Moving unseen in her shadowy jungle world, the jaguar slips between the realms of night and day, reality and fantasy. Her golden eyes pierce through the veil of darkness, seeing all with pristine clarity. Mayan cosmology speaks of the jaguar’s connection to the underworld—the land without light. She is known as the keeper of secrets and the guardian of portals between realities. In Mayan, her name means ‘sorcerer’ or ‘high priestess’ and her spirit was invoked to guide spiritual seekers on vision quests.
This card, like a blank rune, represents the unknowable. You may be faced with a great mystery, something hidden in the shadows. Jaguar spirit is beckoning you to peer into the mysteries of life. When she is present in your life, you may experience enhanced psychic abilities, prophetic visions, or vivid dreams. You can invoke her spirit to achieve telepathy, remote viewing, precognition, or clairvoyance. Perhaps add some herbal tea with blue lotus flowers, hawthorn leaf or passion flower, or essential oils such as sandalwood, patchouli and lavender, to your nightly bedtime ritual. In conjunction with jaguar medicine, these will lubricate your mind and stimulate your third eye, otherwise known as your pineal gland—the psychedelic centre of higher states of consciousness.
When this card appears, prepare to be mystified! Remain alert for synchronicities, and be open to what bubbles below the surface in that inscrutable realm of the subconscious. Puzzling events, chance encounters, and curious riddles are all likely to present themselves. Bizarre experiences may manifest in an instant, as if formed from the ether, and be gone in a flash. Insights may appear in unconventional forms. The jaguar reveals herself for the briefest moment, before disappearing into the shadows. Her message is to embrace the mystery in whatever form it takes, with no regret for its fleeting nature.
“IT IS ONLY THROUGH MYSTERY AND MADNESS THAT THE SOUL IS REVEALED.” – THOMAS MOORE
