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Heren CardsThe Heren Cards of Telrae'dor are more then simple fortune telling, the eight main cards directly map the Word of Athlendyr and have deep spiritual meaning. The Hermit (wisdom)
The Hermit is the archetypal wise old man, the inner voice and withdrawal from
the outer world to the inner world. Although he is wise it is the wisdom of
inner contemplation, and inner illumination , as shown by the lantern he carries
in many of the packs. His wisdom is of seeking answers to your own questions. He
is the gate to the collective well of unconscious wisdom. The Hermit is defined
as the semi-mythological patron saint of alchemy. His positive attributes
are: Listening to the inner voice, withdrawing from the worlds demands for
creative renewal, seeking solitude and letting the answer come. His challenging
aspects are ignoring the wisdom and advice of others, opting out from
situations, failure to communicate, foolish or immature behavior.
Fortune (Acceptance)
Fortune represents the input of the unexpected both good and bad into one's life
and his or her response to fortune or misfortune. Fortune varies in different
packs. the key aspect being who is turning the wheel. The card never predicts
good or bad fortune will strike, but usually refers to a fear of disaster,
or some twist of fate that has occurred at the time of reading. Positive
interpretations: an unexpected chance or opportunity that if followed, promises
good results, a person who may offer a new outlet for your talents, making a
supreme effort to advance your cause. It's challenging elements may be: letting
others control your destiny, a feeling of helplessness, inability to control
events, waiting for the magical solution to turn up.
Strength
Strength is symbolic of strength and courage to overcome adversity, or the
patience and endurance to see a relationship through to fruition or a natural
ending. Sometimes strength is depicted as a woman closing a lion's jaw, not
through brute strength but with quiet persuasion and determination.
Positively this card symbolic of courage to overcome opposition, patience and
perseverance under difficulty, hidden strengths. It's challenging aspects are a
fear of facing opposition to plans, being too patient in a hopeless situation,
not listening to the arguments of others.
The Close (Continuity)
This is the card of natural change and progression and its positive meanings far
outweigh any negative connotations. Positive interpretation: Natural change
points, endings that if accepted will lead to new beginnings; indications that
decisions or changes that have been differed can now be made. Challenging
aspects: Change in a particular area may be long overdue, reluctance to move
forward, undue pessimism about the future.
The Guide (Harmony)
The guide of harmony, healing and moderation. It associated with time in the
sense of letting time heal and allowing things to pass in their own time.
Usually the figure is seen passing water from one container to another or from
fountain to jug and back again, to symbolize the interplay between conscious and
unconscious, mind and body, self and the others, and the constantly flying path
of time. Positive traits: The need to let events take their course, finding a
compromise, healing whether by others or to others. Challenging aspects:
Concentration on other people's harmony to the detriment of one's own, opting
out of unpopular decisions, being too naive about others' motives and
intentions.
Karma
Karma is the symbol of renewal and reconciliation. it symbolizes the day of
reckoning, not in the sense of allotting of rewards and punishments, but self
judgment - recognition of one's own and others' worth and accepting the weakness
and folly both of ourselves and others. Once the books are balanced, any
redundant feelings of bitterness, anger, failure or guilt can be left behind, as
the essential person refined through experience is ready to move forward.
Positive traits: the ability to evaluate success, ability to forgive and forget,
using experience good and bad , to avoid future mistakes.
Kingdom
The Kingdom is the card of expanding horizons and limitless possibilities and is
a card of movement, whether involving actual travel or being open to new fields
and ideas.
Positive: New Horizons, beginning of an exciting mental or physical phase, the need to move further a field, or to try new ventures, a sense of completeness and self worth. Negative: Ignoring what is of value close to home, frenetic activity with no time for contemplation, refusing to expand the boundaries of possibility. The Lovers (beauty)
This is the card of love and emotions, relationships and the family. The Lovers
are usually portrayed with a third party present. The third person, usually a
woman, suggests choice, between partners, family members or earthly and
spiritual love. In such cases the youth is seen as the Fool on his journey
through life. Originally the Lovers were a family group with a child between
them . The positive traits are happiness in love or through relationships,
emotional or love choice that bring satisfaction, new love or a friendship
needing involving the need for trust or commitment. It's challenging aspects are
problems in love or relationships that should not be ignored, isolation,
unwelcome choices in love or family.
The Fool
The Fool is the first or last card. He is represented in the act of preparing to
leap off a cliff, or set on a journey accompanied only by his dog and his own
instinct. He represents the first step taken by man into the world at birth. He
is the 'inner child' the essential self stripped of worldly trappings, the real
person that integrates our caring and competitive sides. On a positive level it
represents untapped potential, a step into the unknown that will bear fruit,
enthusiasm for a new venture, seizing an unexpected opportunity that can involve
change. His challenging aspects are his indecisiveness, irresponsibility,
inability to stick to one's course or gullibility.
The Magician
The Magician is the card of creative energies and is the archetypal trickster /
innovator who holds the key to enlightenment. He is associated by some with
travel, communication and health, the power to heal. Also of commerce and
thieves. He is often pictured as one of the ancient alchemists who manipulates
the four elements to create the fifth - spirit. He links the everyday sphere
with the magical and spiritual world beyond and seeks the all powerful
philosopher's stone that can turn base metals into gold and might hold the key
to immortality. His positive attributes are creativity, originality, using
inspiration rather than logic, versatility, willpower, translation of thought
into action, control and skill. His challenging aspects can be his lack of will,
deviousness, unreliability, manipulative tactics or unpredictability.
The High Priestess
The High Priestess represents the spiritual, mystery aspect of the feminine. She
is frequently pictured between two pillars whether darkness and light, with the
crescent moon at her feet, or mercy and severity behind her leading as a path to
the unknown. Her positive characteristics are her spirituality and detachment
from trivial concerns, independence from the approval of others, her trust of
intuition. Her negative points can be a self-centeredness, indifference to the
emotional needs of others and obsession with detail.
The Queen
The Queen is the card of motherhood and mothering. In the Dyrling pack the Queen
is surrounded by corn, fruit, and flowers and can be seen in the aspect of the
early mother status in the full flower of pregnancy. Positive Interpretations:
Motherhood; nurturing those who are vulnerable; fertility in ventures or in
reproduction, creative giving and empathy with others' problems and weaknesses.
The challenging aspects are martyrdom on the alter of other's wishes,
possessiveness, loss of individual identity, preoccupation with the lives of
others.
The King
The King is the card of fathering , determination, and early power. he is
ultimate authority figure before whom all bow, He is pictured enthroned, often
in battle dress, for he is an experienced warrior as well as leader of his
pupil. But, although he is the giver of law and decisions, his laws may not
always be just and his decisions are not always wise. His positive traits are
focused energy in carrying through objectives, logic, assertiveness, confidence.
His challenging aspects are his overcritical attitude to the weakness of others,
dominance and disregard of others' wishes, aggressiveness and impatience.
The High Priest
The Hierophant represents traditions of all kinds and accumulated spiritual
wisdom. He mirrors the King, his alter-ego, but in wisdom and knowledge rather
than authority. His wisdom is that of conventional and learned insight, gained
through application. His positive characteristics are: seeking wisdom from a
wise source, whether a person or a book, adhering to traditional values on an
uncertain path, learning by application, enlightenment, compassion, kindness and
altruism. His challenging aspects are his inability to go against conventional
behavior, unwillingness to accept innovations, being dominated by redundant
fears, rejections and prohibitions.
The Knight
This is the card of change, challenge and triumph. The card indicates that
the rider has harnessed opposing powers to gain the impetus to succeed. It can
mean making positive and often sudden change, overcoming obstacles to success by
integrating opposing factors, taking action required to achieve an objective,
controlling the direction of life.
It's challenging aspects can be impulse decisions, restlessness leading to change for its own sake, failing to face reality, wavering between extremes. Justice
Justice is the card of principles and speaking true, sometimes connected with
official matters of all kinds, not only legal, but a personal desire for what is
right in matters of all kinds, not only legal, but a personal desire for what is
right in matters large and small. If the scales balanced then the heart was free from sin and the deceased might pass to the after-life. Justice
is often pictured with scales and a blindfold, an indication that justice should
be impartial. Positive Interpretation: tackling officialdom using facts and
accurate details, need for action to right an injustice, upholding vital
principles. It's negative aspects are: accepting injustice in exchange for a
quiet life, unfairness to others, putting principles before people.
Temptation
Reflects the shadow side of the human personality and the importance of
acknowledging negative thoughts and emotions. He represents natural instincts
that if unbridled would destroy the civilized world. Nevertheless those instincts
are necessary for survival and procreation, providing a root source of energy
and drive necessary for action. The enslaved figures depicted often hold their
own chains. Were they to use their negative traits to bring about positive
change, they would be free from the thrall of inner darkness. If we destroy or
project onto others our shadow side, we are losing an integral part of
ourselves. Positive characteristics: Using negative feelings to bring about
change and put right injustices, accepting that negative feelings about a person
or situation are justifiable, acknowledging a negative situation or influence.
Challenging aspects: Repressing justifiable anger and resentment so that they
turn into self-hate, allowing the negativity of others to affect us, continuing
in destructive patterns or relationships whilst blaming others.
The Tower
The Tower is a symbol of liberation from restrictions and stagnation. the new
beginning promised in the Closing card, with which it frequently appears in
readings. This card does not predict coming disaster, but points out
weaknesses of which the questioner is aware, the cracks that are already
appearing , that, if recognized, can offer relief from stagnation. Positive
Interpretation: Liberation from restrictions, a widening of possibilities, the
apparent destruction of plans that did not have firm foundations, the chance to
build a more secure future. Challenging aspects: Loss of a temporary refuge from
reality, fear of losing familiar if restricting routines, temporary setbacks and
disruption that cannot be avoided.
The Star
The Star is the card of hope, of inspiration, and of the illumination that
heralds a happier future. Although we are wishing on as star, those dreams most
likely to come true are those we make come true ourselves. Positive aspects:
signs of hope after a difficult period, pursuing dreams that can come true with
effort and belief in oneself, finding sudden inspiration that heralds future
happiness. Challenging aspects: pinning hopes on unrealistic expectations of
perfection in people or situations, being attracted by surface glamour or
excitement, spending too much time wishing so that real opportunities are
missed.
The Moon
The moon is a symbol of mystery, magic, and the cycle of life, with its ebbs and
flows, its constant promises of renewal and new beginnings. This is a very
social card, containing elements of many of the others. Positive interpretation:
trusting dreams, visions, and psychic insights , using imagination rather than
logic , using the natural ebbs and flows of energies to know the right time to
act and the right time to wait. Challenging aspects: Living purely in a world of
dreams, following the easy path, being unnecessarily secretive.
The Sun
The Lone Man
This is the card of sacrifice or voluntary loss in order to gain a greater
advantage. The tree may be seen as a living entity, giving life as well as
taking it. The Hanged Man is a symbol of rebirth and renewal, just as the corn
is cut down in the Harvest to be reborn in the spring in the new seed so that
the crops would grow. Contrary to some gloomy tarot readers, this card in
no way presages loss, but a letting go, whether an inner change in perspective
or a decision to carve out a better life by giving up immediate advantage or
making a great effort that will not bring instant rewards. Positive traits: Long
term advantageous plan that will require great input or short-term loss, giving
up unrealistic plans or redundant ways of living, unselfish actions. Challenging
aspects: Inability to let go in an unfulfilling situation, sacrificing personal
happiness for an unworthy cause, concentration on short term gain and ignoring
the long term view.
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The sun is the card of pure energy, optimism, joy and success in the world's
terms the alter-ego of the Moon. Positive Interpretation: The perfect moment to
seize an opportunity, unfulfilled potential, the energy and ability to succeed
in any action or plan. Challenging aspects: Competitiveness in a destructive
sense, obsession with perfection, exhaustion due to burn out.