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My readings thus far have been speaking to the collective about collective initiation for action and navigating our fear around national threats.
Readings like that act as bridges, helping our souls align for a shared mission. This reading feels more intimate. Even though I ask questions for anyone who can read this, I’m not sure this applies to us all. I want to give a content warning: this reading asks those of us to whom it applies to face hard things about victimhood and relationships.
This reading is defined by intuition:
25. VTI Intuition
A brown-skinned angel with auburn hair and an auburn beard is standing still on top of a rock in the middle of the ocean. The angel is wearing a purple robe that hides everything except their feet. They have huge wings that take up most of the image. The background is sea foam as big waves crash against the rock. It’s the 25th card in the deck. VTI (vhee-ti) is the Enochian word for Intuition and for the region.
When we receive the intuition card, we must ask, “What are we intuiting?”
For that, I turned to the Sapphomanteion, my divination tool, which uses lines of Sappho’s poetry as an oracle. I use my Sapphomanteion for all things, but she excels in relational dynamics.
I rolled my die three times. Each roll corresponds to a single number, and then I link those numbers together to connect me to a single line of poetry. I use the book version, but there is also a free online tool. So, when I asked what we are intuiting, I received:
1-6-6 of evildoing
I had to ask immediately: whose evildoing are we picking up on in our intuition?
5-5-1 and beautiful times we had
While this may seem like an indirect answer, I have worked with this tool for so long that I feel her responses sit in my chest with clarity. There is a longing here, a desire, and I was filled with vague swatches of memories about loved ones that were not mine.
It’s important to pause and define evil. Evil is not a word I use much in my practice, so I am called to approach it with an intuition of why it is showing up here and how. What I feel here is that “evil” in this context is the intention and the action aligning to cause harm to another.
This message is relational, though not necessarily romantic. Relationships can be many things, but they are not often logical.
This line from my Enochian cards’ guiding book stuck out to me: “Intuition sometimes rises up out of troubled waters of intellect in order to perceive the truth directly.”
Stitching these messages together, we get a clear series of advice:
We have a relationship in our lives, one with beautiful memories, that we are overanalyzing with intellect in a way that does not serve us. If we instead turn to our intuition, we can see the intentional harm done to us in these relationships. Our intuition is trying to show us the evil that was done.
That is only step one.
There is another keyword in the realm of intellect that VTI speaks to, and that word is humility. While you are encouraged to stop intellectualizing a past relationship so you can stop explaining away the harm done to you, you are warned that failing to see your own flaws, harmful intentions, and manipulations will lead to ineffective vanity. The pendulum of the self will swing too far, and victimhood will become a shield of pride.
In using your intuition to understand the harm that was caused to you, you will accept yourself as a victim. Accepting oneself as a victim can gouge out the heart, because the illusions we build around our pain are sometimes the only things that keep us from crumbling. However, too often victimhood is seen as a permanent label when it is, in fact, a mutable state. When victimhood is seen as permanent, we either cower inside of it or wield our wounds as a weapon to escape accountability for harming others. Accepting victimhood is for the purpose of letting victimhood go and reclaiming your power. Victimhood cannot replace the power you lost.
How do we move through this?
Intuition. The same small voice that has been trying to get you to accept that evil has been done to you is the same path of emotion that wants to lead you to a stronger, more grounded sense of self.
It’s time to turn inward and ask yourself a series of emotional questions to guide you to what you need to grow and heal.
Everyone’s line of questioning will look different, but below I provide a few questions to start your practice of following your intuition towards grounded love and a sense of self.
Before engaging in such questions, set your intention and name a protection. This is vulnerable work.
Here is a suggested protection: I am safe and secure, always, as I acknowledge pain and the lessons in receiving harm. Through acceptance, I grow, and on this journey, I am safe, grounded, and wise.
Suggested Questions:
What part of my body needs to be listened to right now?
Be gentle and loving to yourself in this work. You are not your trauma. You are not your pain. They are companions and lessons, but they need to live in you. Walk through them. Listen to their stories. Walk forward and move on, as many times as you need to.
In Love and Abundance,
The Magick Artist
Malachi Lily, also known as The Magick Artist, is Inglenook's Transformation Features Writer, with over a decade of experience in the art of divination.
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