Guidance, Our Daily Spread
Guidance Worry is like the color red: It takes over the canvas and hogs the attention. As ten percent of our life, it colors the other ninety, distorting our outlook. Things are usually better than we think they are, even if we aren’t ‘a worrier.’ Let’s try to peel off that red tape, shall we?
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Nine of Swords Two of Wands – Ace of Cups – Hermit
. GROUP ANALYTICAL TAROT CARDS READING Tell the visitors here something useful and meaningful to them. Headings: [So you can pick what’s yours] Tarot Readings: Someone who Loves and Cares (Ace of Cups + Hermit) Tarot Readings: Seeking God (Ace of Cups + Hermit) Tarot Readings: Medical Healing (Ace of Cups + Hermit) Tarot Readings: Worry About the Future (Two of Wands + Nine of Swords) Tarot Readings: Real Estate (Two of Wands) Tarot Readings: Looking For and Worried Tarot Readings: Someone who Loves and Cares (Ace of Cups + Hermit) Loves you and takes care of you, so you aren’t going to worry. The fact is, I will be upset when I fall in love. A person who loves you is upset about a plan for sobriety. Will be looking for love and worrying. Worry that I will have someone to love in my old age. Celibate love is always something to worry about, huh? You always hurt the one you love, in retrospect. Worry about being in love with (my) best friend – what will happen. My scary time is ahead, but I am safe with someone who cares. Will be waiting up for somebody I love to come to me. Always love you and comfort you when you are upset. All that grief so those he loves and adores can be ‘set for life.’ This anxious person will always be considerate and loving. Tarot Readings: Seeking God (Ace of Cups + Hermit) God will help (you) when (you) are troubled. When things are bad, will be seeking the presence of God. On a vision quest or pilgrimage but scared of being the the presence of God. To know divine truth will always be scary. Seeking God over fears for the future. Tarot Readings: Medical Healing (Ace of Cups + Hermit) Examination shows a clean bill of health, but you will still worry. Can see the patient is in good health but will always be anxious. Worry about getting pregnant with medical intervention or help. A religious healing for the fear and anxiety, for sure. Sobriety will bring you health, for all your worries. Person who fears he/she will be in good health from medical care. A doctor will actually bring you healing for your anxiety. Going to be a healthy old man in spite of your fears. Tarot Readings: Worry About the Future (Two of Wands + Nine of Swords) When you see things the way they are, it’s easy to be anxious about the future. When you understand, it’s easy to be afraid something is going to happen. You know that worrying about the future is the easy part. Someone is coming to help but I still worry about my future. Clairvoyance eases your grief. Tarot Readings: Real Estate (Two of Wands) The real estate that I worried about is valuable now; people are looking for water. People who are scared will head to the safe places. The fact is, real estate that was threatened is now secure. Tarot Readings: Looking For and Worried Will be very concerned and looking for the easy way out. Looking for a leak and worried what you will find. Looking ahead and seeing the benefit from life being miserable. Finding my way in the dark will be easy. He will come to help his loved ones in their hour of need. Will come to help when (you are) upset.
Nine of Swords Two of Wands – Ace of Cups – Hermit
LEARN TAROT BY OBSERVING
Here we have three cards of security and affection and taking care … and one that means worry, stress and nightmare. When you put them together in stories, the nightmare one really interferes. I think this spread is a reminder of how the 25% worry infects the 75% calm.
*Two of Wands here today is the (good) future, security, real estate – and mostly the word ‘will.’ *Ace of Cups is love, health, good, God, benefit, easy and eases, a flow, loved one, and sometimes religion (especially sitting next to Hermit). *Hermit is a friend comes to help, comfort, seeking (seeking after God, next to Ace of Cups), looking out for, looking for the way, sobriety, celibacy or monogamy, religious, being out on the road (especially at night).
Worry and anxiety are as much about body chemistry as they are about situations. Look back at the past angsts of yours and recall the events. How did you get out of those bad times? How do you feel when you think about them now? Now that the distance has calmed you down, could you handle that era more confidently?
No matter what there is to worry about, you are going to get through it okay if you are a friend, and if you have a friend to care for, who cares for you.
Our message today is to be aware how worry takes over and paints the whole scene when it really belongs to only a much smaller part of it.
LEARN TAROT BY PICTURES
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Two of Wands An elaborately dressed real estate banker mogul atop his roof, the world in his hand, surveys the town he owns, making plans for all the wealth he is making from all the wealth he has. His future is secure, his plans certain to happen. |
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Ace of Cups is a Roman Catholic-based concept Rider Waite Tarot card. The dove, the wafer of holy communion, the five flows out of the fountain represent the Middle Ages concept of five senses and/or five bodily fluids of life being infused with the presence of God and therefore healthy. Love and loved one, flow, good, good health, God/God’s presence, benefit, easy and eases, safe: These are its main meanings. |
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Hermit The monk goes out in the cold nights looking for travelers to help. He is you being (or having) a kind helpful friend. He is devotion and caretaking. He is seeking. He looking objectively at anything. The facts, the truth, even an investigation. A trip. Coming to you. |
Nine of Swords is in distress, upset, scared, up nights crying, anxious and jittery, grieving, fearful, stressed and tense. Night terrors, bad dreams, all the things we worry over. A person is sitting upright in bed, hands to head in the classical ‘I can’t take this’ posture.
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I N S T R U C T I O N S & Explanations (Comments are below this.) Did you come here just for your predictions? – If so, you are done when you finish reading the sentences of Group Analytical Tarot Cards Reading. Each Tarot sentence is a literal-interpretation reading of the scenes pictured on the four cards you see. Only what each of the cards says – phrase by phrase – no fillers – no psychic ability used. The readings are about you and the people around you. They are about today and the days around it. Tarot, all by itself, talks to you. This is a demonstration of that . Tarot will address any group flexibly, as it does here of ‘all the visitors.’ (It can address ‘all the people at work who have a say in my raise,’ for instance, without you knowing who or where those people are.) Horoscopes are group readings too. Astrology has to be based on someone else’s birth data, though, so it does not solidly apply to you just because of where the sun was when you were born. (Astrologers know this.) Emily wants to know whether these sentences are more accurate for regular visitors than for people who have come only a few times. Would you help with a comment, if that is who you are? Please? Without a question to focus the answer, four cards can mean contradictory things, especially when the Spread has a card that means ‘no, never or not.’ That negative modifier can apply to any one of the cards. Without a question also the pronouns (you, him, her, me, us, them, they, etc.) 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. Notice how, as much as possible, we drop pronouns, which makes for some awkward phrasing. The question in a ‘real’ individual reading supplies at least half the information! In a ‘real’ reading, the parties are identified (including the gender of the questioner!), and so is the time frame if there is one. In this group reading, we cannot do that, so we have variety. 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. This tells the thinking regarding 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. This is the meaning of each separate card. This is 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. Regular visitors actually learn to read Tarot without trying. The Tarot Talks tab has some examples for students. P. S. Call Emily for your personal live reading at 800 99 3 6 9 12 (from Eastern 1 p. m. to Eastern 1 a. m. at least, every day). Emily analyzes relationships in business situations and personal situations accurately from *Tarot, *intuitive, and *practical perspectives. She tells you what is happening and what to do about it to make it happen best. (Testimonials about this are on the web site https://EmilysInsight.com and here under its Tab, and in Comments.)
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Four Card Spreads, Our Daily Spread
Advice When we are told a truth, or when the news is scary, we get upset; but we also calm down … or are calmed down by a caring friend … and we look for ways to change our situation, or to change ourselves. An older friend tells him something about himself that upsets him. A handsome young man who is celibate realizes this is getting on his last nerve. The good-looking fellow comes to you; he is back and you are nervous.
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Nine of Swords
Hermit – Page of Wands – Judgment
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*Go to Advice above which is a summary of the Messages. (Advice is everyone’s favorite part.)
*Go to Daily Message Tarot Analysis below. One or more of those sentences has something to say to you. Intuitively pick those out. 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!
DAILY MESSAGE TAROT ANALYSIS
“Tell the visitors here something useful and meaningful to them.”
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Friends Perspective
A friend who cares tells (you) he is worried about (you).
Tells a friend who cares (he) is upset about (him)self.
A friend who is a good person says he/she can’t sleep.
So devoted to this good person, he goes back to staying up late.
This good person is so devoted to you, (he) goes back to staying up late.
A reminder to go talk to someone who is grieving.
A friend comes and talks (you) out of (your) anxiety.
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Worries and Fears Perspective
Is told something that worries (him), so (he) changes the trip.
Goes back to (his) real name, afraid ‘they’ are looking for (him).
A handsome young man who is celibate realizes this is getting on his last nerve.
It is scary when the dead speak the truth.
With this healer, you recover your good health that you worry about.
Gets over being stressed out when a friends comes over to talk.
It’s alarming when a doctor tells you he is worried.
His older and wiser friend brings distressing news.
Calm down by talking yourself out of being scared or stressed out.
Is upset about her appearance and seeks to have it changed.
Optimist gets the message when he is older, and worries.
The good-looking fellow comes to you; he is back and you are nervous.
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Identity, Real Name
Afraid to say who he is or say his real name.
Searching the name, an upsetting revelation occurs.
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Can’t Sleep/Insomnia Perspective
Helps his clean-cut friend who can’t sleep recover.
Helps his friend who is fearful or nervous to change.
Goes back to (his) real name, afraid ‘they’ are looking for (him).
Wakes up from a bad dream and inspects his body.
A doctor’s advice about recovering from insomnia.
When your body gets old, you dread waking up.
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News, the Facts or Truth
The awful truth is told and repeated.
It is scary when the dead speak the truth.
When you discover the facts, you are embarrassed about what you said.
When you are told some bad news, investigate.
He/She tells us the awful alarming truth.
Brings him the bad news personally.
What I said was true, but what a headache when someone repeated it.
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The Dead Speak
Old man comes back from the dead to speak with the bereaved.
It is scary when the dead speak the truth.
Now, Part Two,
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MEANINGS AND ILLUSTRATIONS: OBSERVATION OF THE SPREAD
Two of these Rider Waite citizens refer to speaking or an announcement – Page of Wands and Judgment. And they each also mean a good person. Page of Wands is to speak or tell, simply. Judgment means a formal announcement, speak loudly, news, to sound an alarm.
(Page of Wands also means young, good-looking or handsome, well-dressed, a good-guy or good reputation and to ‘speak up’ or ‘stand up,’ as well as name or identity.)
(Judgment also means change, to return to a former state or condition, new life, realization, wakes up, to appear unexpectedly (pop up), sudden, to go back to, and “re” words: resume, recover, restore.)
100 sentences could be written in a jiffy here. This is a good spread for learners of Tarot. Here are some examples of common phrases and concepts from two-card combinations contained in this spread (and these are just a few):
Hermit is old and wise, Page of Wands is young and immature: “his friend who is older and wiser.” Hermit is wise and Page of Wands is words: words of wisdom. Hermit is a friend who helps and Page of Wands is tells; so this means a wise friend talks to you, or you tell your wise friend something. (Since Page of Wands is self and one’s image, the conversation could be personal.)
Judgment is change and Nine of Swords is something to worry about or that is scary (so ‘afraid of change’ or a scary change). Judgment is news and Nine of Swords is scary (really bad news announcement). Judgment means recover and Nine of Swords is stress or insomnia (recover from stress or insomnia). Judgment is to wake up, and Nine of Swords is a bad dream. (I could go on!)
MEANINGS AND ILLUSTRATIONS:
INDIVIDUAL RIDER WAITE TAROT CARDS
Hermit shows the old monk out looking for people to help on the road at night. The meanings for him include friend, friend who cares, healer or physician or counselor, trip, friendly, search, truth, help, sincere, devoted, celibate, healer, to go to (another), honest, elderly or older, devotee, being true.
Page of Wands A nice young man, well-dressed and well-spoken – the ‘fair-haired boy,’ if you please – speaks up. The meanings for him include self, speak, good person, name, identity, handsome or good-looking, young, to stand up, to be yourself, optimist, honest.
Judgment depicts resurrection day (one of the cards inserted in the Middle Ages to keep the deck from being something evil) with the angel blowing the trumpet to wake the dead. The meanings for him include to speak, change, announcement or declaration, verdict, return to a former state or condition, new life, realization, sudden, speak to the dead, resume, recover, restore, unexpected appearance, goes back to, alarm, awakes.
Nine of Swords You don’t need to be told; the illustration says it all: A person in a nightgown sits up holding his/her face in the classic ‘What am I going to do?’ stance. The meanings for him include nightmare, worry, up nights or can’t sleep, crying, fear or afraid, insomnia, anxiety, upset, grief, gets on (his) nerves, wake up in the middle of the night, stays up late, scary.
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Four Card Spreads, Our Daily Spread
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Without a question to focus the answer, four cards can mean even contradictory things. Without a question also the pronouns in a group reading are less specific, more flexible, especially in some of these Rider Waite Tarot spreads. Especially when a pronoun is in parentheses, feel free to substitute.
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Death
Hermit, Nine of Swords, Seven of Cups
Meanings and Illustrations: Observation of the Spread
First off, our first three cards are night scenes, and two of them (Nine of Swords and Seven of Cups) are about nightmares. The other is a friend coming to help, or treatment from a physician.
Next we notice that Hermit is ‘rational’ and Seven of Cups is ‘irrational.’
Hermit is calm, and the next Rider Waite Tarot card is fear, apprehension, anxiety, nervousness.
Then, the remaining Tarot card is Death, which, in the Tarot Verbatim system, means no-never-not – is a negating card. In the four-card configuration we are using, that negative card can attach itself to any of the others. This makes for (1) flexibility and (2) contradictory meanings or sentences. Death rarely literally means ‘death’ unless the theme is established outside of its presence, usually by the Eight of Swords, who, shhhh, is nowhere around.
Notice we have two ‘Perspectives’ that are opposite. The Death card does this. Gotta watch that one!
Meanings and Illustrations: Individual Rider Waite Tarot Cards
Hermit is, in this spread, the friend, the friend who comes to help, the rational view, taking a good look, investigating, analyzing, examining, going out hunting for, going out, seeking, seeking help, the facts, the truth, being sensible, doctor or physician, diagnosis, and comforting.
What holds these – and more we aren’t using today – meanings of The Hermit together is the story: The monk goes out seeking people who need help, and he calmly brings them comfort.
Nine of Swords is self-explanatory: A person sits up in bed, hands to head in despair, unable to sleep. Fear, anxiety, worry, up nights crying.
Seven of Cups shows disparate, unrelated, items in a cloud, and a dark-robed figure taken aback contemplating this. The story is Pandora’s Box and/or The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. In modern parlance, the poop hits the fan. It means ‘things,’ plural, as in Things Are Out Of Control! Things fall apart.
Death means any negative word. It negates the meaning of any card it can touch: In this configuration, that’s all of them. In the illustration, he is not the king any more because he is dead. This card in Tarot Verbatim has other meanings, most of which aren’t being used here, such as ‘end.’
TAROT ANALYSIS
Not being fearful perspective:
You don’t worry about all these things when you take a good look at them.
View objectively all these things you stew over: Things are not that out of control.
See, all the things you worry about don’t happen.
Be calm and you won’t worry about things getting out of control.
Analyze them as unrelated factors, they are no cause for anxiety.
Go out hunting for these things that go bump in the night and don’t be afraid of them.
Sleep isn’t disturbed by nightmares when the light is on.
None of the things you are afraid of are real when examined.
When you’re not objective, you can have unwarranted fears.
Don’t be afraid to seek help when things fall apart.
Don’t let your friend ‘go off the deep end’ with anxiety.
When you aren’t realistic, your fears go wild.
There is no way (he) is going to get upset about all this stuff: He is sensible.
There is no way your friend is going to get upset by any of these things.
Fears don’t run wild when you know the facts.
None of these things are that scary when diagnosed.
Don’t be afraid to objectively observe you have ‘lost it.’
Being nervous about doctors is not irrational.
No one comes to help when the fears are imaginary.
Fearful Perspective:
No investigation into the nightmarish out of control situation.
Truth is not known about the scary meltdown.
The scary fact is, these things are not unrelated.
It’s nighttime, you awake sweating, and know it isn’t a bad dream.
Gets treatment to put an end to disturbed sleep.
These are rational, not irrational fears.
Afraid that none of these things will help.
Didn’t go to comfort (them) when bad dreams woke them up.
Afraid to seek help, that it doesn’t make sense.
Nervous that you won’t get help with this mess.
He is afraid not being honest has made a mess of things.
Four Card Spreads, Our Daily Spread, Tarot Verbatim
Today’s question is: What projects should I be focusing on in my life now?
Fear and worry drain you: Know the truth by thinking very factually and soberly
Five of Pentacles
Queen of Cups, Hermit, Nine of Swords
You can be so miserable you miss your supporter(s) when your thinking is worrying.
You worry about doing without. Think calmly and analytically regarding this.
Fear and worry drain you: Know the truth by thinking very factually and soberly.
It is when you are depleted that you can’t sleep. Your mind is going at night.
It is a fact that worrying about poor times is what is on (her )mind.
You get so upset and lonely: You know he is looking for you, coming to you (at night).
When your thoughts make you anxious, go help someone who is in real need.
She knows she has help but still worries about poor times.
Queen of Cups is her thinking (often about her man) and Hermit is factual calm observation – that type of thinking. Then we have the Nine of Cups being upset, not able to sleep, worrying and having bad dreams, followed by ‘dark night of the soul,’ the Five of Pentacles which means to be so depleted you don’t even see help – to be doing without and miserable, possibly feeling sorry for yourself. Except for Queen of Cups, all these cards are night scenes. The first three cards all have something to do with thinking about things. Hermit means giving help and Five of Pentacles is being in need of help.
The project is to be aware of how you worry about doing without, how anxious that makes you, how it keeps you up nights, and to think logically, calmly about this – to observe what the truth is factually and calm down.
Meanings and Illustrations:
Queen of Cups: She is thinking. Today it’s not about her man, but about herself. She is shown dreamily staring at some ugly antique.
Hermit: This is truth, facts, rational observation, coming to a person, helping a person. Pictured is the monks that go out at night looking for travelers in distress – and of course the Five of Pentacles is some travelers on the street in distress.
Nine of Swords: We know him/her, don’t we? Up nights being anxious and not sleeping, worrying in the dark. That is the illustration
Five of Pentacles: ‘Bums on the street.’ Destitute. Drained, exhausted, so numb they don’t see the church refuge there, and keep going. Poor times, indeed. Depicts our fears, yes?
Get out from under the restrictions these screwed-up people foist on you: Bitch at them!
Sun
Ten of Pentacles, Two of Cups, Queen of Swords
Get away from the people who put their troubles on you, put you in a foul mood.
Get out from under the restrictions these screwed-up people foist on you: Bitch at them!
Free yourself from the oppressive values of a (family?) culture that sacrifices you to benefit others.
Have some fun with the in-laws (or the ex) that suck(s) your blood .
Just quit holding people up to your standards who are dysfunctional mooches/bloodsuckers.
You feel so good when you leave such a dysfunctional home life with that bloodsucking bitch.
She is to be stern with the brat who is a drain on the whole family.
This demanding wench converted his money to her own use, and he is out of that sick nasty house.
The first two cards here, in Rider Waite Tarot, refer to social scheming, to one-ups-manship and being in the grip of controlling folks, the oppressive undertones of hostile atmospheres between or among people who are associated with one another. Ten of Pentacles and Two of Cups are NOT where you want to be! The next card can be either the woman who is suffering from the grief described, or is the cause of it (or both). But that last card means to be free of, to get out of and out from under. (But it can also be the brat who causes the grief. So there is some variation on the theme, but the theme is quite strongly stated here.
The project is to get away from troublesome and troublemaking people who ‘get to you’ and make you irritable. Being the victim of family bloodsuckers is VERY clearly stated … but so is the escape! So you can leave this phase of your life behind; it is over. All over but the shouting?
Meanings and Illustrations:
Ten of Pentacles is any kind of dysfunctional, screwed-up, quarrelsome, scheming backstabbing politicking people, be it family, workplace, friends, or the AA group. It can be The Mob or any gang or mob, even a government or agency. A family quarrel is the picture.
Two of Cups: This is how the dysfunctional backstabbing quarrelsome family began: with a bloodsucking user for a lover. Other decks (and other readers of the Rider Waite deck) consider this a romance card, but they disregard that caduceus. This is, say, marrying for money, or using someone for sex or social climbing.
Queen of Swords can be either the woman who is suffering from the dysfunctional family or group, or who is part of the problem. It is also advice to be the bitch. She sits there with that weapon in her right hand and her left hand inviting someone to ‘Come on down.’ Could be PMS.
Sun: Leaving home. Out of there. Free of it. But also the brat. Illustration shows the kid who snuck out of the house to play bareback, naked, on a horse with a wicked gleam in its eye.
He is looking for a partner who is a VIP to cooperate with as two strong men together
King of Swords
Knight of Pentacles, Temperance, Ace of Cups
Have your close relationship be with a responsible man who really loves you and only you.
This man is looking only for true love, for an intimate partner who is as grownup as he is.
He is a strong man; he is determined that his partner is going to be an equal who is cooperative.
He is looking for a partner who is a VIP to cooperate with as two strong men together.
Focus on cooperating closely with the boss.
Center cards, Temperance and Ace of Cups, refer to being close, cooperating and/or loving; and the outer cards are both strong men. Mr. Knight of Pentacles is the ‘muscle,’ the younger ambitious focused dude, and Mr. Knight of Swords is the strongman, the responsible grownup, the leader.
The project is to associate yourself – and we refer here to both love and business – with a stable strong man, a non-neurotic male, in order to get ahead and have no clash or conflict in your story. Now, this refers to both men and women as well as refers to both love and other life arenas. It is talking about eliminating the bad stuff from your life by hanging out with stable males.
Meanings and Illustrations:
Knight of Pentacles: He is focused today. All the cards around him bring out the best in him today, so we won’t mention his ‘bad side.’ The illustration shows a man focused on that one thing he holds in front of his face.
Temperance: Close associates, intimate association, equal partners. Temperance also has a healing influence to it, that is echoed by the adjacent next card, the Ace of Cups. Shown is an angel pouring liquid from one cup to another over water. This is one of the Middle Ages cards that some purists feel has no real place in the Tarot.
Ace of Cups: Cooperation, love – and also a secondary meaning of healing or health. Depicted is the idea that the Holy Spirit indwelling in a person creates an atmosphere that clears all bad influences away. The dove and the wafer are symbols of the Holy Spirit, and the five flows of liquid refer to the five senses.
King of Swords: This is the strong man or strongman, the grownup responsible man of character, the military disciplined man. Illustrated is a tall German-looking fellow, very erect, holding the weapon as if it were part of himself, very relaxed yet also alert.
So what all these spreads have in common is the importance of associating with people who bring out the calm focused you – to avoid aggravating social scenes and people, and to seek out the opposite, to seek out calm grownups.
Four Card Spreads, Our Daily Spread, Tarot Verbatim
Today’s question is: How to deal with whatever your problem is.
It’s other people’s problems, their time to worry. The truth is: You are doing fine with what you have
Hermit
Queen of Pentacles, Ten of Pentacles, Nine of Swords
It’s other people’s problems, their time to worry. The truth is: You are doing fine with what you have.
You have all the resources to analyze this situation that involves you worrying about the other people.
You help others and take care of them: It is their problems you worry about.
The truth is: You are investing what is yours in a dysfunctional worrisome bunch of people.
These screwed up people come crying to you for help, and you take care of them.
Two of these cards refer to helping and taking care of another, Queen of Pentacles and Hermit. But today they are not taking care of each other. No, there are some dysfunctional people who are the problem, Ten of Pentacles, and there is a major ‘Wah’ going on, or worry, the Nine of Swords.
Advice is to take a good look at how you are spending your own time, effort and heart juices on people who ARE a problem, are upsetting you. Inference is: and not doing anything for themselves.
Meanings and Illustrations:
Queen of Pentacles: She takes care of her man or her people, she uses her resources for others. Yes, she is doing fine. Pictured with money in her hands and surrounded by growing things.
Ten of Pentacles: That’s the trouble people she is taking care of, depicted as a quarreling family but it also refers to a troubled romance or marriage.
Nine of Swords: Boo-hoo. Up nights crying is the scene. Here is refers to her worry about them, or to their attitude of crying to her.
Hermit: The truth is. To analyze and observe a situation. Helping others. Illustrated is the monk who goes out looking for people in trouble to bring them help.
Sleep through the trouble and it will produce exactly what you want, just for you
Moon
Nine of Cups, Four of Swords, Nine of Pentacles
Just wait out the bad scene, enjoying your private life by yourself, and you will get what you want.
It’s a really bad situation, but not yours to do anything about: Mind your own business and enjoy life.
You don’t need to do another thing about the terrible situation, you are single and have what you need.
Sleep through the trouble and it will produce exactly what you want, just for you.
You have what is yours, and that’s that, you have no part in the bad scene.
Nine of Cups, he is mighty satisfied with his own good dinners; and Nine of Pentacles feels the same self-satisfaction. They are both enjoying their own private lives, and she specifically is not interested in other people’s anything. In the middle is not doin’ a thing. And the last card reflects the question today, which is about ‘your problem.’ Well, the advice is: It’s not really your problem, you can just enjoy what you’ve got and to heck with this problem thing. Take a nap. (Sometimes that is very literal advice. When you see Four of Swords, ask yourself whether you are short on your sleep.)
So the advice here is: Problem, what problem? It isn’t really your problem. Enjoy what you’ve got and to heck with it all.
Meanings and Illustrations:
Nine of Cups: Have everything you want or need, get what you want, enjoy life. Pictured is the fat fella who ate and drank to surfeit, still grinning in satisfaction.
Four of Swords: To rest, sleep, meditate, and not do or be active about anything. Take it easy. The illustration shows the candidate for knighthood meditating in the cathedral before he is knighted.
Nine of Pentacles: She is enjoying her private life and minding her own business, she is single and is just for herself, which echoes the Nine of Cups’ self centered approach.
Moon: This stands for whatever the problem is, that terrible thing. This Rider Waite Tarot card stands for everything gone wrong. Pictured in weird colors are a full moon, a dog with a wolf, a lobster beginning a land journey.
In the process (painful) of separating yourself from that sweet guy you love so much
Three of Swords
Ace of Cups, Knight of Cups, Three of Wands
When you are broken up or divorced, someone comes to you with loving feelings.
When your true love comes to you, you will be separating yourself from a heartache.
In the process (painful) of separating yourself from that sweet guy you love so much.
While you are hurting, wait for someone who expresses (his) devotion to come to you.
Break up, separate from him, and he will come to you with heartfelt devotion.
Well, this is obviously about love. The Ace of Cups means love, the Knight of Cups is the loving person or man, and the Three of Swords is heartache, splitting up, hurting. The card that isn’t in that theme is the Three of Wands which indicates a good future.
Advice here is to let love come to you regardless of whatever is hurtful or regardless of some separation you find yourself in. The spread has a very pleasant feel to it.
Meanings and Illustrations:
Ace of Cups: Love, true love, God’s love. Good everything: good health, no harm, ease. The illustration in Rider Waite depicts the dove and wafer, symbols of the Holy Spirit, infusing five flows (which stand for the five senses).
Knight of Cups: And here is the loving person, usually a man, usually youngish (which can mean young in heart or attitude, or ‘pure’) taking the initiative to express affection: ‘He comes to you’ type thing. The soft curves of the line drawing, and his relaxed pretty horse express all this.
Three of Wands: It’s coming. Something comes to you, you are not going to it; and whatever it is, it’s a good thing. Often in means income or profit. Illustration screams ‘Ships coming in.’
Three of Swords: A divorce card in Tarot Verbatim. It means separation, hostility, being against, hurt, and shows a heart with three knives piercing it.
All three spreads say: Relax. You don’t need to take any action. Let it work itself out; it will.
