So, the Aquarius Tarot card. I’d been hearing bits and pieces about it, you know, how each zodiac sign has its corresponding card or energies in the Tarot. Being an Aquarius myself, or at least that’s what the calendar says, I got a little curious. I thought, alright, let’s see what this is all about. Is there some secret Aquarian wisdom locked away in these cards?
I didn’t just do a quick search and call it a day. No, I actually spent a fair bit of time looking into it. Went down a few internet rabbit holes, read some blogs, watched a couple of videos. It seemed like everyone was pointing towards The Star card as being the big one for Aquarius. You know the spiel: hope, inspiration, a bit of that otherworldly Aquarian vibe. All very dreamy.
So, I thought, okay, reading about it is one thing, but let me try to get a feel for it myself. I actually dug out an old Tarot deck I’d been given years ago, one of those things you get as a gift and it just sits on a shelf. I dusted it off, shuffled the cards – probably did it all wrong – and decided I’d try to do a little reading for myself, focusing on this Aquarius connection.
And guess what? After a bit of fumbling, I pulled The Star. Maybe it was coincidence, maybe it was the power of suggestion, who knows. I just sat there, looking at this card. It’s a nice enough image, I suppose. But honestly? I felt a bit… underwhelmed. It just didn’t click with me in a profound way.
Here’s the thing, and maybe this is just me. I’ve always been more of a hands-on, roll-up-your-sleeves kind of person. The Star talks about wishes and cosmic blessings. And that’s lovely, truly. But my experience has always been that if I want something, I’ve got to figure out how to build it, or make it happen. Hope is a good starting point, but it doesn’t quite get the job done on its own, does it?
It reminded me of this one time, years back, when I was trying to get this community project off the ground. We had this great idea, everyone was excited, full of hope – very Star card energy, you could say. But nothing was actually moving. We had meetings, we talked, we hoped. It wasn’t until a few of us, myself included, just started doing the boring, practical stuff – making calls, filling out forms, scrounging for materials – that things actually started to take shape. The ‘hope’ part was there, but it needed a serious dose of elbow grease.
So, when I look at The Star card now, or think about this “Aquarius Tarot card” business, I see it differently. It’s not some magic key for Aquarians. For me, it became a reminder that, yeah, we Aquarians might be a bit out there, thinking about the future and big ideas. But the real Aquarian magic, if you can call it that, is in trying to bring those ideas into reality, even if it’s messy and doesn’t follow the rules. It’s about being that slightly eccentric inventor tinkering away in their shed, driven by a vision, sure, but also by a lot of trial and error.
So, my whole “practice” with the Aquarius Tarot card was less about divination and more about self-reflection. It didn’t give me any mystical answers. Instead, it kind of just reinforced what I already felt: trust your own efforts, trust your own unique way of looking at things, and don’t wait for the stars to align – go out and try to nudge them yourself. That’s my take on it, anyway. It was an interesting little journey, that’s for sure.