Tarot Tuesday!
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Update: Thank you everyone that showed up for the first entry of Tarot Tuesday! As far as I can tell, it was a success, I received 4 more queries than I expected to receive, that is I was expecting no one to come in the reading room. I learned much from reading your cards and I am grateful for putting your trust on what amounts more or less to a complete stranger. The results of the lessons I learned and guidance on how to approach a reading will be made into an essay before next Tarot Tuesday, the last week of the every month starting on Tuesdays. If anyone is interested on that, stay tuned!
This Tarot Tuesday is no longer accepting new questions, if you have a situation in which you would like to know what the Astral Light is up to bring it by the end of the month. Until then!
I've been studying and practicing the Tarot for about 2 years now and having cast a few spreads for friends who found it helpful I thought I might make a deal with anyone that happens to read this.
Here is the deal, I will repost this on the last Tuesday of every month and will try to answer your query before the end of the month. Post a comment below requesting for a reading within the week of posting, depending on the number of comments and the situation I can either offer a lengthy reading or a three card reading. What I request back from you is some feedback about your situation and in case of some outcome what I got right and what I got wrong.
So, if you have a situation where you want to know what the Astral Light is up to, be it personal, general or on a broader scale, or want to know what the week or month ahead has in store for you, why then, you know what to do. I would encourage you to post it publicly below, as for others to get an idea of what I have to offer, to encourage discussion and what divination is about in general but if your situation is delicate post a comment marked NOT FOR POSTING explaining your situation and I'll consider it on a case by case basis.
That said, divination is like weather forecasting not a tablet of truth handed down from above, so take the advice I give you through the cards as such. Any unfortunate situation you get yourself into is entirely the responsibility of the querent!
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Re: Reading
Date: 2021-02-25 03:36 am (UTC)Ok, I’m ready.
Re: Reading
Date: 2021-02-25 05:33 am (UTC)Here is the spread:
First, the meaning of the position of the cards: The one in the center is the issue or the situation; the one on the left is internal influences of which you are not aware; the one on the right is the external influences of which you are aware; the one on the bottom is what is needed for resolution and the one on top is the outcome.
Center: The Moon is one of the Major Arcana, their element is Spirit and usually have the force of the reading. The Moon reversed means either that something is waning and coming to an end and that there is difficulty processing disturbing emotions or depression. In conjunction with the other Major Arcana in the spread, The Wheel of Fortune, it might be that things have or are changing for you, maybe in a big way, perhaps a transition and this is bringing you tension. I don’t have a clear reading whether the situation is positive or negative, it might be because it is neither, maybe just a change in general but it is definitely an important one.
Left: The Seven of Swords, we can see in the picture a man trying to sneak away. Since this is the position of the internal influences of which you are not aware it means to me that you are aware somewhat of the issue —notice how the person is looking at that central card— but you are trying to sneak away from it instead of facing it fully, perhaps making excuses to not address the situation and taking tangents. You might find comfort in thinking that you are getting away with it but this will not bring a permanent solution.
Right: The Wheel of Fortune, you might have stumbled into a lucky current or some sort of ebb and flow that relates to the thing that is waning or that disturbs you, or it might be that it is this change itself that is causing it. The Wheel of Fortune is a favorable card, but its general meaning is change, as in the seasons and you are aware of this force of change, maybe it is something that you’ve seen coming for a while and now it is here, timely as something else wanes.
Bottom: The Six of Cups is a mixed card, bringing in more of the mixed feeling of the whole spread. In its traditional meaning it could mean nostalgia about the past, but I am getting a sense that it could be about accepting and receiving help in the same way that the girl is accepting the cup with a flower in it from the boy. The suit of Cups is correspondent with the element of Water which represent the emotions so it could be about accepting the help emotionally from someone you’ve known from a long time or looking back at what made you tick before, perhaps a dream or passion of yours from the past or childhood, but the general theme is openness and acceptance of this helping force.
Top: The Page of Pentacles has a general theme of study, this being the position of the outcome it could mean leading into readiness to enter a new beginning in the manner of a student caught in wonder and passion, as if everything else was tuning out but the object of your study. With the rest of the cards it could be that the change itself, if taken with the attitude of the previous card could be this, preparing yourself to get into something that you are passionate about, getting yourself ready for a new beginning just like a fresh students that goes to college to pursue its dreams, back when colleges where a place for the pursuit of ones wonder, perhaps this new beginning has roots in the past and this change could the force for it to bare fruit.
So overall I can see that the situation is very mixed regarding how it is perceived in terms of if it is a positive or a negative situation, which makes sense with what you mention about it being a situation that touches several areas of your life but if you figure out how are you unconsciously trying to look away, procrastinating perhaps, face the change squarely and accept the help that is offered to you be it from a person or something that might be related to your past, you can use the changing currents in your favor and embark on something with passion. What I find interesting about this is that for the most part I don’t see that you have to take action about the situation personally, you just have to understand it, study it and face it and integrate it. If you know how to fetch and setup your sails and where to direct your vessel the winds and currents of change will take you to new shores.
Re: Reading
Date: 2021-02-25 05:55 pm (UTC)The Moon - this one was dead on, am in the midst of some big changes indeed. If I'm not mistaken my Saturn return is just beginning. Was making a living as a musician in NYC before everything shut down and all the gigs disappeared. Have since been staying with family in another state nearby. Have decided I don't want to move back to the city ever (reading our friend Mr. Greer has not been a negligible influence on that decision), but also am grappling with feelings of maybe needing to leave my life as a musician behind. This is a difficult decision as it's been something I've been doing for a long time (my entire adult life, really), yet I can't seem to escape the feeing that it's time to let it go and return to some parts of myself that had been neglected in New York. Also, after having some amazing initial experiences in practical work I have recently started down the path to initiation in a magical order. More on that in a second.
7 Swords - I have been telling myself I can continue in my new direction while still keeping the musical engagements that I value most and just get some other side job, but this seems like perhaps I may be spreading myself too thin, and, as you have pointed out, this card would suggest it is merely an attempt to procrastinate the changes I can feel coming, and not, as you have also said, a permanent solution. If I'm not mistaken, the golden dawn called this card "lord of shortened force", which would be an apt addition to what's been said already: hard to walk forward with full force when you're looking behind you.
Fortune - not very sure quite yet what the coming positive change is that this indicates, except for the joining-the-order thing I mentioned earlier. I will say that everything you said about feeling a change coming and it being here now is right on the money, gigs are starting to come back and I'm starting now to need to make a real and final decision about what I'll be doing musically in the future. On the more positive side I think it speaks probably to a future with the order or with magic in general. Could also pertain to finding a new place to live, which I have been doing as I get ready to find a place of my own somewhere. as far as pertaining to "the thing that disturbs me", it also I think has to do with the resurfacing of lots of lost elements of myself that I had sort of buried or pushed aside in order to focus on being a musician - elements that recent magical practice has brought quite strongly back into my awareness. That, in and of itself, has been a beautiful thing but also has brought up some forgotten traumas from way back. Which sort of leads to the next card
Six of Cups - "looking back at what made you tick before" - this is really hitting. Much of that has just been reading, in particular esoteric/occult literature but also just using that part of my brain more in general. Also, when I was very very young I was super interested in alchemy and I have begun to remember asking my parents for books on magic and whatnot, and in my late teens I can remember becoming extremely interested in Dante, particularly the divine comedy (and have now come to find out about all the Rosicrucian symbology in that work). Something about the way you phrased that also reminded me of what I had mentioned up above about magic bringing forth all these old feelings and interests. As far as accepting help from a person, I will have to see what comes up about that, but in terms of accepting help from the forces of childhood interest and passion etc, this is speaking to me big time.
Page of pentacles - "perhaps this new beginning has roots in the past and this change could the force for it to bare fruit" - I think I've probably already said enough about recent recovered interests and orders for this to make sense. Been feeling also that perhaps one of the reasons my "happy medium" strategy won't work is that I have to let go fully of the past in order to receive what's just up ahead.
I find it interesting that it doesn't seem that I need to take action, at first this doesn't seem quite right but that could just be internal pressure to "fix" the situation instead of, as you say, study, understand and integrate it.
I really appreciate you taking the time, also I love this spread, never encountered it before. Thanks again!!
Re: Reading
Date: 2021-02-26 12:08 am (UTC)The first time I did one I was astonished too. As far as I can tell there is no difference except that I can’t have a conversation with the person live but through writing seems to work just fine and that way people can refer back to the reading interpretation. That can be helpful as some of the important points of a reading are sometimes unconscious behavior and thus easily ignored and forgotten. Now to the reading.
Regarding the 7 of Swords, though it is true that a focused will is key in achieving anything, to me this card and The Moon are not talking exactly about a specific venture but rather a stage in your life overall, somewhat like a season. Whether music has a place in this new season depends entirely up tp you, it might not take center stage anymore or maybe it those, the important thing is that you embrace the changing tides and accommodate your life accordingly. It might be true that the 7 of Swords is halfway here and there (see how he had to leave two swords behind and he is fumbling with the rest though thinks he has gotten away with it?) but the general theme is trickiness and in this case trying to run away from seeing and accepting that one of the seasons is getting over with though he clearly knows it as he is starring that way, you might be trying to take something that belongs to the time that has already passed (See how the tents are on the side of the Moon and the man is trying to get all that he can take from them?). Take those two interpretations into consideration, not letting go and as well not recognizing and not focusing on the waning season, what it means the most to you, perhaps both, is what matters.
Pertaining the Wheel of Fortune, again, don’t see it as something specific but rather that the force of change is now here, overall. The coming of Spring affects the whole landscape, not just a section. It is an overreaching change. The wheel is turning and it has an impact in your situation. It might very well be that your magical practices have started to force you to face your unresolved issues, that is what the beginning stages of magic usually look like.
The help from the past can come as well in different shapes, it is general as well perhaps it doesn’t involve a person at all but what you mention, the only specific thing that I see on the reading is the outcome, more on that below, the rest seem to have that general quality to it. What you mention about magic been an interest of the past makes a great deal of sense in the spread definitely pay attention to it and reconnect with it be it with the order or with your own studies.
One of the things I was not sure what it meant in the begging is that the Page of Pentacles is in particular a student of Magic per the pentagram on the coins that he holds and it also connects neatly with your previous interest in the occult so definitely make it a focus point on where this change is leading you.
When I said that no action is needed for this to resolve it doesn’t mean that you don’t have to do anything and remain idle, but rather it means that you don’t have to look for the winds that will carry you, the situation is already here, just setup the sails correctly and it will take you there. Action is needed, it is just that it is more of like and internal action rather than an external its more about organizing things and making them in sync rather than looking somewhere else, if that makes sense.
I really like this spread too! It puts in perspective yourself and the situation in a compact manner, something the Tarot is really good at.
Re: Reading
Date: 2021-02-26 04:00 pm (UTC)Re: Reading
Date: 2021-02-26 07:10 pm (UTC)Re: Reading
Date: 2021-02-26 07:13 pm (UTC)That would be great, I was going to ask if you’d be open to that. I’m sure you’ll be hearing from me again
Re: Reading
Date: 2021-03-04 01:20 am (UTC)