Advice What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, they say. Today we take on that long slow hard row to hoe that is somewhere in most everyone’s life. Overcoming in that department is a major triumph, a triumph that is shared with a loved one if the challenge one person faces is connecting with another in a loving way. A long-awaited victory over a past failure is shared with a partner.
Is this the first time you come here? Well … what to do:
*Go to Advice (above ) which is a summary of the Messages. (Advice is everyone’s favorite part.)
*Go to Group Analytical Tarot Reading below. One or more of those sentences has something to say to you. Intuitively pick those out and decide whether to encourage or suppress them. They are about you and the people around you. They are about today and the days around it. (It is a group message like a horoscope, except Tarot isn’t based on someone else’s birth data, so it can be specific, accurate, detailed and direct. Our experiment here is “How much more accurate is it?”)
Did you come here for your predictions? – You are done now – See you tomorrow.
Without a question to focus the answer, four cards can mean contradictory things, especially when the Spread has a card that negates other cards. Without a question also the pronouns in a group reading are more flexible, especially in some of these Rider Waite Tarot spreads. When a pronoun is in parentheses, feel very free to substitute. The question in a ‘real’ individual reading supplies at least half the information!
Five of Cups
Lovers – Ten of Wands – Ace of Swords
GROUP ANALYTICAL TAROT READING Tell the visitors here something useful and meaningful to them.
Insurance Protects from Loss (Lovers + Ace of Swords + Five of Cups)
Guaranteed protection against only the very worst loss threats.
Insurance protects (you) from the very worst losses.
Absolute coverage for our insured against even the most extreme losses.
Deep long-lasting Love (Lovers + Ten of Wands)
Make this the longest lasting love relationship of our sad lives.
It is such a challenge to be in love when you feel so bad.
You have to slow down this love affair or wish you had.
Wasted so long I have to make this work with us.
The past is very burdensome but you have to connect with the one you love.
Loving you made all the difference and I pulled through the worst of it.
With you at my side, I have made it through the night.
Making this love last in spite of past hurts.
Sorry about so much in this unconditional love.
In victory or in defeat, partners to the max.
A long-awaited victory over a past failure is shared with a partner.
The challenge is to stay the course together in the worst times.
Loves (you) when you are the biggest loser for the longest time.
Deepest grief forges a bond between us.
One of us will win and one of us will lose but we are partners through it all.
Will be with you forever no matter how bad things get.
Will be with you forever no matter how bad things get.
Deepest unconditional love for the departed.
Unconditional love gets you through the worst of times.
Triumph over Difficulties (Ace of Swords + Ten of Wands/Five of Cups)
Overcome bereavement sooner or later and be in love.
Losing now but eventually we will triumph.
A connection so strong and so deep it will never be lost.
It has been a long time since both of us faced a challenge like this.
We overcome the burden of our pasts together.
This is the primary connection and it has been tested to the straining point and still holds.
This is our main contact and we have been through so much together that it’s a permanent one.
Long lasting love overcomes whatever our downers are.
It’s difficult, but we do overcome bereavement for a loved one eventually.
Love is stronger and deeper for the loss of it.
You overcome losing a lover eventually.
Grief over the loss of a loved one is overcome slowly.
Absolute love always for the suffering soul.
Lost Love, Bereavement ( Lovers + Five of Cups)
Love this person too much and you are sure to lose him/her.
Sick and tired of lover who orders me around.
Lost love is the most depressing ever experience.
Losing the love of your life slows you down.
It is absolutely too much losing the connection.
We have to bear the burden of our past together.
Losing the one you love the most is the most depressing thing that could happen.
Forced to bear the loss jointly.
Extreme depression threatens your love partner.
Our mutual friend is threatened with overwhelming depression.
Lost a vital connection a long time ago.
Bereavement for a loved one is the very worst depression.
Unshakable guilt strains a love life.
Forced to bear the burden of the partner’s guilt.
Being depressed about your love life is a monumental strain on you.
Losing what I love the most for the longest time now.
Slowly but surely losing (your/my/our) love.
Now, Part Two,
Do you want to know a little, or a lot, about how this Tarot Verbatim ™ thing works? If so,
*Go to Learn Tarot by Observing section below. This tells about the combined four pictures in the Daily Spread – the pictures above here. It explains how these four cards get together in your mind to make the message.
*Go to Learn Tarot by the Pictures. It is what each of the four cards, by itself, has to say. It shows you how that illustration makes that card’s meanings in this Spread.
You can put all this together and intuitively see yourself how Tarot Verbatim ™ works.
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Five of Cups
Lovers – Ten of Wands – Ace of Swords
LEARN TAROT BY OBSERVING
What hits you first as an experienced reader in this spread is: Here are the two cards whose primary meanings are depression. Ten of Wands is the burden on your back, slow going, too much to bear, taking on the whole burden. Five of Wands: Oh God, I wish I had never. Depression. Wishing I had not. How things would have been if only. Regret. Mourning. Bereavement. Heartsick and homesick. Haunted by the past.
“Nothing good can come from these two.” Except making it through the night, because Ten of Wands means slow going, hard going, but you do get there, you do make it.
Lovers indicates the source of grief has to do with a/the loved one or a connection or contact. Ace of Swords just magnifies what we already have on the table. It means ‘absolutely,’ win/lose victory/defeat conquering or overcoming. And triumphing.
Once again, Five of Cups haunts this spread. Regret for the past, depression. Its mood is pervasive on the surrounding cards.
LEARN TAROT BY THE PICTURES
Lovers A complex illustration births disparate meanings. Protection (which becomes insurance with the Ace of Swords which means a threat). Any form of connection or contact or attachment (including mechanical attachments). To stand next to or stand with, to be together or joint or in partnership with. Divine or angelic protection or interest. Love affair and love relationship with passion (the volcano). In business, it is a partnership. In investment, it is joint interest. In litigation, it could be a codefendant or two claimants.
Its illustration in the Rider Waite (and just about any other) deck shows Adam and Eve, two people who are partners and lovers, with a volcano between them. Eve has her tree with the snake in it and Adam gets the tree of life. An angel is above them which brings the idea of protection. God of course is inherent in the pictured scene. The sunshine and greenery give the card a positive spin.
Ten of Wands Doing it all in one trip, one load, doing it the hard way, taking on a huge project, slow going, chronic or long term condition or state, being so tired, exhausting, overwhelming or overwhelmed, depression. Simple illustration for all this in Rider Waite Tarot is a fellow loaded down with all the wood he can possibly handle, still making progress to where he is going.
Ace of Swords Main message is victory, triumph, overcoming, winning definitively. Remember that the other side in a definitive win suffers a definitive loss, which the Delphic oracle did not remind an ancient general of when he and his army stopped by wanting to know the outcome of his invasion of Persia. It means being strong, doing something the hard way, asserting or aggression, force, must and have to, absolute, a mandate or command.
Illustration is a hand holding a sword upright which is crowned with the Roman victory laurel. The flakes above the handle mean something to occultists, but I forget what exactly.
Five of Cups Haunted by the past, sick with regret or bereavement or grief for a significant loss. Just being depressed, so depressed you are oblivious to what you do have going for you. Five of Pentacles feels this way too. Hope I don’t get a spread with both of them! The spilled wine suggests a waste.
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