Symbolon Deck

46 ABORTION

Brief Description

The Abortion card represents the painful sacrifice of something precious for immediate desires or misguided goals. It depicts a woman performing a terrible ritual, sacrificing a child under the influence of temptation, symbolizing the surrender of new possibilities for personal gain. While often indicating destructive choices and the willingness to harm others for selfish purposes, the card also carries potential for transformation, purification, and rebirth through fire. This complex card warns of the price we pay for our choices and calls for careful evaluation of what we sacrifice and why.

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Keywords

Selling one's soul, sacrifice to feminism, ideological feelings, psychological dependence, concept of motherhood.

Card Description

Astrological Correspondence

Cancer/Scorpio

Planets

Moon/Pluto.

Archetypes

Mother + Tempter.

Image

The card depicts a woman performing some terrible ritual with sacrifice. The victim in this case is a child. The woman's face shows grief, indicating that she has suppressed her maternal instincts and is sacrificing the most precious thing she has.

Maternal Sacrifice

The mother's sacrificial nature and others are overshadowed by the Tempter, and the victim becomes not the mother, but the child, that is, someone else. This sacrifice is made in favor of one's own individuality or immediate goals.

Core Principle

The card speaks of the readiness to walk over others' heads to get what is desired. The principle of the card is the rejection of a new opportunity for the sake of some desire. The world is cruel and everything must be paid for. The theme of the card is sacrifice under the influence of some temptation.

Positive Aspect

Sometimes it can be a positive card - speaking of the possibility of transformation and the ability to be reborn, of purification and liberation from attachment to the fruits of labor. For women, it may indicate menopause, after which the appearance of new qualities can be expected.

General Associations

The mother found herself captive to the Tempter. This complex card often seriously frightens the querent. The woman succumbed to temptation. The card sometimes directly means abortion in the physiological sense, and sometimes in the metaphorical sense - rejection of an idea, of a cherished plan under the influence of some temptation, perhaps not an obvious one.

Example

For example, a mother who was more engaged in her career than her child actually 'sacrificed him' to her own aspirations and temptations. As a result, she achieved social success (defended her doctoral dissertation), while the child was traumatized by the absence of maternal attention and care.

Gloves Symbol

The woman's hands wear gloves (like the Tempter) - she is doing something not her own, alien, suggested. For example, giving money to swindlers or behaving atypically under the influence of magical interference in her life.

Ancestral Patterns

The card may indicate ancestral curses (possibly through the maternal line) and entanglements. In pregnancy spreads, the card may indicate pre- and perinatal problems, infertility, miscarriage, menopause as loss of fertility.

Rebirth Through Fire

However, Abortion also has an opposite meaning - possible rebirth and purification by fire. In one of the ancient Greek myths, the goddess Demeter tried to burn her ward Demophon, son of Keleos, in fire to grant him immortality.

Folklore Connection

This motif exists in Russian fairy tales: for example, in 'The Little Humpbacked Horse,' the main character - a simpleton - jumps into boiling milk and turns into a handsome man. Thus, the card can speak of purifying the inner child from childhood grievances, claims, protests, traumas, accompanied by very strong emotional intensity.

Symbols and Colors

Child - victim.

Card Meanings in Spreads

Positive meanings: determination and ability to accept everything new. Negative meanings: selfishness and cruelty, readiness to sacrifice everything to achieve an immediate goal.

Card of the Day

A difficult and nerve-wracking day. A person may succumb to temptation, which will later have to be paid for dearly.

Necessary Actions

When ideas and proposals appear that will require sacrifices to achieve them - you need to adequately assess and compare the price of the idea and the price of the sacrifice.

Conclusions to Draw Today

It is necessary to evaluate what we sacrifice and for what.

What I Can Learn Today

To show a certain degree of cruelty when it is needed.

How to Behave Among My Circle

You may be tempted with a carrot and required to sacrifice something to get it. You will have to refuse harshly, even possibly showing some cruelty toward these people.

Motive

Selfishness (sacrificing others for oneself). Readiness to sacrifice to achieve results.

State

Today a person may experience a decline in strength, poor health.

Emotional Condition

He wants nothing - no new opportunities, no updates, nothing new and bright. The sensations are very heavy, gloomy, the head is foggy, determination is born to sacrifice something from hopelessness, despair and lack of strength.

Process

Very painful, complex, associated with experiences.

Relationships

Separation. Break. Refusal. Possibly with subsequent regret.

Warning

The goal a person wants to achieve is not worth the sacrifices.

Advice

Don't be afraid to be cruel. Discard the small in favor of the greater. Think about the sacrifice that will need to be made to achieve the result and reflect on the future that awaits the person after making the sacrifice.

Reflection Question

Perhaps the sacrifice is significantly more valuable than the pursued goal? Perhaps help from a psychoanalyst or spiritual confessor is needed.

Result

The person will get the result, but will not be happy about it. Loss, death within oneself.

Final Word

Abortion.

Additions

Ancestral curses, most often through the female line. Keeping secrets, and perhaps it's not always necessary to delve into these secrets.

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✍️ Deck author(s): Peter Orban, Ingrid Zinnel, Thea Weller

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