Ben Hur- Movement Forward
- Meg
- Jan 11, 2022
- 3 min read
Decks used: Labyrinth Tarot by Minerva Siegel and the Movie Tarot by Diana McMahon Collis
Research credit IMDB
Okay so today we’re going to highlight one of my favorite silent movies I’ve seen to date, and that is Ben Hur, A Tale of Christ. Now first and foremost, I’d like to say that it is not my intention to make this religious in message or tone in any way shape, or form. That is how the title is listed on IMDB and this is how I am going to present it if only to give fair attribution. If you are so against this, please find another post for yourself, I have quite a few so you’re not spoiled for choice. Here we go.
So the story of Ben Hur starts us off with a young Jewish prince being wrongly accused by his best friend of a crime he didn’t commit. As the story moves on, the prince’s family is imprisoned, and the prince takes on the search for his family and the mission to avenge the wrongdoing his friend did to him. This movie was released in 1925 and starred Ramon Novarro as the lead character.
Cards
Significators
9 of wands: endurance, perseverance, standing in the face of exhaustion and the storm
The Chariot: having the energy and will to drive your passion forward
What is helping me endure in spite of my exhaustion?
8 of cups: moving on from disappointing situations, finding a brighter horizon and a new field to water
10 of poles: responsibilities, burdens, carrying a heavy weight on your shoulders, putting in the work now to reap the benefits later
What is inspiring me to keep driving my energy and power forward?
Ace of Cups: finding new opportunities to grow emotionally and spiritually
Knight of poles: taking action on your passions and inspirations, fiery, burning bright
Draw some cards to clarify the significators and the two questions. How can I safely and openly use this information to my best advantage?
Justice: balance, answering for past behaviors
King of Wands: in authority over your passions and inspirations and able to inspire the passion in others
6 of swords: transition, movement, you’re not going this journey alone
Ace of pots (cups): a new opportunity begins for you to grow emotionally and spiritually
5 of pots (cups): disappointments, loss, pain, you can still move on if you just lookup.
3 of junk (pentacles): teamwork makes the dream work, balancing ideas and energies of the novices and those with experience.
Okay so what’s nice about this reading for me is that I get to tailor the reading around specific cards, the signifiers, and for me, Ben Hur is about driving passions forward in spite of things looking bleak and exhausting. I pulled the 9 of wands and The Chariot to represent this idea. To start off the reading, what I wanted to find out first off is what is helping us endure the hard times (and there have been plenty in our space recently) is knowing that the hard times can be moved on from. There are brighter horizons and new pastures to be watered and found, so it’s time to leave the disappointments behind. Doing this work comes with a lot of responsibilities, but we will see the payoff of the work we’re doing, and especially important is the fact that we’ll be able to take the opportunity to grow spiritually and emotionally but most importantly, we’ll be able to take inspired action on what drives us forward.
To provide clarity for these ideas for ourselves, we need to know that we are transitioning and moving away from negative energies. These changes may be unsettling to us, but the thing is we’re not alone, and we’re still in authority over the things we have at hand, in specific, those things that make us feel alive and drive the power of our inspirations.
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