Tarot Verbatim
Guidance The contemplative person takes action. Inspired insight occurs to the active person. These two things create a balance. Thought without action is as impotent as action without thought. Activity on the spiritual plane depletes the physical body of energy but produces informed and inspired action. Mental work depletes the body of energy too, but produces great inspired ideas about what to do. In the same way, awareness you need money inspires you to activity! Flashes of spiritual realization occur when you exhaust yourself.
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‘Group Tarot Cards Reading’ (just below this) is the actual word-for-word messages from the pictures of the four cards you see – to everyone. These readings are about you and the people around you. They are about today and the days around it. So, go ahead and pick the sentences you feel are yours and decide whether to encourage or reject them for yourself.
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Magician
High Priestess – Five of Pentacles – Hanged Man
GROUP TAROT CARDS READING
Tell the visitors here something useful and meaningful to them.
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Headings [So you can choose which belongs to you]
Tarot Readings: Rapport Between Him and His Lady (High Priestess and Hanged Man)
Tarot Readings: Spiritual Perspective (High Priestess and Hanged Man)
Tarot Readings: I Know What I Need (Five of Pentacles and Hanged Man)
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Tarot Readings: Rapport Between Him and His Lady (High Priestess and Hanged Man)
It strikes him he is not doing enough for his lady.
He knows what to do when his lady needs money.
Realizing she is feeling alone left out, he takes action.
He intuitively feels he does not have enough money to make it with this classy lady.
She has an aha moment that he is making himself miserable.
He gets it that, when he does that, it hurts her feelings deeply.
A eureka experience about why he is doing that sickens her.
She knows he does that because he sorely lacks insight.
He senses how tired she gets of him doing that.
He realizes she gets depressed about doing that herself.
Tarot Readings: Spiritual Perspective (High Priestess and Hanged Man)
An acute awareness on the spiritual plane numbs me to acting on the physical plane.
Psychic awareness on the spiritual plane leaves you too tired to get anything done.
When he does deep mental activity, it drains him to exhaustion.
I get flashes of spiritual realization when I exhaust myself.
Tarot Readings: I Know What I Need (Five of Pentacles and Hanged Man)
When she needs money, she knows what to do.
Inkling he lacks the research to get this done.
I get it: I don’t know enough to make this happen.
Deja vu: When she does that she makes herself miserable.
Mental activity is mental energy at the expense of the body’s energy.
Realizes being sedentary makes you tired, and gets to doing something.
Sitting tires us out and inspires us to go do something.
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Now, Part Two,
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 section below. This tells about the combined four pictures in the Tarot Readings – the pictures above here. It explains how these four cards get together in your mind to make the messages.
*Go to Learn Tarot by 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 today’s Spread. All the words of each Tarot card reading you see here are a phrase-by-phrase translation of the scene pictured on those cards: no filler, no psychic impressions, no spirit guide. Word-for-word Tarot Verbatim™.
You can put all this together and intuitively see yourself how Tarot Verbatim™ works.
This is a group reading, with no Questioner and no Question to limit what the cards say, so there’s more variety – even contradictions – and also the pronouns are more flexible. If it feels like it’s yours, and it says ‘he,’ and you’re a ‘she,’ feel free to adopt it anyway.
Magician
High Priestess – Five of Pentacles – Hanged Man
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LEARN TAROT BY OBSERVING
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High Priestess and Hanged Man converge: Both mean awareness and both can be paranormal awareness. Spiritual and mental acute awareness, they say when they appear together in public like this. Spiritual (High Priestess) insight (Hanged Man), or spiritual vision, since Hanged Man is visionary. Visionary (Hanged Man) wisdom (High Priestess). High Priestess is a fount of knowledge: See the book in her lap? An inspired idea is striking Hanged Man: He is realizing that. Note neither of these Tarot cards are talking about or dispensing what they know.
High Priestess and Magician converge: High Priestess is the Feminine Principle of receptivity, knowing, and knowingness, metaphysical wisdom and spiritual expertise. Knowing without acting.
Magician is the Masculine Principle. The Masculine Principle is activity: Acting without knowing. To do, to make, to be the one who does, to bring about or bring down. Metaphysics defines magic as will (willpower, intent), and Magician is creating what he wills, what he wants to come about … or to not come about.
The metaphysical gospel says the Masculine and Feminine principles converge to produce a result, and there is a whole lot to that concept.
High Priestess and Magician, or Hanged Man and Magician In our spread, Magician is acting upon the knowledge of High Priestess or the inspiration and insight of Hanged Man.
Five of Pentacles is Dark Night of the Soul, another spiritual card that stands for the exhaustion, the empty desolate despair that is a phase of spiritual life. After a peak experience, you know so much more that you are hypercritical of who you just were. (It passes, and you get to work – which Magician represents in this spread. (Actually, all four of these cards have a metaphysical side.)
But not to worry, we found some romantic applications for these four too. High Priestess and Hanged Man have quite the rapport going.
HERE ARE PHRASES FOR ALL SIX COMBINATIONS
High Priestess and Five of Pentacles Not enough for (his) lady. When (his) lady needs. She is feeling alone and left out. (His) lady needs money. She is feeling alone and left out. He does not have enough money for this classy lady. She is making herself miserable. She knows __ is making him/herself miserable. Hurts her feelings deeply. Knowing that sickens her. She knows he sorely lacks. How tired she gets of. She is sick and tired of. She gets depressed. Awareness of the spiritual plane numbs me to. Spiritual life drains. Spiritual when I am exhausted. When she needs money. Lacks the research. I don’t know enough/She doesn’t know enough. She makes herself miserable. Mental _ at the expense of. Being sedentary makes you tired. Sitting tires (us) out.
High Priestess and Hanged Man It strikes him (his) lady. He knows when (his) lady). He knows when his lady. Realizing she is feeling alone. He intuitively feels this classy lady. She has an aha moment. He gets it that she is deeply. A eureka experience __ her. Her eureka experience. She knows that __ insight. Insightful knowledge. Woman’s intuition. He senses she. He realizes she. An acute awareness on the spiritual plane. Psychic awareness on the spiritual plane. Psychic awareness from the spiritual plane. Flashes of spiritual realization. She knows. Idea to research. I get it: I know enough. Her deja vu. Deja vu: when she. Mental energy. Realizes being sedentary. Sitting inspires us.
High Priestess and Magician Doing for his lady. What to do when his lady. What to do for his lady. What to do when his lady. He takes action when she is alone. To make it with this classy lady. She knows he is making himself. She __ that he is making himself. When he does that, she is deeply. She knows why he is doing that. Knowing he is doing that __ her. Makes her __. She knows he does that. Doing that herself. Awareness of the spiritual __ acting on the physical. She knows what to do. Research to get this done. Know enough to make this happen. When she does that. A sedentary person gets to doing something. Sitting makes us do something.
Five of Pentacles and Hanged Man It strikes (him) that not enough. He knows __ needs money. He knows when __ needs money. Realizing __ is feeling left out. He intuitively feels he doesn’t have enough money. An aha moment about being miserable. He gets it that feeling are deeply hurt. A eureka experience sickens. Sorely lacks insight. Senses how tired __ gets. Realizes (somebody) gets depressed. Awareness __ numbs (me). Psychic awareness leave you too tired. When I need money, I know/When she needs money, she knows. An inkling about what is lacking. I don’t know enough. I get it: I don’t have enough __. I don’t know enough. Deja vu: I am miserable. Mental energy at the expense of. Realizes __ makes you tired. Tires us out and inspires us.
Five of Pentacles and Magician Not doing enough. What to do when __ need(s) money. What to do when __ needs money. Doing that will put you in the poorhouse. He takes action when __ is feeling left out. Making himself miserable. When he does that, feelings are deeply hurt. His doing that sickens __. Does that because he sorely lacks. Acts out of a complete lack of. Tired of him doing that. Depressed about doing that __self. Numbs me to acting on the physical plane. Too tired to get anything done. I exhaust myself. He exhausts himself. He exhausts himself. Lacks what it takes to get this done. Not enough __ to make this happen. Don’t __ enough to make this happen. Make myself miserable. Physical energy at the expense of. Makes you tired, and you get to doing something. Tires us out and makes us do something.
Hanged Man and Magician It strikes him he is doing. He knows what to do. He knows what to do. When he realizes __, he takes action. He intuitively feels he is making it with __. An aha moment that he is making himself. Realizing what he is doing is. He gets it that, when he does that. A eureka experience about why he is doing that. Realizes what he is doing. Realizes he does that out of. He senses ___ of him doing that. He realizes that, when he does that. Realizes doing that __self. An acute awareness __acting on the physical plane. Knows what to do. An inkling about getting this done. I get it: I can make this happen. Know how to make it happen. Know enough to make it happen. Deja vu: When I do that, I make myself. Deja vu: When I do that. Mental energy and bodily energy. Realizes, and gets to doing something. Inspires us to do something.
LEARN TAROT BY PICTURES
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High Priestess High Priestess represents the feminine principle of being receptive and passive on the physical plane, and active on the spiritual plane. This card in Tarot Verbatim™ means the spiritual plane. She is sedentary or stationary. High Priestess indicates a woman who isn’t doing, isn’t going anywhere, and isn’t taking initiative. Quite often, this card in Tarot Verbatim™ translates ‘she.’ It means a single woman, a woman alone, a lady, and a quiet classy woman, and even a bookkeeper because of the book in her lap, or a secretary. She knows all, which brings up expertise, or an expert, research, data bank. Being quiet, along with the metaphysical expertise, often makes this card mean knowing and not telling – being secretive. High Priestess is studious and contemplative, quite often.
Five of Pentacles Out in the cold. Numb with despair, a mother and son who are in rags, wounded, in a blizzard, pass by the cathedral where shelter for the night and dinner await them. Homeless. Miserable. The core idea is depletion, doing without, not having enough (being broke) as well as being sick, feeling sick and exhausted, feeling self-pity. Five of Pentacles as a spiritual card is aboutDark Night of the Soul, a stage of spiritual development that recurs, that produces the feelings we are talking about. Here are the phrases it produces today:
not enough
needs money
feeling left out
not enough money
miserable
hurts her feelings deeply
sickens her
sorely lacks
how tired she gets
depressed
numbs
too tired to get anything done
drains him to exhaustion
exhausts
lack the
don’t ___ enough
at the expense of
tired
tires you
Hanged Man ‘I coulda had a V8.’ Hanged Man is a sudden shift of perspective that reinterprets everything, that makes you realize you knew that all along and were not connecting the dots. The lipstick on the collar. That disoriented upside-down hair-on-fire enlightenment that strikes us. Inspiration and realization (or realize) are its most common words. Here are some others from today’s messages:
It strikes him
Knowing/realizes
realizing
his intuition is,
aha moment
He gets it
eureka experience
insight
senses how
acute awareness
psychic awareness
deep mental
spiritual realization
is aware
inkling
inspiration
Deja vu
Mental activity
gives you the idea
Magician takes initiative, takes action, makes it happen, does. He is the one who does (it). Action as opposed to just thinking or talking about it. Exercising willpower. The male way. He is pictured in the act of making something happen, the tools of the magician’s trade on the table there. This card often produces any form of the verbs ‘do’ and ‘make.’
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Four Card Spreads, Tarot Verbatim
Advice The contemplative person takes action. Inspired insight occurs to the active person. These two things create a balance. Thought without action is as impotent as action without thought. Activity on the spiritual plane depletes the physical body of energy but produces informed and inspired action. Mental work depletes the body of energy too, but produces the great inspired idea about what to do. In the same way, awareness you need money inspires you to activity! Flashes of spiritual realization occur when you exhaust yourself.
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!
Magician
High Priestess – Five of Pentacles – Hanged Man
GROUP ANALYTICAL TAROT READING Tell the visitors here something useful and meaningful to them.
Romantic Perspective
It strikes him he is not doing enough for the lady.
Knowing his lady needs money, he realizes what he must do.
Realizing she is feeling left out, he takes action.
His intuition is, he does not have enough money to make it with this classy lady.
She has an aha moment that he is making himself miserable.
He gets it that, when he does that, it hurts her feelings deeply.
A eureka experience: She knows why he is doing that, and it sickens her.
She knows he does that because he sorely lacks insight.
He senses how tired she gets of him doing that.
He realizes she gets depressed about doing that herself.
Spiritual Perspective (High Priestess + Hanged Man)
An acute awareness on the spiritual plane numbs you to acting on the physical plane.
Psychic awareness on the spiritual plane leaves you too tired to get anything done.
When he does deep mental activity, it drains him to exhaustion.
Flashes of spiritual realization when he exhausts himself.
Not Enough, Need, Lack, Tired, Depleted (Five of Pentacles)
Is aware what to do when she needs money.
Inkling he lacks the research to get this done.
Inspiration about what you don’t know enough about to make this happen.
Deja vu: When she does that she makes herself miserable.
Mental activity is mental energy at the expense of the body’s energy.
Realizes being sedentary makes you tired, and gets doing something.
Sitting tires you out and gives you the idea to go do something.
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: Observation of the Spread 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 to mean things.
*Go to Meanings and Illustrations: Individual Rider Waite Tarot Cards. It is what each of the four cards, by itself, has to say. It describes 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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Magician
High Priestess – Five of Pentacles – Hanged Man
MEANINGS AND ILLUSTRATIONS: OBSERVATION OF THE SPREAD
A convergence of High Priestess with Hanged Man – spiritual and mental acute awareness, spiritual insight, visionary wisdom. A convergence of High Priestess and Magician – the female principle and the male principle. Trapped in between is Dark Night of the Soul, exhaustion, being drained. (And of course Magician stands in as acting upon the awareness or insight.) Whew!
But not to worry, we found some romantic applications for these four too.
The feminine principle is receptivity, knowing and knowingness, wisdom and occult/spiritual expertise. (Knowing without acting) The masculine principle is activity – to do, to make, to bring down or bring about. (Acting without knowing) Occult gospel is that these two principles get together and create an entity that connects to the next plane down, and a whole nest of triangles represents … I guess all that is. Anyway, that is what the whole feminine and masculine principle thing is, and it’s the big underlying foundational assumption of occultism, as far as I know. (Someday I will read up more thoroughly on it.)
Anyway, we have a message that is about knowing and awareness and insight all over the place, even (of course) in the romantic messages because half the cards are that.
MEANINGS AND ILLUSTRATIONS: INDIVIDUAL RIDER WAITE TAROT CARDS
High Priestess The ‘B’ and ‘J’ pillars stand for justice and mercy that represent extremes in the Kaballah ideology from the Jewish tradition. She knows all, is wise, and is not engaged in activity. So she means ‘she,’ a single woman or woman by herself. She comes up as a lady or classy lady and as a sedentary woman or bookkeeper (the book in her lap). She represents an expert or expertise, research, and also the spiritual plane itself. Contemplative. It’s embarrassing how often this Rider Waite Tarot card just means ‘she.’
Five of Pentacles Numb with despair, they say, and this is it. Homeless and so out-of-it that they pass unknowingly by a place (cathedral) that has shelter for them. Dark Night of the Soul, a stage of spiritual development that recurs. The core idea is depletion, doing without, not having enough (being broke) as well as being sick, feeling sick, feeling self-pity. Here are the phrases it produces today:
not enough
needs money
feeling left out
not enough money
miserable
hurts her feelings deeply
sickens her
sorely lacks
how tired she gets
depressed
numbs
too tired to get anything done
drains him to exhaustion
exhausts
lack the
don’t ___ enough
at the expense of
tired
tires you
Hanged Man The experience that, yes, you knew that. Duh! It produces that disoriented upside-down feeling. Realize is the most common word for Hanged Man. Here are some others from today’s messages:
It strikes him
Knowing/realizes
realizing
his intuition is,
aha moment
He gets it
eureka experience
insight
senses how
acute awareness
psychic awareness
deep mental
spiritual realization
is aware
inkling
inspiration
Deja vu
Mental activity
gives you the idea
Magician takes initiative, takes action, makes it happen, does. He is the one who does (it). Action as opposed to contemplation. The male way. He is pictured in the act of making something happen, the tools of the magician’s trade on the table there. This card often means any form of the verbs ‘do’ and ‘make.’
Four Card Spreads, Our Daily Spread
Wheel of Fortune
Magician, High Priestess, Five of Pentacles
Advice suggests getting yourself into spiritual expertise so that you yourself can create the event that will take you from the bottom of despair and loss to your optimum circumstance, from dark night of the soul to grand opportunity. It’s clear that both deep knowing and action, in tandem, create the miraculous events that move you from the worst place to the best place. Note no one else, no group, is involved.
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Is this the first time you come here? Well … what to do:
*Go to Daily Message Tarot Analysis below. At least one of those sentences has something to say to you. 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?”)
The Question for weekdays is: “Tell the visitors here something useful and meaningful to them.”
The Question for weekends is stated right on top on those days.
(Some days are ‘keep an eye open for’ and some days are ‘green light, go fast.’)
*Go to Advice to apply what those sentences say (in the best way) for you. (Advice is everyone’s favorite part.) 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!
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DAILY MESSAGE TAROT ANALYSIS Tell the visitors here something useful and meaningful to them.
Business and Financial Perspective
He is the one who can pull off a dramatic event on a shoestring, quietly.
When you are broke you get ideas and do wonders.
Doing a lot with a little is her expertise.
She was broke until she had an opportunity to use her expertise.
When opportunities were lacking, she made her own as an entrepreneur.
It wasn’t until he hit bottom and initiated a spiritual life for himself that he made it big.
He invested his last dollar in the woman getting discovered.
She knows what to do to capitalize on this loss.
An expert on what to do to capitalize on a down market.
When you can do something with nothing, you get the chance to.
He acted at the very bottom of the market, and made her a ton of money.
Acting on secret knowledge, he turns her loss into a huge profit.
Spiritual Perspective
In desperate moments, events are created on the spiritual plane.
Acting on the spiritual plane to create events is exhausting.
Dark night of the soul is a creative event in spiritual life.
A spiritual woman pulls off a miracle when it is needed the most.
The creation of a miracle by acting on the spiritual plane in the dark night of the soul.
Action on the spiritual plane turns a loss into a win.
Social Perspective
He wrecked his chances with this lady.
She knows he makes it happen when it needs to.
He does what needs to be done for the lady as soon as he gets a chance.
At the lowest moment, her knowledge and his actually doing it save the day.
She was losing everything and he changed all that.
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Now, Part Two,
Do you want to know a little, or a lot, about how this Tarot Verbatim ™ thing works? If so,
*Go to the first Meanings and Illustrations 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 to mean things. Then you can
*Go to the second Meanings and Illustrations. It is what each of the four cards, by itself, has to say. It describes how that illustration makes that card’s meanings in this Spread.
You can put all this together and see yourself how Tarot Verbatim ™ works.
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Meanings and Illustrations: Observation of the Spread
There’s a direct contrast to Magician and High Priestess, the male and the female principle from occult perspective: He is action; she is knowledge or thinking; he is active, she is passive.
There’s a direct contrast to Five of Pentacles and Wheel of Fortune, too: Five of Pentacles is losing it all and Wheel of Fortune is the windfall and the grand opportunity. This immediately suggests capitalizing on a loss, or hitting bottom to make it big.
Then, High Priestess with Wheel of Fortune is a miracle or beneficial happening from the spiritual plane.
Magician with High Priestess is making it happen on the spiritual plane.
Magician with Wheel of Fortune is the creation and bringing down or bringing about a beneficial event or miracle.
Magician, High Priestess, Wheel of Fortune is the creation of a miracle by acting on the spiritual plane to bring an event into happening.
Meanings and Illustrations: Individual Rider Waite Tarot Cards
Magician He does it, he pulls it off, he brings it about. He is the one, himself. It turns into ‘yourself,’ especially as a Self card, as in ‘Do it Myself/Yourself.’ This is strongly a male card, is the male principle. It means to initiate, to be the one to make the (first) move.
Illustration shows the magician with the tools of his trade depicted as the four suits of Tarot, wand raised to make his spell happen.
High Priestess is the lady, the female principle, is passive (therefore sitting) as opposed to the Magician who is standing (active) as the male principle. She is the expert, she knows all and is quiet about it … no seminars from High Priestess.
Five of Pentacles is having lost it all, being heartsick, sick, numb, beyond hope and in despair. It is dark night of the soul and hitting bottom. It is losing your home and being on the street, It is street bums. It is the financial bottom, the lowest price your stock went to. The Rider Waite illustration shows bums on the street having past the church with warmth and food in it unnoticed because they are bleary-eyed.
Wheel of Fortune is winning the lottery, hitting the jackpot, the windfall profit, the best that can happen, the optimum result, and karma. All sorts of occult creatures and symbols are on the Rider Waite version of Wheel of Fortune. In its center is what looks a whole lot like a roulette wheel.
Four Card Spreads, Our Daily Spread, Tarot Verbatim
A eureka moment strikes of how poor in spirit you are, yet how competent you are in ‘real life’
Five of Pentacles
High Priestess, Queen of Wands, Hanged Man
An intense spiritual realization of how you miss your wife.
A eureka moment strikes of how poor in spirit you are, yet how competent you are in ‘real life.’
A spiritual vision is very draining to her orderly physical life.
She is so tired she is ‘seeing things’ from her subconscious during her day.
Realizes how little money the wife runs the house on: She is an expert at that.
Wife senses there is another woman and is miserable.
She is very quiet around the manager, feels intensely inferior.
She is very quiet around the woman of the house, feels intensely inferior.
She experiences the spiritual/mental plane(s) so intensely it impairs her physical plane existence.
The two women realize they are outcasts.
Two cards that strongly refer to spiritual expertise and awareness are the High Priestess and the Hanged Man. The competent manager or housewife-mother is between them, and that card refers to the physical plane. Crowning them all is the ‘poor in spirit.’ It also means to be or feel inferior, miserable, and/or drained.
The story contrasts physical competence with spiritual competence (Queen of Wands with High Priestess), physical awareness with spiritual awareness (Queen of Wands and Hanged Man). Hanged Man is an intense experience, sometimes a eureka (Aha!) realization. In addition, the High Priestess is the Other Woman and the Queen of Wands is the Wife. Then the Five of Pentacles speaks of being drained, miserable, inferior.
Advice? It’s really a comment about one’s own inner thoughts about one’s ‘real life’ and one’s worldly life. If there is advice, it’s to be aware of your own spiritual side and feed it.
Meanings and Illustrations:
High Priestess: Spiritual expertise, awareness and knowledge, spiritual secrets. To be a thinker not a doer. She just sits there with the symbols of spiritual occult symbols all around her.
Queen of Wands is the polar opposite of High Priestess. She is the one who runs the place, be it business or home. She is the mama, the wife. Very practical, very physical plane. She has an alert look on her face, sunflowers growing nearby, and a cat.
Hanged Man: Well, we talked about him already. He refers to awareness, to subconscious realizations and eureka moments in which the subconscious kicks a fully fleshed-out idea onto the floor the the theater of consciousness. He is the male counterpart, so to speak, of High Priestess.
Five of Pentacles: A deficit, a lack, inferior and miserable, exhausted and poor and sorry and sorry for yourself. Feeling lower than a snake’s belly, as they say.
Well, I’ll be darned, this is a big opportunity to put poor times behind and celebrate good times together
Seven of Pentacles
Three of Cups, Wheel of Fortune, Six of Swords
Well, I’ll be darned, this is a big opportunity to put poor times behind and celebrate good times together.
How happy will I be if I pass up this opportunity?
The girl’s big chance seems to phase out her old life.
It seems the three of them pool their resources and are headed into opportunity.
What are the chances they can have a good life and leave this place?
They seem to be on their way. This is their chance for a good life together.
What kind of luck would they have if they left town for a better life?
He has been avoiding dating those girls – what chance does he have?
He has an idea he will strike it rich with the girls and be on his way to better times.
There’s some chance for sharing a good life with the girl he left behind.
Well, it seems the girl is/girls are on their way to better times via their lucky break.
What if I left this place? – would I find an opportunity and have a good life?
Very few stories these four make together. It’s about striking it rich and having or sharing the good life, with some speculation about it but not that much speculation because it also says – Six of Swords – that poor times are over, the best is yet to come. It’s mostly about females, but the Seven of Pentacles, who is a guy, may decide to throw his lot in with them.
Advice is to be optimistic about an opportunity being around your very own corner. We keep talking about this, so there must be something to it, huh?
Meanings and Illustrations:
Three of Cups: The girls shared resources, worked together, and share the harvest profit together. They are successful. The harvest they celebrate is all around them as they drink to that.
Wheel of Fortune: This is one of the simplest cards. Hit the jackpot. Opportunity, Get rich quick. It shows what looks like a roulette wheel and has symbols of destiny cluttering its illustration.
Six of Swords: You’re on your way. You are leaving the bad scene and headed on out, maybe with some help from that fella with the little rowboat or pole boat.
Seven of Pentacles: That’s the way it seems. How good will it be? In this case, with those three very positive cards below him, how doubtful can things be – only a matter of degree, and there’s that grand opportunity thing staring you in the face, the Wheel of Fortune.
