By Lalia Wilson
Both Tarot and Astrology can give us guidance for healthy and vibrant relationships, as can the field of psychology. Let’s start with serendipitous, what does it mean exactly? It comes from the word serendipity, a chance fortuitous experience, so serendipity is something occurring or discovered by chance in a happy or beneficial way. Similar words are “lucky,” “unexpected,” and “unforeseen.”
Let’s contrast serendipitous with “something I desperately need.” If you are coming from a personal state of needing something to survive, you are not in the vibrational space to have a serendipitous relationship. So, from the field of psychology, do your personal work first. When you are in a place of personal wholeness many more positive opportunities of all kinds are available.
While the word “relationship” probably first calls to mind romantic relationships, many different relationships can confer benefits to a person: the right teacher/guru/boss. The good neighbor. Close siblings or cousins. Similarly, we can have emotional relationships as shown by the water signs (Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces) and planets (the Moon, Mars/Pluto, and Jupiter/Neptune) and by the suit of Cups. Most likely you were thinking of love, emotions, and sentiment when you saw our issue’s theme of creating relationships. We will focus there, but quickly, the Fire signs, planets, and the suit of Wands are about inspiration and motivation. The Earth signs, planets, and the suit of Pentacles are about health and wealth and physical structures. The Air signs, planets, and the suit of Swords are associated with mental activity. You could have a serendipitous relationship of being co-researchers on infectious diseases (Air), or building homes (Earth), or creating music (Fire).
Back to romance, the Water signs and the suit of Cups have to do with emotions, and thus, romance. Creativity is due to the cardinal signs (one for each element, the water cardinal sign is Cancer). Maintaining is due to fixed signs (each element has one fixed sign, the water fixed sign is Scorpio). Though not our current discussion, the mutable (also called “common”) signs have to do with disseminating or dissolving. The mutable water sign is Pisces. Pisces is the artist who communicates a depth of feelings in poetry, fiction, cinema, music or other artistic forms, but Pisces can also be the end of the relationship road through substance abuse, mental illness, or promiscuity.
Serendipity in astrology is usually due to the planets Jupiter and Uranus, but Venus, the planet of love, can be part of an immediate positive connection with another person. We can translate these directly to the tarot as The Wheel of Fortune, The Fool, and The Empress. Creating something is related to the Wands, but also all four Knights, as each is creating reality in his own suit. Maintaining something is the energy of the tarot Queens. Here, again, each Queen has her specialty, with the Queen of Cups taking her place as the “Queen” of relationships. Another tarot choice might just be using one card such as the Two of Cups, or The Lovers, or the Ace of Cups.
Would you like to create and maintain a serendipitous relationship? Here is a technique that some would call Magick, but I will call keeping your subconscious mind focused on what you want. You can create an altar, or an imageboard, or a work of art using images from these cards. Place the cards or work of art somewhere you will see it every day. From an astrological point of view, initiate this process during the waxing Moon (after the New Moon and before the Full Moon), on a Friday (ruled by Venus, the planet of love). Good dates in the next few months are: August 21 or 28, September 18 or 25, and October 23 or 30. I especially like August 21st and September 18th because the Moon is in Libra, the sign of partnership.
Here are three card images, out of many possibilities, that you could use: the Two of Cups, the Ace of Cups and The Lovers. These are all from Robin Scott’s Urban Tarot (2019, U.S. Games Systems, Inc.) available as cards and as an app.
You can use any deck and any specific cards that appeal to you. I recommend fewer cards, three or less, to avoid too many possibilities.
Let us know your results!