In the cards this week: challenge and motion

Life is never dull when we want it to be

This week's Minoan Tarot cards:

Seven of Daggers: Time for a challenge! An inner one, that is. You have what it takes to get where you want to go. But are you willing to use your inner strength and conviction to persevere to that goal?

Two of Horns: Life has its ups and downs, but it all evens out in the end. Do your best to go with the flow, to balance yourself in the motions of life like a sailor on the rocking deck of a ship.

The Minoan Tarot deck is my creation, my art, published by REDFeather. Details here.

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Today’s post is a little later in the day than usual because I just spent a long weekend at Mystic South, an amazing pagan conference in Atlanta, Georgia (USA). If pagan gatherings are your cup of tea, I heartily recommend this one.

Let’s have a look at this week’s cards. We’ve got two Minor Arcana cards this week, suggesting that we’re not dealing with anything earth-shattering, just the usual trials and tribulations of daily life. Honestly, I’m happy to have the personal equivalent of a “slow news day” via the cards this week - life is way too interesting these days as it is.

The card from the top of the deck offers us suggestions for how to deal with whatever the week throws at us. This week, the deck offers us the Seven of Daggers.

When I was first learning Tarot, my teacher had me decide on a keyword of my own choosing for each card. Some of them have stuck with me over the years, while others have fallen away (or been replaced with a more apt word choice). This is one of the ones that stuck.

The keyword? Challenge.

If you’re new to the Minoan Tarot, it might help you to know that the Seven of Daggers is equivalent to the Seven of Wands in the Waite-Smith deck. All the Minors in the Minoan Tarot are color-coded so you don’t have to keep trying to remember which symbol goes with which element. The suit of Daggers is red for Fire.

Back to the card: This is one of those annoying ones that tell us, essentially, the issue is inside us and not actually out in the Big World, even though it might appear that way. Oh boy.

It can be annoying, but it’s also empowering. Because it means no one can stop us from doing the thing. This is a “believe in yourself” moment. The challenge is to find your inner strength, your perseverance, your willingness to really get in there and push until you get to where you want to go.

This card points to the challenge, but it also highlights the fact that each of us has what we need to meet the challenge, fight for what we want, and get it.

To me, that’s good news.

This week’s second card is drawn from the bottom of the deck and offers us the secret treasure to help us find joy in these interesting times.

Today, the deck handed me the Two of Horns, a card that has stalked these readings for a couple of years.

For a long time, I thought it was funny to have a stalker-card here. I guess it still is kind of amusing. But it also points to a thread that continues to weave through these weekly card draws: motion and change in our everyday lives.

I doubt that aspect of life is going to quiet down anytime soon.

So, like sailors on the deck of a ship, we need to learn how to balance and rebalance ourselves as the waves, large and small, sweep by.

In the companion book that goes with the Minoan Tarot, I wrote that this card encourages us to “join in the dance, skip along with the parade, go with the flow.” It’s not always easy, but if we can find that sliver of joy, that connection with our inner child, we can shift perspective and view life as more of a game or a dance and less of a fight or a slog.

And again, this card as well as the first one tell us that everything will work out in the end; all those changes will balance out, with gains to offset any losses.

I find that reassuring.

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About Laura Perry

I'm the founder and Temple Mom of Ariadne's Tribe, a worldwide inclusive Minoan spiritual tradition. I'm also an author, artist, and creator who works magic with words, paint, ink, music, textiles, and herbs. My spiritual practice includes spirit work and herbalism through the lens of lifelong animism. I write pagan / polytheist / magical non-fiction and fiction across several different subjects and genres. My book of modern Minoan myths is now available in paperback, keepsake hardcover edition, and ebook. My Minoan title in the Moon Books Pantheons series is available for pre-order and will be released on 26 August 2025. I’m also an avid herb and vegetable gardener and living history demonstrator (just in case you thought all I ever did was write books and make art).