Donnaleigh's Tarot

Last month I had a conversation with Lizzy Star,International Medium, about the Akashic Records. The Akashic Records supposedly contain every bit of information about the story of our life: our past, our present, and our future. When viewing it, we can see where we’ve been and where we’re going. Some say these records are viewed when we pass to the Other Side. Others say we can view them now in a deep meditation. Many have said that the pages are large; each individual's Akashic book is thick and on a pedestal in a marble hall, and often people see the pictures in the book as moving illustrations, much like a movie. Scenes are seen from above the pages as if we are watching ourselves,and we can watch ourselves interact with others as we view the various pages,each representing different times in our lives. While viewing, we can feel what others feel.

There has been a recent surge in people claiming to read the Akashic Records as a way to access psychic information  for others. Both Lizzy and I had been trained to read the Akashic Records, but neither of us were taught that it was possible (nor proper) to do this for someone else. We each felt that our own records could be read, but to read another’s Akashic records seems to be spying into a sacred place that others are not allow to voyeur.

I was thinking about this again last night and decided to just outright ask Tarot to receive a more neutral response than one from my own musing.

I asked:

“What can you tell me about viewing someone else’s Akashic Records?"

 I used the Legacy of the Divine Collector’s Edition Tarot, created by Ciro Marchetti. The following cards were randomly drawn:

SITUATION: 8 of Swords, 6 of Swords

CHALLENGE: Queen of Wands reversed, World reversed

ADVICE: 3 of Swords reversed, Sun

OUTCOME: 10 of Cups reversed, 2 of Swords reversed

 THE SHORT ANSWER:

Convincing oneself that we are visiting someone else’s Akashic records is a form of psychic self-sabotage, even though it is a journey of the mind. It may  be away to make us feel we are overcoming a psychic block, but there are restrictions against this. Another’s Akashic records are not offered to us, nor will we reach an outcome of wholeness or completion, and to see them would be a form of taboo or personal betrayal. It is merely an idealization, an impossible dream. We are asked to look at more positive and optimistic ways of accessing psychic information.

THE LONG ANSWER:

SITUATION:

8 of Swords and 6 of Swords are both cards of thought and how we think (swords). One would assume that thought allows us to tap into psychic information, but Swords are thoughts of logic, not intuition (water and wands). There is an organized way of thinking with swords. The 8 of Swords is my traditional card of self-sabotage. The  woman in this deck is in a spider web, trapped, and she may even feel like she has “writer’s block,” (or perhaps "psychic block") as the swords are each pointing  at her so she cannot move past these swords (thoughts). However, as we know, when a bug wriggles in a web, he only binds himself more tightly to the sticky fiber. So although she thinks she is rescuing herself from a block by writhing or using this system, she is only sabotaging a potential victory. This 8 of Swords is also a card of restrictions, and this may indicate literal restrictions against viewing  another’s Akashic Records.

Paul Quinn (Tarot for Life) suggests the 8 of Swords is being “hemmed in, resisting or accepting limitations or restraints, and ignorance over our own confinement or holding narrow views.” Perhaps this situation of reading another’s records is "not all that we think it is.”

The 6 of Swords is a journey card, and the Swords are thoughts, so this is certainly a “journey of the mind.” Mary K Greer mentions of the 8 of Swords, that it is “Scientific thinking; transferring ideas, data and materials.” (Tarot for Your Self). So it does appear Tarot is giving us a nod in the right direction,as we are talking about a journey of thought that is meant to transfer data. But there’s that pesky 8 of Swords competing with this card, and those are concerns about self-sabotage.

CHALLENGE:

Queen of Wands reversed, World reversed.The challenge or road blocks to reading another’s Akashic records are mentioned here. The Queen of Wands can be predatory and being reversed, she lacks personal growth. She can be very unpredictable, like uncontained fire. Wands are creative fire, and reversed, we see a decrease in creative energies and an increase in an out-of-control impulse.

The World reversed is a powerful voice in this challenge position, as it is of the Major Arcana cards.This card reversed can suggest road blocks to self-actualization, and limiting ourselves from maximizing our full potential. The circle around the individual in this card suggests a boundary when it reverses, and we have a delay in success.This ring around the card (traditionally seen as a wreath in the Rider Waite Smith deck) may serve as a protective bubble of light around the individual, and perhaps we are breaching privacy if we try to break through this sacred space.

ADVICE:

3 of Swords reversed, Sun.  The 3 of Swords is the heartbreak card. We are advised to recognize that something is happening against the will of someone or something. Often there is a sense of alienation or hurt with this card, and weare asked to notice this. This card reversed is traditionally the card of war,and we are advised to recognize that we may be at war with the natural order of something.

Janina Renee says in her book, “Tarot:  Your Everyday Guide,” that the 3 of Swords reversed advises us to “let go of some ego needs.” Perhaps somehow saying we access a sacred place such as The Akashic Records fills an ego need, rather than saying it “comes from within”?

What struggles against this card is The Sun card, one of optimism. This advises letting ourlight shine. This card seems to point us toward an optimistic way of accessing information, something that is out in the open, out in the light. Interestingly, the man in this card does appear to be in the actual Hall of Records, where the Akashic Records allegedly lie. The Sun is a card of clarity and understanding, of wisdom and of things coming out into the light of day.  It is a card of altruism and achievement, and so tarot is clearly asking us to use the Akashic records in apositive way. Because the Sun card shows here, it advises us to recognize that these records are information we can  be optimistic about.  We aren’t being told not to access them, but because the balancing advice card is the 3 of Swords reversed, we are asked to recognize that although the  Akashic  records are available, we are at war with the natural order of things and to respect boundaries (seen in the reversed World card above as our challenge).

The Sun does advise we promote the well-being of others, and it can urge us to use our own inner light to radiate inner knowing and joy. It asks us to know there is a bright way to achieve our goal of communicating with others, and it might even have indicated that the Akashic Records could have been accessed, had the outcome cards that followed not been so deflating. So while this Sun does point to something bright and positive, it does not appear to be pointing directly to the Akashic records as a successful outcome, but an alternative use does seem suggested (perhaps using it for ourself, like the man in this picture appears to be...by himself).

OUTCOME:

10 of Cups reversed, 2 of Swords reversed.  The 10 of Cups reversed is much like the World reversed. It is a completion that just can’t happen, a happy ending that is just out of our reach. Being a reversed 10, the  cycle just can’t complete. This is often a card of family  values, and emotional fulfillment, but reverse it like this card and we see a lack of values and alack of fulfillment. Interestingly, Mary K Greer refers to this card (when upright) as “psychic wholeness.” Reverse it, though, and it is not whole, not complete, and something is disrupted. It is the separation of a fulfilling relationship, this time with connecting with the Akashic records.

Paul Quinn, in his book, Tarot  for Life, suggests that the 10 of Cups reversed is “dashed hopes,” and “distrusting Utopian-appearing situations.”

The 2 of Swords reversed in this deck shows someone (much like a Page), offering two swords (or ideas o rthoughts or choices) on a pillow. However, when reversed like this one, he takes them back and does not offer us either. Instead, he witholds choices or ideas.  The Two of Swords reversed can also mean “treachery or betrayal,” and “a disturbance,” as well as “breaking the peace.” (Mary K Greer). Accessing someone else’s Akashic records does appear to be something of a forbidden nature,or trying to access something thatis not meant to be offered us, much like peeking in someone’s window at night against their knowledge like a Peeping Tom.

Paul Quinn says the 2 of Swords reversed reveals “poor judgment, irrationality, muddy thinking, integrity lapse, and poor communication. ‘Nuff said.

I asked Tarot last of all,

 “What if an individual gives us permission strictly to access their own Akashic Records (because they feel they cannot) and do not ask us to access a third party person’s records?”

I encourage you to ask your own deck and see what it advises you. This may depend on personal ability or other reasons that make this answer unique to you. And if you see something you don't understand, ask tarot, "Why?"

Here’s wishing you a tarot-filled week!

Donnaleigh

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