Story of a Tarot Reading: Torina the Terrible

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What Was in it for Him?

Everyone wondered how this sweet-natured good-looking man put up with Torina the Terrible. Torina owned this huge clubhouse on the golf course with its restaurant and bar, spa and the works. She reminded me of Catherine the Great – same looks, same bombastic overbearing personality, and the voice of a drill sergeant, to complete the picture.

How she humiliated him. He was required to be present fawning on her every evening at the casino, at the restaurant, everywhere. She called him a gigolo, she called him her boy … What didn’t she call him? He was always all dressed up for these nightly appearances.

One day I got to ask him how he endured Monster Lady … and why. She was not in any of the questions he wanted to know about. He wanted only to know about his golf game, whether he would ever get good enough to be a pro golfer. He already knew: He was almost.

This man lived for golf. Golf was his love, his only love. Here he could play on a pro level course all day – yes, all day out there doing what he loved best. Practicing his game to his heart’s content.

Did Torina know he was cheating on her with the iron in his hand?

Perhaps we should occasionally ask ourselves ‘What’s in it for him or her or them?

The Beginning and the Ending, The WORLD and The FOOL Tarot Cards

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Both The World and The Fool ‘don’t have a care in the world’ because they are spiritual. The World is spiritually mature and The Fool is innocent of the physical world because he is just starting his physical experience at zero.

The World Card. A spiritually mature human repels trouble like a street-wise person repels muggers. ‘Been there, done that, know how to deal with it.’ So The World can be oblivious to problems and no harm will come. With a strong immune system, somehow you get no symptoms.

The Fool Card is a congenital optimist. Facts do not get in his way. He is free without being free of anything specific.

The Fool is when you don’t let reality get in the way, when you just let it fly, are ‘up’ and optimistic … and oblivious, and free-spirited. The Fool depicts that floating-on-air feeling that messes with your mind when you are in love. The Fool (to whom no harm comes) ‘lets it flow’ as he enjoys an absence of all problems. I think he is whistling.

The EMPRESS

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EMPRESS, Rider Waite.

By her side is a shield-shaped like a valentine, which is what most people would apply it as, but it’s actually ancient Celtic porn graffiti of the back end of a female human bending over. On the shield is the symbol for female. The woman lies on a heap of cushions outdoor in the afternoon, nothing to do but lay back and relax.

This is the spoiled woman. The beloved. The ideal woman.

Based on the beliefs of the creators of the deck, a society of magicians, as the 3 in Major Arcana, this card is about fertility, about the birth resulting from the uniting of #1 and #2. So, the Empress is the main card for pregnancy and a pregnant lady. Empress embodies all the fertility goddesses, who were all pregnant, and who were all ‘promiscuous’ by modern definitions. This concept expands to Empress representing resources, even from a commodity point of view (stock market).