Tarot Readings for You for April 26, 2013 Friday(c)
Six of Wands is the consummate party pooper. Whenever you see him, you look for relief from others. Today he’s accompanied by denial (Four of Cups) and anxiety (Nine of Wands), and then you have Eight of Pentacles saying it’s a constant thing and/or happens at work. So today is the day for the problem children to come out of the woodwork: BOLO for Six of Wands things your gut may alert you to today. (Is today a good day to play hooky from work?)
Nine of Wands
Eight of Pentacles – Six of Wands – Four of Cups
Tarot Readings: Not Let It Get to Me (Four of Cups and Nine of Wands)
I am working at not letting the gamesters wear me down.
The best defense is to keep turning a deaf ear to the propaganda.
Hang in there, refuse to join in their cause and just do your job.
Keep pretending that you don’t feel the pressure at all.
It’s no sweat for me to keep up my role.
When you’re an informant or you’re spying, it’s your job to never act nervous.
It’s one conspiracy after another with him, and I’m not going to let it get to me.
I have a premonition about this, and I am not going along with it, I don’t care how many times it comes up.
I keep pretending I’m not anxious.
Warding off constant tension does get to you.
Tarot Readings: Pressure and Politics at Work (Eight of Pentacles and Nine of Wands)
Do not get involved in the politics at work: Hold out against that.
When you don’t play their game, you keep getting on their nerves.
This job is high pressure, I cannot pretend otherwise.
Not admitting that I dread working for the place that has that agenda.
Refusing to put up with pretenses (b.s.) at work.
It’s one betrayal after another by someone you work with who can deny it and act defensive and even ‘wounded’ about it.
Tarot Readings: Defensive Feelings (Nine of Wands)
My constant effort to ‘put my best foot forward’ and not make people nervous about me.
No, I’m not under it’s influence – I don’t do it every day … feel uneasy about this.
I keep saying ‘No,’ but I’m putting up with being taken advantage of.
Tarot Readings: Your Gut Talking, There (Nine of Wands)
Your gut is telling you to turn down each offer of a shady deal.
He denies he’s cheating, but you have this tight gut ….
A constant subversive threat has been going on behind your back as you nervously denied it to yourself.
Tarot Readings: The Mooch and Me (Six of Wands and Nine of Wands)
A mooch buddies up to you because you have a job, so defend yourself with ‘I don’t know you.
Isn’t the least bit self-conscious about constantly taking advantage or constantly bullshitting.
I keep saying ‘No,’ but I’m putting up with being taken advantage of.
I pressure myself to not let them keep taking advantage of me.
He acted like he was doing it, keeping you on the hook for a long time, and never did do it.
He doesn’t want to work at all but is pestering you to sponsor him.
Six of Wands is the consummate party pooper. Whenever you see him, you look for relief from others. Today he’s accompanied by denial (Four of Cups) and anxiety (Nine of Wands), and then you have Eight of Pentacles saying it’s a constant thing and/or happens at work. So today is the day for the problem children to come out of the woodwork: BOLO for Six of Wands things your gut may alert you to today.
Let’s get right down to it. Six of Wands’ illustration shows the betrayal of the king to Arabs in a battle the king wins, but his sneaky-bastard relative (who plotted the capture) takes over his kingdom and makes sure the Arabs keep Richard: He will die in captivity.
So Six of Wands is about ‘Something’s up,’ things seem to be going well but underneath there’s some hidden agenda, some mooch, some campaign to take over your turf or at least disturb your peace or place in the social order. Interference is afoot. Ya got a spy in the camp, a snake in the woodpile. (Just as a hypochondriac can be really sick, so can a mooch really love you.)
Nine of Wands has us on guard, feeling apprehensive because something’s up. Today, it is telling us to up-periscope and be lookin’ around, looking over our shoulder. There’s a time and a place for paranoia, you know.
Four of Cups occupies two main bases today. It is the denial we feel when things seem fine. It’s the ‘It can’t happen here’ we tell ourselves. But it is also advice not to let in the wolf that is at the door. To say ‘No.’ As in “Which part of ‘No’ do you not understand: the ‘N’ or the ‘O’?”
We left the first card until last today because Eight of Pentacles is the innocent bystander. He has two things to say in the company he finds himself today. One is, it’s about work, job, it happens at the workplace. The other is something that happens steadily, over and over, consistently – meaning, in our present layout, that this isn’t a one-time thing.
Eight of Pentacles At his bench in the workplace, a carpenter dutifully keeps at making one identical pentacle after another. Eight of Pentacles is about this routine, this persistent one-after-another groove we get into when they are paying us to do that. So it is about repetitive actions and about work-related topics.
Six of Wands Six of Wands is about ‘Something’s up,’ things seem to be going well but underneath there’s some hidden agenda, some mooch, some campaign to take over your turf or at least disturb your peace or place in the social order. Interference is afoot. Ya got a spy in the camp, a snake in the woodpile. How do we come by this drastic interpretation? – Its illustration shows the betrayal of the king to Arabs in a battle the king wins, but his sneaky-bastard relative (who plotted the capture) takes over his kingdom and makes sure the Arabs keep Richard, who dies in captivity.
This is Tarot Verbatim’s(TM) meanings for the Rider Waite illustration of Six of Wands. Other Tarot decks may diverge from this illustration, and may diverge from the translation we make here.
Four of Cups There he sits, legs crossed, arms crossed, head turned away as one more offer is made. Four of Cups occupies two main bases today. It is the denial we feel when things seem fine. It’s the ‘It can’t happen here’ we tell ourselves. But it is also advice not to let in the wolf that is at the door. To say ‘No.’ As in “Which part of ‘No’ do you not understand: the ‘N’ or the ‘O’? Since action can go both ways in Tarot, it can also be advice to you to not persist in offering what is being refused repeatedly.
Nine of Wands Nine of Wands has us on guard, feeling apprehensive because something’s up. Today, it is telling us to up-periscope and be lookin’ around, looking over our shoulder. There’s a time and a place for paranoia, you know. In our Rider Waite illustration, a border guard who is still bandaged from wounds received in the last skirmish is still holding his ground, dreading the return of the attackers.