Our Daily Spread for January 4, 2012 Wednesday ©
Advice is about how beneficial the suffering we have overcome is. How being broke can teach us how to have money and how to keep it so we are financially stable. How it’s the Dark Night of the Soul that makes a spiritual adept. How heartache instructs our enjoyment of peace and quiet when we finally arrive there. All’s well that ends well, we forget the birth agony when we live our new baby life to the full. Get the independence you want by handling the ghetto within.
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 Pentacles
Nine of Pentacles – Nine of Cups – Strength
GROUP ANALYTICAL TAROT READING Tell the visitors here something useful and meaningful to them.
Spiritual Perspective: Overcoming Dark Night of the Soul (Strength + Five of Pentacles)
Get the independence you want by handling the ghetto within.
I want to subdue my weaknesses so I am in control of my own life.
I overcome disappointment by choosing to be my independent self.
The way to have it all, all by yourself, is to have nothing and do something about it.
I really want to have my own space: Even if I have nothing, I am the one in charge of it.
Resolving your own personal failings is the way to not need anymore, to have instead.
Overcoming Dark Night of the Soul, you have the self-confidence you crave.
When you are detached, you have the upper hand whether you have nothing or have it all.
Overcoming feeling sorry for myself, because I want to be self-sufficient.
Wanting it all makes me poor; overcoming that makes me secure in my possession.
I got control of my inner greed by doing without; now I am secure.
She is the self-sacrificing entrepreneur who overcomes greed.
She wants to be alone until she has her bad feelings under control.
Doing Without is How to Have It All (Five of Pentacles + Nine of Cups)
People who overcome utter poverty keep personal control of their assets.
Overcoming destitution is a way to be as rich as you could want.
She has in her own name whatever she wants: She has overcome being poor!
A woman who is destitute gets the upper hand and has the independence she wants.
She has it all, whatever she wants, all to herself: She overcomes want.
She has her own business because, losing it all, she got the ability to handle situations.
Doing without is the way to have it all: You are in command when you solve that problem.
Having done without instructs our enjoyment of life when we are doing well.
To be Single is to be in Control (Nine of Pentacles + Strength)
Overcoming self-pity is best achieved by being single, if you are a woman.
A single woman can get everything she wants; she is the one to overcome the ghetto.
She wants more than anything to be single to overcome the despair of not having anything of her own.
She desperately wants to be a single woman in charge of handling her own liabilities.
Downtrodden women want to be in control, to be single and have it all.
Controlling Female (Nine of Pentacles + Strength)
She has it all to herself and she reduces her enemy or opponent to self-pity!
(He) lost to a woman who can do without him: Putting him down is what she wanted.
You will lose if you oppose a skilled handler who rewards you for minding your own business.
Cross her, and you will be sorry: She is in charge here, and has it her way.
She gets you to do what she wants when you oppose her. You lose, it’s her show.
She wants to make you miserable to get control of you and own the turf.
Wanting to Overcome Want (Nine of Cups + Five of Pentacles)
In despair, women want to be in charge of their own place, defensively.
Downtrodden people long not only to have it all but to rule over their oppressors.
Owning a house of her own is what she wants most. That would solve being poor.
I’m keeping to myself because I really want to get a grip on feeling like a failure.
A woman who is doing without wants to have her own thing she is in charge of.
Now, Part Two,
Do you want to know a little, or a lot, about how this Tarot Verbatim ™ thing works? If so,
*Go to Meanings and Illustrations: 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 Meanings and Illustrations: 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 Pentacles
Nine of Pentacles – Nine of Cups – Strength
MEANINGS AND ILLUSTRATIONS: LEARN TAROT BY OBSERVING
This is quite the round table, this particular assembly of Rider Waite folks. A lot of interplay. Although the female gender is featured, gender is not the point, so I downplay it much of the time with ‘I’ and ‘me.’ Both Nine of Pentacles and Strength are women in control of their situation, their lives. Nine of Pentacles is entrenched in ownership, is ‘large and in charge,’ has already succeeded financially, and isn’t in any struggle but is doing whatever she pleases and minding her own business. Strength overcomes her struggles by superior defense: She defuses opposition by stroking it the right way until it purrs the way she wants it to. She is adept, spiritually superior, a skilled handler you just don’t cross if you’re smart. She too minds her own business. You can see how two people like this would be allies.
Then we have Nine of Cups having it all and Five of Pentacles lacking it all. Greed vs. destitution, the very wealthy and the very poor.
But Five of Pentacles is also about the Dark Night of the Soul spiritual phase, and Strength is one who is spiritually superior.
Nine of Pentacles and Nine of Cups have it all, want for nothing. Nine of Pentacles is about ownership of the means of production, being in charge of an enterprise, being stable financially; whereas Nine of Cups is just ‘high on the hog’ well off and has whatever she or she wants.
Nine of Pentacles owns a home, Five of Pentacles is homeless on the street.
So once again Tarot (Rider Waite Tarot in Tarot Verbatim ™ ) has paralleled spiritual stature with financial attainment. Interesting, that.
Another aspect of these four Rider Waite cards’ convergence is the woman who gets the upper hand to make others miserable. I put that at the bottom because the other messages are more useful, more meaningful. Nine of Pentacles + Strength + Five of Pentacles is ‘Hard-hearted Hannah’ keeping the peasants in their place.
MEANINGS AND ILLUSTRATIONS: LEARN TAROT BY THE PICTURES
Nine of Pentacles is entrenched in ownership, is ‘large and in charge,’ has already succeeded financially and is stable financially, and isn’t in any struggle but is doing whatever she pleases and minding her own business, being in control of her situation, her life. She owns her home, she owns an enterprise and the means of production. She is a proud and private person who minds her own business and expects you to mind yours. There she is in the vineyard with her falcon, having that ‘I’ve got mine’ look and stance, with a snail at her feet to let you know she is a lady of leisure who does things in her own sweet time.
Nine of Cups The very wealthy can stay drunk and still be successful, you know. They do that in Palm Beach a lot. Probably in D. C. too? This is the person who has it all and is used to it, the person who has no concept of ‘enough.’ The American dream. It means greed too, of course. A bellyfull or a full belly. It is what you want as well, or even wanting. But even then it retains the whiff of excess.
Strength overcomes with justifiable force (a legal term). The emphasis here is on the overcoming and being in control of the situation by superior defense and by being a superior person. She is a spiritual adept (the symbol abover her head, the white robe with flowers on it), the kind of invisible person troublemakers ignore as too much trouble. She is in control of herself, her life, her situation. She defuses opposition by stroking it the right way until it purrs the way she wants it to. She is a skilled handler you just don’t cross if you’re smart. She too minds her own business. When this card finds itself in negative territory, it puts someone in (his) place or shuts someone up: See her hands on the lion’s mouth to keep him from roaring?
Five of Pentacles Us at our lowest point. Been down so long it looks like up to me. Numb with despair and blind to the escape from misery. Dark Night of the Soul, a port on one’s spiritual journey, feels just like that. These are the times our energy is drained, spiritually or physically. This is the way mooches and vampires make us feel. This is being homeless and sick. This is being broke and doing without. This is being lonely and hurt. The message of the Rider Waite Tarot card is that there is warmth and food in the cathedral that they are trudging by without seeing.
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