In the cards this week: patience and self-control

Always helpful traits, especially now

This week's Minoan tarot cards:

Lady of Horns: Patience, deliberation, and self-control will net you better results than marching in with a get-it-done attitude. Handle situations with delicacy and carefully examine all angles before taking your time to make a decision.

Ace of Labryses: Your strength is your ability to puzzle out the best solution, allowing space for new ideas as well as old. Once you've found the best answer, lean into your mental fortitude to stick with it, even if others resist.

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The Lady of Horns has popped up again after we just saw her two weeks ago. I guess we’re living in times that try one’s patience!

This card is a reminder to take your time to fully examine every angle of a situation; don’t allow yourself to be pressured into rushing. That can be tricky in our fast-fast-busy-busy modern world. But standing firm and grounded (the Lady of Horns is an Earth suit card, after all) and deliberately taking your time can lead to better outcomes than rushing in. This requires some self-control and some guts (chutzpah, if you will).

The flip side of this card’s meaning — not the reversed meaning, but the other main aspect of the upright meaning — is a reminder to approach situations and people with caution and delicacy. Again with the self-control, especially if your first impulse is to plow in and force a resolution to the situation.

For me, all of the above often requires taking a breath (literally and/or figuratively) and remembering that the important thing is the final outcome, the desired end result. And if getting there means forcing myself to take it slow and careful, then so be it. My inner five-year-old can bitch about it later. 😆

This week’s second card, the Ace of Labryses, is a reminder that mental clarity and mental fortitude will go a long way toward figuring out those solutions that the Lady of Horns wants you to be so patient with.

The second card in my readings these days is supposed to give us the secret to finding a little joy in these Interesting Times. So how the heck does today’s second card point to joy?

I can see two possibilities. The first is that, as a foundational card in the Air suit, the Ace of Labryses reminds us to analyze situations rationally, leaving our emotions out of it.

Emotions are running high these days; that’s totally understandable. But they can cloud our judgment, leading to decisions we’ll regret later.

Stepping back from those emotions and just looking at the facts of the matter can bring clarity, especially if you allow yourself to be open to new and imaginative ideas that your emotional self might have rejected.

The second way in which this card might point to joy is the pure pleasure of puzzling out a solution, just as a mental challenge, without any emotional baggage attached.

Can you distance yourself from the situation enough to see it simply as a puzzle to be solved? Then you can allow your mental powers to take over, considering all the possibilities, both old and new, for resolving the situation, almost like a game (remember games? they’re fun!).

Obviously, life is a serious endeavor (no one gets out alive!). But sometimes, it can be helpful to allow a different point of view, one that’s even a little playful.

Combine that with patience (with yourself and others) and the guts to stick with that glorious solution once you finally find it, and you’ve got a winner!

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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 Minoan title in the Moon Books Pantheons series is now available for pre-order and will be released on 26 August 2025. While that process percolates along, I’m finishing up the illustrations for a book of modern Minoan myths which will be released on 21 June 2025. I’m also an avid herb and vegetable gardener and living history demonstrator.