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HEALTH AND WEALTH
One of the latest Covid variants knocked me on my ass for over a week. I can't hold down a job in this situation. I have a compromised immune system due to celiac disease. In other words, gluten overwhelms my immune system, causing atrial fibrillation. My heart goes haywire if I eat even a tiny bit of a protein that is in just about every product on supermarket shelves. Should I get a Covid shot? Let me see. I nearly had a heart attack from a shot of Novocaine. I threw up eleven times in the afternoon at work one day after taking a "multi-vitamin for men." I cried harder after using Johnson and Johnson's "no more tears" shampoo than I ever have before or since. I have passed out too many times from eating foods that are supposed to be good for everyone in the world.
Why can't we have a universal health care system, so that we can all get immediate testing for Covid? I have been tested once for Covid, only because my daughter is a nurse and could test me in her position at a nursing home. I have since had similar symptoms six times. Why can't we have a universal health care system so the government can do contact-tracing and maintain a data base that enables us to contain the disease instead of allowing new variants to keep surfacing? In America, the richest country in the world? America has four percent of the world's population but twenty-five percent of the world's Covid cases. More people go bankrupt from our private health insurance industry than for any other reason in the U.S. (1). If we don't create an effective universal health care system like every other developed nation, we will never limit or stop the variants of this pandemic. Oh, wait, let me see. We have to give trillions of dollars to the military and huge tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy. Let's not forget the twenty billion subsidy to the fossil fuel industry. That's the American way.
What does it really mean to be wealthy? On one level, for me at least, it means being healthy enough to live fully as a human being. On another level, it means being healthy enough to touch the dimensions of Universal Consciousness and maintain harmony within myself and for others. I can't be a productive spiritual being or citizen if I am too sick to do anything but sleep and toss and turn in bed.
Forgive me if I don't feel well enough to go into the usual detail. Today, we are going to focus on the kind of wealth that affects us all on the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels.
We are creating a living image, an artificial elemental, of the Ten of Pentacles with the Tarot Pentagram Spread. First, perform the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram and the Supreme Invoking Ritual of the Pentagram. (See previous post.) Make sure to lay the cards down on your altar in the direction of the element of Earth: north. In other words, place all the cards in the pentagram with the tops facing north on your altar.
Place the Ten of Pentacles in the middle of the pentagram, saying, "The Ten of Pentacles, Lord (or Lady) of Wealth, Mercury in Virgo," and tap the card.
Since Earth is a passive element, use the Passive Invoking Spirit Pentagram while laying down the Aces, the foundation cards, starting in the lower left corner of the pentagram, moving to the upper right corner and continuing from there. After you have placed all of the cards, tap each card in the direction of the Passive Invoking Spirit Pentagram, making sure to tap the one in the lower left corner to complete the pentagram. Then lay down the modifiers, The Hermit and The Magician, on the Ace of Pentacles in the lower right hand corner of the pentagram.
As you lay down The Hermit on the Ace of Pentacles, say while tapping the card, "The Hermit, Virgo."
Then lay down The Magician and say while tapping the card, "The Magician, Mercury."
Then draw the Passive Invoking Spirit Pentagram and the spirit wheel in the air in brilliant white above the Ten of Pentacles on the altar, charging the pentagram and the spirit wheel in the usual way with the Sign of the Enterer.
After that, draw an Invoking Pentagram for Earth directly over the Invoking Spirit Pentagram, charging the pentagram and the symbol of Taurus in the usual way. At that point, imagine the symbol of the bull's head turning into the living image of the magician in the Ten of Pentacles. Then imagine the magician moving a few feet north of your altar and coming alive as a full-length figure. As you visualize the living image of the Tarot card, imagine black, rayed with yellow, descending on the figure, which is the appropriate ray of color, based on the list of symbolic correspondences related to the Tree of Life, and imagine that the appropriate elementals, in this case gnomes, as points of light, flow from the Archangel Auriel and fill the living image while at the same time the bright points of the Earth element flow from your aura and fill the living image as well.
Say, "I name you Lord of Wealth," which is the alternate title of the card.
Say, "From the astral light, help me see the magic and abundance in the world and provide me with wealth on every level so that I may live abundantly and live for the highest possible good," in this case emphasizing the main spiritual principles revealed in the card. Feel free to insert your own interpretation of the card.
Say, "Perform this task until ______ (providing a date), then return to the element of Earth, doing no harm."
End by saying, "So mote it be!" Imagine for a few minutes the living image of the Ten of Pentacles filling you with abundance and the ability to see the abundance and magic in the world before you finish the ritual.
You might unexpectedly feel like you are seeing the magic in the world and living more abundantly. Even if that doesn't happen, just know that the living image is there, helping you.
Always finish with the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram!
1) https://www.citizen.org/article/medicare-for-all-prevents-medical-bankruptcies/#:~:text=Each%20year%2C%20nearly%20650%2C000%20people,percent%20of%20all%20personal%20bankruptcies.
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