Here’s a special Wednesday treat for all of you who do your own Tarot using this site as a library of combined meanings of Tarot cards. The treat is a peek into why your question should include pertinent factors that the cards are not precise about. The big factors are dates, person(s), and time.
Ask ‘who did it’ and you get a description you may not recognize. Ask the motive of who did it, and you will get a description of the scene that usually tells you whodunit. Don’t ask ‘when’ about anything because Tarot is mass-consciousness based ‘out there’ or ‘in there’ somewhere, and isn’t earthbound with clocks and calendars. Instead, you ask ‘Will X happen in Y time?’ as I call it. Not ‘When will he call?’ but ‘Will he call this week?’ That converts the question into a yes-or-no one which Tarot will answer well (or pretty well) giving details that are applicable (cogent).
First thing here is the question I did answer for our client ‘as modified.’ She wants to know ‘what a relationship is going to become,’ not specifying the relationship. Tarot Verbatim is fine (is excellent, really) with that. With no background, however, once the cards talk about marriage and leaving or switching, you as the reader don’t know who’s who. The answer is to be from Client’s perspective, but you don’t know which position Client occupies unless that is in the ‘history.’ And there’s no history required in these cold Email readings. This is why the instructions on the Email Reading tab suggest saying whether love interest is married
I wrote Client, and when she did not respond right away, simply modified the question to include just Dude and her. That is the first set of spreads you see.
Then Client answers with history and perspectives. Tarot did rise to the occasion in its answer.
THEN I include the original set of cards which are confusing to apply if you don’t know the history. Now, you can put these together and see how to handle this – how to phrase a general relationship question which gives no identity of parties or background.
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And by the way, you can also call for a telephone reading and ask that the pertinent cards be identified and explained for you. I do a lot of that.
Question: What will I see this relationship situation actually become in the real world in the next, say, three months?
Judgment – Eight of Pentacles – Six of Swords
He’s back working on the relationship after being distant..
He’s back – Judgment
working on it – Eight of Pentacles
after avoiding it. – Six of Swords
Lovers – Ace of Pentacles – Five of Swords
Smarty Pants is being the perfect lover.
.
Smarty Pants – Five of Swords
is being the perfect – Ace of Pentacles
lover. – Lovers.
Wheel of Fortune – Six of Wands – King of Cups
Being a wonderfully affectionate man – something up his sleeve.
He is being your good affectionate man – King of Cups
– it’s happening in a wonderful way – Wheel of Fortune
but there’s some pretense to it too. – Six of Wands
Magician – Six of Cups – King of Wands
Passionate man takes initiative being romantic.
Passionate man – King of Wands*
is taking the initiative – Magician
to be loving. – Six of Cups
[King of Wands is also a husband or married man.]
Eight of Cups – Knight of Pentacles – Queen of Wands
1. Deliberately going out of his way for you to be his wife/woman
– Or -.
2. One thing on his mind: .to leave his wife.
1.
Deliberately – Knight of Pentacles
going out of his way – Eight of Cups
for you to be his wife. – Queen of Wands
2.
One thing on his mind: – Knight of Pentacles
to leave – Eight of Cups
his wife. – Queen of Wands
Strength – Seven of Wands – Ten of Cups
Your effect on him is: He feels pressured to marry you.
Your effect on him is: – Strength
He feels pressured – Seven of Wands
to marry you. – Ten of Cups
Note the last cards of the last three spreads are about marriage: King of Wands is the husband card in Tarot Verbatim™; Queen of Wands, the wife card; Ten of Cups, one of two good marriage cards.
Emily writes to Client, re the first set of spreads:
This looks like a married man who has ‘the other woman.’ And it looks like that stressed guy you can’t make up his mind but is being affectionate.
If I type up what I have, it may not make sense without me knowing who’s who.
I will wait a while for you to respond, and write these spreads down, and ask the question again limiting the answer to just him and you.
Client writes to Emily re the above Note:
Hi Emily,
Thank you for this.
He is not married, but recently divorced with all sorts of drama with manipulative ex and 2 very manipulative/manipulated kids.
In this sense, even though we are very much in a committed relationship (it’s been almost 2 years, and we met well after his separation but during the final months of divorce litigation), I guess I am the other woman because of all the claws and fangs still gripping him and pulling him in directions his heart does not agree with?
I should add that he has said many time that he will “never get married again”… perhaps he is conflicted about that belief and the prospect of me walking away from him and the drama that he may have to continue to deal with for the next several years…
Emily writes to Client,
This thread of conversation here is a perfect example of the limitations of verbatim Tarot – a perfect example of what should be put in a question to get a focused answer (because the question best contains what the cards are likely to be imprecise about).
I am thinking of publishing it along with the original spread that I replaced when I asked another question limiting the answer to ‘just you and he.’
How do you feel about that? Your name isn’t mentioned, of course.
Client writes to Emily
Sure, go for it. Thanks!
OKAY. HERE’S THE ORIGINAL CARDS I DESELECTED RE THE SAME QUESTION:
Hierophant – Six of Swords – Queen of Pentacles
Is on his way out, committing to a woman who cares for and supports him.
Is on his way out – Six of Swords
committing to – Hierophant
a woman who supports and cares for him. – Queen of Pentacles
Nine of Swords – Queen of Wands – High Priestess
Up nights anxious about a wife and the other woman.
Up nights due to anxiety: – Nine of Swords
has a wife – Queen of Wands
and another woman. – High Priestess
King of Cups – Ace of Wands – Ace of Pentacles
1. He is weak and emotional, he’s got to do right.
– And -.
2. You’re the only right one to have sex with – he’s your honey.
1.
He feels like such a weakling – King of Cups
because he must – Ace of Wands
be right, do the right thing. – Ace of Pentacles
2.
You’re the only one to have sex with – Ace of Wands
the right one, the right path – Ace of Pentacles
because he is your honey. – King of Cups
Magician – Tower – Ten of Cups
The man is doing both a divorce and a marriage.
The man is doing both – Magician
a divorce – Tower
and a satisfying/happy marriage. – Ten of Cups
King of Swords – King of Wands – Fool
1. He is neither a strong man nor a husband.
– And -.
2. The passionate man isn’t a strong honorable man.
1.
He is not either – Fool
a strong man – King of Swords
or a husband. – King of Wands
2.
The passionate man – King of Wands
isn’t – Fool
a strong manly man. – King of Swords
Page of Cups – Page of Swords – Two of Pentacles
Is anxious and uncertain over and over again.
Is anxious – Page of Swords
and uncertain – Page of Cups
all the time, over and over. – Two of Pentacles
Lovers – Star – Knight of Cups
Here your lover is, declaring his affection to you.
Here your lover is – Lovers
declaring to you – Star
his affection – being a loving boyfriend. – Knight of Cups
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