR MUSING

When you speak your truth into the world, bravely, honestly, and without corruption, the right people will be there to hear you.

WORD PROMPT 

Winged truth

EXPERIENCING the Tarot QUEEN OF VOICES

From the east a wind picks up, and she feels the rustle in her hair, then in her feathers, and then her senses come alive. Her magick is a little more direct than some of the other queens, and for that, she is grateful. She unfolds her wings of wisdom and knowledge, and stretches… looking out over her domain. She is the Queen of Voices and she speaks with an intensity that is so very direct that it cuts right through to the heart of the matter. Like an ancient soothsayer, her words are clever and riddled with profound insight. And there, in the wake of a million fluttering things, she always seeks the path that is rooted in truth, integrity, honesty and gentle knowing. Her words are strategically chosen with great care, and she is always able to speak what is right in a way that is also understanding and conscientious. Today, she beings news about the reality of your situation, and asks you to be impartial and honest about the facts. Then she tilts her head back, flares her nostrils and seemingly tastes the wind, gathering experience, perception and proof, and she smiles, ready once more to share her light and her life with the air around her, dispelling clouded judgement and sending tiny gusts of wind to help those who need to be whisked back on track.


PATHWORKING VISUALIZATION

Imagine yourself growing wings like the Queen of Voices and stretch up to get a bird’s eye view of your path. Where to next, sweet creator?


CREATIVE PROMPT

The element of air This element is often called upon to bring logic and communication into a situation, and it can also be used to usher in change and movement, travel and fresh thinking. Take some time creating an expression of air energy to create the movement you are searching for. If you aren’t sure where to start, go outside and feel the wind and your breath.

• Oxygen recycles so often that we can breathe the same breath as the those who have walked before us. Whose breath do you want to breathe? And what do you want to learn from their energy?

Muse Tarot Meanings Knight of Voices

KNIGHT OF VOICES

— A quick and intelligent heroic energy —

KNIGHT OF VOICES (SWORDS) TAROT CARD MEANING

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THE KNIGHT OF VOICES TAROT MESSAGE

KEYWORDS

boldly speaking the truth, impulsive and swift energy, purpose-driven, fast and logical thinking, a drive to succeed, taking action, intelligence, impulsiveness, a need to focus and avoid any tendencies to be overbearing

CREATOR MUSING

Where lies the balance between being a total control freak and domineering your wishes, and allowing them to spring forth with faith and serendipity and the wings of the Universe? Do you push or pause? Do you breathe in the trust or breathe out the idea?

WORD PROMPT

• On the heels of the heroic
• A wing of truth
• Distant consequences

EXPERIENCING the Tarot KNIGHT OF VOICES

Wings crashing down into the air to lift her massive body… the Knight of Voices makes the impossible look easy. He is quick to rise, and to bring massive speed and momentum to her world. He uses air speed, coordinates… the logic and reason of the gravity below him, and he hoists himself into the air as easily as she would a feather. Or, at the very least he makes it look easy, because his skill and his majestic way of being in the world are graceful and swift. He swoops in to play the hero again, and he is a calculating and quick ally. His intelligence acts as a conscious guide… and when his mind is sure he has the right answer, he gallops – or flies ahead with the determination to skip over mountains and to the make the world a better place. He wields his purpose like a sword, and cuts through the nebulous clouds to get him where he wants to go. He has big goals to conquer. Sometimes this self-assuredness and quick decision taking can make others feel like they are not being heard or listened to, and his sharp logic can come off as domineering or controlling when he speaks his mind. He doesn’t need to show off his knack for figuring things out… he doesn’t need to flaunt his talents in order to use them. But he needs to use them boldly, without holding back. Sometimes others feel inferior or misunderstood around him, and that’s because he’s thinking 4 steps ahead of his own hooves… and sometimes he simply forgets to slow down long enough to communicate the plans so that they are well received.

“Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.” – Salvador Dali


PATHWORKING VISUALIZATION

The Knight of Voices is so fast and dominating that sometimes this energy is misunderstood and seen as overbearing or controlling. Take a ride on the back of this creature and learn how to use this energy to your benefit.


CREATIVE PROMPT

Choose one word that represents your conviction and your determination in your life. Create a mantra or a manifesto with the word. Or draw it. Leave it where you can see it and repeat it daily.

Muse Tarot Meanings Page of Voices

PAGE OF VOICES

— Curious, intelligent things —

PAGE OF VOICES (SWORDS) TAROT CARD MEANING

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THE PAGE OF VOICES TAROT MESSAGE

KEYWORDS

restless energy, a thirst for knowledge, learning, thinking, a student, needing to put action behind words

CREATOR MUSING

Do you learn better with your mind or with your heart, my love?

WORD PROMPT 

• Frenetic gifts
• Restless understanding of the stillness

EXPERIENCING the Tarot PAGE OF VOICES

How does it all work? Where are we headed? What is the nature of nature? With a million questions (and answers) she gobbles up all the things and the research and the books and the ideas… the lights and the bits and the bobs and the fascinations… this Page is a sponge of the world. Taking it all in. She watches and thinks. She intuits and intellects. She thinks her way into existence, and she is always learning new ways to move and to dream and be. Sometimes, she has so much in and on her mind that there is a frenetic energy around her. The storm comes. The wind whips. The electricity rises. And she doesn’t mean to create this restless sort of energy, she really doesn’t. She’s just so absorbed in her thoughts that she misses the fact that there is another mountain beside her that needs to sleep. She imagines herself as the oracle… knowing that people could come to her and that she could gift them insight based on the thousands of years of history and experience that she is learning. She could gift them light based on the logic and the science of it all. She could gift them a lightness of spirit based on play, and on her connection to the possible. And somehow, she thinks it all into being… using her reasoning and her mind and her curious nature. And somehow, she knows that they will come.


PATHWORKING VISUALIZATION

Take a journey up the mountain to meet the Page of Voices, a youthful energy with a magical fascination with truth and logic. Listen to her whispers and the advice that she offers.


CREATIVE PROMPT

Write a letter to yourself explaining the meaning of life, from this Page of Voices’ perspective.

Muse Tarot Meanings 10 of Voices

10 OF VOICES

— Disillusion, being stabbed in the back —

TEN OF VOICES (SWORDS) TAROT CARD MEANING

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THE 10 OF VOICES TAROT MESSAGE

KEYWORDS

painful truth or realization, deception or betrayal, despair, victimhood, seeing the world in a completely new way, harsh endings

CREATOR MUSING

Moments of blinding truth offer the most potential to heal and to grow- and to rise into a greater version of yourself. What version of you are you rising up to become? What version of your life are you seeking to meet?

WORD PROMPT

• Gashed simplicity
• 10 truthful voices prepare for battle

EXPERIENCING the Tarot 10 OF VOICES

The 10 of Voices knows that this will be painful. And she also knows that she will heal. She will heal and be stronger, and whole – she will be more loved and more aware of herself than she ever was before. She knows that any circumstances that she has created, or any back-stabbing illusions that she has missed along the way will dissipate and heal with this ending. She turns around and faces the swords as they do their work. And yes, it is as expected. Difficult. And yes, there are moments that she wants to give up and wallow. To despair. To allow herself to believe that she is the victim. And all the poor-me’s in the Universe come knocking at her door. She sits with this painful ending. She sits with any betrayal or sadness, anger or guilt… and then she breathes it away. She screams and kneads it out so that it doesn’t become a part of her muscle memory. She does not hold space for helplessness at her table, for she knows that the parts of her that heal and grow and stitch their way back together will become so luminescent that they will elevate her to the top of the mountain and give her the strength and fortitude to love even deeper. And with 1,2,3…. voices she breathes….. 4,5,6… voices she heals…. 7,8,9… voices she screams…. and with 10 voices in unison she flies.

“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” – Banksy


PATHWORKING VISUALIZATION

Notice how different this 10 of Swords is from the traditional version. Feel into her courage to see. Congratulate her for facing this head on. Image yourself being lifted up by 10 beautiful rays of truth. Allow them to penetrate your body and heal any wounds that you are carrying. You both heal, and become stronger. .


CREATIVE PROMPT

Find a music track and dance a 10 of Voices dance. Starting on the ground, imagine a conventional 10 of Swords pose. Lie down, and contemplate a moment in your life where you have persevered and pushed through a difficult time. Focus on what you learned from it and how it made you stronger. (This is not wallowing.) Begin to rise, remembering your strength. This is badass, full-bodied energy-building, so move around in any way that feels good to you. When you have embodied your power, imagine hanging difficult times out in the breeze, and allow the wind to whisk away any residual hurt.

Muse Tarot Meanings 9 of Voices

9 OF VOICES

— The illusions of nightmares or anxiety —

NINE OF VOICES (SWORDS) TAROT CARD MEANING

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THE 9 OF VOICES TAROT MESSAGE

KEYWORDS

nightmares, night terrors, illusions, anxiety, worry keeping you up at night, insomnia

CREATOR MUSING

Dreams help us to process reality, our worries, our day-to-day experiences. They are also portals to the liminal. They open up our awareness to our own infinite natures. Are you using your sleep to your benefit?

WORD PROMPT

• Screaming to sleep
• In the arms of the sandman
• Lullabies and voices

EXPERIENCING the Tarot 9 OF VOICES

Nights of nightmares. For so many moons, she has been sleeping in that liminal place of unrest… that place where worry and anxiety creep into the sides of her mind and keep her from the deep rest she so desires. Her eyes close quickly, effortlessly, as the body says yes to rest… but the mind – oh her mind – it is a canyon of memories to retrieve and process, and her pillow never seems to have enough space to hold it all. Her lack of quiet stillness creeps into her waking hours and into her sleep, so she remains unrefreshed. She relaxes, but does not quiet the mind. Even her memory seems to be fading now, into the void along with her nightmares. And the Muse smiles down on her from above, and reminds her that her nightmares are only illusions of a past unprocessed or of a future that isn’t real, and that in the present… in the present she is safe… held… and loved. Loved. And the small creature softens, realizing that underneath it all, the answer was and always has been to love. Even when it seems too simple. Too trite. With compassion and calming energy, the Muse coos down to the little soul as she begins to fall asleep, and she blankets her mind with the distant hopes and dreams of the sandman. She slows her breathing with the mindful rhythms of her circadian clock. And the Muse protects her as she sleeps. It’s time to let healing sleep take over.


PATHWORKING VISUALIZATION

Take a walk in the dreamland of the Muse and ask this weaver of sweet dreams what you can learn from your nightmares or unsettled thoughts. What wisdom does she have for you today?


CREATIVE PROMPT

Salvador Dali called the states between awake and asleep ‘“the slumber with a key” and he used it a source of inspiration and creativity. Right when you fall asleep, you likely experience ‘hypnagogic hallucinations.” Some people see faces, other hear voices, some people feel the sensation of floating on waves. What do you experience when you fall asleep? What are the sensations? And how can you use these as keys to your creative inspiration?

Muse Tarot Meanings 8 of Voices

8 OF VOICES

— The powering or disempowering effect of belief  —

EIGHT OF VOICES (SWORDS) TAROT CARD MEANING

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THE 8 OF VOICES TAROT MESSAGE

KEYWORDS

feeling stuck, bound, believing you have no choices, a self-tethering, no way out, unleashing your ties, seeing truth

CREATOR MUSING

Are you stuck in the weeds of your own creation? Caught in the minutiae, assuming you have no choice? See things from a higher place – a longer timeline – a better mindset, and notice that you can choose to move any time you want.

WORD PROMPT

• The chains of security
• The bindings that lie
• Clasping at my scream

EXPERIENCING the Tarot 8 OF VOICES

She found herself in a dark place… the walls seemed to cave in and the lights were blotted out from the sky. She felt around in the dark. It was cold, and she was sure she was lost. Stuck in one spot with no way to move She always had the worst luck. Always. And her heart began to beat faster as she imagined her prison. She must be underground somewhere. A cave. A horrible place. She felt her blood rise and she was getting thirsty. So thirsty for serenity. Freedom. For those summer days that lasted forever… with their carefree giggles and easy smiles. Thirst. She was thirsty! There must be water here somewhere to drink… but she simply couldn’t see where it was. “I can’t,” she said out loud, and as she said it, it felt like a strap clasped at her wrist. She tripped, trying to escape. “I can’t,” she called out again, and another rope anchored onto her arm. She began to give up, “I can’t, I can’t, I can’t…” and with every subsequent sob, cry and scream the ties multiplied. She looked up, and begged for help from the Universe. as she was sure she couldn’t do this on her own. The Universe replied with the quietest whisper, “You’re not stuck. Look around you.” She slowed her breathing, and her blindfold fell away. She opened her eyes, and watched the sun peek over the mountain behind her, and she remembered that she had been outside all along. Free to leave. Free to change. Oh, what suffering we create, when we allow hopelessness to manifest in our hearts.


PATHWORKING VISUALIZATION

Imagine yourself in the dark, watching the sun peek over the horizon. As soon as it rises, you see the different paths of your many options that lie ahead. Notice the ones you assumed were not available to you, but are. Notice that you are free to leave at any time.


CREATIVE PROMPT

• Draw expanding spirals to unstick what’s stuck.
• Think about how your inner voice and the words you speak to yourself bind your potential or free your mind. Notice how your thoughts either help or hinder your feelings, and open or close possibilities for the future. Notice any recurring negative phrases or words that you tend to use, and find their opposites. (i.e.: change lazy to motivated.) Use your new words in a creation.

“The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Muse Tarot Meanings 7 of Voices

7 OF VOICES

— Stay clear of trickery, thievery or dishonesty —

SEVEN OF VOICES (SWORDS) TAROT CARD MEANING

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KEYWORDS

deception, taking only what you need, being honest and aligned, carefully tuning in to see what’s really going on in a situation, seeing past illusion and deceit, con-artists and copycats

CREATOR MUSING

While the path from deception into clarity can be one filled with disappointment, it can also be dripping with opportunities to create a better, more honest and aligned bridge. When you create from YOUR voice… your inner-musings, and when you walk your bridge of truth… what do you express? Make the idea, and the path yours.

WORD PROMPT

• Lying in the aftermath of illusion
• Stealing voices
• The colour of my true bridge

EXPERIENCING the Tarot 7 OF VOICES

Oh, how lovely it all looks! How serene the path. Everything in perfect order. Oh, how lovely it all looks! How serene the bridge, with everything in perfect order. It leads to perfectly shiny things, so she stays focused on the green meadows that lie ahead. They promised her perfection, you see. She looks up, suddenly noticing the Muse looming ahead, with her intense gaze . . . peaceful yet insistent. And something feels off. A gut instinct. Something that she can’t quite put her finger on . . . something made of shadows, happening in the reflections. Her inner senses are tingling with the most distant of alarm bells, and she knows she must trust her instincts on this one. As you cross your own bridge of illusion, this Muse warns you to be on the lookout for deceit, theft, or the misalignment of values. Take only what you need, trusting your own integrity to guide you. The security of your moral compass will grant you passage, because only in truth can this doorway of sunshine be crossed into.

“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.” – Pablo Picasso


PATHWORKING VISUALIZATION

Walk this bridge towards the Muse. She will help you to share truth that lies behind the masks. Walk towards her, stopping once in a while to peer into the waters, where the reflections will help you to glean fragments of honesty, Walk towards her, with hope and love… to the freedom and light that pour from her meadows of integrity, honesty and truth.


CREATIVE PROMPT

Make a mask out of energy. Or paper. Or clay. What part of your world is still holding fragments of illusion, and hiding behind the smiles of other feelings? Create your mask of illusion so that you can see it. And so that you can, literally, remove it.

Muse Tarot Meanings 6 of Voices

6 OF VOICES

— a helping hand during a difficult period of transition —

SIX OF VOICES (SWORDS) TAROT CARD MEANING

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THE 6 OF VOICES TAROT MESSAGE

KEYWORDS

help coming from unexpected places, a realignment, transitions, phases, quiet movement, successful expansion after a period of difficulty, crossing thresholds, change

CREATOR MUSING

How could you realign your life so that it better suits you, today? What transitory beauty will arise from the uncertainty of crossing this threshold?

WORD PROMPT

• Distance covered in the hands of the Muse 
• The missing transitions

EXPERIENCING the Tarot 6 OF VOICES

The 6 of Voices is a Muse of difficult transitions, and she lends a helping hand to those who seek solace and passage to new states of being, living and loving. Sometimes, the way across the river is unclear and muddy. In these times, the Muse asks us to be open to receiving help from wonderfully unexpected places. She is everywhere. And her forms are often the most unlikely and unexpected. Trust serendipity. Look for small miracles. And keep seeking the bright waters of tomorrow’s horizon. These things will help you cross, and the profound shifting that occurs as a result of this transit is already beginning to root and stir inside your soul. You are already on your way. Open your heart to her gentle aid.


PATHWORKING VISUALIZATION

Imagine yourself on a vessel, crossing a beautiful river. Behind you are yesterday’s woes. In front of you are the warm healing waters of life itself.


CREATIVE PROMPT

What does the horizon of your soul look like? How does it feel? What color is it? How would you recognize it? Write it. Paint it. Imagine it. Welcome it.

Muse Tarot Meanings 5 of Voices

5 OF VOICES

— feelings of defeat —

FIVE OF VOICES (SWORDS) TAROT CARD MEANING

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THE 5 OF VOICES TAROT MESSAGE

KEYWORDS

fighting, winning at all costs, a time to extend an olive branch, seeing what’s really important, failure, loss, being hurt, bullying

CREATOR MUSING

Sometimes when we lose, we win. And sometimes when we win, we lose. Define what winning means to you… not just the end goal but also define how you will feel, and how others around you feel. And make some boundaries around what you will do (or not do) in order to get there.

EXPERIENCING the Tarot 5 OF VOICES

The 5 of Voices hears loveless winning sounding through the air:
1) I, alone, am going to win
2) I am the only one who really deserves this
3) It doesn’t matter who gets in my way
4) Nothing – and no one – will stop me. Get out of my way
5) I don’t care what it takes. All I see is the prize
The Muse of the 5 of Voices looks down, reflecting back how often we forget to think about the things that are the most important to us when we strive to win. Sometimes, we forget about how we should act, and we forgo our better interests – our integrity, our balance, our light – in order to come out on top. The Muse watches those who do things that they aren’t proud of, choosing tiny victories over their own evolution. She knows that it can feel as if our reason for existing is to climb a ladder that goes… now wait… where does it really go? With laser precision, she illuminates the solitude, frustration, anger or sadness that can keep us in the state of needing to win and needing to be right. She illuminates any ‘not enoughness’ that fuels our desire to feel successful, beautiful, accepted… and at the top of our game. She reveals the scarcity that keeps us wanting to be ‘better than’ – and she offers a chance to step off the hamster wheel and to look at your surroundings in a new light. ‘What costs are you paying to win? And what fallout is associated with those costs?’ And for those who have lost, or who have felt any injustice, shame or inadequacy around an unrequited desire to triumph, she asks you to remember that everything you can glean from your loss will set you up for better opportunities in the future. We succeed when we decide we can improve, and she asks you to remain mindful of the things that really matter: connection, trust, truth, honesty, integrity… being able to forgive and being compassionate… helping those who are part of your team and always striving to be the very best version of yourself. This is how we win… at life.


PATHWORKING VISUALIZATION

Imagine yourself meditating in front of the 5 of Voices. When do you lose by winning? And when do you win by losing? She will open her eyes and reveal her stories to you.


CREATIVE PROMPT

Write a list to celebrate your wins. And another list to celebrate your losses… where do they connect? In those moments of connection, the keys to improvement and understanding live hiding in plain sight.

Muse Tarot Meanings 4 of Voices

4 OF VOICES

— A time for deep rest and healing —

FOUR OF VOICES (SWORDS) TAROT CARD MEANING

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THE 4 OF VOICES TAROT MESSAGE

KEYWORDS

sleep, rest and renewal, the edge of burnout, needing to slow down, taking the time you need, self-love and compassion, retreat

CREATOR MUSING

How are you replacing your energy, so that you can keep creating your path of starlight?

WORD PROMPTS

• Starlight massage
• Petals that sleep

EXPERIENCING the Tarot 4 OF VOICES

The Muse of deep rest and healing –The 4 of Voices – welcomes you to her starlight nebula of rebirth and renewal, and she offers you a time away so that you can escape the wheel of chaos and busy-ness that so quickly becomes the pattern. She shifts the mix of stars and rose petals, and spins you the sweetest of waters. She brews an elixir made for your wounds, both energetic and physical… and emotional and spiritual. She invites you to walk slowly across the bridge, and to fall into the deepest of rests with her. Sleep, sweet creator love. You must rest for your health. Sleep, for this is where all the energy to create your path will be found. And without this rest, you will miss a key resource that you need to complete your mission.


PATHWORKING VISUALIZATION

Imagine walking out on the ledge of this nebula bath. What restorative energy does it promise? Does the Muse have any restorative ideas for you? Dive into her healing waters and listen for her wisdom to flow.


CREATIVE PROMPT

A pretty bath. Some petals. Some pretty soaps. Yummy oils. Maybe a nice fluffy towel. Take a moment to not only draw yourself a beautiful bath, but also record the way it looks. A photo. A sketch. A memory to retain the healing. Then join your resting Spirit in the warm bubbling waters of this Muse of regeneration. { And YES. This is going to take some time and a few hours away from it all. And YES. Double yes. This is really needed, sweet busy little bee. The harder it is to imagine, the more you need this pause. }