Aces:

Aces….Hang Onto Them
Many of our troubles come from doing too much, spending too much, thinking too much, and keeping too many routines. It seems that on our busiest days we are the least productive, and we become slaves to routines so fast that we are not even sure how we got there. This of course, creates a habit of spending energy as fast as we can get it. It is like emotional consumerism; we get a little money in our pockets that isn’t earmarked for anything, and we have to run out and do something with it. We move so fast that any extra energy accumulated inside of us becomes a burden that we cannot carry.
I have always thought that the Aces in the Tarot should be listed with the Major Arcana, though there wouldn’t really be a way to do that. I don’t mean that Majors are more important that Minors, but in a broad sweeping way you can look at Majors as more internal and Minors as having to do with externals.

We tend to identify the Aces as new beginnings, new happenings, new ventures, raw material and the planting of seeds. When we see an Ace in a spread, we think of starting something new, running out on a new venture, maybe start something new that we have been passionately thinking about. In other words, spend, spend, spend.
I think of Aces differently. If you take all four of them out of your deck, they are really four expressions of one ace. They are you, specifically, before you get all caught up in manifesting your different intentions through relationships, possessions, behaviors and all of that jazz. They say there are five or six basic needs common to everyone. The Tarot indicates that there are four basic intentions. There are four basic energies that produce all of our wildly different manifestations in their infinite varieties, and the Aces represent those energies in their purest form. More importantly, they represent that energy before there is movement.
When you are looking at an Ace, you are looking at your intention (there are only four remember) before it gets all gleefully mixed up for better or worse by you spending it on something, someone, or some activity. And since overusing our energy, overspending our money, and overworking our relationships are generally the source of most of our problems and complications, it might be fun to hang onto that Ace when we see it.
Ideas on how to do that specifically and why it is important will be the subject of several upcoming articles, but for now, when you see an Ace in your daily spread, hold onto it, don’t spend it and don’t give it away. Pay attention to the position it appears in and what kind of Ace it is, but don’t over think it. Begin to think of an Ace as an indication of no movement, an idea that is applicable in an almost infinite number of ways.