Our Daily Spread for Feb. 22, 2011

Four Card Spreads, Our Daily Spread, Tarot Verbatim

Page of Pentacles Knight of Pentacles, Queen of Wands, Ace of Cups

Romantic Perspective: He is in love, he aims for her to be his wife. He has eyes only for her, he thinks of her as the wife he loves. One thing he is sure of:  he loves his wife and thinks of her. She knows he is in love with only her. He knows his love for his wife is obsessive. She is in love, thinks of herself as his wife, focuses on that mainly. She knows he thinks only of her, they are in love. She knows he thinks of her as his wife, it’s true love. Both she and he are mainly interested in God. He looks to his wife for approval:  This is important to him. She loves the rough dude and considers herself his wife. Macho man loves his wife who runs their affairs and house:  He knows who he is. He accepts his wife’s main focus on things, loves her for it. Business Perspective: He is mindful to cooperate with the manager, with her thoughts. His ambition is to get the manager’s approval of himself. The profile they have of her is:  She is competent and cooperative. She is a skilled manager who gets macho men to cooperate for their own purposes. He aims to go along with her thoughts, she is in charge of that. A woman with one mission:  that the idea be accepted … even loved. She gets people to accept the goal and make it their own. She is accepted as a manager by manly men because they agree with her. Her ideas are beneficial enough to be the main focus. She is seen a cooperative by the man on a mission. The guys love her for her ability to get ideas approved. The competent woman is seen as no threat by ambitious men. She has the same idea as the guys:  They agree. Both the male pentacle Tarot cards mean ‘to focus upon’ but of course nuances in these similar cards create interesting distinctions.  The Knight of Pentacles is a muscled man, potentially obsessive (The card can even mean ‘obsess’ or ‘obsessive.’) – ‘one thing on his mind.’  He can be rough or a ruffian, or a macho man who thinks he is rough.  He stands for being focused and ambitious, for focus and ambition.  Then the Page of Pentacles stands for considering an idea, for one’s identity (knowing who he is), and therefore often for the word ‘he.’ So, we ask ourselves:  What is being focused upon here?  Well, the middle cards mainly mean: (1) Queen of Wands, wife or manager, the woman in charge of the house or the workplace and (2) love, in love, true love, cooperation, agreement, being harmless and beneficial.  Knowing these meanings, you can easily reconstruct the sentences above and see which phrase arises from which card.  Remember that more than one meaning can be used in the same spread for a card. So, advice today in this spread is: A woman’s ability to identify a goal and get men or a man to see that goal as his/their own is beneficial (everybody cooperates) to everybody, which makes her accepted by the guy(s) as no threat and as someone they are/he is fond of.

Meanings and Illustrations:

Knight of Pentacles: The illustration shows a short dude with muscles on a horse of the same nature, intently focused on this one thing – a thing that gets him ahead.  Its meanings arise directly from the illustration.  See the remarks above in the first paragraph of the summary about the meanings:  Why repeat them here? Queen of Wands: Here is an illustration of a sensible woman who runs a tight ship and minds her own business, a manager of whatever she surveys.  She is the main Wife card in Rider Waite Tarot.  She is competent and no-nonsense. Ace of Cups: The philosophical idea in Rider Waite’s version of this card is that one’s being infused with the presence of Divinity creates one’s own good and also creates serendipity, creates a healthful blessed environment.  The five streams of water represent five body fluids that flow freely when one is aligned with Divine order or Divine will.  Of course, the mundane application of this philosophical idea is:  Once again, see the meanings mentioned in the second summary paragraph above. Page of Pentacles: A young man intently focuses on one thing.  He is an apprentice who is learning something.  This ‘something’ is associated with who he is.  This Rider Waite Tarot card is associated with identity.  It often stands for ‘the idea that.’

Working on his own fears of outside influences, and making fast progress

Nine of Wands Knight of Wands, Two of Cups, Eight of Pentacles

Business and Other Perspectives: He is afraid what he is doing is running into a situation in which he will fall under the influence of something that he is not really aware of. This job will get him into something he dreads, that will engross him, yet he pursues the job. Working on his own addictions and hidden assumptions makes him nervous, but will get him ahead. He is, blow by blow, rushing into the unknown where angels fear to tread. Working on his own fears of outside influences, and making fast progress. He flees working on his own fears of otherworldly influences. He has been hurt by getting involved, and here he goes, pellmell, into it one more time. Associating himself with these people who have an unknown agenda gives him the heebie-jeebies, so he is once more fleeing that. Unidentified fears haunt him, and he gets away from this through his work. The job he is pursuing is out of his field, which makes him uneasy. Pursues that job in spite of misgivings about associating with Those People. Free floating vague guilt overshadows him as he goes about his business. ‘Something is up’ at work that gets on his nerves.  He gets out of there as fast as he can. His fast progress at work makes him unsure about what is involved. Afraid he keeps ‘getting used’ but is still ‘at it.’ Misgivings about using sex to get ahead at work. Romance Perspectives: The sexual attraction impels him to pursue but he is afraid to do that again. He keeps pursuing hookups but feels guilty. His pursuit of sex workers (prostitutes) is an addiction that makes him uneasy. Pursuing a sexual affair at work makes him apprehensive. Afraid of a grand sexual love affair, he keeps pursuing it anyway. He was pursuing a hot love affair but it got to him and now he is afraid to continue. Now that the love affair is work, he is not so sure about going so fast. Afraid he keeps ‘getting used’ but is still ‘at it.’ Misgivings about using sex to get ahead at work. Note that we didn’t get messages from a man’s perspective until we had some men’s comments on this blog.  I theorize that people who comment attract more advice than those who don’t, in our experiment.  Since Tarot taps into mass consciousness, and since people who comment are probably thinking more about the messages than others, it makes sense that those commenters would attract more attention. This spread is from a male perspective. The pivotal card-character in this quatrain is Two of Cups.  Two of Cups: very complex concepts.  I will be brief but could write a pamphlet on this one Rider Waite Tarot card.  Being connected to someone or something and not knowing what you are getting involved in; being ‘under the influence’ as in love or addictions.  Strong sexual attraction, as well as sexual seduction, as well as using sex to get control of the partner or to get ahead. So, the cards surrounding the Two of Cups are:

1. The Knight of Wands: to pursue, to be in a hurry or rush, or rush into something, ‘full speed ahead,’ as well as ‘to get out fast’ or to get away fast.  So it is either to flee or to pursue, depending on the surrounding cards.  (As I have said, I do not assign meanings to cards, and would not put an opposite meaning on one Tarot individual, but I discovered Tarot’s meanings for Tarot through an exhaustive process described elsewhere.)
2. The Eight of Pentacles, which is about work and keeping at it and doing the same thing over and over.
3. The Nine of Wands, which is about misgivings, bad feeling about something, a feeling of guilt, apprehension, uneasiness and so on.  Having been hurt before is expressed by the bandaged head wound.

Today’s advice in this spread is that, especially if you are a guy, there is a factor you may not be aware of, that you have an uneasy feeling about, that influences whether you should keep pursuing something.  The spread describes both the consistent pursuit and the persistent ‘bad feeling’ or misgiving.  If you are a female, this information may apply to a male around you.

Meaning and Illustrations:

Knight of Wands: Illustration:  See him run, he is in a big hurry.  For the meanings, see the first paragraph above. Two of Cups: The caduceus indicates activity is influenced from another plane or from unknown source(s).  It indicates perchance a con artist, seduction, a controlling idea that may be misguided, or an addiction – that sort of thing.  The illustration shows a couple ‘pledging their troth,’ or committing to one another.  This Rider Waite Tarot card assumes one of them is less than sincere.  The best single slogan I can think for this card is ‘getting sucked into’ something or ‘hidden influence,’ even propaganda influences. Eight of Pentacles: ‘Working on it’ is a good slogan for this Rider Waite Tarot card.  The illustration shows a carpenter making one identical product after another.  Keeping at it, being consistent, doing the same thing over and over. Nine of Wands: In Paragraph (3) above, I said it all.

It’s anything but fair that bitches get the good men

Seven of Cups King of Cups, Justice, Queen of Swords

Romance and Legal/Divorce Perspectives: She has all kinds of complaints about him but he is a good man who is right for her. Things are a mess, she isn’t getting the good man she is entitled to. She isn’t getting the good man who is right for her.  This is confusing. To her shock and surprise, when she expects him to the Mr. Right, he is. He is a good man, he is doing the right things, and she is dissatisfied in every possible way. Anything can happen now in the good-guy’s court action with The Bitch/ex-wife. He is such a good man, he is entitled to anything but this nasty nag. He is such a ‘nice guy’ and that fuels her entitlement, her out-of-control expectations of him. It’s anything but fair that bitches get the good men. She is right about how crazy the guy is who victimized her, and he’s ‘such a nice guy.’ She is mad because his drinking is out of control and it isn’t fair to her. She is not getting anything she should from him – the weakling! He is mild-mannered and sane; she is a raving bitch. This is a strong woman who expects him to be straight and sane or all hell will break loose. Legal Perspectives: The verdict/legal decision is amazing:  She doesn’t get what she demands; he is the good-guy. The verdict shocks her, she doesn’t get what she demands of the reasonable gentleman. He is the ‘good guy’ in court; her demands are outrageous. Anything can happen in the gentleman’s lawsuit with the demanding wench. She is the plaintiff in an outrageous lawsuit with the bureaucracy/agency. She is right about how crazy the guy is who victimized her, and he’s ‘such a nice guy.’ She demands her rights; it is a shock to the government. The Department of Justice makes a mess of her life, poor woman. The Justice card rules here.  It shares the ‘entitlement’ concept with the Queen of Swords, who isn’t getting what she is entitled to.  The King of Cups is the good or nice guy, the alcoholic or weak man, the emotional man, the sweetheart, the government, bureaucrat or agency (never a police or enforcement agency unless it’s, say, the Building and Zoning inspectors).  Lastly, the Seven of Cups is out of control, bizarre, ‘all kinds of’ or ‘disparate.’  It is a mess. The way this four-card Tarot spread comes together focuses a lot on a woman being cheated out of what she is entitled to, or being unreasonable with the good man.  The Seven of Cups indicates some quirkiness to the story. And, of course, we have to deal with the King of Cups being an agency or government as well as the drunk, the good guy, the affectionate man, etc., along with the Justice card  meaning any kind of court action.  Then, the Queen of Swords is the ‘demanding woman/nag/bitch’ card, which calls up ‘ex-wife’ next to the Justice card.  The Queen of Swords as the victim in conjunction with the government and Justice is another cluster.  These varieties of meanings contribute many different stories. As I have pointed out previously:  The reason we get these myriad of narratives from four Tarot cards is that we operate here in the blog without a ‘real’ question.  The question forms a large part of an answer:  It limits the answer.  If your question were about romance, all the other spreads would be eliminated; and if were about court action, the romance ones would not count, unless it were a divorce you asked about.  Here, all I ask for a question is:  Tell the people who visit something useful to them at the time they visit.  I suspect people who read past spreads, especially first-time visitors, will find meaning.

Meanings and Illustrations:

King of Cups: His meanings are covered in the paragraphs above this.  The illustration is of a man ‘awash’ in something, emotional, emotionally unstable – which is expressed in the fact his stone slab is floating or surrounded by water that has waves.  Being drunk or alcoholic is suggested not only by those meanings, but add the cup in his right hand and the blank look on his face:  either drunk or a powerful government dork. Justice: Meanings are covered above.  The illustration shows ‘law enforcement’ via both the scales of justice and the sword in the hands of the elaborately robed upright figure.  Besides the obvious, this Rider Waite Tarot card means ‘should’ and ‘entitled.’ Queen of Swords: Here’s the widow, the lady who doesn’t get what she feels or is entitled to, and the kvetching wench.  Also known as the strong woman, the woman who feels someone or some situation isn’t up to her standards.  She can be the Queen of Mean.  The illustration shows ‘that look’ on her face:  lips set in a straight line, and her left hand extended in a ‘now would be good’ gesture while it is her right hand with the knife in it.  Ach-tung! Seven of Cups: This is Pandora’s Box or Sorcerer’s Apprentice situation.  The magician has lost control of the operation, by golly, and there’s no putting the critters back in the bottle.  The cloud helps with the ‘confusion’ meaning.  The motley group of items expresses the ‘mess’ and ‘all hell breaks loose’ meanings.  Other phrases for this Rider Waite Tarot card are:  shock and surprise, in every possible way, anything can happen, anything but, how crazy, amazing, outrageous, raving, and so on.